I cannot get enough of WHAT'S MY LINE? here recently. It's such a good, clean, and witty show. And the manners seem to be from another planet. I wish the manners would come back, but I'm sure we all know that this era in time is just a footnote of history.
I love reading other people say how much they love what’s my line because I know they understand my own love for the show. It’s become one of my favorite things to do on UA-cam, every evening, It’s a throwback to my family’s home on Sunday night, it’s a reminder of my father‘s humor and both my parents’ love for the show, it’s so relaxing. Plus, I am in love with Bennett Cerf! ❤️
For some reason, these started coming up in my UA-cam feed in the last month and I’m totally addicted! I was a little kid in its latter years but never watched it back in the day. And Julie St. John, I too have fallen for Bennett Cerf! Never mind that he’d be 125 years old now- I’m smitten!
True in many respects, like reality shows, but there are excellent dramas on TV now -- it is like the early days -- smaller audiences for programs and money available to go above the lowest common denominator
I gave up television many years ago, there was very little on it I wanted to see. I much prefer watching older movies, classic TV shows, and my favorite: What's My Line? on UA-cam.
Every school of communication should show these episodes to give students knowledge of proper speaking and investigative services. These older shows have so much to offer.
I’m 52 and never knew this show. I discovered it during the depressing Covid years and it helped me in so many ways. I’m now rewatching after 3 yrs without the extreme sadness and emotional issues I went through. It’s far more enjoyable in 2024 vs 2021! 🎉.
I'm 30 and have been watching episodes on this channel, binging them off and on, for the past six or seven years. Obviously, I’m on another binge right now. 😆 I would love to see a version of this with modern day celebrities all gussied up and using formal and classy manners and language, oh, I would just LOVE that, but alas I don’t think it would work. I just don’t.
It's always great to see John Payne on any show, though not quite as old as this show I've come to 💘 every episode I've watched so far, thanks to the advent of you tube, otherwise millions of people would never even hear about it, thank you so much for posting
How ironic that Tony Curtis was then filming 'Taras Bulba' in Argentina when he met and married his co-star Christine Kaufman after Janet divorced him !
I remember well this show from when I was a child. The panelists and host were so much more sophisticated than I or my friends or family would ever be. It was like they were from another world. My family always watched this show, though.
I have learned so much Googling the panel and some of the guest. It is fascinating how the lives of President Kennedy and Dorothy Kilgallen were about to intersect so tragically.
So sorry to see how badly injured John Payne was as he was a very handsome man. And also a very nice man which comes across in his movies. Well educated, he had wanted to be a writer and was interested in the books written by C. S. Lewis. He was in such pain, I would think being on the show was difficult.
No one mentioned this yet - Janet Leigh & John Payne would be in the famous COLUMBO episode 14 years later (1975) where Janet plays a "has been" singer and dancer and watches her old movies as she is slowly losing her memory. They used real footage of Janet's movie "Walkin' My Baby Back Home" from 1953 with Donald O'Connor
A very sad episode. Payne looks like he's about 85, instead of 63. But he looked at least 10 years older than his age here, and even before his accident. Not sure if he drank or smoked, but something surely took a huge toll on his looks...
+dept2 It so happens that I just watched a clip from that "Columbo" episode, the part where Columbo drops down from the tree to his dog in the yard of Miss Leigh's home. Miss Leigh comes down to check on him. It was an episode that borrowed a bit from "Sunset Boulevard", but while you can see that Miss Leigh is no longer an ingenue, she still looks quite lovely (i.e. better than Gloria Swanson did), even if her outfit is a bit out there.
I wonder what Arlene's IQ is. She so good at this and seems very intelligent. They all sound and act so distinguished and articulate, but also show great wit and have fun. It's so superior to today's behaviors. They showed a lot more consideration also. And this game is addictive! Thanks for upload!
True about what Dorothy says here about John Payne. He was hit by a car in NYC in March of that year and suffered serious injuries. Facial scars may be detected here upon closeup. A very good actor and singer as well as an astute businessman. Look him up.
I never knew about that auto accident till I saw this episode ! THANKS for the additional info ! John Payne was a truly gifted actor who could do it all: act, sing, dance, etc & was equally good in both dramatic & comedic parts.
@@caroler01 Yes. A lovely episode. Just saw it this evening on Prime. Colombo Season 5, Episode 1. Different from regular Columbo stories. Very sweet! Janet Leigh and John Payne were excellent. Peter Falk even dressed in a tuxedo in one scene!!!!!
