Many Happy Returns (1934)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Gracie Allen	...	Gracie
	George Burns	...	Burns
	George Barbier	...	Horatio Allen
	Joan Marsh	...	Florence Allen
	Ray Milland	...	Ted Lambert
	Stanley Fields	...	Joe
	John Kelly	...	Mike
	William Demarest	...	Brinker
	Johnny Arthur	...	Davis (as John Arthur)
	Franklin Pangborn	...	Allen's Secretary
	Egon Brecher	...	Dr. Otto von Strudel
	Jack Mulhall	...	Assistant
	Morgan Wallace	...	Nathan Silas
	Kenneth Thomson	...	Motion Picture Director
	Guy Lombardo	...	Himself

Storyline

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 Papa is trying to get younger daughter, beauty contest winner Florence, married before she can head to Hollywood and get into the movies. The story moves to Hollywood, where, with Gracie around, kidnappers get kidnapped and the chatter between her and George Burns even takes a few satirized shots at Filmland, in addition to their usual unusual routines. Guy Lombardo, top-billed on the ads and posters with Burns and Allen but not the cast listings, and dance team Frank Veloz and Yolanda, fill in where needed between the cracks of the mostly on-the-fly plot, and they don't seem to be taking their gigs all that seriously either. Burns & Allen Radio fans, the few of us that still remember "Radio"... Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>  

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