Thanks to the archivist for posting these wonderful, warm and intelligent episodes. This is the day I was born! I was born in the evening but I'm fairly sure they weren't watching WML. According to family fiction, they were watching Bonanza when Mom went into labor. According to Wikipedia, Bonanza was on Saturday nights and I was born on a Sunday. So much for family fiction.
@@loissimmons6558: Absolutely, and that's not all that long. If she went into labor at, say, 8 pm on a Saturday, it's likely the baby would be born on Sunday.
If I'm not mistaken a big part of the joke was that Art Carney had done a spoof of "What's my line" just two days earlier on his own show ! It's ALSO here on UA-cam
I went the opposite direction - I saw the spoof and felt the need to track down this episode following the parody. Anyone who didn't see it would wonder what they were up to with the exaggerated conference.
Never thought Joan was a looker, but at that age WOW! Can anyone imagine jumping on sticks in mud for any distance? Art did the best John Daly imitation I've seen. Carney was a man about town, married three times to two women: Jean Myers, from 1940 to 1965, and again from 1980 until his death in 2003, and to Barbara Isaac from December 21, 1966 until 1977.
If you want to see Art Carney's full John Charles Daly impression and the spoofs of the other panelists that Bennett, John and Art were all talking about, check out Gary's most recent post at: ua-cam.com/video/_5YyAjryAt8/v-deo.html. It's hilarious, and it also kind of explains some of the other shtick that Art was doing with John during their conference in this episode! ;)
Mr Hansburg's pogo stick origin story seemed fanciful to me, so I looked it up. Wikipedia quotes Hansburg's story but quotes Hansburg as the source. More than likely, the name came from the first 2 letters of the names Pohlig and Gottschall, two Germans who patented a pogo stick in Germany in 1920. The pogo stick is actually older than Mr Hansburg, but his contribution was that he patented the first 2-handle pogo stick.
Francis Knight improved service by reducing the time to get a passport from 2-3 weeks to a few days. Can she take the job again? 60 years later one is lucky to get one in a month!
When Bennett welcomed Joan Collins and said that the panel was getting prettier every week, at 1:41, Martin Gable clearly didn’t like the comment, since it was his wife Arlene Francis who was missing. I wonder what Martin said to Bennett after the show.
@@HariSeldon913 WHA? guh wha huh ...hmmm.. im looking it up! really? wha...you serious? "ill be back" momentarily back bennet cerf had an affair with joan collins????? wha?
The Carney segment is especially funny after one watches the spoof from his special which had aired two days previously. Note how Daly cracks up. :ua-cam.com/video/_5YyAjryAt8/v-deo.html
I love how when every contestant tries to say explain where they're from, he or she explains another place that the panel (or Bennett in this case) has never heard of.
There is a tendency in human nature to be overconfident in one's abilities. Martin asks the MG the first question, and based on the answer, he says at 17:35, "I know who it is already." Then he asks in later rounds whether the MG was on TV earlier that night, to which the answer was no, and whether he had appeared with his wife, to which the answer was also no. It is a fair conclusion that he did not know who the MG was, already, or even later on.
Was there ever a better sidekick than Carney's Ed Norton to Gleason's Ralph Kramden? Carney was so good, Gleason credited him with 90% of the success of "The Honeymooners". He was much more than a second banana. And to me, Joan Collins will always be remembered most as Edith Keeler from "Star Trek" (TOS). It was a meaty and unglamorous role, and one which gives me much pause for thought about idealism versus pragmatism and unintended consequences.
"The City on the Edge of Forever" is regarded by most fans and critics as the best episode in the entire Star Trek franchise. Poor Edith Keeler. "He knows, doctor... He knows..."
Wonder if there was any hell to pay from Kilgallen, Gabel or Francis after Bennett Cerf made the remark about Joan Collins how " the place is getting prettier every week "
Even Joan Collins looked uncomfortable when she saw Gabel's reaction to Cerf's clumsy and tasteless comment about the panel getting "prettier every week."
