George Burns Al Lewis won him the 1975 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and permanently secured his career resurgence. At the age of 80, Burns was the oldest Oscar winner in the history of the Academy Awards, a record that would remain until Jessica Tandy won an Oscar for "Driving Miss Daisy" in 1989. In 1977, Burns made another hit film, "Oh, God!", playing the omnipotent title role opposite singer John Denver as an earnest but befuddled supermarket manager, whom God picks at random to revive his message. The image of Burns in a sailor's cap and light springtime jacket as
Miss Germany mobilized against the "meat-inspects". Public interest diminished. Influential organisers became not active before the end of the 1970s. The international franchises held by "Opal" became vacant. In 1979, "Miss Germany" was elected live in the German television for the first time. It was not until 1982 that the first rival contest was held again after a long interval. Since 1985, at least two organisations run rival pageants: Notes: Daisy d’Ora was a pseudonym. The real name of the 1931 winner was "Daisy, Baronesse von Freyberg". – In 1935, Elisabeth Pitz from Saarbrücken participated in the Miss Europe Pageant in Paris