What's My Line? - Sean Connery; Henry Fonda; Ralph Meeker [panel] (Oct 3, 1965)

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  • NOTE: This video uses two different video sources, one of which was higher quality but incomplete. As always, I edited the two versions together to preserve the best quality video possible.
    MYSTERY GUEST: Sean Connery; Henry Fonda
    PANEL: Arlene Francis, Ralph Meeker, Dorothy Kilgallen, Martin Gabel
    Many thanks, as always, to epaddon for providing his copy of the complete episode.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 663

  • @mollydion8311
    @mollydion8311 4 роки тому +213

    Dear editor of these old shows,
    Thank you for all your hard work preparing these shows for "You Tube". It's such a pleasure to watch these episodes & see all the stars from yesteryear.

  • @willdrucker4291
    @willdrucker4291 Рік тому +15

    FUN FACT…both Henry Fonda and Sean Connery appeared in the classic film, “The Longest Day”…along with Eddie Albert, Red Buttons, Robert Mitchum, and some actor named JOHN WAYNE

  • @kali3665
    @kali3665 Рік тому +49

    "The Hill" was a fantastic movie. Connery really does deserve to be remembered for more than just being James Bond ... and the world's only Russian sub commander with a Scots accent. 😋

    • @catherinemothersill4703
      @catherinemothersill4703 Рік тому +5

      The rose was amazing too .based in a monastery cheers

    • @patgalvez4563
      @patgalvez4563 Рік тому +1

      lol hey Scots and Russians are both northern Europeans..

    • @jacquelinebell6201
      @jacquelinebell6201 Рік тому +4

      He did some brilliant movies in later years.

    • @RamblerReb
      @RamblerReb Рік тому +2

      @@catherinemothersill4703 Actually "The Name of the Rose" by Umberto Eco. But, yes, set in a monastery.

    • @victormendivil359
      @victormendivil359 Рік тому +1

      Finding Forrester ‼️❤️

  • @ReynaHerichan7769
    @ReynaHerichan7769 6 років тому +85

    Sean Connery. Famous then, famous now.

    • @lsubandtrumpet2014
      @lsubandtrumpet2014 3 роки тому +7

      And now famous in Heaven

    • @unitedwestand5100
      @unitedwestand5100 3 роки тому +5

      Yes! He aged well...
      Until he died that is. 🙏❤

    • @pattimaeda6097
      @pattimaeda6097 Рік тому

      Alive then, dead now😂

    • @margareteplaetzer3127
      @margareteplaetzer3127 12 днів тому

      Thank God we have his work now that he is gone from us.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😂😂

  • @johnpappe3289
    @johnpappe3289 Рік тому +42

    I was 15 years old and use to watch this when it was broadcast. Back then it was a very popular t v show. Brings back memories of a happier time in our nation.

    • @MrDaiseymay
      @MrDaiseymay Рік тому

      But it was a time when your president was murdered----and Dorothy's death was linked to it.

  • @mikejschin
    @mikejschin 4 роки тому +81

    I am going through the episodes in order from the beginning and am facing two dilemmas. The more immediate is not being sure how I will handle Dorothy's last episode and the first one without her. She has become a valued friend over the months that I've been viewing the show. Although her actual death was more than 50 years ago, there will be a feeling of loss when she is no longer with us. Of course, I will watch those shows but will be saddened just as if she had left us this week.
    The second dilemma will be faced later: whether to start again at the beginning or switch to another show. Ah well, I'll cross that bridge in a couple of months. Meanwhile, thank you so much @What's My Line? for bringing us this wonderful program.

    • @davidsanderson5918
      @davidsanderson5918 4 роки тому +11

      mikejschin I'm doing exactly the same here (five months after you) and I know exactly what you mean. I am also an admirer of Miss Kilgallen so I will also be grieving during episodes made after what happens on Nov 8th 1965. I have already skipped ahead and watched the episode before (to check her demeanour and mood) as well as the one afterwards (to see the tributes) but the home straight run towards the last episode of the series without Dorothy will be....lacking.
      People talk of Dorothy's decline. With a matter of a few weeks ago, I'm yet to see ANY! And I watch pretty closely, believe me! I happen to know about 'decline' in various forms so I can judge objectively.

