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"
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