Gracie Allen
Overview
Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen (July 26, 1895 – August 27, 1964), known as Gracie Allen, was an American comedian
Comedian
A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...

 who became internationally famous as the zany partner and comic foil of husband George Burns
George Burns
George Burns , born Nathan Birnbaum, was an American comedian, actor, and writer.He was one of the few entertainers whose career successfully spanned vaudeville, film, radio, television and movies, with and without his wife, Gracie Allen. His arched eyebrow and cigar smoke punctuation became...

. For contributions to the television industry, Gracie Allen was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Hollywood Walk of Fame
The Hollywood Walk of Fame consists of more than 2,400 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along fifteen blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, California...

 at 6672 Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood Boulevard
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Gracie Allen was born in San Francisco, California
California
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, to George Allen and Molly Darragh, who were of Irish Catholic
Irish Catholic
Irish Catholic is a term used to describe people who are both Roman Catholic and Irish .Note: the term is not used to describe a variant of Catholicism. More particularly, it is not a separate creed or sect in the sense that "Anglo-Catholic", "Old Catholic", "Eastern Orthodox Catholic" might be...

 extraction.
Quotations

I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best.

I was so surprised at being born that I didn't speak for a year and a half.

I'll bet you say that to all the girls!

Gracie's typical reply to an insult she has mistaken for a compliment. Most often used in their vaudeville routines, early movie shorts, films and radio shows.

Never place a period where God has placed a comma.

Slogan for the United Church of Christ, whose program is entitled, "God Is Still Speaking,".

There's so much good in the worst of us, and so many of the worst of us get the best of us, that the rest of us aren't even worth talking about.

You're the only boy who ever made me cry, and I decided that if you could make me cry, I must really love you.

Accepting George Burns proposal of marriage, after a long period of reluctance, and dismissal of his overtures.

 
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