Burns and Allen’s vaudeville-to-screen transition was one of the first comedies that could properly be called a sitcom, as opposed to a string of funny bits. But it also presaged the form-breaking ...

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 ...

George invites two newspaper reporters, while Gracie secretly invites two dozen strangers over to the house to view their opening night show. Gracie hires a carpenter to build a dresser. She then ...

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 ...

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 ...

George Burns and his wife Gracie Allen performed together in vaudeville, radio, and television for decades. Did you know that a West L.A. intersection is named for the couple? Well, Gracie retired in ...

YORKVILLE - A new original musical by Michael Becker is the featured show at Apple Holler's Red Barn Theatre, 5006 S. Sylvania Ave. "George and Gracie: A Love Story" celebrates the lives of George ...

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 ...