The Third Time Around

by George Burns

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399121692
• ISBN13: 9780399121692
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 3.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

From the dustjacket flap . . . . .

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 conclusion, 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 mkaing 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 unproarious 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.

Excellent

This is the amusing follow-up to Living It Up and it does not disappoint! This book is filled with anecdotes about George Burns' life. There is a great segment from a Friar's Club roast at the end that is very funny. A great read!