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Over My Dead Body (1942)
Directed by Malcolm St. Clair
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.
Rated NR | Length 68 minutes
Actors
Reginald Denny | George Beranger | John Hamilton | Mary Beth Hughes | Frank Orth | Chuck Hamilton | Edward Gargan | Cyril Ring | Dave Willock | Sig Arno | Milton Berle | Leon Belasco | William B. Davidson | Eddie Kane | Charles Trowbridge | Milton Parsons | Lon McCallister | Frances Morris | George M. Carleton | Jack Chefe | Bess Flowers | Bert Moorhouse | Emory Parnell | Don Dillaway | Ralph Brooks | Harold Miller | Wonderful Smith | Joe Kirk | Leon Tyler | John Dilson | George Magrill | Ann Todd | Fred Aldrich | Sam Wren | Edwin August | Sam Harris | Pat O'Malley | Heinie Conklin | Mike Donovan | George Riley | Jill Warren | Joseph J. Weston