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American comedian, actor, and writer

George Burns
Burns in 1961
Built-in	Nathan Birnbaum (1896-01-xx)January 20, 1896 New York Metropolis, New York, U.S.
Died	March ix, 1996(1996-03-09) (aged 100) Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Resting place	Wood Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California, U.S.
Other names	Nattie, Nate
Occupation	Actor television host comedian author vocalizer
Years active	1928–1996
Spouse(s)	Gracie Allen ​ ​ (yard. 1926; died 1964)​
Children	ii, including Ronnie Burns

George Burns (born Nathan Birnbaum; January twenty, 1896 – March 9, 1996) was an American comedian, actor, singer and writer, and one of the few entertainers whose career successfully spanned vaudeville, radio, pic and television. His arched countenance and cigar-fume punctuation became familiar trademarks for over three-quarters of a century. He and his wife Gracie Allen appeared on radio, television and film as the comedy duo Burns and Allen.

At the age of 79, Burns experienced a sudden career revival as an amiable, beloved and unusually agile comedy elder statesman in the 1975 film The Sunshine Boys, for which he won the University Award for Best Supporting Actor. Burns, who became a centenarian in 1996, continued to work until just weeks before his decease of cardiac arrest at his home in Beverly Hills.

Early life [edit]

George Burns was built-in Nathan Birnbaum on January 20, 1896 in New York City,^[1] the ninth of 12 children born to Hadassah "Dorah" (née Bluth; 1857–1927) and Eliezer Birnbaum (1855–1903), known as Louis or Lippe, Jewish immigrants who had come to the United states of america from Kolbuszowa, Galicia, now Poland.^[2] Burns was a fellow member of the First Roumanian-American Congregation.^[three]

His father was a substitute cantor at the local synagogue but usually worked as a glaze presser. During the influenza epidemic of 1903, Lippe Birnbaum contracted the flu and died at the age of 47. Burns, called Nattie or Nate at the fourth dimension, went to work to help support the family unit, shining shoes, running errands and selling newspapers.^[iv]

When he landed a job as a syrup maker in a local candy shop at historic period seven, Burns was "discovered", as he recalled long after:^[5]

Nosotros were all nigh the same age, vi and vii, and when nosotros were bored making syrup, nosotros used to exercise singing harmony in the basement. I day our letter of the alphabet carrier came down to the basement. His name was Lou Farley. Feingold was his real name, but he changed it to Farley. He wanted the whole globe to sing harmony. He came down to the basement one time to deliver a alphabetic character and heard the four of the states kids singing harmony. He liked our way, so we sang a couple more songs for him. And so we looked up at the caput of the stairs and saw three or four people listening to usa and grinning. In fact, they threw downwardly a couple of pennies. And so I said to the kids I was working with: no more than chocolate syrup. It'due south show business from now on.

We called ourselves the Pee-Wee Quartet. We started out singing on ferryboats, in saloons, in brothels, and on street corners. We'd put our hats downward for donations. Sometimes the customers threw something in the hats. Sometimes they took something out of the hats. Sometimes they took the hats.

—George Burns

Ane of the Burns brothers' first regular gigs was operating the curtains at the vaudeville and nickelodeon theatre of Frank Seiden, father of Joseph Seiden, who would afterward become a Yiddish picture producer.^[half-dozen] Burns started smoking cigars when he was 14.^[seven]

Burns was drafted into the United States Army when the U.Due south. entered World War I in 1917, but he failed the concrete examination because he was extremely nearsighted.^{[ citation needed ]} To hide his Jewish heritage, he adopted the stage name by which he would be known for the rest of his life. He later claimed that he selected the name of George Burns because there were two active star professional baseball players with the proper name (George H. Burns and George J. Burns, unrelated), each of whom would accumulate more than two,000 hits and hold some major-league records. Burns also was reported to have taken George from his brother Izzy (who had first adopted the proper noun because he hated his own) and Burns from the Burns Brothers Coal Company, from whose trucks he would steal coal equally a youth.^{[8] [9] : 33}

His kickoff married woman was Hannah Siegel (stage name Hermosa Jose), one of his dance partners. The matrimony lasted 26 weeks and just occurred considering Siegel'south family unit would not let her to bout with Burns unless they were married. They divorced at the end of the tour.^{[9] : 58}

