Dorothy Kilgallen was the best! I'm always impressed when I watch the shows on Buzzr at how good she is at asking questions in a way to get to who a person is. She's the best at going with the questions already asked and narrowing them down.
Its why she died, her ability to get to the truth made her a CIA target when she caught on to their involvement in JFK's assassination. The CIA classic 'brake failure'.
WML was one month old at this time. The growing pains were obvious. Let's be thankful they learned form the parts that didn't work and moved on to great things.
Yeah Dorothy and Arlene being included was apart of the turn around to make the show better after the first couple bombed. Greetings to 11 years ago! Wasn't things so much better in 2013!!
Yes, the walk in front of the panel wasn’t really entertaining to me. I was born in 1954, so didn’t start watching WML until I was around 6 years old or so. By then, it had moved to its well-established format. Also, by then Dorothy, Arlene, and Bennett Cerf were the regular panel with a weekly guest panelist. Those 3 regulars served WML very well as they were witty and talented.
Wow! What a chaotic, uncomfortable early WML! I actually fast-forwarded a couple of times... Its Very interesting to see the changes over the years, not only in format but lighting, camera angles, makeup, and the evolving of panelists' questions, etc. Dorothy certainly became a strong, articulate and competitive panelist! Quite an accomplished and intelligent woman.
Being born in July of 1996, this show is totally fascinating to me. My grandparents were not 2 years old, u til the summer of 1950. Inflation calculator: $1,in 1950, is ,$12.5 , in 2023. This is a snapshot in time. No cells, email address, If this folks were told March 2nd, 1950, that these episodes can be watched on phones, they would not have believed it. Just great and fascinating to watch!
In 1964 two movies (back to back called a 'double feature') was 75 cents. Salary minimum was $1.25 an hour. What movies cost today? Last time I went was $15.00 for 1 movie. (It was a while ago). You'd have to earn $30.00 or more to equal 😉 the buying power. Forget popcorn 🍿 😋 or soda.
@Ritchie Sterling: I absolutely disagree! Dorothy might have appeared a bit stiff and humorless in the beginning but later turned out to be a very sweet person, valuable team player and a keystone of the show. After her death the show lost enormously in esprit.
Once she got comfortable with being there, it was obvious that she enjoyed it very much. Sometimes when something really funny was said, it was fun to watch her react quite naturally.
I'm glad Arlene and Dorothy made the final cut. You 'rock' girls. You're 'timeless'. BTW, the 2 men in this original panel were boring. Glad to see the arrival of Bennett Cerf (in the future).
+james morris You're right...Arlene and Dorothy were 'fun' the other two were taking it a bit too serious...fantastic show though...and as it 'grew' it was obvious how much the panel seemed to LIKE each other.
james morris, Perhaps a bit boring but the two men were quite brilliant The way the older gentleman on the panel could sense that the first guy was a detective totally out of the blue, then figure out the profession of the lady was quite amazing. Never saw that kind of astuteness in the future panels.
The early shows were not as entertaining. The occupations of the guests were not as unusual.. Arlene, Dorothy, and Bennett Serf, had a great chemistry that, these early panelists did not have. Later on the other panelists such as Steve Allen and others were carefully chosen for both their intelligence and their humor. It's interesting to me to see how the show evolved.
+Dixie Alexander Me too. I never saw the point of that, physically inspecting a contestant and asking her/him to move in a certain manner, etc. That was a demeaning aspect of the game for only $50, at most, in prize money. Perhaps if the prize money had been $5,000, a physical inspection would have been acceptable. But certainly not for just a Grant. The situation is just like with a hooker, really--the less one is paid, the less one gets to see.
John Daly makes a rare blooper at 9:25 when he calls the show What's My Name? He was struggling to be heard over the chatty panel. They either learned to cut the panel's mics at that point in the game or else they instructed them to pipe down whenever the host was speaking.
I love the old shows. When i get stressed abt life and work, i like to get lost in these shows. No worries, no problems. No one is sick or anything bad. Were caught in time where everything is ok and perfect !
Watching this makes me think of the time that Dorothy passed away, while the series was still on. It was an emotional moment when John had to start the next show explaining the situation and that they'd do the best they could doing that show. There was some question later as to whether it was foul play. But I mostly have good memories about the show.
"I think she's a straight woman in a burlesque house in West New York, New Jersey," Hahaha, I love you Dorothy, you really made this show. You could feel my muscles anytime, LOl!
