Mr. and Mrs. North are fictional American amateur detectives. Created by Frances and Richard Lockridge, the couple was featured in a series of 26 Mr. and Mrs. North novels, a Broadway play, a motion picture and several radio and television series.
First edition cover of Mr. and Mrs. North
Richard Denning and Barbara Britton on the set of the television show
Alice Frost and Joseph Curtin as Mr. and Mrs. North (1950)
Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen was an American vaudevillian, singer, actress, and comedian who became internationally famous as the zany partner and comic foil of husband George Burns, her straight man, appearing with him on radio, television and film as the duo Burns and Allen.
Publicity still of Allen from the Burns and Allen CBS Radio program
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