Here Comes Cookie

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Here Comes Cookie ★★½ 1935

Amusing farce finds Gracie (Allen) the daughter of wealthy Harrison Allen (Barbier), who's afraid of the fortune hunters eyeing other daughter Phyllis (Furness). So he temporarily turns over the family fortune to Gracie, who promptly turns their Park Avenue mansion into a home for down-on-their-luck vaudevillians. Lots of specialty acts and Burns is around as straight man. 65m/B VHS, DVD . Gracie Allen, George Burns, George Barbier, Betty Furness; D: Norman Z. McLeod; W: Don Hartman, Sam Mintz; C: Gilbert Warrenton.