The professional and personal lives of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello are examined.The professional and personal lives of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello are examined.The professional and personal lives of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello are examined.
Judy Hanson
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- (as Judith Hanson)
William Smidt
- Engineer
- (as Burr Smidt)
- Director
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- TriviaPart of a cycle of movies made during the mid-to-late 1970s about Tinseltown, Old Hollywood and its Golden Age including the Silent Film era. The pictures include Fedora (1978), Inserts (1975), Valentino (1977), Nickelodeon (1976), Silent Movie (1976), The Wild Party (1975), The Last Tycoon (1976), Hearts of the West (1975), The Day of the Locust (1975), The World's Greatest Lover (1977), Gable and Lombard (1976), Goodbye, Norma Jean (1976), Bud and Lou (1978), and W.C. Fields and Me (1976). Bogie (1980) and Mommie Dearest (1981) would soon follow as well.
- GoofsJimmy Savile is one of the acts mentioned by Eddie Sherman that Bud and Abbot will headline with, should they choose to sign with him. While Savile was in fact alive in 1938 when this took place, he was only 12 years old and nobody outside of his family or hometown know who he was.
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Lou Costello: Hey Eddie, I've had a lot of strawberry malteds in my life you know that? Out of all of them I've ever had, boy Eddie this one's the best.
- ConnectionsReferences In the Navy (1941)
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A terrible recounting of one of the greatest comedy teams of all time. Bad Casting 101 is in full effect
I first saw this as it was originally presented on TV in 1978. I have not seen it since because I hated it then. Lou Costello, one of the funniest comedians (although underrated) of all time and Bud Abbott, the greatest straight man ever are woefully misrepresented here. According to this, Costello was a monster and Abbott a weak man who knew nothing about anything, even comedy (The way "Who's On Forst?" is done makes it sound like an educational commercial for Mapquest instead of a comedy routine). While it's true that Costello had more push and was the business head of the duo, he was also a man of many sides, including a love for children, that this biopic prefers to erase. Buddy Hackett and Harvey Korman (both funny men in their own right)play the roles of two very interesting men as one-dimensional boobs who couldn't handle any aspect of show business. It's amazing that Buddy Hackett and Harvey Korman, who are comedy pros could come off so antiseptic and lifeless. It's as if they have no feel for comedy. As a matter of fact, Hackett derided the movie as terrible and he was embarrassed by what it represented for Lou Costello. When Lou's daughter wrote a book called "Lou's on First", Hackett wrote a foreword for the book essentially putting down the entire film as a colossal waste and terribly misleading.Instead of watching this film, read the many books of Abbott and Costello. You'll get a much better and more entertaining view of the two men that way!
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- gleetroy
- Apr 18, 2007
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