Here Comes Cookie / Love in Bloom / Six of a Kind - 7004

Product Description Here Comes Cookie: The incomparable George Burns and Gracie Allen star in this hilariously clever romp. Burns is a wealthy retiree who surprises everyone by deeding his entire fortune to his ditzy daughter (Allen). But when the newly rich young woman becomes convinced the family is actually on the verge of bankruptcy, it sparks a riotous series of side-splitting complications! Six of a Kind: George Burns and Gracie Allen team up with the legendary W.C. Fields in this hilarious road trip where everyone gets taken for a ride. Sharing a car on a drive to California with another couple, Burns and Allen turn the journey into a comedy marathon in a film Leonard Maltin hails as "zany, wonderful nonsense." Love in Bloom: Comedy icons George Burns and Gracie Allen star with Dixie Lee (Mrs. Bing Crosby) in this lighthearted story of a young woman on the run from her past. Just when she thinks she's escaped life with the carnival, Violet (Lee) is drawn back to the footlights by the comic scheming of her brother and his Turkish belly-dancer wife (Burns and Allen). Bonus Content: Disc 1 - Six of a Kind: Theatrical Trailer ]]> Amazon.com Three features (just over an hour each), showcase the well-honed comic patter of George Burns and Gracie Allen during the busiest time in their movie career, the mid-1930s. Gracie's dingbat malapropisms were so perfectly straightforward ("I really shouldn't drink coffee in the morning; it keeps me awake all day"), and Burns's straight-man timing so unerring, the pair was often funnier than their material. They road-trip west in Leo McCarey's amusing Six of a Kind, which is actually at its best when W.C. Fields is polishing one of his pool-playing routines. Love in Bloom casts George and Gracie as carnival folk, in support of a sappy plot of young lovers in New York. They top-line in Here Comes Cookie, which has some nice screwball-among-the-rich energy. The Burns and Allen chemistry was really at its best in their short films, radio, and TV, but these Paramount features are pleasing entertainment nonetheless. --Robert Horton
ASIN: B00007GZR4
VSKU: HBSV.B00007GZR4.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:George Burns|Gracie Allen|George Barbier|Charles "Charlie" Ruggles|Dixie Lee|Betty Furness|Mary Boland|Joe Morrison|W.C. Fields|J. C. Nugent|Alison Skipworth|Norman Z. McLeod|Elliott Nugent|Leo McCarey|William LeBaron|Frank R. Adams|Douglas MacLean|Don Hartman|Walter DeLeon|Benjamin Glazer|Harry Ruskin
Binding: Dvd