Gracie Allen
Birthday: Born in 1895-07-25 in San Francisco, California, USA
Deathday: 1964-08-27
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.
TV Credits
The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time....
The Jack Benny Program
Character: Gracie Allen
Laugh along with funnyman Jack Benny as he brings his underplayed humor to TV along with regular performers from his radio show days....
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
Character: Gracie Allen
Burns and Allen, an American comedy duo consisting of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen, worked together as a comedy team in vaudeville, films, radio and television and achieved great success over four decades....
The Jack Benny Program
Character: Gracie Allen (voice) (uncredited)
Laugh along with funnyman Jack Benny as he brings his underplayed humor to TV along with regular performers from his radio show days....
The Bob Cummings Show
Character: Gracie Allen
The Bob Cummings Show is an American sitcom starring Robert "Bob" Cummings which was produced from January 2, 1955 to September 15, 1959. The Bob Cummings Show was the first series ever to debut as a midseason replacement. The program began with a half-season run on NBC, then ran for two full seasons on CBS, and returned to NBC for its final two seasons. The program was later rerun in the daytime hours on ABC and then syndicated under the title Love That Bob. A similar, but less successful, fol...
What's My Line?
Character: Self - Mystery Guest
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions....
Movie Credits
We're Not Dressing
Character: Gracie Martin
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 b...
Honolulu
Character: Millicent 'Millie' De Grasse
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....
A Damsel in Distress
Character: Gracie
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'....
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
Character: Gracie Allen
The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder....
Two Girls and a Sailor
Character: Gracie Allen - Concerto Number
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....
Hollywood on Parade No. A-2
Character: Self
"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"....
Mr. and Mrs. North
Character: Pamela North
Married sleuths (Gracie Allen, William Post Jr.) find a corpse in their closet and round up suspects....
Six of a Kind
Character: Gracie Devore
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....
College Swing
Character: Gracie Alden
Gracie Alden tries to graduate from college to get an inheritance....
Lambchops
Character: Gracie the girlfriend
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....
Walking the Baby
Character:
Street-sweeper George flirts with a pretty, but dizzy, nursemaid in the park. Incorporates Burns & Allen's vaudeville "dizzy" routine....
College Humor
Character: Gracie
A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed....
The Big Broadcast of 1936
Character: Gracie
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....
The Big Broadcast of 1937
Character: Mrs. Platt
The employees of a failing radio station must put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation....
Love in Bloom
Character: Gracie Downey
A young girl runs away from her carnival family to make it in New York and becomes involved with a young songwriter....
Fit to be Tied
Character: Miss Allen, a Salesgirl
George Burns tries to buy a tie in a department store filled with assorted kooks....
Here Comes Cookie
Character: Gracie Allen
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....
The Big Broadcast
Character: Gracie (as Burns and Allen)
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....
College Holiday
Character: Calliope Dove
College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy....
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Character: (archive footage)
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....
Let's Dance
Character: Gracie
Sailor George and his pals visit the Roseland Dance Hall, where funny things happen between conversations with dizzy hostess Gracie....
International House
Character: Nurse Allen
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....
Pulling a Bone
Character: Gracie
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....
The Antique Shop
Character:
George is distracted from buying a statue by scatterbrained Gracie....
Once Over, Light
Character:
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....
Oh, My Operation
Character:
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....
The Babbling Book
Character:
Burns and Allen have a dizzy conversation in a bookstore....
Your Hat
Character:
George, working in a hat shop, gets tricky with the customers. Then Gracie comes in and drives him batty....
100% Service
Character:
George registers at the Jefferson Hotel; after the desk clerk gives him the runaround, he meets Gracie at the cigar counter....
This Is Bob Hope...
Character: Self (archive footage)
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....
Many Happy Returns
Character: Gracie Allen
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....
Pioneers of Primetime
Character:
An in-depth look at the early days of television and its first stars....