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Bea Benaderet – Blanche Morton; 292 episodes (1950–58). Benaderet had also played Blanche on the radio version of the show. She was the only actor besides George and Gracie who appeared in all episodes. 25 episodes (1958–59) of The George Burns Show, also as Blanche Morton
Blanche Morton's long-suffering husband, Harry, was played by four actors over the show's eight-year run; the last, Larry Keating, was introduced on the October 5, 1953 fourth-season premiere when George Burns entered the set and halted a scene of an angered Blanche preparing to hit Harry with a book. Burns introduced Keating to Benaderet and ...
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, sometimes called The Burns and Allen Show, is a half-hour television sitcom broadcast from 1950 to 1958 on CBS. It starred George Burns and Gracie Allen, one of the most enduring acts in entertainment history. Burns and Allen were headliners in vaudeville in the 1920s, and radio stars in the 1930s and 1940s.
Blanche Morton (Bea Benaderet) was George's secretary, and was keeping George from fawning over attractive women, for Gracie's sake (Gracie was mentioned on the show, but never seen). Blanche's husband Harry Morton (Larry Keating) was George's accountant. Also present were Harry von Zell, Ronnie Burns, and Judi Meredith, all playing themselves ...
When George balks at the pretense, Gracie recruits Harry Von Zell to do it, and Blanche Morton recruits her husband Harry for the same thing. Ronnie picks up Mr. and Mrs. Cummings (Grandon Rhodes and Kay Riehl), Sandy's parents, and brings them to Gracie's house. Unfortunately, both Harrys and George show up and are introduced as Ronnie's father.
Lawrence Keating (June 13, 1899 [citation needed] – August 26, 1963) was an American actor best known for his roles as Harry Morton on The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, which he played from 1953 to 1958, and next-door neighbor Roger Addison on Mister Ed, which he played from 1961 until his death in 1963.
CBS refused Pepper on the grounds she had a serious drinking problem, [9] and Benaderet was already playing Blanche Morton on The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show. [10] Ultimately, the 42-year-old Vance won the role on the new television program, which debuted October 15, 1951, on CBS. Vance's Ethel Mertz character was the landlady of a New ...
Burns and Allen on the vaudeville circuit in 1924. Burns and Allen met in 1922 and first performed together at the Hill Street Theatre in Newark, New Jersey, continued in small town vaudeville theaters, married in Cleveland on January 7, 1926, and moved up a notch when they signed with the Keith-Albee-Orpheum circuit in 1927.