 Burns and Allen got a start in motion pictures with a series of comic short films in the late 1920s and early 1930s.Their feature credits in the mid- to late-1930s included "The Big Broadcast" (1932); "International House" (1933), "Six of a Kind" (1934), (the latter two films with W.C. Fields), "The Big Broadcast of 1936", "The Big Broadcast of 1937", "A Damsel in Distress" (1937) in which they danced step-for-step with Fred Astaire, and "College Swing" (1938) with Bob Hope and Martha Raye.