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...script gets off on the wrong foot by surrounding them with such a loony murder story that their own looniness scarcely registers. But it would not hit very hard, in any event. Eight Abbott & Costello comedies appear to have exhausted the team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 21, 1942 | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

...Done It? (Universal) offers Abbott & Costello in a new role as a pair of amateur detectives, but it is still the same picture they have made seven times before under different titles. The formula has been good enough to make them Hollywood's No. 1 box-office attraction. But this time their act seems a little more corny than usual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 21, 1942 | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

...Costello: Is he on this murder case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 21, 1942 | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

...Done It? may allow even the most thoroughly mesmerized Abbott & Costello subject to slip from his trance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 21, 1942 | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

Patiently NBC pointed out that Fidler worked for its recently severed affiliate, the Blue Network. "Red, white or blue," roared Studio Head William Goetz, "it's all NBC to us." The Blue Network stuck by Fidler, so Goetz removed stogied Guest Tierney from Abbott & Costello's show, bountiful Betty Grable from Jack Benny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Stogie Tempest | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

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