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"
Jessica Barboza and was crowned "Miss Earth-Water" (2nd runner-up). Barboza competed in 2010 as Miss Distrito Capital in her country's national beauty pageant, Miss Venezuela, obtaining the title of "Miss International Venezuela" on October 28, 2010. She represented Venezuela in the 2011 Miss International pageant in Chengdu, China in November 6, 2011. During the Miss International 2011 final, Jessica Barboza was announced as the 1st Runner-Up. Jessica Barboza Jessica Cristina Barboza Schmidt (born August 14, 1987) is a Venezuelan model and beauty pageant titleholder who won the titles of Miss Earth Venezuela 2009 and Miss International Venezuela 2010. Barboza won in 2009