Buck Privates - Abbott & Costello Glass Movie Slide - Superb Near Mint

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A VERY FINE NEAR MINT ITEM
Buck Privates
is the 1941
musical
military comedy
film that turned
Bud Abbott
and
Lou Costello
into bona fide movie stars.
It was the first
service comedy
based on the
peacetime draft of 1940
. The comedy team made two more service comedies before the United States entered the war (
In the Navy
and
Keep 'Em Flying
). A sequel to this movie,
Buck Privates Come Home
, was released in 1947.
Buck Privates
is one of three
Abbott and Costello
films featuring
The Andrews Sisters
, who were also under contract to
Universal Pictures
at the time.
Directed by
Arthur Lubin
Produced by
Alex Gottlieb
Written by
Arthur T. Horman
Starring
Bud Abbott
Lou Costello
The Andrews Sisters
Music by
Charles Previn
Cinematography
Milton R. Krasner
Edited by
Philip Cahn
Distributed by
Universal Pictures
Release date
·
January 31, 1941 (U.S.)
Running time
84 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
5,000
[1]
[2]
Box office
,000,000 (USA)
[1]
The film received two
Academy Award
nominations in 1941.
Hughie Prince
and
Don Raye
were nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Original Song
for "
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
" and
Charles Previn
was nominated for the
Academy Award for Original Music Score
(Scoring of a Musical Picture).
The film was one of Universal's biggest money-makers of the year, grossing over million at the box office at a time when movie tickets averaged 25 cents and gross was defined as money earned by the studio; today it refers to all of the money that a film made. Universal gave director
Arthur Lubin
—who was under contract at a fixed salary—a ,000 bonus and told him to start on another film,
Hold That Ghost
, almost immediately. Lubin directed five Abbott and Costello films in ten months.
[4]
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