According to the IMdB, Lee's first TV appearance was in the 1954-55 broadcast season, so this could very well be Lee's introduction to the world of television production.
Although Julie Newmar may have more acclaim as Catwoman in the 1960's Batman show, to my way of thinking it is Lee Meriwether who was more like the comic book Catwoman (in the Batman movie). Long live Miss Kitka!
So surprised he never won an Oscar & why not? God, you can't beat his movies especially Rear Window, Vertigo & Psycho just to name a few. Didn't Hollywood like him or his style of work? They were masterpieces & deserve much more recognition. When we watch them today the word 'classic' underrates them by a mile. No-one did it better than Hitchcock & no-one ever will.
Such a joy to watch. Hitchcock's voice is, of course, immediately recognisable to the expert panel (especially Bennett and Dorothy), but they're gracious enough to play along for a while. Personally I find the non-celebrity parts the most fun as the panel usually flounders (FITS men's corsets!).
In Hitchcock's movie, Lifeboat (1944), the entire movie is set in a lifeboat. Hitchcock's appearance/cameo is being in the before and after pictures in a back-page paper/magazine ad for a weight-loss product - the movie character is reading the front part of the paper, so the 'cameo' may be overlooked. This ad is also is an example of Hitchcock's humor.
How sweet of Alfred Hitchcock to recognize Dorothy kilgallen having something to say. So sweet. The one thing that bothers me about the later versions of this that are in color the actors and actresses have almost no honor of each other and talk over each other and seems like they always tried to get the limelight on themselves. Not Arlene but the beer generation. Often wonder how Arlene stuck with the syndicated years. Got worse and worse.
Dorothy Kilgallen and Arlene Francis are my favorites. Ms. Kilgallen was a VERY sharp woman. As I've watched these, I think she has guessed more of the celebrity guests than anyone!
I hate this was before my time. But.i love I can watch them now. This was a good show. Done with class. The ladies all had grace and class. The men were gentlemen. Hitchcock was a hoot here. They don't make good shows like this no.more. 👍💯💜👏👏👏🙏🙂✨🦋🌠🌟🌻🌷👌. Love,respect and positivity always. Neita James.
Hitchcock's Rear Window was shot on a single set, which required months of planning and construction for the apartment and courtyard setting. But the shooting schedule itself was rapid, spanning only about 6 weeks, from November 27, 1953 to January 13, 1954.
"Hitch" had two films that were released in 1954: _Dial "M" for Murder_ in May of that year, and _Rear Window_ in September, when this episode of WML aired. _Rear Window_ was a great movie -- great cast, with James Stewart as the hero and Raymond Burr as the villain -- they did a good job making Burr look older and unlikable. Grace Kelly, too -- Hitchcock loved blonde female stars in his films.
@@JDAbelRN agreed. dial M seems to improve with age..whereas once you have seen Rear Window for me, I don’t seem to have the patience to sit through it many times again.
@@alpha-omega2362 ......Being a mystery I would ( normally ) agree with you ( once you know; you know ), but for some reason every time I see Rearwindow is on....I’m there.
Getting cast in Rear Window was Burr's big break. The funny thing is the reason Hitchcock cast him is because Raymond Burr looked like David O Selznick, who was Hitchcock's former producer he didn't like. He even went to the lengths of having the same brand of glasses Selznick wore and trained Burr to copy Selznick's mannerisms
It has been 'more-than-rumored', that Mr. Bennett Was at times given 'Tip-offs' just before he came out from behind the curtain as to whom was going to be On or what a particular guest 'Line' was....for He LOVED to gloat and gloat the whole week a work and Parties about his 'Intuition'....Intelligent, erudite, But a Frigg'n PRIG. And conceited......LoL...Fred Allen shared a dressing Room with Bennett, and mostly ignored him as much as possible, due to this 'Tip-off' sham......
@@stanochocki8984 I don't believe rumors. Too often rumors turn out to be completely false and they're told by someone who is jealous. Bennett Cerf was very intelligent and he kept up with current events as well as Dorothy Kilgallen did. I wouldn't trust rumors- especially if yt, Google or Facebook tells them. They give a lot of false information.
@@JimBalter I agree. Anyone who thinks that WML is a show that was rigged is extremely jealous. WML was well known for NOT being rigged. If you listen very carefully to the panel's questions, they use the same exact pattern of questions. Then, they induce the possible answers. They ratiocinate with the contestant and with John Daly. After that, they put together all of the facts and they figure out the answer. It amazes me how unintelligent people can't see that.
If this episode had been done a few years later, after Hitchcock's TV series had aired, they would have recognized his voice. He didn't disguise it much.
Dorothy just happened to meet James Stewart in a bar on Venice - this is not the first time she has commented on meeting famous people - what an amazing life she must have led, including going to the crowning of Queen Elizabeth in the UK in 1953.
Lee Meriwether is a beautiful lady and because of her, I ate more Campbells Soup as a kid. She’s 87 years old in 2022. “Rear Window” is a great movie as are almost all Hitchcock movies.
I am glad that What's My Line eventually dispensed with the free guesses; more than once the occupation was guessed and the game was stopped cold before it even got started;
I was 15 and a photographer for the Atlantic City Press. I was in place 4 from the stage at the Miss America Pageant? My photo of her was published in a special edition 1/2 hour after she was crowned.
Alfred Hitchcock was the commencement speaker at my college graduation from Santa Clara University in 1963. His message to us was to inject humor into our lives and future employment-and he injected a lot of humor into his speech. His movie “The Birds” had just come out and he wondered how the University could confer the honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities on someone who said things like, “The Birds IS coming” (to a theater near you). I got his autograph on my graduation program, consisting of his signature and a drawing of his face in profile, as it appeared on his television program “Alfred Hitchcock Presents.”
Bernard Burdick, How nice of you to share your story! It must have been so interesting for you to see another side of Hitchcock, truly a genius of film.
There is a Facebook page associated with What's My Line and these videos are part of that. I sure would love to see your graduation program with Hitch's signature thereon!
This was filmed before he went on the greatest run in the history of cinema. Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho and the Birds in succession And he was no spring chicken
This is a time when Americans were intelligent, could spell, could write legibly, had respect for teachers and therefore payed attention to learning in school. People were well spoken with correct grammar. This was a well loved, intelligent tv game show. Mid to late 60's when our society started it's descent, this show lost its appeal. We have taken a road to a place called Stupidity. As a retired elementary school teacher it has been a sad horrific trip to watch. ☹️
Paid..payed only refers to paying in the nautical sense, such as a sailor who payed a ship's decks with tar to prevent leaking. Payed means sealed. Any other use is spelled PAID, "Teach"..
"....started it's descent...." no apostrophe required here. 'Its' indicates possession. And yes, I have committed many errors. However, you are correct about the decline in just about everything civilized in education. Part, of course, is a result of parents thinking they know more about education than someone who spent five years of their life learning how to teach. (Unfortunately, not enough classes were spent on teaching how to cope with know-it-all, rude parents) And now "they" don't think memorization has any place in the curriculum. So what are the students' brains being used for???
@@dianeericson7900, I will probably not ever find that person. Soooo... Does that mean English teachers cannot be called out on spelling errors? Also, does that mean that anyone who is an English teacher cannot correct a student because the English teacher has not been perfect, either? YOUR MOVE..
@@janetmarletto6667 Practically all the stars he worked for invariably said that they had nothing but respect for him. Tippi Hedren was a special case because he developed feelings for her which by all accounts he’d never done before. Don’t assume because he treated Tippi Hedren badly that that was how he was with all his stars.
It was very surprising that the panelists didn't immediately recognize Alfred Hitchcock's voice. I guess that decades of interviews and, even moreso, years of watching the Alfred Hitchcock television show.make it impossible for those of us of a certain age to fail to find his distinctive voice familiar.
Hitchcock is one of the greatest film directors of all time, he is a major pioneer for the horror/suspense genre of filmmaking. Many consider his film "Psycho" to be the movie that paved the way for the "slasher" genre of horror. Without Hitchcock, horror would not be what it is today. _"I'm a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach"_ - _Alfred Hitchcock_
Anyone who has dealt with serious lower back pain -- due, for example to a herniated lumbar disc -- will have worn a corset sold for medical reasons with large metal stays in it. Orthopedic surgeons and chiropractors often have them on hand to dispense to their patients and sports medicine retailers that sell all kinds of devices to assist with physical injuries and issues sell them, for example. Getting one that fits correctly when you've got a herniated disc and inflammation of the facet joint between the two vertebrae separated by the herniated disc is very important -- and it can involve bending the stays so that when worn the stays don't poke you and have the right shape to conform to the person. So having someone who knows who to fit one of things would be a good thing. I speak from personal experience.
That explanation adds a whole lot of importance to this occupation! I couldn’t figure this one out. It’s too bad this wasn’t mentioned on the show. Thanks so much!
At 22:41, Robert Q. Lewis said, "Well, now there was a very special area of interest that preceded Edna into New York this week..." He was talking about Hurricane Edna, a deadly storm that caused the heaviest day of rainfall in New York City in 45 years. Edna roughly followed the path that Hurricane Carol took a week to 11 days earlier. Hurricane Carol flooded out a neighborhood in Hartford, Conn., where my family, including me, had lived the previous year.
@WinGate Mose $1,000 in 1950 = 11,273 in 2021. I'm not sure how often this show originally aired? Weekly? 50 episodes a year? That's $563,000/yr in todays money.
They're stringing it out surely!!! That's one of the most familiar voices in entertainment history!' I think they should've called him by name straight away.
I love, just before the "goodnights", Mr Daley's understated and sophisticated addition of a (slightly moderated) quote from the famous Robert Burns poem To a Mouse.... 1785 "The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley..." Wonderful! 🌾🐀
Hitchcock filmed The Wrong Man in a friend of mine's childhood house in Jackson Heights. He turned down a dinner offer with the family, but the film's star Henry Fonda accepted. My friend was three years from being born, but tells me of the numerous photos from the shoot that lined his family's mantle.
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i just watched a hitchcock movie yesterday (the wife videoed it a few weeks ago), and this popped up on my 'random' feed today - how do they know lol. Hitch is great isn't he, a true legend
My grand mother loved watching Alfred Hitchcock presents when I was a kid. Interesting that men and women were called handsome and couples were called handsome when I was a kid, like on this program. English has changed since then.
LEE MERRIWEATHER is still today, a very beautiful woman. For some reason when I was a teen and an early 20-something, I did not think that was the case. Boy, was I blind! Sheeesh..
This was a show that had incredibly educated, sophisticated panelists. It was a cut above every other game show on TV at the time or since, except maybe Password. The panelists are impeccably dressed, well spoken, and polite, as are the contestants. I love this show because it reminds of what civility used to be like. What a line-up of talent, Dorothy Kilgallen an award-winning columnist, Robert Q. Lewis a recognized news broadcaster, Arlene Francis, a Broadway star, Bennet Cerf Publisher of Random house, and John Charles Daley a famous and highly respected Journalist. It is an amzing group of people. Lee Meriwether is incredibly beautiful and sophisticated. Evans as she aged, she retained her beauty. Being a fairly tall woman for the time (5'9") along with her great figure just added to her charm. Those were the days when Miss America was a big deal and the winner was really somebody special, a real celebrity.
It's funny that I was wondering if anyone got the free guesses correctly, and what a coincidence that it's in this episode, right before I was about to look up correct free guesses! Awesome job! :)
This is one of the first shows where Arlene is wearing her beautiful heart shaped diamond necklace. She wore it on nearly every show throughout the years on WML.
@@accomplice55 Yes, like I said, she wore it on nearly every show throughout the years on WML. I'm not sure when she STARTED wearing it, but I have no reason not to believe you. Thanx.
i just saw the show where John Daly says Dorothy Kilgallen had passed away. and now here she is bright and cheerful. i’ll have to wait awhile before watching it again. i still haven’t seen any reference as to why that happened. i guess those who knew her kept it to themselves. 🥀
7:56 I noticed that in shaking hands, the men offered their hands vertically and the ladies offered their hands horizontally. That was the custom of the day--women were more apt to offer their hands to a man than outright shake it. 🙂
You’ve reminded me that I was taught never to shake a woman’s hand unless she offered it. We were to let the woman initiate the handshake. A custom I had long forgotten.
Growing up in the '60s I was taught never ever to "shake hands", per se, but only to offer my hand in such situations. Boys were taught never to "shake" a lady's hand, exactly, but to clasp it warmly for a moment with one or both of theirs, adding perhaps just a slight, gentle movement, then let it go. In very specific romantic or familial situations a gentleman might still kiss a lady's hand as late as the 1960s but it was exceedingly rare, at least in my experience.
@@kenchristie9214 Sure, if you call under 60+ young, when green "blackboards" were becoming common. Blackboards have always used chalk, and calling them a chalkboard is just as correct.
I wonder if Hitchcock was very well known in the United States in 1954. I was looking at his filmography and though there are a number of noteworthy movies before then, it seems his prime time came after "Rear Window". And though only Bennett and Dorothy got to question him, this was before his TV show was on the air and his unique voice became fodder for impressionists. They didn't get the voice, which I think even a year later would have been a dead giveaway (and then he would have disguised it).
"Vertigo" is Hitchcock's masterpiece,. Lengthy scenes with minimal dialogue, centered around the beauty of San Francisco. Jimmy Stewart's brooding portrayal didn't hurt either.
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If Alfred hadn't been a director, he would have been a great comedian. I love all his Hitchcock Presents openers
Your right very witty
@@Deejaay83urj38 I agree.
LOVED the way he did the outline of himself 💖💖🌹🇺🇸🇬🇧
"You know, sometimes I think I should get out of this business..."
I totally agree.
There is NO WAY Hitchcock could disguise that voice! A titan!
he was awesome , i love his interviews . a brilliant wit .
I agree! It may be that his voice wasn't as well known as it is today, which is why they let him use it.
Yeah one was a obvious slip, but dont get his Hollywood "always" he did start in England.
When Desi arnez and Lucy were on the voices had to b changed....SOME people can b known instantly....I can just hear some of the voices...🇺🇸💖🌹
What a cool person
Mr. Hitchcock is quick witted, dry, and consistently entertaining
And he made no effort to conceal his arrogance.
