Movie Comedy Teams by Leonard Maltin PDF

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Movie Comedy Teams by Leonard Maltin PDF

Laurel & Hardy, The Three Stooges, The Marx Brothers, Abbott & Costello, Burns & Allen, Martin & Lewis, The Ritz Brothers... Their names evoke a golden age of movie comedy, an age of slapstick and vaudeville. pratfalls and puns. Some were brilliant innovators, some were talented hacks. All had the mysterious, almost magical ability to make us laugh.

In this book on these comic teams, we learn how they got together, and why they eventually broke up, their private sorrows and public triumphs, colourfully detailing the high and low points of their film careers alongside previously unpublished movie stills.

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