{"id":2784,"date":"2024-03-06T07:00:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T07:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/?p=2784"},"modified":"2024-03-13T12:52:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T12:52:22","slug":"happy-birthday-lou-costello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/03\/happy-birthday-lou-costello\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to American comedian, actor and producer Lou Costello!"},"content":{"rendered":"

March 6, 1906 \u2013 March 3, 1959<\/p>\n

Born Louis Francis Cristillo in Paterson, New Jersey, U.S. \u2013\u00a0Mr. Costello is best remembered as the dimwitted comic of one of the greatest comedy duos of all time \u2013 Abbott and Costello. Mr. Costello\u2019s acting resum\u00e9 boasts nearly 50 credits \u2013 including the comedy classics Buck Privates (1941), In The Navy (1941), The Naughty Nineties (1945), and the CDF fan-favorite films ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948), BUD ABBOTT AND LOU COSTELLO MEET THE INVISIBLE MAN (1951), and ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET THE MUMMY (1955)!<\/p>\n

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Lou Costello \u2022 March 6, 1906 \u2013 March 3, 1959<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Bud
Bud Abbott, left, and Lou Costello, CBS Radio comedians.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Bela
Bela Lugosi and Lou Costello in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Abbott
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lou Costello in Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

March 6, 1906 \u2013 March 3, 1959 Born Louis Francis Cristillo in Paterson, New Jersey, U.S. \u2013\u00a0Mr. Costello is best remembered as the dimwitted comic of one of the greatest comedy duos of all time \u2013 Abbott and Costello. Mr. Costello\u2019s acting resum\u00e9 boasts nearly 50 credits \u2013 including the comedy classics Buck Privates (1941), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[399,7,496,666,5,6,33,32,207,16,120],"class_list":["post-2784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creaturefeature","tag-abbottandcostello","tag-cdfroundup","tag-comedian","tag-comedyduo","tag-creaturedoublefeature","tag-creaturefeature","tag-frankenstein","tag-happybirthday","tag-loucostello","tag-movies","tag-themummy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/LouCostello-01.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2790,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784\/revisions\/2790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}