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 Robinson (performer) version of "Stars in Their Eyes" where she performed as the Australian actress/singer Natalie Imbruglia. Jessica took part in heat two which also featured the eventual series winner, 9 year old Christopher Napier, performing as George Formby, and the 2008 Miss Dance of Great Britain competition. Robinson took part in "Over the Rainbow", a BBC talent-search looking for an actress/singer to play Dorothy Gale in Andrew Lloyd Webber's production of "The Wizard of Oz". She advanced to the sixth week, whereupon she was voted off following a sing-off against Danielle Hope, the show's eventual winner. Following her being voted off