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Here Come The Co-Eds
Here Come The Co-Eds Theatrical Poster
Directed by	Jean Yarbrough
Produced by	John Grant
Written by	Arthur T. Horman John Grant Edmund Hartmann
Starring	Bud Abbott Lou Costello Peggy Ryan Martha O'Driscoll Lon Chaney, Jr.
Music by	Edgar Fairchild
Editing by	Arthur Hilton
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	February 2, 1945 (U.S. release)
Running time	88 min
Language	English
Budget	$717,000
Preceded by	Lost in a Harem (1944)
Followed by	The Naughty Nineties (1945)
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Here Come The Co-Eds is a 1945 film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Trivia 3 Routines 4 DVD Release 5 External link

Three friends, Oliver (Lou Costello), Molly (Martha O'Driscoll), and her brother Slats (Bud Abbott) work for the Miramar Ballroom as taxi dancers. Slats plants a phony article in the local newspaper that declares Molly's ambition to raise money to attend Bixby College. The dean of Bixby (Donald Cook) reads the article and offers her a scholarship. She agrees, but only if her two friends can accompany her, so they are hired as caretakers.

Meanwhile, Chairman Kirkland (Charles Dingle), whose daughter Diane (June Vincent) also attends Bixby, holds the mortgage on the college and he threatens to foreclose if the dean continues to ignore traditions and does not expel Molly. Slats and Oliver run into some problems of their own as they continue to fail at every task assigned to them by their supervisor, Mr. Johnson (Lon Chaney, Jr.).

Slats and Oliver devise a plan to raise $20,000 to save the school by having Oliver wrestle the Masked Marvel. However, just before the match the Masked Marvel becomes ill and is replaced in the ring by Mr. Johnson. Despite this wrinkle, Oliver wins the match and Slats takes the $1,000 winnings and bets it on the Bixby basketball game, at 20-to-1 odds. Unfortunately the bookie isn't pleased about the prospect of losing the bet, so he hires a professional team to play in place of Bixby's opponent. Oliver dresses in drag and joins the Bixby team, however, he winds up losing the game for Bixby. To make up for it, he steals the bookies money and after a cross-town chase (in a sailboat on a trailer), they manange to arrive in time to pay the mortgage and save the school.

• It was filmed from October 24 through December 6, 1944.
• This film was re-released in 1950.
• North Hollywood Park was the filming location of Bixby college, while the school's main building was a Universal backlot home that was also used in another Abbott and Costello film, The Time of Their Lives.

• This film includes the "Oyster" routine, where Costello attempts to eat a bowl of soup that contains an oyster that spits the soup back at him everytime he trys to take a sip. This routine was used again in another Abbott and Costello film, The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap. That film used a frog in place of the oyster.
• Another routine, previously used in One Night in the Tropics, is "Jonah and the Whale". In this routine, Costello attempts to tell a joke that he claims to have made up himself, but in the end Abbott informs everyone of the punchline.

May 4, 2004

• Here Come The Co-Eds at the Internet Movie Database