List of the best Edna May Oliver movies: Murder on the Blackboard(1934), Murder on a Honeymoon(1935), The Penguin Pool Murder(1932), The Last Gentleman(1934), Nurse Edith Cavell(1939), Laugh and Get Rich(1931), A Tale of Two Cities(1935), Cracked Nuts(1931), Parnell(1937), Great Jasper(1933), The Conquerors(1932), Only Yesterday(1933) ... ...
6.8/10
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
USA
1934
71 Minutes
Edna May Oliver James Gleason Bruce Cabot Gertrude Michael Regis Toomey Edgar Kennedy Tully Marshall Jackie Searle Frederick Vogeding Gustav von Seyffertitz Jed Prouty
A pretty young music teacher is bludgeoned to death in Hildegarde's school, where she's reunited with Oscar, but the autopsy report says she was dying from poison too.
6.8/10
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
USA
1935
74 Minutes
Edna May Oliver James Gleason Lola Lane Chick Chandler George Meeker Dorothy Libaire Harry Ellerbe Spencer Charters DeWitt Jennings Leo G. Carroll Arthur Hoyt
A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a sea-plane gets sick and dies.
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
1932
70 Minutes
Edna May Oliver James Gleason Mae Clarke Robert Armstrong Donald Cook Clarence Wilson Edgar Kennedy Mary Mason Rochelle Hudson Guy Usher James Donlan
New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers (Edna May Oliver) assists a detective (James Gleason) with an aquarium corpse.
7.1/10
Comedy
USA
1934
80 Minutes
Augusta Pritchard
George Arliss Edna May Oliver Janet Beecher Charlotte Henry Ralph Morgan Edward Ellis Frank Albertson Rafaela Ottiano Donald Meek Joseph Cawthorn Harry C. Bradley
millionaire son granddaughter sister lawyer adopted son offbeat witty massachusetts house memorial service inheritance greed family schemes eccentricity reconciliation love quest 1930s
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 there, Barr ... See full summary »
6.5/10
Drama, History
USA
1939
97 Minutes
Countess de Mavon
Anna Neagle Edna May Oliver George Sanders May Robson ZaSu Pitts H.B. Warner Sophie Stewart Mary Howard Robert Coote Martin Kosleck Gui Ignon
nurse patient soldier prisoner spy engaging disheartening bleak belgium hospital pow camp courtroom prisoners of war bravery world war i imprisonment prison break escape rescue underdog
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 ... See full summary »
5.6/10
Comedy
USA
1931
72 Minutes
Hugh Herbert Edna May Oliver Dorothy Lee Russell Gleason John Harron Charles Sellon George Davis Robert Emmett Keane
Man takes his wife's stashed money and is conned into investing it in an oil well.
7.8/10
Drama, History
USA
1935
128 Minutes
Miss Pross
Ronald Colman Elizabeth Allan Edna May Oliver Blanche Yurka Reginald Owen Basil Rathbone Henry B. Walthall Donald Woods Walter Catlett Fritz Leiber H.B. Warner
lawyer wealthy man pretty woman emotional melodramatic passionate england london france paris social change love triangle french revolution friendship injustice love forbidden love quest rescue 1780s
A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amongst the turmoil of the French Revolution.
6.2/10
Comedy
USA
1931
65 Minutes
Aunt Minnie Van Varden
Bert Wheeler Robert Woolsey Edna May Oliver Dorothy Lee Leni Stengel Stanley Fields Harvey Clark Boris Karloff Ben Turpin Frank Thornton Frank Lackteen
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 gambling. So he plans a coup ... See full summary »
5.4/10
Biography
USA
1937
119 Minutes
Aunt Ben Wood
Clark Gable Myrna Loy Edna May Oliver Edmund Gwenn Alan Marshal Donald Crisp Billie Burke Donald Meek
politician captain wife rival wealthy woman irishman tense patriotic melodramatic ireland court england estate parliament bedroom charles stewart parnell politics trial infidelity romance
The life of Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell, following from 1880 onward his struggle to secure Home Rule, pursued in prison, Parliament, and elsewhere. Emphasis is on the ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
1933
83 Minutes
Madame Talma
Richard Dix Wera Engels Edna May Oliver Florence Eldridge Walter Walker David Durand Bruce Line James Bush Bruce Cabot Betty Furness Dorothy Gray
An amorous Irish motorman (Richard Dix) inherits a palm reader's (Edna May Oliver) business in Atlantic City.
