Word: costelloism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pardon My Sarong (Universal). Abbott & Costello, the outrageously low comics who are Hollywood's best-selling double feature, have made this picture, under various titles (Buck Privates, Ride 'Em Cowboy, etc.), about once every three months since their cinemadvent a year and a half ago. Like their aged-in-wood gags, it now has a chiefly historical charm...
...magician trying to pull a hat out of a rabbit, a seaman shaving in a hurricane, slapsticky Lou Costello is a successful clown. But most of it is South Sea stuffing, Hollywood style, with only two notable exceptions: a breakaway tune called Vingo Jingo (authors: Don Raye and Gene DePaul), and radio's vibrant-voiced Nan Wynn, now visible for the first time after her anonymous role as Rita Hayworth's singing voice in My Gal Sal (TIME...
...Magnificent Ambersons (Anne Baxter, Agnes Moorehead, Joseph Gotten, Dolores Costello, Tim Holt; TIME, July...
...Pluto Water, Owner Tom Taggart invited 1,000 rich and prominent Indianans to spend a free weekend. Even the Pluto Water was free. Only expense for each guest: he must buy at least $1,000 in war bonds. The guests outdid themselves. Slapstick Cinecomedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello conducted an auction. Boldest bid: $103,000 in bonds for a cocker-spaniel pup donated by Cinemactress Irene Dunne. Total sales that weekend in French Lick...
...Magnificent Ambersons (Anne Baxter, Agnes Moorehead, Joseph Gotten, Dolores Costello, Tim Holt; TIME, July...