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1.Topper Takes a Trip starring: Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray, Verree Teasdale directed by: Norman Z. McLeod December 01, 1987
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If you haven't experienced the Topper movie trio, you just must. We all love them!

2.Topper starring: Cary Grant, Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray directed by: Norman Z. McLeod August 13, 1987
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Add a star (**) for the picture; subtract a star () for the lousy colorization. Whatever happened to the original b&w version? Cary Grant and Constance Bennett are two recently deceased fun-loving, rich party-goers who come back to haunt the life of straight-laced banker Cosmo Topper (played by Roland Young). Bennett turns Topper's life so upside-down that he leaves his wife to have a good time with her. Of course it's all made right again before too much damage is done. The first 1/3 and the last 1/3 are the best parts; the middle part sort of drags. The picture is lots of fun. Worth a watch.

3.It Should Happen to You starring: Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, Peter Lawford, Michael O'Shea, Vaughn Taylor directed by: George Cukor February 02, 1999
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It Should Happen to You is the story of a wannabe model named Gladys Glover (Judy Holliday) who is sick of her career going nowhere. She takes matters into her own hands after a pep talk from Pete Sheppard (Jack Lemmon) and rents a billboard on Columbus Avenue. She uses it to publicize herself putting just her name in giant letters. Nothing seems to happen, except she is asked to sell the billboard to a large company. Evan Adams the third (Peter Lawford) attempts to wine and dine Gladys into selling. She finally agrees, but only when she recieves eight more billboards to replace the one she loses. This step makes her an overnight celebrity, and when an agent meets her, gives her a reason to be famous. She is marketed as the everywoman and begins endorsing everything from soap to weight loss pills. Unfortunately, ... Read More

4.Two Faced Woman starring: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Robert Sterling directed by: George Cukor September 01, 1998
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It's striking to find out how many critics, especially in the past, condemn this film. Almost every biographer in every Garbo book comes up with a senseless list of accusations - including quotes from the Legion of Decency and the critics in December 1941, when America entered the war, to tell us that this film is no good. But it's a misjudgement. Garbo herself was disgusted with the criticisms. TWO-FACED WOMAN is a lively and extremely interesting film and certainly no disgrace for Garbo. It's one of the Garbo films that fascinates me most, because it's her last one and because she plays a different kind of role (although she has frequently played a two-faced woman, like in "As you desire me" and "Ninotchka"). The story is very funny with excellent bits of farce. In the two-faced character of Karin/Katharine Blake/Borg, Garbo shows ... Read More

5.As Young As You Feel starring: Monty Woolley, Thelma Ritter, David Wayne, Jean Peters, Constance Bennett directed by: Harmon Jones January 01, 1998
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The central theme of this movie (enforced retirement or, more widely, the perennial injustice of age-ism) is one we need, more than ever, to consider. Today one is often "thrown on the scrap heap" long before one's 65th birthday. Many an experienced and/or highly intelligent worker then finds himself competing with high school dropouts, drug addicts, the psychosomatically and chronically sick, shirkers, and illegals for the most bovine and least-rewarding occupations. A seasoned worker (a printing press operator) is forcibly retired at the height of his powers and while still in robust health. His cunning plan to get his old job back soon has him at his beloved press once more, while publicising the nation's need to retain and benefit from the most experienced and proven workers in the labour pool. The rest of the movie ... Read More

6.It Should Happen to You starring: Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, Peter Lawford, Michael O'Shea, Vaughn Taylor directed by: George Cukor June 24, 1994
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It Should Happen to You is the story of a wannabe model named Gladys Glover (Judy Holliday) who is sick of her career going nowhere. She takes matters into her own hands after a pep talk from Pete Sheppard (Jack Lemmon) and rents a billboard on Columbus Avenue. She uses it to publicize herself putting just her name in giant letters. Nothing seems to happen, except she is asked to sell the billboard to a large company. Evan Adams the third (Peter Lawford) attempts to wine and dine Gladys into selling. She finally agrees, but only when she recieves eight more billboards to replace the one she loses. This step makes her an overnight celebrity, and when an agent meets her, gives her a reason to be famous. She is marketed as the everywoman and begins endorsing everything from soap to weight loss pills. Unfortunately, the plot sounds more interesting ... Read More

7.Topper starring: Cary Grant, Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray directed by: Norman Z. McLeod November 29, 1990
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Add a star (**) for the picture; subtract a star () for the lousy colorization. Whatever happened to the original b&w version? Cary Grant and Constance Bennett are two recently deceased fun-loving, rich party-goers who come back to haunt the life of straight-laced banker Cosmo Topper (played by Roland Young). Bennett turns Topper's life so upside-down that he leaves his wife to have a good time with her. Of course it's all made right again before too much damage is done. The first 1/3 and the last 1/3 are the best parts; the middle part sort of drags. The picture is lots of fun. Worth a watch.

8.What Price Hollywood starring: Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman, Neil Hamilton, Gregory Ratoff, Brooks Benedict directed by: George Cukor January 23, 1991
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An ambitious waitress (Constance Bennett) - who works at the famed Brown Derby restaurant - has aspirations to become an actress, and makes it to the top. Bennett gives an excellent performance as Mary Evans, making her turn from ingenue to hardened star fully believable: she considered this to be her finest performance. As the egotistical, rather decadent film director, Lowell Sherman is fine. This was George Cukor's first big success as well as the first talking picture which took a jaundiced look at Hollywood. As a footnote, this story, which was written by the once-popular Hollywood columnist Adela Rogers St. John was the basis for the three later versions of A STAR IS BORN. It was supposedly based upon the real life of silent star Colleen Moore and her alcoholic producer husband, John McCormick.

9.Sin Takes a Holiday starring: Constance Bennett, Kenneth MacKenna, Basil Rathbone, Rita La Roy, Louis John Bartels directed by: Paul L. Stein October 24, 2000
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Sin Takes a Holiday is a film about a secretary Sylvia (Constance Bennett) who is in love with her boss. Gaylord Stanton (Kenneth MacKenna) has a group of friends who feels it is better to be a bachelor with a lover than to ever get married. Thus when his lover plans to divorce her husband for him, he asks his secretary for her hand, only in name of course. Her heart is broken but she goes along with his request and heads to France with a ring on her finger and an emptiness in her heart. While there, she reunites with her new husband's friend Reginald Durant (Basil Rathbone). He becomes entranced with her transformation thanks to her new wealth and asks for her hand. The beginning of the film drags and it doesn't really become interesting until Sylvia returns home to her husband with her fiancée in tow. Then, the couple has a party to which Gaylord's lover and ... Read More

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