George Burns

During his career, Bob Hope was the only performer to achieve top-rated success in every form of mass entertainment. American Masters explores the entertainer’s life through his personal archives and clips from his classic films.

This laid-back interview-laden documentary about the film Hills Have Eyes, The (1977) details the entire production of the movie. All of the financing and weather problems are explained, as well as many other difficulties on set. The interviewees also talk about their starts in the film industry, which took place in and around when the film was made.

The history of the irreverent "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" and the content battles it fought with its television network.

Video series spotlighting memorable moments and roasts hosted by Dean Martin. "Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts" were periodic specials aired in the 1970s and 1980s, which roasted (or honored) such stars as Lucille Ball, Muhammad Ali and Johnny Carson; guests then recalled comedic moments they shared. Comedian Rich Little (a regular on the "Roast" specials) served as pitchman for the videos in a series of TV infomercials

Based on the first centenary of the largest exporter of films in the world, that is Hollywood, is the story told by its protagonists, actors and writers and other people who made life in this business, interspersing images of famous movies.

En 1939, la WBN, una modesta emisora de radio, está a punto de retransmitir para toda América. Pero nada más empezar, una misteriosa voz interrumpe la emisión, y los miembros del equipo empiezan a morir uno tras otro.

A look back at the first 100 years of the movies.

Co-stars and celebrity admirers go through Benny's entire career

This 47-minute, 1991 CBS television special finds John Denver joined by friends Clint Black, Katy Mattea, and Patty Loveless on Montana's Fort Belknap Indian Reservation. Images of Denver on horseback, traversing the wide open plains and herding and roping cattle are interspersed with more intimate looks at Denver, Mattea, Black, Loveless, and other friends gathered for an old-fashioned sing-along in a rustic barn.

A posthumous tribute to comedy legend Lucille Ball by her frequent co-star Bob Hope features clips from many of their sketches and tributes from George Burns, Danny Thomas, Kirk Cameron, and Betty White.

Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC.

Todo comienza cuando el joven David asiste al cumpleaños de su abuelo que cumple 81 años. Cuando éste apaga las velas pide un deseo: volver a tener 18 años. Después de la fiesta sale con su nieto a dar un paseo, pero al perder el control del auto sufren un serio accidente, en el cual el abuelo Jack queda en coma y David sólo con algunos rasguños leves. Al recobrar plenamente el conocimiento se da cuenta que está en el cuerpo equivocado y que el destino le ha concedido sólo por algunos días su gran deseo.

For the first time in their careers, all the Muppets (except the ones that couldn't make it, like the Doozers, Gorgs and most of the Fraggles) have gathered together in one place to celebrate their thirtieth anniversary and honor the one who brought them together: Kermit the Frog (and by doing so, Jim Henson).

Se entrevista a celebridades sobre la vida social y laboral de Bugs, Daffy, Porky y el resto de los Looney Tunes.

This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was taped February 17, 1985, at New York's Radio City Music Hall, this sequel to the 1982 "Night of 100 Stars" special features 288 celebrities.

George Burns está de vuelta como Dios, pero ¡ups!, aquí también está como Satanás. Una joven estrella de rock está lista para vender su alma a Satanás, y Satanás está muy feliz de complacerlo. ¡Ups! Parece que el tipo fue vigilado por Dios cuando era un bebé, por lo que ahora el todopoderoso y su némesis tienen que pelear por el alma.

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.

An all-star celebrity tribute to celebrate George Burns 80th Anniversary in show business.

A celebration of how the very young and the very old appreciate and enjoy each other via sketches and variety performances.

George Burns celebrates his new-found status as a celebrity sex symbol with guests and collection of beautiful women of all ages. With singing, dancing and a discussion on sex symbols through the ages.

Nolie has just turned 21 but is retarded and acts more like 8. While claiming that she only wants to help him, his "smother" actually likes things that way. One day Nolie visits his beloved grandfather in a rest home and is horrified at how the old man has deteriorated, vegetating in his wheelchair. He realizes that this is partly due to the medication the nurses are giving him. Nolie decides that he must rehabilitate Grandpa himself, since no one else cares. Furthermore, he and Grandpa must keep their project a secret. It's a job for a man, and time for Nolie to become one.

The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers payed up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.

This 1982 concert shows the great George Burns at his absolute funniest, as he entertains a live audience.

A variety special starring John Denver and special guest George Burns.

Dios se aparece ante Tracy Richards, de 11 años, para pedirle ayuda para difundir su palabra e influencia sobre el mundo, lo que sugiere el eslogan 'Piensa en Dios'. Naturalmente, los padres divorciados de Tracy piensan que Tracy está loca y conspiran para detener su misión 'enviada del cielo' de difundir la palabra de Dios.