Dorothy's little dig in questioning the mystery guest after she clearly knew who he was: "Have you ever been married?" At the time Artie Shaw was on his sixth wife. He would later marry twice more, making eight wives. He was married to both Lana Turner and Ava Gardner.
I guess the "wild guess" was not technically part of the game. In other words a correct guess didn't terminate the game. They'd probably have wound up short in the timing of the show if they allowed it to. I agree that getting rid of that and the insipid "walk-by" segments was a very good idea. .
Although I've seen 2 or 3 shows where the panel did guess the occupation on their wild guess and it terminated the guest's appearance immediately. Just not sure why they didn't do it on this one. This only the 3rd episode of the show so I'm sure it was the first time it ever happened and I suppose they just didn't know how to handle it so they chose to ignore it.
Before they did away with the pre-questioning guessing altogether, the panel seems to have been instructed to make their guesses very silly to avoid actually guessing the right profession.
David Childers I remember seeing many of the episodes of this show when they were first run, but I don't recall if Daly ever slipped by inadvertently announcing the name of the mystery guest. Does anyone know if that ever happened? It would have caused quite a laugh if it did.
One of the times that Steve Allen was the mystery guest John called Steve instead of the next panel member inadvertantly! I think it was Cerf Bennet and he said, "I'll pretend I didn't hear that!" John said, " You can't!"
Having the contestant walk in front of the panelists was the rudest thing to do to the guests. And asking them if they can touch their muscles was just as rude.
The housewife was very charming. Louis Untermeyer was a fine anthologist, and I thoroughly regret that he was blacklisted, but I find that a little of him goes quite far.
Blacklisted? Another victim of Senator McCarthy's fanatical push to rid the world of so many innocent Americans. Communism as practiced by the Soviet Union couldn't last, and indeed didn't. In fact, Marx himself stated, after learning about their brand of so-called communism, declared, "I am not a Marxist."
@@13loomisst - Karl Marx has been considered by many to be a villain because he advocated what he called communism as a means to cure the horrible inequalities he saw in England due to extreme capitalism. After the Russian revolution and the autocratic government was established there, called communism by the newly installed rulers of what was Russia, those rulers declared the US to be their number one enemy. But what they practiced was not really communism. So Marx, communism and the Soviet Union became our enemies. Extremists like McCarthy made it their life work to end the careers of any American who criticized capitalism and its gross inequalities. In time any government program designed to relieve such inequalities was opposed and called communism. They're doing it today, branding such programs as Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, Worker's Compensation, Medicare, et al, as being communism.
@@shirleyrombough8173 And they would be right. It is well past time to resurrect the reputation of Tail Gunner Joe McCarthy - He correctly claimed our State Department was riddled with Communists and , as a result, was vilified by Communist sympathizers. If you want to avoid food shortages and breadlines in the future, vote TRUMP/Vance 2024.
interesting, aside from minor bugs the show was pretty much intact. dorothy and arlene were obviously great choices from the beginning despite the panel being billed as "experts" including a neuropsychiatrist and poet/editor. also interesting is how the contestants are new yorkers, including the panel, as opposed to later game shows where everyone was from california or visiting. the celebrity guest would be the most endearing part of the show.
Notice how they changed the arrangement of the set between episodes 2 and 3? The experience first two episodes demonstrated that the original layout didn't work. The director of the show also brought the camera men in an hour before this show to work out the shots so there would be less fumbling around. The result was a much smoother, more watchable production over all. One that a certain deodorant company decided to sponsor.
The only good point to mention about this show is that it shows how much the show improved during its run. The opening when the guests meet the panelists was particularly awkward and lame. That portion of the show was eventually eliminated, fortunately.
Stupid questions that remained throughout the 25 years of WML: 1. Do you use your hands? (Unless you're a soccer player, the answer is "yes.") 2. Do you enjoy what you do? (I wouldn't be advertising it on national television if I didn't.) 3. Is what you do valuable? (Gee, I wouldn't have a job/career/paycheck if somebody somewhere didn't want what I offer.)
Men wore light blue shirts on the early days of television. The cameras had a difficult time dealing wwith white....especially under thw bright lights.