A very funny guy
It's crazy how many brilliant minds were in this show
*on this show
Loved the small outline of his face that Hitchcock drew alongwith his signature.
Me too! Who knew it was his artwork on the TV shows! Fantastic!
Hitchcock came up with that self-portrait doodle many years before the TV show.
The man is a genius, great personality❤️🤙🏻
Yep, one of the best sign-ins, along with Liberace's.
Tge way he alwaz did it
"You are a gentleman, is that correct?"
"Sometimes."
Such effortless wit.
perfectly said effortless
Dry English wit.
“Is there singing and dancing in your movie?”
“Well, there’s a little dancing….”
Ah, yes. Miss Torso.
It is so refreshing to watch the show, where people let others speak, they are polite and respect each other!
LEE MERIWETHER was probably one of the most successful Miss Americas of all time.😄🌞🎈🏵🎀
According to the IMdB, Lee's first TV appearance was in the 1954-55 broadcast season, so this could very well be Lee's introduction to the world of television production.
She couldn’t help it, she was a natural star! So charismatic and charming! Still is.
@@TheCometHunter The pageant was broadcast for the first time that year (just the previous day), so she was on television then.
Lee remained beautiful throughout her life getting even more so in time.
I just did a bit of research, and Lee Meriwether is actually still alive at 88 years old. She was roughly 20 years old at the time of this episode. :)
Ahh! To be 20 again.
I've been binge-watching Lee Merriweather on Barnaby Jones for 3 days now. Shes so beautiful and do gracious!
Up to a month now.....
Check out Time Tunnel, in which she stars as a scientist. She was also a guest star on Star Trek.
Although Julie Newmar may have more acclaim as Catwoman in the 1960's Batman show, to my way of thinking it is Lee Meriwether who was more like the comic book Catwoman (in the Batman movie). Long live Miss Kitka!
I love how when Dorothy asks if the actors are indebted to him he says "They had better be" in this almost subtly threatening tone XD
They were just cattle to him.
This is still such a joy to watch today
So surprised he never won an Oscar & why not? God, you can't beat his movies especially Rear Window, Vertigo & Psycho just to name a few. Didn't Hollywood like him or his style of work? They were masterpieces & deserve much more recognition. When we watch them today the word 'classic' underrates them by a mile. No-one did it better than Hitchcock & no-one ever will.
His first Hollywood picture won Best Picture: Rebecca.
I agree. He should have won more often.
I believe if you win one of those politically charged awards you are one of them, thankfully Alfred was not
His genre was not as respected then. His movies were “too” entertaining to be seen as “important.”
@@wilfred508 AND arguably his finest film. A movie whose title Role never sets foot on set or has any lines.
Brilliant, Brilliant movie!!
Such a joy to watch. Hitchcock's voice is, of course, immediately recognisable to the expert panel (especially Bennett and Dorothy), but they're gracious enough to play along for a while. Personally I find the non-celebrity parts the most fun as the panel usually flounders (FITS men's corsets!).
It's nice to watch programs where people show respect..
well, that was long ago, long before we freed every tom, dick and harry. and notice their complexions.
In Hitchcock's movie, Lifeboat (1944), the entire movie is set in a lifeboat. Hitchcock's appearance/cameo is being in the before and after pictures in a back-page paper/magazine ad for a weight-loss product - the movie character is reading the front part of the paper, so the 'cameo' may be overlooked. This ad is also is an example of Hitchcock's humor.
Is t it fun to try to spot him??? He’s very crafty to make this happen -
How sweet of Alfred Hitchcock to recognize Dorothy kilgallen having something to say. So sweet. The one thing that bothers me about the later versions of this that are in color the actors and actresses have almost no honor of each other and talk over each other and seems like they always tried to get the limelight on themselves. Not Arlene but the beer generation. Often wonder how Arlene stuck with the syndicated years. Got worse and worse.
Dorothy Kilgallen and Arlene Francis are my favorites. Ms. Kilgallen was a VERY sharp woman. As I've watched these, I think she has guessed more of the celebrity guests than anyone!
Dorothy was a investigative reporter for years 😊
@@robertjean5782 What did she investigate?
I hate this was before my time. But.i love I can watch them now. This was a good show. Done with class. The ladies all had grace and class. The men were gentlemen. Hitchcock was a hoot here. They don't make good shows like this no.more. 👍💯💜👏👏👏🙏🙂✨🦋🌠🌟🌻🌷👌. Love,respect and positivity always. Neita James.
Not just this show! All shows of 1950 were like the way you described, including The Names The Same and I've Got A Secret.
Hitchcock's Rear Window was shot on a single set, which required months of planning and construction for the apartment and courtyard setting. But the shooting schedule itself was rapid, spanning only about 6 weeks, from November 27, 1953 to January 13, 1954.
Thank you! I did not know that! I have always enjoyed Mr. Hitchcock’s movies and tv programs! The twist was always there at the end!!!
