Abbott and Costello in Hollywood

The last of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello’s three MGM features, Abbott & Costello in Hollywood is a loose remake of Buster Keaton’s Free and Easy. Bud and Lou play a pair of Tinseltown barbers who dream of becoming high-priced showbiz agents. Their first clients are Frances Rafferty and Robert Stanton, whose careers may be over before they begin when A&C manage to antagonize powerful producer Donald MacBride and stuck-up film star Carleton Young. The plot serves only as a clothesline upon which to hang several sidesplitting comedy routines: Abbott teaching Costello how to give a shave, Lou vainly trying to get a good night’s sleep, a “stunt man” bit involving the tremulous Costello and hulking Mike Mazurki, and a wild roller-coaster finale. MGM contractees Lucille Ball, Jackie “Butch” Jenkins, Preston S. Foster and Robert Z. Leonard make guest appearances., Abbott and Costello star as two barber’s assistants who, with a lot of luck and a great deal of finagling, become Hollywood agents. Called to a producer’s office to give a shave and a shoeshine, the duo soon becomes entangled with a beautiful starlet., Bud Abbott and Lou Costello play two barbers who wind up becoming agents for a very talented but totally unknown singer, so they stage a fake murder to drum up publicity., Several Hollywood luminaries (including Lucille Ball) play themselves in this screwball comedy starring Abbott and Costello as movieland agents who find themselves hurtling through space – in the company of an escaped gangster!, Several Hollywood luminaries appear in this comedy starring Abbott and Costello as movieland agents hurtling through space with an escaped gangster.