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What's My Line? I just want to thank you SO, SO MUCH for uploading all these episodes. They’ve honestly been essential to my mental health, allowing me to briefly escape from these terrible times in which we live. I’m eternally grateful to you.
I like the fact that Ms. Fernandez took the initiative and answered all the questions solely, without John's help. Quite a sharp lady indeed. Great episode, and huge thank you for this marvelous channel!
@@alejdelat7949 Not sure why you think "Mrs." is a correction. The entire raison d'être of "Ms." is to serve as a counterpart to Mr., representing both the single and the married.
No, the (best) skirt-blowing guy “Definitely!” was, but she was fantastic too. I watched without knowing her line and I really enjoyed her style of answering and trying to guess from it.
Who can replace him-Intelligent, chivalrous, and charming. I hate to give into the cliché but where are these sort of people today, yesterday, or for a long while? As a 27 year old, I feel robbed of not only stimulative people, but also consequently, content.
I wonder if he was already like that in Kindergarten. There are some people who are quite difficult to see as a child. Winston Churchill or Hitchcock for example.
What a treat. Thank you so much for your hard work finding and posting this. So important to preserve television history, especially in those super early days.
I love that countdown before the opening! This is a true 16mm print and for 66-years-old, the quality is great! Thank you for finding and uploading this!
I'm glad that this episode came to light, because it's a lot of fun to watch. Nothing seems to faze any of the contestants this evening, each of whom displays an interesting and engaging personality all her/his own. I thought that one of the previous commentators was exaggerating when he said that Constance Moore married in her teens, but he/she wasn't: she was FIFTEEN YEARS OLD when she married Hollywood agent John Maschino. And they were, indeed, happily married for about 63 years (with two children), "till death do us part" (his death, in 1998). I think that Miss Moore does a great job as a panelist on this show. Thank you very much for sharing this with us!
Love this series!!! My wife and I watch an episode of this and To Tell the Truth and What's My Line every night during dinner. I watched this a tiny bit as kid in the 1950's but now I can appreciate everything about this delightful show. Thanks so much for sharing with us!!!
Very interesting to see this show in its infancy (1951). The awkward "inspections" of the guests before they sat down, the guests exiting behind John Daley after each game rather than shaking hands with the panelists, the panelists making silly wild guesses before beginning the formal questioning, all things which were wisely deleted in future seasons. Dorothy Kilgallen, however, was still razor sharp in asking her probing questions. She was top notch. So wonderful to see this show develop polish and class as time went on. Classic television at its best.
But, three silly things weren't deleted for another three years, at least: The perp walk, the free guesses, and having the non-celebrity guests exit behind John Daly rather than shaking hands with the panelists prior to exiting. The producers took way too long to make those changes.
@@auntiealias957 I always find GROUCHO MARX really really annoying on this show as a panelist. He is constantly acting up and thinks it's the GROUCHO MARX SHOW.
So glad they changed the things you mentioned. They didn’t mind wearing furs or talking about occupations of raising animals to kill for fur.? They made comments about guests being fat or beautiful etc for as long as WML ran.. We are better than that now.. but lost the polite and gracious manners.
This program with its' commercials so much brings me back to "The Day". I watch it and nostalgia just runs rampant. Thank you so much for bringing this back to those of us who are of an age to remember.
Thank you so much for giving us the pleasure of seeing this. This Sunday evening program was the highlight was the close of weekend hours for my family. I had to go bed immediately following.
A great restoration of a great episode. thanx to W Gary W. and excuse my obsession -- I still hold out hope that color videotape of 1966 - 1967 will show up.
interesting to see john daly casually smoking with the camera focused on him. also, it is obvious that the producers tightened up the chatter allowed by the panel as time went on.
Greg H .....and of course it was okay on TV appearances, whether sponsored or not, way into the 70s and 80s. Actors, singers, comedians, politicians, you name it.....pipes, cigars, cigarettes. Frankly it was not only common but somewhat alluring, cool and distinctive in several instances. Shame it's a killer. Ah well.
@@audreymai2773 Actually, I'm old enough to remember that. Then there were "smoking sections" on planes and in restaurants before they did away with it entirely.
@@gregh7400 yes it's actually not that long ago. It wasnt until 1973 that US government regulated smoking on airplanes by mandating smoking and non-smoking sections of an airplane. And only in 1990 there was a ban on passengers smoking, whereas pilots were still allowed to smoke
Loved watching Hedda Hopper. She seemed to be older and it struck me that I was watching someone likely born in the 1880s. And yet the way she talked boisterously, she might’ve been the lady next-door today. The societal time capsule effect of these episodes is just fascinating. Brings the past so close to today. It makes me realize how much we all aren’t that different if we went back in time.
The LIVE studio audience interfered when Hal Block said that it was either a pillow or mattress. The LIVE studio audiences should have NEVER been allowed to see the contestants jobs/careers. Showing the viewers at home is one thing, but NOT the LIVE studio audiences. Try being a contestant and the LIVE audience giving your job/career away.
