It's so therapeutic to see people behaving and appearing normally and politely. Dressed properly. I was in third grade at time of this show. I am 63 now. And have been extremely sad to see what has happened to our country since
Well said Bonnie..I just turned 60..lm aghast at the current (last few years)...."dumming down"..of society...gonna fire up the way back machine...im heading back..its ⏲️ time
That was the persona she put on to the public but behind closed doors to people that knew her she was Mean Nasty & Vain about her appearance. Wiiiam Bill Frawley that played Fred on I Love Lucy was a bit older than her & she was Raving Mad they paired her up with someone older than her as it made her look older she said. She throughout the years she acted on the show she constantly continued to treat Bill bad calling him names & picking fights with him all because she was Vain about her appearance to others
Vivian was attentive, alert, witty, and charming throughout every game. Douglas is sweet as they come. Imagine playing 4 rounds of passwords on a half an hour game show. The commercials on TV back then were very short-timed. On TV these days, commercials take up time, and they play one round on a game show. Vivian Vance looks great for 54 yrs old. Vivian was the perfect actress for every show she played with Lucille Ball. XO
@@crmay72, when I was about 7 years old, I had a big crush on Desi Arnez. Growing up, we'd watch "I Love Lucy from 7:30 PM - 8:00 PM, then bedtime. That's why I had a crush on Desi-(Ricky, LOL!) Throughout the years, I had recorded every episode, (Commercial-free) of "I Love Lucy! I read that Lucy didn't want the actress who played the role as "Ethel, prettier than her! Vivian Vance was perfect for the show. I always thought Vivian was very pretty and she had beautiful skin! Vivian aged gracefully. "Happy New Year! :)
@@LV2UXO77Yes! I honestly think Vivian was more attractive than Lucy but both women were beautiful! Happy New year to you as well! Blessings to you and your family. :)
Vivian was portrayed as a bit of a shlub on I Love Lucy, and she often resented that. Seeing her here I can see why, as others said: she was so elegant and very much a lady.
My father and I were sitting in the audience for this; I think it was on Halloween night. The announcer, Jack Clark, did a terrible warm-up; his jokes were awful, and he kept referring to "our mess -- ah, show." They only taped the one episode (it was for prime time), and I got the idea that everybody was going to go out together for a late dinner afterward. After the taping was done, Mr. Ludden took some questions. The only one I remember was "How's Betty?" "You want to see her?" Mr. Ludden asked, and everybody went yeah, so out came Betty White, who of course was his wife. Betty hopped up onto the Password table and waved at everybody with both hands, and we all cheered her.
What a great memory, thanks for sharing! Hard to believe that Betty will be 100 in just over a couple of weeks! So glad we still have her!! Happy New Year everybody!
Some of us were too poor for our parents to afford such a luxury at home. We had though ancient BRITANICA encyclopedias, salvaged from the dunpster, unfortunately about 30 years out've date! (eg.ADOLF HITLER was listed as the "...Current leader of GERMANY...".). If you were careful though? The old books were STILL usable for general reference. This is obviously for grade school level of course.
we had the vol. 22 set growing up in the late 80s. Red leather bound with gold on the page edges. I remember always reading those books. That's what we did before the internet, went to the encyclopedia.
Douglas Fairbanks lived till 2000 but men looked older back then as he was 54 here. Seemed like an amicable fellow & Vivian, just as lovely as ever. No wonder her & Lucy were good friends. They were an undeniable team.
I've now watched a few of these shows from the early 60s, I'm very impressed with the quality of the videos AND audio, you must have cleaned them up digitally, at any rate good job, thank you. I woulda used the clue borscht for beets
I never saw Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in a movie or anything, but I remember that when Christina Crawford wrote that book about her mother, Fairbanks defended Joan Crawford, even they'd been divorced for many decades. Whether Crawford was really abusive or not, I thought that was a very classy move on his part.
I don’t think he had the fame his father enjoyed-different era; more exciting films. But, I remember him best in “The Prisoner of Zenda” and “Sinbad The Sailor.” I noticed a confusing comment in the replies, so I rechecked. Douglas Fairbanks was Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.’s real father, not his step-father. Anna Beth Sully was his mother. Mary Pickford was his step mother. Always enjoyed both father and son in the movies. I think they would stand up today-and didn’t need a single nasty word in them-just good acting!
Has anyone else noticed that Allen Ludden asks the men what they do (I.e., their jobs), and the women what their husbands do? Also, I was impressed with Vivian Vance. She gave some esoteric clues and answers that indicated knowledge of a wide array of subjects. How many people would know what the Maginot [Line] was (her clue for “border”)?
@Norm. So what? The nuclear family was extremely common back in the 1950s and the 1960s. In most of those cases, the husband worked and the wife stayed home and took care of her family. That's the way that the family is suppose to be according to God's Holy Word the Bible.
