This is the fifth early movie I've seen with George Burns in it, and it looks to me that he didn't do anything without his partner Gracie Allen. The two were a comedy tandem in which he played the straight man and Gracie played the ditz.
In "Many Happy Returns" George Burns and Gracie Allen again play characters with no name change. They worked for Gracie's father, Horatio Allen (George Barbier). Horatio owned a radio station which Gracie was attempting to get torn down and converted into a bird sanctuary or something like that.
Why?
Who knows why Gracie does the things she does.
Horatio had Gracie see a psychoanalyst. The psychoanalyst concluded that Gracie was stuck on George, or as she called him, Georgie Porgie. Perhaps if she married George she would stop monkeying with her father's business and behave normally. Upon hearing that, Horatio offered George his daughter, Gracie, except George wasn't amenable to marrying Gracie if he had anything to say about it.
Horatio wouldn't be denied his request, or should I say demand. He gave George an ultimatum: marry his daughter or be fired. When George again rejected the offer, Horatio offered him $10/mile of travel on their honeymoon from New York to California. That came out to $30,000, which George couldn't refuse.
So they were married.
The rest of the movie would be more of Gracie and her goofiness, George trying to remain sane, and a kidnapping plot involving Florence (Joan Marsh), Horatio's other daughter.
Free on Internet Archive.
In "Many Happy Returns" George Burns and Gracie Allen again play characters with no name change. They worked for Gracie's father, Horatio Allen (George Barbier). Horatio owned a radio station which Gracie was attempting to get torn down and converted into a bird sanctuary or something like that.
Why?
Who knows why Gracie does the things she does.
Horatio had Gracie see a psychoanalyst. The psychoanalyst concluded that Gracie was stuck on George, or as she called him, Georgie Porgie. Perhaps if she married George she would stop monkeying with her father's business and behave normally. Upon hearing that, Horatio offered George his daughter, Gracie, except George wasn't amenable to marrying Gracie if he had anything to say about it.
Horatio wouldn't be denied his request, or should I say demand. He gave George an ultimatum: marry his daughter or be fired. When George again rejected the offer, Horatio offered him $10/mile of travel on their honeymoon from New York to California. That came out to $30,000, which George couldn't refuse.
So they were married.
The rest of the movie would be more of Gracie and her goofiness, George trying to remain sane, and a kidnapping plot involving Florence (Joan Marsh), Horatio's other daughter.
Free on Internet Archive.