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George met Gracie when he was working in Vauldville in the 1920's, When they first performed together in vaudeville, George Burns was the comic and his wife Gracie Allen had the straight lines. Burns switched their roles upon discovering that his wife's delivery got a bigger laugh than his punchlines. As the duo honed GracieÕs innocent, slightly daffy stage persona, they found the formula that would serve them throughout their careers.

Burns & Allen were touring England in 1929 when they made their first radio appearance on the BBC. Burns & Allen returned to America and joined The Guy Lombardo Show in 1932. By 1934, the comedy had become the main attraction, and the show was re-titled The Adventures of Gracie. The highlight of their early radio careers was Gracie's search for her long lost brother in which she appeared in numerous other comedy and variety programs as well as daytime serial, interrupting the proceedings as she looked for him.

In 1936 it became The Burns and Allen Show and continued through 1950 when it became a television program that ran for eight years.