Burns normally partnered with a girl, sometimes in an adagio dance routine, sometimes in comic patter. Though he had an apparent flair for comedy, he never quite clicked with any of his partners until he met Gracie Allen, a young Irish Cosmic woman, in 1923. "And all all of a sudden," he said in afterward years, "the audience realized I had a talent. They were right. I did accept a talent—and I was married to her for 38 years."^[10] Burns wednesday Allen in 1926.^[7]

Burns, Allen and children just before sailing for Hawaii in 1938

Stage to screen [edit]

Burns and Allen began their career in motion pictures with a series of comic short films in the late 1920s and early on 1930s, such as The Big Broadcast (1932), International House (1933), Six of a Kind (1934), The Big Broadcast of 1936, The Big Broadcast of 1937, A Damsel in Distress (1937) and College Swing (1938) with Bob Promise and Martha Raye. Honolulu (1939) would exist Burns's terminal film for nearly xl years.

In 1938, Paramount producer and director William LeBaron was planning a vehicle for Burns and Allen to team with established star Bing Crosby, with a script written by Don Hartman and Frank Butler. Notwithstanding, the story did fit Burns and Allen's style, and then LeBaron ordered script rewrites to fit 2 male costars: Crosby and Bob Hope. The project became Route to Singapore (1940), the first in a long-running and popular series of "Route" films.

Radio stars [edit]

Burns and Allen first appeared on radio as the comedy relief for bandleader Guy Lombardo. In his memoir The Third Fourth dimension Around, Burns shared a letter of the alphabet from a higher fraternity complaining that its weekly dance parties were interrupted by Burns and Allen routines.

Burns and Allen establish their own show and radio audience, first ambulation on February 15, 1932. Their show was based on their classic stage routines and sketch comedy in which their style was woven into multiple smaller scenes, in a manner similar to that of the short films that they had made in Hollywood. They were too known for clever publicity stunts, such as Gracie'south hunt for her missing blood brother that carried over into guest spots on other radio shows.

The couple was portrayed at first every bit single, with Allen the object of Burns's affections equally well as those of other cast members. Bandleaders Ray Noble (known for his phrase "Gracie, this is the first time we've ever been solitary") and Artie Shaw played love interests for Gracie. Vocalizer Tony Martin also played Gracie's unwilling love interest whom she comically threatened to fire if he would non reciprocate her romantic interest.

Over fourth dimension, as ratings declined and with their audience's close familiarity with their real-life marriage, Burns and Allen adapted their radio show in the fall of 1941 to present them as a married couple. Artie Shaw, who also appeared as a graphic symbol in some of the show's sketches, was the show's bandleader at one time. Allen's character too inverse slightly during this era, every bit she would often now be mean to Burns.

As this format grew stale over the years, Burns and his fellow writers redeveloped the show every bit a state of affairs comedy in the autumn of 1941. The reformat focused on the couple'due south married life and their friends and neighbors, including Elvia Allman as Tootsie Sagwell, a man-hungry spinster in love with Bill Goodwin. The characters of Harry and Blanche Morton became a mainstay of the plan.

As with The Jack Benny Program, the new George Burns & Gracie Allen Evidence portrayed Burns and Allen as entertainers with their own weekly radio show. Goodwin remained, and the music was now led past Meredith Willson (later to be ameliorate known for composing the Broadway musical The Music Man). Willson also played himself on the show as naïve, friendly and shy with women. The new format's success made it ane of the few classic radio comedies to completely reinvent itself and regain great success.

Supporting players [edit]

The supporting bandage during this stage included Mel Blanc as the melancholy, ironically named "Happy Postman" (his catchphrase was "Retrieve, keep grin!"); Bea Benaderet (afterwards Cousin Pearl in The Beverly Hillbillies, Kate Bradley in Petticoat Junction and the voice of Betty Rubble in The Flintstones) and Hal March (later more famous every bit the host of The $64,000 Question) as neighbors Blanche and Harry Morton; and the various members of Gracie's ladies' social club, the Beverly Hills Uplift Society. Ane running gag during this menstruum, stretching into the telly era, was Burns'southward questionable singing voice, every bit Gracie lovingly referred to her husband every bit "Sugar Throat." The bear witness received and maintained a Top 10 rating for the rest of its radio life.

