this is the original life and sad ending channel make sure to watch until the end of this episode
there will be info on finding a very special treasure gracie allen was born on july 26 1895
in san francisco california her birth name was grace ethel cecile rosalie allen she was
performing on stage by the age of three and was given her first job on the radio by eddie cantor
she graduated from the star of c convent school in 1914 gracie with her three sisters performed
irish folk dances as the four colleen's during her time as a vaudeville performer she met george
burns in 1922 and they formed a comedy duo and were married in 1926 on stage at the palace
theater in cleveland their original act began with gracie being the straight man and george burns
delivering the punchlines when george noticed that gracie was getting laughs with the straight lines
instead of his punch lines he switched roles people fell in love with allen's innocent and
clueless character it wasn't long till they were headlining in major vaudeville theaters
burns once said their success was all due to gracie all i had to do was say gracie how's your
brother and she talked for 38 years and sometimes i didn't even have to say gracie has your brother
by the 1930s burns and allen were big hits on the radio burns and allen also appeared
in the movies such as international house with wc fields in 1933 six of a kind in 1934 and with
fred astaire in a damsel in distress in 1937. in the 1930s burns and allen adopted two children
their names were sander jean and ronald john in 1950 they brought their radio show to television
ronnie their son later joined the cast of the burns and allen television show playing their son
sandy also made occasional appearances playing a waitress secretary or telephone operator she
later became a teacher at the end of each show burns would say to gracie say good night gracie
and she would simply reply good night there is a myth that she would reply good night gracie
the fact is she never said that this confusion was believed to have been
caused by rowan and martin's laughing dan rowan would say to dick martin say goodnight dick
and martin would reply good night dick this seemed like something gracie allen would have said
the bit was actually used before laugh-in on the beverly hillbillies when judd said
to jethro say goodnight jethro and jethro replied goodnight jethro it turns out that paul henning
the creator of the beverly hill bullies was also head writer on the burns and allen show gracie
allen suffered with heart disease for many years and wanted to retire from show business however
george was reluctant to end their tv show gracie finally convinced him to let her retire in 1958
sadly gracie allen died of a heart attack in hollywood california on august 27 1964.
she was only 62 years old she was interred at the freedom mausoleum in the sanctuary of heritage at
forest lawn memorial park in glendale california george joined her 32 years later in 1996
he was only 100 years old allen by census records had been born in 1895 but many times in different
biographies through the years she claimed that she was born in 1902 1904 1906 but in
this case we're going to give gracie the benefit of the doubt and go by our marker which says 1902
okay near mount gretna if you go pinch road
you'll see that there's a parking area for the governor dick observation tower hike and we're
going to show you where we're going to hide your prize if you're the first one here to retrieve it
in the parking lot area area of the governor deck
so we'll see how this goes and if you come out here and the prize is gone it's still a nice place
to go on a day maybe one a little more sunnier than this but
maybe you want to go for a hike
and again this is called pinch road
it's in lebanon county pennsylvania near the little town of mount gretna
and we're not going to put it behind the porta potty
i don't think and this is what your prize is going to be it's a an autographed card index card here
dated april 17th it looks like 1978 signed by george burns and if you're the first one here
you can pick it up if you're not the first one here then maybe better luck next time
so and right now the current time is about 3 30 on sunday afternoon and this is june 13th
so i'm not sure when you might have a chance to come out here if you
even try at all but here's your free prize it's sort of a treasure hunt thanks for watching
okay this is the area where we're going to put your prize
and we're just trying to think of a good place to put it here
and let's see
it's under that
there's your prize