First I’ve seen Mr Hitchcock smile.
"Hitch" had two films that were released in 1954: _Dial "M" for Murder_ in May of that year, and _Rear Window_ in September, when this episode of WML aired. _Rear Window_ was a great movie -- great cast, with James Stewart as the hero and Raymond Burr as the villain -- they did a good job making Burr look older and unlikable. Grace Kelly, too -- Hitchcock loved blonde female stars in his films.
Burr was cast against type when he got the Perry Mason gig. Until then he had usually played heavies.
Both films sublime, but actually I prefer " Dial "M" ". My favorite director, Hitch.
@@JDAbelRN agreed. dial M seems to improve with age..whereas once you have seen Rear Window for me, I don’t seem to have the patience to sit through it many times again.
@@alpha-omega2362 ......Being a mystery I would ( normally ) agree with you ( once you know; you know ), but for some reason every time I see Rearwindow is on....I’m there.
Getting cast in Rear Window was Burr's big break. The funny thing is the reason Hitchcock cast him is because Raymond Burr looked like David O Selznick, who was Hitchcock's former producer he didn't like. He even went to the lengths of having the same brand of glasses Selznick wore and trained Burr to copy Selznick's mannerisms
I was born the day before this broadcast.
The Miss America Pageant on the 11th was the first one televised. Or so I heard..
Sweet
Alfred Hitchcock followed the story boards very well and he had the story in his mind before it was made into a movie. This was the genius of the man.
It’s great to see these stars from the past .
"Last night in Atlantic City, I met Ms. Grace Kelly."
"What did you do about it?"
I would faint
Host: "I had my wife and three children along"
Hitchcock: "What a pity"
Love his wit
So,how could a spaniard watching in 2021 enjoying this much, the language, the simple questions, the normal and polite behavior from us in 1955?
Bennett was on fire tonight! Two lines AND a free guess, that's gotta be a rare occurence for a panelist to get! :)
It has been 'more-than-rumored', that Mr. Bennett Was at times given 'Tip-offs' just before he came out from behind the curtain as to whom was going to be On or what a particular guest 'Line' was....for He LOVED to gloat and gloat the whole week a work and Parties about his 'Intuition'....Intelligent, erudite, But a Frigg'n PRIG. And conceited......LoL...Fred Allen shared a dressing Room with Bennett, and mostly ignored him as much as possible, due to this 'Tip-off' sham......
@@stanochocki8984 How do you know this? I do this not trying to offend but you must be of a very high age
@MichaelKingsfordGray Only imbeciles think so.
@@stanochocki8984 I don't believe rumors. Too often rumors turn out to be completely false and they're told by someone who is jealous. Bennett Cerf was very intelligent and he kept up with current events as well as Dorothy Kilgallen did. I wouldn't trust rumors- especially if yt, Google or Facebook tells them. They give a lot of false information.
@@JimBalter I agree. Anyone who thinks that WML is a show that was rigged is extremely jealous. WML was well known for NOT being rigged. If you listen very carefully to the panel's questions, they use the same exact pattern of questions. Then, they induce the possible answers. They ratiocinate with the contestant and with John Daly. After that, they put together all of the facts and they figure out the answer. It amazes me how unintelligent people can't see that.
If this episode had been done a few years later, after Hitchcock's TV series had aired, they would have recognized his voice. He didn't disguise it much.
Lee Meriwether is all of 19 years old here, born 27 May 1935.
would not recognize her!
ToddSF 94109 very poised for 19
@@pattimaeda6097 That is what it takes to be crowned Miss America.
She was always so beautiful A very deserved win for Miss America 1955.
She was great as Betty on Barnaby Jones!
Lee Meriwether in her mid 80's is STILL stunningly beautiful. Look up her picture.
Loved her on Barnaby Jones
She's a knockout!!
Alfred Hitchcock Presents has not yet premiered. IT did in 1955. October I believe. What a great show!
They're all being repeated on Sky Arts UK. Two per night, I watch every one.
My Dad used to let me watch Hitchcock stuff when I was a kid. I've loved him ever since.
Dorothy just happened to meet James Stewart in a bar on Venice - this is not the first time she has commented on meeting famous people - what an amazing life she must have led, including going to the crowning of Queen Elizabeth in the UK in 1953.
She was OUR Royalty.
She's been to plenty of bars.
@@timcollins3794 💥🤕
Lee Meriwether is a beautiful lady and because of her, I ate more Campbells Soup as a kid.
She’s 87 years old in 2022.
“Rear Window” is a great movie as are almost all Hitchcock movies.
Alfred Hitchcock's handwriting, holy crap!
to me Alfred Hitchcock was unique , love his attitude when he start his movie good evening
amazing how beautiful she still is - almost 60 yrs later- and a great catwoman
She was obviously a beautiful young woman, but I always thought she got better looking as she aged.
