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The Time of Their Lives (1946) was a Comedy - Fantasy Film directed by Charles Barton .

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Abbott and Costello's The Time of Their Lives

By Rick29 on Feb 14, 2022 From Classic Film & TV Cafe

Bud and Lou in one of their few scenes together.One of Abbott and Costello's most atypical films ranks among their best. The Time of Their Lives (1946) is one of only two of the pair's movies in which they don't perform as a team. The previous year's Little Giant is the other non-comedy team picture... Read full article


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Horatio Prim: [after seeing Emily for the first time] Zounds! What well did she come out of?


Melody Allen: This is the first pleasure I've had in 165 years.


Melody Allen: [turning on the house's electric lights] Amazing... must've got it from Benjamin Franklin, he's always inventing things.


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When Emily, the character played by Gale Sondergaard, meets the new occupants of the house, one of the women asks her "Didn't I see you in 'Rebecca'?". Sondergaard's character is made to look like Judith Anderson's character in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Rebecca, and Sondergaard herself bears a striking physical resemblance to Anderson.
Marjorie Reynolds was loaned from Paramount.
The cost of the special effects made this the most expensive Bud Abbott and Lou Costello feature up to that time.
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