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A half-hour TV series broadcast October 12, 1950 – September 22, 1958, on CBS, The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show was initially staged live and broadcast every other Thursday at 8 pm ET. In fall 1952, it became a weekly series filmed on the West Coast. From March 1953 through September 1958, The Burns and Allen Show aired Mondays at 8 pm ET.
After briefly discussing reaction to the first Burns and Allen telecast, George steps aside as Gracie visits an art museum. When Gracie learns how much some of the artwork costs, she immediately decides that she will become a painter. Choreographer Bob Fosse and his dance partner/wife Mary Ann Niles perform. George and Gracie then perform a ...
The show was based on the Burns and Allen radio show (1929–50), which first ran for three years on the BBC radio network, before airing in the United States on CBS and NBC. [1] The radio show itself was based on the characters George Burns and Gracie Allen had developed in vaudeville. Many of the early television episodes were a re-working of ...
Burns and Allen on the vaudeville circuit in 1924. Burns and Allen met in 1922 and first performed together at the Hill Street Theatre in Newark, New Jersey, continued in small town vaudeville theaters, married in Cleveland on January 7, 1926, and moved up a notch when they signed with the Keith-Albee-Orpheum circuit in 1927.
George Burns. George Burns was born Nathan Birnbaum (Yiddish: נתן בירנבוים) 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 Lippa, Jewish immigrants who had come to the United States from Ropczyce, [2] Galicia, now Poland. [3]
The George Burns Show is a comedy television program that aired on NBC for one season ().The program was sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive. [citation needed]The George Burns Show immediately followed the eight-season run of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, which had aired on CBS, and shared continuity with the earlier series.
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In 1945, Goodwin was the "featured comedian" as a regular on The Frank Sinatra Show and The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show. [5] In 1947, he had his own program, [6] The Bill Goodwin Show, a situation comedy, also known as Leave It to Bill, which ran from April 26 – December 13, 1947. [7] He was the announcer for the Blondie radio program. [8]