New network [edit]

In the autumn of 1949, after 12 years at NBC, the couple took the evidence back to its original network CBS, where they had risen to fame from 1932 to 1937. Their good friend Jack Benny reached a negotiating impasse with NBC over the corporation he set ("Amusement Enterprises") to packet his show, the better to put more than of his earnings on a capital-gains basis and avoid the eighty percent taxes slapped on very high earners in the Globe War 2 period. When CBS executive William S. Paley convinced Benny to move to CBS (Paley, amongst other things, impressed Benny with his mental attitude that the performers make the network, not the other way around, as NBC chief David Sarnoff reputedly believed); Benny in turn convinced several NBC stars to bring together him, including Burns and Allen. Thus, CBS reaped the benefits when Burns and Allen moved to television in 1950.

Television set [edit]

George Burns and Gracie Allen, 1955.

On television, The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show put faces to the radio characters audiences had come to love. A number of significant changes were seen in the bear witness:

• A parade of actors portrayed Harry Morton: Hal March, The Life of Riley alumnus John Brown, veteran picture show and television character histrion Fred Clark, and time to come Mister Ed co-star Larry Keating.
• Burns frequently broke the quaternary wall, and chatted with the home audience, telling understated jokes and commenting wryly about what show characters were doing or undoing. In subsequently shows, he would actually plow on a television and spotter what the other characters were upward to when he was off-camera, so return to foil the plot.
• When announcer Neb Goodwin left after the first season, Burns hired journalist Harry Von Zell, a veteran of the Fred Allen and Eddie Cantor radio shows, to succeed him. Von Zell was cast every bit the practiced-natured, easily confused Burns and Allen announcer and buddy. He as well became one of the show'southward running gags, when his involvement in Gracie'due south harebrained ideas would get him fired at least in one case a week past Burns.
• The first shows were simply a re-create of the radio format, complete with lengthy and integrated commercials for sponsor Carnation Evaporated Milk by Goodwin. However, what worked well on radio appeared forced and plodding on television. The show was changed into the now-standard situation comedy format, with the commercials distinct from the plot.
• Midway through the run of the television receiver evidence the Burns's two children, Sandra and Ronald, began to make appearances: Sandy in an occasional voice-over or brief on-air role (often as a telephone operator), and Ronnie in various minor roles throughout the 4th and 5th seasons. Ronnie joined the regular cast in flavor 6. Typical of the blurred line between reality and fiction in the show, Ronnie played George and Gracie'southward on-air son, showing upwards in the second episode of season 6 ("Ronnie Arrives") with no explanation offered as to where he had been for the past five years of the show. Originally his character was an aspiring dramatic actor who held his parents' comedy way in befuddled contempt and accounted information technology unsuitable to the "serious" drama student. When the show's characters moved back to California in season vii after spending the prior yr in New York City, Ronnie'south character dropped all apparent interim aspirations and instead enrolled in USC, becoming an inveterate girl attorney.

Burns and Allen as well took a cue from Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's Desilu Productions and formed a company of their own, McCadden Corporation (named later on the street on which Burns's brother lived), headquartered on the General Service Studio lot in the heart of Hollywood, and set up to film goggle box shows and commercials. Besides their ain hit show (which made the transition from a bi-weekly alive series to a weekly filmed version in the fall of 1952), the couple'south company produced such television set serial as The Bob Cummings Bear witness (after syndicated and rerun as Dearest That Bob); The People's Choice, starring Jackie Cooper; Mona McCluskey, starring Juliet Prowse; and Mister Ed, starring Alan Immature and a talented "talking" horse. Several of their skilful friend Jack Benny'due south 1953–55 filmed episodes were as well produced by McCadden for CBS as well.

The George Burns Testify [edit]

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show ran on CBS Goggle box from 1950 to 1958, when Burns at last consented to Allen's retirement. The onset of heart problem in the early 1950s had left her wearied from total-time piece of work and she had been anxious to cease, but could non say "no" to Burns.

Burns attempted to continue the evidence (for new sponsor Colgate-Palmolive on NBC), but without Allen to provide the classic Gracie-isms, the show expired afterward a twelvemonth.

