Burns and Allen in Sixty-Forty -- June 23, 2024

Oakland Tribune, 01-June-1923

Future stars of screen, radio and television, George Burns and Gracie Allen, played in vaudeville at Oakland's Orpheum Theater. Movie star Elliott Dexter headed the bill. 

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George Burns 125 -- January 20, 2021

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George Burns, partner in life, in vaudeville, in movies, on radio and on television of Gracie Allen, was born 125 years ago today, on 20-January-1896. He lived and worked for an extraordinarily long time, passing on in 1996. 

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Gracie Allen, 125 -- July 26, 2020

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Gracie Allen, partner in life, in vaudeville, in movies, on radio and on television of George Burns, was born 125 years ago today in San Francisco. Some sources say she was born in other years, but all the records were destroyed by the Earthquake and Fire in 1906.  She lived in the Richmond District, where I grew up, and attended grammar school and high school at Star of the Sea.

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