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...Universal) is Abbott & Costello's eleventh time around in the movies. There is every indication from most audiences that sheer, unspecialized hokum continues to have a power of appeal rivaling that of Mozart or the Gettysburg Address...
After one of the best double bills in history ("Saludos Amigos" and "Air Force"), the U.T. balances out the week with one of the worst. The second feature isn't so bad, but the Abbott-Costello opus would take the sting out of 20 other "A" pictures. Like Laurel and Hardy, Wheeler and Woolsey, A. and C. don't know when to stop. Right now they're riding the original wave of popularity which started two years ago, and their motto seems to be "Nothing new has been added...
...Covered" a five-star, on-the-nose, A-1 priority laff fest. Give me Groucho Marx for slapstick and Charlie Chaplin for pantomine. No, Hope is best when he is talking. He has a microphone personality and a master-of-ceremonies approach. Unlike your fat-and-thin combos (Abbot & Costello, Laurel & Hardy, Maxwell & Winchell), with Hope the ceremonies themselves don't seem to matter. Nobody cares what this quipping correspondent is doing; they just want to hear what he has to say about the situation. And from this point of view, "They Got Me Covered" has two advantages over previous...
...Covered" a five-star, on-the-nose, A-1 priority laff fest. Give me Groucho Marx for slapstick and Charlie Chaplin for pantomime. No. Hope is best when he is talking. He has a microphone personality and a master-of-ceremonies approach. Unlike your fat-and-thin combos (Abbot & Costello, Laurel & Hardy, Maxwell & Winchell), with Hope the ceremonies themselves don't seem to matter. Nobody cares what this quipping correspondent is doing; they just want to hear what he has to say about the situation. And from this point of view, "They Got Me Covered" has two advantages over previous...
Movie exhibitors reported that the cinemactor who had made them the most money in 1942 was a team: (Bud) Abbott & (Lou) Costello. The boisterous comics shouldered out boisterous Mickey Rooney, who slipped to fourth in the poll after leading it for three years. Second biggest moneymaker has been in the Army five months-Clark Gable, one of the top ten ever since the poll was first taken eleven years ago. Gary Cooper ran third. Newcomer to the golden gang: golden Betty Grable, who ran eighth...