Fellow Svengoolie SvenPals will be celebrating the Holidays with his upcoming big broadcast of a classic mammoth Universal Studios monster-comedy masterpiece.
Original 1951 Universal Studios theatrical trailer element for “Abbott & Costello Meet the Invisible Man” (1951) with Bud Abbott & Lou Costello. Sidebar: There are no superimposed titles in the original 1951 Universal theatrical trailer element, as this might have been prepared for the international theatrical release market and/or latter TV syndication of the 1951 classic mammoth Universal monster-comedy masterpiece production. -C.H.
Original 1951 Universal Studios theatrical poster art for “Abbott & Costello Meet the Invisible Man.”
The legendary & iconic Berwyn/Chicago-based classic mammoth monster-comedy feature film host will present his big Holiday/Christmas Eve broadcast of “Abbott & Costello Meet the Invisible Man” (1951); this Christmas Eve/Sat., Dec. 24 at 8 p.m. Eastern/7 p.m. Central on Me-TV!
The classic mammoth 1951 Universal monster-comedy feature film masterpiece production was directed by veteran Universal comedy feature film director Charles Lamont. Lamont directed several other classic mammoth Universal Abbott & Costello feature film comedy masterpiece productions, including “Abbott and Costello In the Foreign Legion” (1950), “Abbott and Costello Go to Mars” (1953, with Mari Blanchard, young Anita Ekberg and young Harry Shearer), “Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” (1953, with Boris Karloff), “Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops” (1955) and “Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy” (1955, the duo’s final Universal feature and final screen pairing with a Universal monster character).
Lamont’s only non-Universal Abbott & Costello feature was the duo’s classic mammoth Warner Bros. comedy-adventure masterpiece; “Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd” (1952, with Charles Laughton).
Lamont also directed several classic mammoth Universal “Ma & Pa Kettle” feature film comedy masterpieces featuring Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride in their title roles, including “Ma and Pa Kettle” (1949), “Ma & Pa Kettle Go to Town” (1950), “Ma & Pa Kettle on Vacation” (1952), “Ma & Pa Kettle at Home” (1954) and the Universal “Kettle” feature without Percy Kilbride, “The Kettles in the Ozarks” (1956) with Arthur Hunnicutt.
Lamont also directed one feature in Universal’s classic mammoth “Francis the Talking Mule” comedy masterpiece series, “Francis in the Haunted House” (1956) with Molly the Mule as Francis, Mickey Rooney (in place of series regular Donald O’Connor), Richard Deacon (of TV’s “Leave It To Beaver” and “The Dick Van Dyke Show” fame), young David Janssen (of TV’s “The Fugitive” and “Harry O” fame) and the vocal stylings of Paul Frees (in an uncredited as the “voice” of Francis, in place of series regular Chill Wills).
Original 1951 Universal Studios tinted lobby card/publicity photo for “Abbott & Costello Meet the Invisible Man.”
The original story treatment for “Abbott & Costello Meet the Invisible Man” (1951) was written by veteran film & TV writers Howard Snyder and Hugh Wedlock Jr. Both Snyder and the junior Wedlock previously wrote the original story treatment for Jean Yarbrough and Erle C. Kenton‘s classic mammoth Universal comedy masterpiece with Abbott and Costello, “In Society” (1944, alongside Abbott & Costello; with Arthur Treacher, Marion Hutton, George Dolenz– who was the real-life father of Mickey Dolenz of “Circus Boy” & “The Monkees” fame and Thurston Hall). Loosely inspired by elements of H.G. Wells’ 1897 literary work, Snyder and Wedlock’s original story treatment for the classic mammoth 1951 Universal “Abbott & Costello” monster-comedy masterpiece installment production was adapted into a screenplay by veteran screenwriters John Grant, Robert Lees and Frederic I. Rinaldo. Veteran Universal feature film & TV producer Howard Christie served as producer of the legendary comedic duo’s classic mammoth “Invisible Man” monster-comedy masterpiece installment. Christie later produced the classic mammoth long-running MCA-Revue-Universal TV western anthology masterpiece series, “Wagon Train” (1958-65).
Who was in the classic mammoth Universal monster-comedy masterpiece production of “Abbott & Costello Meet the Invisible Man” (1951)?
The players who appeared in Charles Lamont’s classic mammoth Universal monster-comedy masterpiece installment production of “Abbott & Costello Meet the Invisible Man” (1951) were Bud Abbott (as Bud Alexander), Lou Costello (as Lou Francis), Arthur Franz (as Tommy Nelson), John Daheim (as Rocky Hanlon, Daheim received screen credit under the name of John Day), Nancy Guild (as Helen Gray), Adele Jergens (as Boots Marsden), Sheldon Leonard (as Morgan), William Frawley (as Detective Roberts), Sam Balter (as a Radio Announcer), Gavin Muir (as Dr. Philip Gray), Bobby Barber (in an uncredited role as Sneaky), Chester Conklin (in an uncredited role as a Counter man), Herb Vigran (in an uncredited role as Stillwell), Billy Snyder and Russ Conway (in an uncredited roles as newspaper men), Franklin Parker (in an uncredited role as a photographer Carl Sklover (in an uncredited role as Lou’s handler), Jack Perry (in an uncredited role as Rocky’s handler), Billy Wayne (in an uncredited role as Rooney, the manager of Rocky), Monty O’Grady and Clark Ross (in uncredited roles as fight spectators) and Jack Perrin (in an uncredited role as a graduate from the Dugan Detective School).
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