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The Time of Their Lives (1946)

Director(s) Charles Barton
Producer(s)

No producer listed for this movie
Top Genres Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller/Suspense
Top Topics American Revolution, Ghosts, Revolutionary War
More Films Directed by Charles Barton More Films from 1946 More Films from the 1940s Top Classic Movies of the 1940s Top American Revolution Films

The Time of Their Lives Overview:

The Time of Their Lives (1946) was a Comedy - Fantasy Film directed by Charles Barton .

The Time of Their Lives BlogHub Articles:

The Time of Their Lives: Bud and Lou Every Night at My House

By FlickChick on Nov 10, 2024 From A Person in the Dark

This is my entry in the Classic Movie Blog Association's A Haunting Blogathon: In the Afterlife. For more eerily delicious articles, please visit here.Bud and Lou on opposite sides of the revolution in 1946's "The Time of Their Lives."My Father: How many times can you watch the same film?9 year old ... Read full article

Abbott and Costello's The Time of Their Lives

By Rick29 on Feb 14, 2022 From Classic Film & TV Cafe

Bud and Lou in one of their few scenes together.One of Abbott and Costello's most atypical films ranks among their best. The Time of Their Lives (1946) is one of only two of the pair's movies in which they don't perform as a team. The previous year's Little Giant is the other non-comedy team picture... Read full article

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The Time of Their Lives Quotes:

Sheldon Gage: What's the matter, Tom?
Cuthbert Greenway: Bottles flying through the air, glasses filling themselves up, and somebody tooted into my stethoscope!
Melody Allen: Horatio, be patient.
Horatio Prim: Be patient? Melody, do you realize that my Nora has been waiting on me for 165 years? And a girl will only wait so long, and no longer!
Cuthbert Greenway: Emily! When you came in here just now, did you or did you not kick me?
Emily: Certainly not.
Cuthbert Greenway: [getting worried] Oh!
Horatio Prim: I don't want those people coming around here saying,
[singing]
Horatio Prim: Here lie the dirty traitors! Here lie the dirty traitors!
[crying]
Horatio Prim: Here lie the dirty traitors.
Telephone operator: [Horatio picks up the phone receiver] Number please.
Horatio Prim: Spooks!
[runs over to Melody]
Horatio Prim: That thing just talked to me!
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The Time of Their Lives Facts
Harry Woolman as "Motorcycle Rider" and Walter Baldwin as "Bates" are in studio records/casting call lists, but they did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie.
Lou Costello's practice of taking home props proved to be a major problem for the special effects crew. Some of the special effects shots required the sets and props to remain intact for shooting with, and without, the actors. Reportedly on one occasion when Lou removed a prop, it required two days of re-shooting for the special effects department.
When Emily, the character played by Gale Sondergaard, meets the new occupants of the house, one of the women asks her "Didn't I see you in 'Rebecca'?". Sondergaard's character is made to look like Judith Anderson's character in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Rebecca, and Sondergaard herself bears a striking physical resemblance to Anderson.
This would be the first Bud Abbott and Lou Costello feature directed by Charles Barton, who is generally regarded as their best director.
Three weeks into shooting, Lou Costello demanded that his role be switched with Bud Abbott's. When director Charles Barton explained that this was unreasonable, Costello walked off the set. The cast and crew frantically worked around him for the next two weeks, when Costello slipped back onto the set and completed the film. He never apologized or explained his behavior.
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