Queen for a Day - Episode #1 | Jack Bailey, Gene Baker, Jeanne Cagney
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- Опубліковано 19 сер 2024
- Jack Bailey interviews women to pick the one who is WORSE OFF than the other contestants. The Loser/Winner is then deluged with GIFTS!
Directed by John Masterson
Starring Jack Bailey, Gene Baker, Jeanne Cagney
Cast
Jack Bailey as Self - Host
Gene Baker as Self - Announcer
Jeanne Cagney as Self - Fashion Commentator - Розваги
My Mom won Queen For a Day on July 6, 1953. Her gardener gave her 2 free tickets to the show. Under each seat, there was a number & 21 numbers were initially called-Then the audience whittled it down to 4 to be on TV. My Mom was simultaneously caring for triplets as well as her father who was dying from colon cancer. She requested a washer & drier for the cloth diapers back then. This show absolutely showered her with expensive gifts. It was absolutely fantastic that this show blessed so many people.
was this the episode by any chance ? @ArlynSigeti
I remember watching this when I was very little, and crying for a woman who had real troubles. She won. I was happy for her.
My Great Grandmother was on it in Dec 1950. I would love to see it!
My mother was on that show back in the 1950's when it first began. I never saw it. I was the last of 5 kids and came along after QFAD was gone. I thought perhaps, UA-cam would have the episode with my mom, but I doubt it. Amazed at how much of the program is advertising.
My mother was on queen for a day, July 4, 1963, Doris Folk.
@@georgewilliam8390, my mom won on October 19, 1962.
Watched this as a kid and cried every time. So happy to get their washing machine and vacuum cleaner. Gawd!
The worst part was that most of them couldn't afford to pay the tax and shipping on these items (like Oprah's free car scandal), so ended up going home virtually empty-handed.
@@oliviamartini9700Though not mentioned here, the winners' prizes were shipped to them (insured).
I remember watching this show with my Polish grandmother 👵.
Born in 1952, I remember this show. Win washer and a dryer. Gets crowned and robe. And flowers.
And more than that! My mom won in 1962.
My great grandmother, Cecilia Greuel, was on in 1962 and won. I’d love to be able to see that episode. I don’t know the episode number, but she was on around September 1962
My mom did too on the same year don’t know what month? I would love to see her on there again,That’s would be so cool Her Name was Verna Schnarr and my sister was on there too 😊
My husbands mother was on Queen for Day and won..I never met her as she passed away before we met..I would love to know how to go about finding the episode
Kassidy, my mom won on October 19, 1962. We have the audio from the show but I would love for my children and grandchildren to see the show.
Wow…forgot how these were. So glad that some got to be “Queen for a Day”.
This show is like one long commercial lol
Mom was a SAHM. I was the last of 4 kids (before 2 ooops babies). We used to watch this show. I would cry. I always felt wecwere lucky because we had a washer, dryer, fridge, vacuum, etc.
I watched this with my mom and sister when I got home from kindergarten. I think it was on ABC around 3 PM on weekdays. Five years old, I thought it was weird. LOL
my mother would watch this as she was ironing....everything.
damn......what a perv he was.
my mom was on that show back in the 60's when we lived in California
My Sister and I was on in 1956. She won a wig for me. I was getting ready to start first grade. Like to find episode to see it.
Now this is the group of shows I remember, because of the theme song. I was in grade school then.
I was really little and remember how sad it was.
the 50s glasses are in today 2024
This show was sick. Women compete in a pity contest. I remember this in the day and I thought it was sad even then.
I understand some of the women competing. As they are desperate. The real bastards were the gameshow hosts and the audience that marvelled in others misery.
Well, we now have GoFundMe accounts where the same thing is done. Bunch of people begging for money based on their hardships.
@@adcolt54 Lol, True! Now we all have an equal opportunity to compete on almost any team we like, in the Victim Olympics!
This show was a pioneer in the modern, entertainingly scripted art of Reality TV. So many believe it to be truthfully representative of the lives and value of its participating characters that it seems to have been taken as a model of validating one's self-importance. Along with winning the utopian sense of individual freedom to be found by selecting one's own part in whichever reality show they choose live in! Where's my dishwasher and crown, damn it!?
I think it's hilarious
This was a very different time.
Would you like to be QUEENNN FOR A DAYYYYYYYYYYY
This show was an important part of the beginning of feminism in America--women as being glorified for one day as "queen" when the other 364 days she usually spent doing all of the necessary work in the running of a household...wait! financially dependent on her husband, working for absolutely no pay, no accumulated social security benefits, no prestige and no labor organization to represent her interests. Queen For a Day was mentioned in many books about the "domestication" of women especially during the 1950s w/ the growth of American corporations. And, of course, it was the touting of these corporations' products that surrounded the whole Queen For a Day program--what did these women get as "Queen"? More products to make their labors more glamorous & exciting!
