Cast: Edna May Oliver
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Edna May Oliver. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
The Lucky Devil
1925 · Movie · 63 min. · United States
Direction Frank Tuttle
Cast Richard Dix · Esther Ralston · Edna May Oliver · Thomas Findley
Plot Randy Farman, who demonstrates camping outfits in a department store, wins a racing car in a raffle and sets out for the West. He runs out of gas, loses all...
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Little Miss Broadway
1938 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Irving Cummings
Cast Shirley Temple · George Murphy · Jimmy Durante · Phyllis Brooks
Plot An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the...
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My Dear Miss Aldrich
1937 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction George B. Seitz
Cast Edna May Oliver · Maureen O'Sullivan · Walter Pidgeon · Rita Johnson
Plot When the owner of the New York Globe-Leader dies without making a will, the paper is inherited by his only living relative, an "old maid schoolteacher" from Nebraska. Martha Aldrich,...
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Half Shot at Sunrise
1930 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Paul Sloane
Cast Bert Wheeler · Robert Woolsey · Dorothy Lee · George MacFarlane
Plot The stage stars Wheeler and Woolsey play two soldiers who go absent without leave in Paris, during World War I.
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The Last Gentleman
1934 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Sidney Lanfield
Cast George Arliss · Edna May Oliver · Janet Beecher · Charlotte Henry
Plot In New England circa 1933, a niece is reported missing and presumed dead and Cabot Barr (George Arliss) summons his relatives to the family estate for a memorial service. Once...
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Cracked Nuts
1931 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Edward F. Cline
Cast Bert Wheeler · Robert Woolsey · Dorothy Lee · Edna May Oliver
Plot To impress his fiancee's aunt, a young man tries to become king in a small kingdom, but the people there have already crowned one, who has won this honor by...
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Let's Get Married
1926 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Gregory La Cava
Cast Richard Dix · Lois Wilson · Nat Pendleton · Douglas MacPherson
Plot Billy Dexter, celebrating a football victory with his college chums, is arrested for roughhousing. He promises Mary, his girl, that he will reform; and his father presents him with an...
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The Poor Rich
1934 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Edward Sedgwick
Cast Edward Everett Horton · Edna May Oliver · Andy Devine · Leila Hyams
Plot Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood (Edward Everett Horton) and his cousin Harriet Winthrop Spottiswood (Edna May Oliver) arrive separately at their long abandoned and very much run down family manor, each unaware...
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It's Great to Be Alive
1933 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Alfred L. Werker
Cast Raul Roulien · Edna May Oliver · Gloria Stuart · Herbert Mundin
Plot An aviator who crash landed on an island in the South Pacific returns home to find that he is the last fertile man left on Earth after an epidemic of...
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Hold 'Em Jail
1932 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction Norman Taurog
Cast Bert Wheeler · Robert Woolsey · Edna May Oliver · Robert Armstrong
Plot Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.
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We're Rich Again
1934 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction William A. Seiter
Cast Edna May Oliver · Billie Burke · Marian Nixon · Reginald Denny
Plot The wedding of their daughter brings many surprises, including a determined bill collector, a bad business venture, an elopement, and an unexpected windfall.
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Nurse Edith Cavell
1939 · Movie · 108 min. · United States
Direction Herbert Wilcox
Cast Anna Neagle · Edna May Oliver · George Sanders · May Robson
Plot English nurse Edith Cavell is matron in a small private hospital in German-occupied Brussels during WWI. When the son of a recently deceased patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp,...
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Lovers in Quarantine
1925 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Frank Tuttle
Cast Bebe Daniels · Harrison Ford II · Alfred Lunt · Eden Gray
Plot Lovers in Quarantine is an extant 1925 silent film comedy starring Bebe Daniels and directed by Frank Tuttle. It was produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. the...
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Paradise for Three
1938 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Edward Buzzell
Cast Robert Young · Frank Morgan · Mary Astor · Florence Rice
Plot A businessman mingles with German laborers to learn more about their lives.
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The Saturday Night Kid
1929 · Movie · 63 min. · United States
Direction A. Edward Sutherland
Cast Clara Bow · Jean Arthur · James Hall · Edna May Oliver
Plot Mayme and sister Janie are salesgirls in Ginsberg's Department Store. Mayme is in love with store clerk Bill, but Janie tries to steal him from her. Hazel, another salesgirl, is...
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The American Venus
1926 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Frank Tuttle
Cast Esther Ralston · Lawrence Gray · Ford Sterling · Fay Lanphier
Plot Mary Gray, whose father manufactures cold cream, is engaged to sappy Horace Niles, the son of Hugo Niles, the elder Gray's most competitive rival in the cosmetics business. Chip Armstrong,...
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Newly Rich
1931 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Norman Taurog
Cast Mitzi Green · Edna May Oliver · Louise Fazenda · Jackie Searl
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Meet the Baron
1933 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Walter Lang
Cast Jack Pearl · Jimmy Durante · ZaSu Pitts · Ted Healy
Plot The famous Baron Munchausen dumps two dimwits in the African jungle. A rescue team mistakes one of them for the missing Baron, and returns them to the US, where they're...
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