Dress worn by Gracie Allen
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Black cotton, short sleeve dress with five large black "buttons" along the proper right side. There are clips on the upper right and a zipper at mid left. This dress was worn by Gracie Allen on "Burns and Allen Show" and was always worn with a jacket to cover scarring from a burn on her arm. The dress was made by "Rembrant".
label: Description (Brief)
content: The "Burns and Allen Show", lasting from 1950-1958, featured comedic team Gracie Allen and George Burns. The set of the show was made to look like the real life home of Burns and Allen, and the plots often followed the couple's misadventures, which were oftenparts the doing of Allen who played the role of the zany housewife. The show transitioned successfully to television from its radio beginning as "The Adventures of Gracie" in 1934 and then "The Burns and Allen Show" in 1936. From 1950-53 the show aired on CBS' Thursday night lineup, and then joined "I Love Lucy" on Monday nights. When the show went off air, it became the longest running sitcom in television history.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Television
label: Subject
content: Comedy
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of David L. Cook
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0330.11
label: accession number
content: 2003.0330
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0330.11
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dress
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 100 cm x 45 cm x 2 cm; 39 3/8 in x 17 11/16 in x 13/16 in