Portland Hoffa: In Her Own Right
As Gracie Allen was to George Burns, as Mary Livingstone was to Jack Benny, so was Portland Hoffa (1905-1990) to Fred Allen. Hoffa was both Allen's wife and his comedy partner on stage and radio. Unlike Gracie Allen she did not outshine her husband, and unlike Livingstone, she wasn't Allen's feeder. She usually played a […]