Over My Dead Body
1942 · 68 min
Mystery · Comedy
★ 8.0Berle 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.
Crew
- Director Malcolm St. Clair
- Screenplay Edward James
- Director of Photography Lucien N. Andriot
Cast
Milton Berle
Jason Cordry
Mary Beth Hughes
Patricia Cordry aka Pat Preston
Reginald Denny
Richard 'Dick' Brenner
Frank Orth
Detective
William B. Davidson
Crole (as William Davidson)
Wonderful Smith
Wonderful
Pat O'Malley
Petie Stuyvesant (as J. Patrick O'Malley)
George M. Carleton
Judge
John Hamilton
District Attorney Stuart Drinkwater
- J
Jill Warren
Elsie Bailey
Milton Parsons
George Lawrin
Leon Belasco
Pierre
Crew
- Director — Malcolm St. Clair
- Screenplay — Edward James
- Director of Photography — Lucien N. Andriot
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