Autographs from people credited in 1964 The Big Parade of Comedy
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ABBOTT & COSTELLO (BUD ABBOTT) - COLLECTION WITH ABBOTT & COSTELLO (LOU COSTELLO) - HFSID 350616BUD ABBOTT and LOU COSTELLO Black and white publicity photographs of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Comprises: (1) Bud Abbott. Photograph inscribed and signed: "To Kay/Sincerely/Bud Abbott". B/w, 7½ x 9¼. Fine condition. (2) Lou Costello.Sale Price $1,360.00
$1,600.00
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ABBOTT & COSTELLO - INSCRIBED SIGNATURE CO-SIGNED BY: ABBOTT & COSTELLO (BUD ABBOTT), ABBOTT & COSTELLO (LOU COSTELLO) - HFSID 77439ABBOTT and COSTELLO Comedy duo extraordinaire. Inscribed signatures: "To Roy/From Your Pals/Lou Costello" and "Bud Abbott", 5½x4½. BUD ABBOTT (1897-1974) and LOU COSTELLO (1906-1959) were one of the greatest comedy teams in the history of show business.
Sale Price $722.50
$850.00
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ABBOTT & COSTELLO (LOU COSTELLO) - APPLICATION SIGNED 10/02/1946 - HFSID 350340LOU COSTELLO Costello signs an application for membership in the Friars Club. Partly Printed DS: "Lou Costello". 1p, 8½ x 11. Hollywood, 1946 October 2. "Proposal for Membership" to The Friars Club of California.
Sale Price $1,360.00
$1,600.00
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ABBOTT & COSTELLO (LOU COSTELLO) - AUTOGRAPH CO-SIGNED BY: KENNETH RICHMOND - HFSID 79922LOU COSTELLO and KEN RICHMOND Album leaf signed on one side by the comic actor and by the wrestler on the other Signatures: "Lou Costello", 4¾x4 album leaf. Co-signed on verso: "Ken Richmond".
Sale Price $198.00
$220.00
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ABBOTT & COSTELLO (LOU COSTELLO) - CONTRACT SIGNED 08/15/1955 CO-SIGNED BY: PAT COSTELLO, ANNE (MRS. LOU) COSTELLO, RALPH HANDLEY, CHARLES H. STINEFORD, HERBERT L. GOLDEN - HFSID 177684LOU COSTELLO USES PROCEEDS FROM THE 1955 COMEDY, ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET THE KEYSTONE KOPS, TO SETTLE A BANK AGREEMENT LOU COSTELLO, ANNE COSTELLO, PAT COSTELLO and OTHERS Typed Document Signed: "Lou Costello", "Anne Costello" and "Herbert L.
Sale Price $552.50
$650.00
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ABBOTT & COSTELLO (LOU COSTELLO) - CONTRACT SIGNED CO-SIGNED BY: ANNE (MRS. LOU) COSTELLO - HFSID 218010LOU COSTELLO, CO-SIGNED BY: ANNE COSTELLO Comedian Lou Costello, one-half of Abbott and Costello, signed this contract in 1952 to amend his 1950 employment agreement with Universal Pictures. Also signed by
Sale Price $552.50
$650.00
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ABBOTT & COSTELLO (LOU COSTELLO) - DOCUMENT SIGNED 01/02/1954 CO-SIGNED BY: ANNE (MRS. LOU) COSTELLO - HFSID 173126LOU COSTELLO and ANNE COSTELLO Lou Costello and Anne Costello sign a tax form for the 1953 tax year. Carbon Partly Printed Document Signed: "Lou Costello" and "Anne Costello" in ink as Taxpayers, 1p, 8x10½. Los Angeles, California, 1954 January 2.
Sale Price $637.50
$850.00
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ABBOTT & COSTELLO (LOU COSTELLO) - DOCUMENT SIGNED 01/26/1953 - HFSID 177689ABBOTT & COSTELLO: LOU COSTELLO Lou Costello signs a document along with a check paying his taxes. Carbon Typed Document Signed: "Lou Costello" under "The above action is approved.", 1p, 8½x11. Los Angeles, California, 1953 January 26.
Sale Price $467.50
$550.00
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ABBOTT & COSTELLO (LOU COSTELLO) - DOCUMENT SIGNED 01/29/1946 - HFSID 173124ABBOTT & COSTELLO: LOU COSTELLO Lou Costello signs a promissory note to pay Universal Pictures Company $20,000.00. Typed Document Signed: "Lou Costello", 1p, 8½x11. Universal City, California, 1946 January 29. Headed: "Promissory Note".
Sale Price $637.50
$750.00
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ABBOTT & COSTELLO (LOU COSTELLO) - DOCUMENT SIGNED 01/31/1955 - HFSID 173146IRS form listing tax deficiencies from 1950 and 1951, signed and dated by Costello in 1955. Both Costello and his partner Bud Abbott would wind up virtually broke over tax problems two years after this form was signed.
