Fun fact: Later from what I've seen she became a businesswoman and sold backyard pools for families to install in their homes. One wild career journey to say the least.
What I so enjoy about these episodes is the impeccable manners of all concerned. The guests and panelists are addressed as Miss/Mrs/Mr. The gentlemen stand up to shake hands, the ladies remain seated (unless a lady guest is much older), Mr Daly helps the ladies to be seated, it is just wonderful to see people treat each other with such natural courtesy.
This is TV ?? The two ends, didn't like each other! You need to stop hanging with conservatives traitors! at 68 I still stand for lady's, and still say Mr, Mrs, sir... I just never take my hat off in doors, That's BS ! And in 55' there was there was only about 150million people in the US ,alot less Ego's and guns, now 360 million. And nothing but Ego's and guns! BTW there was systemic racism then and still today ! No one was mister, and miss, to black, and the Indian nations people! I'm white and grew up seeing this all my life, and in the logistics world too ! The Philosophy of hateful people haven't changed... only their political partys ! Rosey classes, those good old days, of sundown town's, and red lining that most white people have no idea about! I've met people from all over the world, and no one loves this country more then an immigrants. India, Egypt to Jamaica they all taught me something! Time release capsules, and how the sun shines and a very little French. It's religion that spreads hate and kills ! and like very great nation, it will kill America too !
well it wasn't natural courtesy, it was taught to them. that's sort of important. i guess you could say it BECAME natural to them with early teaching and long practice, but you know.
First time seeing this episode and I don't recall ever watching an Esther Williams movie, but WOW she sure is fun... now I have to catch her movies.. I like her... great mystery guest...
I LOVED her movies growing up! Gorgeous sets, colorful, great choreography in swimming. Never heard a bad thing about her. Please do watch her movies! 👏❤️👍👍
Esther Williams will always be such a great movie star, a good actress and a marvelous person. She full.the screen with her apparence. Delightful, charming, professional, great singer and a superlative athlete. Miss her so much. Thanks Heaven for Esther Williams ❤
Yes, she gets an "A" for that! Very charming, funny, completely entertaining, and the singing was a great ploy for disguising her voice and misleading the panel while pleasing the audience thoroughly. John Daly enjoyed it, and I think the panel even had fun being misled. How could they not have?
Just wanted to thank you for putting all the episodes up, I'm living out of the country now and don't have GSN which used to show them. Love, Love, Love them! And Esther is so charming and cute. Thanks again for your hard work on these. Off to watch some more ;)
What's My Line? Yes- thank you very much! I've been watching these for years on UA-cam, and it's fantastic to now have them all in one convenient location.
I may have said it before -- because I've seen this episode before and enjoyed it before, too -- but Esther Williams was, I think, perfect as a mystery guest. That's because she clearly had fun singing her answers and the panel had fun asking her questions once they knew she'd sing the answers. I think the best mystery guests are the ones who have a good time with their answering, because if they have a good time, everyone else does, too, the entire panel, John Daly, the studio audience and the audience at home. Some of the best mystery guests are the ones that come up with a funny way of answering -- and misleading the panel -- and the Esther Williams' singing of her answers was the perfect ploy! (I also note that Dorothy Kilgallen assumed facts not in evidence --as she often does -- by asking questions about the M.G.'s singing. Just because a M.G. sings her answers doesn't mean she sings as part of her profession.) Anyway, Esther Williams rates an unqualified "A" from me for her performance as a mystery guest -- let's make it an A+, in fact!
Esther Williams initially regarded her whole movie career as a marvelous joke, although she took it more seriously once it became clear she was more than a novelty item to the public. The advent of realistic Technicolor was a great advantage. She choreographed her numbers (hardly anyone else could), practically inventing a new genre, the 'aquamusical'; and she paved the way for synchronized swimming as an artistic Olympic sport. She can only be compared with Sonia Henie for durability as a specialist performer who could top the bill in expensive movies. Henie made audiences conscious of figure-skating as a thing of beauty, as Esther did swimming. Before TV, people went to cinemas to see such spectacles. Both gals worked hard: Sonia became quite a deft comedienne, and Esther even gave a good account of herself in a straight and dry role in 'The Unguarded Moment'. Only Johnny Weissmuller among the men parlayed sporting accomplishment into stardom.