Wendy and Me [edit]

Burns afterwards created Wendy and Me, a sitcom in which he co-starred with Connie Stevens, Ron Harper, and J. Pat O'Malley. He acted primarily as the narrator, and secondarily as the adviser to Stevens' Gracie-like character. The first episode involved the nearly 70-year-old Burns watching his younger neighbor'south activities with amusement, only every bit he would scout the Burns and Allen television show while it was unfolding to get a jump on what Gracie was upwards to in its final two seasons. Again as in the Burns and Allen boob tube bear witness, George frequently bankrupt the fourth wall by commenting directly to viewers. The series just lasted a year. In a promotion, Burns had joked that "Connie Stevens plays Wendy, and I play 'me'."

The Sunshine Boys [edit]

Later on Gracie's expiry in 1964, George immersed himself in work. McCadden Productions co-produced the television series No Time for Sergeants, based on the hit Broadway play; George likewise produced Juliet Prowse's 1965–66 NBC situation comedy, Mona McCluskey. At the same time, he toured the U.S. playing nightclub and theater engagements with such various partners as Carol Channing, Dorothy Provine, Jane Russell, Connie Haines, and Berle Davis. He also performed a series of solo concerts, playing academy campuses, New York's Philharmonic Hall and winding upward a successful season at Carnegie Hall, where he wowed a capacity audition with his show-stopping songs, dances, and jokes.

In 1974, Jack Benny signed to play ane of the pb roles in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer flick version of Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys (Cerise Skelton was originally the other, but he objected to some of the script'south linguistic communication). Benny's health had begun to fail, still, and he advised his director Irving Fein to let longtime friend Burns fill in for him on a series of nightclub dates to which Benny had committed around the U.Southward.

Burns, who enjoyed working, accepted the job for what would exist his start characteristic film appearance for 36 years. As he recalled years afterward:^[5]

"The happiest people I know are the ones that are all the same working. The saddest are the ones who are retired. Very few performers retire on their own. It'south usually because no one wants them. Six years agone Sinatra announced his retirement. He'due south all the same working."—George Burns

Sick wellness had prevented Benny from working on The Sunshine Boys; he died of pancreatic cancer on December 26, 1974. Burns, heartbroken, said that the just time he always wept in his life other than Gracie's death was when Benny died. He was chosen to give 1 of the eulogies at the funeral and said, "Jack was someone special to all of you, simply he was so special to me ... I cannot imagine my life without Jack Benny, and I will miss him and so very much."^[eleven] Burns and so broke down and had to be helped to his seat. People who knew George said that he never could really come to terms with his love friend'south death.

Half-dozen weeks before filming started, Burns had triple featherbed surgery.^[12]

Burns replaced Benny in the film as well equally the order tour, a move that turned out to be one of the biggest breaks of his career; his wise operation as faded vaudevillian Al Lewis won him the 1975 Academy Laurels for Best Supporting Actor, and permanently secured his career resurgence. At the age of 80, Burns was the oldest Oscar winner in the history of the University Awards, a record that would remain until Jessica Tandy won an Oscar for Driving Miss Daisy in 1989.

Oh, God! [edit]

In 1977, Burns fabricated another hit film, Oh, God!, playing the omnipotent championship role contrary vocaliser John Denver every bit an hostage but befuddled supermarket managing director, whom God picks at random to revive his bulletin. The image of Burns in a sailor'due south cap and calorie-free springtime jacket as the droll Omnipotent influenced his subsequent comedic work, as well as that of other comedians. At a celebrity roast in his honor, Dean Martin adjusted a Burns crack: "When George was growing up, the Top x were the Ten Commandments".

Burns appeared in this character along with Vanessa Williams on the September 1984 cover of Penthouse magazine, the consequence which contained the notorious nude photos of Williams, as well every bit the first appearance of underage pornographic flick star Traci Lords. A blurb on the comprehend even announced "Oh God, she's nude!"

Oh, God! inspired two sequels Oh, God! Volume II (in which the Almighty engages a precocious schoolgirl played by Louanne Sirota to spread the word) and Oh, God! You Devil—in which Burns played a dual role as God and the devil, with the soul of a would-be songwriter (played by Ted Wass) at stake.

