Description: Burns and Allen was an American comedy duo consisting of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen. They worked together as a successful comedy team that entertained vaudeville, film, radio, and television audiences for over forty years. The duo met in 1922 and married in 1926. Burns played the straight man and Allen played a silly, addle-headed woman. The duo starred in a number of movies including Lambchops (1929), The Big Broadcast (1932) and two sequels in 1935 and 1936, and A Damsel in Distress (1937). Their 30-minute radio show debuted in September 1934 as The Adventures of Gracie, whose title changed to The Burns and Allen Show in 1936; the series ran, moving back and forth between NBC and CBS, until May 1950. After their radio show’s cancellation, Burns and Allen reemerged on television with a popular situation comedy, The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, which ran from 1950 to 1958.
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Lambchops (Short 1929)
( 1929 )
After briefly struggling to find the audience behind the camera, George and Gracie bring their vaudeville act to the big screen. Throughout their exchange, Gracie's goal is to convince George that she's smart, not dizzy.
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Pulling a Bone (Short 1931)
( 1931 )
At a department store, George seeks help in getting a bone out of his throat. No one will help him; lunch counter girl Gracie wants to talk about airplanes.
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Once Over, Light (Short 1931)
( 1931 )
At the barber shop, George has trouble with a hair tonic salesman and an eccentric customer; then he finds that Gracie is his manicurist.
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100% Service (Short 1931)
( 1931 )
George registers at the Jefferson Hotel; after the desk clerk gives him the runaround, he meets Gracie at the cigar counter.
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Oh, My Operation (Short 1931)
( 1931 )
George is taken to the hospital in mistake for an accident victim. After his needless operation, he meets Nurse Gracie, who adds insanity to injury.
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The Big Broadcast
( 1932 )
A radio-singer, Bing Crosby, is none-too-concerned about his job, and an affair with Mona leads to his dismissal. When it appears Hornsby is getting and paying a lot of attention to his fiancée, Anita Rogers, station manager Leslie McWhinney buys the station, gives Hornsby his job back, and goes on a honeymoon with Anita.
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Your Hat (Short 1932)
( 1932 )
George, working in a hat shop, gets tricky with the customers. Then Gracie comes in and drives him batty.
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Let's Dance (Short 1933)
( 1933 )
Sailor George and his pals visit the Roseland Dance Hall, where funny things happen between conversations with dizzy hostess Gracie.
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Walking the Baby (Short 1933)
( 1933 )
Street-sweeper George flirts with a pretty, but dizzy, nursemaid in the park. Incorporates Burns & Allen's vaudeville "dizzy" routine.
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Six of a Kind
( 1934 )
When a respectable middle-class couple take a cross-country trip by auto, they share expenses with a decidedly oddball couple, none of whom know the car carries embezzled funds.
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We're Not Dressing
( 1934 )
Yacht owner is stranded on island with her socialite friends, a wacky husband and wife research team, and a singing sailor.
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Many Happy Returns
( 1934 )
Gracie Allen assumes the "management" of the shop owned by her papa Horatio Allen, turning it into a radio station and then an aviary, with the usual Gracie Allen logic. While distracted, Papa is trying to get younger daughter, beauty contest winner Florence, married before she can head to Hollywood and get into the movies. The story moves to Hollywood, where, with Gr...Read all
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Love in Bloom
( 1935 )
A young girl runs away from her carnival family to make it in New York City and becomes involved with a handsome young songwriter.
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Here Comes Cookie
( 1935 )
Alarmed that his younger daughter is about to marry a gold-digger, a millionaire turns over the fortune to her ditsy older sister for safe-keeping to his ultimate regret, protection.
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The Big Broadcast of 1936
( 1935 )
Spud Miller hopes to save his struggling radio station by winning a broadcast competition, with the help of the Radio Eye, an invention that can display live events from anywhere in the world.
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The Big Broadcast of 1937
( 1936 )
The employees of a failing radio station must put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation.
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College Holiday
( 1936 )
Expecting to put on a musical show, singing and dancing college students are brought to a struggling hotel to be guinea pigs in an ancient Greek-themed eugenics experiment.
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A Damsel in Distress
( 1937 )
A betting castle staff, and a series of misunderstandings and set-ups, leads to an American entertainer and an English damsel falling in love.
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College Swing
( 1938 )
Gracie Alden tries to graduate college to get an inheritance.
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Honolulu
( 1939 )
Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to switch places with him for a few weeks.
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The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
( 1950 )
The legendary husband and wife comedy team of George Burns and Gracie Allen successfully took their show from radio to an eight year run on CBS. Neighbor Blanche Morton frequently joins Gracie in escapades which annoy accountant hubby Harry and provide George with an opportunity to offer a humorous soliloquy. Sadly, the show ended when Allen's health began to fail and she retired from show biz.
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