Word: costelloism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Universal) is one of those cheap Hollywood offerings ($350,000) which startle even their closest friends with huge returns (present guesstimate: $1,000,000). It also gives audiences a satisfactory opportunity to appraise the talents of Broadway Comics Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, a new pair of old-school comedians full of blackface repartee and Mack Sennett slapstick...
...Kasznar) is the hastily doctored version of a feeble revue that expired a fortnight ago after seven performances. The doctoring has helped but hasn't cured. Good bits: the veteran Willie Howard, whose Jewish accent cannot be cut with a knife, as a ballet dancer; hot little Diosa Costello shaking everything shakeable in a scorching conga...
Second feature, "One Night in the Tropics," has only two excuses for being produced. One of these, Jerome Kern's new numbers, is a pretty poor excuse. Comedy team Abbot and Costello, however, offer a few bright spots in an otherwise dull picture. Just as clever but not nearly so frank as in Gypsy Rose Lee's World Fair show, the two funsters show good Hollywood possibilities. The program as a whole, though, is a fair side order and a poor main dish...
...story by the late Earl Derr Biggers. Top-flight Cinematographer Joseph Valentine ran the camera. Yet together, this combination of Hollywood's ablest backstage talent accomplished no more than a jumbled exaggeration of the Boy Meets Girl motif with scattered comic turns by Radio Zanies Abbott and Costello...
...Stone, The Aldrich Family will continue to relate the trials & tribulations of adolescent Henry Aldrich, who first turned up in Manhattan in 1937 in the George Abbott comedy What a Life. Besides The Aldrich Family, radio's summer substitute fare (on Eastern Daylight Saving Time) will include: >Abbott & Costello, oldtime vaudevillians, who will split with Mr. District Attorney the 9-10 Wednesday night period on NBC's red network left vacant by Fred Allen, who goes to CBS in the fall...