The Math in the Movies Web page (http://world.std.com/~reinhold/mathmovies.html) provides an annotated list of films in which mathematics plays some sort of role. The ...

as Universal had signed Abbott and Costello to an enormous multi-movie deal. Costello relented, but the damage had been done and the performers didn’t speak to each other for quite some time.

Another thing that was bringing in the dough for Universal were Abbott and Costello movies. In one year, these guys cranked out six movies, and they were pretty successful. So like the genius that ...