@@listeningeyes3298 It's part of the fun. Else there would have been way less laughs in the studio. Also, it's supposed to be a little help. Arlene has always been paying a lot of attention to the audience.
Wow, that bauble around Hedda Hopper's neck - whooowee! Thank you for including the commercials and everything that went with this when it was first aired. Truly appreciate it when the episodes are posted this way.
Ms Fernandez was incredible!!! Poor John didn’t get to do his little conference tactics with the contestant and answer for the contestant. I know Dorothy would have been delighted about that deep down. 😉 This is probably in my top 5 now for fave episodes .. thank you for uploading it. Happy new year everyone 2023 🥳💥
I never considered What's My Line to be a game show. Its emphasis was not on the prize money, which was incidental, but rather on the dialogue between the participants. It was such a classy show, a breed apart from other games shows of the era.
If you are a big fan of Cerf you are a fan of a con artist who scammed millions from wannabe writer correspondence students. Like Weinstein, it took a while before a publication was willing to publish a story about his scams
A classic that will still be shown on TV as repeats in 2117! The producers finally got smart in 1955 or 1956 when they started limiting questions to just one for the famous guests. It got toooo easy.
Best sound quality I've ever heard on a WML video delivered on Gary's channel through Nov. 1955. I wonder where it was kept and preserved to keep it in such fine shape. The video was very good as well.
My presumption is that the original WML films held in the Goodson-Todman archive are in much higher quality than we've come to expect from the GSN reruns. What we're seeing in the GSN reruns are films hastily transferred to videotape and degraded further and further by rebroadcast, home recording, digital encoding, and in the case of UA-cam videos, the process of posting to UA-cam. If the G-T archive of these films is intact, and anyone who had access cared enough to retransfer them digitally, I think the quality would be comparable.
It would be nice to find all the kinescopes. It would also be nice if somebody could find an actual surviving videotape of the show during its final years, preferably one with Dorothy in it.
My comment above was about Fremantle's lack of interest in making new digital transfers. Every single episode of WML in the Fremantle library has already been aired on TV on GSN and posted here to this channel. So no WML from Fremantle is remaining "unseen". That's not to defend them-- they're the worst-- but it's simply untrue that anything Fremantle has of the CBS WML series is unavailable. It's just that the majority of the episodes are available only from decades-old transfers to VIDEOTAPE and could be seen in much better quality if a new transfer was done today, something Fremantle has demonstrated no interest in ever doing.
Great Change !!! From what is now seen on TV,,, just watching without all the hatred in the World these days. Really enjoyed this,,, even though I was not born when this show was on TV.
I counted the commercial 1 minute and 20 seconds and this was when television was free over the air. Now we pay a subscription, and the advertisements are five times as long. There isn't even time for theme songs anymore.
I had never heard of Constance Moore prior to seeing this episode. This was her only appearance on WML, and I thought she played the game fairly well for a first time. I found that Miss Moore was primarily a singer although she also appeared in films, especially musicals during WWII. She retired from films in 1947, but acted sporadically for the small screen between 1954 and 1967. She originated the role of Wilma Deering, the only female character in the 1939 movie "Buck Rogers" (starring Buster Crabbe in the title role). The lovely Erin Gray played Col. Deering in the 1979 movie and TV show that followed (1979-81), starring Gil Gerard in the title role. Miss Moore retired as a performer in 1967 in her late 40's. She married her agent (later becoming a successful real estate agent) when she was an older teen (there is some uncertainty as to her birth year, either 1920 or 21) and they were still married nearly 60 years later when he died in 1998. They had two children together, neither of whom went into show business.
Thank you for this! Must be an early episode with Daly smoking like that. I can't remember a segment I laughed at more continuously than the second guest!
At 3:59 Hal Block jokingly guessed that one of the contestants (Mrs. Fernandez, the Lie Detector machine operator) was “a pall bearer for the New York Giants”. Word of explanation: On the day this show was aired, the Giants lost in Brooklyn by a score of 6-3. It was their fifth straight loss to the Dodgers and their 11th consecutive defeat overall. They were, at that moment, in 8th (and last) place in the NL, 7 1/2 games behind their rivals with a hideous record of 2-12. Block was not alone in thinking that the Giants were dead and awaiting burial. But he was wrong! New York turned their season around and ended up catching the Dodgers by season’s end and then beat Brooklyn 2-1 in a three game playoff to decide who would go on to play the Yankees in the World Series. That series culminated in an electrifying walk-off four bagger by Bobby Thompson surrendered by the hapless Ralph Branca in the bottom of the ninth, a blast called the “shot heard ‘round the world” en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_Heard_%27Round_the_World_(baseball) The ‘shot’ was memorialized by WMCA radio broadcaster Russ Hodges’ iconic Home run call “The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!! The Giants win the pennant!!! The Giants win the pennant!!!!” Russ Hodges, by the way, was WML’s first guest on their October 7, 1962 show. ua-cam.com/video/VwbEd7rVKg0/v-deo.html So... ...if you don’t know now you know.