I think Lee Meriwether went right from winning Miss America to being hired for the Today show
I am glad that What's My Line eventually dispensed with the free guesses; more than once the occupation was guessed and the game was stopped cold before it even got started;
I like the free guesses. And my opinion matters more than yours.
I was 15 and a photographer for the Atlantic City Press. I was in place 4 from the stage at the Miss America Pageant? My photo of her was published in a special edition 1/2 hour after she was crowned.
OD-ing on WML and lovin evry second of it
How awesome! He drew his signature profile from his TV show Alfred Hitchcock Presents 👍
Yes he did! I heard it was originally on a napkin at a restaurant. I wish my local cable system still had channels that showed his tv shows!
Alfred Hitchcock was the commencement speaker at my college graduation from Santa Clara University in 1963. His message to us was to inject humor into our lives and future employment-and he injected a lot of humor into his speech. His movie “The Birds” had just come out and he wondered how the University could confer the honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities on someone who said things like, “The Birds IS coming” (to a theater near you). I got his autograph on my graduation program, consisting of his signature and a drawing of his face in profile, as it appeared on his television program “Alfred Hitchcock Presents.”
Bernard Burdick, How nice of you to share your story! It must have been so interesting for you to see another side of Hitchcock, truly a genius of film.
@Bernard Burdick: That's so cool that you have AH's signature + little sketch! ...btw, ...The movie, "The Birds" is coming to a theater near you! ;)
Bernard Burdick you’re so lucky
There is a Facebook page associated with What's My Line and these videos are part of that. I sure would love to see your graduation program with Hitch's signature thereon!
bgdavenport How could we make that happen?
I was not born yet at this time.
Lee Meriwether still live until today. Long life
She died on the day that you posted your comment?
Lee Merriwether was so young here, I barely recognized her.
This was filmed before he went on the greatest run in the history of cinema. Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho and the Birds in succession
And he was no spring chicken
This is a time when Americans were intelligent, could spell, could write legibly, had respect for teachers and therefore payed attention to learning in school. People were well spoken with correct grammar. This was a well loved, intelligent tv game show.
Mid to late 60's when our society started it's descent, this show lost its appeal. We have taken a road to a place called Stupidity. As a retired elementary school teacher it has been a sad horrific trip to watch. ☹️
agree with you 100%.
Paid..payed only refers to paying in the nautical sense, such as a sailor who payed a ship's decks with tar to prevent leaking. Payed means sealed.
Any other use is spelled PAID, "Teach"..
"....started it's descent...." no apostrophe required here. 'Its' indicates possession. And yes, I have committed many errors. However, you are correct about the decline in just about everything civilized in education. Part, of course, is a result of parents thinking they know more about education than someone who spent five years of their life learning how to teach. (Unfortunately, not enough classes were spent on teaching how to cope with know-it-all, rude parents) And now "they" don't think memorization has any place in the curriculum. So what are the students' brains being used for???
@@robertsprouse9282 Let he who has never committed an error....???? 🙂
@@dianeericson7900, I will probably not ever find that person.
Soooo...
Does that mean English teachers cannot be called out on spelling errors?
Also, does that mean that anyone who is an English teacher cannot correct a student because the English teacher has not been perfect, either?
YOUR MOVE..
They are all so young and beautiful. Even Bennett Cerf was handsome. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may. Tomorrow comes long before you know it.
Handsome??
@@pattimaeda6097 I was taking poetic license. He wasn't ugly and he made a striking figure in his evening suit. As they all did.
A figure of great unselfconscious charm and ready wit, Alfred Hitchcock, the great director, was an inimitably delightful character in life as well.
Not according to the female stars he victimized, such as Tippi Hedren. Bully and worse.
@@janetmarletto6667 Practically all the stars he worked for invariably said that they had nothing but respect for him. Tippi Hedren was a special case because he developed feelings for her which by all accounts he’d never done before. Don’t assume because he treated Tippi Hedren badly that that was how he was with all his stars.
It was very surprising that the panelists didn't immediately recognize Alfred Hitchcock's voice. I guess that decades of interviews and, even moreso, years of watching the Alfred Hitchcock television show.make it impossible for those of us of a certain age to fail to find his distinctive voice familiar.
Robert Melson If I was up there I would have known immediately..
Keep in mind that Hitchcock's TV show had not yet debuted when this took place.
Well, that was 1954.
@@epaddon His face (and figure) were better known than his London accent in 1954, though IIRC he had spoken in a few trailers.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents premiered in October 1955.
Lee was one of the most beautiful Miss Americas. 1955
Thank you very much! This was a really good one with Alfred Hitchcock, and Miss America/Lee Meriwether, etc.!!!
Hitchcock is one of the greatest film directors of all time, he is a major pioneer for the horror/suspense genre of filmmaking. Many consider his film "Psycho" to be the movie that paved the way for the "slasher" genre of horror. Without Hitchcock, horror would not be what it is today.