Martin makes the insightful comment that Art Carney had a terrific agent in Bill McCaffery. In 1959 Art Carney had made no movies and only one Broadway performance. Later he played Felix Unger in the original "The Odd Couple" on Broadway. Carney's career then took a dive, largely due to his alcoholism, but he stayed with McCaffery, who in the 1970's argued with Carney that he, although 54, should make his film debut as a 72 year old man in "Harry and Tonto." Carney ultimately was persuaded and won the Best Actor Oscar, defeating Albert Finney, Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman, and Al Pacino. That opened a new line for Carney in later middle age in film.
Art was at least 56 after his Sep 1974 birthday, not 54. He lived to be 85, Sep. 2003. The world misses superb actors and gentlemen as Art Carney demonstrated!
I ❤ how Dorothy looks over to the studio audience when they start laughing out loud. Interesting story behind the pogo stick, it would have been nice if pogo and her family could have been compensated
WOW, Martin Gabel was pissed at Bennett. He wouldn't e even bid Joan Collins good night after what Bennett said in the opening greetings about the panel.
I don't think Martin intended to "snub" Joan. The week prior, Martin had said goodnight to Arlene to camera, and then said goodnight to the guest panelist after. Joan jumped the gun and started talking before Martin was able to say anything else, as she had done a couple of other times throughout the evening.
You guys need to get a brain! I'm serious! I saw the intro and Bennett said absolutely NOTHING that was wrong. Pretty ladies DO make the panel "prettier." And it's pretty obvious you're all reading too much into this, cause Martin has absolutely NOTHING to be upset about.... I just can't believe your comment (and the above comment) got so many "likes" lol
Yeah and he always said stuff like "Oh we haven't had such a pretty face one the panel or show in so long" and I'm always like dude you realize that two main women on the show you could never dream of being with right ( and I don't mean to be rude to Phyllis who if she wanted to could have done better). But I do love Bennett (Sometimes).
@@kristabrewer9363: And I can't believe that YOU are telling others to "get a brain." Bennett practically stated that Joan Collins was prettier than Arlene Francis. It was totally rude.
I went mid video to go see what art was talking about and it was worth it! So thanks for posting that as well ❤ I didn't see when I went to go look for it, the cast of what's my line on I've got a secret tho 😢
*_Director of the United States Passport Office_* *_Inventor and Manufacturer of Pogo Sticks_* The first contestant looked similar to the character actress Amzie Strickland.
Mr. Art Carney was a real man! There was something in him that strikes a chord with me. I remember during one academy award show, Lucile Ball was having trouble reading the award cards and asked “would one of you boys come up and help me with this? I'm not joking.”. Both Mr. Art Carney, and Milton Burl, started up the stage. Burl reached Miss Ball first, and as Mr. Carney was turning to leave, Burl snarled at him and yelled “get off the stage” as if Mr. Carney was some bum from the audience. Mr. Carney spun around and was heading toward Burl, but then I guess he thought better of it and went back to his seat. I’m not sure, but Miss Ball may have said something like “now, boys don’t fight”, in a motherly tone. (Too bad Mr. Carney didn’t rip Burl’s fucking head off.) Those few seconds of the show revealed who these people really were. Mr. Carney was a real flesh and blood and sweat and tears man.
Bennett Cerf often showed himself to not be a very nice person. I heard one interview where he insinuated that the doctor who invented Stopette was a phony and another interview where he referred to Dorothy’s column as “disgusting.” To state that the panel wasn’t smart but got prettier in Arlene’s absence seems pretty typical of his behavior.
You should read the interviews he gives after Dorothy's death, he might as well as hung a sign saying "F*CK you" to her. He made her sound as though as she was nothing but a women out to get people.
@@syd8802 You're absolutely right. He was one of those fake modest guys, a total phony. He dumped on Dorothy Kilgallen in a contemptible manner. He also implied that Daly couldn't stand her.
