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Highlight of this show is the rousing tap dance number performed by 70 year old Mabel B. Porter @ 17:30. Groucho looks genuinely impressed.
COUPLE #1: Jean Hudson, 18 year old secretary, who thinks Groucho is a different kind of cute than Fenneman / David H. Brown, trainer for Marineland
COUPLE #2: Mabel B. Porter, 70 year old landlady / Vladimir Babishvili from Georgia (the Asian country, not the U.S. state). Groucho shows what a softie he was when he saw how badly they did in the quiz, calling up a member of the audience (Corrine Peacoff) to substitute for Babishvilli in the quiz.
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Episode identification and basic description based on "Tell 'em Groucho Sent You", © 1997 by Mark Petty. Used by permission.
Highlight of this show is the rousing tap dance number performed by 70 year old Mabel B. Porter @ 17:30. Groucho looks genuinely impressed.
COUPLE #1: Jean Hudson, 18 year old secretary, who thinks Groucho is a different kind of cute than Fenneman / David H. Brown, trainer for Marineland
COUPLE #2: Mabel B. Porter, 70 year old landlady / Vladimir Babishvili from Georgia (the Asian country, not the U.S. state). Groucho shows what a softie he was when he saw how badly they did in the quiz, calling up a member of the audience (Corrine Peacoff) to substitute for Babishvilli in the quiz.
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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.")