Afterward films [edit]

Subsequently guest-starring on The Muppet Bear witness and Alice,^[13] Burns appeared in 1978's Sgt. Pepper'southward Lonely Hearts Society Band, the picture based on The Beatles' anthology of the same proper noun. In 1979, at the age of 83, Burns starred in two characteristic films, Just You and Me, Child and Going in Style. Burns remained agile in films and TV past his 90th birthday. One of his last films was 1988's 18 Over again!, based on his half-novelty, half-state music-based striking single, "I Wish I Was 18 Again". In this film, Burns played an 81-yr-old cocky-fabricated millionaire industrialist who switched bodies with his awkward, creative, 18-year-old grandson (played by Charlie Schlatter).

Burns also did regular nightclub stand-up acts in his later years, usually portraying himself as a carnal erstwhile human being. He always smoked a cigar onstage and reputedly timed his monologues by the amount the cigar had burned down. For this reason, he preferred cheap El Producto cigars equally the loosely wrapped tobacco burned longer. Burns once quipped "In my youth, they called me a rebel. When I was heart-aged, they chosen me eccentric. Now that I'm old, I'k doing the same matter I've always done and they're calling me senile."^{[ citation needed ]}

Arthur Marx estimated that Burns smoked around 300,000 cigars during his lifetime, starting at the age of 14. In his final years, he smoked no more than 4 a day and he never used cigarettes or marijuana, claiming "Look, I tin't get any more kicks than I'm getting. What can marijuana practise for me that show business hasn't done?" His final characteristic film role was the cameo part of Milt Lackey, a 100-year-old stand-up comedian, in the 1994 one-act mystery Radioland Murders.

Final years and death [edit]

Crypt of George Burns, in the Liberty Mausoleum, Forest Backyard Glendale

Burns was still actualization at major hotel/casinos in Las Vegas, Reno, and Lake Tahoe during the early 1980s. When Burns turned ninety in 1986, the urban center of Los Angeles renamed the northern end of Hamel Road "George Burns Road."^[14] City regulations prohibited naming a urban center street after a living person, but an exception was made for Burns.^{[ citation needed ]} In celebration of Burns's 99th birthday in Jan 1995, Los Angeles renamed the eastern end of Alden Bulldoze "Gracie Allen Bulldoze." Burns was nowadays at the unveiling ceremony (i of his last public appearances) where he quipped, "It'southward good to be here at the corner of Burns & Allen. At my age, it's good to be anywhere!"^[xiv] George Burns Road and Gracie Allen Drive cross only a few blocks due west of the Beverly Center mall in the heart of the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

Burns remained in skillful health for about of his life, in part thank you to a daily exercise regimen of swimming, walks, sit-ups, and push button-ups. He bought new Cadillacs every twelvemonth and collection until the historic period of 93. After that, Burns had chauffeurs drive him effectually. In his later on years, he likewise had difficulty reading fine print.

Burns suffered a head injury after falling in his bathtub in July 1994 and underwent surgery to remove fluid in his skull. Burns never fully recovered and his performing career came to an cease. In February 1995, Burns, in what would exist his final television appearance, was presented with the very first SAG Lifetime Achievement Accolade past the Screen Actors Club. In December of that year, a month before his 100th altogether, Burns was well plenty to attend a Christmas political party hosted by Frank Sinatra (who turned 80 that calendar month), where he reportedly defenseless the influenza, which weakened him farther. When Burns was 96, he had signed a lifetime contract with Caesars Palace in Las Vegas to perform stand up-upwardly one-act in that location, which included the guarantee of a bear witness on his centenary, January 20, 1996. When that day really came, however, he was too weak to evangelize the planned operation. He released a argument joking how he would love for his 100th altogether to have "a night with Sharon Rock."

On March 9, 1996, 49 days later his centenary, Burns died in his Beverly Hills home.^[15] His funeral was held three days afterwards at the Wee Kirk o' the Heather church in Forest Backyard Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale.^[15] As much equally he looked frontward to reaching the historic period of 100, Burns besides stated, nearly a year before he died, that he as well looked forward to expiry, saying that on the day he would die, he would be with Gracie once more in Heaven. Upon beingness interred with Gracie, the crypt's marker was changed from, "Grace Allen Burns—Dear Wife And Female parent (1902–1964)" to "Gracie Allen (1902–1964) & George Burns (1896–1996)—Together Once more". George had ever said that he wanted Gracie to have peak billing.

