Top of the Town

1937
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1h 26m

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Hugh Herbert, Mischa Auer, Bert Jason, Doris Nolan, Ella Logan, George Murphy, Gregory Ratoff, Bob Robson, Gerald Oliver Smith, and Harry Blue in Top of the Town (1937)

Diana Borden (Doris Nolan, a bleeding-heart rich-girl, returns from a trip to Russia filled with sympathy for the "little" people of the slums and wants to do "something" artistic and social... Read allDiana Borden (Doris Nolan, a bleeding-heart rich-girl, returns from a trip to Russia filled with sympathy for the "little" people of the slums and wants to do "something" artistic and socially significant for them...so she opens up a nightclub atop a 100-story skyscraper. For her... Read allDiana Borden (Doris Nolan, a bleeding-heart rich-girl, returns from a trip to Russia filled with sympathy for the "little" people of the slums and wants to do "something" artistic and socially significant for them...so she opens up a nightclub atop a 100-story skyscraper. For her, that means acts such as opera singers, extracts from "Hamlet" and three sailors imitatin... Read all

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5.9/10

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Trivia
This is the first Universal film to open with the "sparkling globe" logo (used through 1946), accompanied by the musical fanfare entitled "New Universal Signature" composed by Jimmy McHugh.

Quotes
Augustus Borden: We've never been firm enough with her, that's the trouble.
Henry Borden: We're going to be from now on.
Augustus Borden: She's never been the same since she visited Russia.
Edwin Borden: The way I heard it, Russia hasn't been the same.

Crazy credits
No cast names are shown or presented until after all the opening credits are listed. Then, the cast members are introduced singing lines from the title song. Then in the first few scenes, the supporting players are presented delivering their dialogue in rhyme.