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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...
...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...
...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...