This show was long before my time, but I remember my parents talking about many of these stars who appear on the show, and now through these old films, I get to see what they looked like. I like to see the old-fashioned clothes and the manners that the guests exhibit. So different from today! I also love the interactions of Bennett and John--the teasing and good-natured barbs remind me of myself and my best friend from high school.
I wish you would have shared more about your father's life, because after seeing this episode, many viewers would probably have been interested in knowing about more about him.
Poor Dorothy. She gets introduced by some guy off stage shouting as "the columnist read from coast to coast" while Arlene gets introduced in hushed reverent tones as the gorgeous, divine, most beautiful....
The audience tonight was very lively and reacted very enthusiastically to almost everything. I wonder if newly hired Johnny Olson had anything to do with it. He used to rev up audiences before taping. I remember him doing this when we would attend tapings of the Price is Right and he was so very good at it.
Gary Zerr, Yes, Johnny Olson was absolutely wonderful at what he did - so much so, that (in the 1960's) he was flown from New York City down to Miami, Florida (every week, for years!) to do the warm-ups/announcing duties for the "Jackie Gleason Show." I can still hear his great voice in my head; "From Miami Beach, the fun and sun capital of the world - It's the Jackie Gleason Show!"
Another of Arlene's $3,000.00 mink coats. I remember someone bringing that up once. She loved her furs and always wore them so well. How did she get them to drape over her shoulders, or the one shoulder, without falling off? No matter whether it was her arm or between each of her eyes, she always manages to look gorgeous.
@@christinecatt5391 : Fur was the ultimate status symbol for women at this time. Methinks she's wearing a slightly larger than normal bolero trimmed with a very nice brown mink.
None of these people seemed to care about the slaughter of animals, the breeding of lab dogs or rabbits etc or the trapping and caging of elephants! It all seems UNBELIEVABLE! !
This is only the second time I've noticed that the microphones were left on to capture the conversation of the panelists with the mystery guest as she shook their hands - although I still can't make out what was said.
Arlene asks the last contestant if his product might be in her home (22:08). I really doubt that she would serve New York State "champagne-style" sparkling wine. Nothing but the authentic French Champagne for her, I'm sure. The Taylor Wine Company of Hammondsport NY was the sixth largest US producer in the 1960s, went public, then was acquired by Coca-Cola (!) in 1977, with three later changes of corporate ownership until it was shut down in 1995. I haven't tasted Taylor in many years but remember it as mediocre at best.
Two things: John Payne asked one of the most bizarre questions I've heard on these episodes, 'Is it fibrous?' Many things have fibres, so it wasn't a shrewd move. Secondly, the cow dentist from Colombia was working in his 2nd language and clearly wasn't fluent in English. The word 'livestock' confused him and John Daly had to mime most of his answers by nodding a yes. Oh yes, and Janet Leigh's tartan dress looked great from the front but clumsy from behind with the square cut-outs from the fabric. I wish we could see what colour it was.
Dr. Cruz Arias shows up in a spate of newspaper-related things in ’61, and then disappears somewhat, so I think I shall assume he went back to Colombia. Anyway, he graduated from dental school in Colombia, and then went to NYU and City College of New York. And then started creating new and better false teeth for cows. (Which, as WML has found before, are a) a source of entertainment, and b) an extender of a cow’s lifespan, sometimes by years.)
Wow, this must have been just before Tony Curtis left Janet Leigh for his young German co-star from that very film he was working on in Argentina, "Taras Bulba".
It might have been mutual, although it was Curtis who filed the divorce papers on Leigh. Miss Leigh didn't take long to remarry and that marriage lasted until her death 42 years later. Curtis on the other hand was married five more times after his divorce from Miss Leigh, four of them ending in divorce and the last one with his death.
I am suprised that Bennett Cerf didn't make a pun about Eve Adams...(Adam and Eve, Eve's Adam...) And it was clear that she was new since she said, echoed by Daly, that paper money was made by the Bureau of Printing and Engraving. It was the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, who were also the printers for US and many other country's, postage stamps.
I don't think that last guy bottled champagne. Sparkling wine most likely, since he did it in USA, and champagne is French. Although it is possible that they shipped it in barrels from France.