Allen knew in advance if a female contestant worked or not. Hence, he'd ask housewives about hobbies, family and for those who had a job he'd say "So you're a working girl?"
I'm was born in the 1970 nvr heard of this amazing game with actors oh how I would have loved to be from the 50s and 60s I like the commercials the music and how people were respectful used Their Manners we don't have that anymore not even with our children.
If you loved this show you would probably also like Match Game, not the new one with Alex Baldwin but the original with Gene Rayburn. On Match Game the host was also funny and some of the questions/phrases were often hysterically funny.
I agree in many ways. Lucy was brilliant, and she had some classic moments without her co-stars, but Ethel's responses, reactions and accommodations to Lucy's crazy schemes, brilliantly played by Vance, helped make I love Lucy, and even some of the Lucy shows, hysterical.
nonsense....everybody is a reflection of the times in which they live...actors in 1963 reflected their times and actors today reflect their times. Plenty of actors in 1963 and earlier lacked class and maturity - drugs, drunks, criminal behavior, jail, etc. You are kidding yourself. Every era had its good, bad, and ugly.
@@lynettepalecek3141 since you’ve made pedantry a hobby, I’ll just point out that all actresses are actors. The term applies to both men and women who act.
@@jacobskinner3522 YOU'RE WRONG!! An actor is always a male and an actress is always a female. Only very ignorant people who want to use poor grammar when they speak will say "actor" instead of "actress." Yes, I know that I just called a lot of people ignorant, but they are! Btw, I don't care that you said that I made pedantry a hobby. That doesn't faze me at all. I get so sick and tired of so many people using improper grammar when they speak.
I was touched when Vivian Vance wanted throw out the word “word” because Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. didn’t hear his partner say “pass.” He thought she said “past.”
I miss those days!! Everyone was SANE!! INNOCENT DAYS... COMPARED TO THIS HELL WE ARE LIVING!! WHAT HAPPENED. IM SAD FOR OUR YOUNG PEOPLE..WILL THEY EVER KNOW THE LIFE WE HAD IN THE U S A?? OMG.. WHO DID THIS TO US. ??? EVIL DEMONS NEED T O BE TAKEN DOWN.. HELP US DEAR LORD IN HEAVEN!! SEND IN THE ANGELS...PLEASE??
@Susan. The morality in America went downhill rapidly since 1962 when the outspoken Atheist Madeline O'Hara convinced the government unconstitutionally to take the Holy Bible out of the public schools.
"Pick-Fair!!! Mary Pickford & Douglas Fairbanks Jr.! Power couple back in the day. They helped to establish "United Artists" along with Charlie Chaplin and others. Mary was way before her time; She would write scenes for the movies she starred in. Talented lady. Pick-Fair was their palatial estate.
You can't tell from this b&w episode, but... I saw Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. get off an elevator in NY long ago and although he was quite old, he had the bluest eyes this side of Santa Claus.
I agree! They must have started to realize that, because contestants Down the line got to play two rounds.I was just thinking of the expense of getting there and hotel cost. Especially the lady from Wisconsin!
Yes, there musta been a backlog of people wanting to be on this show, my only gripe is the contestants that lost didn't get the opportunity to play again
You have to realize that game show hosts often met the contestants before the show, and that the mini bio on camera was mostly for the benefit of the audience. So he may have already known beforehand she was married. On the other hand, some hosts either didn't know or pretended ignorance of their contestants. Groucho Marx was notorious for making fun of contestants on You Bet Your Life, partly to get laughs at their expense....and partly, I think, because he was bored and it amused him to make other people look stupid. He acted like he never met contestants beforehand, and probably didn't meet them.
Yes he asked about her husband, but to be fair, the question he asked the man was "are you married?" But yeah, Allen already knows the answers to these questions and is just working off the information he's been given. Of course it sounds sexist to our ears but that's just because we define ourselves and our lives differently today.
Mr. Ludden would generally introduce female contestants by saying, "You're married. What does your husband do?" I hope (perhaps in vain) that Mr. Ludden was cued to say something else if the contestant had a career of her own.
There seems to be a wide disparity between the talent of the (non-celebrity) players. Some so good and sophisticated and others play like they can barely put two words together. I don't mean to be harsh. I LOVE the game even when the players are not so good. It is just an observation.
To everyone who doesn't like it when Allen Ludden asked the woman contestant what her husband did for a living: don't be so naive!! The nuclear families were the norm back then. The husband worked and the wife stayed home and took care of her family. That's the way that it's suppose to be.
@@lovesmesomelilacs-ke5rzYou sure are ignorant about what the word "norm" means. It doesn't mean everyone. There were some families where both the husband and wife worked, but that was definitely extremely rare.