The first contestant looked so serious. When he passed by the panel, Arlene said "Cheer up mr Nadler you gonna enjoy it!" 2:45 After that he didn't look so gloomy. :-)
Greetings from The UK! I love this show! Everyone is so polite to each other! The ladies are always dressed beautifully! Dorothy Kilgallen is soooo cute, with a perfect figure! Thank you for sharing these Fun Programmes with us! xxxx
Actually Arlene was not too far from the answer because if a chicken wears glasses, its vision is improved in order to avoid danger from all points of view while crossing the street.
Esther Williams was an athletic swimmer before she engaged in more picturesque swimming for the entertainment world. Before she graduated HS in 1939, she set national records, won three U.S. championships and was likely to make the U.S. Olympic team in 1940, missing out on that experience when WWII caused the Olympic Games to be cancelled. The summer games had originally been scheduled for Tokyo and then moved to Helsinki before the plug was pulled completely. In her WML appearance, she presents a tall (5' 8½") and beautiful athletic figure.
Great sense of humor on the part of Esther Williams -- not a hint of self-importance in her answers. She certainly was there to have fun and entertain the audience in the process. I loved her response of "Conference, please!" I don't often laugh out loud when I'm by myself, but there are times I have to and that was one of them! Miss Francis: One would consider you an actress, then, rather than a singer. Miss Williams: Conference, please! Me: LOL. One of the best mystery guests ever!
She was about to do a straight part as a school teacher in 'The Unguarded Moment'. She is dressed appropriately, but in my eyes she is as lovely as Kim Novak or Ava Gardner- and as good an actress.
Esther Williams was wonderful, her auto-biography was among the very best "celebrity books" I have read (and I have read many dozens). She, like most of the rest of us, had her share of tragedy and heartbreak. Fame and money is no insulation from rough times. Nonetheless, Esther, through faith and good humor, prevailed - passing on in her 92nd year in 2013. Bless her heart!
Good, that first guest brought some so John Daly could show them. With an occupation like that everybody would have wanted to see them and have that one explained. Apparently they're still a thing, I found some listed for sale on amazon.
John Daly said that the second contestant is an "anesthetician." An anesthetist is a nurse trained to safely administer anesthesia. An anesthesiologist is a doctor who specializes in administering anesthetics before, during, and after medical procedures. I can find no definition of "anesthetician", and the auto-correct feature of my browser tries to correct the word to "aesthetician." So I think that John Daly made up a word.
Esther wrote that she was paid the standard $500 MG fee, which she donated to a charity which taught blind kids swimming. She then found that her agency, William Morris, had taken its 10% off the top. When she complained she was told that company policy said it must have its fifty bucks, no matter what.
Great actress and performer. Her autobiography is interesting. She had some rough times with her husbands, especially Ben Gage who was a decent singer and performer in his own right, but used to spend the couple's money like it grew on trees. Esther always had a bubbly personality through it all.
Esther Was such a Beautiful Looking Woman & Actress, Loved her Movies, Sadly , She was taken away from us & the World much to young, May she RIP, & Is Sadly missed by all of her Fans etc.
@@esmeephillips5888 Interestingly, Esther Wiliams apparently hung out with Grace Kelly for a while. When the latter came to do a film with MGM, Williams in a display of her humor nailed a star on the door of Kelly's dressing room at the studio (apparently to joke that a star was in the house). A picture of her doing this survives and is online.
A few years after this appearance, Esther got to sit on a WML line panel in the only WML episode broadcast live from CBS Television City Hollywood. She was pretty amusing [pretty and amusing] in that episode as well.
Ms. Williams was sweet, sweet, sweet in this episode. I don't normally envy people, but Mr. Daly was in a position I would have loved to have been, i.e., cwtching up to the gorgeous Esther. I was raised by Welsh Williams', so I have a real affection for her.
I think Maureen O'Hara revealed some pretty shocking behind the scenes stuff in her autobiography that probably upset some as well. She knew of scandals that had they gone public, could have caused international headaches for Hollywood and maybe even the US government (particularly with Australia IIRC).
Ironically, Jo Anne Worley would graduate from HS and start her professional career in 1955. Somehow after graduating from Lowell HS in NW Indiana, she found her way to the tiny town of Blauvelt (NY) in Rockland County that was in the early stages of transitioning from rural to suburban with the recent completion of the Tappan Zee Bridge. It's a town I know well as I lived there from 1960 to 1981 (except for college and about a year living in NYC). Miss Worley came there to became a professional member of a small theater company, but left to go to college in Texas before my family moved there. Eventually she would be part of the initial cast of "Laugh In" with the famous tag line, "Is that a chicken joke?" And she would go on to make many game show appearances after that.