Janet Leigh mentioned Tony Curtis filming Tara's Bulba He met actress to be his next wife Christine Kauffman Luckily Janet Leigh went on to have good final marriage after TC
I gotta say, John Payne is my least favorite type of guest player on WML, but it's not personal to him, it's the questioning style. It's players like this who are often very self serious (although possibly just really nervous) trying to sound erudite by asking oddly esoteric questions that are, at best, dead-ends (at 13:00 for instance) but often result in confusion and don't help the panel. I thought Tony Randall played a bit like that at first but he really loosened up over time and become a fun panelist and a much better questioner. So maybe it's just practice.
Sometimes this can be entertaining. Like when Orson Welles asked the guest if his work might be more appropriately performed in another century rather than in the twentieth. Probably didn't elicit a helpful answer, and I'm paraphrasing here obviously, but I liked the way his mind worked on this show.
You can't see, but I "liked" the first thoughtful reply with a different opinion than mine. But yours is just rude and typical YT Warrior so, thank you for your lost time and feedback.
Janet appeared on WML seven years earlier as a mystery guest and the panel got her just as quickly. That was the episode in which Bennett mispronounced her last name as "Lay." Often it takes Bennett longer than most so called intelligent people to catch up with everyone else regarding popular culture.
Hard to believe Tony left her for a 17 year-old B actress less than a year after this appearance. He really was the epitome of the perpetual adolescent.
You'd think that after the first year, the panelist would have learned not use double-negative questions, or ones that can't be answered with a YES or NO.
This episode of "What's My Line?" was broadcast exactly 2 years to the month after the famous are some have put it infamous shower scene in "Psycho" was shot. The shower scene was Filmed in December 1959 which actually contains the most iconic corpse stare in movie history.
Janet looked so beautiful here. This , sadly was just weeks away from when Tony Curtis would serve divorce papers to her while on the set of Manchurian Candidate
Those WML Panellists’ names defined in full. Cerf - (i) An overbearing a rather pompous person who makes creepy remarks to females. (ii) A Pisstaker (iii) A Smartarse.
I wonder if Janet was aware her marriage to Tony was on the rocks at this point as they divorced in 62 so he could marry his co star he’d been cozying up to while filming in Argentina. If she WAS aware, she was a good actress to cover it up on this show. Janet seemed such a great lady, he was an idiot for letting her go. Still, they both got on with their lives, I only hope she got over his betrayal quickly and didn’t suffer too much.
I believe Miss Leigh was caught off guard by the adulterous affair and Curtis asking for a divorce. He made his move just before filming on The Manchurian Candidate began.
President Kennedy appointed the contestant to be head of the US Mint. Doesn't it break your heart? A real president- one of the best - appointing a woman to such a high level position? I just want to cry?
Silverstone L I put that down to him having a keenness for the game. He LOVES it and wants to get on with it. And why not? To be fair the mystery guests do 'indulge' a bit before answering the question sometimes. Even I find it irritating and I'm not even wearing a blindfold. :) As for Bennett he's GUSHING with respect for the mystery guest. Regardless of being eager for them to get on with it, he genuinely marvels at a performer's talent....which he himself doesn't really have....and compliments them handsomely. I've watched a decade's worth of this show now and Bennett is consistently polite, disciplined and enthused. I also thought his glistening eyes, when offering a tribute to Fred Allen following his death, showed a touching, emotional side which defies his rather stiff appearance. Good guy.
Those WML Panellists’ names defined in full. Cerf - (i) An overbearing a rather pompous person who makes creepy remarks to females. (ii) A Pisstaker (iii) A Smartarse.
Sooo funny! A cattle dentist! He makes dental crowns for cattle! Arlene remarked "Yes well, they Look better, when they smile, in pictures..." One of the most bizarre professions on this show!
Hearing both voices, you can hear some of Janet's similar tones in Jamie Lee Curtis' voice, as well. Ironic that both are known for their legendary roles in horror.
In the original "Angels In the Outfield",Janet explained to Paul Douglas the reason why a player was the only one who did not sign a baseball:"He was in the shower."
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I cannot get enough of WHAT'S MY LINE? here recently. It's such a good, clean, and witty show. And the manners seem to be from another planet. I wish the manners would come back, but I'm sure we all know that this era in time is just a footnote of history.
