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Blanche Morton's long-suffering husband, Harry, was played by four actors over the show's eight-year run; the last, Larry Keating, was introduced on the October 5, 1953 fourth-season premiere when George Burns entered the set and halted a scene of an angered Blanche preparing to hit Harry with a book. Burns introduced Keating to Benaderet and ...
Bea Benaderet – Blanche Morton; 292 episodes (1950–58). Benaderet had also played Blanche on the radio version of the show. She was the only actor besides George and Gracie who appeared in all episodes. 25 episodes (1958–59) of The George Burns Show, also as Blanche Morton
Bea Benaderet carried over from the Burns and Allen radio show, portraying neighbor Blanche Morton, but over the course of the series, four different actors played her husband. The character's first name was "Harry", the same first name as the real-life announcer Harry Von Zell, requiring the writers to craft dialogue that would distinguish the ...
Bea Benaderet carried over from the radio show, portraying neighbor Blanche Morton. Her husband Harry Morton was first portrayed by Hal March (October–December 1950), and then by John Brown (January–June 1951), and after that, Fred Clark, until 1953 when the role was assumed by Larry Keating.
Blanche's husband Harry Morton (Larry Keating) was George's accountant. Also present were Harry von Zell , Ronnie Burns , and Judi Meredith , all playing themselves. Meredith had appeared regularly as Ronnie's girlfriend Bonnie Sue MacAfee on the Burns and Allen show in 1957 and 1958; here she played essentially the same role but as herself.
CBS refused Pepper on the grounds she had a serious drinking problem, [9] and Benaderet was already playing Blanche Morton on The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show. [10] Ultimately, the 42-year-old Vance won the role on the new television program, which debuted October 15, 1951, on CBS. Vance's Ethel Mertz character was the landlady of a New ...
Blanche Morton The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show: CBS Ruth Gilbert: Various Characters The Milton Berle Show: NBC: Marion Lorne: Mrs. Gurney Mister Peepers: Audrey Meadows: Alice Kramden The Jackie Gleason Show: CBS Best Supporting Actress in a Regular Series 1955 [note 1] Audrey Meadows: Alice Kramden: The Jackie Gleason Show: CBS: Bea ...
Brighton Beach Memoirs had a pre-Broadway engagement at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles on December 10, 1982, and following an additional pre-Broadway engagement at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco, [8] [better source needed] the play premiered on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre [9] on March 27, 1983 and transferred to the 46th Street Theatre, where it closed on May 11, 1986 after 1,299 ...