What a treat!!!! It was cute when John said after the first guest..” thank you for playing whats my name” That was so cute cause it was the first episode. Fun fact… John only missed 2 episodes in 16 years and that’s because he was in DC and the plane was late. He had no choice. He never called in sick
The first few years they hadn't quite got the hang of it yet. Once the program had regular guests stars that all blended well. They had a panel that was very well suited.
Wow. For a moment there, when the first contestant was writing his name, I actually thought he was going to write Cormac McCarthy, author of the novel Blood Meridian. But then in 1950, McCarthy was just 16.
The free guess was a complete waste of time, although at least once in the history of the show Bennett Cerf actually nailed the occupation with his free guess.
The appearance of both Arlene and Dorothy improved over the years. Which no doubt had to do with enhanced techniques applying make up for TV. As for the popular 1950s hairstyles for women, they were arguably distinguished by how unattractive they were.
You have to hand it to Goodson-Toddman: they got all of the elements down and hired three of the four panelists (Arlene, Louis, Dorothy) by the third show.
. As others have stated, it's a good thing both the wild/free guesses and the perp walk/walk of shame finally were dropped......but were they both dropped at the same time, or did one go before the other.......and if it was at different times, which was the first to go, and about when (the year) did each of them finally get dropped ?? 🤔 .
Love this show! But it got better as the years passed. During this episode, the atmosphere felt more forced and stilted. I also thought John seemed uptight. I agree that it was better after they stopped asking the guests to do silly and odd things for the panel members.
I think Louie should had stopped gargling with Drano, horrible voice, boring as watching paint dry. Hoffman is one scary bastard, he could easily play the heavy role in a horror movie.
After Mr. McGowan Was introduced and sat down next to John Daly I saw a part of a man's body to the left hand side of the screen who was probably the gentleman that was changing out the paper on the sign in board who got in the way of the camera accidentally. I wonder if anybody else ever caught that period
Untermeyer is so annoying and offensive when he asks the lady housewife if she knows what money is...scratch that, Untermeyer was ALWAYS annoying, glad they got rid of him
Housewife???? Wow...responsible to 2.4 children...very much of its time...TV in its embryonic phase...you can almost see the string holding it all together. I love it though...
These are microcosms of a simpler time. There's a lot to criticize, but at least we were polite to each other. Like an old Ray Davies song, I miss those times.
![What's My Line? - Eddie Hodges; Ben Gazzara [panel] (Aug 2, 1959)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/g7ZwHIhmSFc/mqdefault.jpg)
These are the best. They brighten an otherwise dull, dystopian world.
.... many of us (me!) are not of the mental and sophisticated caliber as Miss Arlene, Miss Dorothy, et al, ... I had to look up “dystopian.” HA!
I think Dorothy and Arlene were perfect on the show. They had just the right difference to really make the show.
Two of the very best panelists! Such a treat to see this old program.
True but boy do they cheat
Dorothy Kilgallen was the best! I'm always impressed when I watch the shows on Buzzr at how good she is at asking questions in a way to get to who a person is. She's the best at going with the questions already asked and narrowing them down.
A very pretty and classy lady was she.
@Mary C Bullshit nobody knows for sure?
Its why she died, her ability to get to the truth made her a CIA target when she caught on to their involvement in JFK's assassination. The CIA classic 'brake failure'.
WML was one month old at this time. The growing pains were obvious. Let's be thankful they learned form the parts that didn't work and moved on to great things.
Ya, 9:24 he says, "Thanks for being our guest on What's My Name." lol
Yeah Dorothy and Arlene being included was apart of the turn around to make the show better after the first couple bombed. Greetings to 11 years ago! Wasn't things so much better in 2013!!
Yes, the walk in front of the panel wasn’t really entertaining to me. I was born in 1954, so didn’t start watching WML until I was around 6 years old or so. By then, it had moved to its well-established format. Also, by then Dorothy, Arlene, and Bennett Cerf were the regular panel with a weekly guest panelist. Those 3 regulars served WML very well as they were witty and talented.
LOL, at the conclusion of the first contestant, the "House Dick" Daly thanks him for playing What's My Name. Gotta love live TV, no do overs.
Little did people know the great significance Dorothy Kilgallen would have on this show for the better.
And Miss Francis too.
Wow! What a chaotic, uncomfortable early WML! I actually fast-forwarded a couple of times... Its Very interesting to see the changes over the years, not only in format but lighting, camera angles, makeup, and the evolving of panelists' questions, etc. Dorothy certainly became a strong, articulate and competitive panelist! Quite an accomplished and intelligent woman.
