For all the talk on "Burns and Allen" about the weekly show they put on, we rarely see them actually perform. This is one of the very few times they did a musical number together. And aren't they charming?
When she is not vamping for the camera, for laughs, she is quite pretty. They were both song & dance vaudevillians long before their radio & TV programs.
This was from an episode broadcast in November of 1955. "I Love Her, That's Why" is the name of a book George had written about Gracie and it is heavily plugged in several episodes. The book portrays the real Gracie Allen as being like the fictional Gracie character. George and Gracie certainly get my vote for Cutest Show Business Couple EVER!
I'm only 56 years old so I have only been able to see The Burns and Allen Show in the last few years thanks to Antenna TV. I really enjoyed this episode tonight. It was the first time I have ever seen George really sing, I have only seen him where he was singing fast. I was also surprised to see and hear Gracie sing. This video is going on my play and watch lists because I will definitely want to hear and see this again and again!
November 7, 1955, to be exact...around the time the book was published. As Jack Benny warned readers in his forward to the book, "George never tells the same story twice." And he didn't- in his later books, he often retold the same stories, with slight or major variations [even in "Gracie: A Love Story", published in 1988]. Mack Gordon did indeed write the song that subtly "plugged" George's book here. George and Gracie often did a "song and dance" at the end of their routines in vaudeville...
I love this so much - you can see and feel just the overwhelming steady love they had for each other. Every second... in every look... in every touch. #Perfection #NowThatIsTrueLove
In many ways, George Burns was the ideal husband. By that I mean: As long as George was alive, Gracie was alive. George spoke of his beloved partner and wife generously all of his life, with humor and, of course -- always with grace.
If I remember correctly the episode was called things get musical (it was on not to long ago), but the episode was on how George's new book [ I Love Her, That's Why] was going to be a possible musical.
