Editing Burns and Allen (section)

{{Short description|American comedic duo}}
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| image= Burns allen 1952.JPG
| name = Burns and Allen
| nationality= American
| medium = {{bulleted|vaudeville|radio|television|film}}
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| subject =
| past_members = [[George Burns]]<br>[[Gracie Allen]]
| notable_works = The Burns and Allen Show (radio), ''[[The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show]]'' (TV)
}}

'''Burns and Allen''' were an American [[double act|comedy duo]] consisting of [[George Burns]] and his wife, [[Gracie Allen]]. They worked together as a successful comedy team that entertained [[vaudeville]], film, radio, and television audiences for over forty years.

The duo met in 1922 and married in 1926. Burns played the [[straight man]] and Allen played a silly, addle-headed woman whose convoluted logic Burns was often ill-equipped to challenge. The duo starred in a number of films, including ''[[Lambchops (film)|Lambchops]]'' (1929), ''[[The Big Broadcast]]'' (1932) and [[The Big Broadcast of 1936|two]] [[The Big Broadcast of 1937|sequels]] in 1935 and 1936, and ''[[A Damsel in Distress (1937 film)|A Damsel in Distress]]'' (1937). Their 30-minute radio show debuted in September 1934 as ''The Adventures of Gracie'', whose title changed to ''The Burns and Allen Show'' in 1936; the series ran, moving back and forth between [[NBC]] and [[CBS]], until May 1950. After their radio show's cancellation, Burns and Allen reemerged on television with [[The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show|a popular]] [[situation comedy]], which ran from 1950 to 1958.

Burns and Allen's radio show was inducted into the [[National Radio Hall of Fame]] in 1994. Their TV series received a total of 11 [[Primetime Emmy Award]] nominations, and produced what ''[[TV Guide]]'' ranked No. 56 on its 1997 list of the [[TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All-Time|100 greatest episodes of all time]]. They were inducted into the [[Television Hall of Fame]] in 1988.