Art Carney, like Red Skelton, was a much lauded comedian who never once excited even an ounce of amusement in me. I'm Australian so perhaps it's a cultural thing.
@@Baskerville22 Someone once told me that to enjoy a comic personality on film or TV, one has to appreciate/understand/feel sympathetic to the comic world they inhabit. My love of W.C. Fields is, aside from his inherent talent, my appreciation of a comic man battling the unkind world that harasses him. Chaplin was rooted in a basically Victorian aesthetic (tho' it's hard to think you don't find at least parts of The Great Dictator funny), and A&C were essentially burlesque house comics. L&H were timeless clowns who I love too. But thank heaven we have all such to choose from for laughter in our too troubled lives!
Geeze talk about foot and mouth disease. And then Mr Gable in a Soto voice says to Dorothy, "I don't know about that." And Dorthy giggles. Who knew that Joan Collins was such a good looking woman in her day.
Joan Collins was quite the looker. And Bennett Cert was a narcissistic clod. Didn't he have a so-called literary "school" that bilked hard-earned money from unsuspecting victims?
bennett does put his foot in his mouth on more than one occasion, but this time seemed more idiotic than most. his constant remarks about women's looks does get to be rather annoying after a while, but then again, it is probably not fair to view his sexism through today's eye.
Bennett Cerf always creeps me out the way he talks about women's "fabulous chassis" and "miraculous figure' and a host of other things. He's so dreadfully sexist and mysoginistic. You can actually see him drooling down his chin at times. It's creepy.
WOW! you guys are insane! I saw the introduction, and Bennett said absolutely NOTHING wrong! Since when is it a crime to say that the panel is getting prettier?! By the way, Bennett's awesome!!
@@kristabrewer9363 The obvious corollary to the statement that the panel is getting prettier when there is a group of regulars and someone else joins is that the new panelist is prettier than the people Bennett has spent the last 9 years of Sundays with. That is even if unintentionally disrespectful to the regular panelists. How would Bennett feel if he had been on vacation, a good looking male panelist had appeared, and Dorothy had said the panel was getting more handsome?
@@kristabrewer9363 Bennett Cerf IMO was an elitist, self-important clod who took pot shots at people who could no longer defend themselves i.e. Dorothy. Ever see a picture of Bennett Cerf wearing shorts? I have, and his legs were as skinny as a bird's. Maybe that fueled his attitude towards people.
Exactly WHY was Bennet an idiot in the introductions? I didn't hear him say ANYTHING wrong! At least 3 people on here said how he was tired of his cracks about women (or things of that nature). Since when is it a crime to say the panel was getting prettier?!
Because it sounds like Joan Collins is more beautiful than Arlene. Which is unfair towards Arlene as she is one of the leading ladies on the panel for 10 years (up to this episode) and also Arlene's husband is on the panel. You can hear Martin says: "Oh, I don't know", which clearly shows that he is irritated. And also he didn't say "good night" to Joan at the end which he will never do otherwise.
What Bennet said was insulting to the two permanent female panel members, and one of those women's husbands was sitting 2 chairs down. Certainly Bennet merely meant to pay Joan Collins a compliment, but he did so at the other 2 ladies' expense.
Bennett Cerf is my least favorite of the long-time What's My Line panelists. How tactless of him to rave about Ms. Collins' looks in the manner that he did, with Martin Gabel nearby. Martin mutters something to Dorothy, don't know what. Joan Collins was indeed quite beautiful...too bad in recent years she has become something of a parody of her former self, dangerously veering into Mae West/Sextette territory.
Chiedu Egbuniwe & hcombs0104 & Galileocan g & Brian Loria I love Bennett, but this is the kind of tactless remark he had a habit of making that makes me cringe. In trying to compliment Joan Collins, he backhandedly insulted both Paulette Goddard and Arlene Francis! We all know that he thought the world of Arlene and her beauty, and he clearly admired Miss Goddard the previous week, so I'm sure the slight was not intentional. Still -- talk about putting his foot in his mouth! (Gallileocan g, kudos to you for your much more clever way of putting it!)