Esther Williams is so sweet like Eleanor Powell, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Doris Day, Lucille Ball and at least Marylin. I love theese woman who are so sweet, heartfelt and so beautiful and be able to laugh at themselves;-)
I have seen almost every movie of miss Esther Williams with my father sixty five years ago ,or less But it's only now I realized how beautiful and loveable she was
Love it at 20:59 when Dorothy asks her if she has children and she joyfully sings 'Oh yes!'. Through all the ups and downs, Esther always put her kids first and they all turned out well. When she wrote in her memoirs about how Joan Crawford's and Bette Davis's daughters had dished dirt on their mothers, Esther knew that none of her three would do so.
I confess I've never seen an entire Esther Williams movie, but I may start. That was fun. (Sam Nadler has what I think is a son or some relative advocating as part of Jews for Jesus, but I can't find any sign of the man himself, other than WML neepery.)
Esther....a total, stunning beauty. Never really realized it 'til watching this. Also, Mr. Nadler was a RIOT! Arlene's "Cheer Up" when they shook hands seemed to break the ice a bit; after that it was totally crazy (and enjoyable). You'll smile from start to finish. LR
I honestly can't say I've ever seen an MG have so much fun with the panel, and that includes Groucho and George Burns. I wonder if Miss Williams could have sustained that lovely singing throughout a whole picture? If so, she could have given the likes of Deanna Durbin and Katherine Grayson a run for their money!
Well, I think she did do a couple of musicals, Neptune's Daughter and Skirts Ahoy. Skirts Ahoy is probably one of the weirdest films I've ever seen. It's supposed to be a military comedy involving the Navy WAVES, and it was written by a woman, but one of the songs has Williams' character and two others literally moaning to a restaurant crowd how BADLY they want a boyfriend (titled "What Good is A Gal Without A Guy?"). It does have some empowering scenes for the gals, but other times you wonder if they were on drugs when they made the film.
Arlene is so good tempered, never fusses when John supports a 'no' unless Dorothy who carries on as if world peace depending on her guessing correctly.
orgonko the wildly untamed Thank you for the recommendation. She was delightful and so into the game. Loved her showing her roots and her falsetto "Conference please!" As much as I've enjoyed her films, never would have thought she'd be such a fun guest. You know some "starlets" like to play the role and others are more let-the-hair-down type. EW seems to be the latter.
My uncle had a farm in New Jersey at the time this episode aired. He had chickens, and they had black, opaque glasses, similar to the ones shown here, so that they would not see one another and peck one another. I only saw them once, but I will never forget it.
Esther Williams book was not very kind to people- she lied about Jeff Chandler so said everyone who knew both of them. I think some things are better left unsaid.
Or wrestlers, or airplane brokers... when women were less likely to have such jobs it was easier to stump the panel. But the opening cartoon credits are all men!
I agree about the screenplays, but Esther was so naturally humorous and quizzical that it hardly mattered. What strikes one about her 'aquamusicals' today is the light-heartedness with which she carries herself: sharing the camp, lavish, crazy absurdity of the spectacle with the audience. You can't laugh AT Esther- she got there before you. No amount of chlorine in the pool could dim the twinkle in her eye. The daring and imagination with which she infused her routines are a bonus.
@@esmeephillips5888 "You can't laugh AT Esther, she got there before you." Well said. And her movies are fun, I just would love to see what she could have done with writing that matched her natural wit.
"Long hair" is an old fashioned slang term that meant sort of "upper crust, affected". I've most often heard it used in reference to music, though, as a way of distinguishing classical from pop music.
+Bob G Before long hair on guys became associated with hippies, it was a contrast to the more typically plebeian crew cut. It could be preppy or associated with the artistic world, but it was generally neat and still masculine. Hippie hair styles on guys (and the girls as well) were even longer, and tended to be scraggly, unkempt, and often dirty or greasy: generally appearing to be unwashed for long periods of time. With the guys there was the added complaint that they looked like girls, especially if they were underfed and not athletic. So there was more to it than just hair length. Graduating from an alternative HS in 1970 and an Ivy League university in 1974, I watched it all unfold.
@@pearlshifer1776 From that article: What's My Line?'s director, Frank Heller, said in 1958 that the show's "most unusual occupation" over its then eight-season run was "...the gentleman who makes eye glasses for chickens."