Today, it's easy to overthink things. You have to think of this show in the context of its day. My mom and I used to watch it together whenever I was home in the daytime, and we loved it. We had contestants we would root for, because you could only pick one, and enjoyed watching and being with each other.
I was honestly afraid the comments would be supportive of a show like this, I'm really glad this is the top comment.
Comments like this really show that the modern woman has no idea of what the mindset was back then, and that selfish objectification is now the norm. Giving them items they could never afford AND *gasp* want AND *outrage* would use at least once a week (whether them or their husband or kids)? HOW DARE THEY! Definitely a plot! 😂 Men couldn’t possibly value a woman who takes care of so much and makes it possible for them to go to work and not have to worry about home, noooo, all that complimentary bunk is a ploy! And if they DON’T compliment it, then they were taking it for granted! Totally! Definitely! It couldn’t be possible for men to respect women back then, because we all know they’re the root of all evil patriarchal misogyny! 🤡
Do you know how many people would love to be gifted a new washer or dryer with the latest bells and whistles today? I can line you up several with go fund me campaigns going.
Oh yes, and how dare they advertise things like food products, medicine, cleaning and beauty products! They should be advertising beer, cigars and suitcases! That would have changed the face of human history and women all over the world would have slapped their husbands in the face and run out to get a job!
Oh wait…they had jobs…and they sponsors advertised on the program because the watchers bought their products…and women weren’t the only people watching the show… 😮 No woman today would be caught dead buying food, cleaning supplies, medicine or beauty products!
I read a treatise saying QUEEN was akin to video slumming by middle and upper class audiences--when it debuted in 1955, roughly a third of American homes still didn't have TV.
You have to remember that this was a time when women tried to please their husbands, not like today when women try to please their lesbian overlords.
Vice just an article on how ghastly it is that they just had women with sad lives bare it all and then gave the money to the person with the saddest life
Oh yeah. Now they just start a go fund me or are given a reality TV show.
More recently we had a show of how ugly female contestants were. They would compete for a ton of plastic surgery. Sad how people always whine about feminism...
This was a sweet show. Nowhere near degrading as The Swan, where women showed off how ugly their bodies are
lol people are horrified by this show but think people begging on GoFundMe is fine. :)
Rachel, I can speak for one of those women and let me tell you, not everyone lives a perfect life! My mom won and she deserved to. Her winning enabled my dad, age 33, to get a Seeing Eye guide dog and gain his independence after having lost his sight at age 27. I am glad that you lived a privileged life, but not everyone does!!!
I want a coffee butler! Never heard of the “Hava Java” appliance before. Imagine brews, dispenses a cup at a time and flushes the spent grinds out of your house!
Lord but that Bailey was a creep!
"I could see YOU needing two mumuus, but 80?!"
So creepy and rude
Yeah that pissed me off and also the fact that the presenter has no respect for these women’s personal space.
She says she has been living in Montana since 1920 as if 1920 were yesterday. To them it probably felt like yesterday.😆 Like me talking about where I lived in 1980.
This is so Wonderful! Thanks!!!
Mmmmmm Mmmmmm....French's Copper Kitchen sauce!😋
My mom won Queen of the day in 1962 💛
Kendra, my mom also won in 1962 when the show was in Boston for a week. I so wish my children and grandchildren could see the episode. I have the audio, but the video would be much better.
@@CherylB-jp6qb Hey that’s so cool I remember watching her on tv and she won because of me cause of my hearing 😊 im hoping to find the video of her?
I agree with another commenter. That Bailey is a creep. Acts like he is drunk too.
Bailey was actually a member of Alcoholics Anonymous.
1st contestant, Irma Franklin, asked for stools for her employees to sit at, replacing the egg cartons they use now in the workplace. her meter peaked out at 4.
2nd contestant, strangely unnamed, asked for a phonograph player for her 15 year old boy who just had open heart surgery. Jack Bailey started rifling through her purse for no apparent reason. The applause she received was literally the same as Irma's but she somehow scored a 7.5 on the VU meter, and it was swinging wildly.
3rd lady, Doris Hoefer, wanted a second-hand washing machine and Jack Bailey (drunkenly?) offered her one from his own house. Far more applause for Doris than either of the others, but a VU score of only 6.
4th (winning) contestant was Provi Bell (a name Jack Bailey instantly ridicules) who asked for quantity (80) of mumus, so that all of her daughter's friends at the "retarded school" could dress up for an upcoming Luau.
A great Saran Wrap commercial by Dow Chemical, among other decent offerings like Anacin and spray-on pain reliever.
