Murder on the Blackboard
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Murder on the Blackboard is a 1934 American pre-Code mystery/comedy film starring Edna May Oliver as schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers and James Gleason as Police Inspector Oscar Piper. Together, they
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Edna May Oliver
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Edna May Oliver was an American stage and film actress. During the 1930s, she was one of the better-known character actresses in American films, often playing tart-tongued spinsters.
Murder on the Blackboard
…Murder on the Blackboard is a 1934 American pre-Code mystery/comedy film starring Edna May Oliver as schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers and James Gleason as Police Inspector Oscar Piper. Together, they investigate a murder at Withers' school. It was…
Oliver in c. 1940
Oliver (center) in lobby card for David Copperfield (1935)
John Barrymore, Oliver and Leslie Howard in Romeo and Juliet (1936)