1941 01 31 00:00:00

ABBOTT & COSTELLO


CHRONOLOGY
BUCK PRIVATES



Smitty and Herbie (Bud & Lou) run into an army recruiting center to evade a policeman. Next thing they know, they’re in the army and the policeman is their sergeant.

Buck Privates poster

FILM


“He’s the Boogie Woogie Bugle
Boy of Company B”

“Who’s playing that radio?”
“Nobody. It’s playing by itself.”

Shemp Howard & Lou Costello
PEOPLE:
Robert Martin (Alan Curtis)
Randolph Parker III (Lee Bowman)
Slicker Smith (Bud Abbott)
Herbie Brown (Lou Costello)
Sergeant Michael Collins (Nat Pendleton)
Judy Gray (Jane Frazee)
The Andrews Sisters
Sergeant Callahan (Harry Strang)
Chef (Shemp Howard)
PLACES:
Army Recruiting Center
Training Camp
Schuylerton Reservoir

LUX RADIO THEATRE

CECIL B. DeMILLE: It’s the story of life in an army camp — some highly imaginary army camp — where a tent flap opens and Abbott & Costello blow in with the draft.

PEOPLE:
Announcer
Producer (Cecil B. DeMille)
Bob Martin (Gene O’Donnell)
Randy Parker [III] ()
Smitty [Slicker Smith] (Bud Abbott)
Herbie [Brown] (Lou Costello)
Sergeant [Michael] Collins (Benny Reuben)
Judy Gray (Lynn Carver)
Sergeant Callahan ()
PLACES:
Army Recruiting Center
Training Camp
Schuylerton Reservoir
CHRONOLOGY


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