For all the social progress we have made, there is a price to be paid for everything and the loss of the social graces is part of it. The type of world on display in Password or What's My Line will always be home to me...
It's amazing how time flies. It was literally like a different planet back then, things have changed so much, and we've all gone along for this mysterious ride of time and life
I don't know, but it makes you wonder how bad things will be when that much time passes for some poor child born today. Maybe the human race will have blown up the planet by then.
I’ve always believed life is what we make of it. I think with the birth of the internet and access to the world at our fingertips, we are just more exposed to bad news/people/happenings but I see your point
Igor Fujs - You ask a good question. A huge part of the problem is the downgrading of music* that same year when the Beatles came to the U.S., L.B.J. was elected President, and he put into practice ( with helpers in the House & Senate ) his "Great Society" plan. That plan invented the modern welfare state. Instead of getting a job and working for a living, people could get money and food and housing for doing nothing. No respect for your elders or your betters, because everyone is "equal". Just the year before the numbus skullus so-called Justices on the USSC decided that a whining, nasty atheist woman named O'Hare who hated God should not have her boys in a schools that prayed at the beginning of the school day. I was there in 3rd Grade that day. The Teacher said about 8 am: "Sorry kids: The Supreme Court says that we cannot pray anymore at school". When people are not reminded that there is a God in Heaven who knows what people are doing, then they are more likely to act like monkeys in a zoo. I noticed that within a year, the discipline and attitudes of the students was slipping. By the Junior High School time things were really bad. By 9th Grade the School District quit "Corporal Punishment" (a wooden paddle administered by the Shop teachers, The P.E. teachers/Coaches and the Vice Principals) were put away. The hair and dress codes were done away with. Immediately the use of drugs went up, and City Cops had to come to the school, {The S.D. had forbidden the "Corporal Punishment" anymore, sooooo "When the cat is away, the mouse will play". Libertines and anarchists pop-up all over the place.} Some girls were transferred to special "Pregnant Student" campuses. The wicked, foul communist / atheist M.M. O'Hare got her wishes, thanks to some guys in Black Robes at the Supreme Court,,,, who, later in 1973 decided that there is a so-called "Right to Privacy" in the U.S. Constitution ( There is NOT! ), And therefore it is okay to kill an unborn baby in the womb. The nation has been on a downhill slide since then. { BTW - one of her sons became a Christian later on and totally repudiated everything his mother and his brother stood for. } * In this "Password" episode the PW was "Orchestra". The man contestant said for a clue: "Mantovani" and L. Bacall got it right. Nowadays, 2022, if the clue was "Mantovani" somebody would think it was an Italian menu item.
society was trash back then. all these "classy" and sophisticated Hollywood people had horrific lives, the entire generation had closets full of skeletons and those skeletons ruined the lives of generations to come. the only difference in people now is that there is a chance for people to find happiness instead of forcing to conform to society - even now, society is trash but lets stop romanticizing the past and enjoy it for what it was.
@@gusloader123 O'Hare was such a wonderful patriot. She put up with remarkable abuse in order to ensure that freedom of religion also meant freedom from state forced religion. She is a tribute to America's founding father's and she, along with Jane Roe, were two of the most important people of the twentieth century. They turned Americans away from closed minded ignorant obedience to individuals with liberty and choice. If only the quality of education in the US and around the world was such that people understand individual liberty and freedom means having the right to make choices, even when others might think the choice is wrong or a sin. Instead we have a bunch of aging, whiny baby boomers who find it overwhelming and want to go back to being sheep. It's almost funny.
Dazzling! Doug Fairbanks AND Bacall. Fairbanks was SO cool, a war hero, a charmer and so classy that English Royalty fought over who got to invite him to their homes. BACALL... wow... she got into this mock 'fight' with Allen which was SO sexy and cool and her way of flirting. I thought it was hilarious when she gave away 'mustache' by twirling an invisible mustache where the audience and ALL of America could see but NOT Allen! Then they give her the word 'whistle' which was her most famous line she said in her first movie to Bogie "You know how to whistle, just put your lips together and blow." That is why she was laughing so hard. And through all those years of ridiculous 60's hair styles her classic Bacall 'do' looks as classy now as it did then. Wow.
I had a co-worker who did a lot of work in Broadway theaters over the years, and he always said Lauren Bacall was one of the biggest bitchiest divas he ever met. I don't know if it was true though.