Legacy [edit]

George Burns has three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: a motion pictures star at 1639 Vine Street, a telly star at 6510 Hollywood Boulevard, and a live performance star at 6672 Hollywood Boulevard. The showtime two stars were placed during the initial installations of 1960, while the third star ceremony was held in 1984,^{[xvi] [17]} in the new category of live performance, or live theatre, established that year.^[18] Burns is too a fellow member of the Television Hall of Fame, where he and Gracie Allen were both inducted in 1988.

He is the discipline of Rupert Holmes's one-histrion play Say Goodnight Gracie.

Bibliography [edit]

Burns was a bestselling author who wrote ten books:

• Burns, George; Hobart Lindsay, Cynthia (1955). I Love Her, That'southward Why: An Autobiography. Simon and Schuster.
• Burns, George (1976). Living It Up; or, They Still Dearest Me in Altoona!. Putnam. ISBN978-0-399-11636-0.
• Burns, George (1980). The Tertiary Time Around. Putnam. ISBN978-0-399-12169-two.
• Burns, George (1983). How to Live to Be 100 – Or More: The Ultimate Nutrition, Sex and Do Book (At My Age, Sexual practice Gets 2nd Billing). Putnam. ISBN978-0-399-12939-1.
• Burns, George (1984). Dr. Burns' Prescription for Happiness:* *Buy Two Books and Phone call Me in the Morning . Putnam. ISBN0-399-12964-2.
• Burns, George (1985). Dear George: Advice and Answers from America'southward Leading Good on Everything from A to B . Putnam. ISBN0-399-13105-ane.
• Burns, George (1988). Gracie: A Dear Story. Putnam. ISBN978-0-399-13384-8.
• Burns, George; Fisher, David (1989). All My All-time Friends. Putnam. ISBN978-0-399-13483-8.
• Burns, George; Goldman, Hal (1991). Wisdom of the 90'due south. Putnam. ISBN0-399-13695-ix.
• Burns, George (1996). 100 Years, 100 Stories. Putnam. ISBN978-0-399-14179-9.

Filmography [edit]

Features

• The Big Broadcast (1932) equally Himself
• International House (1933) every bit Physician Burns
• College Sense of humor (1933) as Himself
• Six of a Kind (1934) as George Edward
• Nosotros're Not Dressing (1934) as Himself
• Many Happy Returns (1934) as Himself
• Dearest in Bloom (1935) equally Himself
• Here Comes Cookie (1935) as Himself
• The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935) as Himself
• The Big Circulate of 1937 (1936) as Mr. Platt
• Higher Vacation (1936) as George Hymen
• Winterset (1936)
• A Damsel in Distress (1937) as Himself
• College Swing (1938) as George Jonas
• Honolulu (1939) as Joe Duffy
• The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956) every bit the Narrator (voice)
• The Sunshine Boys (1975) every bit Al Lewis
• Oh, God! (1977) as God
• Movie Movie (1978) as Himself – Introductory Segments (uncredited)
• Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Gild Band (1978) equally Mr. Kite
• Just You lot and Me, Child (1979) equally Bill
• Going in Fashion (1979) as Joe
• Oh, God! Volume Two (1980) as God
• Ii of a Kind (1982) as Ross "Boppy" Minor
• Oh, God! Yous Devil (1984) as God / Harry O. Tophet
• xviii Once again! (1988) equally Jack Watson / David Watson
• A Century of Picture palace (1994) (documentary)
• Radioland Murders (1994) as Milt Lackey (last moving-picture show appearance)

Short subjects

• Lambchops (1929) as George the Young man
• Fit to Be Tied (1930) as a Tie Client
• Pulling a Bone (1931) every bit a Man with a Bone
• The Antique Store (1931) as Client
• One time Over, Light (1931) as a Barbershop Customer
• 100% Service (1931) as George
• Oh, My Operation (1932) as the New Patient
• The Babbling Book (1932) as George
• Your Hat (1932) as a Hat Salesman
• Let'due south Trip the light fantastic (1933) equally George, a Crewman
• Hollywood on Parade No. A-9 (1933) as Himself (uncredited)
• Walking the Baby (1933) equally George
• Screen Snapshots: Famous Fathers and Sons (1946) as Himself
• Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Grows Upwardly (1954)
• Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Beauty (1955) as Himself
• All About People (1967) as Narrator
• A Expect at the World of Soylent Greenish (1973) every bit Himself
• The Lion Roars Again (1975) as Himself

