Release Date
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Original Release
January 15, 1942
1h 8m
Over My Dead Body (1942)
⭐ 8.068 min
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.
Director
Malcolm St. Clair
Department: Directing
⭐Popularity: 0.8
Cast
Milton Berle
Jason Cordry
⭐1.5
Mary Beth Hughes
Patricia Cordry aka Pat Preston
⭐1.2
Reginald Denny
Richard 'Dick' Brenner
⭐1.1
Frank Orth
Detective
⭐0.9
William B. Davidson
Crole (as William Davidson)
⭐0.9
Wonderful Smith
Wonderful
⭐0.5
Pat O'Malley
Petie Stuyvesant (as J. Patrick O'Malley)
⭐1.0
George M. Carleton
Judge
⭐0.5
John Hamilton
District Attorney Stuart Drinkwater
⭐1.1
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Jill Warren
Elsie Bailey
⭐0.3
Genres
MysteryComedy
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