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"
Driving Lessons redheadedly adorable to the end." Peter Bradshaw of "The Guardian" rated the film three out of five stars and commented, "The movie looks like a lot of other things: "Driving Miss Daisy", "Harold and Maude", "Billy Elliot", "Acorn Antiques". It doesn't quite develop its own identity. And it's somehow inevitable that Dame Evie's hilarious swearing and opinionating fade away as sentimentality takes over. But it's a great turn from Julie Walters, and a likable film." The film earned $239,962 in the US and $990,633 in other markets for a total worldwide box office of $1,230,595. At the 28th Moscow International