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Gracie Allen was George Burns scatterbrained comedy sidekick.
Gracie started performing in an Irish dancing group called
"The Allen Sisters" with her three older sisters,
Bessie, Hazel and Pearl. Gracie and George got together
thru dancing as George was originallay a dancer and Instructor,
later becoming the comdey team of Burns and Allen around
1922. Gracie married Burns in 1926 in New York. They made
many movies together, mostly non-dance related.
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Gracie
did the advertising for the Pullman Train car magazine ads
in the 1940s and Gracie and George were featured on an magazine
ads for Post's "Grape-Nuts" cereal and Spam.
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