Never seen a chicken wearing glasses 😮, and we've raised a few,etc, I wonder if this practice is still being done and how often. It would have to be for free range ones,to be needed I'd think. WOW, never heard of such.😊
Esther plugs 'Jupiter's Darling' with Howard Keel, which turned out to be her last MGM 'aquamusical', containing a magnificent semi-underwater chase and the famous procession of Hannibal's colored elephants.
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Not only was Esther Williams a champion athlete and movie star, she was also funny and drop dead gorgeous..
Her bio is sooooo funny and honest.
It's amazing after her accident that she lived so long. A testament to an incredibly strong soul.
amen
Fun fact: Later from what I've seen she became a businesswoman and sold backyard pools for families to install in their homes. One wild career journey to say the least.
She was even gorgeous in her 90s! ❤
What I so enjoy about these episodes is the impeccable manners of all concerned. The guests and panelists are addressed as Miss/Mrs/Mr. The gentlemen stand up to shake hands, the ladies remain seated (unless a lady guest is much older), Mr Daly helps the ladies to be seated, it is just wonderful to see people treat each other with such natural courtesy.
That’s the way of life in the 50’s. My how life has changed. What a shame!
And the way they dress. The contestants dress beautifully.
Today we see monkey full of tattoo who wants the same right as NP
This is TV ?? The two ends, didn't like each other! You need to stop hanging with conservatives traitors! at 68 I still stand for lady's, and still say Mr, Mrs, sir... I just never take my hat off in doors, That's BS !
And in 55' there was there was only about 150million people in the US ,alot less Ego's and guns, now 360 million.
And nothing but Ego's and guns!
BTW there was systemic racism then and still today ! No one was mister, and miss, to black, and the Indian nations people! I'm white and grew up seeing this all my life, and in the logistics world too !
The Philosophy of hateful people haven't changed... only their political partys !
Rosey classes, those good old days, of sundown town's, and red lining that most white people have no idea about!
I've met people from all over the world, and no one loves this country more then an immigrants. India, Egypt to Jamaica they all taught me something!
Time release capsules, and how the sun shines and a very little French.
It's religion that spreads hate and kills ! and like very great nation, it will kill America too !
well it wasn't natural courtesy, it was taught to them. that's sort of important. i guess you could say it BECAME natural to them with early teaching and long practice, but you know.
First time seeing this episode and I don't recall ever watching an Esther Williams movie, but WOW she sure is fun... now I have to catch her movies.. I like her... great mystery guest...
She is very funny and charming in other episodes too
I LOVED her movies growing up! Gorgeous sets, colorful, great choreography in swimming. Never heard a bad thing about her. Please do watch her movies! 👏❤️👍👍
This is a hilarious episode. Def top 10.
Esther Williams has one of the best personalities ever to appear on What's My Line. Outstanding, the complete and totally beautiful woman
NO kidding! I never realized how vivacious she was -- and SMOKIN' hot! Wow!
She was a force of nature!
She gets the cutest guest award- (what a smile).
Miss Williams was beautiful, engaging, and had a wonderful sense of humor.
this is one of the funniest episodes I have watched
Esther Williams will always be such a great movie star, a good actress and a marvelous person. She full.the screen with her apparence. Delightful, charming, professional, great singer and a superlative athlete.
Miss her so much.
Thanks Heaven for Esther Williams ❤
Definitely want to see an Esther Williams movie now--very funny and drop-dead gorgeous.
For some reason l cant explain
I have gone a little bit of John Daly
You might like this clip then: ua-cam.com/video/LPQ3kjkobOQ/v-deo.html
barbara palmer / gone what?
I know it’s been 3 years since this comment. But I recommend the film “Dangerous when Wet.” 1953.
Esther Williams~Gorgeous!!!
This is the funniest "Whats My Line" that I have watched ,so far !
Dorothy is so charming in her brilliance.
I think that was the best mystery guest so far.
John Daly really loves those conferences when the mystery guest is someone who looks like Esther Williams. Lol.
Who wouldn't be?
John really likes the ones with Jayne Mansfield , Liz Taylor.....etc
Esther Williams is so charming here.
Yes, she gets an "A" for that! Very charming, funny, completely entertaining, and the singing was a great ploy for disguising her voice and misleading the panel while pleasing the audience thoroughly. John Daly enjoyed it, and I think the panel even had fun being misled. How could they not have?
