Product Details

• Actors: George Burns, Gracie Allen, George Barbier, Betty Furness, Andrew Tombes
• Directors: Norman Z. McLeod
• Writers: Don Hartman, Sam Mintz
• Producers: William LeBaron
• Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Universal Studios
• VHS Release Date: October 15, 1996
• Run Time: 65 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 6304197306
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #308,577 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Here Comes Cookie, which has some nice screwball-among-the-rich energy, showcases the well-honed comic patter of George Burns and Gracie Allen during the busiest time in their movie career, the mid-1930s. Gracie's dingbat malapropisms were so perfectly straightforward ("I really shouldn't drink coffee in the morning; it keeps me awake all day"), and Burns's straight-man timing so unerring, the pair was often funnier than their material. The Burns and Allen chemistry was really at its best in their short films, radio, and TV, but their Paramount features are pleasing entertainment nonetheless. --Robert Horton

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4.0 out of 5 stars Here comes Gracie, June 4, 2009

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This review is from: Here Comes Cookie [VHS] (VHS Tape)

In Norman McLeod's HERE COMES COOKIE, Betty Furness portrays Gracie Allen's younger sister. Furness was the long-running "live" on-air spokeswoman for Westinghouse appliances on CBS-TV's drama series, STUDIO ONE. Gracie is in support here and husband George barely has any screen time.

SYNOPSIS--
Wealthy Harrison Allen (Barbier) is concerned that a Latin lover pursuing his youngest daughter Phyllis is a gold digger, so, with the help of his attorney (Burns) he turns the family fortune over to her scatterbrained older sister, Gracie. Mr. Allen proves correct, for scheming Ramon del Ramos (Storm) now switches his attention to Gracie.

Thinking that he wants her to get rid of all his money, the new millionairess disinherits dear old dad and throws open his Park Avenue mansion's door to out-of-work actors. Gracie next orders the building be turned into a theater that will feature her vaudevillian friends in an extravaganza called "Gracie Allen's Flop."

Gracie sings "Vamp of the Pampas" with a male chorus and does a comic Juliet balcony scene. Several odd vaudeville acts also perform. Despite $20 ticket prices, the show is a smash hit.


"Here Comes Cookie" is available on a DVD triple feature along with "Love in Bloom" (1935) and "Six of a Kind" (1934). George and Gracie also appear in these only as supporting players.


Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 viewer poll rating found at a film resource website.

(6.1) Here Comes Cookie (1935) - George Burns/Gracie Allen/George Barbier/Betty Furness/Andrew Tombes/Rafael Storm/James Burke/Lee Kohlmar/Milla Davenport/Irving Bacon/Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams