By movieMoll on May 28, 2009
These comic luminaries — Charles Ruggles, Mary Boyland, W.C. Fields, Alison Skipworth, Geroge Burns and Gracie Allen — add up to a winning hand in “Six of a Kind. Mild-mannered bank worker Pinky Whinney (Ruggles) and his wife Flora (Boland) plan a cross-country car trip to California. George and Gracie answer an ad placed by [...]
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By GroovyMovieGuy on May 28, 2009
Flora Whinney (Mary Boyland) advertises for a couple to share expenses on a cross-country automobile trip with her and her husband, Pinky Whinney (Charles Ruggles). They get George Edwards (George Burns) and Gracie De Vore (Gracie Allen), an unmarried couple, that put a kink into just about every mile of the journey.
Along the way, they [...]
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By movieMoll on May 27, 2009
Although “Love in Bloom” is labeled a comedy classic starring George Burns and Gracie Allen, it isn’t so much a comedy as a romantic musical. And despite top billing, George and Gracie play second bananas to romantic leads Dixie Lee as Violet and Joe Morrison as Larry. Violet runs away from her family’s carnival to [...]
Posted in Comedy, Index, Musical | Tagged Burns and Allen, Comedy, Dixie Lee, Musical |
By GroovyMovieGuy on May 27, 2009
There wasn’t much of George Burns and Gracie Allen in “Love in Bloom,” even though they received top billing. That’s unfortunate. Their signature banter is what makes a Burns and Allen movie entertaining.
Most of the film is spent with two lovebirds struggling to make it in New York. He’s a songwriter from the hinterlands who [...]
Posted in Comedy, Index, Musical | Tagged Burns and Allen, Comedy, Dixie Lee, Musical |
By movieMoll on May 25, 2009
Gracie Allen’s madcap comedy is fully unleashed in “Here Comes Cookie.”
Gracie’s millionaire father Harrison Allen (George Barbier) signs control of his fortune over to Gracie for two months in a ploy to convince her sister’s gold-digging suitor Ramon (Rafael Storm) that she and her father are penniless. In Gracie’s perpetually confused mind, she believes her [...]
Posted in Comedy, Index, Screwball | Tagged Burns and Allen, Comedy, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Screwball |
By GroovyMovieGuy on May 25, 2009
George Burns and Gracie Allen play a rich man’s lawyer and daughter who wind up in a tangled web of wackiness. Daddy leaves his New York mansion to spend some time at his childhood home and leaves his money — temporarily — to his daughter for a ruse. The rich man goes to the country [...]
Posted in Comedy, Index, Screwball | Tagged Burns and Allen, Comedy, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Screwball |
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