Just wanted to thank you for putting all the episodes up, I'm living out of the country now and don't have GSN which used to show them. Love, Love, Love them! And Esther is so charming and cute. Thanks again for your hard work on these. Off to watch some more ;)
cassiemoira My pleasure-- glad you enjoy the shows!
What's My Line? Yes- thank you very much! I've been watching these for years on UA-cam, and it's fantastic to now have them all in one convenient location.
I may have said it before -- because I've seen this episode before and enjoyed it before, too -- but Esther Williams was, I think, perfect as a mystery guest. That's because she clearly had fun singing her answers and the panel had fun asking her questions once they knew she'd sing the answers. I think the best mystery guests are the ones who have a good time with their answering, because if they have a good time, everyone else does, too, the entire panel, John Daly, the studio audience and the audience at home. Some of the best mystery guests are the ones that come up with a funny way of answering -- and misleading the panel -- and the Esther Williams' singing of her answers was the perfect ploy! (I also note that Dorothy Kilgallen assumed facts not in evidence --as she often does -- by asking questions about the M.G.'s singing. Just because a M.G. sings her answers doesn't mean she sings as part of her profession.) Anyway, Esther Williams rates an unqualified "A" from me for her performance as a mystery guest -- let's make it an A+, in fact!
Esther Williams initially regarded her whole movie career as a marvelous joke, although she took it more seriously once it became clear she was more than a novelty item to the public. The advent of realistic Technicolor was a great advantage. She choreographed her numbers (hardly anyone else could), practically inventing a new genre, the 'aquamusical'; and she paved the way for synchronized swimming as an artistic Olympic sport.
She can only be compared with Sonia Henie for durability as a specialist performer who could top the bill in expensive movies. Henie made audiences conscious of figure-skating as a thing of beauty, as Esther did swimming. Before TV, people went to cinemas to see such spectacles. Both gals worked hard: Sonia became quite a deft comedienne, and Esther even gave a good account of herself in a straight and dry role in 'The Unguarded Moment'. Only Johnny Weissmuller among the men parlayed sporting accomplishment into stardom.
The first contestant looked so serious. When he passed by the panel, Arlene said "Cheer up mr Nadler you gonna enjoy it!" 2:45 After that he didn't look so gloomy. :-)
Arlene Francis' remark was wonderful!
He looks like Jerry Nadler's father
He’s prob nervous
Esther Williams....damn what a delightful entertaining young lady here!!! Oh baby I am in love LOL
she is so funny in other episodes too
Esther, what a beauty!
Greetings from The UK! I love this show! Everyone is so polite to each other! The ladies are always dressed beautifully! Dorothy Kilgallen is soooo cute, with a perfect figure! Thank you for sharing these Fun Programmes with us! xxxx
Arlene Francis: He teaches them how to cross the street! 😆 😆 😆 😆 OH that killed me!!!
Actually Arlene was not too far from the answer because if a chicken wears glasses, its vision is improved in order to avoid danger from all points of view while crossing the street.
Esther Williams was an athletic swimmer before she engaged in more picturesque swimming for the entertainment world. Before she graduated HS in 1939, she set national records, won three U.S. championships and was likely to make the U.S. Olympic team in 1940, missing out on that experience when WWII caused the Olympic Games to be cancelled. The summer games had originally been scheduled for Tokyo and then moved to Helsinki before the plug was pulled completely.
In her WML appearance, she presents a tall (5' 8½") and beautiful athletic figure.
Esther also swam at the 1939 Golden Gate Exposition on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay before she became "famous"
Esther Williams was a beautiful woman...
Between Esther and the poultry oculist, this might be the best episode ever.
Esther Williams , Such a big star ! She still Shines in the sky of the entertainment world !
Esther Williams did two of the most funny mystery guest appearances of the 1950s. "Do you object?" Certainly not me.
Great sense of humor on the part of Esther Williams -- not a hint of self-importance in her answers. She certainly was there to have fun and entertain the audience in the process. I loved her response of "Conference, please!" I don't often laugh out loud when I'm by myself, but there are times I have to and that was one of them! Miss Francis: One would consider you an actress, then, rather than a singer. Miss Williams: Conference, please! Me: LOL. One of the best mystery guests ever!
The look of the panel when Mr. Daily reaviled what the first constant did, (makes eye glasses for chickens), was priceless
Esther is beautiful!
Esther Williams is an absolutely charming and talented person
She was so gorgeous. They don't make women like that anymore.
Marcus Divine You said it!