Interesting that in the end Martin Gabel says "good night Arlene" instead of saying good night to Joan Collins although it wasn't her fault that Bennett made the slight. You wonder if Bennett ever realized what an idiotic comment he made.
![What's My Line? - Arlene Dahl; David Niven [panel] (Dec 13, 1959)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/976ZKd3ANfo/mqdefault.jpg)
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Art Carney is wonderful - I didn't know he was SO talented!
no kidding right?? also, kinda handsome, and a sophisticate. No? Cutiepie, definitely not cookiecutter Ed Norton, this man. WHEW!
Checkout his lead performance in the 1974 movie "Harry & Tonto"; it's astounding.
@@kennethlatham3133 Forgot about that, but your right a great movie.
I know Im kinda off topic but does anyone know a good site to stream new series online?
He did a wonderful dramatic performance on a Christmas episode of Twilight Zone.
Aired the day after I was born = such exciting trivia for y'all - lol
One of my older brothers was born ten days after this episode aired.
Why, you’re just a wee lad! I’m at least eight years older than you. Hang in there; still some good times ahead!
@@TheAuntieBa Lovely thing me tell your mother! = thanks!
I was just thinking, 'wasn't this the day after your were born?'.
It seems no one enjoyed Art Carney's impersonation more than Mr. Daly himself! Now THAT'S a class act!
22:25
I was a fan of Mr. Carney, but never realized he did impersonations!! What a delight to hear this talent on WML!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When Joan walked onto that set, she strutted in like a STAR.
And sat there truly full of herself the Whole time....... lol
Her nickname shortly after she arrived in Hollywood was "The British Open" due to her willingness to sleep with any man.
Art Carney was so awesome
For Batman fans, we get the Siren and the Archer on the same program! :)
🦇💙
Thanks to the archivist for posting these wonderful, warm and intelligent episodes. This is the day I was born! I was born in the evening but I'm fairly sure they weren't watching WML. According to family fiction, they were watching Bonanza when Mom went into labor. According to Wikipedia, Bonanza was on Saturday nights and I was born on a Sunday. So much for family fiction.
Sometimes a woman can be in labor for that long.
Bonanza was on Sunday nights... I watched it for years and had a young teen’s crush on Pernell Roberts (Adam. Cartwright).
@@loissimmons6558: Absolutely, and that's not all that long. If she went into labor at, say, 8 pm on a Saturday, it's likely the baby would be born on Sunday.
@@loissimmons6558 what time Saturday. I went in twice on Saturday and both were born on Sunday 😊
@@accomplice55 yep
For me, the funniest mystery guest segment ever!!!!
Art Carney is my favorite. Just love him.
If I'm not mistaken a big part of the joke was that Art Carney had done a spoof of "What's my line" just two days earlier on his own show ! It's ALSO here on UA-cam
For the lazy: ua-cam.com/video/KF1UsdzvJP8/v-deo.html Much funnier after seeing it ;-)
@@CameronAPhelps Thank you so much from the lazy. It is now much funnier, indeed.
I went the opposite direction - I saw the spoof and felt the need to track down this episode following the parody. Anyone who didn't see it would wonder what they were up to with the exaggerated conference.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Never thought Joan was a looker, but at that age WOW!
Can anyone imagine jumping on sticks in mud for any distance?
Art did the best John Daly imitation I've seen.
Carney was a man about town, married three times to two women: Jean Myers, from 1940 to 1965, and again from 1980 until his death in 2003, and to Barbara Isaac from December 21, 1966 until 1977.
If you want to see Art Carney's full John Charles Daly impression and the spoofs of the other panelists that Bennett, John and Art were all talking about, check out Gary's most recent post at: ua-cam.com/video/_5YyAjryAt8/v-deo.html. It's hilarious, and it also kind of explains some of the other shtick that Art was doing with John during their conference in this episode! ;)
Yuck
So true!!
