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1. Lambchops (1929)
8 min | Short, Comedy, Musical
After briefly struggling to find the audience behind the camera, George and Gracie bring their vaudeville act to the big screen. Throughout their exchange, Gracie's goal is to convince George that she's smart, not dizzy.
Director: Murray Roth | Stars: George Burns, Gracie Allen
Votes: 522
2. Fit to Be Tied (1930)
Not Rated | 10 min | Comedy, Short
George Burns, seeking a tie, is frustrated by department store staff.
Director: Ray Cozine | Stars: George Burns, Gracie Allen, William Browning, Dudley Clayton
Votes: 96
3. Pulling a Bone (1931)
Not Rated | 10 min | Comedy, Short
At a department store, George seeks help in getting a bone out of his throat. No one will help him; lunch counter girl Gracie wants to talk about airplanes.
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: George Burns, Gracie Allen, William Browning, Dorothy Adams
Votes: 69
4. The Antique Shop (1931)
Not Rated | 9 min | Comedy, Short
George is distracted from buying a statue by scatterbrained Gracie.
Director: Ray Cozine | Stars: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Chester Clute, Herschel Mayall
Votes: 82
5. Once Over, Light (1931)
Not Rated | 10 min | Comedy, Short
At the barber shop, George has trouble with a hair tonic salesman and an eccentric customer; then he finds that Gracie is his manicurist.
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: George Burns, Gracie Allen, June Clayworth, Chester Clute
Votes: 53
6. 100% Service (1931)
Not Rated | 11 min | Comedy, Short
George registers at the Jefferson Hotel; after the desk clerk gives him the runaround, he meets Gracie at the cigar counter.
Director: Ray Cozine | Stars: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Chester Clute
Votes: 133
7. Oh, My Operation (1931)
Not Rated | 10 min | Short, Comedy
George is taken to the hospital in mistake for an accident victim. After his needless operation, he meets Nurse Gracie, who adds insanity to injury.
Director: Ray Cozine | Stars: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Chester Clute
Votes: 72
8. The Big Broadcast (1932)
Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A radio-singer, Bing Hornsby, is none-too-concerned about his job, and an affair with Mona leads to his dismissal. When it appears Hornsby is getting and paying a lot of attention to his ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Stuart Erwin, Bing Crosby, Leila Hyams, George Burns
Votes: 285
9. Your Hat (1932)
Not Rated | 10 min | Comedy, Short
George, working in a hat shop, gets tricky with the customers. Then Gracie comes in and drives him batty.
Director: Aubrey Scotto | Stars: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Chester Clute, Barton MacLane
Votes: 80
10. Let's Dance (1933)
11 min | Comedy, Short
Sailor George and his pals visit the Roseland Dance Hall, where funny things happen between conversations with dizzy hostess Gracie.
Director: Aubrey Scotto | Stars: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Barton MacLane
Votes: 33
11. Walking the Baby (1933)
Not Rated | 10 min | Comedy, Short
Street-sweeper George flirts with a pretty, but dizzy, nursemaid in the park. Incorporates Burns & Allen's vaudeville "dizzy" routine.
Director: Aubrey Scotto | Stars: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Chester Clute
Votes: 70
12. International House (1933)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy
Assorted wacky characters converge on a Chinese hotel to bid on a new invention: television.
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: W.C. Fields, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Rudy Vallee, Stuart Erwin
Votes: 1,464
13. College Humor (1933)
Passed | 80 min | Action, Comedy, Music
A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Bing Crosby, Jack Oakie, Richard Arlen, Mary Carlisle
Votes: 241
14. Six of a Kind (1934)
Passed | 62 min | Comedy
When a respectable middle-class couple take a cross-country trip by auto, they share expenses with a decidedly oddball couple, none of whom know the car carries embezzled funds.
Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland, W.C. Fields, George Burns
Votes: 729
15. We're Not Dressing (1934)
Passed | 74 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Yacht owner is stranded on island with her socialite friends, a wacky husband and wife research team, and a singing sailor.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Bing Crosby, Carole Lombard, George Burns, Gracie Allen
Votes: 853
16. Many Happy Returns (1934)
Approved | 64 min | Comedy, Music
Gracie Allen assumes the "management" of the shop owned by her papa Horatio Allen, turning it into a radio station and then an aviary, with the usual Gracie Allen logic. While distracted, ... See full summary »
Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: George Burns, Gracie Allen, George Barbier, Joan Marsh
Votes: 64
17. Love in Bloom (1935)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A young girl runs away from her carnival family to make it in New York City and becomes involved with a handsome young songwriter.
Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Joe Morrison, Dixie Lee
Votes: 149
18. Here Comes Cookie (1935)
Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Alarmed that his younger daughter is about to marry a gold-digger, a millionaire turns over the fortune to her ditsy older sister for safe-keeping to his ultimate regret, protection.
Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: George Burns, Gracie Allen, George Barbier, Betty Furness
Votes: 176
19. The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935)
97 min | Comedy, Musical
Spud Miller hopes to save his struggling radio station by winning a broadcast competition, with the help of the Radio Eye, an invention that can display live events from anywhere in the world.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Jack Oakie, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Lyda Roberti
Votes: 346
20. The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936)
Approved | 100 min | Comedy, Musical
The employees of a failing radio station must put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Jack Benny, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bob Burns
Votes: 388
21. College Holiday (1936)
Approved | 86 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Expecting to put on a musical show, singing and dancing college students are brought to a struggling hotel to be guinea pigs in an ancient Greek-themed eugenics experiment.
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Jack Benny, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Mary Boland
Votes: 197
22. A Damsel in Distress (1937)
Passed | 101 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A betting castle staff, and a series of misunderstandings and set-ups, leads to an American entertainer and an English damsel falling in love.
Director: George Stevens | Stars: Fred Astaire, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Joan Fontaine
Votes: 2,377
23. College Swing (1938)
Passed | 86 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Gracie Alden tries to graduate college to get an inheritance.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Martha Raye, Bob Hope
Votes: 574
24. Honolulu (1939)
Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to switch places with him for a few weeks.
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Eleanor Powell, Robert Young, George Burns, Gracie Allen
Votes: 759
25. The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956)
Approved | 99 min | Comedy, Romance
A minority stockholder takes on the crooked board of directors at a billion dollar corporation.
Director: Richard Quine | Stars: Judy Holliday, John Williams, Paul Douglas, Fred Clark
Votes: 2,285
26. All About People (1967 TV Movie)
30 min | Documentary
Director: Saul Rubin | Stars: Lucille Ball, Jack Benny, George Burns, Carol Channing
Votes: 63
27. The Sunshine Boys (I) (1975)
PG | 111 min | Comedy
A vaudeville duo agree to reunite for a television special, but it turns out that they can't stand each other.
Director: Herbert Ross | Stars: Walter Matthau, George Burns, Richard Benjamin, Lee Meredith
Votes: 6,686
28. Oh, God! (1977)
PG | 98 min | Comedy, Fantasy
When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.
Director: Carl Reiner | Stars: John Denver, George Burns, Teri Garr, Donald Pleasence
Votes: 10,573 | Gross: $41.69M
29. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)
PG | 113 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
A small-town band hits it big, but it must battle a nefarious plot in the music industry.
Director: Michael Schultz | Stars: Peter Frampton, Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb
Votes: 6,979 | Gross: $20.38M
30. Just You and Me, Kid (1979)
PG | 95 min | Comedy
A former vaudevillian befriends a 14 year-old runaway who is being chased by drug dealers.
Director: Leonard Stern | Stars: George Burns, Brooke Shields, Lorraine Gary, Ray Bolger
Votes: 1,063
31. Going in Style (1979)
PG | 97 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Three friends living on the dole decide to rob a bank.
Director: Martin Brest | Stars: George Burns, Art Carney, Lee Strasberg, Charles Hallahan
Votes: 3,907 | Gross: $26.87M
32. Oh, God! Book II (1980)
PG | 94 min | Comedy, Fantasy
God asks a young girl to help spread his word and influence with a slogan.
Director: Gilbert Cates | Stars: George Burns, Suzanne Pleshette, David Birney, Louanne
Votes: 2,509 | Gross: $14.50M
33. Two of a Kind (1982 TV Movie)
102 min | Drama
Nolie who has intellectual disabilities has just turned twenty-one yet acts more like eight. While claiming that she only wants to help him, his "smother" actually likes things that way. ... See full summary »
Director: Roger Young | Stars: George Burns, Robby Benson, Barbara Barrie, Cliff Robertson
Votes: 161
34. Oh, God! You Devil (1984)
PG | 97 min | Comedy, Fantasy
George Burns returns as God, and as Satan. They battle over the soul of a young rock star who is willing to sell his soul to the devil.
Director: Paul Bogart | Stars: George Burns, Ted Wass, Ron Silver, Roxanne Hart
Votes: 2,739 | Gross: $21.54M
35. Bob Hope Lampoons the New TV Scene (1986 TV Movie)
60 min | Comedy
Director: Kip Walton | Stars: Bob Hope, George Burns, Morgan Fairchild, Ann Jillian
36. 18 Again! (1988)
PG | 93 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
An aging ruthless businessman swaps bodies with his grandson in the wake of getting into a car accident.
Director: Paul Flaherty | Stars: Charlie Schlatter, George Burns, Tony Roberts, Anita Morris
Votes: 5,017 | Gross: $2.57M
37. Radioland Murders (1994)
PG | 108 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A series of mysterious crimes threatens the existence of a new radio network.
Director: Mel Smith | Stars: Brian Benben, Mary Stuart Masterson, Ned Beatty, George Burns
Votes: 3,905 | Gross: $1.30M
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