Burns and Allen of the Academy Awards, a record that would remain until Jessica Tandy won an Oscar for "Driving Miss Daisy" in 1989. Burns, who became a centenarian in 1996, continued to work until just weeks before his death of cardiac arrest on March 19, 1996, at his home in Beverly Hills. In 1929 Burns and Allen made their debut radio performance broadcast in London on the BBC. In the United States, they had failed at a 1930 NBC audition. After a solo appearance by Gracie on Eddie Cantor's radio show, they were heard together on Rudy Vallee's "The Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"
Crazy for Daisy Crazy for Daisy Crazy for Daisy was a British comic strip published in the magazine "The Beano". It was created and drawn by Nick Brennan and made its debut in issue 2865, dated 14 June 1997. It was part of an ongoing selection of six comic strips that were to be voted into the comic by readers. This strip (along with "Tim Traveller") was the winner, beating "Camp Cosmos, Have a Go Jo, Sydd" and "Trash Can Ally". The strip starred Ernest Valentine, a boy who is hopelessly in love with a girl called Daisy. Daisy, however, has no feelings