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‘Noose Hangs High’ coming to Blu-ray

ClassicFlix will release Abbott and Costello’s first independent film, The Noose Hangs High (1948), on Blu-ray this summer. Noose is

It’s not often that a collection of “rarities” truly contains rarities, but this disc, produced by Thunderbean Animation, lives up

Elena Verdugo, who played Lou’s girlfriend in Little Giant (1946) and later gained fame as the proficient and loyal nurse

Bud Abbott’s former home at 4505 Woodley Avenue in Encino, Calif., was sold in July for $1.4 million by its

Norman Abbott, nephew of Bud Abbott and director of such classic TV sitcoms as Leave It to Beaver, Welcome Back,

The Paterson Armory is awaiting demolition after a seven-alarm fire tore through the inside of the long-empty building in November.

Stan Irwin, a Las Vegas producer and road manager for Johnny Carson, died on January 21 of natural causes in

Swedish bombshell Anita Ekberg, who had a bit role as a palace guard in Abbott and Costello Go to Mars