I've been watching lot of these episodes, and have made it back to the beginning. It almost looks like Bennett Cerf looks younger in the later episodes.
Hedda Hopper was a well-known actress in silent movies and talking pictures for more than a quarter century. She has more than 150 screen and television credits. After making more than 100 films, she retired in 1942 to concentrate on her newspaper column. She used her experience and contacts in the film industry to become a famous Hollywood columnist.
@@piustwelfth With more than 150 screen and television credits Hedda knew where the bodies were buried and thus was highly qualified to be a "gossip" columnist.
@@jackanthony976 Hedda remained a huge fan of the movies, and her favorite was Greta Garbo. She even collected Garbo's photos. Approx. 25 years ago in Hollywood, I purchased seven 11x14 originals of Garbo from Hedda's collection.
Thank you so very much. what a great show! Who knew Hedda Hopper was such a coquette. she was adorable. She wasn’t so adorable with her pen, however. 🤨 on her, even the hat worked. what in the blue blazes were those little round things on the top? LOL Btw, she is Dennis Hopper’s mother. He played Paul Drake in Perry Mason with Raymond Burr. :)
I didn't notice Constance Moore at first until I read one of the comments and then it hit me, I saw her as Wilma Deering in the Buck Rogers serial with Buster Crabbe.
I noticed that too, and of course, Mr. Horowitz says hello to his daughter, Joyce at the beginning of his segment. Two instances of off-stage greetings in the same episode. I wonder if perhaps this was fairly common during this time period of WML's run, and it's just that we don't have enough examples of the show from this era to have seen it before on UA-cam.
My grandmother, Eileen Bernhardt was a guest on Whats My Line. Her secret was she was a female Santa Claus. I would be so excited if you could find this episode! If you know where to find this episode can you send me the link. I would love to see her! Thank.you!
Was she on the CBS "What's My Line?" (which aired every Sunday evening from 1950 to 1967), or on the syndicated "What's My Line?" (which aired 5 days a week from 1968 to 1975)? Or was she perhaps on the radio edition of "What's My Line?" (which aired for a few years in the early 1950s)? If she had been on the CBS show (which is the focus of the What's My Line? channel on UA-cam), it is likely that her name would come up on an Internet search somewhere on the tv.com site, as those who compiled the CBS "What's My Line?" information to that site had access to the production logs for the show, including "lost episodes" from that show's 17 2/3 year run. As it did not, I suspect that she may have appeared on the syndicated show, instead, particularly as she would by then have been in her 40s when the new WML? was on the air. (Her obituary does not indicate which version of WML? she appeared on - only that she did appear as a contestant on "What's My Line?" and what her "line" was.) Happy hunting!
This interesting article about Eileen Bernhardt (1995) seemed to indicate that she might have been on What’s My Line in the 1970’s. It told how Mrs. Bernhardt started being a Santa. It was when she and her husband both lost their jobs before Christmas. How she came to start actually seeing the wishes of the children come true was moving. What a wonderful lady she was! www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1995-12-11-1995345062-story,amp.html
Thank, you, "WML", for this; wondered, what "Paul Drake"s Momma sounded/acted, like. "She dyes, by her own hand." I'll wager Mr. Cerf was watching, backstage and, thinking, "love it, Hal!"
It was very exciting!!! I'm glad Patrick alerted me. Sometimes life just goes by too fast these days. Great job Master Gary! Kudos to you and your merry team.
Eric Hanson I noticed that too, very modern kind of joke and laughter. Though the more I watch of this show, the more I realize people aren't necessarily too different now.
The humour even in Busby Berkeley films, pre-code, indicates that what made people laugh then (ie. sexual innuendo) is just as raunchy as what made people laugh now. Indeed sexual innuendo goes back to Shakespeare. Unfortunately the restrictions imposed by networks, censorship people and so forth in the mid-20th century gives the impression that it was otherwise but of course sex has always made people laugh and always will. :)
@@davidsanderson5918 I was just going to point out the vast difference between pre-code entertainment productions and those that followed during its enactment, as well. I remember the first few times I saw pre-code talking pictures a considerable number of years ago - and being so accustomed to the more restrictive/censored films, my eyes and ears were opened to how they weren't all that far removed from contemporary real life.
Of course the show was live so they couldn't edit it. And it was a late-night program (10:30 PM). But yes, that was a wonderfully "dirty laugh" from the audience.
John Dalys face when the panelist says "can it give you pleasure" to the Mattress Manufacturer. 😂🤣 He had such good morals, you could read him well when annoyed or snarky!
Hedda Hopper portrayed a New York gossip columnist in George Cukor's great 1939 comedy, "The Women." In retrospect, it would have been more realistic if Dorothy had played that role.
This was a departure from how they normally were. John Daly smoking!?! And as Hedda Hopper left, NONE of the men stood up! Although I love the questioning around the mattress man. The fact that the panel had no idea why their innocent questioning was so hilarious. I was dying too
There are so many treasures in peoples garages and attics that the public would love to see and are historically important. What makes me cringe is the thought that when these people die their heirs are hurried and simply do not know what the item is and toss it out.