Western
1932
84 Minutes
Matilda Blake
Richard Dix Ann Harding Edna May Oliver Guy Kibbee Julie Haydon Donald Cook Harry Holman Skeets Gallagher Walter Walker Wally Albright Marilyn Knowlden
Newlyweds (Richard Dix, Ann Harding) head for 1870s Nebraska and build a banking empire spanning three generations.
7.5/10
Romance
USA
1933
105 Minutes
Leona
Margaret Sullavan John Boles Billie Burke Edna May Oliver Benita Hume Reginald Denny
A one-night fling during World War I results in a young girl getting pregnant. Years later, she meets him again. Now a successful businessman, he doesn't even remember her, but tries to seduce her.
7.1/10
Drama, History
USA
1939
103 Minutes
Mrs. McKlennar
Claudette Colbert Henry Fonda John Carradine Edna May Oliver Eddie Collins Dorris Bowdon Jessie Ralph Arthur Shields Robert Lowery Roger Imhof Francis Ford
husband wife widow native american tory patriotic thrilling albany, n.y. farm fort dayton mohawk valley frontier life colonialism revolutionary war love daunting task quest rivalry sacrifice 1770s
Newlyweds Gil and Lana Martin try to establish a farm in the Mohawk Valley but are menaced by Indians and Tories as the Revolutionary War begins.
6.4/10
Romance
USA
1941
104 Minutes
Sarah MacMillan
Merle Oberon Joseph Cotten Alan Marshall Edna May Oliver Hans Jaray George Reeves John Halliday Sara Allgood Billy Ray Frank Conlan
elderly woman lover suitor recluse old flame melodramatic moving tender boston charity event new york city regret memory reunion unrequited love romance the past love mystery discovery
Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy old woman who has never married, is invited by an old beau, Dr. Michael Fitzpatrick, for a reunion with the men who have been in her life to reminisce about the ... See full summary »
6.0/10
Romance
USA
1935
81 Minutes
Fanny
Joan Crawford Robert Montgomery Franchot Tone Edna May Oliver Charles Ruggles Arthur Treacher Gail Patrick Vivienne Osborne Joan Fontaine David Horsley
A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.
Comedy
1932
74 Minutes
Violet
Bert Wheeler Robert Woolsey Betty Grable Edna May Oliver Robert Armstrong Roscoe Ates Edgar Kennedy Warren Hymer Paul Hurst G. Pat Collins Stanley Blystone
A football-loving warden gives the inmates a chance to show their stuff by scheduling a game with another penitentiary.
6.6/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1938
70 Minutes
Sarah Wendling
Shirley Temple George Murphy Jimmy Durante Phyllis Brooks Edna May Oliver George Barbier Edward Ellis Jane Darwell El Brendel Donald Meek Patricia Wilder
orphan nephew band leader uncle landlady daughter winsome spectacular heartwarming new york city hotel stage courtroom broadway theater orphanage orphans musical performance rags to riches communal living family
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 orphanage.
6.1/10
Drama
USA
1933
72 Minutes
Malvina Wormser
Irene Dunne Walter Huston Conrad Nagel Bruce Cabot Edna May Oliver Sam Hardy Mitchell Lewis Helen Eby-Rock Gertrude Michael J. Carrol Naish Sarah Padden
social worker army officer doctor judge suitor engaging moving profound striking prison havana new york state manhattan social activism prison adultery pregnancy blackmail sacrifice forbidden love
A prison reformer and a controversial judge fall in love and have a child out of wedlock.
5.6/10
Comedy
USA
1933
68 Minutes
Dean Primrose
Jack Pearl Jimmy Durante The Three Stooges ZaSu Pitts Ted Healy Edna May Oliver
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 greeted as heroes. ... See full summary »
7.4/10
Drama
USA
1935
130 Minutes
Aunt Betsey
W.C. Fields Freddie Bartholomew Basil Rathbone Lionel Barrymore Maureen O'Sullivan Madge Evans Edna May Oliver Lewis Stone Elizabeth Allan Roland Young Elsa Lanchester
young boy stepfather father ingénue blackmailer aunt melodramatic london family home office wealth family child abuse blackmail love triangle growing up rescue love 19th century
A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.
5.9/10
Western
USA
1931
131 Minutes
Mrs. Tracy Wyatt
Richard Dix Irene Dunne Estelle Taylor Nance O'Neil William Collier Jr. Roscoe Ates George E. Stone Robert McWade Edna May Oliver Frank Darien Eugene Jackson
editor wife prostitute servant outlaw native american rousing wild oklahoma oil field courtroom gambling house abandonment trial oil newspapers marriage land rush adventure love
A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.
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