• Hildegarde Withers is a fictional character, an amateur crime-solver, who has appeared in several novels, short stories and films. She was created by American...
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  • novelist and screenwriter. He was most famous for creating the character Hildegarde Withers. In addition, he used the pen names Theodore Orchards and Jay Stewart...
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  • Murder on the Blackboard (category Hildegarde Withers)
    as schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers and James Gleason as Police Inspector Oscar Piper. Together, they investigate a murder at Withers' school. It was based...
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    with Beryl Mercer. In 1936 RKO needed a replacement actress for its Hildegarde Withers series of murder mysteries; Edna May Oliver had left the studio and...
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  • The Penguin Pool Murder (category Hildegarde Withers)
    American pre-Code comedy/mystery film starring Edna May Oliver as Hildegarde Withers, a witness in a murder case at the New York Aquarium, with James Gleason...
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    female detectives of various ages from Nancy Drew, Torchy Blane and Hildegarde Withers while the 1940s had none. Productions in the 1930s were occasionally...
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  • Teenage Witch and subsequent television series. Hildegarde (Marvel Comics), a Valkyrie Hildegarde Withers, in novels and films Hildegard von Krone, from...
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    star vehicles were mystery-comedies, starring as spinster sleuth Hildegarde Withers from the popular Stuart Palmer novels. The series ended prematurely...
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  • Forty Naughty Girls (category Hildegarde Withers)
    final entry in RKO Pictures' series of Hildegarde Withers films. This film was the sixth film in the Hildegarde Withers-Oscar Piper series, and the second...
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  • Murder on a Bridle Path (category Hildegarde Withers)
    was the fourth production in the Hildegarde Withers series, and the only one in which Broderick played Hildegarde Withers. An apparent accident involving...
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  • Murder on a Honeymoon (category Hildegarde Withers)
    was the third and last time Oliver portrayed astute schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers; the two previous films were The Penguin Pool Murder (1932) and Murder...
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  • The Plot Thickens (film) (category Hildegarde Withers)
    schoolteacher and amateur sleuth Hildegarde Withers from Stuart Palmer's stories. Gleason reprised his role as Hildegarde's friendly nemesis, Inspector Oscar...
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    She had leading roles in a few B movies, such as amateur sleuth Hildegarde Withers in Murder on a Bridle Path. The wife of actor Lester (Pendergast)...
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    In Name Only Aunt Theda Reeson TV film 1972 A Very Missing Person Hildegarde Withers TV film 1972 All My Darling Daughters Miss Freeling TV film 1974 The...
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  • historical geographer George Wither (1588–1667), English poet and satirist Hildegarde Withers, in novels by Stuart Palmer Kitchin, G.W. (1895), The Manor of Manydown...
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  • (Satyajit Ray) Hercule Poirot with Arthur Hastings – (Agatha Christie) Hildegarde Withers with Inspector Oscar Piper – (Stuart Palmer) Inspector Lynley with...
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    in two movie series, playing police inspector Oscar Piper in six Hildegarde Withers mystery films during the 1930s, starting with The Penguin Pool Murder...
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  • Devil Doctor Woman (1990) Guinea Pig 7: Slaughter Special (1991) Hildegarde Withers The Penguin Pool Murder (1932) Murder on the Blackboard (1934) Murder...
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    Dashiell Hammett: Dead Yellow Women—1947 Stuart Palmer: The Riddles of Hildegarde Withers—1947 John Dickson Carr: Dr. Fell, Detective, and Other Stories—1947...
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    Pinkham." In the film The Penguin Pool Murder (1932), crime sleuth Hildegarde Withers teases an office secretary about putting on too much make-up, to which...
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    first two films of the RKO trilogy starring Edna May Oliver as Miss Hildegarde Withers, a teacher and amateur investigator created by American writer Stuart...
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  • pandemic in 2020. The Penguin Pool Murder 1932 Edna May Oliver portrays Hildegarde Withers, who takes her elementary school class to the New York Aquarium where...
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  • featuring literary sleuths with the others being Nick Carter and Hildegarde Withers. The production utilized sets from other productions, mainly horror...
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  • Crawford Murder on a Honeymoon - 1935 film, starring Edna May Oliver as Hildegarde Withers, takes place on Catalina Island Pirate Party on Catalina Isle - 1935...
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  • Helgenberger on the 2000–2015 CBS series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Hildegarde Withers is a school teacher and amateur investigator in a series of books...
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  • Egg (“Lost Classics Series”) Wendy Hornsby Nine Sons Stuart Palmer Hildegarde Withers (“Lost Classics Series”) Craig Rice Murder, Mystery and Malone (“Lost...
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  • famous character, Hildegarde Withers, who had appeared previously in films in the 1930s. However, MGM replaced the character of Withers with that of "Mrs...
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  • Arkansas Traveler and Edna Mae Oliver portraying the eccentric nurse, Hildegarde Withers, that she had popularized in film. Ginny Simms was the program's original...
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    Grant (July 16, 1951) Susan Hayward (August 10, 1951) Hildegard Knef (as Hildegarde Neff) (December 13, 1951) Oskar Werner (December 13, 1951) Jane Wyman...
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  • George Hicks Radio 6314 Hollywood Boulevard (1960-02-08)February 8, 1960 Hildegarde Radio 6141 Hollywood Boulevard (1960-02-08)February 8, 1960 Jim Hill Television...
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