The Topper score by Marvin Hatley, who had worked on Hal Roach's comedy shorts for years, includes themes from some of his classic Laurel and Hardy films.

The film introduced Hoagy Carmichael's "Old Man Moon." At various time, it's sung by the songwriter, Constance Bennett and Cary Grant, and the jazz group Three Hits and a Miss.

Although uncredited, Carmichael made his film debut as an actor in Topper. His best-known screen appearances would include To Have and Have Not (1944) and The Best Years of our Lives (1946).

Along with creating Cosmo Topper and the Kerbys, humorist Thorne Smith also wrote I Married a Witch, which inspired the hit 1942 film starring Fredric March and Veronica Lake and, in the opinion of many, the long-running television series Bewitched.

The film's original posters advertised it as "90 ROARING MINUTES OF LAUGHS!"

FUN QUOTES FROM TOPPER (1937)

"My pet, resting's the sort of thing you've got to work up to gradually...very dangerous to rest all of a sudden." -- Cary Grant, as George Kerby

"You know something, George? I think we're dead."
"I think you're right. Funny; I don't feel any different."-- Constance Bennett, as Marion Kerby, and Grant, as George Kerby

"Why don't you stop being a mummy for a few minutes and come to life? Of course, there's nothing wrong with being a mummy if you had any fun getting that way, but --"
"But I didn't, you see."
"No, I could tell that by the way you were staring at my knees." -- Bennett, as Marion Kerby, and Roland Young, as Cosmo Topper

"So I'm a ditherer? Well, I'm jolly well going to dither." -- Young, as Cosmo Topper

"Well, bless my blonde heart!" -- Elaine Shepard, as the Secretary

"My wife objects to drinking."
"Then she shouldn't drink."
"She doesn't."
"What's her objection?" -- Young, as Topper, and Grant, as George

"Perhaps you can explain the red on this cigarette."
"Yes, I...cut my tongue when I was shaving this morning." -- Theodore von Eltz, as the Hotel Manager, questioning Young

"Let's go have some dinner."
"Oh, no, we cannot eat on an empty stomach!"
"Then we better have a few drinks first!" -- Bennett, as Marion, and Young

"Say, if I'm in the way, you folks could leave." -- Grant
"Wilkins, after all these years, are you trying to be funny?" -- Billie Burke, as Mrs. Clara Topper, to Alan Mowbray, as the butler

"Don't teeter, Topper." -- Grant

Compiled by Frank Miller