Gracie Allen "effortlessly" kept pace with the most famous dancer in films, as many did not know either of them could dance. The legend was born of their vaudeville routine and carried over to both radio and television. As the show wrapped up, Burns would look at Allen and say "Say good night, Gracie", to which she would usually simply reply "Good night." Popular legend has it that Allen would say, "Good night, Gracie." According to George Burns, recordings of their radio and television shows, and several histories of old-time radio (John Dunning's "On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio", for
Ralph Pape York Times", reviewed the 1992 New York production of "Soap Opera", directed by Elizabeth Franzen: In 1983, "Say Goodnight, Gracie" was adapted by the author for a 90-minute teleplay which was seen on Chicago's PBS affiliate WTTW with the original Steppenwolf cast of Joan Allen, Jeff Perry, Glenne Headly, Francis Guinan and John Malkovich. Pape received a 1994 Emmy for his TV adaptation of "Say Goodnight, Gracie". "Girls We Have Known" was a runner-up in Actors Theatre of Louisville's Great American Play Contest. As a result, the theatre commissioned "Warm and Tender Love" and "Soap Opera". "Hearts Beating Faster" prompted