[explaining her "Gracie Allen" character] Gracie thought she was terribly smart. Gracie's character was
different. Gracie thought everybody was out of step but her. She was
always helping people. She was always sorry for you. Like if she would
say, "My sister got up in the middle of the night, she screamed, she
looked down at her feet and they turned black". You would say to her,
"What did she do?" She was sorry for you for asking that question. She
thought you were pretty dumb not to know what to do if your feet turned
black. "She took off her stocking and went to sleep again."