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The Third Time Around by George Burns First Edition Second Impression HBDJ

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The Third Time Around by George Burns First Edition Second Impression HBDJ The Third Time Around by George Burns First Edition Second Impression HBDJ The Third Time Around by George Burns First Edition Second Impression HBDJ The Third Time Around by George Burns First Edition Second Impression HBDJ

SYNOPSIS:  219 pages. CONTENTS: Every Chapter Must Have a Title; Me (Who Else?); Every Family Should Have a Mother or Father; Never Trust Anyone Who Can't Sing Harmony; The Losing Breadwinner; Marriages Are Not Always Made in Heaven; All My Brothers Were Boys; It Takes Two People to Make a Marriage; They Paid Us in Pounds and Weighed Us in Stones; She Was Really Something; Titles Can Drive You Nuts; So We Stopped Working and Went into Radio; Some of My Best In-Laws Were Irish; I Never Like to Applaud Anything That Can't Applaud Back; Funny Routines Can Hurt Your Career; Screwballs, Oddballs, and Highballs; Please Pass the Hostess; Thanks for Letting Us Come into Your Living Room; A 79-Year-Old Star Is Born; W. Charles Emory Did It the Hard Way; If This Were a Serious Book, This Would Be the Last Chapter; Warm Leftovers; Roasted, Toasted, and Fried. SYNOPSIS: The popular autobiography Living It Up began to tell his amazing story. Now The Third Time Around tells it all - the intimate memories, the zany anecdotes, the private moments and public triumphs - as only George Burns could recount it. "We were so poor," George recalls of his years growing up on the Lower East Side in a family of twelve children, "that our idea of somebody being rich was the Feingolds who lived on the corner. They had curtains on their window." Breaking into show business at the age of seven, George was " . . . a singer, a dancer, a yodeling juggler, I did a roller skating act, an act with a seal, I worked with a dog . . . you name it, I did it." But at the center of George's life is Gracie - and he fondly reveals the saga of his long courtship and its happy conclusions, the madcap and tender moments, the exhilarating ups and downs of life with Gracie - and life without her. George offers private glimpses of a marriage unique in Hollywood for its indissoluble bonds. And he describes the inside story of a brilliant comedy team that, in the course of making generations of Americans laugh uncontrollably, broke nearly every record in show business. For those who never had the privilege of watching Burns and Allen perform, several of the team's classic routines are reprinted in their entirety, including the routine that brought down the house at London's Victoria Palace. From the vaudeville circuit to the old Palace Theater, from the early days of radio to Hollywood in its heyday, The Third Time Around is the distillation of a rich and varied life lived among the stars. Perhaps no other performer could provide so complete a picture of the American entertainment industry as the man whose roots in it go back three-quarters of a century. A warm, sprightly and uproarious memoir from George Burns, America's best loved and most popular comedian, The Third Time Around is entertainment at its best from the master entertainer. P.S. I didn't write this. - George Burns.

See pic of jacket flap for synopsis.

Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. Stated Second Impression. 1980.

Format: Hardback with dust jacket. NOT an EX LIB.

Condition: Acceptable jacket with edge chipping and soiling over Very Good+ Volume. Navy boards with ivory cloth title panel and gold foil lettering. Front jacket flap price clipped. Inner pages clear, bright, and unmarked, with occasional turndown corner crease. Tightly bound. Great black and white photos of George, Gracie, and their inimitable lives. Photos illustrate condition of overall volume.

See Grading Scale page for explanation of grades. Photos of any obvious condition issues will be provided.

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