Reception
Topper was a box-office hit, and gave a boost to the careers of all the lead actors, in particular Cary Grant, who moved from this film into a series of classic screwball comedies such as The Awful Truth (1937), Bringing Up Baby (1938), and Holiday (1938). Constance Bennett – who has previously been known as more of a "clothes-horse" than an actress – received very good notices, and Roach reunited her with director McLeod and screenwriters Jevne and Moran – was well as Billie Burke and Alan Mowbray – for 1938's Merrily We Live.
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“But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior result, on the pre-existent qualities of that soil of human nature into which they fall—the company they find already present there, on their admission into the house of thought.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)
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