http://filmweviews.com We like movies! Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:54:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://filmweviews.com/moviemoll/six-of-a-kind-2/ 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 ... http://filmweviews.com/groovymovieguy/six-of-a-kind/ 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 ... http://filmweviews.com/moviemoll/love-in-bloom-2/ 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 ... http://filmweviews.com/groovymovieguy/love-in-bloom/ 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 ... http://filmweviews.com/moviemoll/here-comes-cookie-2/ 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 ... http://filmweviews.com/groovymovieguy/here-comes-cookie/