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Lou's on first : a biography

Title
Lou's on first : a biography / by Chris Costello, with Raymond Strait.
Author
Costello, Chris
Publication
  • New York : St. Martin's Press, [1981]
  • ©1981.

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Additional Authors
  • Strait, Raymond
  • St. Martin's Press, publisher.
Description
xii, 257 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
The tragic life of Hollywood's greatest clown warmly recounted by his youngest child.
Subject
  • Costello, Lou
  • Comedians > United States > Biography
  • Motion picture actors and actresses > United States > Biography
  • Comedians
  • Motion picture actors and actresses
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • collective biographies.
  • Biographies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Filmography: p. 253-257.
Contents
The Formative Years -- Hollywood Failure -- The Comic Takes a Bride -- Abbott & Costello -- Westward Ho! -- Buck Privates -- Movie Stars -- The Home Front -- Rheumatic Fever -- Tragedy -- Aftermath -- Dissention -- A Memorial, a Death, and a Birth -- A Time of Growth -- Kissing the Forties Good-bye -- New Adventures -- A Potpourri -- Television -- McCarthyism and the Patriot -- The IRS -- A New Home -- The Split -- The Final Years.
ISBN
  • 0312499132
  • 9780312499136
LCCN
80028954
OCLC
  • ocm07173897
  • 7173897
  • SCSB-27437
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library