SO YOU MISSED jJCD CALLING THE SHOW "WHAT'S MY NAME!!
@@IDamian1 Wow! I did miss that. What a fumble! 😁
Being born in July of 1996, this show is totally fascinating to me. My grandparents were not 2 years old, u til the summer of 1950. Inflation calculator: $1,in 1950, is ,$12.5 , in 2023. This is a snapshot in time. No cells, email address, If this folks were told March 2nd, 1950, that these episodes can be watched on phones, they would not have believed it. Just great and fascinating to watch!
In 1964 two movies (back to back called a 'double feature') was 75 cents. Salary minimum was $1.25 an hour. What movies cost today? Last time I went was $15.00 for 1 movie. (It was a while ago). You'd have to earn $30.00 or more to equal 😉 the buying power. Forget popcorn 🍿 😋 or soda.
@Ritchie Sterling: I absolutely disagree! Dorothy might have appeared a bit stiff and humorless in the beginning but later turned out to be a very sweet person, valuable team player and a keystone of the show. After her death the show lost enormously in esprit.
Exactly! 👍🏻
+Celisar1 Could not agree more.. I miss her today!
Celisar1 l so agree.
Once she got comfortable with being there, it was obvious that she enjoyed it very much. Sometimes when something really funny was said, it was fun to watch her react quite naturally.
so fun to see them in this infancy stage. everyone learning their way.
I'm glad Arlene and Dorothy made the final cut. You 'rock' girls. You're 'timeless'. BTW, the 2 men in this original panel were boring. Glad to see the arrival of Bennett Cerf (in the future).
+james morris You're right...Arlene and Dorothy were 'fun' the other two were taking it a bit too serious...fantastic show though...and as it 'grew' it was obvious how much the panel seemed to LIKE each other.
Agree. I'd rather see the girls with Bennett Cerf.
almost unwatchable, horrible
james morris, Perhaps a bit boring but the two men were quite brilliant The way the older gentleman on the panel could sense that the first guy was a detective totally out of the blue, then figure out the profession of the lady was quite amazing. Never saw that kind of astuteness in the future panels.
Reyna Herichan
Women well in their 30s. Not girls.
The early shows were not as entertaining. The occupations of the guests were not as unusual.. Arlene, Dorothy, and Bennett Serf, had a great chemistry that, these early panelists did not have. Later on the other panelists such as Steve Allen and others were carefully chosen for both their intelligence and their humor. It's interesting to me to see how the show evolved.
Bennett Cerf
Steve Allen and Joey Bishop fit in perfectly as guest panelists.
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It's hard to imagine that Bennett Cerf would be 119 yrs old and Dorothy would be 108 if still alive.
WOW. That’s hard to believe.
Lincoln would be 213!....wow!
Dorothy was killed because she got too close to the truth about JFK assassination.
It’s hard to believe that I’m 70 years old now! 😂
John said to the hotel detective thanks for being on WHAT'S MY NAME".
hhahahahahaha Yess he did
Indeed, he did!
Yes I caught that too! A notable moment at the beginning of this show's long run!
Thank you I thought I was hearing things?
I caught that too
I'm so glad they stopped the walk of shame.
+Dixie Alexander Me too. I never saw the point of that, physically inspecting a contestant and asking her/him to move in a certain manner, etc. That was a demeaning aspect of the game for only $50, at most, in prize money. Perhaps if the prize money had been $5,000, a physical inspection would have been acceptable. But certainly not for just a Grant. The situation is just like with a hooker, really--the less one is paid, the less one gets to see.
Dorothy would often ask to look at the labels in their clothing and at their hands. Never liked it wither.
gymnastix very demeaning...I could hardly watch. :-(
It is super creepy, isnt it?
Totally agree. This "inspection: is horrible
John Daly makes a rare blooper at 9:25 when he calls the show What's My Name? He was struggling to be heard over the chatty panel. They either learned to cut the panel's mics at that point in the game or else they instructed them to pipe down whenever the host was speaking.
I love the old shows. When i get stressed abt life and work, i like to get lost in these shows. No worries, no problems. No one is sick or anything bad. Were caught in time where everything is ok and perfect !