Ellen Gregory, I don’t think it’s true. She was an intellectual and a perfectionist. Perhaps she wouldn’t put up with mediocrity and crap. Often, people like that come across as bitchy and difficult to people with no such high standards who cannot see the point in being perfect. But diva she was not. To qualify as a Diva requires quite a bit of vanity which the off-screen LB didn’t have. In fact, she was very down to earth and disliked vane people.
Giving Lauren a word like Whistle. Pity she couldn't have said "Just blow". I am referring to the movie she was in called "To have or have not" (1944) with her husband Humphrey Bogart where she had the line. She seemed like a lovely down to earth woman. I thought she was good in The Mirror Has 2 Faces playing Barbra Streisand's mother.
Mr. Fairbanks a bit of anxiety cause he didn't at times know what hints to use ,love him ,seriously no one is perfect ,I love it💝💞😊😊👏👏👏 I'm guilty of this when I'm not sure of what to say too
I live in the area where Lauren Bacall's partner in the first game was from. There are still many with that last name in the Suffern area, but William appears to have left the area entirely.
Lauren Bacall was laughing at the clue "whistle" because it is a famous line of hers from the film "To Have and Have Not" where she says to her husband Humphrey Bogart "You know how to whistle, don't you? You just put your lips together and blow."
That one contestant William is actually the only other person I've ever heard from the same hometown as 1 of my favorite musical artists of today: Grace VanderWaal!! (Suffern NY)
Pam Hi - Hello. Actually, NBC had Color TV earlier and they were the only network that did for a few years. That is why their motto was: "N.B.C. - Proud as a Peacock", and then the NBC Peacock would fan his feathers, in color. 🙂 Starting in 1954, NBC broadcast the Rose Parade. By 1957 all of their programs were in color. RCA made the color TV sets. N.B.C. was owned by R.C.A.. By about 1966 ABC & CBS were also broadcasting in Color. Not all local Stations were set up for color broadcasting. A different gizmo-thingy-something was needed.
..was about to post a comment along similar lines but perhaps yours will do. Dude's nearly half a decade Rob Lowe's junior here; 6 younger than Tom Cruise ..Pitt etc.
I never thought Bacall was "Hot" or good looking. Apparently that shrimp with a weird voice/mouth (H. Bogart) liked here but, I never could understand how she was considered "Good looking". Her cackling laugh was like a parrot. [ She was a good PW player though.] {The female contestant who was trying to get Fairbanks to notice her "curves" was a good-looking woman.} I can think of several (many, actually) better looking women than L.B.. A.) Maureen O'Hara B.) Dorothy Green C.) Elaine DeVry D.) Dianna Millay E.) Paula Raymond F.) Donna Reed G.) Charlene Holt H.) Julie(Julia) Adams
The hand and face gesture rule was nothing but a joke.It does not matter who you think you are,Cheating at anything and/or Cheating on someone is and Always will be WRONG.
You can see allan ludden is peeved when earlier Lauren got away with the mustache clue she gestured...so he got her back..and you could see it in his face....when the password was look...his comment was she isn't pretty as she once was as she was known as the look...Fairbanks saw it on her face that she got mad...as she told ludden...I've got to watch you...
@@karendeaton9297 I've seen him once or twice on password... Try to be cleverly and unchivalist... With other ladies.... I mean not very gentlemanly like... In his own clever way...
Good celeb players and contestants this episode. Good clues, and answers, even if they were wrong, they were good answers usually. L. Bacall's cackling laugh was 🤕😖😩😡 horrible. She sounded just like that parrot on the episode of the Perry Mason TV series about the squawking parrot in the cage in a cabin. ugh. "Fingers nails on the chalkboard." ☹
Lauren Bacall absolutely cheated with that mustache question. Pfft. And then both of them lied when asked if she made a gesture. Glad that she lost that round.
+Krista Brewer +Pam Hi The first national color broadcast in the U.S. was on 1/1/1954 with the Tournament of Roses Parade by NBC. Because NBC was owned by RCA who made the first color sets, they began to heavily promote color programs. It is one reason why "Bonanza" survived a disastrous first year ratings-wise in the early 60's. In contrast, CBS and ABC which didn't make televisions were loathe to promote their rival's product so they clung to b&w programming longer than might have been wise (and Password was on CBS). Also ABC was hurting for money and it took them longer to come up with the money to switch to color.
![What's My Line? - Charlton Heston; Douglas Fairbanks Jr [panel] (Oct 28, 1956)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZavJcwBIlrU/mqdefault.jpg)
Lauren Bacall is sorely missed 🌸
She had an innate elegance that so few women have today.
