Lou Costello Interview (1956)

DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org Louis Francis Costello (March 6, 1906 — March 3, 1959) was an American actor and comedian best known as half of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Bud Abbott. Costello was famous for his bumbling, chubby, clean-cut image that has appealed to many Americans over the decades, and for his shouted line of "HEEEEYYY ABBOTT!!." Abbott and Costello signed up with the William Morris Agency, which sought to enlarge the duo’s stature by putting them on the radio. In 1938 they received national exposure for the first time by becoming featured performers on The Kate Smith Hour, a popular variety show. They were hugely successful, which ultimately led to their appearance in a Broadway play and signing with Universal Studios in 1940. They filled supporting roles in their first film, One Night in the Tropics (1940), but stole the film with their classic routines, including a much-shortened version of "Who's On First?". (A more complete version was given in The Naughty Nineties, released in 1945.) The duo became famous for that routine, in which Abbott enumerated the names of a mythical baseball team, whose members have nicknames of "Who" who plays first base, "What" on second base and "I don't know" on third etc. This confounds Costello when they are addressed simply as "Who", "What" and "I don't know". This sketch made Abbott and Costello, among other things, to be recognized by (but not made members of) the Baseball Hall of Fame with a ...

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