In the late 1940s, Universal Monster movies were considered old-fashioned, and Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were barely speaking. Combining the two things seemed more like a “hail mary” move by ...

4It was the first film Costello made after a major health crisis In early 1943, Lou Costello contracted rheumatic fever during a tour of international army bases. The illness pulled him out of ...

“My brother and I were obsessed with Abbott and Costello as kids, and, you know, they have a whole, like, Meet the Monsters series.” Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were a comedy duo whose work in ...