Gracie Allen
Also Known As: Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen
Biography: Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen (July 26, 1895 – August 27, 1964) was an American comedian who became internationally famous as the zany partner and comic foil of husband George Burns, her straight man. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gracie Allen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: July 25, 1895
Age: 129 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: August 27, 1964
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We're Not Dressing
Overview: Beautiful high society type Doris Worthington is entertaining guests on her yacht in the Pacific when it hits a reef and sinks. She makes her way to an island with the help of singing sailor Stephen Jones. Her friend Edith, Uncle Hubert, and Princes Michael and Alexander make it to the same island but all prove to be useless in the art of survival. The sailor is the only one with the practical knowhow to survive but Doris and the others snub his leadership offer. That is until he starts a clam bake and wafts the fumes in their starving faces. The group gradually gives into his leadership, the only question now is if Doris will give into his charms.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-27
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Honolulu
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-03
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A Damsel in Distress
Overview: Lady Alyce Marshmorton must marry soon, and the staff of Tottney Castle have laid bets on who she'll choose, with young Albert wagering on 'Mr. X'. After Alyce goes to London to meet a beau she is restricted to the castle to curb her scandalous behavior. Albert then summons Jerry to Alyce's aid in order to 'protect his investment'.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-19
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The Gracie Allen Murder Case
Overview: The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-02
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Two Girls and a Sailor
Overview: A sailor helps two sisters start up a service canteen. The sailor soon becomes taken with gorgeous sister Jean, unaware that her sibling Patsy is also in love with him.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-14
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Hollywood on Parade No. A-2
Overview: "Stuart Erwin acts as master of ceremonies in this variety skit, the second in the series produced by Lewis Llewyn for Paramount release. Erwin introduces Bing Crosby, who engages in some comedy byplay with George Burns and Gracie Allen, after which the crooner sings a number. The rest of the short is devoted to Olsen and Johnson, the comedy headliners, who do some nutty stuff on the beach with the support of a bunch of bathing beauties".
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-22
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The Great Radio Comedians
Overview: Documentary about radio comedies primarily focused on Burns & Allen, Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy, The Jack Benny Program, Fibber McGee & Molly, The Bob Hope Show, and The Fred Allen Show.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-11
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Mr. and Mrs. North
Overview: Married sleuths (Gracie Allen, William Post Jr.) find a corpse in their closet and round up suspects.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-23
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Six of a Kind
Overview: The Whinneys share expenses for their trip to Hollywood with George and Gracie and their great Dane. A clerk in Whinney's bank has put fifty thousand dollars in a suitcase, hoping to rob Whinney on the road, but instead Whinney takes another road and is himself arrested in Nevada.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-09
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College Swing
Overview: Gracie Alden tries to graduate from college to get an inheritance.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-29
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Lambchops
Overview: George and Gracie enter an elegant drawing room, looking everywhere for something. Turns out, they're looking for the audience, and when George spots the camera, they start in on their patter. Gracie wants to convince George that she's smart, not dizzy - it's an uphill struggle of which she's blissfully unaware. Midway through, they break into song: "Do You Believe Me?" It includes a little bit of hoofing as the chatting continues. They end on a story Gracie whispers into George's ear.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-31
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Walking the Baby
Overview: Street-sweeper George flirts with a pretty, but dizzy, nursemaid in the park. Incorporates Burns & Allen's vaudeville "dizzy" routine.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-11
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College Humor
Overview: A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.
Genres: Action Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-05
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The Big Broadcast of 1936
Overview: Two-bit radio station owner Spud Miller doubles as the station's sole announcer. On the verge of bankruptcy, Spud is receptive to the wacky notions of George and Gracie, who've just invented a television device that can pick up and transmit any signal, any time, anywhere.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-20
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The Big Broadcast of 1937
Overview: The employees of a failing radio station must put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-05
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Love in Bloom
Overview: A young girl runs away from her carnival family to make it in New York and becomes involved with a young songwriter.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-20
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Fit to be Tied
Overview: George Burns tries to buy a tie in a department store filled with assorted kooks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-02
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Here Comes Cookie
Overview: A scatterbrained heiress opens her home to a succession of unemployed actors and vaudeville performers, then decides to produce her own show, much to the consternation of her father, her sister and her sister's boyfriend, who is actually after the young girl's money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-30
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The Big Broadcast
Overview: The top brass at a radio station believe their popular new star singer is paying more attention to his love life than to his career.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-14
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College Holiday
Overview: College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-19
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
Overview: Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Let's Dance
Overview: Sailor George and his pals visit the Roseland Dance Hall, where funny things happen between conversations with dizzy hostess Gracie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-17
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International House
Overview: Foreign investors converge on a luxury hotel in China to bid on a new kind of radioscope. But, this is a hotel where Burns and Allen are the in-house medical staff, a measles risk sends the whole building into quarantine, and a madcap millionaire crashes dinner in his autogyro. Hotel and radioscope become a stage for an all-star cast of comedians and musicians, from vaudeville to the new generation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-27
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Pulling a Bone
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-10
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Stars in the Eye
Overview: Various CBS stars appear in this one hour variety program about the opening of the brand new $7 million dollar CBS Television City Studios.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-15
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The Antique Shop
Overview: George is distracted from buying a statue by scatterbrained Gracie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-06
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Once Over, Light
Overview: In the barbershop, a costumer contends with a barber hard-selling hair tonic, an obnoxious customer with a theory about World War I, and a dizzy manicurist (Grace) who engages him in typically crazy conversation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-22
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Oh, My Operation
Overview: George is mistaken for an accident victim and taken to the hospital. After his needless operation, he meets Nurse Gracie, who adds insanity to injury.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-23
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The Babbling Book
Overview: Burns and Allen have a dizzy conversation in a bookstore.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-10
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Your Hat
Overview: George, working in a hat shop, gets tricky with the customers. Then Gracie comes in and drives him batty.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-24
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100% Service
Overview: George registers at the Jefferson Hotel; after the desk clerk gives him the runaround, he meets Gracie at the cigar counter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-01
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This Is Bob Hope...
Overview: During his career, Bob Hope was the only performer to achieve top-rated success in every form of mass entertainment. American Masters explores the entertainer’s life through his personal archives and clips from his classic films.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-29
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Many Happy Returns
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-08
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Pioneers of Primetime
Overview: An in-depth look at the early days of television and its first stars.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-09
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