Lou Costello was born March 6, 1908, and was christened Louis Francis Costillo. While in his teens, he quit high school and began to work in a haberdashery, which job he soon quit to become an actor. His first attempts were unsuccessful and he then decided to become a prizefighter. Fourteen fights later he ended up on the West Coast where he became a Hollywood stunt man. He met Bud Abbott in 1929 at the Empire Theater in Brooklyn, when ... read full excerpt from Celebrity Secrets: Official Government Files on the Rich and Famous ebook