Playboy Interview: George Burns

June, 1978

The most inspired cinematic stroke of 1977 was the casting of George Burns as God in Warner Bros.' huge moneymaker "Oh, God!" And, by God, there may be a Second Coming of Burns's tennis-shoed Lord in a sequel. Playing God isn't bad for a performer who readily admits that he was a god-awful vaudevillian until he teamed up with a dainty Irish dramatic actress and dancer named Gracie Allen. To hear Burns tell it, in his self-deprecatory manner, he went into retirement the moment he hooked...

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