Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein - Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein is a 1948 comedy/horror film in which characters played by Bud Abbott and Lou Costello deliver large heavy crates to a wax museum only to discover that the contents -- Frankenstein's monster and Dracula -- are neither wax nor dead. Bela Lugosi stars as Dracula; Glenn Strange stars as Frankenstein's monster; and Lon Chaney Jr makes an appearance as the Wolfman. The film was directed by Charles T. Barton from a screenplay by Robert Lees, Frederic I. Rinaldo and John Grant. In 2001 the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. See Also: List of movies - List of actors - List of.
Abbott and Costello - Abbott and Costello Abbott and Costello is the name of a legendary comedy team made up of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Abbott met Costello in 1931 while Abbott was working as a cashier at the Brooklyn theater. Costello asked Abbott to fill in for his straight man, who was ill. Throughout the 1930s, Abbott and Costello began their career performing together in burlesque shows, minstrel shows, vaudeville and movie houses. At Costello's request, all profits earned from the act were split 60/40, favoring Abbott, because, according to Costello, "Comics are a dime a dozen. Good straight men are hard to find." In 1938 they received national exposure for the first time by performing on the Kate Smith Hour radio show, which lead to the duo.
Bud Abbott - Bud Abbott William Alexander Abbott aka Bud Abott (October 2, 1895-April 24, 1974) is a legendary American Actor, producer and comedian from Asbury Park, New Jersey. Abbott is best known as half of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Lou Costello. Abbott, whose mother was a bareback rider for the Ringling Bothers Circus, dropped out of school as a child in 1909, and began working in carnivals. Abbott eventually started working in theaters around the county, eventually becoming the manager for the Nation Theater in Detroit. While at the National Theater, Abbott began performing on stage as straight man to vaudeville performers like Harry Steepe and Harry Evanson. Abbott met Costello in 1931 while working as a cashier at the Brooklyn theater, when he was.
Peter Costello - Peter Costello Peter Costello Peter Howard Costello (born 14 August 1957), Australian politician, has been Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party since 1994, and Treasurer (finance minister) in the Australian government since 1996. Costello was born in Melbourne, into a middle-class family of committed Christians: his brother, Tim Costello, is a prominent Baptist minister. He was educated at a Baptist school and attended Melbourne's Monash University, where he graduated in arts and law. During his student years he was active in student politics as a radical Christian, and for a time was a member of the youth wing of the Australian Labor Party, but after graduating he rapidly became more conservative, while retaining liberal views on some social issues. During the 1980s Costello became a well-known industrial.
Lou Costello - Lou Costello Louis Francis Cristillo aka Lou Costello (March 6, 1906 - March 3, 1959) is an American actor, producer and comedian from Paterson, New Jersey. Costello is best known as half of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Bud Abbott. Costello worked as a carpenter at MGM and Warner Brothers after high school. After that, he worked temporarily as a stuntman, and then eventually became vaudeville comedian. In 1931, while performing in Brooklyn, New York, Costello's straightman became ill and the theater cashier, Bud Abbott, filled in. Throughout the 1930s, Abbott and Costello began performing together in burlesque shows, minstrel shows, vaudeville and movie houses. At Costello's request, all profits earned from the act were split 60/40, favoring Abbott, because, according to Costello, "comics.
Henry Koster - studio, Durbin, Pasternak and Koster on top. Koster went on to do numerous musicals and family comedies during late 1930's and early 1940's, many with Betty Grable, Durbin and other musical stars of the era. Koster worked at Universal until 1941 or so, and then moved to MGM, and then Fox in 1948. Ironically, despite his escape from Nazi Germany, when the United States entered World War II Koster was considered an enemy alien and had to stay in his house in the evening. Actor Charles Laughton would visit Koster and play chess with him. When he married his second wife, Peggy Moran, in 1942 he promised her he would put her in every movie he made from then on. He did, but it was her statue. Usually it is a.
Hollywood Walk of Fame - in front and behind the cameras. Honorees receive a star based on career and lifetime achievements in motion pictures, radio, television, and/or music, as well as their charitable and civic contributions. Joanne Woodward received the first star on the Walk of Fame on February 9, 1960. Partial list of celebrities with stars on the walk of fame Bud Abbott (3 stars) Renée Adorée Gracie Allen Julie Andrews Louis Armstrong Desi Arnaz (2 stars) Fred Astaire Gene Autry (5 stars) Lauren Bacall Lucille Ball Tallulah Bankhead Bob Barker Lionel Barrymore The Beach Boys The Beatles Jack Benny Ingrid Bergman Milton Berle (2 stars) Big Bird Humphrey Bogart Ray Bolger (2 stars) Marlon Brando Walter Brennan Garth Brooks Carol Burnett George Burns Raymond Burr Nicolas Cage Frank Capra James Cagney Maria Callas Johnny.
