Lynne Overman Movies

Oliver Quade is a pitchman who follows state fairs that feature dog shows---which limits his territory more than a little---at which he sells...

A young girl fresh out of reform school who is singing in a burlesque show is offered a scholarship to a famous music camp by the camp's owner. She...

Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his...

Sons of The Legion is a film about a group of young men looking to start a squadron in their Legion Post. However, because the boy's father...

A behind-the-scenes showcase of how screen tests for studio executives are made and used in the Hollywood casting process. Some of the featured...

The son of a cattle-rustling Cossack immigrant must choose between following the straight path and helping his father escape from prison.

A bored society girl sets her sights on a dancer in a Broadway show.

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually...

A Broadway playboy inherits an almost bankrupt girls' school and tries to save it by a big show.

When Bert Adams brings his boss, Mr. Mason, home for dinner, he and his wife Carrie hope Mason will take the opportunity to announce that Bert will...

Parkhouse plays a practical joke on a poker-playing buddy by sending him home with a lady's chemise stuffed in his coat pocket. The gag backfires,...

A police inspector "solves" a crime that, in fact, may not have occurred at all.

Promotion reel/souvenir of a 1939-40 meeting of the Paramount Studios sales people.

A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days.

Fred Stevens is an aspiring songwriter from Schenectady who journeys to New York City, hoping to make a name for himself. On the train he meets...