Marcus Divine She has a strange personality, and she's one of those women that without makeup, not so gorgeous. Totally not my type.
Pure Class
This episode had me in stitches. I couldn't stop laughing about the 🐥🐥 😂
Same here!! 😂 Probably one of my favorites!
Absolutely hilarious! Glasses for Chickens!😂
Esther Williams I have seen on a few WML episodes and in each one she is so funny!
Ester Williams is so beautiful and funny!
Esther Williams was very entertaining.
I missed her much
dorothy is a bloody boss at this
This is one thing I like about these reruns. I don't know Esther Williams but she was HILARIOUS in this!
Esther Williams, at least in this episode, is one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen.
She was about to do a straight part as a school teacher in 'The Unguarded Moment'. She is dressed appropriately, but in my eyes she is as lovely as Kim Novak or Ava Gardner- and as good an actress.
"Conference please" So funny!
OMCLUCK!!!! 😂😂😂 This entire episode was cluckin hysterical. Laughed my tail feathers off from beginning to end. 🐥😅
esther willaims my first hollywood crush, god she was beautiful,
Esther Williams was wonderful, her auto-biography was among the very best "celebrity books" I have read (and I have read many dozens). She, like most of the rest of us, had her share of tragedy and heartbreak. Fame and money is no insulation from rough times. Nonetheless, Esther, through faith and good humor, prevailed - passing on in her 92nd year in 2013. Bless her heart!
@rivaridge7211 Bless her heart indeed..
Good, that first guest brought some so John Daly could show them. With an occupation like that everybody would have wanted to see them and have that one explained. Apparently they're still a thing, I found some listed for sale on amazon.
What a woman !!!!
What a wit.
Just popping in to say - this was a FINE programme, and I wish such quality were still shown today.
FUNNY AND SOOO GOOOD LOOKING !!!!
Very kind of you to say that about me.
Robert Q. Lewis has this wonderful absurdity about him that's almost British comedy-esque. I love the little exchange at 7:24
Best performance by a mystery guest ever. Utterly inspired.
Can you fall in love with a woman without ever meeting? I think I just have.
Me too
She is stunning!🤗
You mean, the anaesthetist?
@@davidsanderson5918 What do you think?
I want to see more of Esther Williams
How much more?
@@peternagy-im4be 😉
She designed swimwear but refused to wear bikinis.
John Daly said that the second contestant is an "anesthetician." An anesthetist is a nurse trained to safely administer anesthesia. An anesthesiologist is a doctor who specializes in administering anesthetics before, during, and after medical procedures. I can find no definition of "anesthetician", and the auto-correct feature of my browser tries to correct the word to "aesthetician." So I think that John Daly made up a word.
Esther wrote that she was paid the standard $500 MG fee, which she donated to a charity which taught blind kids swimming. She then found that her agency, William Morris, had taken its 10% off the top. When she complained she was told that company policy said it must have its fifty bucks, no matter what.
nowadays it's the opposite with many charities they keep 90% for "administrative fees" & other bs
@@orgonkothewildlyuntamed6301 Cheats and selfish scumbags.
The Salvation Army is the best in using 90+% for helping people 😊
Goodwill doesn't give a red cent to anyone, 100% profit 😮
Great actress and performer. Her autobiography is interesting. She had some rough times with her husbands, especially Ben Gage who was a decent singer and performer in his own right, but used to spend the couple's money like it grew on trees. Esther always had a bubbly personality through it all.
That cliche about stars, 'indomitable', applies more to her life than most.
Esther Was such a Beautiful Looking Woman & Actress, Loved her Movies, Sadly , She was taken away from us & the World much to young, May she RIP, & Is Sadly missed by all of her Fans etc.
almost 92 is too young?
One of the best guest this show has ever had. Kind of looks like Doris Day here.
She was about to quit MGM (and forgo millions of bucks in deferred payments) b/c she was tired of the 'Doris Day with fins' parts it kept feeding her.
@@esmeephillips5888 Interestingly, Esther Wiliams apparently hung out with Grace Kelly for a while. When the latter came to do a film with MGM, Williams in a display of her humor nailed a star on the door of Kelly's dressing room at the studio (apparently to joke that a star was in the house). A picture of her doing this survives and is online.
Esther: I tryyyy 🎵🎶
Arlene: Pretty hard too.
😂
What a delightful and lovely woman Esther Williams is here.
A few years after this appearance, Esther got to sit on a WML line panel in the only WML episode broadcast live from CBS Television City Hollywood. She was pretty amusing [pretty and amusing] in that episode as well.
