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Word: overman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...OVERMAN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...Hunted Men" is more serious, being a psychological study of a fugitive criminal. Lloyd Nolan plays this part well, but honors go to Lynne Overman, who starts out as his usual alcoholic self but sobers up in time to give a sensitive, understanding portrayal of a difficult role...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

Hotel Haywire (Paramount): a rollicking mêlée precipitated when Spring Byington finds a pair of women's silk panties in Lynne Overman's pocket-prolonged by Astrologer Zodiac Z. Zippe (Leo Carrillo) supplying both with detectives recruited from vaudevillle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

...OVERMAN GREGORY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 24, 1937 | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

...private investigator on a holiday with a drunken sidekick, Roscoe Karns, Overman finds himself following a woman in the holiday spirit, until they stumble across the scene of a crime. For the easy to look at lady is an ex-chanteuse and now wife of Keats College's brilliant mathematician, Professor Barry. Barry has become a corpse, whereat it is brought to light that many of the Faculty members owe gambling debts to him, while he himself was trying to muscle in on the metropolitan numbers racket. The chief oft the numbers racket is a boy fiend of the professor...

Author: By M. F. E., | Title: PARAMOUNT & FENWAY | 3/13/1937 | See Source »

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