Gracie Allen

format_quote Gracie isn't really crazy. She makes sense in an illogical sort of way. She's off-center. Not quite right really, but nearly right.

stars  Although she was in love with another man when they first met, George Burns carried a ring in his pocket until she finally agreed to marry him.

stars  Had a driver's license, issued under her married name, Grace Burns. Was once pulled over by a policeman, who thought the license was fake because it didn't give her last name as Allen.

stars  In the early 1940s, during the height of their popularity, George Burns had a brief extramarital affair. He apologized to Gracie by giving her a new centerpiece for the dining room table, and nothing more was said about it. However, years later Gracie was shopping with a friend one day and said, "You know, I wish George would cheat again. I need a new centerpiece".

stars  Her idol and first childhood crush was Charles Chaplin.

stars  In 1949 she missed a radio show when she had a migraine so bad she couldn't get out of bed. She was replaced by Jane Wyman, who had won the Best Actress Oscar earlier that year. It turned out to be the only performance she missed in over 35 years of performing with George Burns.