Beyond drop dead gorgeous mate,she is stunning.
Ms. Williams was sweet, sweet, sweet in this episode. I don't normally envy people, but Mr. Daly was in a position I would have loved to have been, i.e., cwtching up to the gorgeous Esther.
I was raised by Welsh Williams', so I have a real affection for her.
Esther is GORGEOUS!!!
Imagine Robert Q's deep voice as your Siri or GPS. It's a crime if he didn't dabble in voice acting.
"Wet, she's a star, dry, she ain't." Pretty famous nevertheless, she wrote a tell-all autobiography which ruffled some feathers.
I think Maureen O'Hara revealed some pretty shocking behind the scenes stuff in her autobiography that probably upset some as well. She knew of scandals that had they gone public, could have caused international headaches for Hollywood and maybe even the US government (particularly with Australia IIRC).
"Does the chicken look differently?" Boy I'll say. Chickens for some reason always got big laughs on this program.
Ironically, Jo Anne Worley would graduate from HS and start her professional career in 1955. Somehow after graduating from Lowell HS in NW Indiana, she found her way to the tiny town of Blauvelt (NY) in Rockland County that was in the early stages of transitioning from rural to suburban with the recent completion of the Tappan Zee Bridge. It's a town I know well as I lived there from 1960 to 1981 (except for college and about a year living in NYC). Miss Worley came there to became a professional member of a small theater company, but left to go to college in Texas before my family moved there. Eventually she would be part of the initial cast of "Laugh In" with the famous tag line, "Is that a chicken joke?" And she would go on to make many game show appearances after that.
Chickens are innately funny for some reason.
They're always funny lol.
Thank ya very much 😊 🐥
that was the cutest woman that ever walked the earth . wow
Esther Williams is so sweet like Eleanor Powell, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Doris Day, Lucille Ball and at least Marylin. I love theese woman who are so sweet, heartfelt and so beautiful and be able to laugh at themselves;-)
She gets the cutest guest award.
I have seen almost every movie of miss Esther Williams with my father sixty five years ago ,or less
But it's only now I realized how beautiful and loveable she was
Love it at 20:59 when Dorothy asks her if she has children and she joyfully sings 'Oh yes!'. Through all the ups and downs, Esther always put her kids first and they all turned out well.
When she wrote in her memoirs about how Joan Crawford's and Bette Davis's daughters had dished dirt on their mothers, Esther knew that none of her three would do so.
I confess I've never seen an entire Esther Williams movie, but I may start. That was fun.
(Sam Nadler has what I think is a son or some relative advocating as part of Jews for Jesus, but I can't find any sign of the man himself, other than WML neepery.)
Esther....a total, stunning beauty. Never really realized it 'til watching this. Also, Mr. Nadler was a RIOT! Arlene's "Cheer Up" when they shook hands seemed to break the ice a bit; after that it was totally crazy (and enjoyable). You'll smile from start to finish. LR
So much class and elegance.
Let's see Kim Kardashian be one thousandth this funny!! Enough said.
Kartrashian …
Kim who?
Who knew about eyeglasses for chickens?😎 Millions of pairs sold each year!
I honestly can't say I've ever seen an MG have so much fun with the panel, and that includes Groucho and George Burns.
I wonder if Miss Williams could have sustained that lovely singing throughout a whole picture? If so, she could have given the likes of Deanna Durbin and Katherine Grayson a run for their money!
They film movies over a couple months so probably yes.
Let's not get carried away.
Well, I think she did do a couple of musicals, Neptune's Daughter and Skirts Ahoy. Skirts Ahoy is probably one of the weirdest films I've ever seen. It's supposed to be a military comedy involving the Navy WAVES, and it was written by a woman, but one of the songs has Williams' character and two others literally moaning to a restaurant crowd how BADLY they want a boyfriend (titled "What Good is A Gal Without A Guy?"). It does have some empowering scenes for the gals, but other times you wonder if they were on drugs when they made the film.
My god.... what a stunning woman Esther was!!
Arlene is so good tempered, never fusses when John supports a 'no' unless Dorothy who carries on as if world peace depending on her guessing correctly.
Anne Roy, Kilgallen was a serious bluestocking who probably should have been a federal prosecutor. I find her charming. Lol.
