Lynne Overman Movies

Carny con artist and snake-oil salesman Eustace McGargle tries to stay one step ahead of the sheriff but is completely devoted to his beloved...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: W.C. Fields

Jury foreman Edward Weldon's questioning leads to the death sentence for Ethel Saxon. His daughter Stella claims to have killed her lover, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Humphrey Bogart

The Bellows family causes comic confusion on an ocean liner, with time out for radio-style musical acts.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: W.C. Fields

Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shirley Temple

In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New...

Genre: History

Cast: Spencer Tracy

One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck

The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Paulette Goddard

A police inspector 'solves' a crime that, in fact, may not have occurred at all.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Clive Brook

Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques...

Genre: Action

Cast: Gary Cooper

A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ginger Rogers

Two Alaskan salmon fisherman find their friendship at risk when one aligns with Russian fish pirates and the other aligns with local vigilantes.

Genre: Action

Cast: George Raft

Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Warner Baxter

Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fred MacMurray

After being released from prison, con man Thurston Hall gathers his gang of cronies--along with innocent chump Guy Kibbee--to help him sell worthless...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Guy Kibbee

Don Bolton is a movie star who can't stand loud noises. To evade the draft, he decides to get married...but falls for a colonel's daughter. By...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bob Hope

Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bing Crosby

A beautiful heiress is an excellent poker player. Her comfortable life changes when her father and his fortune die during market crash of the 1800's.

Genre: Western

Cast: George Brent

A cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bing Crosby

A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Carole Lombard

A young South Seas native boy is sent to the U.S. for his education and returns to his island after his father dies to try to stop a revolution.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Dorothy Lamour

Kitty Reily and Lena Marchetti meet each other at an amateur Radio Show. Kitty quickly learns to greatly dislike incompetent Lena. They keep running...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Patsy Kelly

Christopher Powell is in Malaysia with his fiancée and her father, capturing wild animals. While out hunting, he is attacked by a tiger, and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Dorothy Lamour

Two men searching for black pearls are marooned on an island when their crew mutinies. There they run into a beautiful girl who had been washed up on...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Dorothy Lamour

Paul Hudson, leads a group of desert bandits against some Nazis, who want to use them as cheap labor for their railroad.

Genre: Music

Cast: Dennis Morgan

When vaudeville performer Florette Faxon is left penniless with her six-year-old son Jimmy, she relies on the friendship of fellow performer Bud...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lee Tracy

Afraid of marriage, Simone (Mary Ellis) breaks off her long term engagement with her fiancé Paul de Lille (Tullio Carminati). Paul heads to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mary Ellis

Sons of The Legion is a film about a group of young men looking to start a squadron in their Legion Post. However, because the boy's father...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lynne Overman

A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bing Crosby

Jennie Mullins and her fiancé Peter Cary are happily in love but their families are miserable about their relationship. The Carys and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lynne Overman

While searching the South Pacific for a missing aviator, Bob Mitchell and Jimmy Wallace are caught in a typhoon and crack up on an island, escaping...

Genre: Action

Cast: Dorothy Lamour

Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fred MacMurray

Millionaire Baron de Courland and his fiancée Linda Stewart employ Jim Logan as a guide for their hunting trip in the jungle. Linda finds...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Detective Hank Hyer investigates a blackmail case involving a candidate for mayor.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lynne Overman

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Preston

The policy-racket reaches it lean, bony fingers into the ivy-towers of a large university and the underworld trying to “beat the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Roscoe Karns

Notorious racketeer Joe Albany kills James Flowers when he discovers he is embezzling from the club they own. Joe escapes through a window and hails...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Lloyd Nolan

When Bert Adams brings his boss, Mr. Mason, home for dinner, he and his wife Carrie hope Mason will take the opportunity to announce that Bert will...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lynne Overman

Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, in order to help her and to improve casino income....

Genre: Romance

Cast: George Raft

A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music...

Genre: Music

Cast: Bing Crosby

A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.

Genre: Action

Cast: Fred MacMurray

When Dr. Ernest Tindal's wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian. But Frank knows he didn't do it.....

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Barrymore

Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana 'Butch' Mason, and finds evidence of arson. He suspects Twig Dawson but can't...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fred MacMurray

The son of a cattle-rustling Cossack immigrant must choose between following the straight path and helping his father escape from prison.

Genre: Western

Cast: Leif Erickson

A tightwad accountant for a newspaper becomes friends with a reporter. The bookkeeper goes on vacation, and while there he learns of a kidnapping...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edward Everett Horton

Parkhouse plays a practical joke on a poker-playing buddy by sending him home with a lady's chemise stuffed in his coat pocket. The gag backfires,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leo Carrillo

During a stick-up, a woman is excited by the criminal and joins him on his crime spree.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lynne Overman

A bored society girl sets her sights on a dancer in a Broadway show.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carole Lombard

A behind-the-scenes showcase of how screen tests for studio executives are made and used in the Hollywood casting process. Some of the featured...

Genre: Music

Cast: Lynne Overman

Promotion reel/souvenir of a 1939-40 meeting of the Paramount Studios sales people.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lynne Overman

Man marries opera singer, winds up taking back seat to her career.

Genre: Action

Cast: Elissa Landi

A Broadway playboy inherits an almost bankrupt girls' school and tries to save it by a big show.

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Cast: Joe Penner

A young girl fresh out of reform school who is singing in a burlesque show is offered a scholarship to a famous music camp by the camp's owner. She...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Allan Jones

Fred Stevens is an aspiring songwriter from Schenectady who journeys to New York City, hoping to make a name for himself. On the train he meets...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eleanore Whitney

An actor is jealous of his wife's stardom.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elissa Landi

Oliver Quade is a pitchman who follows state fairs that feature dog shows---which limits his territory more than a little---at which he sells...

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Cast: Lynne Overman