@@lovesmesomelilacs-ke5rz I'm not rude. I'm stating facts. You must be one of those extremely selfish feminists who ruined it for feminine women like me.
You can sometimes tell when they get the answer right before they do because of the print-through in the audio. You can hear a faint, "Yeah!" or excited shout. Example @ 3:40.
Times have sure changed. Allen asks the men their occupation and the women how many children they have. Allen had a working wife, but the stay at home mom was the norm. Women were supposed to take care of the home while the man made the money.
I ‘do’ appreciate that words are different now compared to back when this was made... but, gahAHHHHleeeee... that first round was inSANe! Where’d THOSE clues come from!!?! KaZOIKS!!!!!!!!
I've just watched a clip of Carol Burnett talking about working with Lucy. She said after Desi and Lucy divorced, she had to do so much more about running things in the company, and that made her more aggressive.
@@sashineb.2114 Many had issues with working with Lucy,, Prior to any engagements with anything with Carol Burnett. Lucy was a tough Broad. At any rate,, May she RIP. There is good in all. I think??? I forgot it is now 2019,,,, LOL !!!
I think you're right. Dealing with Desi's infidelities and drinking would have made her tough, plus when she was running the studio in the early 60s, that certainly had its effect. She said once all she wanted to do was acting but she suddenly found herself being an executive, too. I've heard stories about how bossy she could be even with big-name stars, such as Jack Benny, Richard Burton. Certainly different from the lovable Lucy Ricardo, but she did give us so much pleasure and laughter, even though her later shows were not very good.
@@saltychips4866 Poor response, the gentleman had a terrific idea. I watched Celebrity Password episodes last night, if you haven't seen them they featured 4 celebrities playing in pairs...not necessarily husbands and wives, just friends. The Ricardos versus the Mertzes would have been interesting, but I don't see William Frawley being that willing to play word games. Diss somebody for using less than perfect English/grammar? Do you feel better now?
These early shows the players just don’t really understand the concept or strategies of the game that emerged over time, like using a rhyming word as a clue.
However they did know how to act like a Lady and a Gentleman,,, not as today's Screwballs!! These people were Class Acts. Would rather see this any day!
@@joeygagliardi7380 Some folks play differently than others, try word association with your friends, different folks will give different responses to the same words.
When interviewing a female contestant Luden's only question for the female was "what does your husband do for a living?" That pretty much sums up the value of women at that time.
I'm getting sick and tired of people downgrading what Allen Ludden did. All of you obviously never read God's Holy Word the Bible. The real Christian home has the husband working and the wife staying home and taking care of her family. It wasn't the least bit insulting for Allen Ludden to ask the female contestants what their husbands did for a living.
@@saltychips4866 You don't suppose he was introduced to the contestants before the show? Or maybe noticed her wedding band? Even with the small screen of my tablet, I can see that the lady is wearing a ring on her left hand before she starts talking.
Old Dougie there tried to pull a fast one on the word chin he put his index finger pointing from his chin directly up to his nose and the rest of his fingers supporting his chin. Even Dougie wasn't above a little hanky-panky.
No that’s not quite what he said. He said that the woman Christina described was not the same as the woman he had been married to. Joan adopted Christina years after she divorced Fairbanks who was remarried to another woman and not in the Crawford home. Other stars who knew Joan after the adoption stated that they had witnessed her abusive behavior. Lana Turner stated after Joan’s death that everyone in Hollywood knew but covered it up because Hollywood protected its own. Basically no one will ever know the truth about what went on in Joan’s life. I suspect the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
@Christopher Bingham Surnames are considered one word. Also, what Vivian said was "beguine." Mr Ludden pointed out that she was trying to get her partner to think of "Begin the Beguine."
Woman need to work and always be in the workplace. That's how it always should be. Men always had to much of the burden back then, that's why they were on the sauce alot.
![What's My Line? - Allen Ludden & Betty White; Martin Gabel [panel] (Jun 23, 1963)](/img/n.gif)
Vivian Vance on a game show. What a treat! Thank you!
Vivían Vance!!! She was a great comedian!
It's so therapeutic to see people behaving and appearing normally and politely. Dressed properly. I was in third grade at time of this show. I am 63 now. And have been extremely sad to see what has happened to our country since
I completely agree, I'm a few years younger than yourself but I remember the good old days, thank God for great memories
@@donaldleroy6502 Agreed! I'll be 50 next Nov. Thank God for UA-cam, too! ;)
Well said Bonnie..I just turned 60..lm aghast at the current (last few years)...."dumming down"..of society...gonna fire up the way back machine...im heading back..its ⏲️ time
Define normal.
I was in sixth grade and I am very distressed at what has happened to this country. Sadly, a lot of people are under-educated and need to read more...
Lucy and Vivian were on Password along with Gary Morton and Peter Lawford. It's on UA-cam and it was so cute because Lucy was so surprised...
Just loved Vivian. ♥️💋
I love Vivian Vance. Rest in peace dear lady. Love you.
I'm 28 and grew up watching this on GSN with my great grandmother in the 1990s. Thank you for posting them all brings back a lot of great memories! ❤️
Viv was a pretty sharp dame!; plus she had such a warm, fun=loving personality
That was the persona she put on to the public but behind closed doors to people that knew her she was Mean Nasty & Vain about her appearance. Wiiiam Bill Frawley that played Fred on I Love Lucy was a bit older than her & she was Raving Mad they paired her up with someone older than her as it made her look older she said. She throughout the years she acted on the show she constantly continued to treat Bill bad calling him names & picking fights with him all because she was Vain about her appearance to others
Vivian - The equally brilliant "Other Half". Talk about "BFF's" ! They ORIGINATED it !
Vivian was attentive, alert, witty, and charming throughout every game. Douglas is sweet as they come.
Imagine playing 4 rounds of passwords on a half an hour game show. The commercials on TV back then were very short-timed.
On TV these days, commercials take up time, and they play one round on a game show. Vivian Vance looks great for 54 yrs old.
Vivian was the perfect actress for every show she played with Lucille Ball. XO
She really was the perfect actress! I actually prefer her over Lucille Ball and I'm a huge Lucy fan!
@@crmay72, when I was about 7 years old, I had a big crush on Desi Arnez. Growing up, we'd watch "I Love Lucy from 7:30 PM - 8:00 PM, then bedtime. That's why I had a crush on Desi-(Ricky, LOL!)
Throughout the years, I had recorded every episode, (Commercial-free) of "I Love Lucy!
I read that Lucy didn't want the actress who played the role as "Ethel, prettier than her!
Vivian Vance was perfect for the show.
I always thought Vivian was very pretty and she had beautiful skin! Vivian aged gracefully.
"Happy New Year! :)
@@LV2UXO77Yes! I honestly think Vivian was more attractive than Lucy but both women were beautiful! Happy New year to you as well! Blessings to you and your family. :)
Vivian was such a wonderful lady! So warm and feminine I just adore her!
She was very pretty too.
Kari O'Kay And intelligent, too. She gave some good clues.
Vivian was portrayed as a bit of a shlub on I Love Lucy, and she often resented that. Seeing her here I can see why, as others said: she was so elegant and very much a lady.
@@howardkerr8174 shlub! am sixty and never heard that word in my life: gonna look it up! = loved Vivian!
Well, you should look up what Tallulah Bankhead said about her. There was also mutual hatred between her and William Frawley.
Vivian Vance looked great.The 50s rock. I am 56 and loving it.
I'm 56 and ready to keel over
This was from 1963
Viv was very good at this game with the right player across from her.
My father and I were sitting in the audience for this; I think it was on Halloween night. The announcer, Jack Clark, did a terrible warm-up; his jokes were awful, and he kept referring to "our mess -- ah, show." They only taped the one episode (it was for prime time), and I got the idea that everybody was going to go out together for a late dinner afterward. After the taping was done, Mr. Ludden took some questions. The only one I remember was "How's Betty?" "You want to see her?" Mr. Ludden asked, and everybody went yeah, so out came Betty White, who of course was his wife. Betty hopped up onto the Password table and waved at everybody with both hands, and we all cheered her.
You had a memorial experience! Thanks for sharing.
What a wonderful memory!!
We always watched password, so lucky
There's one Memory you'll never forget !
What a great memory, thanks for sharing! Hard to believe that Betty will be 100 in just over a couple of weeks! So glad we still have her!! Happy New Year everybody!
Douglas Fairbanks Jr was such a gentleman...smart and handsome! With or without moustache...Loved him❣️
Resembled his famous father
@@josephpalermo4538 Handsomer than his father and nicer as well.
"Go Viv! Go Girl". I could just here Lucy shouting that at home.
I can see Lucy saying "Yo, Viv, babe"! Just like in "Pretty Woman"...lolz! 😁
"World Book Encyclopedia ". A standard in most households when I was growing up
As a kid, I remember our family had 2 different editions of World Book Encyclopedia.
Some of us were too poor for our parents to afford such a luxury at home. We had though ancient BRITANICA encyclopedias, salvaged from the dunpster, unfortunately about 30 years out've date! (eg.ADOLF HITLER was listed as the "...Current leader of GERMANY...".). If you were careful though? The old books were STILL usable for general reference. This is obviously for grade school level of course.
One of the BEST TV game shows EVER put on TV! Even was spoofed on other shows like the original "THE ODD COUPLE".
