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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: Cuthbert, Melody, it's Cuthbert! He's still alive!
Melody Allen: How can that be?
Horatio Prim: I don't know, they say only the good die young.


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


Sheldon Gage: What's the matter, Tom?
Cuthbert Greenway: Bottles flying through the air, glasses filling themselves up, and somebody tooted into my stethoscope!


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Lou Costello's practice of taking home props proved to be a major problem for the special effects crew. Some of the special effects shots required the sets and props to remain intact for shooting with, and without, the actors. Reportedly on one occasion when Lou removed a prop, it required two days of re-shooting for the special effects department.
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.
Harry Woolman as "Motorcycle Rider" and Walter Baldwin as "Bates" are in studio records/casting call lists, but they did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie.
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