These stars exuded a charm, standard and quality we hardly see anymore.
For all the social progress we have made, there is a price to be paid for everything and the loss of the social graces is part of it. The type of world on display in Password or What's My Line will always be home to me...
@@garywarmee4367 Copy that. Stay safe.
It’s called self respect
@@garywarmee4367 social progress? LOL
Before RAP
Bacall and Fairbanks.....pure class...unfortunately this world will never see their likes again!!!!
For Whistle I expected Lauren Bacall to give “blow” as a clue, in tribute to her line in that movie.
It's amazing how time flies. It was literally like a different planet back then, things have changed so much, and we've all gone along for this mysterious ride of time and life
Miss Bacall is soo soo funny ,she was having a fun time 😂😂👏😊💝
Lauren Bacall is very smart and focused. I enjoy the good manners of contestants.
Lauren was devastatingly gorgeous....love her....those eyes....
I was born two years later. How can society since then deteriorate to what we have now in just one human's life?
I don't know, but it makes you wonder how bad things will be when that much time passes for some poor child born today. Maybe the human race will have blown up the planet by then.
I’ve always believed life is what we make of it. I think with the birth of the internet and access to the world at our fingertips, we are just more exposed to bad news/people/happenings but I see your point
Igor Fujs - You ask a good question. A huge part of the problem is the downgrading of music* that same year when the Beatles came to the U.S., L.B.J. was elected President, and he put into practice ( with helpers in the House & Senate ) his "Great Society" plan. That plan invented the modern welfare state. Instead of getting a job and working for a living, people could get money and food and housing for doing nothing.
No respect for your elders or your betters, because everyone is "equal". Just the year before the numbus skullus so-called Justices on the USSC decided that a whining, nasty atheist woman named O'Hare who hated God should not have her boys in a schools that prayed at the beginning of the school day. I was there in 3rd Grade that day. The Teacher said about 8 am: "Sorry kids: The Supreme Court says that we cannot pray anymore at school". When people are not reminded that there is a God in Heaven who knows what people are doing, then they are more likely to act like monkeys in a zoo.
I noticed that within a year, the discipline and attitudes of the students was slipping. By the Junior High School time things were really bad.
By 9th Grade the School District quit "Corporal Punishment" (a wooden paddle administered by the Shop teachers, The P.E. teachers/Coaches and the Vice Principals) were put away.
The hair and dress codes were done away with. Immediately the use of drugs went up, and City Cops had to come to the school, {The S.D. had forbidden the "Corporal Punishment" anymore, sooooo "When the cat is away, the mouse will play". Libertines and anarchists pop-up all over the place.} Some girls were transferred to special "Pregnant Student" campuses.
The wicked, foul communist / atheist M.M. O'Hare got her wishes, thanks to some guys in Black Robes at the Supreme Court,,,, who, later in 1973 decided that there is a so-called "Right to Privacy" in the U.S. Constitution ( There is NOT! ), And therefore it is okay to kill an unborn baby in the womb. The nation has been on a downhill slide since then.
{ BTW - one of her sons became a Christian later on and totally repudiated everything his mother and his brother stood for. }
* In this "Password" episode the PW was "Orchestra". The man contestant said for a clue: "Mantovani" and L. Bacall got it right. Nowadays, 2022, if the clue was "Mantovani" somebody would think it was an Italian menu item.
society was trash back then. all these "classy" and sophisticated Hollywood people had horrific lives, the entire generation had closets full of skeletons and those skeletons ruined the lives of generations to come. the only difference in people now is that there is a chance for people to find happiness instead of forcing to conform to society - even now, society is trash but lets stop romanticizing the past and enjoy it for what it was.
@@gusloader123 O'Hare was such a wonderful patriot. She put up with remarkable abuse in order to ensure that freedom of religion also meant freedom from state forced religion. She is a tribute to America's founding father's and she, along with Jane Roe, were two of the most important people of the twentieth century. They turned Americans away from closed minded ignorant obedience to individuals with liberty and choice.
If only the quality of education in the US and around the world was such that people understand individual liberty and freedom means having the right to make choices, even when others might think the choice is wrong or a sin. Instead we have a bunch of aging, whiny baby boomers who find it overwhelming and want to go back to being sheep. It's almost funny.
Lauren looks really beautiful. Great show!