Watching this makes me think of the time that Dorothy passed away, while the series was still on. It was an emotional moment when John had to start the next show explaining the situation and that they'd do the best they could doing that show. There was some question later as to whether it was foul play. But I mostly have good memories about the show.
"I think she's a straight woman in a burlesque house in West New York, New Jersey," Hahaha, I love you Dorothy, you really made this show. You could feel my muscles anytime, LOl!
J. Dovales Dorothy Killgallan had no chill
Both Arlene and Dorothy became more attractive and beautiful in years to come. Arlene become glamour girl.
Hilarious that both Arlene and Dorothy say Mr. Mcgowan is NOT a detective, and then he actually is a house detective. 🤣😂
Dorothy's little dig in questioning the mystery guest after she clearly knew who he was: "Have you ever been married?" At the time Artie Shaw was on his sixth wife. He would later marry twice more, making eight wives. He was married to both Lana Turner and Ava Gardner.
Dorothy could be Irritating
@@michaelnivens6267 So can we all.
Two panelists guessed his occupation on the pre-question wild guess segment! Shouldn't that have ended the segment?
That was strange. You'd think the panelists would have made mention of that after the occupation was finally established.
The wild guess feature didn't last very long. This segment shows why/
I guess the "wild guess" was not technically part of the game. In other words a correct guess didn't terminate the game. They'd probably have wound up short in the timing of the show if they allowed it to. I agree that getting rid of that and the insipid "walk-by" segments was a very good idea. .
Although I've seen 2 or 3 shows where the panel did guess the occupation on their wild guess and it terminated the guest's appearance immediately. Just not sure why they didn't do it on this one. This only the 3rd episode of the show so I'm sure it was the first time it ever happened and I suppose they just didn't know how to handle it so they chose to ignore it.
Before they did away with the pre-questioning guessing altogether, the panel seems to have been instructed to make their guesses very silly to avoid actually guessing the right profession.
65 years ago - that's crazy - a life time
67 now.
69 now.
70 now.
72 years ago
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John Daly mistakenly said,"Thanks for being on What's My Name." to the first guest which was the name of another game show. Yep, this was live TV.
David Childers I remember seeing many of the episodes of this show when they were first run, but I don't recall if Daly ever slipped by inadvertently announcing the name of the mystery guest. Does anyone know if that ever happened? It would have caused quite a laugh if it did.
One of the times that Steve Allen was the mystery guest John called Steve instead of the next panel member inadvertantly! I think it was Cerf Bennet and he said, "I'll pretend I didn't hear that!" John said, " You can't!"
I'd love to see that, Linda. Must have been a scream.
+Greg Scott you should look it up! it's the October 4,1964 show. I love watching these old shows... and the celebrities I used to see on TV.
I will check it out. Thanks, Linda.
Having the contestant walk in front of the panelists was the rudest thing to do to the guests. And asking them if they can touch their muscles was just as rude.
The housewife was very charming.
Louis Untermeyer was a fine anthologist, and I thoroughly regret that he was blacklisted, but I find that a little of him goes quite far.
Blacklisted? Another victim of Senator McCarthy's fanatical push to rid the world of so many innocent Americans. Communism as practiced by the Soviet Union couldn't last, and indeed didn't. In fact, Marx himself stated, after learning about their brand of so-called communism, declared, "I am not a Marxist."
@@shirleyrombough8173 I'm sorry, but I don't see your point.
@@13loomisst - Karl Marx has been considered by many to be a villain because he advocated what he called communism as a means to cure the horrible inequalities he saw in England due to extreme capitalism. After the Russian revolution and the autocratic government was established there, called communism by the newly installed rulers of what was Russia, those rulers declared the US to be their number one enemy. But what they practiced was not really communism. So Marx, communism and the Soviet Union became our enemies. Extremists like McCarthy made it their life work to end the careers of any American who criticized capitalism and its gross inequalities. In time any government program designed to relieve such inequalities was opposed and called communism. They're doing it today, branding such programs as Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, Worker's Compensation, Medicare, et al, as being communism.
@@shirleyrombough8173 And they would be right. It is well past time to resurrect the reputation of Tail Gunner Joe McCarthy - He correctly claimed our State Department was riddled with Communists and , as a result, was vilified by Communist sympathizers. If you want to avoid food shortages and breadlines in the future, vote TRUMP/Vance 2024.
