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Other articles where Lou Costello is discussed: Abbott and Costello: As a young man, Costello greatly admired Charlie Chaplin. In 1927 he moved to Hollywood, where he worked as a stuntman; after an injury he quit stunt work to perform in New York burlesque. Although he had never worked onstage before, he quickly became one of the top burlesque…
Mar 4, 2016 · March 4, 1959 12 AM PT. Lou Costello, the roly-poly comic whose heart was as big as his girth, died yesterday afternoon of a heart attack in Doctors Hospital, Beverly Hills, three days before his ...
Abbott and Costello, American comedic duo who performed onstage, in films, and on radio and television. Bud Abbott and Lou Costello engaged in rapid-fire patter and knock-about slapstick, and they are regarded as the archetypal team of burlesque comedy. Abbott was a schemer, and Costello played a childlike patsy.
The Abbott and Costello Show. The Abbott and Costello Show is an American television sitcom starring the comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. The program premiered in syndication in the fall of 1952 and ran two seasons to the spring of 1954. Each season ran 26 episodes. The series is considered to be among the most influential comedy ...
Possibly weakened by his bout of rheumatic fever more than a decade earlier, Lou Costello died of a heart attack on March 3, 1959, mere days before his 53rd birthday. His final movie, and the only ...
Lou appeared in a few television shows, and solo in the movie, "The Thirty Foot Bride of Candy Rock"(1959; released just after his death from a heart attack). He and Abbott are pictured on a 29 cent commemorative postage stamp honoring famous comedians, issued by the United States Postal Service in August 1991.
Lowest Rated: 25% Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955) Birthday: Mar 6, 1906. Birthplace: Paterson, New Jersey, USA. One-half of the popular American comedy team Abbott and Costello, Lou ...