    • @mikejschin
      @mikejschin 4 роки тому +11

      @@davidsanderson5918 Hello Dave. Well, I've faced both situations mentioned in my original post. The episode after Dorothy's death was very painful to watch. They never did find a good replacement, although (unlike many others) I did like Phyllis Newman.
      Right after watching the final episode, I decided to start again at the beginning. It's fascinating in a lot of ways: catching things that went past me the first time, enjoying again some of the great moments, and most of all getting a different impression of some things than the first time through.

    • @donaldmanthei1224
      @donaldmanthei1224 4 роки тому +6

      I watch the ones after her death, but I prefer those with her on the panel. She was smart, a great loss.

    • @mikejschin
      @mikejschin 4 роки тому +8

      @@donaldmanthei1224 Hello Donald. I did watch the post-Dorothy episodes, and the show was never the same without her.

    • @gailsirois7175
      @gailsirois7175 3 роки тому +4

      I feel exactly the same

  • @sunlion9676
    @sunlion9676 Рік тому +16

    This is so much fun to watch this show from waaayyy back! I love seeing the fashion trends and the ‘stars’ when they were so much younger. Sean Connery! Wow! When he started speaking, I nearly fell off my chair! My heart beat went bonkers! 😂❤ And another thing that strikes me- is what a pure gentleman the host is! I’ve never heard of him before watching this show- it’s such a breath of fresh air to listen to how well mannered and polite they are. Thank you so much for sharing this show with us! 🎉🎉🎉

    • @bloodgrss
      @bloodgrss Рік тому +3

      He was a well-known and respected radio and television journalist alongside his hosting this show. And yes, a pure gentleman, a type I am sad to say rarely seen in these hurried digital times times...

    • @connergooch4385
      @connergooch4385 Рік тому +2

      Also, a respected news man, I listened (for the first time) to him reporting the attack on Pearl Harbor. John Daly did just about everything, and did it very well!

  • @kelperdude
    @kelperdude 8 років тому +178

    Sean Connery is just plain cool.

    • @boognish999
      @boognish999 5 років тому +4

      Except for how he treats women www.sickchirpse.com/sean-connery-sexist/

    • @hardworker5588
      @hardworker5588 4 роки тому +7

      Males need to be more like him and less like Adam Eraserhead Schiff

    • @davidsanderson5918
      @davidsanderson5918 4 роки тому +3

      Zac M. Wow that was a shocker. On the other hand, if it was a well-loved female celebrity saying that it was ok in certain circumstances to slap a man in the face it would be applauded!! Think about it, many people would be all in favour of that. Interesting thought, eh?!!
      Plus his opinion is not necessarily revealing 'how he treats women' but rather what he thinks hypothetically. I'm not condoning or supporting his point at all. Just being objective here.

    • @gilbertotongco1054
      @gilbertotongco1054 3 роки тому +5

      Sean Connery died , 91 when he fell and injured his head.
      RIP

    • @truthandreality8465
      @truthandreality8465 2 роки тому +5

      Sean Connery spent his entire career emulating Ralph Meeker, from his walk, his stance to his facial expressions and snarl. His whole Bond performance was a Ralph Meeker lift, especially from Kiss Me Deadly. As the Bond character was a lift of American pulp fiction, comic magazine and film noire characters, from Dick Tracy, Doc Savage and The Shadow to Mike Hammer, Connery was a lift of the actors who played them. There was more to the reason why they had him on when he was a host.

  • @davidbowden796
    @davidbowden796 2 роки тому +11

    Since I am age 71, I remember one of his first films was a Disney flick called Darby O'Gill and the Little People. At his young age, he had the most handsome face ever on the silver screen at that time. Check it out all you Sean fans!