What a cute episode: reminds me of the expression, "like trying to corral a herd of cats"! LOL (:
Clearly embryonic. Arlene and Dorothy were the standouts, and John was pre-bow-tie!!
interesting, aside from minor bugs the show was pretty much intact. dorothy and arlene were obviously great choices from the beginning despite the panel being billed as "experts" including a neuropsychiatrist and poet/editor.
also interesting is how the contestants are new yorkers, including the panel, as opposed to later game shows where everyone was from california or visiting.
the celebrity guest would be the most endearing part of the show.
Mrs.Stone, the housewife, was lovely to look at.
Indeed she was! That rhumba she did......!!
My mom’s birthday in 1950 (29 years old) One day before what would be my twin brother ‘s and my birthday in 1957.3-3-57 Love this show.
"Thanks for being our guest on What's My Name!" 9:24
Loved the guy dancing next to the jukebox!!!!
He appeared to be blind
Notice how they changed the arrangement of the set between episodes 2 and 3? The experience first two episodes demonstrated that the original layout didn't work. The director of the show also brought the camera men in an hour before this show to work out the shots so there would be less fumbling around. The result was a much smoother, more watchable production over all. One that a certain deodorant company decided to sponsor.
With all due respect to the late Dr's Untermeyer and Hoffman, their presence on the panel was like a 10 ton weight.
Such bizarre casting choices.
@SavageArfad Indeed. Fascinating that we're able to see how the show developed 70 years later.
Amazing how the two ladies and John Dailey didn't appear to age much into the 1960s.
I think you need a strong pair of glasses
The only good point to mention about this show is that it shows how much the show improved during its run. The opening when the guests meet the panelists was particularly awkward and lame. That portion of the show was eventually eliminated, fortunately.
I see Arlene had her heart necklace even back then she even wore it when on the Match Game in the 1970s
monkee5th and it was stolen in a mugging in the 1980’s.
Oooohhhh Cormac, that handwriting 😍 and Arlene...that handkerchief sniff 🤣
Mr John Daly really never changed over the years i mean in a very nice way
Actually, I think that John Daly and Miss Francis and Miss Kilgallen looked slightly younger in these very early episodes.
Stupid questions that remained throughout the 25 years of WML:
1. Do you use your hands? (Unless you're a soccer player, the answer is "yes.")
2. Do you enjoy what you do? (I wouldn't be advertising it on national television if I didn't.)
3. Is what you do valuable? (Gee, I wouldn't have a job/career/paycheck if somebody somewhere didn't want what I offer.)
Men wore light blue shirts on the early days of television. The cameras had a difficult time dealing wwith white....especially under thw bright lights.
Thank you for being a guest on What's My Name. 9:24
Mrs. Stone was a beauty and a housewife is many things....nurse babysitter teacher...all are paid professions. The monitary worth would be sustantial.
And she could spell much better than you.
Any job you can do in pajamas and fluffy houseslippers can't be too tough...🤔
AMAZING - for the first contestant, Dr Hoffman's "wild guess" was correct!
What a treat!!!!
It was cute when John said after the first guest..” thank you for playing whats my name” That was so cute cause it was the first episode.
Fun fact… John only missed 2 episodes in 16 years and that’s because he was in DC and the plane was late. He had no choice. He never called in sick
Dorothy Kilgallen asks at 18:41 if the mystery guest is a "long-haired musician." In those days, a "long hair" was a classical musician.
Dorothy Kilgallen had that Betty Boop hairstyle 😍!
Both Arlene and Dorothy looked a lot better as the years went on. Good grief.
Louie Endermeyer was an unfunny pain in the backside . Every time it was his turn asking for a conference and trying to hog the limelight .
The first few years they hadn't quite got the hang of it yet. Once the program had regular guests stars that all blended well. They had a panel that was very well suited.
That first guy guessed he was a detective. Why did they allow questions?
Wow. For a moment there, when the first contestant was writing his name, I actually thought he was going to write Cormac McCarthy, author of the novel Blood Meridian. But then in 1950, McCarthy was just 16.
I agree. I find Louis Untermeyer hard to take, especially when he talks out of turn.
Rude man
Self-important
Great poetry though!
They're so cute when they're young :)
Dixie Alexander Yes, and incontinent when they grow old.
So glad they got rid of Untermeyer and Hoffman. Glad John Daly dropped the affected accent too.
The free guess was a complete waste of time, although at least once in the history of the show Bennett Cerf actually nailed the occupation with his free guess.
