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Anne Emmanuel Birn...
Anne Emanuclle Birn...
...dance man from San Francisco, named her Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalia Allen, and at three, Gracie joined his act in top hat and red whiskers. In 1922, after hunger had urged her into secretarial school, she caught the down-at-heel act of George Burns (real name: Nathan Birn-baum). George promised to feed her, even became her foil when Gracie got all the laughs. They were married in 1926. Six years later they landed a CBS contract and have been on the air ever since...
...Manhattan, Mrs. May Birn, 42, died of bloodpoisoning contracted after an accident. The accident: while both slept, her finger strayed into her husband's mouth...