I feel the same way. I watch episodes at night to relax me and make me forget about all the ills in the 🌎
if all the people who wished so actually did, then it would for them
Amen to that
I love reading other people say how much they love what’s my line because I know they understand my own love for the show. It’s become one of my favorite things to do on UA-cam, every evening, It’s a throwback to my family’s home on Sunday night, it’s a reminder of my father‘s humor and both my parents’ love for the show, it’s so relaxing. Plus, I am in love with Bennett Cerf! ❤️
For some reason, these started coming up in my UA-cam feed in the last month and I’m totally addicted! I was a little kid in its latter years but never watched it back in the day. And Julie St. John, I too have fallen for Bennett Cerf! Never mind that he’d be 125 years old now- I’m smitten!
This is tons better than what's to watch on television now.
Yes, that's why I watch these old shows instead.
B Kavanaugh Well of course! Sadly so are the people:-/
True in many respects, like reality shows, but there are excellent dramas on TV now -- it is like the early days -- smaller audiences for programs and money available to go above the lowest common denominator
B Kavanaugh What IS to watch on television now? Television is over.
I gave up television many years ago, there was very little on it I wanted to see. I much prefer watching older movies, classic TV shows, and my favorite: What's My Line? on UA-cam.
Every school of communication should show these episodes to give students knowledge of proper speaking and investigative services. These older shows have so much to offer.
You are spot on. Teach people how to conduct themselves in a civil society. The word that always captured the essence of this show is "urbane."
I think some people do still speak like this. But sadly, it is not the norm (especially the politeness).
Can also be used in education to demonstrate critical thinking, problem solving, and deductive reasoning.
I’m 52 and never knew this show. I discovered it during the depressing Covid years and it helped me in so many ways. I’m now rewatching after 3 yrs without the extreme sadness and emotional issues I went through. It’s far more enjoyable in 2024 vs 2021! 🎉.
I'm 30 and have been watching episodes on this channel, binging them off and on, for the past six or seven years. Obviously, I’m on another binge right now. 😆 I would love to see a version of this with modern day celebrities all gussied up and using formal and classy manners and language, oh, I would just LOVE that, but alas I don’t think it would work. I just don’t.
It's always great to see John Payne on any show, though not quite as old as this show I've come to 💘 every episode I've watched so far, thanks to the advent of you tube, otherwise millions of people would never even hear about it, thank you so much for posting
Janet Leigh just out of doing Psycho and beginning Manchurian Candidate. These were her golden years.
How true ! She was at the top of her game in the late 50s and early 60s ! A fine & underrated actress !
How ironic that Tony Curtis was then filming 'Taras Bulba' in Argentina when he met and married his co-star Christine Kaufman after Janet divorced him !
Janet Leigh was wonderful as actress and as beloved human being . You gave her a role and she ever know how to show the best.
I remember well this show from when I was a child. The panelists and host were so much more sophisticated than I or my friends or family would ever be. It was like they were from another world. My family always watched this show, though.
I love Arlene‘s reaction when she guesses the line.😂❤
I have learned so much Googling the panel and some of the guest. It is fascinating how the lives of President Kennedy and Dorothy Kilgallen were about to intersect so tragically.
So sorry to see how badly injured John Payne was as he was a very handsome man. And also a very nice man which comes across in his movies. Well educated, he had wanted to be a writer and was interested in the books written by C. S. Lewis. He was in such pain, I would think being on the show was difficult.
Yes, the bags under his eyes show extreme lack of sleep, presumably secondary to extreme pain.
The accident had happened quite some time before (1959, I think). He was almost 50 years old in the program and went on to have a very long life.
@@JDAbelRN He was about 50 years old and looks great to me.
@@sbalman actually the life threatening accident was on March 1, 1961 so I thought Payne looked really great considering his injuries.
Curious to see John Payne. What a bonus Janet Leigh. Thank you.
No one mentioned this yet - Janet Leigh & John Payne would be in the famous COLUMBO episode 14 years later (1975) where Janet plays a "has been" singer and dancer and watches her old movies as she is slowly losing her memory. They used real footage of Janet's movie "Walkin' My Baby Back Home" from 1953 with Donald O'Connor
A very sad episode. Payne looks like he's about 85, instead of 63. But he looked at least 10 years older than his age here, and even before his accident. Not sure if he drank or smoked, but something surely took a huge toll on his looks...
In which movie she does, indeed, do her own singing and dancing. She's very good at both!
DDumbrille John Payne would have been 49 years old if this episode was filmed in 1961.
Al Yerbury He's a old 49 here. Lots of wear and tear so to speak.
