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William Alexander "Bud" Abbott (October 2, 1897 – April 24, 1974) was an American actor, producer, and comedian. He is best remembered as the straight man of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Lou Costello.
Abbott was born in Asbury Park, New Jersey, into a show business family. His parents, Rae (Fisher) and Harry Abbott, had worked for the Barnum and Bailey Circus. Several years after the family relocated to Brooklyn, Abbott dropped out of grammar school to begin working with his father at Dreamland Park on Coney Island. When he was 15, Abbott signed on as a cabin boy on a Norwegian steamer, but was soon forced to shovel coal. He eventually worked his way back to the United States after a year.
By then his father was an employee of the Columbia Burlesque Wheel, and installed Bud in the box office of the Casino Theater in Brooklyn. Bud spent the next few years in burlesque box offices. In 1918, working in Washington D.C., he met and married Jenny Mae Pratt, a burlesque dancer and comedienne who performed as Betty Smith. They remained together until his death 55 years later. In 1923 Abbott produced a cut-rate vaudeville "tab show" called Broadway Flashes, which toured on the Gus Sun circuit. Abbott began performing as a straight man in the show when he could no longer afford to pay one. He continued producing and performing in burlesque shows on the Mutual Burlesque wheel, and as his reputation grew, he began working with veteran comedians like Harry Steppe and Harry Evanson.
Actors: Robert Banas (actor), Arte Johnson (actor), Robert Reed (actor), Buddy Hackett (actor), Dann Cahn (editor), Fred Karlin (composer), Harvey Korman (actor), Henry Brandon (actor), Michele Lee (actress), Peggy McCay (actress), Bob Banner (producer), Bob Baines (actor), Richard Sanders (actor), Donald Hotton (actor), Russell Arms (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Actors: Bud Abbott (actor), William Bendix (actor), Lou Costello (actor), James Stewart (actor), Lou Costello (producer), Charles Barton (director), Brenda Joyce (actress), Edward Nassour (producer), William Nassour (producer),
Plot: A documentary showing the constructive approach taken by the Lou Costello, Jr. Youth Foundation in Los Angeles toward prevention of juvenile delinquency. William Bendix, as a neighborhood policeman, visits the Foundation and discovers the juveniles who used to give him trouble now engaged in sports and activities, furnished them gratis, under self-supervision. Abbott and Costello furnish a couple of bits to liven it up some.
Keywords: digit-in-title, foundation, juvenile-delinquency, los-angeles-california, number-in-title, policeman, public-service-announcement, reenactment, youth-centerCome with me
Here is the answer
To set you free, yeah
All alone as you silently scream
You reach out and hold on
All along you´ve been chasing a dream
Now it´s gone, it´s over
Out of my head `cos it´s
Time to surrender
It´s time you remember
A game of pretending
Is not worth defending
Heart and soul
Truth is a saviour
So take control, yeah
Time to surrender.....
You talk as if you just don´t care
There´s so much frustration
I see that you are in despair
It´s your desperation, oh
Time to surrender.....
Choir:
Everything you say and everything you do
Got to find a way you know it´s down to you
Live another day and live for what is true