The matchmakers and hosts of the show included members of the Gracie family, and the participants were all legitimate practitioners of their styles.

* Substituted in 2004 for the ailing Frank Gorshin starring as George Burns in the national tour of the one-man show Say Goodnight, Gracie.

Other awards the show has garnered includes the Gracie Allen Award, PRISM Certificates & Commendations, and many more.

After a solo appearance by Gracie on Eddie Cantor's radio show, they were heard together on Rudy Vallee's The Fleischmann's Yeast Hour and on February 15, 1932 they became regulars on The Guy Lombardo Show on CBS.

One running gag of the TV show involved a closet full of hats belonging to various visitors to the Burns household ; guests would slip out the door unnoticed, leaving their hats behind, rather than face another round with Gracie.

Burns would always end the show with " Say goodnight, Gracie ," to which Allen simply replied " Goodnight.

Burns attempted to continue the show with the same supporting cast but without Gracie.

Holloway had many friends in show business and forged close friendships with people such as Leslie Henson, Gracie Fields, Maurice Chevalier, Laurence Olivier and Arthur Askey, who said of him, " He was the nicest man I ever knew.

For a comparison, George Burns and Gracie Allen were each making US $ 5, 000 per week during the year the Artie Shaw Orchestra provided the music for their radio show.

He also acted on the show as a love interest for Gracie Allen.

* On the Burns and Allen radio show, the book is often spoofed for its blatant references, usually with Gracie Allen commenting on it naively not knowing what it is all about.

* In the television show The Nanny, in Mr. Sheffield's office, Fran suggests Gracie attend the summer program at Miss Porter's.

In 1978, she opened the Gracie Fields Theatre, located next to Oulder Hill Community School, in her native Rochdale, performing a concert there recorded by the BBC to open the show.

She received a Prism Award as well as a Gracie Award for her interview show ' Revealed with Jules Asner '.

Their type of double act, known in show business as a " Dumb Dora " routine and epitomized by George Burns and Gracie Allen, had the dizzy woman saying silly things to her boyfriend or husband, and foil.

In the first season, Michael Des Barres played Jack Allen, half of the " Burns and Allen " ( a play on George Burns and Gracie Allen ) morning show.

When Seattle decided to try to put itself on the map with the futuristic Century 21 Exposition — the 1962 World's Fair — high culture was on the agenda, as well as popular entertainment along the lines of " Gracie Hansen's Paradise International " and " Les Poupees de Paris ," an adult-themed puppet show, both of which aspired more to a Gay Nineties naughtiness than to anything artistic.

The show featured King ( playing himself ), Floyd Favel Starr ( playing Jasper Friendly Bear ) and Edna Rain ( playing Gracie Heavy Hand ).

Mula had previously worked with Simpsons executive producer Sam Simon at another Gracie Films show.

The first ever show was compered by Tommy Trinder with Gracie Fields and Guy Mitchell being the night's big guests.

( 2008 ), Kodokan records show Gracie at the rank of 3rd dan, but Hill also noted that it was not unusual for Kodokan records to show a lower rank than that actually held by non-Japanese judo practitioners.

Livingstone's honest, wisecracking style proved a perfect lancing of Benny's on-air persona as a vain skinflint, but she was still prone to occasional flubbed lines on the show, and many became as legendary as the deliberately crafted " illogical logic " of Gracie Allen or the cleverly scripted malapropisms of Jane Ace, or Gertrude Berg as Molly in The Goldbergs.

Livingstone made few appearances on the television version – mostly in filmed episodes – and finally retired from show business after her close friend Gracie Allen did in 1958.

Stephen Sackur appears on Hardtalk, which is aired weeknights and at weekends, while Badawi, Gracie and Sarah Montague provide cover for him.

Gracie Allen died in 1964, while watching a Spencer Tracy movie on television.

The press reported she died holding her husband's hand, but in reality he was at their Anacapri home at the time, while Gracie was home with the housekeeper, Irena.

Likewise, current mayor Michael Bloomberg, who is divorced and has had girlfriends during his time in office, has never resided at Gracie Mansion, although he uses it for meetings and events and has used the Mansion as a place for official visitors to stay while in the city.

Gracie has a baby ( Hippety Hopper ) while practicing, and isn't able to stay with him very long.

Members of the Cesar Gracie Jiu-Jitsu camp, including Melendez, Nick and Nate Diaz, attacked Miller while he was held down on the canvas by other members of the Gracie camp.