+dept2
It so happens that I just watched a clip from that "Columbo" episode, the part where Columbo drops down from the tree to his dog in the yard of Miss Leigh's home. Miss Leigh comes down to check on him. It was an episode that borrowed a bit from "Sunset Boulevard", but while you can see that Miss Leigh is no longer an ingenue, she still looks quite lovely (i.e. better than Gloria Swanson did), even if her outfit is a bit out there.
I wonder what Arlene's IQ is. She so good at this and seems very intelligent. They all sound and act so distinguished and articulate, but also show great wit and have fun. It's so superior to today's behaviors. They showed a lot more consideration also. And this game is addictive! Thanks for upload!
She reminds me of Marilu Henner! I wonder if she had a photographic memory!
Very sad that she died with Alzheimer’s very smart lady.
@@momabug75Awwww! I didn’t know her cause of death…. such a horrific disease. 😢
I will always love John Payne in the original "Miracle on 34th Street."
He was also great in The Restless Gun.
True about what Dorothy says here about John Payne. He was hit by a car in NYC in March of that year and suffered serious injuries. Facial scars may be detected here upon closeup. A very good actor and singer as well as an astute businessman. Look him up.
One can also see the bruises on the knuckles of both hands, particularly his left hand.
I think what you see is hairy knuckles, something you rarely get to see of the stars.
I never knew about that auto accident till I saw this episode ! THANKS for the additional info ! John Payne was a truly gifted actor who could do it all: act, sing, dance, etc & was equally good in both dramatic & comedic parts.
Janet Leigh and John Payne were in a memorable episode of Columbo together: Forgotten Lady! (:
Was that the one where she played a forgotten actress and he takes the rap for her having killed her husband?
@@caroler01 Yes. A lovely episode. Just saw it this evening on Prime. Colombo Season 5, Episode 1. Different from regular Columbo stories. Very sweet! Janet Leigh and John Payne were excellent. Peter Falk even dressed in a tuxedo in one scene!!!!!
This show was long before my time, but I remember my parents talking about many of these stars who appear on the show, and now through these old films, I get to see what they looked like. I like to see the old-fashioned clothes and the manners that the guests exhibit. So different from today! I also love the interactions of Bennett and John--the teasing and good-natured barbs remind me of myself and my best friend from high school.
Second contestant, Nelson Cruz Arias....my biological father...
This would be a special episode for you and to be able to see your father in his youth must be an amazing experience.
I wish you would have shared more about your father's life, because after seeing this episode, many viewers would probably have been interested in knowing about more about him.
What a happy man he seemed to be!
I hope the two of you were at peace with one another.
May he rest in peace.
@@daler.steffy1047
I always believe that when people don't elaborate, there's a reason.
The term used for 'dad' doesn't sound too cozy imho.
RIP Janet Leigh. Overdue condolences to the family for your loss. 😔💐
Poor Dorothy. She gets introduced by some guy off stage shouting as "the columnist read from coast to coast" while Arlene gets introduced in hushed reverent tones as the gorgeous, divine, most beautiful....
I always remember Janet Leigh’s voice in the fog , Great film 🎥
My mother was born on this date so cool
With the director of the mint, I was waiting for the panel to ask her if she made money doing her job. That would have gotten a huge laugh 😂
But there was another funny question, " is it a valuable product!? "
The audience tonight was very lively and reacted very enthusiastically to almost everything. I wonder if newly hired Johnny Olson had anything to do with it. He used to rev up audiences before taping. I remember him doing this when we would attend tapings of the Price is Right and he was so very good at it.
As well as on To Tell The Truth.
Gary Zerr Ahhhhh that explains it. I was wondering if "cheering for the US mint" was a peculiarly American thing maybe. Ha ha.
Gary Zerr, Yes, Johnny Olson was absolutely wonderful at what he did - so much so, that (in the 1960's) he was flown from New York City down to Miami, Florida (every week, for years!) to do the warm-ups/announcing duties for the "Jackie Gleason Show." I can still hear his great voice in my head; "From Miami Beach, the fun and sun capital of the world - It's the Jackie Gleason Show!"
And eventually he ended up on Jeopardy!
Inadvertently, the audience gives the panel hints. Part of the fun.
Janet had the most incredible beautiful face in her heyday. Unbeatable beauty.
I'm fascinated by the fact that some of the actual dialogue within this particular episode can be found in the Wikipedia article on John Payne!
