Over My Dead Body

Over My Dead Body (1942)

A Berle's Best Friend... Is His Murder!

  • Genre: Mystery, Comedy
  • Release Date: 1942-01-15
  • Runtime: 1h 8min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: 20th Century Fox
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Malcolm St. Clair

Summary

Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story. While visiting his wife (Mary Beth Hughes) at the office where she works, Berle overhears several men discussing the suicide of a coworker. Struck with a brilliant notion, Berle decides to confess to the murder of the dead man, certain that he'll be able to wriggle out of the situation and thereby have plenty of material for a story.

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  • Milton Berle

    as Jason Cordry

  • Mary Beth Hughes

    as Patricia Cordry aka Pat Preston

  • Reginald Denny

    as Richard 'Dick' Brenner

  • Frank Orth

    as Detective

  • William B. Davidson

    as Crole (as William Davidson)

  • Wonderful Smith

    as Wonderful

  • Pat O'Malley

    as Petie Stuyvesant (as J. Patrick O'Malley)

  • George M. Carleton

    as Judge

  • John Hamilton

    as District Attorney Stuart Drinkwater

  • Jill Warren

    as Elsie Bailey

  • Milton Parsons

    as George Lawrin

  • Leon Belasco

    as Pierre

  • Charles Trowbridge

    as Honest Tom Mardley

  • Lon McCallister

    as Jimmie

  • Cyril Ring

    as Court Clerk

  • Edwin August

    as Bailiff

  • Emory Parnell

    as Police Capt. Grady

  • Edward Gargan

    as Police Sergeant

  • Don Dillaway

    as Reporter

  • George Riley

    as Reporter

  • George Beranger

    as Salesman

  • Frances Morris

    as Reporter

  • John Dilson

    as Editor

  • Joseph J. Weston

    as Editor

  • Sig Arno

    as Professor

  • Sam Wren

    as Professor

  • Dave Willock

    as Sailor

  • Joe Kirk

    as Sailor

  • Ann E. Todd

    as Tailor's Little Girl

  • Leon Tyler

    as Tailor's Little Boy

  • Fred Aldrich

    as Joe, 1st Arresting Policeman

  • Ralph Brooks

    as Juror

  • Jack Chefe

    as Man in Montage

  • Heinie Conklin

    as Juror

  • Mike Donovan

    as Juror

  • Bess Flowers

    as Courtroom Spectator

  • Chuck Hamilton

    as Policeman

  • Sam Harris

    as Street Extra

  • Eddie Kane

    as Man in Employment Office

  • George Magrill

    as 2nd Arresting Policeman

  • Harold Miller

    as Courtroom Extra

  • Bert Moorhouse

    as Car Dealer in Montage
Directing Malcolm St. Clair Director
Writing Edward James Screenplay
Writing James O'Hanlon Novel
Production Walter Morosco Producer
Art Richard Day Art Direction
Art Paul Youngblood Art Direction
Editing J. Watson Webb Jr. Editor
Costume & Make-Up Herschel McCoy Costume Design
Camera Lucien N. Andriot Director of Photography

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