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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 1, 1943 | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: MOVIEGOER | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

...minor part, Lynne Overman is infinitely more amusing than any possible second features of which, fortunately, there are none...

Author: By R. T. S., | Title: MOVIEGOER | 5/16/1942 | See Source »

Roxie Hart (Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, Lynne Overman; TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Apr. 20, 1942 | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

Roxie Hart (Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, Lynne Overman; TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Mar. 16, 1942 | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

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