Bud Abbot and Lou Costello Story was partly connected with Patterson New Jersey and my ex-mother in law.
My ex wife, Barbara and I met at the Mushroom Farm, a bar and restaurant which was located in West Orange, New Jersey. We both didn’t drink alcohol, yet we met at a bar!!!
Barbara told me that her mother was once offered a proposal of marriage by Lou Costello, before he became a movie star, but she turned him down with the words, “You’ll Never be Anything but a Clown”. She was right, but, yet, he did become a movie star, yet this clown earned quite a bit of income during that period from the 1940’s to the late 1950s! (50 Million in today’s dollars!)
Ironically, these same words were spoken by a school teacher to the late, Jerry Lewis during his final High School years in Irvington, when he finally quit high school!
I will admit that all of Lou Costello’s performed roles, in which, they all sounded like someone who never studied English in school and, therefore, his English was lacking. But the truth be told, that Lou had a fine command of the English language when off-screen! That is the genius of “Acting”. “Be someone who may not be true to yourself”.
There are many examples of this throughout the stage and screen. Lou Costello was one clown who defied the odds when he became a star along with Bud Abbot
BTW, the character, “Patchagalupe” was his brother named, “Joe Kirk (Nat Curcuruto).
The spelling of that character’s name was, “Mr. Bacciagalupe”!