Adelaide Hawley Cumming
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Adelaide Hawley Cumming was an American broadcaster whose career spanned three decades. Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, she was educated in New York, where she studied music at the University of Roche
Betty Crocker in Sponsor mag
Gracie Allen
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Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen was an American vaudevillian, singer, actress, and comedian who became famous as the zany partner and comic foil of husband George Burns, her straight man, appearing w
Adelaide Hawley Cumming
…to 1952. She then took the role for ABC in two shows, Betty Crocker Star Matinee and Bride and Groom. As Crocker she appeared in the George Burns and Gracie Allen comedy series, which would segue into commercial with phrases such as "I don't know how to bake a cake, Gracie, but here is Betty Crocker to show us…
Publicity still of Allen from the Burns and Allen CBS Radio program (1936)
Gracie Allen, George Burns and children aboard Matson flagship Lurline just before they sailed for Hawaii, 1938
Burns and Allen on the vaudeville circuit in 1924
Burns and Allen in 1952