In the 1950s, they introduced their comedy to live television on The Colgate Comedy Hour, and launched their own half-hour series, The Abbott and Costello Show.

William " Bud " Abbott and Lou Costello ( born Louis Francis Cristillo ), were an American comedy duo whose work in vaudeville and on stage, radio, film and television made them the most popular comedy team during the 1940s and 1950s.

Grant stayed on as a writer for Abbott and Costello into the 1950s.

" Louis ", George's middle name is a homage to Lou Costello, whose 1950s television series The Abbott and Costello Show, inspired Seinfelds writing style.

During the wave of monster-related merchandising in the late 1950s and 1960s, it was usually Glenn Strange's iconic image used for the Monster on toys, games and paraphernalia, most often from his appearance in the Abbott & Costello film.

Abbott created all of his card games during the 1950s, starting with Babel in 1951, and ending with Auction in 1956.

In addition to movies, in the 1950s the theater was the site of many live, summer theater productions such as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie and George Abbott and John Cecil Holm's Three Men on a Horse.

Besser had substituted for Lou Costello on radio, opposite Bud Abbott, and by the 1950s he was firmly established as one of the A & C regulars.

* Many science-fiction movies and serials of the 1950s and 1960s, such as Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, Space Ship Sappy, Queen of Outer Space ( with Zsa Zsa Gabor ), and Space Patrol, have used the concept of the namesake goddess Venus and her domain to contrive planetary populations of nubile Amazonian women welcoming ( or attacking ) all-male astronaut crews ( even though the goddess Venus-or Aphrodite for that matter-had absolutely nothing to do with the Amazons ; that role belonged to Ares, or to Artemis ).

Abbott was a secondary lead in several films of the 1950s and 1960s.

In The Abbott and Costello Show, which was broadcast in the early 1950s but syndicated for decades afterwards, Brooke played the role of a straitlaced, classy fellow tenant of the rooming house where the two main characters lived.

The team's popularity waned in the 1950s, and they were further bedeviled by tax issues ; the IRS demanded heavy back taxes, forcing the partners ( both of whom had been serious gamblers ) to sell most of their assets ( including Costello's rights to their television show ).

Mahalia Jackson's 1947 version received significant radio airplay, and as her popularity grew throughout the 1950s and 1960s, she often sang it at public events such as concerts at Carnegie Hall.

As new genres of music, such as ragtime, blues and jazz, began to emerge in the early 20th century the popularity of the genre faded, but the association with sentimentality led to the term ballad being used for a slow love song from the 1950s onwards.

Throughout the 1950s, he struggled with poor health and tenuous finances, but continued to perform frequently despite the decline in popularity of his earlier music as rock and roll took over.

He continued to tour and record through the 1950s into the early 1960s, despite the fact that Western swing's popularity, even in the Southwest, had greatly diminished.

The United Nations considered adopting such a reformed calendar for a while in the 1950s, but these proposals have lost most of their popularity.

With the advent of modern science fiction from the 1950s to the present day, Flatland has seen a revival in popularity, especially among science fiction and cyberpunk fans.

During the late 1950s, high-stakes games such as Twenty One and The $ 64, 000 Question began a rapid rise in popularity.

After his death, a " Bogie Cult " formed at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as well as Greenwich Village, New York and in France, which contributed to his spike in popularity in the late 1950s and 1960s.

Postmodernism gained significant popularity in the 1950s and dominated literature and art by the 1960s.

Its popularity was at its height during the 1950s and 1960s.

Through the late 1940s and early 1950s, R & B music had been gaining a stronger beat and a wilder style, with artists such as Fats Domino and Johnny Otis speeding up the tempos and increasing the backbeat to great popularity on the juke joint circuit.

Jazz largely surpassed ragtime in mainstream popularity in the early 1920s, although ragtime compositions continue to be written up to the present, and periodic revivals of popular interest in ragtime occurred in the 1950s and the 1970s.

Blues went on to influence rock and roll in the 1950s, which only increased in popularity with the British Invasion of the mid-to-late 1960s.

During the 1950s and into the mid-1960s, they were widely used and very popular, though the spinning reel has since eclipsed them in popularity in North America.

Hippies also inspired the decline in popularity of the necktie and other business clothing, which had been unavoidable for men during the 1950s and early 1960s.

The Looney Tunes series ' popularity was strengthened even more when the shorts began airing on network and syndicated television in the 1950s under various titles and formats.

Many original tram and streetcar systems in the United Kingdom, United States, and elsewhere, were decommissioned in the 1950s and onward as the popularity of the automobile increased.

With the advent of television in the 1950s, however, radio drama lost some of its popularity, and in some countries, has never regained large audiences.

The Mickey Slim was a drink that had short-lived popularity in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s.

Tony Curtis ( born Bernard Schwartz ; June 3, 1925 – September 29, 2010 ) was an American film actor whose career spanned six decades, but had his greatest popularity during the 1950s and early 1960s.

The popularity of Two-up declined after the 1950s as more sophisticated forms of gambling like Baccarat gained popularity in illegal gaming houses and poker machines ( slot machines ) were legalised in clubs.

Since its release, the popularity of Bringing Up Baby has grown considerably, beginning with it being shown on TV in the 1950s.

In the 1950s and ' 60s he was one of the world's best-selling novelists, although his popularity has since declined.

Palmer's charisma was a major factor in establishing golf as a compelling television event in the 1950s and 1960s, setting the stage for the popularity it enjoys today.

As a result, by the mid-1990s, amateur use of actual Teletype machines had waned, though a core of " purists " still operate on equipment originally manufactured in the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, a testament to the workmanship and durability of this equipment.

Beginning with the Depression of the 1930s, the town declined as oil production waned, and a large refinery at the edge of town closed in the 1950s.

Crabbe's Hollywood career waned somewhat in the 1950s and 1960s.

From the late 1940s to the 1960s, a harsh, strident form called isikhwela jo was popular, though national interest waned in the 50s until Radio Zulu began broadcasting to Natal, Transvaal and the Orange Free State in 1962 ( see 1950s: Bantu Radio and pennywhistle for more details ).

After several years of success, as the 1950s Hawaiiana fad waned in the United States, so did exotica's commercial appeal.

* the elimination of many of the irritants that stoked nationalist passion as imperialism and pro-Westernism waned in the Arab world during the 1950s and early 1960s ;

With the end of the 1950s, his success waned, and the years gave way to new rhythms, like rock ' n roll and then pop music.

As the glory years of the Farrington era waned into the late 1950s, the Rock Island found itself once again faced with flat traffic, flat revenues and increasing costs.

Consumer interest in trains as toys waned in the late 1950s, but has experienced resurgence since the late 1990s due in large part to the popularity of Thomas the Tank Engine.

The United States supported the Shah starting from the 1950s, but this waned toward the end of the 1970s, particularly under the Carter administration.

Ealing declined during the 1950s, and Balcon's creative control at other companies waned considerably after it was sold.

As his nightclub and TV appearances in the 1950s and ' 60s waned, he was forgotten, and he retired in the mid-1970s.

His work continued to be popular for some time after his death, but gradually waned until its rediscovery in the 1950s, when his long-lost Sonata per flauto e pianoforte was published for the first time.

Interest in the chert then waned until the field was reinvigorated by Lyon in the late 1950s, and new material was collected by further trenching from 1963-71.

However, the club's success waned in the 1950s, with Whittaker unable to attract any major stars to the club.

By the end of the 1950s, Crockett's popularity waned and the fad slowly died out.