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Louis Francis Cristillo was born on March 6, 1906, in Paterson, New Jersey, the son of Sebastiano Cristillo, an insurance sales agent, and Helen Rege, a silk weaver. [3] [4] His father was Italian, from Caserta, [5] while his mother was an American of Italian, French and Irish ancestry, with her grandfather Francesco Rege being a native of Piedmont, Italy.
A TV movie called Bud and Lou, based on a book by Hollywood correspondent Bob Thomas, was broadcast in 1978. Starring Harvey Korman as Bud Abbott and Buddy Hackett as Lou Costello, the film told the duo's life story, focusing on Costello and portraying him as volatile and petty.
Author and poet Shel Silverstein's poem "The Meehoo with an Exactlywatt", featured in his 1981 poetry collection A Light in the Attic, is stated in the afterword by Silverstein himself to have been inspired by Abbott and Costello's routine. The biography of Lou Costello written by his daughter Chris is titled Lou's on First (1982). [27]
Alberoni did a movie with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello after leaving The Mickey Mouse Club then went on to appear on sitcoms such as My Three Sons, The Monkees, The Donna Reed Show, and Family Affair.
Ignazio "Nat" Curcuruto (October 1, 1903 – April 16, 1975), better known by his stage name Joe Kirk, was an American radio, film, and television actor who was best known for playing the role of Mr. Bacciagalupe on The Abbott and Costello Show. He was married to Lou Costello's sister Marie in real life.
She appeared in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938), in W.C. Fields’ My Little Chickadee (1940), and in Bud Abbott and Lou Costello’s Comin’ Round the Mountain (1951), playing a nefarious ...
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Story by: Edmund Hartmann: Produced by: John Grant: Starring: Bud Abbott Lou Costello Peggy Ryan ... Lou Costello was a real-life basketball star in high school, and ...