No sooner do they announce Provi Bell the winner, they whisk her into the throne and start calling her "your majesty." One of her majesty's many prizes was (at 24:56) an in-wall coffee butler called the Hava Java. Provi sat on that throne transformed-- looking with pity and scorn upon everyone, like a real Queen. Smugly nodding while being presented with diamonds, a jacuzzi, a new kitchen with a Hava Java... a few seconds ago she only wanted a bunch of mumus!
Love the commercials.
Just a slight correction, this is not the first episode, but one of a series of surviving episodes.
Indeed, "Queen for a Day" first went national on NBC, not ABC.
I realized they meant episode 1 in their collection
Jack Bailey was born and raised in Hampton, Iowa -- just 10 miles from where I live...
Pgrm. was first aired by NBC-TV Network from early-Jan., 1956 till late-Summer, 1960, then in late-Summer, 1960 it transplanted to ABC which would air it thru lllrd Quarter, 1964
There was "Queen For Day" revival series which ran from September, 1969 till September, 1970/it was hosted by late Dick Curtis, who lived from March, 1928 till September, 2023. There was even attempt in 1987 for llnd "Queen For Day" revival series which was to be hosted by late Monty Hall, "Make Deal" fame to make its debut in Autumn, 1988
10:40 Its 1960! The Twist came out in 1960!
love this 2024
My mom.won. I believe the show was done in Detroit. I watched on TV. The sad thing was she never received the appliances. She sure needed them. I kept the make up bag that was part of the samsonite suitcases.until 1995.
My mom won in 1962 and she received everything...even a car! I have the watch.
My aunt Dale Davis won the show and was queen for a day but I don't remember the year, looking for the episode.
My mom won in 1962 when the show was in Boston for a week.
I watched this when I was a preschooler and in kindergarten in the very early 60s. What year i this? Probably 59, 60, 61 or 62.
4:10 I bet that woman was born in the 1880s.
Jeane Cagney is James Cagney's baby sister.
My mother won Queen for a Day on October 2, 1956. Would there still be a copy of the show today
My mom won on October 19, 1962, and I would love for my children and grandchildren to see the show. I have the audio, but it's not the same as seeing it.
Did someone joke with the teleprompter at 7:50?
I am amazed at the vitriol and self righteous anger in the comments. It was a different time, and instead of diminishing the women it honored them. My mother loved this show, and to denigrate what brought her so much joy reminds me of how our society despises love between men and women. I loved my wife more than anything on the planet and I honored her every day. Even now 12 years after she passed away, I honor her and praise her to anyone who will talk about her. She was the best part of me and the best part of my life. I jokingly say when she left, she took 95% of the family brains and left me with 5%. People enjoy that humor because, it reminds them of just how brilliant she was. It’s OK to enjoy, watching others be praised in spite of not understanding the culture of the times. But for many women of that day, the show gives them a sense of pride that they were very special people. Lighten up and allow ideas other than what you’re limited experience in life and limited understanding of other cultures and times to be allowed. Crack a smile once in a while, make a lighthearted joke and grow up into full adulthood. It’s a wonderful place to be.
Well said 👏.
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THANK YOU for this! I am sorry to hear of your loss; your wife was a very lucky lady!
My mother won for tell the story of our coal furnace blew up on Christmas morning of 1958 killing my father and critically burning three siblings.
What year was this??
Isn't that James Cagney's sister?
In today world, girlie queens would be up there getting Queened. 🤦🏻♂️
And I bet you would crown them QUÈENIE
19:39 mannn this dude just tryna get paid
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I remember seeing this show when I was a kid. Even then I thought it was hokey but I didn't remember it being this boring or the host being so dull on camera.
That is the most depressing show I’ve ever seen.
Only in Amerika
You do no onea favor by uploading these shows in the wrong aspect ratio.
This is such a sad show.
What a sad pathetic little show this was! That host comes across like such a creepy dude bordering on sexual harassment. Amazing what people regarded as entertainment back in the 1950's that spurred on a generation of "baby boomers". Watching this show made me cringe although it is evidence of a more "innocent" and "simpler" time. I wonder if the world really was less complicated then? The poor b&w picture helps the nostalgia and "creepiness" of the whole concept - glorified misery!
Spoiler alert:.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................This seems like a fix. They "Suddenly" happen to have a trip arranged for her to go to Hawaii....to meet with a fashion designer from Hawaii, who will help her get 80 mummus for mentally disabled little girls? They would have had to arrange that in advance, and have the designer's agreement. Is the meter juiced up and applause level raised? Seems too "pat." I think it was between her and the poor lady who wanted a record player for her son who just had open heart surgery, and she needed a washing machine. ==And the host was a real creep.
They interview them all, so they are aware what each person needs and can have things at the ready for whoever is chosen. That is something that was--and is--not considered improper, especially when identified as such.
As for "fixing" the results...remember the show aired live. Viewers could see and hear and realize if the sound of😢 applause and the meter.