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...Time of Their Lives (Universal) also features a big, old tree which is inhabited by spirits. This time the spirits are the unhappy ghosts of departed mortals. The movie would be of interest to no one but fans of Comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, except that it underscores a mild Hollywood trend toward fantasy. (In pictures soon to be released, such diverse types as Keenan Wynn and Paul Muni also play ghosts...
Much of the comedy in The Time of Their Lives hinges on Costello's efforts to .get his very substantial-looking nonsubstance through a closed door. Killed during the American Revolution, he has not yet quite mastered, in 1946, the seemingly difficult trick of dematerialization...
...already rolled in the sawdust. Top men on Radio Row had decided that the public was fed up with straight gag shows, wanted its humor coated with a story. So off the air went Danny Kaye ("too arty"), and off went Cass Daley (whose Hooper rating had skidded). Abbott & Costello hoped to save themselves with a new routine...
International's good fortune began when the Government ordered the industry to give up the monopolistic practice of block booking (TIME, June 24). Shorn of the chance to peddle its potboiling B pictures, Universal was left with only two A-makers, Deanna Durbin and Abbott & Costello, to service its outlets...
...millions probably knew him as Jack Benny's English butler, train announcer, parrot, French violin teacher and news reporter; as Burns & Allen's melancholy postman; as Judy Canova's Pedro, Salesman Roscoe Wortle and a chronic hiccougher; as Bob Hope's "Private Snafu"; as Abbott & Costello's Scotsman...