Bud Abbott
Motion Pictures Category Star
- Ceremony was on February 8, 1960
Bud Abbott
Television Category Star
- Ceremony was on February 8, 1960
Bud Abbott
Radio Category Star
- Ceremony was on February 8, 1960
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Bud Abbott
of famed comic team dies
HOLLYWOOD - (UPI) - "Now, on the St. Louis team,"
Bud Abbott used to say, "We have Who's on first, What's on second. I Don't Know on third."
"That's what I want to find out," Lou Costello used to say. "Who's playing first?"
"Yes" Said Abbott.
That was the beginning of the most famous routine the most famous comedy team of the 1940's.
"Who's on First" eventually became part of the language as a catch-phrase for miscommunication and a gold recording if the routine is in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Abbott, the skinny straight man of the team, died yesterday of cancer at 75. His wife of 55 years, Betty, was at his bedside.
Although Abbott once said he made as much as $400,000 a year at the height of his career, ended his life living on Social Security after his savings were stripped from him by the government in a tax action in 1959.
He once said bitterly that his friends "don't come to see me now that the booze isn't flowing" and when he wanted to visit the studios where his pictures grossed millions of dollars, "I have to get a pass from the boss to get in."
Abbott was born into show business in Atlantic City. His mother was a bareback rider in a circus and his father was an advance man for the show. Abbott later became a burlesque house comic.
In 1936 he met Costello, another comic and former Hollywood stunt man.
Abbott's poker-faced thin man was the perfect foil for Costello's fat man, who looked like an overage cherub with less than the minimum of common sense.
They made more than 50 movies together, beginning with "One Night in the Tropics," a box office success which was followed by such hits as "Buck Privates," "Keep 'em Flying," "Pardon My Sarong," "Rio Rita," "Lost in a Harem," and "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein."
The team faded in the 1950s and broke up in 1957.
In 1959, the Internal Revenue Service audited Abbott's tax returns for eight years and disallowed $1 million in deductions. He sold his $250,000 estate and his ranch north of the city and moved into a modest house.
In 1965 he suffered the first of a series of strokes.
