This film was such a hit that for years when George and Gracie toured live and started any routine other than this one, the audience would roar “LAMBCHOPS!”
This is staggering! I love these two. It was truly sad at my boyhood home when Gracie passed away too soon in ‘64. Gracie stopped performing in 1958, she dealt with heart issues, but she had a legendary career!
Smoking cigars since he was 11. I remember going with my grandad to the doctor and the doctor asked him if he smoked and he said he did, then he asked when did you start? My grandad said when I started work. When was that? When I was 11.
Their first appearnce on film, orginally released in October 1929. According to George, his agent called him one day in the late summer of '29, and said the studio wanted he and Gracie to fill in for Fred Allen (at virtually the last minute) at the Brooklyn Vitaphone studio. The set was a living room, and George had to figure out how to introduce them on screen. He got the idea of having he and Gracie enter, "looking for something"- until George "noticed" the audience watching them, telling Gracie, "There they are!", and went right into their routine. They earned $1700 for this short. Supposedly, George wasn't wearing his toupee, and kept his hat on during the entire performance.
He stated, in "Gracie: A Love Story", *"One of us besides Gracie had been wearing a toupee since that person was twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, and the other person had never said a word about it."*
He looks like he was in his 20s. It’s weird to remember that in the 60s-80s, the people who invented the film industry were still alive. It feels like ancient history in 2024.
@@Pamela-pm9hn there is a thumbs up option it is to the left of the thumbs down option. You will see the number of likes displayed next to it. Thanks for the sub.
I have this on my DVR from 11:45pm on 4/1. Looks like they didn’t do a good job of programming because this video aired during the block of the previous title they had programmed that night. Sometimes they don’t do a good job mapping the programming blocks when they’re showing a lot of short films like this one
