Over My Dead Body Trailer

Over My Dead Body Trailer (1942)

"A Berle's Best Friend... Is His Murder!" 15 January 1942 Comedy, Mystery 68 mins

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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Cast

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)

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

Cyril Ring

as Court Clerk

Edwin August

as Bailiff

Crew

Paul Youngblood

Paul Youngblood Art Direction

Richard Day

Richard Day Art Direction

Herschel McCoy

Herschel McCoy Costume Design

Lucien N. Andriot

Lucien N. Andriot Director of Photography

International Releases Dates

United States 15 January 1942

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OVER MY DEAD BODY (1942)

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