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5 unusual facts about Abbott and Costello


Amigo and Friends

The American animation company did cartoons featuring the Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy, and Abbott and Costello.

Dorothy Ford

She continued her acting career, including roles in the Andy Hardy movie Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946) and in Abbott and Costello's Jack and the Beanstalk (1952), until 1966, when she put in her final (and uncredited) performance in British film The Wrong Box.

Joe Kirk

Through his marriage to Marie Cristillo, the sister of Lou Costello, Kirk secured steady appearances (albeit in small roles) in Abbott and Costello films.

Nancy Guild

She left Fox and appeared in movies as a freelance and at Universal Studios, where she appeared in an Abbott and Costello picture and the Francis the Talking mule movie Francis Covers the Big Town (1953), her last picture.

Super Buddies

The Super Buddies do not and cannot get along: Blue Beetle and Booster Gold, formerly the self-proclaimed "Abbott and Costello" of the JLI, now find themselves constantly arguing and fruitlessly attempting to prove to one another that they've matured.


10,000 Kids and a Cop

The film features appearances by Abbott and Costello, James Stewart, William Bendix and Brenda Joyce, and it was originally distributed for free to U.S. film exhibitors.

Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man

Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (also known as Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man (full screen title)) is a 1951 comedy horror film directed by Charles Lamont and starring the team of Abbott and Costello alongside Nancy Guild.

Baker Building

Stars who have visited the theater or appeared on the stage include Al St. John, Buster Keaton, Pearl White, DeWolf Hopper, Helen Hayes, Lillian Russell, Ethel Barrymore and Abbott and Costello.

CatDog

The series revolves around Cat and Dog, who share the same body, and although they are best friends and brothers, they have very different personalities, similar to The Odd Couple mixed with elements of Laurel and Hardy and Abbott and Costello.

Hotel Habana Riviera

Within days the hotel became a symbol in Havana, attracting such acts as Abbott and Costello and Steve Allen who taped an episode of his prime time Sunday night show, The Steve Allen Show from the hotel.

Jack E. Leonard

Leonard narrated the theatrical release The World of Abbott and Costello which was not a documentary, but a compilation film consisting entirely of clips from Abbott and Costello movies.

Jean Yarbrough

His greatest success came in the 1940s, when he directed films that are even today fondly remembered such as The Devil Bat, King of the Zombies, She-Wolf of London, and a number of Abbott and Costello and Bowery Boys comedies.

Loring Smith

He also intermittently appeared in films, playing supporting parts in 1941's Keep 'Em Flying, with Abbott and Costello and Shadow of the Thin Man, fourth in the William PowellMyrna Loy series of Nick and Nora Charles mysteries.

Machine Gun Mama

It was PRC's attempt to feature a comedy team to compete with Universal's Abbott and Costello and Paramount's Road to … movies and their entry in the Good Neighbor Policy film genre of the time where the United States presented both a positive image to Latin and South America as well as stimulating American tourism to the region.

Ron Hargrave

Ron Hargrave, after hanging out with Costello's daughter, met with Abbott and Costello and eventually was managed by Lou Costello in one film, "Dance With Me Henry", released in 1956.

Slowly I Turned

Abbott and Costello performed the "Pokomoko" version in their 1944 film Lost in a Harem, and later did a "Niagara Falls" version for their early '50s television show.

Svengoolie

By December 2006, the show featured four of the Abbott and Costello "Meet" series, with the Universal Studio Monsters, and several Hammer Film Productions, which were distributed by Universal-International.

The Merry Macs

Their most famous film is Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942), an Abbott and Costello comedy in which The Merry Macs offer musical interludes.

The Norconian Resort Supreme

Actress Kay Francis was in charge of hospital morale, and she saw to it that many of the stars who frequented the resort now entertained the patients; including The Three Stooges, the Marx Brothers, Abbott and Costello, Jack Benny, Harry James, Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, Kay Kyser, James Cagney, Clark Gable and dozens of others.


see also

Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man

Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man was filmed between October 3 and November 6, 1950 and is a modified remake of the 1940 film The Invisible Man Returns.

In Society

It was the first of five Abbott and Costello films to be directed by Jean Yarbrough.

Martha Wentworth

Having had a long radio career since the early 1920s, listeners recognised her as The Wintergreen Witch on The Cinnamon Bear radio program (1937), Annie Wood and Mrs. Littlefield on Crime Classics (1953), Ma Danields on The Gallant Heart (1944), as well several semi-regular roles on Broadway Is My Beat, On Stage, The Abbott and Costello Show.

The Time of Their Lives

As in the previous Abbott and Costello film, Little Giant, the duo plays separate characters instead of partners, due to tensions between them that led to their splitting up for a while in 1945.