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@Repete Heart attack
Shortly after completion of The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock, his only film appearance without Abbott, Costello suffered a heart attack. He died at Doctors Hospital in Beverly Hills on March 3, 1959, three days before his 53rd birthday.[3] Sources conflict on the circumstances of his last day and final words. By some accounts, restated in numerous "quotes" aggregates, he told visitors that the strawberry ice-cream soda he had just finished was "the best I ever tasted", then expired.[24] By other reports, including several contemporaneous obituaries, the ice-cream soda exchange occurred earlier in the day; later, after his wife and friends had left, he asked his private-duty nurse to adjust his position in bed. "I think I'll be more comfortable", he said; but before the nurse could comply, he suffered a cardiac arrest and died.[3][25][26][27]
After a funeral Mass at his parish, St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church in Sherman Oaks,[28] Costello was interred at the Calvary Cemetery in East Los Angeles, on March 8.[29] His wife Anne died from an apparent heart attack nine months later on December 5, 1959, at age 47.[30][31]
Shortly after completion of The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock, his only film appearance without Abbott, Costello suffered a heart attack. He died at Doctors Hospital in Beverly Hills on March 3, 1959, three days before his 53rd birthday.[3] Sources conflict on the circumstances of his last day and final words. By some accounts, restated in numerous "quotes" aggregates, he told visitors that the strawberry ice-cream soda he had just finished was "the best I ever tasted", then expired.[24] By other reports, including several contemporaneous obituaries, the ice-cream soda exchange occurred earlier in the day; later, after his wife and friends had left, he asked his private-duty nurse to adjust his position in bed. "I think I'll be more comfortable", he said; but before the nurse could comply, he suffered a cardiac arrest and died.[3][25][26][27]
After a funeral Mass at his parish, St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church in Sherman Oaks,[28] Costello was interred at the Calvary Cemetery in East Los Angeles, on March 8.[29] His wife Anne died from an apparent heart attack nine months later on December 5, 1959, at age 47.[30][31]