That's one thing that helped to balance the program so well among the panel.
one of the best & Bennet never smiles so as when she is revealed on all her appearances & understandably so
orgonko the wildly untamed Thank you for the recommendation. She was delightful and so into the game. Loved her showing her roots and her falsetto "Conference please!" As much as I've enjoyed her films, never would have thought she'd be such a fun guest. You know some "starlets" like to play the role and others are more let-the-hair-down type. EW seems to be the latter.
you're quite welcome--stars like Esther made it a fun, entertaining show & that is the point--it's not a spelling bee lol
Esther Williams, beautiful lady whose swimming performances were spectacular.
'Eyeglasses for chickens'... did they really thought that the panel would figure that out?
I had the same thought, but they got closer than I ever thought they would.
My uncle had a farm in New Jersey at the time this episode aired. He had chickens, and they had black, opaque glasses, similar to the ones shown here, so that they would not see one another and peck one another. I only saw them once, but I will never forget it.
Esther Williams book was not very kind to people- she lied about Jeff Chandler so said everyone who knew both of them. I think some things are better left unsaid.
Hurray for Esther Williams !
Vivacious, intelligent and witty. If only she could swim...
Too gorgeous for words.
Esther Williams totally should’ve done more comedy. She was so funny.
Loved the chicken 🐔 eye 👓!
When John Daly puts the eyeglasses on his nose 😆
For the time, this show was pretty good about featuring women in professions like doctors, judges or lawyers.
Or wrestlers, or airplane brokers... when women were less likely to have such jobs it was easier to stump the panel. But the opening cartoon credits are all men!
If you're an Esther Williams fan and haven't seen "Neptunes Daughter" with her and Red Skelton, you must see it! Its
I just watched Esther Williams' two appearances back to back - she's delightful. MGM should have given her funnier scripts.
I agree about the screenplays, but Esther was so naturally humorous and quizzical that it hardly mattered. What strikes one about her 'aquamusicals' today is the light-heartedness with which she carries herself: sharing the camp, lavish, crazy absurdity of the spectacle with the audience. You can't laugh AT Esther- she got there before you. No amount of chlorine in the pool could dim the twinkle in her eye. The daring and imagination with which she infused her routines are a bonus.
@@esmeephillips5888 "You can't laugh AT Esther, she got there before you." Well said. And her movies are fun, I just would love to see what she could have done with writing that matched her natural wit.
What does Dorothy mean when she asks if Esther Williams was " a little less long hair" than Esther was trying to sound?
"Long hair" is an old fashioned slang term that meant sort of "upper crust, affected". I've most often heard it used in reference to music, though, as a way of distinguishing classical from pop music.
+Elisa Ruiz That's right. Long hair in the 1950s was classical music -- hair style images of Liszt and Mozart and Grieg.
Interestingly enough, the term changed to a rather negative counter-culture meaning in the 60's and 70's.
+Bob G
Before long hair on guys became associated with hippies, it was a contrast to the more typically plebeian crew cut. It could be preppy or associated with the artistic world, but it was generally neat and still masculine. Hippie hair styles on guys (and the girls as well) were even longer, and tended to be scraggly, unkempt, and often dirty or greasy: generally appearing to be unwashed for long periods of time. With the guys there was the added complaint that they looked like girls, especially if they were underfed and not athletic. So there was more to it than just hair length.
Graduating from an alternative HS in 1970 and an Ivy League university in 1974, I watched it all unfold.
Long hair = classical (operatic), in this instance.
Esther Williams wrote a great auto-biography.
"MAKES EYEGLASSES FOR CHICKENS"??
There are laughs to be had in every episode.
glasses for chickens???
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_eyeglasses
@@pearlshifer1776 From that article: What's My Line?'s director, Frank Heller, said in 1958 that the show's "most unusual occupation" over its then eight-season run was "...the gentleman who makes eye glasses for chickens."
She such Doll💕
Esther Williams was swimmingly beautiful.
"CONFERENCE PLEEEEEASE!!!" 🤣🤣🤣
Never seen a chicken wearing glasses 😮, and we've raised a few,etc, I wonder if this practice is still being done and how often. It would have to be for free range ones,to be needed I'd think. WOW, never heard of such.😊
Yes eyeglasses are still used😊
very clever of Esther to sing 😂😂
Esther plugs 'Jupiter's Darling' with Howard Keel, which turned out to be her last MGM 'aquamusical', containing a magnificent semi-underwater chase and the famous procession of Hannibal's colored elephants.
20:23 22:38 23:01 23:40 23:48 my favourite part