Dazzling! Doug Fairbanks AND Bacall. Fairbanks was SO cool, a war hero, a charmer and so classy that English Royalty fought over who got to invite him to their homes. BACALL... wow... she got into this mock 'fight' with Allen which was SO sexy and cool and her way of flirting. I thought it was hilarious when she gave away 'mustache' by twirling an invisible mustache where the audience and ALL of America could see but NOT Allen!
Then they give her the word 'whistle' which was her most famous line she said in her first movie to Bogie "You know how to whistle, just put your lips together and blow." That is why she was laughing so hard. And through all those years of ridiculous 60's hair styles her classic Bacall 'do' looks as classy now as it did then. Wow.
yes I agree
I had a co-worker who did a lot of work in Broadway theaters over the years, and he always said Lauren Bacall was one of the biggest bitchiest divas he ever met. I don't know if it was true though.
Ellen Gregory, I don’t think it’s true. She was an intellectual and a perfectionist. Perhaps she wouldn’t put up with mediocrity and crap. Often, people like that come across as bitchy and difficult to people with no such high standards who cannot see the point in being perfect. But diva she was not. To qualify as a Diva requires quite a bit of vanity which the off-screen LB didn’t have. In fact, she was very down to earth and disliked vane people.
@@johnsarkissian5519 Baloney, she was hell on wheels
I love her.
20:15 - The password is "Gossip".
Douglas's clue: "chatter"
Lauren's clue: "women"
Lauren wins the round. Lol!
Best moment at 14:43
Lauren: "Call."
Male Contestant: "Girl."
This was so much fun to watch
Giving Lauren a word like Whistle. Pity she couldn't have said "Just blow". I am referring to the movie she was in called "To have or have not" (1944) with her husband Humphrey Bogart where she had the line. She seemed like a lovely down to earth woman. I thought she was good in The Mirror Has 2 Faces playing Barbra Streisand's mother.
Mr. Fairbanks a bit of anxiety cause he didn't at times know what hints to use ,love him ,seriously no one is perfect ,I love it💝💞😊😊👏👏👏 I'm guilty of this when I'm not sure of what to say too
Bacall was sharp.
Jewish people are. She was no dope.
I live in the area where Lauren Bacall's partner in the first game was from. There are still many with that last name in the Suffern area, but William appears to have left the area entirely.
Lauren is a good player.
Lauren definitely have the giggles.... Alan had to remind her where she was...
From The Ed Sullivan Theatre on Broadway. Jack Clark is the announcer.
Wow, those were big stars.
18:14 she gave him her famous Look 👀❤️
yeah
Lauren Bacall was beautiful and smart.
“You do know how to whistle Steven” “all you do is put you lips together and blow”
If you know, you know.
This game makes me anxious bc I can think of so many clues
Bacall's partner is really smart
Of course, he's wearing specs
bacall was a fkn BRAIN. just so happens, she was also the sexiest women alive...
Yeah Newton, Massachusetts! 👍🏼
Handshake… clasp….. 🤩
Lauren Bacall was laughing at the clue "whistle" because it is a famous line of hers from the film "To Have and Have Not" where she says to her husband Humphrey Bogart "You know how to whistle, don't you? You just put your lips together and blow."
Guess that title turned out to be Sex and the Single Girl.
ROFL XD - "Call......... girl"
i betcha that ludden truly did not like that - i would have been embarrassed to give that answer, as a contestant.
That one contestant William is actually the only other person I've ever heard from the same hometown as 1 of my favorite musical artists of today: Grace VanderWaal!! (Suffern NY)
I think Valerie Harper was from Suffern
Lauren Bacall...such a beauty! even though she cheats...
rocky marino most did lol
Lauren looks stunning!
Doesn't everybody?!
Too masculine, she'd kick your candy fannies
A lot of nervous laughter from Douglas Fairbanks as he was connected to the Profumo call girl scandal the previous year.
William was sharp!
Should be talking about Bacall, but a doubt stroke up on me: are there three guys under that desk moving pieces?
I get the impression one of the criteria for being a contestant was good looks.
Who wants to stare at ugly people?
You can see Lauren Bacall‘s 1964 movie “Shock Treatment” here: ua-cam.com/video/SURslYlpYY8/v-deo.html
Call girl. Should have been 10 points!
Color tv didn't come in until 1966. That is when most all tv shows went color Most people rather watch black and white
Much of the population couldn’t afford the new tech, color TV.