What a Hoot!! I miss these guys....**sigh**...
Mr Hansburg's pogo stick origin story seemed fanciful to me, so I looked it up. Wikipedia quotes Hansburg's story but quotes Hansburg as the source. More than likely, the name came from the first 2 letters of the names Pohlig and Gottschall, two Germans who patented a pogo stick in Germany in 1920. The pogo stick is actually older than Mr Hansburg, but his contribution was that he patented the first 2-handle pogo stick.
Francis Knight improved service by reducing the time to get a passport from 2-3 weeks to a few days. Can she take the job again? 60 years later one is lucky to get one in a month!
Great impression
When Bennett welcomed Joan Collins and said that the panel was getting prettier every week, at 1:41, Martin Gable clearly didn’t like the comment, since it was his wife Arlene Francis who was missing. I wonder what Martin said to Bennett after the show.
History of the pogo! Interesting.
TBBMusicBlog why the heck didnt the dad just make her some shoes?
@@rapunzelz5520 But.....then, we wouldn't have the Pogo Stick© .
Recently got my European passport renewed... took 6 weeks
martin gabel was a highly intelligent fellow!...as well as arlene francis' husband!
genius mchaggis Yeah, really like him a lot. His humor is wonderful
martin WAS sharp eh? as if ANY husband of arlenes would be a mental dud!
I have to wonder how he felt about Bennett saying the panel was getting prettier when it was his wife that Joan Collins was replacing.
@@HariSeldon913
WHA?
guh wha huh ...hmmm..
im looking it up!
really? wha...you serious?
"ill be back" momentarily
back
bennet cerf had an affair with joan collins?????
wha?
Shows he has brains AND good judgement
Bennett's reaction at 21:26 - Epic :)
You can tell daily really liked it when art Carney was on the show.
*Daly
I’m dying here! 😂 watching Mr. Carney pull a John Daly on the Moderator!
The Carney segment is especially funny after one watches the spoof from his special which had aired two days previously. Note how Daly cracks up. :ua-cam.com/video/_5YyAjryAt8/v-deo.html
Art was so funny
I love how when every contestant tries to say explain where they're from, he or she explains another place that the panel (or Bennett in this case) has never heard of.
Well this was actually a couple of weeks before my 1st birthday!
I wish I could "like" this every time I watch it,
There is a tendency in human nature to be overconfident in one's abilities. Martin asks the MG the first question, and based on the answer, he says at 17:35, "I know who it is already." Then he asks in later rounds whether the MG was on TV earlier that night, to which the answer was no, and whether he had appeared with his wife, to which the answer was also no. It is a fair conclusion that he did not know who the MG was, already, or even later on.
Was there ever a better sidekick than Carney's Ed Norton to Gleason's Ralph Kramden? Carney was so good, Gleason credited him with 90% of the success of "The Honeymooners". He was much more than a second banana.
And to me, Joan Collins will always be remembered most as Edith Keeler from "Star Trek" (TOS). It was a meaty and unglamorous role, and one which gives me much pause for thought about idealism versus pragmatism and unintended consequences.
WHAT?
"The City on the Edge of Forever" is regarded by most fans and critics as the best episode in the entire Star Trek franchise. Poor Edith Keeler. "He knows, doctor... He knows..."
Yep, it's my favorite episode!
Wonder if there was any hell to pay from Kilgallen, Gabel or Francis
after Bennett Cerf made the remark about Joan Collins how
" the place is getting prettier every week "
Martin was definitely miffed by Bennett's remark, and vocalized it as he adored his wife Arlene!
Ironically, applying for a new passport is something on my short list of things to do. I haven't had one in about 30 years.
Even Joan Collins looked uncomfortable when she saw Gabel's reaction to Cerf's clumsy and tasteless comment about the panel getting "prettier every week."
i picked that up right away. I don't think he realized what he was saying and that it was an indirect jab at Arlene.