December 5 - Amendment to the United States Constitution, thus establishing the required 3/4th of states needed to enact the amendment (this overturned the 18th Amendment which had outlawed alcohol in the United States). 1934 - Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Ethiopia (it took four days to capture the city). 1936 - The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution. 1941 - The nonfiction book Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck is published (Steinbeck used knowledge gained writing this book to develop the marine biologist character Doc in Cannery Row). 1945 - Flight 19, a United States Navy training flight was lost in the Bermuda Triangle. 1952 - The Abbott and Costello Show starring comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, debuts. 1955 - The trade unions American Federation of Labor and the Congress of.
1891 - troops fire on workers' May Day demonstration in support of eight-hour workday in Fourmies, France. May 20 - First public display of Thomas Alva Edison's prototype kinetoscope (shown at Edison's Laboratory for a convention of the National Federation of Women's Clubs). June 16 - John Abbott becomes Canada's third prime minister. June 21 -Ffirst long-distance transmission of Alternating current by the Ames power plant near Telluride, Colorado by Lucien and Paul Nunn. August 27 - France and Russia conclude defensive alliance. October 1 - In California, Stanford University opens its doors December 29 - Thomas Edison patents the radio Winter - James Naismith invents Basketball Births January 8 - Walther Bothe, physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1954 (+ 1957) February 9 - Ronald Colman, actor (+ 1958).
1950s - of hip hop World Leaders Chairman Mao Zedong (People's Republic of China) President Chiang Kai-shek (Republic of China on Taiwan) President Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt) Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (India) Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion (Israel) Emperor Hirohito (Japan) Pope Pius XII Pope John XXIII Prime Minister Basil Brooke (Northern Ireland) Taoiseach John A. Costello (Republic of Ireland) Taoiseach Eamon de Valera (Republic of Ireland) Taoiseach Sean Lemass (Republic of Ireland) Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union) Nikita Khrushchev (Soviet Union) King George VI (United Kingdom) Queen Elizabeth II (United Kingdom) Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill (United Kingdom) Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden (United Kingdom) Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (United Kingdom) President Harry S. Truman (United States) President Dwight D. Eisenhower (United States) Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (West Germany) Entertainers Abbott and Costello Chuck Berry.
1940s - Pius XII Prime Minister J.M Andrews (Northern Ireland) Prime Minister Basil Brooke (Northern Ireland) Taoiseach Eamon de Valera (Éire) Taoiseach John A. Costello (Republic of Ireland) Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union) King George VI (United Kingdom) Prime Minister Winston Churchill (United Kingdom) Prime Minister Clement Attlee (United Kingdom) President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (United States) President Harry S. Truman (United States) Governor Luis Munoz Marin (Commonwealth of Puerto Rico) Sports Figures Joe Louis Sugar Ray Robinson Ted Williams Entertainers Abbott and Costello Ingrid Bergman Humphrey Bogart James Cagney Bing Crosby Bette Davis Clark Gable Cary Grant Katharine Hepburn Bob Hope Jimmy Stewart Spencer Tracy Orson Welles.
1959 in film - Northwest, starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint Rio Bravo The Killer Shrews Date with Death Apur Sansar Births November 14 - Paul McGann, British actor Deaths March 3 - Lou Costello, comedian and actor, half of Abbott and Costello comedy team October 14 - Errol Flynn, American actor. George Reeves, actor Other Movies Released The Diary of Anne Frank Anatomy of a Murder.
1941 in film - Births 4 Deaths 5 Other Movies Released Events Top Grossing Films of the Year Sergeant York Buck Privates, starring Abbott and Costello Tobacco Road Births January 3 - Van Dyke Parks, musician, composer January 4 - Henri Bergson, writer January 5 - Miyazaki Hayao, Japanese film maker January 8 - Graham Chapman, comedian January 14 - Faye Dunaway, actress February 11 - Glenn Randall Jr, stuntman. June 27 - Krzysztof Kieslowski, film director October 4 - Anne Rice, horror/fantasy writer. Deaths January 10 - Joe Penner, comedian, actor Other Movies Released Citizen Kane, starring Orson Welles The Maltese Falcon, starring Humphrey Bogart Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner.
