Over My Dead Body
Mystery
Comedy
A Berle's Best Friend... Is His Murder!
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.
1942-01-15
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Cast
Director
Malcolm St. Clair
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)
George M. Carleton as Judge
John Hamilton as District Attorney Stuart Drinkwater
Milton Parsons as George Lawrin
Leon Belasco as Pierre
Charles Trowbridge as Honest Tom Mardley
Lon McCallister as Jimmie
Cyril Ring as Court Clerk
Edwin August as Bailiff
Emory Parnell as Police Capt. Grady
Edward Gargan as Police Sergeant
Don Dillaway as Reporter
George Beranger as Salesman
Frances Morris as Reporter
John Dilson as Editor
Sig Arno as Professor
Dave Willock as Sailor
Joe Kirk as Sailor
Ann E. Todd as Tailor's Little Girl
Leon Tyler as Tailor's Little Boy
Fred Aldrich as Joe, 1st Arresting Policeman
Jack Chefe as Man in Montage
Heinie Conklin as Juror
Bess Flowers as Courtroom Spectator
Chuck Hamilton as Policeman
Eddie Kane as Man in Employment Office
George Magrill as 2nd Arresting Policeman
Harold Miller as Courtroom Extra