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What's My Line? Is it true Eddy and Mac hate each other
What's My Line? Did Eddy and Mac hate each other
I don't know who you're referring to.
What's My Line? I just want to thank you SO, SO MUCH for uploading all these episodes. They’ve honestly been essential to my mental health, allowing me to briefly escape from these terrible times in which we live. I’m eternally grateful to you.
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I like the fact that Ms. Fernandez took the initiative and answered all the questions solely, without John's help. Quite a sharp lady indeed. Great episode, and huge thank you for this marvelous channel!
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she was ineed amaziiing
@@alejdelat7949 Not sure why you think "Mrs." is a correction. The entire raison d'être of "Ms." is to serve as a counterpart to Mr., representing both the single and the married.
@@tejaswoman because she said she is a Mrs. and there is nothing wrong with being a Mrs.
@@志瑜杨 There is a hell of a lot wrong with being a Mrs.
Dorothy loved being part of the panel. She always had her ears and thoughts going right into her next move. Loved her giggles.
She was jewel. So sad this brilliant woman was killed.
Lie detector lady was the most confident non celebrity guest I've ever seen.
No, the (best) skirt-blowing guy “Definitely!” was, but she was fantastic too. I watched without knowing her line and I really enjoyed her style of answering and trying to guess from it.
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Then you may not have seen too many.
She should’ve guest hosted when John was away the 2? Times he was.
Wasn't she
No matter how many years pass, Bennett Cerf never ages.
Tony Cevallos He had a positive attitude and had a fantastic sense of
humor, probably knew what was happening and up on everything.
Who can replace him-Intelligent, chivalrous, and charming. I hate to give into the cliché but where are these sort of people today, yesterday, or for a long while? As a 27 year old, I feel robbed of not only stimulative people, but also consequently, content.
I wonder if he was already like that in Kindergarten. There are some people who are quite difficult to see as a child. Winston Churchill or Hitchcock for example.
@@Retroscoop Can't picture Churchill as a child? Don't you know that all babies look like Winston Churchill?
@@preppysocks209 Funny. PG Wodehouse said that newborns look like a cross between Winston and a poaches egg.
This episode seems to be one of the most animated one I've seen. I so glad you were able to find this gem. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it-- and thanks for the comment!
Yes, they all seem a bit more spirited for some reason. Was this one aired?
Thank you very much for posting. It's amazing how something that's two thirds of a century old (66 years!) can be so entertaining.
Very much so! What a treat!
Wow!!! Thank you for your hard work and efforts to make showing this lost episode possible! What a treat! 💞
What a treat. Thank you so much for your hard work finding and posting this. So important to preserve television history, especially in those super early days.
I love that countdown before the opening! This is a true 16mm print and for 66-years-old, the quality is great! Thank you for finding and uploading this!
I'm glad that this episode came to light, because it's a lot of fun to watch. Nothing seems to faze any of the contestants this evening, each of whom displays an interesting and engaging personality all her/his own.
I thought that one of the previous commentators was exaggerating when he said that Constance Moore married in her teens, but he/she wasn't: she was FIFTEEN YEARS OLD when she married Hollywood agent John Maschino. And they were, indeed, happily married for about 63 years (with two children), "till death do us part" (his death, in 1998). I think that Miss Moore does a great job as a panelist on this show.
Thank you very much for sharing this with us!
Love this series!!! My wife and I watch an episode of this and To Tell the Truth and What's My Line every night during dinner. I watched this a tiny bit as kid in the 1950's but now I can appreciate everything about this delightful show. Thanks so much for sharing with us!!!
I never thought we'd see one of the "lost"episodes! And this is a delightful one to have back again. Thank you for all of your work to bring it to us!
What a wonderful treat! Praying for more 1951s to be discovered! :)
Wow Ive been watching 1962 - 65 episodes, didnt even realize how old this was
This is wonderful, thank-you Gary, and I'm proud to be apart of such a wonderful group!
(And all I keep thinking of whilst watching this is how Bennett is getting *poofed* by the Stopette bottle!)
Once you notice the poof spray, you can't unsee it. :) So glad you're a part of the group.
An awesome find! Thank you so very much for making it possible to enjoy WML to us all!
Very interesting to see this show in its infancy (1951). The awkward "inspections" of the guests before they sat down, the guests exiting behind John Daley after each game rather than shaking hands with the panelists, the panelists making silly wild guesses before beginning the formal questioning, all things which were wisely deleted in future seasons. Dorothy Kilgallen, however, was still razor sharp in asking her probing questions. She was top notch. So wonderful to see this show develop polish and class as time went on. Classic television at its best.
But, three silly things weren't deleted for another three years, at least: The perp walk, the free guesses, and having the non-celebrity guests exit behind John Daly rather than shaking hands with the panelists prior to exiting. The producers took way too long to make those changes.
@@lemorab1 They also took way too long to fire Hal Block, although he's not too bad at this early stage.
