About Gracie Allen
Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen was an American vaudevillian, singer, actress, and comedian who became internationally famous as the zany partner and comic foil of husband George Burns, her straight man, appearing with him on radio, television and film as the duo Burns and Allen. She graduated from Star of the Sea Convent School, for girls, in 1914, and during that time became a talented dancer. "George Allen was a song and dance man who abandoned his family when Gracie was about five years old. Her husband George Burns professed not to know exactly how old she was, though it was presumably he who provided the date of July 26, 1902 that appears on her death record.
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