The original Army Navy "screen magazine" was a news and information film that was shown before the main feature in military...
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1999
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This video is part of a series that showcases some of the high points in the early history of American television. This...
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1995
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This documentary video is a collection of vintage screen bloopers. ~ Rovi...
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1990
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A documentary video that looks at the many hilarious comedians in history. ~ Rovi...
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1990
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Entertainment history. Uses film clips and contemporary interviews to show what Hollywood did during World War II in raising...
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1989
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1988
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1985
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Filled with enough cameos to keep film buffs entertained, this otherwise routine action-comedy by John Landis boasts...
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1985
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This nostalgic video uses five short films to look back at Hollywood's efforts to bolster both overseas G.I.s and the folks...
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1980
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Narrated by Milton Berle, Hey Abbott! is a compilation of highlights from Abbott & Costello's numerous television programs....
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1978
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Watch the comedy unfold as Milton Berle trades wisecracks with his hilarious guests on this videotape. Some of the funniest...
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1974
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The World of Abbott and Costello is a dismal attempt by Universal Pictures to cash in on the popularity of Robert Youngson's...
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1965
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This compilation film is one of the few Robert Youngson productions to incorporate sound as well as silent excerpts. All the...
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1964
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1963
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1956
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Dance With Me, Henry was the screen swan song for the comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Most of the action takes...
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Bud Flick
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1956
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy is the last of the team's vehicles for Universal-International. Stranded in Egypt, Bud and...
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Peter
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1955
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The best thing that can be said about Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops is that it's better than the team's previous...
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Harry Pierce
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1955
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1954
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1954
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1954
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Bud and Lou get ready to attend police rookie school. Mike the Cop (Gordon Jones) and Mr. Fields (Sidney Fields) are driven...
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1953
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When Lou (Lou Costello) accidentally shoots his neighbor Mrs. Crumbcake (Elvia Allman) out of a tree and perforates her...
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1953
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Lou (Lou Costello) has a terrible toothache, and Abbott (Bud Abbott) takes him to see a near-sighted dentist (Sidney Fields)....
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1953
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They don't really go to Mars, they go to Venus, but first they go to New Orleans. While working at a missile base,...
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Lester
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1953
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This was the last in a string of spoofs that found the comedy duo tangling with various classic Universal Studios monsters....
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Slim
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1953
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As originally syndicated on television in late 1952, Abbott and Costello: The Christmas Show presents approximately one hour...
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1952
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One reviewer of Abbott & Costello's Lost in Alaska summed up the proceeding in three pithy words: "Lost is right." While not...
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Tom Watson
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1952
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Though out of favor with many Abbott and Costello buffs, Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd is actually a lot of fun, so...
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Rocky Stonebridge
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1952
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The Abbott & Costello Show marked the last major commercial success for the comic team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. The...
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1952
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Dinklepuss
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1952
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1951
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1951
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Host
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1951
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1951
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Bud Alexander
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1951
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Al Stewart
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1951
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1951
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1950
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello play wrestling promoters whose star attraction, Wee Willie Davis, skips town to return to his...
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Jonesy
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1950
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Buzz Johnson
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1949
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This Abbott & Costello vehicle was originally planned as a Bob Hope comedy titled Easy Does It. The Hope role is fairly...
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Casey Edwards
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1949
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It seems that Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi), in league with a beautiful but diabolical lady scientist (Lenore Aubert), needs a...
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Chick Young
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1948
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For their first independently-produced vehicle, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello chose to appear in a remake of the 1939 Universal...
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Ted Higgins
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1948
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Cole Porter's Broadway musical Mexican Hayride was optioned by Universal in the mid-1940s, then remained in "development...
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Harry Lambert
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1948
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1948
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After serving with a notable lack of distinction in WW2, Corporal Slicker Smith (Bud Abbott) and Private Herbie Brown...
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Cpl. Slicker Smith
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1947
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The Abbott & Costello western spoof The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap is predicated on an actual Montana law of the 19th...
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Duke Eagan
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1947
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While perhaps not Abbott & Costello's best film, The Time of Their Lives is certainly their most unusual. Lou Costello plays...
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Cuthbert,Dr. Greenway
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1946
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With the profits of the Abbott & Costello films in decline, Universal decided to experiment with the comedians' standard...
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John Morrison,Tom Chandler
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1946
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Abbott and Costello's The Naughty Nineties offers a million laughs and a nickel's worth of plot. Most of the film takes place...
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Dexter Broadhurst
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1945
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At 88 minutes, Here Come the Co-Eds is one of the longest of Abbott & Costello's Universal starring vehicles, and though not...
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Slats
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1945
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The last of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello's three MGM features, Abbott & Costello in Hollywood is a loose remake of...
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Buzz Kurtis
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1945
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For their first film in a year, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello played it safe with a medley of old burlesque routines and...
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Eddie Harrington
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1944
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Lost in a Harem is arguably the best of Abbott & Costello's trio of MGM films; it's certainly the silliest, with any number...
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Peter Johnson
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1944
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The Abbott & Costello vehicle Hit the Ice started life as satire of health clinics, with Lou Costello cast as a hypochondriac...
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Flash Fulton
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1943
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In one of their most genial comedies -- based on a Damon Runyon story -- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello have to help one friend...
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Grover Mockridge
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1943
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Chick Larkin
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1942
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Bud Abbott & Lou Costello invade the wild west in Ride 'Em Cowboy. The boys play Duke and Willoughby, a couple of rodeo...
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Duke
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1942
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MGM's Rio Rita is an in-name-only remake of the 1929 RKO Radio musical blockbuster, itself based on the long-running Ziegfeld...
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"Doc"
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1942
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One of the most often revived of Abbott & Costello's early-1940s films, Pardon My Sarong casts Bud and Lou as Chicago bus...
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Algernon Shaw
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1942
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Hold That Ghost was the second of Abbott and Costello's starring films, but was held back from release in favor of their...
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Chuck Murray
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1941
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Blackie Benson
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1941
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Filmed on a B-picture budget, Buck Privates was Universal's biggest box-office hit of 1941, firmly securing the movie...
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Slicker Smith
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1941
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The third of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello's starring films, In the Navy was released second; Universal had just made a bundle...
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Smokey Adams
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1941
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Abbott
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1940
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In the introductory episode of The Abbott & Costello Show, we meet the two heroes, down-on-their-luck performers who owe too...
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The inimitable comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello return for the archival compilation release Abbott and Costello:...
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The comedy compilation film Abbott and Costello: Funniest Routines, Vol. 2 presents a 79-minute compendium of Bud Abbott...
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This classic performance features the "Who's on First?" routine with Abbott and Costello. This program is used as a humorous...
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