Over My Dead Body
A Berle's Best Friend... Is His Murder!
1942-01-15 | 68 minutes
Plot Summary
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.
Cast
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Milton BerleJason Cordry
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Mary Beth HughesPatricia Cordry aka Pat Preston
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Reginald DennyRichard 'Dick' Brenner
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Frank OrthDetective
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William B. DavidsonCrole (as William Davidson)
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Pat O'MalleyPetie Stuyvesant (as J. Patrick O'Malley)
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George M. CarletonJudge
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John HamiltonDistrict Attorney Stuart Drinkwater
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Milton ParsonsGeorge Lawrin
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Leon BelascoPierre
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Charles TrowbridgeHonest Tom Mardley
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Lon McCallisterJimmie
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Cyril RingCourt Clerk
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Edwin AugustBailiff
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Emory ParnellPolice Capt. Grady
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Edward GarganPolice Sergeant
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Don DillawayReporter
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