Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia
Subtitle: Career Profiles of More than 2000 Actors and Filmmakers, Past and Present (Penguin Reference)
Publisher: Plume
Published: November 1, 1995
Language: eng
Number of pages: 992
ISBN-13: 9780452270589
First sentence: The most successful comedy team of the 1940s, Abbott and Costello consistently made the yearly list of filmdom's top 10 moneymakers, and while their popularity among moviegoers waned during the 1950s, the boys won over new generations of fans with a TV series and endless reruns of their old movies.