Linden Morningstar
Great question.
I love Thorne Smith's fantasy novel Topper and its 1937 film adaptation because they are about one of the most endearingly funny fictional couple's, I can remember and a hilarious, ribald comedy. Constance Bennett and Cary Grant play Marion and George Kerby, a wealthy, freewheeling young married couple who are killed in an auto accident and are ghosts who have to do a good deed to go to heaven. George and Marion set about to liberate Cosmo Topper, Roland Young, a henpecked banker and the fun and belly laughs never stop. I am also a Turner Classic Movie fan and periodically they play this Oldie but Goodie movie.
Linden Morningstar
"[Thorne Smith] created the modern American ghost. A ghost with style and wit. A ghost that haunts us still."
--The New York Times
I love Thorne Smith's fantasy novel Topper and its 1937 film adaptation because they are about one of the most endearingly funny fictional couple's, I can remember and a hilarious, ribald comedy. Constance Bennett and Cary Grant play Marion and George Kerby, a wealthy, freewheeling young married couple who are killed in an auto accident and are ghosts who have to do a good deed to go to heaven. George and Marion set about to liberate Cosmo Topper, Roland Young, a henpecked banker and the fun and belly laughs never stop. I am also a Turner Classic Movie fan and periodically they play this Oldie but Goodie movie.
Linden Morningstar
"[Thorne Smith] created the modern American ghost. A ghost with style and wit. A ghost that haunts us still."
--The New York Times
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