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1. Gracie Allen -- George Burns
   Gracie Allen (1906-1964), wife of comedian and actor George Burns, was half of one of America's most popular comedy couples. They began their careers on the vaudeville stage, then transitioned to radio, movies, and television. Allen was known as a "dizzy dame," whose "illogical logic" and high nasal voice entertained the public for more than four decades.
2. George Burns -- Gracie Allen
   Comedian and actor George Burns (1896-1996) is a show business legend. When he died at the age of 100 in 1996, he had spent 90 years as a comic entertainer, making numerous television and film appearances and earning an enduring popularity with his obligatory-cigar-in-hand comedy routines.In his ninety years in show business, George Burns had time for three careers. His first two decades were spent as a small-time vaudeville performer. Later, as part of a comedy duo with his wife, Gracie Allen, he achieved wide popularity on the stage, radio, television, and in films.
3. George Burns
   George Burns, born Nathan Birnbaum (January 20, 1896 – March 9, 1996), was an American comedian and actor. His career spanned vaudeville, film, radio, and television, with and without his equally legendary wife, Gracie Allen. His arched eyebrow and cigar smoke punctuation became familiar trademarks for over three quarters of a century. Enjoying a remarkable career resurrection that began at age 79, and ended shortly before his death at age 100, George Burns was better known in the last two decades of his life than at any other time in his life and career.
4. Gracie Allen -- George Allen
   When Burns first met the 17-year-old daughter of Edward Allen, a San Francisco song-and-dance man, George and Gracie were both aspiring vaudevillians. Glass fragments from an exploding hurricane lamp had left the Irish lass with one eye that appeared green and the other blue; another childhood accident had scalded and permanently scarred her left arm. But Burns, the former Nathan Birnbaum, a New York City clothier's son who was divorced and 10 years her senior, saw a partnership. "She could sing and she could dance and she was willing to work cheap," he wrote. "Who cared how old she was?"
5. George Burns -- Comedy
   BURBANK, Calif., Oct. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Fred S. Fox, a veteran comedy writer for some of Hollywood's greatest legends, Bob Hope, George Burns, Lucille Ball, Red Skelton, Jackie Gleason and Jerry Lewis, has died at the age of 90. A native of St. Louis, he graduated from UC Berkeley in 1938 and remained a resident of California until his death in Encino on October 23 from pneumonia.
6. George Carlin -- Jack Burns
   In 1959, Carlin teamed up with Texas newscaster, Jack Burns. The pair collaborated on a morning radio show in Fort Worth before relocating to Hollywood, where they attracted the attention of the legendary Lenny Bruce. Bruce helped Burns and Carlin secure appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Burns and Carlin eventually split up, and over the next few years Carlin continued to make numerous appearances on The Tonight Show, as well as, The Merv Griffin Show.
7. Gracie Allen
   Gracie Allen was born Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen in San Francisco, California to parents George and Margaret (Darragh) Allen, into an Irish Catholic show-business family. She was educated at the Star of the Sea Convent School. She was a gifted dancer, and began performing with her three sisters as The Four Colleens. She became a vaudeville performer with her sister Bessie in 1909. She teamed up with George Burns in 1922, and married him in 1926, a controversial matter at the time, as Burns was a Jew and Allen was Catholic.
8. Allen Iverson
   When Allen Iverson was a boy he did not like playing basketball. He would not go to practice. Allen Iverson's mother made him go to practice despite the fact that he hated basketball. To encourage her son to play and practice, Allen's mother brought him a pair on Air Jordan's. After he received the shoes he began going to practice. He became intrigued by the game.
9. Joan Allen
   For well over 30 years Joan Allen has been supplying detectors mail order throughout the UK, Europe and the World. Many models are manufactured in the USA where, at first sight, prices may appear lower. Beware... of hidden costs: freight, import duty, value added tax, etc, etc. Also, if you purchase your detector directly from the USA, your warranty will probably not be transferrable: you may find that the time and expense of returning a faulty unit to the USA may be prohibitive. Buy with confidence from Joan Allen - Europe's foremost metal detector importer, distributor, warranty and service centre. On reflection you'll find there's no better value!
10. Irwin Allen
    Based on the classic Johann David Wyss novel, Swiss Family Robinson was Irwin Allen's second-to-last television series (Code Red in 1981 was his last). Unlike the successful science-fiction shows he produced in the 1960s (Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea), Swiss Family Robinson was poorly recieved by viewers and barely lasted a season. Mostly forgotten today, it is occasionally mentioned in relation to Helen Hunt, as one of her early television roles.

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