When Dad was at the height of his success, both he and Bud paid for many operations (and for people they didnвЂ™t even know). Both Dad and Bud visited the boy at his home, performed some routines in the backyard for neighbors, and never took the childвЂ™s money. One story has it that they performed in the backyard of a familyвЂ™s home after a small boy approached them at a rally and said he had some change to give if they would perform. During World War II, he and Bud performed at many locations, big and small, to raise money for war bonds. 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 вЂ™Em Flying (1941) B Western Bunk: Ride вЂ™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 AinвЂ™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) WhoвЂ™s in Uncle TomвЂ™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 MonstersД§ 12 27 34 42 49 56 72 86 94 106 113 120 137 149ДЄppendix: The Feature Films of Abbott and CostelloДЇOREWORD BY CHRIS COSTELLO My dad was always a giver and loved being able to help those less fortunate. TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword by Chris CostelloДЎ. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Box 611, JeвЂєerson, North Carolina 28640 For Dad Cover photograph: Lou Costello and Bud Abbott in In the Navy, 1941 (Photofest) Porthole В©2009 Shutterstock Manufactured in the United States of America

All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Comedy п¬Ѓlms-United States-History and criticism. War п¬Ѓlms-United States-History and criticism. World War, 1939вЂ“1945-Motion pictures and the war. Includes bibliographical references and index. Abbott and Costello on the home front : a critical study of the wartime п¬Ѓlms / Scott Allen Nollen. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGUING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

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McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Jefferson, North Carolina, and LondonДЇrontispiece Keep вЂ™Em Flying (1941). ALSO BY SCOTT ALLEN NOLLEN AND FROM MCFARLAND Warners Wiseguys: All 112 Films That Robinson, Cagney and Bogart Made for the Studio (2008) Louis Armstrong: The Life, Music and Screen Career (2004) Jethro Tull: A History of the Band, 1968вЂ“2001 (2002) Robin Hood: A Cinematic History of the English Outlaw and His Scottish Counterparts (1999 paperback 2008) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at the Cinema: A Critical Study of the Film Adaptations (1996 paperback 2005) Robert Louis Stevenson: Life, Literature and the Silver Screen (1994) Boris Karloff: A Critical Account of His Screen, Stage, Radio, Television and Recording Work (1991 paperback 2008) The Boys: The Cinematic World of Laurel and Hardy (1989 paperback 2001)ДЄbbott and Costello on the Home Front A Critical Study of the Wartime Films SCOTT ALLEN NOLLEN

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