@Phyllis. We had the entire set when I was growing up in the 1960s.
we had the vol. 22 set growing up in the late 80s. Red leather bound with gold on the page edges. I remember always reading those books. That's what we did before the internet, went to the encyclopedia.
Wow! I am all into this show! Haha! I knew Vivian did it in 28 seconds, which was really 29 seconds.
She was just my favorite!!!!!!
Vivian really seemed to enjoy playing the game.
I like Viv Vance so funny and lovely lady 🧡
Douglas Fairbanks lived till 2000 but men looked older back then as he was 54 here. Seemed like an amicable fellow & Vivian, just as lovely as ever. No wonder her & Lucy were good friends. They were an undeniable team.
If they looked older, it was from all the drinking 🍸 and smoking 🚬 that they did.
I agree completely. I looked up his age and was shocked! Still looked great, but not for 54!
Vivian Vance was 54 here and I think she looks wonderful! ❤
Douglass Fairbanks Jr. WOW!!!
I've now watched a few of these shows from the early 60s, I'm very impressed with the quality of the videos AND audio, you must have cleaned them up digitally, at any rate good job, thank you. I woulda used the clue borscht for beets
Great stuff huh? And that Kodak film
I’m so wild about Doug.... he’s just everything!! Happy, classy, sophisticated, caring... what a fantastic person!
Perhaps the most Gentlemanly of all movie actors, I agree
And very handsome!
Pretty much perfection, imho.
I never saw Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in a movie or anything, but I remember that when Christina Crawford wrote that book about her mother, Fairbanks defended Joan Crawford, even they'd been divorced for many decades. Whether Crawford was really abusive or not, I thought that was a very classy move on his part.
He was in the excellent Paul Newman movie: HUD, or his father was....I get them mixed up.
@@howardkerr8174 His dad died in '39. You confused him with Melvyn Douglas
Douglas Fairbanks JR, was the Stepson. He was just a teenager. Mary Pickford married his father.
What is so classy about defending an emotionally abusive mother? 😕
I don’t think he had the fame his father enjoyed-different era; more exciting films. But, I remember him best in “The Prisoner of Zenda” and “Sinbad The Sailor.” I noticed a confusing comment in the replies, so I rechecked. Douglas Fairbanks was Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.’s real father, not his step-father. Anna Beth Sully was his mother. Mary Pickford was his step mother. Always enjoyed both father and son in the movies. I think they would stand up today-and didn’t need a single nasty word in them-just good acting!
I LOVE VIV!!!!!!
Vance’s surpassing intelligence is on full display here. Her literary chops are no match for mere mortals of average ability.
Yeah, she definitely had a few clues that were too smart for the room, like "Maginot".
As good a contestant as Betty White.
Has anyone else noticed that Allen Ludden asks the men what they do (I.e., their jobs), and the women what their husbands do? Also, I was impressed with Vivian Vance. She gave some esoteric clues and answers that indicated knowledge of a wide array of subjects. How many people would know what the Maginot [Line] was (her clue for “border”)?
Yes. He does it on every show. But as the episodes got into more 60 s, that changed
@Norm. So what? The nuclear family was extremely common back in the 1950s and the 1960s. In most of those cases, the husband worked and the wife stayed home and took care of her family. That's the way that the family is suppose to be according to God's Holy Word the Bible.
Allen knew in advance if a female contestant worked or not. Hence, he'd ask housewives about hobbies, family and for those who had a job he'd say "So you're a working girl?"
@@malcolmmarshall5946 That makes sense too.
All contestants were pre-interviewed prior to their appearance. Ludden knew what to ask them on air.
"Password" is a certifiable classic.
Scott Burton iiii
Legendary!
Vivian Vance was funny when she said that the Hoover Dam was in Las Vegas. 😅😅
She added it was outside of Las Vegas. Actually the distance from Las Vegas to the Hoover Dam is about 30 miles so she was correct.
@bevn362 No, she was wrong. The Hoover Dam is definitely NOT in Las Vegas.
@@lynettepalecek3141 Listen to her after she says in Las Vegas, then she says "outside of Las Vegas"
That first woman contestant Douglas Fairbanks Jr had was HUGE!
What a wonderful world.... 1963
It wasn't so wonderful for everyone.
I'm was born in the 1970 nvr heard of this amazing game with actors oh how I would have loved to be from the 50s and 60s I like the commercials the music and how people were respectful used Their Manners we don't have that anymore not even with our children.
If you loved this show you would probably also like Match Game, not the new one with Alex Baldwin but the original with Gene Rayburn. On Match Game the host was also funny and some of the questions/phrases were often hysterically funny.
Least of all with our children
@@howardkerr8174 Match Game Rocked.
@@howardkerr8174 Original is right.