Al Hirschfeld - appear. Hirschfeld collaborated with humorist S.J. Perelman on several projects, including Westward Ha! Or, Around the World in 80 Cliches, a satirical look at the duo's travels on assignment for Holiday magazine. In 1991, the United States Postal Service commissioned Hirschfeld to draw a series of postage stamps commemorating famous American comedians. The collection included drawings of Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Bergen (with Charlie McCarthy), Jack Benny, Fanny Brice, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. He followed that up with a collection of silent film stars including Rudolph Valentino and Buster Keaton. The Postal Service allowed him to include Nina's name in his drawings, the only time a person's name has been hidden in a postage stamp in the United States. Permanent collections of Hirschfeld's work appear at the Metropolitan Museum.
Baseball fielding positions - the ball hard in this direction. The third baseman must be able to field ground balls and throw strongly to first base, as well as cover fly balls in fair and foul territory. SS: Short Stop (6). Shortstops, like the second baseman, must field ground balls and start or turn double plays. In addition, they need a stronger arm as the throw to first base is further from the shortstop side. LF: Left Field (7), R & L CF: Right & Left Center Field (8), RF: Right Field (9). The role of the outfielders is to chase down and catch any ball hit into the outfield and, if necessary, make a rapid and accurate return throw, either to a base or to the "cut-off man", a infielder who has moved into.
Bert and Ernie - duo that is one of the centerpieces of the program. In the tradition of many American movie comic duos, notably Abbott and Costello, the interplay forms between the mischievious innocent (Ernie) and the world-weary partner (Bert ). A typical skit begins by Ernie coming up with a hare-brained idea and Bert calmly attempting to talk him out of it, and ends with Bert losing his temper and Ernie remaining oblivious to his own bad idea..
Calvary Cemetery - Amongst others, it is the final resting place for a few entertainment celebrities including: Lionel Barrymore, actor Ethel Barrymore, actress Lou Costello, actor, part of comedy team, "Abbott & Costello" Irene Dunne, actress Ferdinand Morton, aka "Jelly Roll Morton" Musician/Composer of Jazz and Blues See also: List of famous cemeteries.
Sylvester the cat - "loser" side of the Looney Tunes winner/loser hierarchy. His character was basically that of Wile E. Coyote while he was chasing mice or birds. He shows a different character when paired with Porky Pig in explorations of spooky places (in these cartoons, he basically plays the terrified Costello to Porky's oblivious Abbott.) Sylvester's most developed role is as hapless mouse-catching instructor to his dubious son, Sylvester Junior, in which the "mouse" is a powerful baby kangaroo. His alternately confident and bewildered episodes bring his son to shame, while Sylvester himself is reduced to nervous breakdowns..
Who's On First? - On First? Who's On First? is a legendary routine by the comedy team of Abbott and Costello. The premise of the routine is that Abbott is identifying the players on a baseball team to Costello, based on the fielding positions of the players. Because the "names" of the players can all easily be heard as questions, or non-responsive answers to Costello's questions, Abbott's explanations leave Costello almost hopelessly confused. The comedy routine was first featured in the 1940 film, One Night in the Tropics. The duo reprised the bit in their 1945 film The Naughty Nineties, and also performed the routine numerous times on radio. As a result of the routine, Abbott and Costello were honored in the Baseball Hall of Fame museum in Cooperstown, New York, even though they had.
Old-time radio - radio shows reflected Vaudeville origins and usually featured variety shows with music, slapstick or ethnic humor, and often suggestive situations. As the medium matured, sophistication increased. By the mid-1930s radio featured all the genres popular in other forms of American entertainment: comedy, drama, horror, mystery, romance, music, and so on. Among the best-known of the early radio performers were comedians: Jack Benny, Burns and Allen, Amos and Andy, Abbott and Costello, and Fibber McGee and Molly. The Lux Radio Theater included adaptations of Hollywood movies, performed before a live audience, often with the same stars that appeared in the original movies. Later shows included highly succcessful suspense series such as the aptly-named Suspense, Escape, The Mysterious Traveler, Inner Sanctum and many others. The best known writers and directors during the Golden.