Sale Price $637.50
$850.00
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ABBOTT & COSTELLO (LOU COSTELLO) - DOCUMENT SIGNED 01/31/1955 CO-SIGNED BY: ANNE (MRS. LOU) COSTELLO - HFSID 173129ABBOTT & COSTELLO: LOU COSTELLO and ANNE "MS. LOU" COSTELLO The comedy legend and his wife sign a U.S. Treasury Department form listing four years of their tax deficiencies Document signed: "Lou Costello" and "Anne Costello" in ink, 1p, 8x10½.
Sale Price $637.50
$850.00
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ABBOTT & COSTELLO (LOU COSTELLO) - DOCUMENT SIGNED 02/24/1953 - HFSID 177688ABBOTT & COSTELLO: LOU COSTELLO Lou Costello signs a document along with a check paying for a loan. Carbon Typed Document Signed: "Lou Costello" under "The foregoing action is approved.", 1p, 8½x11. Los Angeles, California, 1953 February 24. On letterhead of the Law Offices of Irell & Manella to Mr.
Sale Price $467.50
$550.00
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ABBOTT & COSTELLO (LOU COSTELLO) - DOCUMENT SIGNED 03/21/1949 - HFSID 276039ABBOTT and COSTELLO: LOU COSTELLO Costello signs a document, probably for a feature film, for which he would be paid 50 percent of the net proceeds and his partner, Bud Abbott, would also receive 50 percent. Carbon Typed Document Signed: "Lou Costello" in ink under "Approved and Accepted", 1p, 8½x11.
Sale Price $450.00
$500.00
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ABBOTT & COSTELLO (LOU COSTELLO) - DOCUMENT SIGNED 03/28/1949 - HFSID 275365ABBOTT and COSTELLO: LOU COSTELLO The comic actor receives an advance from Universal Pictures. Carbon Document signed in ink: "Lou Costello", 8½x11. Universal City, California, 1949 March 28. Costello acknowledges receipt of an advance from the studio of $12,857.
Sale Price $552.50
$650.00
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ABBOTT & COSTELLO (LOU COSTELLO) - DOCUMENT SIGNED 05/05/1951 - HFSID 276372Costello, on behalf of himself and his partner, Bud Abbott, signs an agreement with NBC regarding their use of "Bud Abbott and myself on the live television shows referred to".
Sale Price $510.00
$600.00
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ABBOTT & COSTELLO (LOU COSTELLO) - DOCUMENT SIGNED 06/24/1952 - HFSID 226409Comedian Lou Costello, one-half of Abbott and Costello, signed this document in 1952 to declare that his betting losses from 1946 exceeded his betting wins. This document is probably related to his tax problems with the IRS, which left him broke by the mid-1950s.
Sale Price $552.50
$650.00
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ABBOTT & COSTELLO (LOU COSTELLO) - DOCUMENT SIGNED 09/14/1954 - HFSID 177690Comedian Lou Costello, one-half of Abbott and Costello, signed this Community Property Affidavit for the state of California in 1954. It gives interesting details about his finances since 1934, when he married his wife Anne.
Sale Price $467.50
$550.00
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ABBOTT & COSTELLO (LOU COSTELLO) - DOCUMENT SIGNED 09/16/1955 - HFSID 177702Comedian Lou Costello, one-half of Abbott and Costello, signed this $1 bill of sale in 1955 to divide the assets of his production company Cosman Productions between himself and three members of his family to pay back taxes to the IRS.
Sale Price $467.50
$550.00
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ABBOTT & COSTELLO (LOU COSTELLO) - DOCUMENT SIGNED 09/17/1955 - HFSID 177692Comedian Lou Costello, one-half of Abbott and Costello, signed this $1 bill of sale in 1955 to have five members of his family, including his wife Anne, sell their stakes in his production company Cosman Productions to pay back taxes.
Sale Price $467.50
$550.00
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ABBOTT & COSTELLO (LOU COSTELLO) - DOCUMENT SIGNED 09/17/1955 CO-SIGNED BY: PAT COSTELLO, ANNE (MRS. LOU) COSTELLO, MARGARET JANE COSTELLO, HELEN CRISTILLO, MARIE KIRK - HFSID 177693LOU COSTELLO'S WIFE, MOTHER, BROTHER, SISTER AND SISTER-IN-LAW TRANSFER THEIR INTEREST IN HIS PRODUCTION COMPANY TO HIM TO ENABLE COSTELLO TO SETTLE HIS TAX BILL WITH THE I.R.S. LOU COSTELLO, ANNE
Sale Price $552.50
$650.00
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ABBOTT & COSTELLO (LOU COSTELLO) - DOCUMENT SIGNED 09/18/1955 CO-SIGNED BY: ANNE (MRS. LOU) COSTELLO - HFSID 177685LOU COSTELLO AGREES TO USE PROCEEDS FROM HIS INTEREST IN SEVERAL FILMS TO SETTLE HIS I.R.S. TAX BILL LOU COSTELLO and ANNE COSTELLO Carbon Typed Document Signed: "Lou Costello" in ink on page 4 and "Anne Costello" in ink on page 5, 5p, 8½x13, separate sheets.