George Burns, Dom DeLuise, Danny De Vito, Dean-Paul Martin and Roger Moore provide arms for A-M to lean on as she impersonates Hollywood stereotypes, from a rejected script girl to an over-the-hill sex symbol. Highlights include Ann-Margret's slowed-down rendition of I Will Survive and a jaw dropping version of Stouthearted Men that looks like it is set in the backroom of a 70s gay club!

Joe, Al y Willie son tres amigos jubilados de Nueva York que, aburridos de su monótona existencia, deciden atracar un banco.

George Burns stars as a former vaudevillian who befriends a young runaway, played by 14-year old Brooke Shields, who is being chased by drug dealers.

Steve Martin's first network special for NBC offers part concert footage (shot at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles) and part sketch comedy.

"Manos de Dinamita": Joey Popchick, un inmigrante húngaro, necesita dinero para ayudar a su hermana, que padece una enfermedad ocular y corre el riesgo de quedarse ciega si no la operan. Joey encuentra a un entrenador de boxeo que le propone hacer apuestas en sus combates, y él acepta la idea para poder recaudar el dinero. Las bellezas de Baxter, 1933": Spats Baxter, un productor de Broadway, padece una grave enfermedad y sólo le queda un mes de vida. Decide, entonces, organizar un último espectáculo que espera que sea un éxito. Por otra parte, Spats lleva años enviando cheques anónimos a su hija que siempre ha creído que era huérfana...

Billy Shears, quien conoce a la banda “Lonely Hearts Club Band” es el nieto del famoso Sergeant Pepper. Será el protector del instrumento mágico de la banda, intentando evitar que los chicos malos liderados por el magnate de la música B.D. Brockhurst lo robe.

An ex-comedian fights to keep a failing nightclub alive as a showcase for aspiring young comics.

Goldie Hawn’s second TV special was in 1978, “The Goldie Hawn Special” and it was a sort of comeback for her, after she had been out of the spotlight for over two years. On the TV special she performed show tunes and comedy bits alongside comic legend George Burns, teen idol Shaun Cassidy, television star John Ritter and even the Harlem Globetrotters joined her on the show. The special later went on to be nominated for a primetime Emmy Award.

Cuando Dios se le aparece a un subgerente de una tienda de comestibles como un anciano afable, el Todopoderoso lo selecciona como su mensajero para el mundo moderno.

Over fifty of the greatest living comedians are called to a party at Bob Hope's house, where each of them is systematically killed (and their bodies thrown in Hope's pool!). Hope and the rapidly shrinking cast try to discover who is the mysterious killer known only as "Joys."

Dos ancianos actores de vodevil, conocidos en otro tiempo como "Lewis y Clark", llegaron a odiarse tanto cuando trabajaban juntos que, fuera del escenario, ni siquiera se dirigían la palabra. Cuando el sobrino de Clark intenta reunirlos de nuevo para su última actuación en televisión, los dos tendrán que hacer enormes esfuerzos para poder soportarse civilizadamente.

A chronicle of the 1975 International Press Conclave hosted by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer over two days in May 1975.

Ann-Margret's television special taped in front of a live audience at the Las Vegas Hilton.

Documentary about radio comedies primarily focused on Burns & Allen, Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy, The Jack Benny Program, Fibber McGee & Molly, The Bob Hope Show, and The Fred Allen Show.

The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians is a 1970 American animated television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions. After the Christmas special Frosty the Snowman (1969), it was Rankin/Bass' second hand-drawn animated work to be outsourced to Osamu Tezuka's Mushi Production in Tokyo, Japan. The show aired on ABC on April 7, 1970 before the airing of that year's Oscars. It was a tribute to early vaudeville, and featured animated reworkings of various famous comedians' acts.

John Wayne and an all-star cast tell the story of America.

A Classic Holiday Celebration with Dean and Friends.

Carol Channing hosts musical variety special with guests Walter Matthau, George Burns, U.S. Air Force Academy Cadet Chorale, The Association, Eddy Arnold.

Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.

Una artista sin trabajo consigue un empleo en una importante compañía de negocios, pero pronto descubre que la corrupción afecta a los principales ejecutivos de la empresa.

Como indica el episodio, éste trata sobre todo de perros. La primera mitad de este episodio es una mirada entre bastidores a "La dama y el vagabundo", que se estrenará el próximo verano. La segunda mitad trata de los aspectos más destacados de la primera estrella canina de Disney, Pluto.

Various CBS stars appear in this one hour variety program about the opening of the brand new $7 million dollar CBS Television City Studios.

