Download e-book for iPad: George Burns Television Productions: The Series and Pilots, by Richard Irvin

By Richard Irvin

ISBN-10: 0786494867

ISBN-13: 9780786494866

An hassle-free tuition dropout, George Burns went directly to develop into one in every of America’s such a lot loved entertainers. This booklet covers a ignored a part of his career—his paintings as a tv manufacturer. Burns used to be not just a behind-the-scenes manufacturer, but in addition stuffed the position of manufacturer in a number of comedies within which he starred. even though his area of expertise used to be state of affairs comedies, Burns’ corporation, McCadden Productions, additionally produced dramatic anthology sequence and pilots, together with a pilot thought of to be a precursor to the preferred television sequence Mission: Impossible.
This booklet makes a speciality of Burns’ good selection of creation efforts, and follows his involvement in tv productions from his 1950 comedy sequence along with his spouse, Gracie Allen, via his participation within the delusion sitcom Mister Ed, and at last to his final manufacturer credits in 1981, I Love Her Anyway, a remake of The Burns and Allen Show.

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