@@auntiealias957 I always find GROUCHO MARX really really annoying on this show as a panelist. He is constantly acting up and thinks it's the GROUCHO MARX SHOW.
@@rtususian I haven't actually seen episodes with Groucho. I've just watched the first three years for the most part. I'll have to check him out.
So glad they changed the things you mentioned. They didn’t mind wearing furs or talking about occupations of raising animals to kill for fur.?
They made comments about guests being fat or beautiful etc for as long as WML ran..
We are better than that now.. but lost the polite and gracious manners.
This program with its' commercials so much brings me back to "The Day". I watch it and nostalgia just runs rampant. Thank you so much for bringing this back to those of us who are of an age to remember.
This was wonderful to watch. I wanted more. Thank you again WML!
This is a terrific episode, thanks for bringing it to us again!
Thank you so much for giving us the pleasure of seeing this. This Sunday evening program was the highlight was the close of weekend hours for my family. I had to go bed immediately following.
I feel calm and at ease while watching this show. thank you
I had forgotten John smoked during any episode. What a great time. Thanks again for all the hard work you do.
So glad you enjoyed it!
He quit smoking on camera after the 1954 Reader's Digest report came out. I believe he quit for good around 1985.
A great restoration of a great episode. thanx to W Gary W. and excuse my obsession -- I still hold out hope that color videotape of 1966 - 1967 will show up.
You're allowed to have hope. :)
interesting to see john daly casually smoking with the camera focused on him. also, it is obvious that the producers tightened up the chatter allowed by the panel as time went on.
This show was often sponsored by cigarette companies and cigarettes were okay things back in the 50's. Even some Drs. smoked.
Greg H .....and of course it was okay on TV appearances, whether sponsored or not, way into the 70s and 80s. Actors, singers, comedians, politicians, you name it.....pipes, cigars, cigarettes. Frankly it was not only common but somewhat alluring, cool and distinctive in several instances. Shame it's a killer. Ah well.
@@gregh7400 My mom remembers when they smoked on planes and in hospitals.
@@audreymai2773 Actually, I'm old enough to remember that. Then there were "smoking sections" on planes and in restaurants before they did away with it entirely.
@@gregh7400 yes it's actually not that long ago. It wasnt until 1973 that US government regulated smoking on airplanes by mandating smoking and non-smoking sections of an airplane. And only in 1990 there was a ban on passengers smoking, whereas pilots were still allowed to smoke
Thanks so much for all the effort to get this episode and upload it.
Loved watching Hedda Hopper. She seemed to be older and it struck me that I was watching someone likely born in the 1880s. And yet the way she talked boisterously, she might’ve been the lady next-door today. The societal time capsule effect of these episodes is just fascinating. Brings the past so close to today. It makes me realize how much we all aren’t that different if we went back in time.
Hedda Hopper is the mom of William Hopper, "Paul Drake" from Perry Mason.
And also the wife of De Wolfe Hopper, the actor who made a career of reciting " Casey at the Bat" . He also made a recording of the poem.
Thank you for that bit of trivia, I can see the resemblance.
Mattress man is hilarious, he should have had his own TV show!
The LIVE studio audience interfered when Hal Block said that it was either a pillow or mattress. The LIVE studio audiences should have NEVER been allowed to see the contestants jobs/careers. Showing the viewers at home is one thing, but NOT the LIVE studio audiences. Try being a contestant and the LIVE audience giving your job/career away.
@@listeningeyes3298 It's part of the fun. Else there would have been way less laughs in the studio.
Also, it's supposed to be a little help. Arlene has always been paying a lot of attention to the audience.
For someone who was having so much fun, Hedda got out of there fast.
Wow, that bauble around Hedda Hopper's neck - whooowee!
Thank you for including the commercials and everything that went with this when it was first aired. Truly appreciate it when the episodes are posted this way.
I'm not giving a thumbs up on enough of these episodes which I am enjoying immensely.
WOW! I wasn't even thought of yet when this was aired LOL I was born in late 1952
Ms Fernandez was incredible!!! Poor John didn’t get to do his little conference tactics with the contestant and answer for the contestant. I know Dorothy would have been delighted about that deep down. 😉
This is probably in my top 5 now for fave episodes .. thank you for uploading it. Happy new year everyone 2023 🥳💥
It’s so great to watch these programs to see how things change. Mr. Daly was smoking during the show ,no one would be doing that today.
The commercials intact, too! I love it!! :D
Hedda's hat is a hoot!
I never considered What's My Line to be a game show. Its emphasis was not on the prize money, which was incidental, but rather on the dialogue between the participants. It was such a classy show, a breed apart from other games shows of the era.
$50 in 1960 was not inconsiderable and I assume they paid expenses to and in NYC from USA
If you are a big fan of Cerf you are a fan of a con artist who scammed millions from wannabe writer correspondence students. Like Weinstein, it took a while before a publication was willing to publish a story about his scams
There used to be a category called Panel Shows.
