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Keep 'Em Flying (Universal) is Abbott & Costello's fourth picture in ten months, their third crack at the armed forces of the U.S. Having thoroughly balled up the Army and the Navy, the slapsticky pair of onetime burlesque comedians this time tackle the Air Corps. The result...
Divorced. Oldtime Matinee Idol Maurice Costello, 63, father of ex-Actresses Dolores and Helene; by Ruth Reeves Costello, 32, his second wife; in Los Angeles...
Featuring Abbott and Costello, who are to a funnybone as a detonator is to dynamite, "Hold That Ghost" is easily one of the top ticklers of the year. A thousand good gags--they've all stood the test of time--have been thoroughly rehashed and served up with a haunted house and the gaunt Andrews Sisters. This is unadulterated slapstick with Jello Costello as usual getting the slaps. If you've followed the 1941 Laurel and Hardy in their rampage through our armed forces, come back for more of the same comedy--if not, then come to form the Abbott...
Sued for Divorce, Oldtime Matinee Idol Maurice Costello, 64, father of ex-Cinemactresses Dolores and Helene; by Ruth Reeves Costello, thirtyish, his second wife; in Los Angeles...
Hold That Ghost (Universal) is about that haunted house Universal has been making and remaking these many years. It is not much of a house, but Abbott & Costello are in it and that makes it funny. They inherit it from a murdered gangster, refuse to be frightened out of it by the ectoplasmic machinations of their donor's mob, hold on until they hit the jackpot: the dead gangster's fortune cached in a moosehead. This feeble chronicle is considerably enhanced by such sure-fire episodes as greaseball Lou Costello climbing in bed with a ghost...