In Society
Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree into high society. As expected, things don't go too smoothly
Jean Yarbrough
Sid Fields
Casts & Crew
Bud Abbott
Lou Costello
Marion Hutton
Kirby Grant
Ann Gillis
Arthur Treacher
Thomas Gomez
George Dolenz
Steven Geray
Murray Leonard
Thurston Hall
Nella Walker
William B. Davidson
Will Osborne
Geri Rosse
Margie Rosse
Bea Rosse
Luis Alberni
Elvia Allman
Don Barclay
Milt Bronson
Charles Coleman
Edgar Dearing
Leon DeVoe
Helen Dickson
Tom Dugan
Ralph Dunn
Tom Fadden
Franklyn Farnum
Alice Fleming
Bess Flowers
Dorothy Granger
Charlie Hall
Rovamel Hilton
Margaret Irving
Ethelreda Leopold
Carey Loftin
Thomas Martin
William H. O'Brien
Frank O'Connor
Cyril Ring
Ann Roberts
Charles Sherlock
Al Thompson
Mabel Todd
Also Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Featuring the routines that made them comedy legends like “Who’s On First?,” and “The Lemon Bit,” this digitally restored and re-mastered “Best Of” collection includes six of the Abbott and Costello Show’s most beloved episodes.
In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.
Molly (Martha O'Driscoll), her brother, Slats (Abbott), and his pal, Oliver (Costello), are taxi dancers at the Miramar Ballroom. As a publicity stunt, Slats plants an article about Molly claiming her ambition is to earn enough money to attend staid, all-girl Bixby College. Bixby's progressive dean offers Molly a scholarship. Molly accepts on the condition that Slats and Oliver come along too as campus caretakers. But the pompous Chairman threatens to foreclose on the school's mortgage if Molly isn't expelled. Together, the trio, with the help of some new friends, concocts a scheme to raise enough money to save the school. The plan involves a bet on the Bixby basketball team, which is playing in a game rated at 20 to 1 by the local bookie. But the bookie has other plans for their dough and hires a group of ringers to step in for the opponents. All is not lost, at least while Oliver has the chance to turn things around for his friends-one way or another.
A pair of married ex-convicts trying to go straight get jobs at a department store. A gangster who knows about their past threatens to expose it unless they agree to help him rob the department store.
Slip and the gang stray from newspaper work to detective work.
A farmer from Vermont travels to New York and becomes a successful singer in a nightclub.
In this musical western, a cowboy band is offered the chance to appear in a Hollywood movie and begins the journey to the West Coast. Unfortunately, the band ends up stranded in Texas and must take a job running a ranch. Musical mayhem ensues: Songs include: "Let's Love Again," "Where the Prairie Meets the Sky," "Don't You Ever Be a Cowboy," "Texas Polka," "No Letter Today," "I Got Mellow in the Yellow of the Moon," "Sip Nip Song," "Salt-Water Cowboy," "The Blues," "Little Brown Jug" and "And Then."
To save their music publishing firm from bankruptcy, Bill "Brains' Watson creates a colorful life-story about his partner, Danny Lee, representing him as a descendant of Louisiana's famous Josh Lee family and rightful poet laureate of Dixieland.
In this musical, an ambitious young singer and her band leave their small hometown to head for the Big Apple in hopes of finding fame and fortune.
A socialite joins the Womens Ambulance Corps as both a publicity stunt and to win a bet with a newspaper columnist, who wagered $5000 that she couldn't last six weeks.