Martin makes the insightful comment that Art Carney had a terrific agent in Bill McCaffery. In 1959 Art Carney had made no movies and only one Broadway performance. Later he played Felix Unger in the original "The Odd Couple" on Broadway. Carney's career then took a dive, largely due to his alcoholism, but he stayed with McCaffery, who in the 1970's argued with Carney that he, although 54, should make his film debut as a 72 year old man in "Harry and Tonto." Carney ultimately was persuaded and won the Best Actor Oscar, defeating Albert Finney, Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman, and Al Pacino. That opened a new line for Carney in later middle age in film.
Art was at least 56 after his Sep 1974 birthday, not 54. He lived to be 85, Sep. 2003. The world misses superb actors and gentlemen as Art Carney demonstrated!
Art is a class act..
I ❤ how Dorothy looks over to the studio audience when they start laughing out loud. Interesting story behind the pogo stick, it would have been nice if pogo and her family could have been compensated
Art Carney was incredibly talented.
Check out Carney on the Twilight Zone. Great Christmas Episode.
Wow... Ms. Collins - quite the stunner.
I love the pogo stick origin story. Very cool
And now we are back to 6-8 weeks to get a passport
WOW, Martin Gabel was pissed at Bennett. He wouldn't e even bid Joan Collins good night after what Bennett said in the opening greetings about the panel.
Oh. How petty. Egos 🥱
I don't know if he should have taken it out on Joan. He should have found a way to give a subtle middle finger to Bennett, though.
I don't think Martin intended to "snub" Joan. The week prior, Martin had said goodnight to Arlene to camera, and then said goodnight to the guest panelist after. Joan jumped the gun and started talking before Martin was able to say anything else, as she had done a couple of other times throughout the evening.
That lech Bennet Cerf undoubtedly LOVED sitting next to Joan Collins.
Wonder what his marriage was like?, he was such an adolescent
Bennett's intro was a mean sideways swipe at Arlene (and Dorothy). He does not seem to even realize it. For a smart guy, he could be a dolt sometimes.
Martin certainly seemed to realize it. He muttered something but his voice is too quiet to know exactly he said.
@@preppysocks209 It sounds like "Oh, I don't know" to me.
You guys need to get a brain! I'm serious! I saw the intro and Bennett said absolutely NOTHING that was wrong. Pretty ladies DO make the panel "prettier."
And it's pretty obvious you're all reading too much into this, cause Martin has absolutely NOTHING to be upset about.... I just can't believe your comment (and the above comment) got so many "likes" lol
Yeah and he always said stuff like "Oh we haven't had such a pretty face one the panel or show in so long" and I'm always like dude you realize that two main women on the show you could never dream of being with right ( and I don't mean to be rude to Phyllis who if she wanted to could have done better). But I do love Bennett (Sometimes).
@@kristabrewer9363: And I can't believe that YOU are telling others to "get a brain." Bennett practically stated that Joan Collins was prettier than Arlene Francis. It was totally rude.
I went mid video to go see what art was talking about and it was worth it! So thanks for posting that as well ❤ I didn't see when I went to go look for it, the cast of what's my line on I've got a secret tho 😢
Took 6 weeks to get mine
When the rest of the nonsense gets annoying I watch and old What's My Line episode to calm and soothe my frazzled nerves!
*_Director of the United States Passport Office_*
*_Inventor and Manufacturer of Pogo Sticks_*
The first contestant looked similar to the character actress Amzie Strickland.
Art had 4 appearances as the Mystery Guest; John really must have liked him.
How cool it would have been to just hang out with Art Carney in a living room somewhere for a few hours!
Honestly. I Would (Definitely) Call This Fellow "STELLAR"
While every single person from this show is now dead, those Mix Masters are still out there working just fine.
Joan Collins is still with us.
Dame Joan Collins is alive and as vibrant and beautiful as ever and still acting and doing specials. She is amazing!
Joan Collins died?
Passports use to take a couple of days!? Why did we go back to weeks again?
