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 Burr Smidt)
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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.
- Quotes
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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Bud and Lou was an okay biopic of Abbott & Costello but has some unforgivable glosses
Having just watched Stan & Ollie-which lovingly depicted Laurel & Hardy's final performing days on tour in Europe-I finally watched this TV biopic of Abbott & Costello which told of their life from the day they first teamed up to Lou's deathbed scene. Harvey Korman played Abbott and Buddy Hackett, who resembled him, played Costello. Based on a book by Bob Thomas who got much of his research from the team's manager Eddie Sherman, it has Korman and Hackett doing not too bad versions of the A & C routines like their most famous one of "Who's on First?". When it came to the tragic sequence of Costello's infant son's death, it was handled tastefully likewise the way the two comedians handled the news, not to mention the way Lou's wife Anne (Michelle Lee) handled it. But the film seems also intent to show how much of a jerk Costello was after becoming such a big star to the detriment of everyone around him. Presumably, the team's manager Sherman had an ax to grind concerning Costello though as played by Arte Johnson, he's one of the most sympathetic characters in the film. Unfortunately, because of the limited time, while Abbott is mentioned as having a wife, she's never seen nor are their two children mentioned, likewise Lou and Anne's three daughters. So if you want to know about Bud and Lou's life, I suggest you look for the book "Lou's on First", written by Costello's youngest offspring, Chris Costello.
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