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Stage Name |
Birth Name | | Gracie "Googie"
Allen |
Gracie Ethel Cecile
Rosalie Allen |
Five foot tall, 100 pound Gracie Allen is
today most remembered as George
Burns scatterbrained comedy sidekick, with George being the
straight man. Gracie was the daughter of George and Margaret Allen
and was born in San Francisco, California. Gracie, at age 5, started
performing in an Irish dancing group called "The Allen Sisters"
with her three older sisters, Bessie, Hazel and Pearl.
Moving to New York on her own, Gracie was looking for an act
and heard about a vaudeville group looking for a new partner.
Gracie saw Burns and they got together thru dancing as Burns was
originally a dancer and Instructor, he would work with her on
the act and later becoming the comedy team of "Burns and
Allen" around 1922.
Gracie married Burns in 1926 in New York.
They made many movies together, mostly non-dance related. The
two made many appearances on the Vaudeville stage, then got into
the Radio shows, then finally |  | Television and from 1934
to 1950 had their own TV show called "The George Burns-Gracie
Allen Show."
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. In 1940, Gracie announced on radio that she was
running for President. She actually made a 34 city campaign, had
slogans, buttons, posters etc. After her campaign was over, she
wrote a pretty funny book called "How to Become President."
Gracie and George remained married until Gracie died of heart
failure in her Beverly Hills home in 1964. George went on to smoke
his cigars and live to be 100, He never re-married and is buried
next to Gracie. |
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Birth Place |
Birth Date |
Spouse |
Offspring |
| San Francisco, CA |
7/26/1895 - 8/27/1964 |
George
Burns (1926) |
Ronnie Burns (Adopted) |
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Sandra Jean (Adopted) |
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Hillstreet Theater (1922) |
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| NOTE: Reportedly born in 1902, but a census revealed it to
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