Pam Hi - Hello. Actually, NBC had Color TV earlier and they were the only network that did for a few years. That is why their motto was: "N.B.C. - Proud as a Peacock", and then the NBC Peacock would fan his feathers, in color. 🙂
Starting in 1954, NBC broadcast the Rose Parade. By 1957 all of their programs were in color. RCA made the color TV sets. N.B.C. was owned by R.C.A..
By about 1966 ABC & CBS were also broadcasting in Color. Not all local Stations were set up for color broadcasting. A different gizmo-thingy-something was needed.
Gauntlet
What about it ?
16:07-17:02: Doug seems to have left his thinking cap at home
Don't judge mister, your day is coming
Some people know how to live, work to be successful and make it look so easy. Sigh. 😕
Douglas was only 55. Looks 70 at least…
..was about to post a comment along similar lines but perhaps yours will do. Dude's nearly half a decade Rob Lowe's junior here; 6 younger than Tom Cruise ..Pitt etc.
Was it just my eyes or was Dianne hotter than Lauren, much hotter . . . .
I never thought Bacall was "Hot" or good looking. Apparently that shrimp with a weird voice/mouth (H. Bogart) liked here but, I never could understand how she was considered "Good looking". Her cackling laugh was like a parrot. [ She was a good PW player though.]
{The female contestant who was trying to get Fairbanks to notice her "curves" was a good-looking woman.}
I can think of several (many, actually) better looking women than L.B..
A.) Maureen O'Hara B.) Dorothy Green C.) Elaine DeVry D.) Dianna Millay
E.) Paula Raymond F.) Donna Reed G.) Charlene Holt H.) Julie(Julia) Adams
Clasp was used a lot
The hand and face gesture rule was nothing but a joke.It does not matter who you think you are,Cheating at anything and/or Cheating on someone is and Always will be WRONG.
Just pushing the boundaries, is all that is.
Robert Ward Those sound like the words of a cheater. Someone should warn the IRS about you. And your wife.
I wonder if Ludden was married to Betty during this airing because he was very much flirting with Bacall.
Finally someone else who refers to Lauren as Betty. She always wanted to be called Betty
@@Pink_143_6 I wasn’t referring to Bacall as Betty.
M. D. - I wondered the same thing. A.L. was very overtly "sweet" towards L. Bacall.
They married in 1963.
He married Betty in 1963. They were already married here. He was not romantically flirting with Lauren. It was for the show.
You can see allan ludden is peeved when earlier Lauren got away with the mustache clue she gestured...so he got her back..and you could see it in his face....when the password was look...his comment was she isn't pretty as she once was as she was known as the look...Fairbanks saw it on her face that she got mad...as she told ludden...I've got to watch you...
Ludden takes himself way too seriously.
@@karendeaton9297 I've seen him once or twice on password... Try to be cleverly and unchivalist... With other ladies.... I mean not very gentlemanly like... In his own clever way...
@@karendeaton9297 I agree.. I've seen Ludden say some subtle rude quips that he got away with
Good celeb players and contestants this episode. Good clues, and answers, even if they were wrong, they were good answers usually.
L. Bacall's cackling laugh was 🤕😖😩😡 horrible.
She sounded just like that parrot on the episode of the Perry Mason TV series about the squawking parrot in the cage in a cabin. ugh. "Fingers nails on the chalkboard." ☹
Lauren Bacall absolutely cheated with that mustache question. Pfft. And then both of them lied when asked if she made a gesture. Glad that she lost that round.
I sorry but I’d be bummed if I had Doug Fairbanks as a partner. My gosh, London, have you tutored him at all? Pretty weak.
If only botox was around back then
Lauren Bacall cheated
Lauren Becall (kinda masculine)admit he is a man saying yes he does gossip. See this and Blue Heron 2 site.
Color tv came in in the 1940's, so why is this still in black and white?
Mostly just the cost.
Mainstream color TV came in the sixties to my knowledge.
TV was invented in the late 40's. Not sure about color TV being that early.
+Krista Brewer
+Pam Hi
The first national color broadcast in the U.S. was on 1/1/1954 with the Tournament of Roses Parade by NBC. Because NBC was owned by RCA who made the first color sets, they began to heavily promote color programs. It is one reason why "Bonanza" survived a disastrous first year ratings-wise in the early 60's.
In contrast, CBS and ABC which didn't make televisions were loathe to promote their rival's product so they clung to b&w programming longer than might have been wise (and Password was on CBS). Also ABC was hurting for money and it took them longer to come up with the money to switch to color.
Color TV's came out in mainstream in the 1960's.