Janet Leigh was so pretty and so was her husband Tony Curtis was very handsome. What a handsome couple they were!!
Amen to that ! Sad that their marriage ended in divorce due to Tony's extramarital affairs.
Must say, that's my favourite channel since yesterday.
Earlier that same night, the December 31, 1961 episode was recorded.
Too bad the final challenger couldn't bring samples ...
Camera mistake at 15:00. Bennett gets a no and the camera moves to the right to the next panelist - but he's on the end of course.
Smith Smith Ha ha. Yeah I think Ben Turpin was on Camera 2 that time.
Another of Arlene's $3,000.00 mink coats. I remember someone bringing that up once. She loved her furs and always wore them so well. How did she get them to drape over her shoulders, or the one shoulder, without falling off? No matter whether it was her arm or between each of her eyes, she always manages to look gorgeous.
My bet is safety pins, probably not the most comfortable but you know how things were back then appearances were everything
As much as l liked her, l found it very pretentious of her to wear her furs indoors, especially on the set of WML.
@@christinecatt5391 : Fur was the ultimate status symbol for women at this time. Methinks she's wearing a slightly larger than normal bolero trimmed with a very nice brown mink.
@@19gregske55 Arlene was such a beautiful and elegant woman.
None of these people seemed to care about the slaughter of animals, the breeding of lab dogs or rabbits etc or the trapping and caging of elephants!
It all seems UNBELIEVABLE! !
Psycho and Manchurian Candidate. Two great movies back to back. And of course there's Touch of Evil.
Along with ‘Old Bores Get Snuckered’, ‘How to Talk a Lot and Say Nothing’ and, that all time favourite ‘Cackle and Corn’.
This is only the second time I've noticed that the microphones were left on to capture the conversation of the panelists with the mystery guest as she shook their hands - although I still can't make out what was said.
Arlene asks the last contestant if his product might be in her home (22:08). I really doubt that she would serve New York State "champagne-style" sparkling wine. Nothing but the authentic French Champagne for her, I'm sure. The Taylor Wine Company of Hammondsport NY was the sixth largest US producer in the 1960s, went public, then was acquired by Coca-Cola (!) in 1977, with three later changes of corporate ownership until it was shut down in 1995. I haven't tasted Taylor in many years but remember it as mediocre at best.
What a pretty, demure, and classy lady Janet Leigh was!
i have a notion to second that emotion ! A class act all the way !
Two things: John Payne asked one of the most bizarre questions I've heard on these episodes, 'Is it fibrous?' Many things have fibres, so it wasn't a shrewd move. Secondly, the cow dentist from Colombia was working in his 2nd language and clearly wasn't fluent in English. The word 'livestock' confused him and John Daly had to mime most of his answers by nodding a yes. Oh yes, and Janet Leigh's tartan dress looked great from the front but clumsy from behind with the square cut-outs from the fabric. I wish we could see what colour it was.
Dr. Cruz Arias shows up in a spate of newspaper-related things in ’61, and then disappears somewhat, so I think I shall assume he went back to Colombia. Anyway, he graduated from dental school in Colombia, and then went to NYU and City College of New York. And then started creating new and better false teeth for cows. (Which, as WML has found before, are a) a source of entertainment, and b) an extender of a cow’s lifespan, sometimes by years.)
Wow, this must have been just before Tony Curtis left Janet Leigh for his young German co-star from that very film he was working on in Argentina, "Taras Bulba".
It might have been mutual, although it was Curtis who filed the divorce papers on Leigh. Miss Leigh didn't take long to remarry and that marriage lasted until her death 42 years later. Curtis on the other hand was married five more times after his divorce from Miss Leigh, four of them ending in divorce and the last one with his death.
@@loissimmons6558 Tony Curtis was an A-hole.
It was,
I am suprised that Bennett Cerf didn't make a pun about Eve Adams...(Adam and Eve, Eve's Adam...)
And it was clear that she was new since she said, echoed by Daly, that paper money was made by the Bureau of Printing and Engraving. It was the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, who were also the printers for US and many other country's, postage stamps.
Janet Leigh is very charming.
I guess Dorothy isn't all-knowing. She should have known where paper money comes from.
The beautiful janet Leigh has a face that was designed for the camera...
You speak the truth, Kemo Sabe !!
Sometimes the audience gives too much away with their laughter.
Or gasps.
No kidding
I think it's part of what makes this show so fun.