_"I'm a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach"_ - _Alfred Hitchcock_
Wow. That's the first time that I saw someone on the panel guess the contestant's occupation right off the bat! Good job Bennett Cerf! 👏👍
Wonder if he had gotten a hint
9 guest were guessed immediately, after that this was eliminated 😊
@@m.e.d.7997There wasn't any hint.
@@m.e.d.7997 He mentioned remembering her face, but not quite knowing why.
@@lynettepalecek3141Sometimes the panel, especially Bennett, seems got tipped off on guests.
Anyone who has dealt with serious lower back pain -- due, for example to a herniated lumbar disc -- will have worn a corset sold for medical reasons with large metal stays in it. Orthopedic surgeons and chiropractors often have them on hand to dispense to their patients and sports medicine retailers that sell all kinds of devices to assist with physical injuries and issues sell them, for example. Getting one that fits correctly when you've got a herniated disc and inflammation of the facet joint between the two vertebrae separated by the herniated disc is very important -- and it can involve bending the stays so that when worn the stays don't poke you and have the right shape to conform to the person. So having someone who knows who to fit one of things would be a good thing. I speak from personal experience.
Thanks for explaining that! I was a little alarmed at first when I saw 'men's corsets'!
That explanation adds a whole lot of importance to this occupation! I couldn’t figure this one out. It’s too bad this wasn’t mentioned on the show. Thanks so much!
At 22:41, Robert Q. Lewis said, "Well, now there was a very special area of interest that preceded Edna into New York this week..." He was talking about Hurricane Edna, a deadly storm that caused the heaviest day of rainfall in New York City in 45 years. Edna roughly followed the path that Hurricane Carol took a week to 11 days earlier. Hurricane Carol flooded out a neighborhood in Hartford, Conn., where my family, including me, had lived the previous year.
There is only one other dude who throws out as much suspense as Hitch does in the breath of a single word and that's David Attenborough.
I find Arlene Francis and Dorothy Kilgallen SO very likable.
@WinGate Mose $1,000 in 1950 = 11,273 in 2021. I'm not sure how often this show originally aired? Weekly? 50 episodes a year? That's $563,000/yr in todays money.
@WinGate Mose Speaking of Coke, I wonder what Cerf's drink is that Francis is sampling at the start.
I love Arlene when she's a little tipsy - there are some famous episodes.
I love this show!
Thanks once more for having time well spent watching.
They're stringing it out surely!!! That's one of the most familiar voices in entertainment history!' I think they should've called him by name straight away.
This WML appearance was before Alfred Hitchcock's TV show. His wonderful, distinctive voice was not so widely known yet.
Im glad they didn't, if they knew. I wanted to hear lots of his voice.
I love, just before the "goodnights", Mr Daley's understated and sophisticated addition of a (slightly moderated) quote from the famous Robert Burns poem To a Mouse.... 1785
"The best-laid schemes
o' mice an' men
gang aft agley..."
Wonderful! 🌾🐀
I actually have said this quote many times - most people,don’t have a clue what I’ve said, or where it comes from.
Alfred Hitchcock promoted "Rear Window". The same year he did "Dial M for Murder". Both with Grace Kelly.
Hitchcock filmed The Wrong Man in a friend of mine's childhood house in Jackson Heights. He turned down a dinner offer with the family, but the film's star Henry Fonda accepted. My friend was three years from being born, but tells me of the numerous photos from the shoot that lined his family's mantle.
Hitchcock trying to disguise his inimitable voice by saying 'Oui' hah 😆
I love it: Watch My Line!
Natasha Lytess. Marilyn Monroe's acting coach. I knew her as soon as she walked out. Funny as Bennett wished Marilyn was the mystery guest.
I spotted her right off too.
SIR Alfred Hitchcock
Hitch is my favorite director.
Today's UA-cam Rerun for 3/15/16: Today's UA-cam Rerun: He's back. . . and I'm every bit as happy to see him as Captain Picard always was when that other Q showed up on the Enterprise.
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I take this episode was way before his show, because there’s no way they wouldn’t recognize his voice.
His TV show started in the fall of 1955.
i just watched a hitchcock movie yesterday (the wife videoed it a few weeks ago), and this popped up on my 'random' feed today - how do they know lol. Hitch is great isn't he, a true legend
Lee is still quite attractive even after 60 plus years.
This is 5days before I was born..awe
My grand mother loved watching Alfred Hitchcock presents when I was a kid. Interesting that men and women were called handsome and couples were called handsome when I was a kid, like on this program. English has changed since then.
Hitchcock 's signature is charming with his Matisse-esque profile. So is Liberace's signature with his piano and chandelier.😍
70 years ago. What a director, what a show, what a film.
I can't remember when I saw him smile. He has a nice smile.
