Topper

Topper (1937) is a screwball ghost comedy you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Norman Z. McLeod. George and Marion Kerby, a rich couple who never met a party they didn't like, wrap their roadster around a tree and wake up as carefree spirits.

To move on, the ghosts decide they need one good deed on the books. Their target: Cosmo Topper, the buttoned-up bank president who has spent his whole life obeying his wife's schedule. The invisible Kerbys set about loosening him up with late nights, scandal and mischief that rattles his very proper marriage. Constance Bennett plays Marion, a young Cary Grant is the rascally George, and Roland Young, as flustered Topper, quietly steals every scene.

Adapted from Thorne Smith's novel, the film leaned on vanishing-ghost trick photography that felt cutting-edge in 1937. Young's performance landed him an Academy Award nomination, and the picture spun off a whole series of sequels. It's light, absurd and oddly ageless — a treat for anyone who likes old Hollywood with no moral lesson attached. Stream Topper (1937) online on iFILM.