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"This book focuses in detail on the wartime films of Abbott and Costello, discussing the production, content, and reception of 18 films. Of particular interest to fans and collectors are the book's illustrations, which feature 122 original, studio-produced photo stills and lobby cards from the author's personal collection, many of which represent outtakes or deleted scenes"--Provided by publisher.
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Motion pictures and the war, War films, History and criticism, Comedy films, World War, 1939-1945People
Bud Abbott (1895-1974), Lou CostelloPlaces
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Abbott and Costello on the Home Front: A Critical Study of the Wartime Films
2019, McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
in English
1476678200 9781476678207
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Abbott and Costello on the home front: a critical study of the wartime films
2009, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Brand: McFarland, McFarland & Company
in English
0786435216 9780786435210
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Table of Contents
New Jersey boys make good
On the land and on the sea: Buck privates (1941) and In the Navy (1941)
Money in a moose head: Hold that ghost (1941)
In the Air Corps: Keep 'em flying (1941)
B Western bunk: Ride 'em cowboy (1942)
The Nazis of MGM: Rio Rita (1942)
Widespread comic relief: Pardon my sarong (1942) and Who done it? (1942)
Stallions and skaters: It ain't hay (1943) and Hit the ice (1943)
Sickness and slapstick: Lost in a harem (1944)
Clique and campus: In society (1944) and Here come the co-eds (1945)
Who's in Uncle Tom's cabin? The naughty nineties (1945)
Lucy and Lou: Abbott and Costello in Hollywood (1945)
Postwar experiments: Little giant (1946) and The time of their lives (1946)
Back from the front: Buck privates come home (1947)
Cold war monsters.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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