Lynne Overman
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Lynne Overman.
Born: September 18, 1887
Place of Birth: Maryville, Missouri, USA
Known For
New York Town
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
You Belong to Me
When vaudeville performer Florette Faxon is left penniless with her six-year-old son Jimmy, she relies on the friendship of fellow performer Bud Hannigan to help her get a job. Bud is reluctant to become her partner, as he has proven to himself to be unreliable in relationships, but he tells her to call him whenever she needs help. While working in a beer garden, Florette meets Hap Stanley, an avaricious performer who marries her to get the rights to perform her show routine. Hap dislikes Jimmy and eventually convinces Florette to send him away to school. Both Jimmy and Florette are broken-up over being apart, but Jimmy pretends it is what he wants so Florette can be happy with Hap.
Roxie Hart
A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime she was judged for in 1927.
Poppy
Carny con artist and snake-oil salesman Eustace McGargle tries to stay one step ahead of the sheriff but is completely devoted to his beloved daughter Poppy.
Edison, the Man
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
Union Pacific
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
Two for Tonight
A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days.
Little Miss Marker
Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies, especially Sorrowful Jones, to each pay him $1,000 for his racehorse, Dream Prince, to lose. With all bets being placed at the window, Sorrowful encounters a gambler, having lost $500, wanting to place his bet but unable to come up with $20. Instead, he places his little girl, Marthy Jane, as security, or in bookie's terms a "marker". "Marky", as she comes to be known, winds up under the care of Sorrowful Jones and his lady friend, singer Bangles Carson.
Reap the Wild Wind
The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Loxi Claiborne and her crew, reap, aboard frail schooners, the harvest of the wild wind, facing the shark teeth of the reefs to rescue the sailors and the cargo from the shipwrecks caused by the scavengers of the sea.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Johnny Walsh
as Mr. Whitlock
as Hector Bailey
as Jammer Jones
as Captain Phillip Philpott
as Mark
as Jake Callahan
as Sam
as Corky
as Steve Riggs
as George Thomas
as Tod McDuff
as Jock McPhail
as Skipper Joe
as Bunt Cavatt
as Oliver Quade
as Leach Overmile
as Agent Pete Griswold
as Oklahoma
as Charles Lee
as 'Jack' Jackson
as Hank Rinebow
as Peter Harris
as Jimmy Wallace
as Scoop McPhail
as Bartender
as Russell Kirk - Reporter
as Hank Hyer
as Joe Hart
as Perry Brown
as Dr. Parkhouse
as Littleworth
as Steve Dorsey
as Henry Hyer
as Frank
as Jeff Mullins
as Honeysuckle
as Attorney Whiffen
as Sour-Puss
as Narrator
as Harry
as DuPont
as Agent Gabby Lambert
as Flash
as Mr. Farnum
as Happy McGuire
as Brown
as Gus McNeal
as Joe Lang
as Regret
as Joe Biggers
as Bert Adams
as Newlywed (uncredited)