The Silver Screen

The Pot Calling the Kettle Black Burns and Allen starred with many big names of their time. One was WC Fields who played with the couple in such films as Six of a Kind and International House (right).

'Nough Said Not only were George and Gracie great at the jokes and puns, but early in their career they were into physical comedy. Here is a single frame example of what they were able, and willing to do, for their art.

On the College Swing In 1938 George and Gracie starred in a film called College Swing. Gracie is an adult who is still struggling through college, and the payoff, apart from the degree, is a large inheritance and the college itself! What would Gracie do with an institution of higher learning?

Burns and Allen also starred with Fred Astaire in A Damsel in Distress. Here they are doing a dance that the couple actually taught to the master of dance.

A promotional photo for one of their films: Honolulu. Other stars included Elanor Powell.

Gracie turns detective in a movie based on a dective novel written by S. S. Van Dine.