All My Best FriendsBeorge Burns's career spanned the history of modern show business; he starred in big-time vaudeville; in radio, television, the movies and the recording industry; and on the nightclub stage. All My Best Friends is history of modern show business, as George Burns lived it. More than that, it is the backstage story of the people who made that history. They were all his best friends: JOlson and Jessel and Cantor and Durante; the Marx Brothers and the Ritz Brothers; Ed Wynn, Sophie Tucker and Fanny Brice; Walter Matthau, Carol Channing, Bobby Darin, Ann-Margret and Brooke Shields. And most of all, Jack Benny. |
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... friends for over fifty years , and I knew him very , very well . I'll tell you how much I cared about him . In 1982 the Friars Club honored him and asked me to say a few words . Now , at these dinners you're supposed to insult people to ...
... friends for over fifty years , and I knew him very , very well . I'll tell you how much I cared about him . In 1982 the Friars Club honored him and asked me to say a few words . Now , at these dinners you're supposed to insult people to ...
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... friends got to be so famous that the studios wanted to make pictures about their careers . In some cases these pictures turned out to be more successful than the pictures my friends actually made during their careers . I was responsible ...
... friends got to be so famous that the studios wanted to make pictures about their careers . In some cases these pictures turned out to be more successful than the pictures my friends actually made during their careers . I was responsible ...
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... girl . After the ceremony one of this young man's friends said , " Tell me the truth . Why would a pretty young girl like that marry somebody your age ? " Seems like a silly question to me , but he 235 ALL MY BEST FRIENDS.
... girl . After the ceremony one of this young man's friends said , " Tell me the truth . Why would a pretty young girl like that marry somebody your age ? " Seems like a silly question to me , but he 235 ALL MY BEST FRIENDS.
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