Mr. Art Carney was a real man! There was something in him that strikes a
chord with me. I remember during one academy award show, Lucile Ball
was having trouble reading the award cards and asked “would one of you
boys come up and help me with this? I'm not joking.”. Both Mr. Art
Carney, and Milton Burl, started up the stage. Burl reached Miss Ball
first, and as Mr. Carney was turning to leave, Burl snarled at him and
yelled “get off the stage” as if Mr. Carney was some bum from the
audience. Mr. Carney spun around and was heading toward Burl, but then I
guess he thought better of it and went back to his seat. I’m not sure,
but Miss Ball may have said something like “now, boys don’t fight”, in a
motherly tone. (Too bad Mr. Carney didn’t rip Burl’s fucking head
off.) Those few seconds of the show revealed who these people really
were. Mr. Carney was a real flesh and blood and sweat and tears man.
Joan Collins was really beautiful! She's the great Edith Keeler 🖖
1aikane: look away!
Who?
@@peternagy-im4be: Edith Keeler, a character from the best Star Trek episode ever. And the best thing Collins ever did.
Don’t see it
@@dinahbrown902 watch the Star Trek episode with her in it
art carney always gave them trouble lol...not the first time huh
Interesting story about the pogo stick
Bennett Cerf often showed himself to not be a very nice person. I heard one interview where he insinuated that the doctor who invented Stopette was a phony and another interview where he referred to Dorothy’s column as “disgusting.” To state that the panel wasn’t smart but got prettier in Arlene’s absence seems pretty typical of his behavior.
You should read the interviews he gives after Dorothy's death, he might as well as hung a sign saying "F*CK you" to her. He made her sound as though as she was nothing but a women out to get people.
@@syd8802 You're absolutely right. He was one of those fake modest guys, a total phony. He dumped on Dorothy Kilgallen in a contemptible manner. He also implied that Daly couldn't stand her.
He was an arrogant pig
I agree.
@@syd8802 *a woman
In what might be termed an “office”?
You gotta love the chutzpah of Bennett Cerf: "This panel may not be very smart but it's getting prettier every day!"
Wonder if Arlene kicked his butt when she got back.
Brian Loria -- " . . . every week", actually.
Listen carefully to Martin Gabel's response...
It's not "chutzpah," it's rudeness, and I don't admire it.
Art Carney, like Red Skelton, was a much lauded comedian who never once excited even an ounce of amusement in me. I'm Australian so perhaps it's a cultural thing.
At least you are honest. Comedy is such a personal thing. Morcombe and Wise were moribund for me, for example. To each his/her own laugh...
@@bloodgrss I love Laurel & Hardy, but find Abbott & Costello irritating, and Charlie Chaplin far from hilarious
@@Baskerville22 Someone once told me that to enjoy a comic personality on film or TV, one has to appreciate/understand/feel sympathetic to the comic world they inhabit. My love of W.C. Fields is, aside from his inherent talent, my appreciation of a comic man battling the unkind world that harasses him. Chaplin was rooted in a basically Victorian aesthetic (tho' it's hard to think you don't find at least parts of The Great Dictator funny), and A&C were essentially burlesque house comics. L&H were timeless clowns who I love too. But thank heaven we have all such to choose from for laughter in our too troubled lives!
I'm sure that was costume jewelry these ladies had on. Joan had on fake it look liked.
Geeze talk about foot and mouth disease. And then Mr Gable in a Soto voice says to Dorothy, "I don't know about that." And Dorthy giggles. Who knew that Joan Collins was such a good looking woman in her day.
Saw her in Land of the Pharaohs in 1955, when I was a little boy. She gave me some new feelings I then did not understand.
many many of us! 😉😊
Joan Collins was quite the looker. And Bennett Cert was a narcissistic clod. Didn't he have a so-called literary "school" that bilked hard-earned money from unsuspecting victims?
Bennett often dined on shoe leather while on the show. UGH!
Boy Bennett kind of knocked Arlene over Joan Collins who was certainty beautiful.
Was Art Carney born looking old?