There were versions in the 80s and 90s too. Where were you amigo?
Funny, but we were overseas when this episode aired. And this was only 16 days before JFK was murdered. The world has changed.
I don't think that I Love Lucy would have ever been the Hit that it was without Ethel. Vivian Vance made Lucy,,,,,, Lucy!
I agree in many ways. Lucy was brilliant, and she had some classic moments without her co-stars, but Ethel's responses, reactions and accommodations to Lucy's crazy schemes, brilliantly played by Vance, helped make I love Lucy, and even some of the Lucy shows, hysterical.
@@BrooklynDreaminCG Am glad you see my point,, many do not get it at all, when I give my opinion. Thanks, and Merry Christmas..
Her show without Viv was never as good.
@@m.e.d.7997 Totally agree, she always needed the perfect person to play off of. As I said initially,, Have a Great Day
@@joeygagliardi7380 Vivian was the "glue" which held "Lucy" together: best second banana in the business
He knew the Calgary Stampede?? Now that’s impressive
Lovely Viv!
When actors had class and maturity.
nonsense....everybody is a reflection of the times in which they live...actors in 1963 reflected their times and actors today reflect their times. Plenty of actors in 1963 and earlier lacked class and maturity - drugs, drunks, criminal behavior, jail, etc. You are kidding yourself. Every era had its good, bad, and ugly.
The acting chops it took to make the perfect Ethel for Fred and Lucy.
Everyone is so polite
Vivian was a good surported actor and she and Lucy was good together
Vivian Vance was an actress- not an actor. She and Lucy were good friends- not was good friends.
@@lynettepalecek3141 since you’ve made pedantry a hobby, I’ll just point out that all actresses are actors. The term applies to both men and women who act.
@@jacobskinner3522 YOU'RE WRONG!! An actor is always a male and an actress is always a female. Only very ignorant people who want to use poor grammar when they speak will say "actor" instead of "actress." Yes, I know that I just called a lot of people ignorant, but they are! Btw, I don't care that you said that I made pedantry a hobby. That doesn't faze me at all. I get so sick and tired of so many people using improper grammar when they speak.
@@lynettepalecek3141 that is outmoded and outdated nonsense. But, sure, it’s others who are very ignorant.
@@jacobskinner3522 You and many others ARE ignorant when it comes to using proper grammar when they speak.
Lots of flubs from the get go. Along with not so seasoned players. Still loving my girl Vivian.
I was touched when Vivian Vance wanted throw out the word “word” because Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. didn’t hear his partner say “pass.” He thought she said “past.”
She was a wonderful lady who did a lot of volunteer work on behalf of mental health. ❤
I miss those days!! Everyone was SANE!! INNOCENT DAYS... COMPARED TO THIS HELL WE ARE LIVING!! WHAT HAPPENED. IM SAD FOR OUR YOUNG PEOPLE..WILL THEY EVER KNOW THE LIFE WE HAD IN THE U S A?? OMG.. WHO DID THIS TO US. ??? EVIL DEMONS NEED T O BE TAKEN DOWN.. HELP US DEAR LORD IN HEAVEN!! SEND IN THE ANGELS...PLEASE??
@Susan. The morality in America went downhill rapidly since 1962 when the outspoken Atheist Madeline O'Hara convinced the government unconstitutionally to take the Holy Bible out of the public schools.
Man when they said web, I thought they’d say internet but it wasn’t invented yet.😂😂 I forgot all about spiderwebs.🤪
😂😂😂
Viv was a peach!
OMGosh! Someone from MAMARONECK, NY.?.WOW!
Fairbanks is a very handsome guy
Yes
@@reneebraxton1032 very
Vivian had an innocent sexiness about her.
She was 55....
@@vitothepizzaguy7475 She was actually 54
@@rosechardonnay5351 yeah sorry
Oh yea! She did at that.
Lovely woman. Uh, Vivian Vance!
I noticed Fairbanks didn't have his mustache right away!
But, Allen, "what does your husband do for a living?" I know it was the time, but she's a person in her own right.
"Pick-Fair!!! Mary Pickford & Douglas Fairbanks Jr.! Power couple back in the day. They helped to establish "United Artists" along with Charlie Chaplin and others. Mary was way before her time; She would write scenes for the movies she starred in. Talented lady. Pick-Fair was their palatial estate.
renee braxton Mary Pickford was married to Doug Jrs father Douglas Fairbanks Sr.
@@jmommay0362 Really? Wow!
renee braxton yes ma’am
Not Jr.. his dad the Senior Fairbanks! Mary Pickford was his stepmother.
Watched DFJr last night. Saw Rosemary Clooney and Jose Ferrer.
You can't tell from this b&w episode, but... I saw Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. get off an elevator in NY long ago and although he was quite old, he had the bluest eyes this side of Santa Claus.
