Word: overman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paramount it is currently a relief to turn from the spy to the mystery story. The mystery, "Murder Goes to College," finally provides some measure of recognition to Lynne Overman. Given just a flavoring of original material to work with, he moulds it to advantage in creating almost single-handed an entirely insignificant but highly enjoyable hilarity atmosphere...
...Collegiate" is more than passing fair because of the dance routines of Betty Jane Cooper and her chorus and the comedy work of Lynn Overman. Penner is the rich angel for a charm school run by Jack Oakie, which teaches the girls how to dress, dance, and use cosmetics...
...Collegiate, Playboy Joe Craig (Jack Oakie), his press-agent (Ned Sparks) and his right-hand man (Lynne Overman) are dismayed when Craig's aunt wills him a young ladies' seminary. The plot takes its expected course when Craig, after hitchhiking to the school, turns it into a combined singing & dancing academy, with the aid of Mack Gordon and Harry Revel, who wrote the songs they play in the picture, Frances Langford, as a secretary who falls in love with Craig, and an enticing quorum of Paramount chorus girls. All this is pleasantly written and brightly played, but whether...
Tullio Carminati is an Italian nobleman who meets Ida Lupino on top of the Eiffel Tower from which he is doing his best to jump because Miss Ellis, a cafe singer, has refused to marry him. James Blakeley, looking for Ida Lupino, his fiancee, enlists the help of Lynne Overman, magnificent as a member of the Sûreté. Things build to a spacious and impressively scored wedding night in a chateau with a large cast of serfs singing nuptial choruses regardless of the fact that neither woman is with the right man, and neither is married...
...small-town hideaway. Fred MacMurray is the Federal agent who arrives in town pretending to be a representative for an airline. Madge Evans is the girl reporter who regards him with suspicion. Leslie Fenton is the head crook who terrorizes the town's leading banker. Lynn Overman is the secondary G-man whose murder is the signal for the grand roundup in the deserted factory in which police with machine guns exterminate their enemies. Most sadistic shot: gangsters pushing a dinner pail over Overman's ears before shooting him to death...