LEE MERRIWEATHER is still today, a very beautiful woman.
For some reason when I was a teen and an early 20-something, I did not think that was the case.
Boy, was I blind!
Sheeesh..
Dorothy Kilgallen is amazing
Agreed!
I'm old and I remember watching that show as a kid. I was too young to realize how smart and talented she was.
Dorothy was a investigative reporter for years 😊
@@robertjean5782yes she was. She mysteriously died while researching a book she was writing on Kennedy
This was a show that had incredibly educated, sophisticated panelists. It was a cut above every other game show on TV at the time or since, except maybe Password. The panelists are impeccably dressed, well spoken, and polite, as are the contestants. I love this show because it reminds of what civility used to be like.
What a line-up of talent, Dorothy Kilgallen an award-winning columnist, Robert Q. Lewis a recognized news broadcaster, Arlene Francis, a Broadway star, Bennet Cerf Publisher of Random house, and John Charles Daley a famous and highly respected Journalist. It is an amzing group of people.
Lee Meriwether is incredibly beautiful and sophisticated. Evans as she aged, she retained her beauty. Being a fairly tall woman for the time (5'9") along with her great figure just added to her charm. Those were the days when Miss America was a big deal and the winner was really somebody special, a real celebrity.
It's funny that I was wondering if anyone got the free guesses correctly, and what a coincidence that it's in this episode, right before I was about to look up correct free guesses! Awesome job! :)
My mom lost to Lee merryweather for miss California that year.
My dad lost to her in a local contest before that.
Your mom must’ve been a beautiful lady though!
@@leannsherman6723 Thanks, she still is at 86.
This is one of the first shows where Arlene is wearing her beautiful heart shaped diamond necklace. She wore it on nearly every show throughout the years on WML.
I started watching from the first episode, and she's been wearing it for quite a while at this point.
@@accomplice55 Yes, like I said, she wore it on nearly every show throughout the years on WML. I'm not sure when she STARTED wearing it, but I have no reason not to believe you. Thanx.
I heard that she was robbed decades later and the necklace was stolen.
Lee Ann Meriwether still has it . Still beautiful.
i just saw the show where John Daly says Dorothy Kilgallen had passed away. and now here she is bright and cheerful. i’ll have to wait awhile before watching it again. i still haven’t seen any reference as to why that happened. i guess those who knew her kept it to themselves. 🥀
7:56 I noticed that in shaking hands, the men offered their hands vertically and the ladies offered their hands horizontally. That was the custom of the day--women were more apt to offer their hands to a man than outright shake it. 🙂
You’ve reminded me that I was taught never to shake a woman’s hand unless she offered it. We were to let the woman initiate the handshake. A custom I had long forgotten.
Growing up in the '60s I was taught never ever to "shake hands", per se, but only to offer my hand in such situations. Boys were taught never to "shake" a lady's hand, exactly, but to clasp it warmly for a moment with one or both of theirs, adding perhaps just a slight, gentle movement, then let it go. In very specific romantic or familial situations a gentleman might still kiss a lady's hand as late as the 1960s but it was exceedingly rare, at least in my experience.
@@theoriginaledi My experience the same. When I started working after college, it felt weird to shake a woman's hand.
I can't believe the corset guy was the only one that broke their perfect streak tonight, and just because they couldn't nail what he did with them!
The master!
I can't even imagine what you could sell the chalkboard for today.
You're young. It's a blackboard. In Australia a teacher is still called a "chalkie"
@@kenchristie9214 Sure, if you call under 60+ young, when green "blackboards" were becoming common. Blackboards have always used chalk, and calling them a chalkboard is just as correct.
I love Lee.
I wonder if Hitchcock was very well known in the United States in 1954.
I was looking at his filmography and though there are a number of noteworthy movies before then, it seems his prime time came after "Rear Window".
And though only Bennett and Dorothy got to question him, this was before his TV show was on the air and his unique voice became fodder for impressionists. They didn't get the voice, which I think even a year later would have been a dead giveaway (and then he would have disguised it).
People from L.A, used to say "Los Angeles" with the spanish pronunciation.
I was just wondering if they ever got the profession right on the wild guesses, and was starting look it up. Lo and behold...
I believe 5 or 6 times before they stopped the guessing.
Hitchcock is hilarious!
The corset contestant is the first time I've seen where the panel guesses the product but not what the guest does with them
i love alfred hitchcock!!
Gosh, I haven’t been to Harry’s Bar in Venice for ages.
Last time there I was with Jimmy Stewart and Alfred Hitchcock.
"Vertigo" is Hitchcock's masterpiece,. Lengthy scenes with minimal dialogue, centered around the beauty of San Francisco. Jimmy Stewart's brooding portrayal didn't hurt either.
In Sight & Sound magazine, from the BFI, the most recent critic's poll of 2012 voted Vertigo as the #1 film of all time.