54 is definitely not quite old! Even when I was only 10 years old, I didn't think that 54 was old. 54 is middle age.
@@lynettepalecek3141 Did I say he was 54 when I saw him get off the elevator?
They sure raced through contestants quickly!
I agree! They must have started to realize that, because contestants
Down the line got to play two rounds.I was just thinking of the expense of getting there and hotel cost. Especially the lady from Wisconsin!
Yes, there musta been a backlog of people wanting to be on this show, my only gripe is the contestants that lost didn't get the opportunity to play again
@@carmelarintelman5828 Yes! Sheboygan, Wisconsin is in the eastern part of Wisconsin.
@@donaldleroy6502 That's why they changed the rules in the later years. In the later years they had a round. Then the contestants changed partners.
@@lynettepalecek3141 They did that in the beginning. Then they made it so they could only do ONE game (I never liked that)
Allen knew in advance if female contestants worked or not. So he'd say "Are you a working girl?" or ask about family & hobbies.
😀👏I'm enjoying it too!! ♥️
Douglas Fairbanks should have said "birthday" for "happy."
Douglas Fairbanks was married to Joan Crawford when he was very young.
Love how he asked the man about himself and the lady about her husband. 😏
You have to realize that game show hosts often met the contestants before the show, and that the mini bio on camera was mostly for the benefit of the audience. So he may have already known beforehand she was married.
On the other hand, some hosts either didn't know or pretended ignorance of their contestants. Groucho Marx was notorious for making fun of contestants on You Bet Your Life, partly to get laughs at their expense....and partly, I think, because he was bored and it amused him to make other people look stupid. He acted like he never met contestants beforehand, and probably didn't meet them.
Definitely a sign of the times.
Yes he asked about her husband, but to be fair, the question he asked the man was "are you married?"
But yeah, Allen already knows the answers to these questions and is just working off the information he's been given.
Of course it sounds sexist to our ears but that's just because we define ourselves and our lives differently today.
@@todddepue681 Yes, we were barely out of the days of a married woman being referred to by her husband’s name. Mrs. John Doe, rather than Jane Doe.
Mr. Ludden would generally introduce female contestants by saying, "You're married. What does your husband do?" I hope (perhaps in vain) that Mr. Ludden was cued to say something else if the contestant had a career of her own.
Lucy & Vivian as partners.
on a later episode they were
I can see Lucy saying "Yo, Viv, babe"! Just like in "Pretty Woman"...lolz! 😁
There seems to be a wide disparity between the talent of the (non-celebrity) players. Some so good and sophisticated and others play like they can barely put two words together.
I don't mean to be harsh. I LOVE the game even when the players are not so good. It is just an observation.
Such a fun game -- everyone is happy -- just two weeks before the Kennedy Assassination.
What an innocent time it all was.
Vivian had beautiful blonde hair.
She dyed her hair. 🙄
It was a beautiful dye job.
@@diedonner299 she was definitely not a natural blonde. 🤯
To everyone who doesn't like it when Allen Ludden asked the woman contestant what her husband did for a living: don't be so naive!! The nuclear families were the norm back then. The husband worked and the wife stayed home and took care of her family. That's the way that it's suppose to be.
Not in every family.
@@lovesmesomelilacs-ke5rzYou sure are ignorant about what the word "norm" means. It doesn't mean everyone. There were some families where both the husband and wife worked, but that was definitely extremely rare.
@@lynettepalecek3141 and you sure are rude
It's the "that's the way that it's suppose[d] to be" that's the offensive part of your statement.
@@lovesmesomelilacs-ke5rz I'm not rude. I'm stating facts. You must be one of those extremely selfish feminists who ruined it for feminine women like me.
My niece Cami is the sweetest and most beautiful young woman I know!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
You can sometimes tell when they get the answer right before they do because of the print-through in the audio. You can hear a faint, "Yeah!" or excited shout. Example @ 3:40.
If you look at the date, in a few weeks, life would change in America.
What fun!
24:32 if you look at the p then go diagonally to the left, is
that betty?
Times have sure changed. Allen asks the men their occupation and the women how many children they have. Allen had a working wife, but the stay at home mom was the norm. Women were supposed to take care of the home while the man made the money.
I wish could have a modern version, however Ppl these days are as literate.
Unfortunately, people these days are not as literate...
Left with $50 😳
What happened to America now?
Trash! 😀
Dang "chin" was a rough start!
I ‘do’ appreciate that words are different now compared to back when this was made... but, gahAHHHHleeeee... that first round was inSANe! Where’d THOSE clues come from!!?! KaZOIKS!!!!!!!!
Don't forget them.
Vivian seemed much more pleasant then Lucy.