Couldn’t agree more, tho GOLDVIOLIN is accurate. $30-50 could pay 1 or 2 months of rent in 1951. 😅
A classic that will still be shown on TV as repeats in 2117! The producers finally got smart in 1955 or 1956 when they started limiting questions to just one for the famous guests. It got toooo easy.
Spring 1955 is when that rule went into effect.
The sound is very clear on this episode. And, obviously Hedda Hopper and Dorothy were on very good terms.
Best sound quality I've ever heard on a WML video delivered on Gary's channel through Nov. 1955. I wonder where it was kept and preserved to keep it in such fine shape. The video was very good as well.
My presumption is that the original WML films held in the Goodson-Todman archive are in much higher quality than we've come to expect from the GSN reruns. What we're seeing in the GSN reruns are films hastily transferred to videotape and degraded further and further by rebroadcast, home recording, digital encoding, and in the case of UA-cam videos, the process of posting to UA-cam. If the G-T archive of these films is intact, and anyone who had access cared enough to retransfer them digitally, I think the quality would be comparable.
It would be nice to find all the kinescopes. It would also be nice if somebody could find an actual surviving videotape of the show during its final years, preferably one with Dorothy in it.
My comment above was about Fremantle's lack of interest in making new digital transfers. Every single episode of WML in the Fremantle library has already been aired on TV on GSN and posted here to this channel. So no WML from Fremantle is remaining "unseen". That's not to defend them-- they're the worst-- but it's simply untrue that anything Fremantle has of the CBS WML series is unavailable. It's just that the majority of the episodes are available only from decades-old transfers to VIDEOTAPE and could be seen in much better quality if a new transfer was done today, something Fremantle has demonstrated no interest in ever doing.
Of course they were on good terms. ..as one witch to another.
Hilarious episode. Thanks for posting.
My pleasure!
Great Change !!! From what is now seen on TV,,, just watching without all the hatred in the World these days. Really enjoyed this,,, even though I was not born when this show was on TV.
I counted the commercial 1 minute and 20 seconds and this was when television was free over the air. Now we pay a subscription, and the advertisements are five times as long. There isn't even time for theme songs anymore.
Hedda got right up and went over to the panel at the end while Daly was still talking to her.
That was Hedda's way of giving shade to Daly.
@@jackanthony976 what a crazy bitch Hedda was at 25:59 !
Did you know that Hedda Hopper is the mother of William Hopper (Perry Mason)?
I thought they were short on time and she was given the cue to walk over to the panel.
I had never heard of Constance Moore prior to seeing this episode. This was her only appearance on WML, and I thought she played the game fairly well for a first time.
I found that Miss Moore was primarily a singer although she also appeared in films, especially musicals during WWII. She retired from films in 1947, but acted sporadically for the small screen between 1954 and 1967. She originated the role of Wilma Deering, the only female character in the 1939 movie "Buck Rogers" (starring Buster Crabbe in the title role). The lovely Erin Gray played Col. Deering in the 1979 movie and TV show that followed (1979-81), starring Gil Gerard in the title role.
Miss Moore retired as a performer in 1967 in her late 40's. She married her agent (later becoming a successful real estate agent) when she was an older teen (there is some uncertainty as to her birth year, either 1920 or 21) and they were still married nearly 60 years later when he died in 1998. They had two children together, neither of whom went into show business.
Lois Simmons • I thought her beauty was quite breathtaking! And here’s to long marriages. (I’ll celebrate 40 years this year😊 !)
I just LOVE her Ring!!❤️
@@gomphrena-beautifulflower-8043 Congrats.
I was especially surprised to hear of anyone famous from Dallas who had never crossed my radar before. That's unusual.
Mr. Horowitz performing the "Riker manoeuvre" when sitting down.
Thank you so much for these videos. I am enjoying them.
Before Bennett started dying his hair.
I'm glad Mr Horowitz is such a jolly fellow.
Thank you for this! Must be an early episode with Daly smoking like that. I can't remember a segment I laughed at more continuously than the second guest!
At 3:59 Hal Block jokingly guessed that one of the contestants (Mrs. Fernandez, the Lie Detector machine operator) was “a pall bearer for the New York Giants”.
Word of explanation:
On the day this show was aired, the Giants lost in Brooklyn by a score of 6-3. It was their fifth straight loss to the Dodgers and their 11th consecutive defeat overall. They were, at that moment, in 8th (and last) place in the NL, 7 1/2 games behind their rivals with a hideous record of 2-12.
Block was not alone in thinking that the Giants were dead and awaiting burial. But he was wrong! New York turned their season around and ended up catching the Dodgers by season’s end and then beat Brooklyn 2-1 in a three game playoff to decide who would go on to play the Yankees in the World Series. That series culminated in an electrifying walk-off four bagger by Bobby Thompson surrendered by the hapless Ralph Branca in the bottom of the ninth, a blast called the “shot heard ‘round the world”
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_Heard_%27Round_the_World_(baseball)
The ‘shot’ was memorialized by WMCA radio broadcaster Russ Hodges’ iconic Home run call “The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!! The Giants win the pennant!!! The Giants win the pennant!!!!”
