Word: overman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Lynne Overman, 55, veteran character actor, cinema's jack-of-all roles; of a heart ailment; in Santa Monica. A onetime jack-of-all-trades (jockey, candy butcher, song plugger, minstrel man), he was a Broadway favorite before he went to Hollywood in 1934, thereafter played more than 50 wry-humored cinema roles -nearly all of them out of the side ot his mouth...
...best songs of the season. "That Old Black Magic." Hope gets caught in a shower with jealous husband William Bendix. Alan Ladd commits a ten-second murder, Lamour, Goddard, and Lake chant the woes of "A Sweater, A Sarong. And A Peckaboo Rang," MacMurray, Milland, Tone, and Overman revive George Kaufman's classic "If Men Played Cards As Women Do." and Rochester's zoot suit number is stolen by un-billed dancer Katharine Dunham. Bing Crosby is really wasted, however, on the patriotic finale, and Harold Arlen's song "Old Glory." is a rehash from his own and better...
...minor part, Lynne Overman is infinitely more amusing than any possible second features of which, fortunately, there are none...
Roxie Hart (Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, Lynne Overman; TIME, March...
Roxie Hart (Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, Lynne Overman; TIME, March...