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This radio dramatization of the classic movie originally aired on February 15, 1943.

George and Gracie have just returned from a tour of army camps. There's bad news for Frankie, George is going to be a crooner.

Comedy's first couple were busy hosts. As friends and neighbors of Hollywood's greats, you never knew who'd turn up next for a dose of Gracie's nonsense and a song or two from George. This collection of hilarious half-hour visits to the Burns house features a galaxy of famous guests! Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, Veronica Lake, Fred Astaire, Alan Ladd, Jack Benny, Harpo Marx, Gregory Peck, Mickey Rooney, Ronald Reagan, and more stop by to exchange gibes with George, be baffled by Gracie, and delight audiences with their playful side.

After having their tea leaves read by a fortune teller, George thinks Gracie is leaving him for guest Herbert Marshall.

George tries to get elected to the school board. George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bill Goodwin, Jimmy Cash.

MGM wants Gracie to appear in the new movie to be made about "Mr. and Mrs. North." Gracie's not interested.

George and Gracie have made the finals in the contest for "Hollywood's Ideal Married Couple."

Gracie and her neighbor, Blanche Morton, decide to form a Housewives Guild.

George is worried about their neighbor, Joe Bagley. Joe sells his television set to Gracie, George thinks Joe is going to replace him in the act with Gracie.

Meet the people who live in the Burns House—and their many famous friends! George and Gracie are back with laugh-a-minute predicaments, which are both helped and hindered by celebrity guests Marlene Dietrich, Eddie Cantor, Jane Wyman, Kay Kyser, Robert Montgomery, and more!

When real-life husband and wife George Burns and Gracie Allen worked together in vaudeville, George was the comic and his wife Gracie had the straight lines. They switched their roles upon discovering that Gracie’s delivery got a bigger laugh than George’s punch lines. The duo became a big hit on vaudeville and in films so when radio beckoned, they delivered. Their first regular radio work were as supporting players on CBS’s The Guy Lombardo Show in the 1930s. When Lombardo switched to NBC, George and Gracie took over the show. Enjoy sixteen of their greatest radio broadcasts.