Over My Dead Body
Over My Dead Body
Release: 1942-01-15
·Runtime: 68m
Mystery
Comedy
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
20th Century Fox
Cast
Reginald Denny
as Richard 'Dick' Brenner
Pat O'Malley
as Petie Stuyvesant (as J. Patrick O'Malley)
George M. Carleton
as Judge
Edwin August
as Bailiff
Bess Flowers
as Courtroom Spectator
Mary Beth Hughes
as Patricia Cordry aka Pat Preston
William B. Davidson
as Crole (as William Davidson)
Wonderful Smith
as Wonderful
John Hamilton
as District Attorney Stuart Drinkwater
Jack Chefe
as Man in Montage
Leon Belasco
as Pierre
Charles Trowbridge
as Honest Tom Mardley
Emory Parnell
as Police Capt. Grady
Sig Arno
as Professor
Ann E. Todd
as Tailor's Little Girl
George Magrill
as 2nd Arresting Policeman
Milton Berle
as Jason Cordry
Joe Kirk
as Sailor
Leon Tyler
as Tailor's Little Boy
Dave Willock
as Sailor
Cyril Ring
as Court Clerk
George Beranger
as Salesman
Frances Morris
as Reporter
Harold Miller
as Courtroom Extra
Frank Orth
as Detective
Lon McCallister
as Jimmie
Don Dillaway
as Reporter
John Dilson
as Editor
Fred Aldrich
as Joe, 1st Arresting Policeman
Eddie Kane
as Man in Employment Office
Milton Parsons
as George Lawrin
Edward Gargan
as Police Sergeant
Heinie Conklin
as Juror