Well Johnny Olson mentioned the arthritis foundation at the end of this episode. All these years later and there is no cure for arthritis. 😔
Janet Leigh is the most composed and poised, almost natural, film star from the Golden Age.
You can surely tell these are city people. Entertaining show.
I don't think that last guy bottled champagne. Sparkling wine most likely, since he did it in USA, and champagne is French. Although it is possible that they shipped it in barrels from France.
Janet Leigh mentioned Tony Curtis filming Tara's Bulba He met actress to be his next wife Christine Kauffman Luckily Janet Leigh went on to have good final marriage after TC
Once again, Bennett scrutinised the celebrity list that week, hence he always identifies the celebrity guest so quickly.
6:30 Arlene: "I don't think you should have anything out all the time." 😆
I gotta say, John Payne is my least favorite type of guest player on
WML, but it's not personal to him, it's the questioning style. It's
players like this who are often very self serious (although possibly
just really nervous) trying to sound erudite by asking oddly esoteric
questions that are, at best, dead-ends (at 13:00 for instance) but often result in confusion and
don't help the panel. I thought Tony Randall played a bit like that at first
but he really loosened up over time and become a fun panelist and a much
better questioner. So maybe it's just practice.
Sometimes this can be entertaining. Like when Orson Welles asked the guest if his work might be more appropriately performed in another century rather than in the twentieth. Probably didn't elicit a helpful answer, and I'm paraphrasing here obviously, but I liked the way his mind worked on this show.
Jolarn70 over analytical and boring post.
You can't see, but I "liked" the first thoughtful reply with a different opinion than mine. But yours is just rude and typical YT Warrior so, thank you for your lost time and feedback.
Janet appeared on WML seven years earlier as a mystery guest and the panel got her just as quickly. That was the episode in which Bennett mispronounced her last name as "Lay." Often it takes Bennett longer than most so called intelligent people to catch up with everyone else regarding popular culture.
I adore Arlene's outfit. I'd wear that today. Just gorgeous.
She seems to have recovered nicely from that shower
I just hope ol’ Perkins wasn’t lurking … or his Mommy!
Hard to believe Tony left her for a 17 year-old B actress less than a year after this appearance. He really was the epitome of the perpetual adolescent.
No he was not.
That’s altogether too kind to say of that lecherous person. 17 years old? Please. Another Leonardo DiCaprio .
Tv is now, crime, detectives, police, fire dept., awful scripted reality shows. Music shows with twerking, …..
This is refreshing.
Thankfully i stopped watching television many years ago.
You'd think that after the first year, the panelist would have learned not use double-negative questions, or ones that can't be answered with a YES or NO.
*_DIRECTOR OF THE U.S. MINT_*
*_COW DENTIST_*
*_BOTTLES CHAMPAGNE_*
Add this to the dozens and dozens and dozens of spoken missteps that Bennett made on WML. This time he calls Miss Adams - "Miss Adamson".
Also, he calls Cruz Arias ’Cruz Orios’; more like Oreos, really.
I didn’t know that Mrs. Roosevelt sponsored a Hanukkah festival back then. Very nice!
"Chanukah"
John Payne looks just like Kevin Spacey when he was introduced.
This episode of "What's My Line?" was broadcast exactly 2 years to the month after the famous are some have put it infamous shower scene in "Psycho" was shot. The shower scene was Filmed in December 1959 which actually contains the most iconic corpse stare in movie history.
Janet Leigh, very, very classy, as is her daughter.
So why didn’t Daly ask Leigh about having worked with Hitchcock?
Dorothy: “in the CORR-all?” 😆
Not many of them down on 5th Avenue.
@@LANCSKID Indeed!
all the whoops & whistles, & John Payne asked " are you a man "
Janet looked so beautiful here. This , sadly was just weeks away from when Tony Curtis would serve divorce papers to her while on the set of Manchurian Candidate
Linda Easley - What a louse.
Money has nothing to do with marriage? LOL! Yeah right.
When Bennett was asked if he was ‘using a double negative’ , I thought for a second he was going to faint .
John Payne was intelligent! At some point he left show business and took up astronomy as a hobby!
His great movie is Kansas City Confidential.
His greatest movie is Miracle on 34th Street, with Maureen O'Hara and Natalie Wood and Edwin Gwen.
@:RonGerstein: No no
No!!! Kansas City Confidential!!!
Psycho premiered in 1960 so Ms Leigh was hot!
