GEORGE BURNS GRACIE ALLEN 16x20 RARE EARLY PHOTO LARGE PRINT ALL SIZES AVAILABLE

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This listing is for a 16x20 size picture of George Burns and Gracie Allen.
We have larger sizes available too. If you want this photo in a size larger than 16x20, please purchase this 16x20 and add your size request in the comments with your payment. We will invoice you for the difference in price. You can see the prices below. If you have any questions, please ask.
16x20 .95
20x25 .95
24x30 .95
28x35 9.95
32x40 9.95
36x45 9.95
40x50 9.95
44x55 9.95
48x60 9.95
George Burns, born Nathan Birnbaum, (January 20, 1896 – March 9, 1996), was an American comedian and actor, arguably the greatest straight man of 20th Century American comedy. His virtuosity in that role actually refined him in his late life renaissance as a standup punch-liner in his own right: his long-practised discipline as a straight man meant that, as a punch-liner, he probably knew by long-developed second nature what most comics spend years barely mastering in terms of prodding laughs with subtlety.
His career spanned vaudeville, film, radio, and television, with and without his equally legendary wife, Gracie Allen. His arched eyebrow (as effective at drawing laughs as best friend Jack Benny's exasperated pregnant pause) and cigar smoke punctuation (he used it as a pregnant pause prop, even though cigar smoking was as second-nature to him as to Groucho Marx) became familiar trademarks for over three-quarters of a century. But even more remarkable was his resurrection at an age when most men are either retired or deceased. Beginning at age 79, and ending with his passing at age 100, George Burns was better known than he was at any other time in his life and career.
Gracie Allen (July 26, 18951 – August 27, 1964) was an American comedienne who became internationally famous as the zany partner of husband George Burns. Burns himself phrased it perfectly, in a gag that got laughs no matter how often he repeated it for the rest of his life: "One day, the audience realised I had a terrific talent. They were right. I did have a terrific talent. And I was married to her for 38 years."
The Burns drollery and the Allen malaprops and definitional contortions made for classically understated comic dialogue. It also made for very few true imitations, because the team's style was itself inimitable. Goodman Ace and his wife Jane, in their own legendary radio show, Easy Aces, approached it differently, with Jane Ace's classic word mangling a distinct contrast to Allen's "logically illogical" style. But Gracie was no scatterbrain. In fact, she was intelligent, highly sensitive, and a thoroughgoing professional, who retired at last for one reason only: her health. By the time she did, however, she was half a national institution; the signature Burns & Allen signoff (George: "Say good night, Gracie", Gracie: "Good night") became part of their country's vernacular.
Popular legend has it that Gracie would say, "Good night, Gracie." However, according to her husband, and a review of recordings of their television show, that never happened.
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