1950...My God!! Not as good as the later panel...Arlene is lovely and miss Kilgallen...but it lacks something. early days I know...
Arlene would be the first woman to HOST a network game show around this time, which was the TV reboot of her radio hit, “Blind Date.”
So this what was beauty and handsome half a century ago? At least the ladies stood the test of time.
The appearance of both Arlene and Dorothy improved over the years. Which no doubt had to do with enhanced techniques applying make up for TV. As for the popular 1950s hairstyles for women, they were arguably distinguished by how unattractive they were.
This men on this panel are rude and this episode was very annoying because of them. I’m so glad they didn’t become regulars.
Dorothy's looks improved over the years.
Kilgallen died - or was murdered - in 1965 as she tried to expose the truth behind the JFK murder ...
For a second there, I thought that first guest was going to sign in as Cormac McCarthy.
9:24 "...and thanks for being a guest on 'What's My Name?'"!
Oh, John.
at 9:25 John calls the show "What's My Name"
They were just learning and fine tuning the game.
That first guy guessed that McGOwin was a detective but for some reason that guess was ignored ?
So much confusion on this show ensued due to the panel's failure to distinguish between customers and ultimate consumers of goods or services.
70 years later.......
THE PANEL GUESSED TO THE START THAT HE WAS A DETECTIVE. I guess they didn't have a replacement ?
Sometime the celebrity would leave without a little conversation like the one featured here.
Oh my gosh look how different Arlene and John look!
You have to hand it to Goodson-Toddman: they got all of the elements down and hired three of the four panelists (Arlene, Louis, Dorothy) by the third show.
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As others have stated, it's a good thing both the wild/free guesses and the perp walk/walk of shame finally were dropped......but were they both dropped at the same time, or did one go before the other.......and if it was at different times, which was the first to go, and about when (the year) did each of them finally get dropped ?? 🤔
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Love this show! But it got better as the years passed. During this episode, the atmosphere felt more forced and stilted. I also thought John seemed uptight. I agree that it was better after they stopped asking the guests to do silly and odd things for the panel members.
John called the show " what's my name " at one point 😅.
At 9:27 he said "Thanks for beeing our guest on Whats My Name"....anyone else notace that error?
Yes, but unlike you, he could spell ‘being’ correctly.
Happy marriage of beauty and brains. I love that.
I think Louie should had stopped gargling with Drano, horrible voice, boring as watching paint dry. Hoffman is one scary bastard, he could easily play the heavy role in a horror movie.
Classic snafu by John Daly - "Thanks for being our guest on What's My Name" 9:20. You can tell it was early days!
Dorothy looks the same age in 1950 as she did in 1965.
19:41 mins. Regis Philbin's first appearance on WML
After Mr. McGowan Was introduced and sat down next to John Daly I saw a part of a man's body to the left hand side of the screen who was probably the gentleman that was changing out the paper on the sign in board who got in the way of the camera accidentally. I wonder if anybody else ever caught that period
Untermeyer is so annoying and offensive when he asks the lady housewife if she knows what money is...scratch that, Untermeyer was ALWAYS annoying, glad they got rid of him
Housewife???? Wow...responsible to 2.4 children...very much of its time...TV in its embryonic phase...you can almost see the string holding it all together. I love it though...
Can’t believe Daly said What’s My Name.
"THANKS FOR BEING A GUEST ON WHATS MY NAME" HAHAH ITS THE ONLY TIME JOHN HAS EVER SLIPPED IN HIS DIALOGUE. LOVE IT
He was still on training lol.
Thank you for the video. Are you sure it was the third episode? I think it might have been fourth or fifth.
I don't know what the difference is between detective and house detective?
Even factoring out inflation, the prize money was ridiculously minimal. Before the decade was out we'd have the $64,000 question.
Dr. Untermyer just reads minds and spoils it.
These are microcosms of a simpler time. There's a lot to criticize, but at least we were polite to each other. Like an old Ray Davies song, I miss those times.
Funny that at 9:26, John calls the show "What's My Name?"
In this early periode of WML the mystery guest questioning was different too. The later system was more interesting
Who else thought that first contestant was going to sign in as Cormac McCarthy?
I did. Not an unlikely possibility, really.
At 9:22....John says "Thanks for being on What's My Name."
John called it What's My Name!
I looked it up. In 1950, $50 was worth $634.