Russ Hodges, by the way, was WML’s first guest on their October 7, 1962 show.
ua-cam.com/video/VwbEd7rVKg0/v-deo.html
So...
...if you don’t know now you know.
I've been watching lot of these episodes, and have made it back to the beginning. It almost looks like Bennett Cerf looks younger in the later episodes.
Delightful .Just adore Mrs Fernandezs hat :) Dorothy is so clever !!!!
Yes, I really like Dorothy ...
The ring that Constance Moore is wearing is absolutely beauuuutiful!💕😮
When Hedda Hopper said she had appeared in a movie within the past year, I believe she was referring to her cameo role in Sunset Boulevard.
Hedda Hopper was a well-known actress in silent movies and talking pictures for more than a quarter century. She has more than 150 screen and television credits. After making more than 100 films, she retired in 1942 to concentrate on her newspaper column. She used her experience and contacts in the film industry to become a famous Hollywood columnist.
Terri henricks Her son was William Hopper,who played Paul Drake,in Perry Mason,tv series.
Terri henricks I never knew, thanks for the information!
@@piustwelfth With more than 150 screen and television credits Hedda knew where the bodies were buried and thus was highly qualified to be a "gossip" columnist.
@@jackanthony976 Hedda remained a huge fan of the movies, and her favorite was Greta Garbo. She even collected Garbo's photos. Approx. 25 years ago in Hollywood, I purchased seven 11x14 originals of Garbo from Hedda's collection.
What adorable contestants. ♥️
There was NOTHING adorable about Hedda Hopper !
That was fun, partly because it was "lost." And it was a good episode, too.
Glad you enjoyed it-- and thanks for the comment, Vincent!
Mrs. Hopper is someone Dorothy probably knew all too well if were being honest.🤓
Indeed! Except Dorothy tended to be more sure of the facts than Hopper before she destroyed someone's career.
Thank you so very much. what a great show! Who knew Hedda Hopper was such a coquette. she was adorable. She wasn’t so adorable with her pen, however. 🤨
on her, even the hat worked. what in the blue blazes were those little round things on the top? LOL Btw, she is Dennis Hopper’s mother. He played Paul Drake in Perry Mason with Raymond Burr. :)
That was William Hopper
I didn't notice Constance Moore at first until I read one of the comments and then it hit me, I saw her as Wilma Deering in the Buck Rogers serial with Buster Crabbe.
I love these so much! Thank you for gathering and organizing!
This is such a treat :)
Glad you enjoyed it, Jill. Any lost episode would be a treat, but this is a particularly good episode!
So much fun! Thank you!
Bennett takes Dorothy's hand at 17:01. It's such a sweet, fleeting moment to me. Adorable.
I caught that too. Made me wonder exactly when and why the big chill happened between them. She was pretty non responsive to this gesture.
Hopefully more epiaodes surface.Never say never.
I never have! :)
I love what Mrs. Fernandez is wearing!
LOVE Hedda! Yes, I know she was nasty customer but a great hat is a great hat!
Thanks for posting these!
I loved the Stopette ads and Jules showing off with his bottles and test tubes....
10:06 Ms. Fernandez waves and says "Hi" to someone in the audience....
I noticed that too, and of course, Mr. Horowitz says hello to his daughter, Joyce at the beginning of his segment. Two instances of off-stage greetings in the same episode. I wonder if perhaps this was fairly common during this time period of WML's run, and it's just that we don't have enough examples of the show from this era to have seen it before on UA-cam.
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My grandmother, Eileen Bernhardt was a guest on Whats My Line. Her secret was she was a female Santa Claus. I would be so excited if you could find this episode! If you know where to find this episode can you send me the link. I would love to see her! Thank.you!
Was she on the CBS "What's My Line?" (which aired every Sunday evening from 1950 to 1967), or on the syndicated "What's My Line?" (which aired 5 days a week from 1968 to 1975)? Or was she perhaps on the radio edition of "What's My Line?" (which aired for a few years in the early 1950s)?
If she had been on the CBS show (which is the focus of the What's My Line? channel on UA-cam), it is likely that her name would come up on an Internet search somewhere on the tv.com site, as those who compiled the CBS "What's My Line?" information to that site had access to the production logs for the show, including "lost episodes" from that show's 17 2/3 year run.
As it did not, I suspect that she may have appeared on the syndicated show, instead, particularly as she would by then have been in her 40s when the new WML? was on the air. (Her obituary does not indicate which version of WML? she appeared on - only that she did appear as a contestant on "What's My Line?" and what her "line" was.)
Happy hunting!
This interesting article about Eileen Bernhardt (1995) seemed to indicate that she might have been on What’s My Line in the 1970’s. It told how Mrs. Bernhardt started being a Santa. It was when she and her husband both lost their jobs before Christmas. How she came to start actually seeing the wishes of the children come true was moving. What a wonderful lady she was!
www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1995-12-11-1995345062-story,amp.html
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Thank, you, "WML", for this; wondered, what "Paul Drake"s Momma sounded/acted, like. "She dyes, by her own hand." I'll wager Mr. Cerf was watching, backstage and, thinking, "love it, Hal!"