Exactly, I loved Lucy but every time I see her on these shows she always looks angry and miserable, EXCEPT when her kids were on.
She was,, Lucy could be a Bitch. She had a mouth like a Truck Driver.
I've just watched a clip of Carol Burnett talking about working with Lucy. She said after Desi and Lucy divorced, she had to do so much more about running things in the company, and that made her more aggressive.
@@sashineb.2114 Many had issues with working with Lucy,, Prior to any engagements with anything with Carol Burnett. Lucy was a tough Broad. At any rate,, May she RIP. There is good in all. I think??? I forgot it is now 2019,,,, LOL !!!
I think you're right. Dealing with Desi's infidelities and drinking would have made her tough, plus when she was running the studio in the early 60s, that certainly had its effect. She said once all she wanted to do was acting but she suddenly found herself being an executive, too. I've heard stories about how bossy she could be even with big-name stars, such as Jack Benny, Richard Burton. Certainly different from the lovable Lucy Ricardo, but she did give us so much pleasure and laughter, even though her later shows were not very good.
Lots of new partners.
Should of made an episode with the cast of I love lucy, the Ricardo vs the mertz
Mr. Sir
How do you "of"?
@@saltychips4866
Poor response, the gentleman had a terrific idea. I watched Celebrity Password episodes last night, if you haven't seen them they featured 4 celebrities playing in pairs...not necessarily husbands and wives, just friends.
The Ricardos versus the Mertzes would have been interesting, but I don't see William Frawley being that willing to play word games.
Diss somebody for using less than perfect English/grammar? Do you feel better now?
RICKY AND LUCY NOT GETTING ALONG. LATER Desi Jr, Lucie Lucy and Gary Moore played.
Funny. Uh, I Love Lucy.
Vivian Vance had a kind of spacey look, but she was very intelligent.
These early shows the players just don’t really understand the concept or strategies of the game that emerged over time, like using a rhyming word as a clue.
However they did know how to act like a Lady and a Gentleman,,, not as today's Screwballs!! These people were Class Acts. Would rather see this any day!
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Some folks play differently than others, try word association with your friends, different folks will give different responses to the same words.
When interviewing a female contestant Luden's only question for the female was "what does your husband do for a living?" That pretty much sums up the value of women at that time.
Yes, I noticed that too,,,,,,,
Well sometimes he asks them if they are a working girl... 😬
Yes. It was interesting to see that changing toward the later part of the show.
I'm getting sick and tired of people downgrading what Allen Ludden did. All of you obviously never read God's Holy Word the Bible. The real Christian home has the husband working and the wife staying home and taking care of her family. It wasn't the least bit insulting for Allen Ludden to ask the female contestants what their husbands did for a living.
@@lynettepalecek3141 you're right. We should definitely be more accepting and open minded about how people define the ideal family. 🙂
Mexican border didn't they have that back then ?😳🤣
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. does look better without the mustache.
BEET!
Didn't he marry Betty white?
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every time he asks a woman what 'her husband does', I want to spit nails!
If you noticed, if a woman did have outside employment, Mr. Ludden DID ask what her job was.
@@saltychips4866
You don't suppose he was introduced to the contestants before the show? Or maybe noticed her wedding band? Even with the small screen of my tablet, I can see that the lady is wearing a ring on her left hand before she starts talking.
I love it when he says, "Are you a working girl"...!!!
Old Dougie there tried to pull a fast one on the word chin he put his index finger pointing from his chin directly up to his nose and the rest of his fingers supporting his chin. Even Dougie wasn't above a little hanky-panky.
Bethesda, Maryland, where he will be flown to in just fifteen more days...
Allen taking an hour to realize Dougs mustache was gone is worse than George Costanza taking an hour to make a candy line -up
"PASS..." (!)
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Claimed that Christina Crawford's accusations about his first wife Joan Crawford's were false!
No that’s not quite what he said. He said that the woman Christina described was not the same as the woman he had been married to. Joan adopted Christina years after she divorced Fairbanks who was remarried to another woman and not in the Crawford home. Other stars who knew Joan after the adoption stated that they had witnessed her abusive behavior. Lana Turner stated after Joan’s death that everyone in Hollywood knew but covered it up because Hollywood protected its own. Basically no one will ever know the truth about what went on in Joan’s life. I suspect the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
10-10
"me... Vangogh"
@Christopher Bingham Surnames are considered one word. Also, what Vivian said was "beguine." Mr Ludden pointed out that she was trying to get her partner to think of "Begin the Beguine."
Haha. Hello Barbara, what does your husband do? Lol
So? The nuclear families were the norm back then. The husband worked and the wife stayed home and took care of her family.
Woman need to work and always be in the workplace. That's how it always should be. Men always had to much of the burden back then, that's why they were on the sauce alot.