Discography [edit]

Albums [edit]

Year	Album	Chart positions		Label
		U.S. Country	U.South.
1973	George Burns Sings	—	—	Buddah
1975	An Evening with George Burns: Live at Shubert Theater	—	—	Pride
1980	I Wish I Was Xviii Once again	12	93	Mercury
	George Burns in Nashville	—	—
1982	Young at Heart	—	—
1992	Every bit Time Goes By			Curb

Singles [edit]

Year	Unmarried	Chart positions					Album
		U.Due south. Country	U.S.	CAN Country	CAN	Can Air conditioning
1980	"I Wish I Was Eighteen Once again"	fifteen	49	8	25	xix	I Wish I Was 18 Over again
	"The Arizona Whiz"	85	—	—	—	—
1981	"Willie, Won't You Sing a Song with Me"	66	—	—	—	—	George Burns in Nashville

Soundtracks [edit]

• 1978 – Sgt. Pepper's Lone Hearts Society Band (soundtrack)
• 1996 – Music From The Life: A New Musical (soundtrack)

Radio series [edit]

• The Robert Burns Panatella Show 1932–1933; CBS

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 Plan 1933–1934; CBS
• The Adventures of Gracie 1934–1935; CBS
• The Campbell's Tomato Juice Programme 1935–1937; CBS
• The Grape Basics Plan 1937–1938; NBC
• The Chesterfield Plan 1938–1939; CBS
• The Hinds Honey and Almond Cream Program 1939–1940; CBS

This series featured another wildly successful publicity stunt which had Gracie running for President of the United States.

• The Hormel Program 1940–1941; NBC

Advertised a brand new product called Spam;^[19] this prove featured musical numbers past jazz great Artie Shaw.

• The Swan Soap Show 1941–1945; NBC, CBS

This series featured a radical format change, in that George and Gracie played themselves as a married couple for the kickoff time, and the prove became a full-fledged domestic situation comedy. This was George's response to a marked drop in ratings under the former "Flirtation Act" format (as he later recalled, he finally realized "our jokes are also young for us").

• Maxwell House Coffee Time 1945–1949; NBC
• The Amm-i-Dent Toothpaste Show 1949–1950; CBS

TV series [edit]

• The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show 1950–1958; CBS

Broadcast live every other week for the get-go two seasons, 26 episodes per year. Starting in the third flavour, all episodes were filmed and circulate weekly, 40 episodes per year. A total of 291 episodes were created.

• The George Burns Show 1958–1959; NBC

An unsuccessful endeavour to go along the format of the Burns and Allen evidence without Gracie, the residuum of the cast intact.

• Wendy and Me 1964–1965; ABC

George plays narrator in this brusque-lived series, just as he had in the Burns and Allen show, but with far less on-screen time, as the focus is on a young couple played by Connie Stevens and Ron Harper. Stevens is, essentially, playing a version of Gracie's graphic symbol.

• George Burns Comedy Week 1985; CBS

Another short-lived series, a weekly comedy anthology program whose only connecting thread was George's presence as host. He does not appear in any of the actual storylines. He was 89 years onetime when the series was produced.

Come across too [edit]

• List of actors with Academy Accolade nominations

References [edit]

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Further reading [edit]

• Gottfried, Martin (1996). George Burns. Simon & Schuster.
• Young, Jordan R. (1999). The Laugh Crafters: Comedy Writing in Radio & Television receiver'due south Gilt Age. Beverly Hills: By Times Publishing. ISBN 0-940410-37-0.
• Burns, George (1989). All My Best Friends. Chiliad.B. Putnam'due south Sons

External links [edit]

• George Burns at IMDb
• George Burns at the Net Broadway Database
• George Burns at AllMovie
• Dwelling of George Burns & Gracie Allen-Radio Tv set Mirror-December 1940 (folio 17)
• Georgeburns.com at the Wayback Machine (archived July eleven, 2011)
• FBI Records: The Vault – George Burns at vault.fbi.gov

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