Lost in a Harem
Lost in a Harem – Abbott and Costello in the middle east, trying to rescue the lovely Marilyn Maxwell from the evil caliph – featuring their classic Poko Moko routine!
Lost in a Harem
Poko Moko / Slowly I turned – classic clown skit as done by Abbott and Costello
Slowly I Turned, a classic vaudeville routine as performed by Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in their movie, Lost in a Harem. Also known as Poko Moko and Niagara Falls
Poko Moko / Slowly I turned – classic clown skit as done by Abbott and Costello
Hit the Ice
Hit the Ice starring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Ginny Sims, Sheldon Leonard, released June 2, 1943
Flash Fulton (Bud Abbott) and Weejie McCoy (Lou Costello) take pictures of a bank robbery. They’re lured to the mountain resort hideout of the robbers. They’re accompanied by Dr. Bill Elliott (Patric Knowles) and Peggy Osborn (Elyse Knox). They meet old friend Johnny Long and his band and singer Marcia Manning (Ginny Simms). Dr. Elliott and Peggy are being held in a remote cabin by the robbers…
Hit the Ice
Who’s on First? script
Who’s on First? Abbott and Costello’s signature routine
The most famous of all of Abbott and Costello’s routines, Who’s on First? had been performed countless times in vaudeville and on radio, as well as a shortened version of it in their first movie, One Night in the Tropics, with the longer, definitive version (shown here) filmed in The Naughty Nineties.
Who’s on First? script
The Feud of Abbott and Costello
(originally published in TV Forecast and Guide, March 7, 1953)
One of the worst kept secrets in show business a few years back was the backstage feuding of the top comedy team of Abbott and Costello. It seemed hard to believe that the finely balanced pair could be anything but the best of friends. Yet the evidence was there.
It burst out in the open in 1945. Rotund Lou Costello, the buffoon of the team, suddenly charges in the public prints that Bud Abbott was a drunk.
The Feud of Abbott and Costello
Bud Abbott: the man everyone forgot!
Bud Abbott: the man everyone forgot
(originally published in Screen Stories, June 1960)
Gray-haired Bud Abbott stared bleakly out of his breakfast-room window, at the brown, untended lawn and grounds of his Encino, California home. Although it was past noon, he still wore his bedroom slippers, pajamas and white flannel robe. Why get dressed? He had no place to go, no job to do.
Bud Abbott: the man everyone forgot!
My cure for sorrow, by Lou Costello
(originally published in Journal of Living, January 1954)
Lou Costello: My Cure For Sorrow, As told to Vivian Cosby
A funny man’s prescription for grief that can work for everyone as it has for him.
“Why did this have to happen to me?”
A few years ago, when I was stricken with rheumatic fever, this question kept repeating itself in my mind. As I lay in bed week after week, I searched for the answer. And what made it all the more bewildering was that I had become ill while making a tour to raise charity funds. While striving to help others, I had been stricken myself. Why? The more I thought about it, the more sorry I became for myself.
My cure for sorrow, by Lou Costello
How I fought back – Lou Costello’s account of his recovery from rheumatic fever
Lou Costello, Hollywood’s best-loved comedian, tells how he fought his way back to health through prayer and undying faith.This an exclusive account to Motion Piture’s Readers
I think I’m a pretty lucky guy to be alive to tell this story.
With more than a half a year in bed spent grimly facing the terrifying prospect that I might never walk again, I found myself suddenly projected into a new world. A world that I never knew existed until then. And because I had never before come in contact with sickness and disaster, I suddenly saw a lot of things for the first time – things that before had meant very little to me.
Lou Costello biography
Lou Costello (March 6, 1906 – March 3, 1959)
