Title: Hollywood's Classic Comedies -- featuring Slapstick, Romance, Music, Glamour or Screwball Fun!
Genre: Film Guides and Reviews
Pages: 240
Synopsis:
If you’ve never heard of Abbott and Costello, The 3 Stooges, or Laurel and Hardy, this is not the book for you. On the other hand, if you’re a fan of classic Hollywood comedies, this book will not only evoke lively memories of TV laugh-makers of the 1970s and 1980s, but even of Saturday movie matinees when Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake and many other solo clowns like Harold Lloyd, Red Skelton, Joe E. Brown, Charles Chaplin, Clifton Webb and W.C. Fields convulsed audiences with their antics.
Older fans will also remember comedy teams like Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson, Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Some of their funniest movies are all featured in this book too.
My favorite comic team? It’s the pair on the cover: Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, seen with Joan Davis, in "Hold That Ghost".
This book is a useful guide to some of the great classic movie comedies everyone can now buy on DVD!
