Abbott and costello

ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948) - Bud Abbott - Lou Costello - Lon Chaney - Bela Lugosi - Glenn Strange - Lenore Aubert - Jane Randolph - Directed by Charles Barton - Universal-International - VHS cover art.

Abbott and Costello

Your story needs a good straight man (or woman) to bring your comedic, heroic, or otherwise unconventional characters into sharper focus.

Lou Costello’s tragic loss — his baby son drowned in the backyard pool, Lou Costello goes on with the show.

Abbott and Costello

March 3rd 1959- Lou Costello, comedian/actor (Abbott Costello), died at 52. Costello died of a heart attack at Doctors' Hospital in Beverly Hills, three days before his 53rd birthday. A funeral Mass was held at his parish, St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church in Sherman Oaks. He is interred at the Calvary Cemetery in East Los Angeles, California.

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