Uploaded December 2013 | Updated September 2026, 16 hours ago
Betina Consolo, an Italian immigrant on the prowl for a new husband, makes the first of her very funny appearances on YBYL.
COUPLE #1: Dennis Devine, son of Western film star Andy Devine / Betina Consolo, Italian husband-hunter
COUPLE #2: Lydia H. Mueller / Paul Anderson, weight lifting champion
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Episode identification and basic description based on "Tell 'em Groucho Sent You", © 1997 by Mark Petty. Used by permission.
Betina Consolo, an Italian immigrant on the prowl for a new husband, makes the first of her very funny appearances on YBYL.
COUPLE #1: Dennis Devine, son of Western film star Andy Devine / Betina Consolo, Italian husband-hunter
COUPLE #2: Lydia H. Mueller / Paul Anderson, weight lifting champion
-----------------------------------
Click here to subscribe to the YBYL channel, where you'll find well over a hundred complete episodes you can't find anywhere else, as well as some rare Burns and Allen material that doesn't really belong there:
youtube.com/channel/UCUIbTdEI7D1AMyLATIdKq5w?sub_confirmation=1
New Facebook group for You Bet Your Life! If you've already been sucked into the Facebook vortex, you might as well check it out, right? facebook.com/groups/1643223392577688/?ref=bookmarks
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Episode identification and basic description based on "Tell 'em Groucho Sent You", © 1997 by Mark Petty. Used by permission.
![Burns and Allen - Classic Scenes #3 - Gracie humiliates George at gin rummy [clip]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wuyZ0FlNnjw/mqdefault.jpg "Burns and Allen - Classic Scenes #3 - Gracie humiliates George at gin rummy [clip]
An absolutely classic bit from The Burns & Allen Show, Season 4 Episode 38 (Aug 9, 1954). Gracie thoroughly humbles George at gin rummy after he clobbers Harry Von Zell in a game. One of my all time favorite routines from the entire series, this is a great example of how the universe always seemed to bend in Gracies favor, as if she were virtually a force of nature.")
![You Bet Your Life #54-11 Groucho does modern dance (Secret word Table, Nov 25, 1954) [partial]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zBuhiDjJVFo/mqdefault.jpg "You Bet Your Life #54-11 Groucho does modern dance (Secret word Table, Nov 25, 1954) [partial]
Note: The first half of this program is missing, but the highlight here is too good to not post the fragment: Groucho hilariously joins in on a modern dance demonstration by one of the contestants, @ 8:00. Its like seeing Groucho briefly overtaken by the old spirit of Captain Spaulding himself.
COUPLE #1 [missing]: Howard Lindenmeyer / Ellen Waring
COUPLE #2: Game warden / Mrs. Howard Owens, house mother for college boys
COUPLE #3: Ivan Kirov, dance instructor, who does the above-mentioned dance demonstration / Barbara Tominson, adagio artist at Muscle Beach
Click here to subscribe to the YBYL channel, where youll find well over a hundred complete episodes you cant find anywhere else, as well as some rare Burns and Allen material that doesnt really belong there:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUIbTdEI7D1AMyLATIdKq5w?sub_confirmation=1
New Facebook group for You Bet Your Life! If youve already been sucked into the Facebook vortex, you might as well check it out, right? https://www.facebook.com/groups/1643223392577688/?ref=bookmarks
Episode identification and basic description based on Tell em Groucho Sent You, © 1997 by Mark Petty. Used by permission.")
