Arthur Lubin was an American film director and producer who directed several Abbott & Costello films, Phantom of the Opera (1943), the Francis the Talking Mule series and created the talking-horse TV series Mister Ed. A prominent director for Universal Pictures in the 1940s and 1950s, he is perhaps best known today as the man who gave Clint Eastwood his first contract in film.
Arthur Lubin
Lubin in 1928
Lubin with Mary Pickford in 1943
Abbott and Costello were an American comedy duo composed of comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, whose work in radio, film, and television made them the most popular comedy team of the 1940s and 1950s, and the highest-paid entertainers in the world during the Second World War. Their patter routine "Who's on First?" is considered one of the greatest comedy routines of all time, a version of which appears in their 1945 film The Naughty Nineties.
Abbott (left) and Costello (right) circa 1940s
With Carmen Miranda, The Streets of Paris, in 1939.
Abbott and Costello on radio (note Abbott without toupee normally worn in films)
Abbott and Costello on NBC's This Is Your Life November 21, 1956