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ARTICLES RELATED TO Gracie Allen - Gracie How's Your Brother? | | | |  Gracie Allen - Gracie How's Your Brother?: Encyclopedia II - Gracie Allen - Gracie How's Your Brother?It was when the couple noticed Gracie was the likelier laugh-getter that their fortunes changed. George cannily flipped the act over---he made himself the straight man (and became the unchallenged best in the business in due course, simply because he was funnier as a droll straight man than most punch-liners were at getting laughs with the obvious jokes) and made Gracie the designated laugh-getter. George has summed the new act up in a classic bit that stayed with him for life: "All I had to do was say, 'Gracie, how's your brother?' and she talked for 38 years. And sometimes I didn't ...
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| | | | Gracie Allen - Gracie How's Your Brother?: Encyclopedia II - Gracie Allen - The Real Gracie What you saw on stage, however, was merely a character who wore the name Gracie Allen. In actuality, Allen was a cleverly talented comedienne whose timing was impeccable, who made every line she uttered, however carefully scripted, seem ad-libbed, and who went to great lengths in rehearsals to make her doings on the air or on the camera realistic---if the script called for Gracie to vacuum a rug, she vacuumed the rug for real. If it called for her to water or trim a plant, she did exactly that, for real. If it called for her to chop vegetabl ...
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| | | | Gracie Allen - Gracie How's Your Brother?: Encyclopedia II - Gracie Allen - Radio series In their debut series, George and Gracie shared the bill with Guy Lombardo and his Orchestra. The pair launched themselves into national stardom with their first major publicity stunt, Gracie's ongoing search for her missing brother.
The White Owl Program: 1933 - 1934 CBS
The Adventures of Gracie: 1934 - 1935 CBS
The Campbell's Tomato Juice Program: 1935 - 1937 CBS
The Grape Nuts Program: 1937 - 1938 NBC
The C ...
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| | | | Gracie Allen - Gracie How's Your Brother?: Encyclopedia II - Gracie Allen - Gracie Where's Your Brother? Burns & Allen weren't averse to a running gag or a publicity stunt, and in 1932-33 they pulled off one of the best in the business: a yearlong search for Gracie's apparently missing brother, which helped make them radio stars in the first place, once Guy Lombardo's regular audience quit being mad at them for interrupting "the sweetest music this side of heaven" with their comedy.
A decade later, Gracie launched a similar stunt when she mounted a gag campaign for the U.S. Presidency ("I don't know much about the Lend-Lease Bill, bu ...
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| | | | Gracie Allen - Gracie How's Your Brother?: Encyclopedia II - Gracie Allen - Life and Early Career Christened Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen, into an Irish Catholic show-business family (her mother, Margaret, was an actress known as Ronnie Burns), Gracie Allen was educated at the Star of the Sea Convent School as a girl, and she and her three sisters were known as The Four Colleens.
She became a vaudeville performer with her sister Bessie in 1909. She teamed up with George Burns in 1922, and married him in 1926, despite the difference in their religions, which would have caused other ...
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| | | | Gracie Allen - Gracie How's Your Brother?: Encyclopedia II - Gracie Allen - Family In the 1930s the couple adopted two children, Sandra Jean and Ronald John, who were raised nominally Catholic. Ronnie eventually joined his parents' television cast; Sandy, by contrast, made only short appearances on the show, at very scattered times, and retired from show business almost as quietly as she slipped in. Ronnie, for his part, forged a rather unique persona on the show: he played himself as a drama student to whom the comedy his parents made famous was just not the sort of thing a truly serious aspiring actor allowed himself! Sandy appeared occasio ...
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