“Yes, go ahead, be funny”

When George Burns first teamed up with Gracie Allen, he wanted to be the comic while she played the straight part. They soon found they got more laughs the other way around. Their first film, Lambchops (now watchable online) adapts one of their vaudeville routines in a fourth-wall-breaking short that’s now in the National Film Registry. The couple enjoyed a long career in film, radio, and TV. With this film, they’ll be together again in the public domain in 14 days.

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