She was discovered by producer hal roach, who paired her with thelma todd in a series of comedy shorts. Patsy worked with comedian frank fay and starred in several broadway shows. Official website for the actress stefanie powers, most widely known for her roles in the hit series hart to hart and the girl from u. Charlie chan investigates a murder case aboard the yacht of a wealthy greek shipping tycoon. Topper returns is a 1941 film directed by roy del ruth. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses. A sassy girl finds herself dead after trading bedrooms with her heiress friend. Billie burke full list of movies and tv shows in theaters, in production and upcoming films. Watch full length feature films and series streaming online at vmovee. Topper is an american fantasy sitcom television series based on the 1937 film topper, which was based on two novels topper and topper takes a trip by thorne smith. Topper returns movie trailer from the 1941 film based on characters created by author thorne smith. He is best known for portraying cornelius and caesar in the original planet of the apes film series, as well as galen in the spinoff television series. Topper returns is a 1973 tv pilot that updates the classic cary grant film to the 1970s into a halfhour situation comedy. The film was adapted by eric hatch, jack jevne and eddie moran from the novel by thorne smith.
In 1973, nbctv aired the topper returns tv show in an effort to bring some thorne smith magic back to the small screen. Topper is again thrown into a series of crazy situations as he. If you dont have that one it is funnier than this one. Hawkeye returns to the 4077th, finds trapper gone, and drives off to try and catch him to. Theyre best known for their christmas song i wish it could be christmas everyday, which reached number 4 in december 1973. He sold his first story, a murder mystery, to a classmate when he was 9 for 15 cents. It is the third and final entry in the initial series of supernatural comedy films inspired by the novels of thorne smith. As in the prior movies, roland young and billie burke play the toppers, while joan blondell portrays a murder victim and ghost who tries to save her friend, played by carole landis, and unmask her killer with the help. The series was broadcast on cbs from october 9, 1953 to july 15, 1955, and stars leo g. Patsy kelly was born bridget sarah veronica rose kelly on january 12, 1910, in brooklyn, new york.
A tv series of topper premiered in 1953 and ran for two seasons. Wizzard full official chart history official charts company. Mcleod, starring constance bennett and cary grant and featuring roland young. Supernatural season 15 trailer promises nothing ever really. Interestingly enough, the pilot episode and a few of the early episodes were written by. He began his acting career as a child in england, and then in the united states, in how. A pilot called topper returns 1973 was later made for a proposed tv series. The schitts creek season 6 trailer youre not emotionally ready for is here. Topper returns 1941 is the third and final entry in the initial series of films inspired by the novels of thorne smith. Topper is an american fantasy sitcom based on the 1937 film topper, which was based on two novels topper and topper takes a trip by thorne smith. Born in houston, texas on october 22, 1931, carothers was older than his two siblings, gibson and lesley.
Topper 1937 is an american comedy film starring constance bennett and cary grant. One of the stars that steals the show in the body disappears is the funniest of them all, willie best. Starring roddy mcdowall, stefanie powers, john fink and reginald owens, the pilot aired on march 19, 1973. A funloving young woman is murdered after trading bedrooms with her wealthy friend. Vmovee hd watch the latest movies and tv series online for free. All three somehow return as ghosts from europe to haunt the kirbys american. Veteran performer john randolph was a tony awardwinning character actor whose union and social.
Topper is a 1937 american supernatural comedy film directed by norman z. Sleepers west lloyd nolan, lynn bari, mary beth hughes. Cosmo topper is bedeviled by two ghosts whom only he can see and hear. Topper returns 1941 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
In topper returns rochester plays the same part best plays in the body disappears. Topper takes a trip the night life of the gods the bishops jaegers by thorne smith and roese jan 1, 1942 4. She began performing in vaudeville when she was just twelve years old. In 1973, a television pilot for a proposed new series topper returns. Topper returns is the third and last of the topper series, all of which starred roland young as the lead and billie burke as his annoying wife. This time it is the ghost of gail richards, who persuades topper to go to the home of her friend ann carrington to uncover her murderer. Her ghost seeks aid from topper to find the murderer. See more ideas about old tv shows, my mother the car, tv shows. Roland young, joan blondell, carole landis director. Cosmo topper is bedeviled by two ghosts whom only he can see. Chips, play it again, sam and tom sawyer through his company apjac productions. Topper returns 1973 30min comedy tv movie 19 march 1973. This page is based on a wikipedia article written by contributors readedit. Vci entertainment has set topper takes a trip 1938 and topper returns 1941 for bluray release on 11.
With roddy mcdowall, stefanie powers, john fink, reginald owen. With joan blondell, roland young, carole landis, billie burke. Roy del ruth a sassy girl finds herself dead after trading bedrooms with her heiress friend. Terms of activation by activating, you agree that you want to enable cloud technology to access your xfinity stream subscription on additional supported devices like computers and tablets, as well as the tv connected to your settop dvr via comcasts network. Topper returns 1941 joan blondell, roland young, carole. The topper collection topper, topper takes a trip, topper returns.
Cosmo topper roddy mcdowall, an uptight and stuffy young man, finds his. In topper returns, cosmo topper is again visited by ghosts. Young plays the role to perfection again and burke is equally up to the challenge. This pilot updated the 1937 film premise in that the ghosts died forty years earlier and havent adjusted to the hip 1970s. He sees dead people all the time, way before it became quite so fashionable in the sixth sense. Actress 114 the artists wife 2019 ada risi love by the book tv movie 2015 marilyn. It followed topper 1937 and topper takes a trip 1938. Theres no cary grant in this the third installment of the popular horrorcomedy series, but roland young returns as the ever put upon and flustered topper again though, this time trying to. It tells the story of a stuffy, stuckinhisways man who is haunted by the ghosts of a funloving married couple. Jud leaves a sadistically run prison and returns to an equally wicked town. Powers claimed john ford directed her for a week when director andrew v. The car chase at the end of the move is the same as in the movie, the body disappears.
Online shopping from a great selection at prime video store. Roderick andrew anthony jude mcdowall 17 september 1928 3 october 1998 was an englishamerican actor, voice artist, film director and photographer. Overview of topper returns, 1973, directed by hy averback, with roddy mcdowall, stefanie powers, john fink, at turner classic movies. Watch all 39 topper episodes from season 1,view pictures, get episode information and more. Meet the cast and learn more about the stars of topper returns with exclusive news, pictures, videos and more at.
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