In the opening episode, Gracie and Blanche want to go to the movies and George and Harry want to go to the fights. George tries to trick Gracie with a made-up card game called ""Kleebob"". After going ...

At the beginning of Say Goodnight Gracie, comedian George Burns is in limbo. Caught between this world and the next, Burns is unable to reunite with his partner in love and work, Gracie Allen, until ...

The longest-running team in show business began applying the brakes last week in Hollywood. After 36 years as the better half of Burns and Allen, pretty, professionally giddy Gracie, still slim and ...

ESSEX — When your time on earth is over and you find yourself at the Pearly Gates being interviewed by the big man (or woman), what might you say if you had to justify how you spent your days here.

WATERBURY — If you are into good 10 cent cigars and silly and corny jokes, a soft-show routine reminiscent of Vaudeville, a few bars of a sentimental song slightly off key, and a romance of a pair who ...

Black cotton, short sleeve dress with five large black "buttons" along the proper right side. There are clips on the upper right and a zipper at mid left. This dress was worn by Gracie Allen on "Burns ...

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In 1940, the United States was just emerging from the shadow of the Great Depression and war loomed in Europe. Into these serious times stepped Gracie Allen, part of the popular comic duo Burns and ...

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When George declares he "can't see" how Harry Morton could spend $200 on an iron deer for his lawn, Gracie concludes George's eyesight is deteriorating. Gracie (mistakenly, of course) gets the notion ...