Edna May Oliver Movies

An amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane suddenly dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James...

There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in...

On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young businessman is about to commit suicide. With a note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his...

A polo-playing grandmother and her broke brood get back in the money with a Wall Street bet.

New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank...

An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that they've become wealthy overnight.

Two soldiers go absent without leave in Paris during World War I.

Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.

After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married...

A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters.

A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.

Wealthy orphan Philippa L'Estrange loves handsome Norman Arleigh and is confident of marrying him until he discloses that he has only brotherly...

A businessman mingles with German laborers to learn more about their lives.

During a carnival in Venice, Horace Pierpont, a wealthy American (Lewis Stone), falls in love with Fay Kennion (Virginia Valli). Their romance is...

Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.

A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.

College football star Billy Dexter is prone to getting into public fights. His father demands he reform and sends him to mend his ways with a devout...

Two small town widows bring their children to Hollywood, where their children become competing film stars. The girl is sweet, the boy is a killjoy...

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...

Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood and his cousin Harriet Winthrop Spottiswood arrive separately at their long abandoned and very much run down family...