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Topper Takes a Trip is a 1938 film sequel of Topper ( 1937 ) Constance Bennett , Roland Young , Billie Burke and Alan Mowbray reprised their roles from the earlier movie ; only Cary Grant was missing ( other than in a few shots taken from Topper ) . A ghost tries to reunite a couple who she had a hand in splitting up in the prior film . It was followed by another sequel , Topper Returns ( 1941 ) . Mary William Ethelbert Appleton " Billie " Burke ( August 7 , 1884  May 14 , 1970 ) was an American actress , famous on Broadway and in early silent film , best known to modern audiences as Glinda the Good Witch of the North in the movie musical " The Wizard of Oz ". She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1938 for her performance as Emily Kilbourne in " Merrily We Live " and is also remembered for her appearances in the " Topper " series . Billie Burke was the wife of Broadway producer Florenz Ziegfeld , Jr ., of Ziegfeld Follies fame , from 1914 until his death in 1932 . Her voice was unique in intonation , which she accentuated in her later character roles as dim - witted , spoiled society types . Merrily We Live is a 1938 comedy film directed by Norman Z . McLeod , starring Constance Bennett and Brian Aherne and featuring ___MASK15___ , Bonita Granville , Billie Burke , Tom Brown , Alan Mowbray , Clarence Kolb and Patsy Kelly . The film was produced by ___MASK37___ for ___MASK37___ Studios , and was released by Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer . The screenplay is by Eddie Moran and Jack Jevne . Topper Returns ( 1941 ) is the third and final entry in the initial series of supernatural comedy films inspired by the novels of ___MASK33___ . It followed " Topper " ( 1937 ) and " Topper Takes a Trip " ( 1938 ). What Price Hollywood ? is a 1932 American Pre - Code drama film directed by George Cukor and starring Constance Bennett with Lowell Sherman . The screenplay by ___MASK20___ , Rowland Brown , Ben Markson , and ___MASK85___ is based on a story by Adela Rogers St . Johns and Louis Stevens . Constance Campbell Bennett ( October 22 , 1904  July 24 , 1965 ) was an American stage , film , radio and television actress what was a major Hollywood star during the 1920s and 1930s . For a time during the early 1930s , she was the highest - paid actress in Hollywood , and one of the most popular . Bennett frequently played society women , focusing on melodramas in the early 1930s and then taking more comedic roles in the late 1930s and 1940s . She is best known today for her leading roles in " Topper " ( 1937 ), in which she co - starred with Cary Grant ; its sequel " Topper Takes a Trip " ( 1938 ); and " What Price Hollywood ?" ( 1932 ), its subsequent remakes for the 1937 film " A Star is Born ". Bennett also had a prominent supporting role in Greta Garbo ' s last film , " Two - Faced Woman " ( 1941 ). James ___MASK33___ , Jr . ( March 27 , 1892  June 21 , 1934 ) was an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction under the byline ___MASK33___ . He is best known today for the two " Topper " novels , comic fantasy fiction involving sex , much drinking and supernatural transformations . With racy illustrations , these sold millions of copies in the 1930s and were equally popular in paperbacks of the 1950s .