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