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

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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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