Over My Dead Body

Jan 15, 1942

1h 8m

★ 0.0

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

Overview

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.

Genres

Mystery

Comedy

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

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Cast

Jason Cordry

Milton Berle

Patricia Cordry aka Pat Preston

Mary Beth Hughes

Richard 'Dick' Brenner

Reginald Denny

Detective

Frank Orth

Crole (as William Davidson)

William B. Davidson

Wonderful

Wonderful Smith

Petie Stuyvesant (as J. Patrick O'Malley)

Pat O'Malley

Judge

George M. Carleton

District Attorney Stuart Drinkwater

John Hamilton

Elsie Bailey

Jill Warren

George Lawrin

Milton Parsons

Pierre

Leon Belasco

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