GEORGE BURNS (born Nathan Birnbaum; January 20, 1896 - March 9, 1996) was an American comedian, actor, singer, and writer. He was one of the few entertainers whose career successfully spanned vaudeville, radio, film and television. His arched eyebrow and cigar-smoke punctuation became familiar trademarks for over three quarters of a century. He and his wife, Gracie Allen, appeared on radio, television, and film as the comedy duo Burns and Allen. When Burns was 79, he had a sudden career revival as an amiable, beloved and unusually active comedy elder statesman in the 1975 film The Sunshine Boys, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Burns, who became a centenarian in 1996, continued to work until just weeks before his death of cardiac arrest at his home in Beverly Hills.

CYNTHIA HOBART LINDSAY (May 27, 1915 - May 5, 2007) was an American writer, actress and stuntwoman. She is best known for her roles in the movies American in Paris (1964), A Look at Monaco (1963) and My Three Sons (1960). Born in North Hempstead, New York as Cynthia Hobart, she began a career in entertainment as a stunt double for such stars as Claudette Colbert and Sonja Henie in films—falling off horses and cliffs, swimming in aquacades, skating and skiing, and riding covered wagons across the plains. A horseback riding injury ended this phase of her career, and she turned to writing, first for M.G.M., and later as a free-lancer for magazines. She lived in Santa Monica, California with her third husband Louis Lindsay, her children Meg and Michael, and her poodles Beetle and Doc. She died in 2007 at the age of 91.