Movie star Brooks Mason tries to avoid his fans and spend some weeks on vacation. When Hawaiian plantage-owner George Smith is mistaken by Mason's fans for Mason and brought to Mason's home. They decide to change their identities for a few weeks. But George Smith is mobbed by Mason's fans again on a personal appearance tour in New York, Mason falls in love to dancer Dorothy March, who also is on her way to Hawaii. Problems for Mason arise due to the fact that Smith is engaged with Cecilia Grayson, and her wealthy father believes, that Smith has double-crossed him. Mason isn't able to establish a connection with Smith in New York due to his agent's orders.

En 1738, ante la incapacidad de su nieta para graduarse, Tully Marshall toma la decisión de dejar toda su fortuna a la Universidad, si en los próximos 200 años ninguna mujer de su familia consigue graduarse. En 1938, Gracie Alden se propone graduarse para conseguir la herencia.

Se espera que Lady Alyce Marshmorton se case pronto, y los criados del Castillo Tottney hacen apuestas sobre quién será el elegido. Después de haber citado a un hombre en Londres, Alyce es castigada a quedarse en el castillo para evitar su comportamiento escandaloso. Pero en Londres también conoció a Jerry Halliday, quien acaba viniendo al castillo.

Con la esperanza de montar un espectáculo musical, unos estudiantes universitarios de baile y canto van a parar a un ruinoso hotel, donde servirán de conejillos de Indias de un experimento eugenésico.

A cream-of-the-crop gathering of 1930's radio stars, who lend themselves to a storyline about a failing radio station which needs to put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation. An interesting mixture of the stars whose fame continued to grow, those who became bit players in show business history, and those who have been forgotten entirely, except at the Internet Movie Database of course!

El propietario de una emisora de radio es secuestrado por una admiradora, una condesa insaciable.

A scatterbrained heiress opens her home to a succession of unemployed actors and vaudeville performers, then decides to produce her own show, much to the consternation of her father, her sister and her sister's boyfriend, who is actually after the young girl's money.

A young girl runs away from her carnival family to make it in New York and becomes involved with a young songwriter.

El propietario de unos grandes almacenes paga a un pretendiente de su entrometida hija para que se la lleve.

Una alocada muchacha de la alta sociedad llamada Doris Worthington naufraga en su yate y va a parar a una isla del Caribe donde tendrá que aprender a convivir con un individuo de menor clase social.

The Whinneys share expenses for their trip to Hollywood with George and Gracie and their great Dane. A clerk in Whinney's bank has put fifty thousand dollars in a suitcase, hoping to rob Whinney on the road, but instead Whinney takes another road and is himself arrested in Nevada.

Un profesor y la estrella del equipo de fútbol americano se enamoran de la misma chica.

El profesor Wong ha inventado un televisor e invita a todo el mundo a verlo durante una feria china. Cada vez que Tommy Nash intenta casarse con su novia cae enfermo, y cuando irrumpe en el hotel se decreta la cuarentena. A este hotel llega el profesor Quail en su autogiro...

Street-sweeper George flirts with a pretty, but dizzy, nursemaid in the park. Incorporates Burns & Allen's vaudeville "dizzy" routine.

Sailor George and his pals visit the Roseland Dance Hall, where funny things happen between conversations with dizzy hostess Gracie.

Sailor George and his pals visit the Roseland Dance Hall, where funny things happen between conversations with dizzy hostess Gracie.

George, working in a hat shop, gets tricky with the customers. Then Gracie comes in and drives him batty.

Un cantante de la radio, Bing Hornsby, no se toma muy en serio su profesión, y una relación amorosa con Mona provoca su despido. Cuando da la impresión de que Hornsby concede excesiva atención a su novia Anita, el director de la emisora la compra, devuelve el trabajo a Hornsby y se marcha de luna de miel con Anita

Burns and Allen have a dizzy conversation in a bookstore.

George is mistaken for an accident victim and taken to the hospital. After his needless operation, he meets Nurse Gracie, who adds insanity to injury.

George registers at the Jefferson Hotel; after the desk clerk gives him the runaround, he meets Gracie at the cigar counter.

In the barbershop, a costumer contends with a barber hard-selling hair tonic, an obnoxious customer with a theory about World War I, and a dizzy manicurist (Grace) who engages him in typically crazy conversation.

George is distracted from buying a statue by scatterbrained Gracie.

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.

George Burns tries to buy a tie in a department store filled with assorted kooks.

George Burns tries to buy a tie in a department store filled with assorted kooks.

George and Gracie enter an elegant drawing room, looking everywhere for something. Turns out, they're looking for the audience, and when George spots the camera, they start in on their patter. Gracie wants to convince George that she's smart, not dizzy - it's an uphill struggle of which she's blissfully unaware. Midway through, they break into song: "Do You Believe Me?" It includes a little bit of hoofing as the chatting continues. They end on a story Gracie whispers into George's ear.