A ★★½ review of Forty Naughty Girls (1937) At this point, the series had devolved into silly comedy. Hildegarde (Zasu Pitts) and Piper (James Gleason) go on a date to a hit Broadway show. There's a murder and then another. Blackmail and reveng...

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A ★★½ review of The Plot Thickens (1936) Zasu Pitts takes over the role of Hildegarde Withers. She's more comedic than her predecessors. This changes the whole dynamic between her and Inspector Piper (James Gleason). The plot that thickens c...

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A ★★★ review of Murder on a Bridle Path (1936) Spinster schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers (Helena Broderick) once again inserts herself into yet another police investigation. It looks like a riding accident but turns out to be... MURDER! Inspector ...

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A ★★★½ review of Murder on a Honeymoon (1935) A passenger on a sea plane dies mysteriously when they land. It looks like a heart attack, but Hildegarde Withers (Edna May Oliver) is aboard. She suspects poisoning. Hildegarde calls in Inspector Pip...

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A ★★★½ review of Murder on the Blackboard (1934) Hildegarde Withers (Edna May Oliver) discovers the dead body of a fellow teacher. She calls in Inspector Piper (James Gleason), but the corpse has disappeared. Eventually, they do find her body, burnt...

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A ★★★★ review of The Penguin Pool Murder (1932) First of the Hildegarde Withers comedy mystery series. Spinster schoolteacher Withers (Edna May Oliver, DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK) is on an aquarium field trip with her students when a dead body pops up ...

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"It isn't likely a woman would call me 'Baby' is it?"

Hildegarde Withers: "No, not so far downtown as this."

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Eve Arden played an updated Hildegarde Withers in an ABC Movie of the Week in 1972--"A Very Missing Person"--it's on YouTube #TCMPARTY #HildegardeWithers #ThePenguinPoolMurder