The full version of the joke was, "She's a suicide blonde-- dyed by her own hand.
Knew Connie Moore lovely friend & person. RIP Connie! Kevin Taylor
great work WML Facebook group hank you so much...from Spain
The 50's older episodes, seems more fun. Than 60's episodes
I'm excited to watch this with the gang!
Quite an epic live chat we had in the Facebook group last night-- over 500 comments in the course of 30 minutes!
It was very exciting!!! I'm glad Patrick alerted me. Sometimes life just goes by too fast these days. Great job Master Gary! Kudos to you and your merry team.
I love seeing these early episodes. It took a while for the show to really take off. This really shows television in its infancy.
Great find! Thanks! What a time capsule.
Image is incredible, but the sound... AMAZING!
Wow, the laughter by the audience at 14.29, when Hal asked if it bought pleasure, that is some really off beat humor for that time period
Eric Hanson I noticed that too, very modern kind of joke and laughter. Though the more I watch of this show, the more I realize people aren't necessarily too different now.
The humour even in Busby Berkeley films, pre-code, indicates that what made people laugh then (ie. sexual innuendo) is just as raunchy as what made people laugh now. Indeed sexual innuendo goes back to Shakespeare. Unfortunately the restrictions imposed by networks, censorship people and so forth in the mid-20th century gives the impression that it was otherwise but of course sex has always made people laugh and always will. :)
@@davidsanderson5918 The difference is that then it was innuendo and smart -- so it's funny. Now it's literal, brainless, and not funny at all.
@@davidsanderson5918 I was just going to point out the vast difference between pre-code entertainment productions and those that followed during its enactment, as well. I remember the first few times I saw pre-code talking pictures a considerable number of years ago - and being so accustomed to the more restrictive/censored films, my eyes and ears were opened to how they weren't all that far removed from contemporary real life.
Of course the show was live so they couldn't edit it. And it was a late-night program (10:30 PM). But yes, that was a wonderfully "dirty laugh" from the audience.
John Dalys face when the panelist says "can it give you pleasure" to the Mattress Manufacturer. 😂🤣
He had such good morals, you could read him well when annoyed or snarky!
Hedda Hopper was a out of control Hannity of her time.
i love that Constance Moore also congratulated Dorothy for finding out the guy is a mattress manufacturer.
Dorothy was a one time gossip columnist - i figured she would realize it was Hedda Hopper- they were both well known and very popular
Hedda Hopper portrayed a New York gossip columnist in George Cukor's great 1939 comedy, "The Women." In retrospect, it would have been more realistic if Dorothy had played that role.
This is such a treat. Thank you!
thanks for this upload.
Hedda Hopper is William Hopper's mother. He played Prosecutor Paul Drake on the "Perry Mason" show.
Paul Drake was Perry Mason's private detrctive not the district attorney William Tallman was
He played Paul Drake, Perry Mason's man
That was a jolly good time.
23:55 The first use of the term “weenie.” Dorothy says, “Have you a weenie, Connie?”
Bennett snorted while laughing at 24:40. Never heard him do that before.
I've watched this show 4 or 5 times already and never noticed that. You must have the ears of bloodhound. :)
He did it earlier in the show too, but I cant find it........
More importantly, did he ever do it after that?
I love how Bennett, when he is saying the word "known", uses 2 syllables, as in "no - when"!! LOL
Both Hopper and Kilgallen wrote influential gossip columns, so it's hard to imagine there wasn't some feeling of rivalry between them.
This was a departure from how they normally were. John Daly smoking!?! And as Hedda Hopper left, NONE of the men stood up!
Although I love the questioning around the mattress man. The fact that the panel had no idea why their innocent questioning was so hilarious. I was dying too
This was a fun episode... glad you found it Gary.... hoping one day to see that you found the episode with Lauritz Melchior ...
If I do, I certainly post it! :) Good to see you commenting again, PepsiMama2!
What a beautiful kinescope, esp. for the early 50s. If only all kines looked this good.
I get a kick out of Mr. Horowitz's healthy sense of humor on his size.
"Does it give them pleasure? ...." "Oh yes!" ..... laughter .....wish we could go back to these times....
I Vaguely Remember the Later Episodes of this Program as a Boy.But I Really Enjoy These Classic "Oldies"
There are so many treasures in peoples garages and attics that the public would love to see and are historically important. What makes me cringe is the thought that when these people die their heirs are hurried and simply do not know what the item is and toss it out.
It does happen, and it's tragic.
The first guest has a really lovely speaking voice.
It is amazing you finding these lost episodes. Have you ever found the one with Dick Haymes as mystery guest? Many thanks, Clive
No, but believe me, any episodes that turn up will be posted-- I have no interest, really, in acquiring more shows if I can't share them.
Wasn't Hedda Hoper the mother of William Hopper who played Paul Drake on Perry Mason?