Ronnie later made a guest appearance on the October 18, 1954 episode (" Gracie Gives Wedding in Payment of a Favor ") playing a character named " Jim Goodwin " prior to his debut as a regular, and was formally introduced to the audience at the episode's conclusion.

Since Ronnie played himself, Gracie closed the segment with a wisecrack: " The boy was produced by Burns and Allen.

Ronnie Burns, son of George Burns and Gracie Allen, made a guest appearance as " Wallace " on one episode.

* Ronnie Burns ( actor ), part-time actor best noted as the adopted son of George Burns and Gracie Allen

Ronald Jon " Ronnie " Burns ( July 9, 1935 – November 14, 2007 ) was a television actor primarily remembered as the adopted son of comedians George Burns and Gracie Allen.

According to George Burns, Ronnie had been the most sickly baby up for adoption from the agency, and Gracie chose him because she particularly felt he needed their help.

Returning to Tennessee, after a ticker tape parade and celebration, the people of Tennessee have purchased the bottomland farm he tried to get before the war and paid for a house to be built on the land where Gracie and Alvin will start their married life.

A case of particular interest was that of infants Rose and Gracie (" Mary " and " Jodie ") Attard, conjoined twins from Malta who were separated by court order in Great Britain over the religious objections of their parents, Michaelangelo and Rina Attard.

Gracie Allen and George Burns early in their comedy career

In later seasons, George and Gracie would often reappear after the end of the episode, eventually before a curtain decorated with the names and locations of the various theaters they headlined in their vaudeville days, performing one of their patented " double routines ," often discussing one of Gracie's fictional relatives (" Death Valley Allen ", the prospector ; " Florence Allen ", the nurse ; " Casey Allen ", the railroad man, and so on ).

In the 1930s and 1940s, Ealing produced many comedies with stars such as Gracie Fields, George Formby, Stanley Holloway and Will Hay, who had established their reputations in other spheres of entertainment.

In April 1995, following UFC 5 in Charlotte, North Carolina, Davie and Gracie sold their interest in the franchise to SEG and disbanded WOW Promotions.

George Mitsushio and Nisei staffer George Kazumaro " Buddy " Uno voiced their objections but Cousens prevailed, citing similarities to the popular Gracie Allen, Shirley Booth and Marian Driscoll ( the Molly of " Fibber McGee and Molly ").

Csupó was " asked Gracie Films if they could bring in their own producer oversee the animation production ," but declined, stating " they wanted to tell me how to run my business.

and its staff have received several journalism awards, including the Gracie Award from American Women in Radio & Television ; the George Polk Award for its 1998 radio documentary Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship, on the Chevron Corporation and the deaths of two Nigerian villagers protesting an oil spill ; and Goodman with Allan Nairn won Robert F. Kennedy Memorial's First Prize in International Radio for their 1993 report, Massacre: The Story of East Timor which involved first-hand coverage of genocide during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor.

* Gracie Mole, the daughter of his second wife Daisy ( née Flowers ), a smart, good-looking woman with whom he enjoyed great mutual attraction until their marriage broke down and she ran off with her rich employer.

In 1933 she set up the Gracie Fields Children's Home and Orphanage at Peacehaven in Sussex for children of those in the theatre profession who could not look after their children.

At various stages, acts such as George Burns and Gracie Allen ( who, unlike their incarnation on television and in films, operated with Burns as the comic ), Abbott and Costello, Flanagan and Allen, Gallagher and Shean, and Smith and Dale were all popular draws.

PRIDE, desperate to keep the Gracie family with them, accepted their demands.

Their on-air chemistry is similar to George Burns and Gracie Allen, but both are at each other's throats off the air, largely due to their impending divorce.

In their first encounter, a Judo vs. Brazilian Jujitsu match Yoshida claims he won by a gi choke however Gracie claimed he was fully conscious.

Csupó was " asked Gracie Films if they could bring in their own producer oversee the animation production ," but declined, stating " they wanted to tell me how to run my business.

Held in Charlotte, North Carolina, the competition claimed to have eight contenders representing eight different martial arts, but as Royce Gracie had previously stated, many of the UFC competitors were now abandoning their own arts to copy his grappling techniques.

It was quite notable at the time when Mark Kerr, Mario Sperry and Royler Gracie were dominating the ADCC each in their own weight classes.