Sale Price $552.50
$650.00
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ABBOTT & COSTELLO (LOU COSTELLO) - DOCUMENT SIGNED 09/18/1955 CO-SIGNED BY: ANNE (MRS. LOU) COSTELLO - HFSID 177687LOU COSTELLO AGREES TO USE PROCEEDS FROM A TELEVISION PROGRAM CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCED WITH HIS BROTHER TO SETTLE HIS TAX BILL WITH THE I.R.S. LOU COSTELLO and ANNE COSTELLO Carbon Typed Document Signed: "Lou Costello" and "Anne Costello" in ink on page 3, 3p, 8½x13, separate sheets.
Sale Price $552.50
$650.00
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ABBOTT & COSTELLO (LOU COSTELLO) - DOCUMENT SIGNED 10/23/1952 - HFSID 217364Comedian Lou Costello, one-half of Abbott and Costello, signed this document in 1952 to receive a $5,000 loan from Universal pictures, to be paid back out of any payments that Universal would make to him in the future.
Sale Price $552.50
$650.00
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ABBOTT & COSTELLO (LOU COSTELLO) - DOCUMENT SIGNED 10/24/1947 - HFSID 176143LOU COSTELLO Lou Costello signs a document saying that the IRS can have all his earnings from the productions 'Buck Privates Come Home', and'Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap'. Carbon Typed Document Signed: "Lou Costello" in ink, 1p, 8½x11. No place, 1947 October 24.In letter form to Universal International Pictures, Inc.
Sale Price $637.50
$750.00
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ABBOTT & COSTELLO (LOU COSTELLO) - DOCUMENT SIGNED 12/13/1954 - HFSID 173128Triplicate copy of IRS form for Costello's Cosman Productions, signed "Lou Costello Pres" in 1954 for the 1951 tax year. Both Costello and his partner Bud Abbott would wind up virtually broke over tax problems three years after this document was signed.
Sale Price $637.50
$850.00
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ABBOTT & COSTELLO (LOU COSTELLO) - DOCUMENT SIGNED 12/15/1952 - HFSID 263102LOU COSTELLO Lou Costello sends a typed letter about Abbott and Costello appearing on NBC's hour-long live variety show, The Colgate Comedy Hour. Typed Letter Signed: "Lou Costello", 1p, 8½x11. No place, 1952 December 15.To NBC, RCA Building, Radio City,New York.
Sale Price $552.50
$650.00
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ABBOTT & COSTELLO (LOU COSTELLO) - DOCUMENT SIGNED 12/18/1953 - HFSID 177686Comedian Lou Costello, one-half of Abbott and Costello, signed this document in 1953 with Bank of America to receive a $35,000 loan on a Los Angeles tract of land, to be paid back wtih 7 percent interest.
Sale Price $467.50
$550.00
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ABBOTT & COSTELLO (LOU COSTELLO) - DOCUMENT SIGNED CIRCA 1948 - HFSID 173125ABBOTT & COSTELLO: LOU COSTELLO Blank 1948 IRS tax form signed by Costello. Both Costello and his partner Bud Abbott would wind up virtually broke over tax problems in 1957. Document signed: "Lou Costello", 2 pages, 8x10½ (front and verso). 1948 tax form.
Sale Price $637.50
$750.00
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ABBOTT & COSTELLO (LOU COSTELLO) - DOCUMENT SIGNED CO-SIGNED BY: EDWARD SHERMAN - HFSID 178852LOU COSTELLO and EDWARD SHERMAN Friars Club membership proposal for Edward Sherman, longtime agent and manager of Abbott and Costello, signed by Sherman and his client Lou Costello Annotated document signed "Lou Costello" as Proposer and "Edward Sherman" as Candidate, both in blue ink.
Sale Price $552.50
$650.00
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ABBOTT & COSTELLO (BUD ABBOTT) - COLLECTION WITH ABBOTT & COSTELLO (LOU COSTELLO) - HFSID 350616BUD ABBOTT and LOU COSTELLO Black and white publicity photographs of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Comprises: (1) Bud Abbott. Photograph inscribed and signed: "To Kay/Sincerely/Bud Abbott". B/w, 7½ x 9¼. Fine condition. (2) Lou Costello.
Sale Price $1,360.00
$1,600.00