He was born looking up!
It seems that Art Carney had a bad right ear.
he had a hereditary hearing problem and was wearing a hearing aid by the 1970s
bennett does put his foot in his mouth on more than one occasion, but this time seemed more idiotic than most. his constant remarks about women's looks does get to be rather annoying after a while, but then again, it is probably not fair to view his sexism through today's eye.
Bennett Cerf always creeps me out the way he talks about women's "fabulous chassis" and "miraculous figure' and a host of other things. He's so dreadfully sexist and mysoginistic. You can actually see him drooling down his chin at times. It's creepy.
WOW! you guys are insane! I saw the introduction, and Bennett said absolutely NOTHING wrong! Since when is it a crime to say that the panel is getting prettier?!
By the way, Bennett's awesome!!
@@kristabrewer9363 The obvious corollary to the statement that the panel is getting prettier when there is a group of regulars and someone else joins is that the new panelist is prettier than the people Bennett has spent the last 9 years of Sundays with. That is even if unintentionally disrespectful to the regular panelists. How would Bennett feel if he had been on vacation, a good looking male panelist had appeared, and Dorothy had said the panel was getting more handsome?
@@kristabrewer9363 Bennett Cerf IMO was an elitist, self-important clod who took pot shots at people who could no longer defend themselves i.e. Dorothy.
Ever see a picture of Bennett Cerf wearing shorts? I have, and his legs were as skinny as a bird's. Maybe that fueled his attitude towards people.
@@kristabrewer9363: Right, Krista. Everyone is insane but you.
Exactly WHY was Bennet an idiot in the introductions? I didn't hear him say ANYTHING wrong! At least 3 people on here said how he was tired of his cracks about women (or things of that nature). Since when is it a crime to say the panel was getting prettier?!
Because it sounds like Joan Collins is more beautiful than Arlene. Which is unfair towards Arlene as she is one of the leading ladies on the panel for 10 years (up to this episode) and also Arlene's husband is on the panel. You can hear Martin says: "Oh, I don't know", which clearly shows that he is irritated. And also he didn't say "good night" to Joan at the end which he will never do otherwise.
@@teddytodorova woke nonsense
SERIOUSLY???
What Bennet said was insulting to the two permanent female panel members, and one of those women's husbands was sitting 2 chairs down. Certainly Bennet merely meant to pay Joan Collins a compliment, but he did so at the other 2 ladies' expense.
To add surely they could had found a better panel member than B. S. !
Who is B. S. ?
Bennett Cerf is my least favorite of the long-time What's My Line panelists. How tactless of him to rave about Ms. Collins' looks in the manner that he did, with Martin Gabel nearby. Martin mutters something to Dorothy, don't know what.
Joan Collins was indeed quite beautiful...too bad in recent years she has become something of a parody of her former self, dangerously veering into Mae West/Sextette territory.
Yes, Martin seemed irritated by that remark - as he should!
Chiedu Egbuniwe & hcombs0104 & Galileocan g & Brian Loria
I love Bennett, but this is the kind of tactless remark he had a habit of making that makes me cringe. In trying to compliment Joan Collins, he backhandedly insulted both Paulette Goddard and Arlene Francis! We all know that he thought the world of Arlene and her beauty, and he clearly admired Miss Goddard the previous week, so I'm sure the slight was not intentional. Still -- talk about putting his foot in his mouth! (Gallileocan g, kudos to you for your much more clever way of putting it!)
Not to mention the slight to Joan Collins as if she's only adding beauty and no smarts at all.
Interesting that in the end Martin Gabel says "good night Arlene" instead of saying good night to Joan Collins although it wasn't her fault that Bennett made the slight. You wonder if Bennett ever realized what an idiotic comment he made.
hcombs0104 -- To each his own. I really like Bennett Cerf and I can't imagine that WML would have lasted until 1967 without him.
Not really a strut More a prance.
Wow b.s. Has a temper.
Who?
@michael Do you mean Bennett Cerf?