Word: costelloism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Little Lou Costello, fat & funny, is a great clown. Bud Abbott, skinny & sour, is a first-rate straight man. On their own, the two can be counted on to supply plenty of low-comedy guffaws. But greedy Universal has almost squeezed the last laugh out of them before their first cinema year...
Keep 'Em Flying winds Abbott & Costello round & round with a silly plot about a barnstorming stunt flier (Dick Foran), his rival (William Gargan) and a girl (Carol Bruce). The picture uses a civilian pilot training school for background, some poor songs for vocal relief, and makes noisy, big-mouthed Martha Raye play twins, which is too much of a loud thing...
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...