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Gracie Allen
Age: 69 (passed away Aug. 27th, 1964)
Height: 5' 0"
Birth Place: San Francisco, California, USA
Born: Dec. 31st, 1969
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BIOGRAPHY: She and her husband-to-be became the comedy team of Burns & Allen in 1922 (she was the daft one). They remained spouses and performing partners until her passing.
TRIVIA:
- Suffered occasional migraines, which sometimes lasted for days; the only thing that seemed to help was a tight bandana, and bed rest in absolute quiet.
- When she went to work with 'George Burns' (qv), she was engaged to another man. It took four years for George to change her mind, but they went on to become one of the best remembered couples in Hollywood history.
- In 1949 she missed a radio show when she had a migraine so bad she couldn't get out of bed. She was replaced by 'Jane Wyman' (qv), who had won the Best Actress Oscar earlier that year. It turned out to be the only performance she missed in over 35 years of performing with 'George Burns' (qv).
- The words "Together Again" are engraved on her and 'George Burns' (qv)' crypt at the Freedom Mausoleum at Forest Lawn cemetery in Glendale, CA. This inscription replaced the previous one, "Good Night, Gracie,which appeared on the crypt prior to Geoge's death. She is interred to the left of him as you view the crypt, not above him as has been previously reported, along with the explanation that George "wanted her to have top billing".
- Most people did not know when she was born, as her birth certificate was lost during the California earthquake in 1906, and she was usually evasive about her age. Her family was even forced to guess her birth date for her death certificate, settling on 1902. Her true age would not be revealed until 1972, when the 1900 Census became public, and gave her actual birth year as 1895.
- Pictured with husband 'George Burns' (qv) on a 44¢ USA commemorative postage stamp, issued 11 August 2009, in the Early TV Memories issue honoring _"The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show" (1950)_ (qv).
- She and 'George Burns' (qv) have two adopted children, Sandra Jean and Ronald John ('Ronnie Burns (I)' (qv)).
- In 1922 she and 'George Burns' (qv) made their first performance at the Hill Street Theatre in Newark, NJ, where they were paid $5 per day. George saw that the audience not only found Gracie's character funny but they fell in love with her, and he did, too. He immediately changed the act to give her all the funny lines and played her straight man. They became a hit.
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