Cerf is WAY< WAY, Way, Way, Way better than any of the other panelists.
Those WML Panellists’ names defined in full.
Cerf - (i) An overbearing a rather pompous person who makes creepy remarks to females. (ii) A Pisstaker (iii) A Smartarse.
What a screaming reception for Janet Leigh . . . I was surprised, She's part of a famous couple, is that why ?
With regards to the last contestant, it is kind of neat that the the company that he worked for is still around and prospering.
I wonder if Janet was aware her marriage to Tony was on the rocks at this point as they divorced in 62 so he could marry his co star he’d been cozying up to while filming in Argentina.
If she WAS aware, she was a good actress to cover it up on this show.
Janet seemed such a great lady, he was an idiot for letting her go.
Still, they both got on with their lives, I only hope she got over his betrayal quickly and didn’t suffer too much.
I believe Miss Leigh was caught off guard by the adulterous affair and Curtis asking for a divorce. He made his move just before filming on The Manchurian Candidate began.
Love it when Dorothy gets mad. She seemed to have never heard of coins.
Janet Leigh aka Marion crane could have been in psycho 2 and 3 in the 80s decade reprised her shower scene role and made it out alive
That would be pretty tough to pull off, plot-wise, since her character was killed in the original "Psycho". . .
I think this was right after Psycho.
Yes, the phoney gore was still moist!
President Kennedy appointed the contestant to be head of the US Mint. Doesn't it break your heart? A real president- one of the best - appointing a woman to such a high level position? I just want to cry?
Is it a useful product? Look at your own fur wrap,baby.
Bennett always seems just a little surprised when he get's an affirmative to his questions. Love him though a sweet man.
If he's so sweet, why does he get snippy when the mystery guests don't answer his questions right away? You see this year, after year, after year....
Silverstone L I put that down to him having a keenness for the game. He LOVES it and wants to get on with it. And why not? To be fair the mystery guests do 'indulge' a bit before answering the question sometimes. Even I find it irritating and I'm not even wearing a blindfold. :)
As for Bennett he's GUSHING with respect for the mystery guest. Regardless of being eager for them to get on with it, he genuinely marvels at a performer's talent....which he himself doesn't really have....and compliments them handsomely. I've watched a decade's worth of this show now and Bennett is consistently polite, disciplined and enthused. I also thought his glistening eyes, when offering a tribute to Fred Allen following his death, showed a touching, emotional side which defies his rather stiff appearance. Good guy.
At times, yet other times he pouts when he gets a "no" that he didn't expect.
Those WML Panellists’ names defined in full.
Cerf - (i) An overbearing a rather pompous person who makes creepy remarks to females. (ii) A Pisstaker (iii) A Smartarse.
Janet Leigh is so cute it should be illegal!
One if her daughters is Jamie Lee Curtis, dad Tony Curtis, born 1958, no slouch in the movies either.
Sooo funny! A cattle dentist! He makes dental crowns for cattle! Arlene remarked "Yes well, they Look better, when they smile, in pictures..."
One of the most bizarre professions on this show!
Hearing both voices, you can hear some of Janet's similar tones in Jamie Lee Curtis' voice, as well. Ironic that both are known for their legendary roles in horror.
Dorothy is such a snake with her questioning.
Some hint in Miss Leigh’s dress of the Mia Farrowesque style that would rise to popularity later in the decade.
Marion Crane is back from the dead💀
Now I’ve heard of everything: a cow dentist!!!
John Payne looks really down here.... 😭
John Payne has thick hair on his knuckles that look like the hands of a werewolf.
As a woman, it's really gross.
She might have lasted longer if she had also used oui, jawohl, and da.
In the original "Angels In the Outfield",Janet explained to Paul Douglas the reason why a player was the only one who did not sign a baseball:"He was in the shower."
If Mr. Cruz Arias is a cow dentist, does that mean he should be from cattle-onia.
Anyone else think the panel knew exactly what their jobs were?
I really enjoy John Payne's movies, but I never noticed those hairy knuckles before. 😁
He had the hands of a werewolf, gave me the heebie jeebies.
After John shook Mr. Cruz Aria's hand, I honestly thought he was about to kiss him the way he moved right up to his face!
I really liked her. Janet Leigh I mean.
Miss Adams of the Mint had the look of the cat that swallowed the canary.
13:00 John Payne - "Do you look like you do what you do?" lol
There’s a Mr Bates here to see you, ma’am …