  • @gregorymikula4249
    @gregorymikula4249 Рік тому +12

    I also am close to70 years old and always enjoyed watching What's My Line. It's when entertainment was still enjoyable and civilized.

  • @trock6577
    @trock6577 Рік тому +6

    This was must watch tv in my youth even though it was on late at 10:30 on Sundays on school night. The panelists were incredibly intelligent and rarely were unable to guess who the guest was or what they did. Great to see them again when I don’t have to get up for school on Monday.

  • @L0r3n2
    @L0r3n2 Рік тому +5

    Sean Connery and Hank Fonda on TV it's like what these old folks call exquisite

  • @rmelin13231
    @rmelin13231 Рік тому +5

    What a nice, pleasant smile and demeanor on Mr. La Bohm. I suspect he truly enjoyed himself.

  • @luishumbertovega3900
    @luishumbertovega3900 3 роки тому +26

    Never saw Ralph Meeker like this before, looks like a great guy, feeling at home, smiling and pleased to be there.

    • @HassoBenSoba
      @HassoBenSoba Рік тому +3

      Yeah...totally unlike Mike Hammer slapping people around 10 years earlier ("Kiss Me Deadly", 1955).

    • @jubalcalif9100
      @jubalcalif9100 Рік тому +3

      Indeed. He played so many tough guys on the screen. Very nice to see him here as a friendly, gentle & down to earth fella.

  • @cbass2755
    @cbass2755 3 роки тому +45

    This was a wonderful show. Intelligent, and thoughtful show. This man always brought interesting people on…nothing ever close to it today. I miss it. I’m so happy that I lived during these days because it certainly helps in discernment of the times today

  • @margaretgoodheart4167
    @margaretgoodheart4167 Рік тому +6

    Thank you WML for all your efforts...very much enjoy this program 😀

  • @roberfaubus3455
    @roberfaubus3455 Рік тому +5

    I still remember watching this program when I was a kid and now I am 65 years old.

  • @kevinmoore4887
    @kevinmoore4887 3 роки тому +21

    Sean Connery and Henry Fonda
    Two of the best actors ever.

    • @truthandreality8465
      @truthandreality8465 2 роки тому +2

      And Ralph Meeker, of course, who Connery spent his life emulating.

    • @jubalcalif9100
      @jubalcalif9100 Рік тому +1

      As I do when I take off my hat, you make a good point !

    • @tedoneilclark4710
      @tedoneilclark4710 8 місяців тому

      ​@@truthandreality8465I thought he resembled Marlon Brando especially in this video.

    • @truthandreality8465
      @truthandreality8465 8 місяців тому +2

      @@tedoneilclark4710 Ya, a little. So do the other two, for that matter!!

  • @joycejean-baptiste4355
    @joycejean-baptiste4355 2 роки тому +33

    I appreciate your work in putting these old videos together. I watched this with my grandma as a kid. Brings back fond memories, thank you.

  • @yvonnerocchio8445
    @yvonnerocchio8445 8 років тому +55

    Bond, James Bond.....the one & only.....

  • @anniemoffatt6028
    @anniemoffatt6028 2 роки тому +4

    Thank you for posting these.

  • @virginia7191
    @virginia7191 Рік тому +2

    I first saw Sean Connery in Darby O’Gill And The Little People. Have been a fan ever since!

  • @kenyongray2615
    @kenyongray2615 3 роки тому +13

    Sean Connery after watching a lot of the Bond films was the best of the bunch. He was a great James Bond. Ralph Meeker was great in the Kolchak Night Stalker made for television movie. Henry Fonda was superb in 12 Angry Men. He must have had a taxi running outside with that quick exit of his. Thanks for the video.

    • @jakemay637
      @jakemay637 2 роки тому

      I always thought Connery was the best Bond until rewatching them. He was a little too greasy Lippies in the first three..with the mmmms sounding like a strange man in a trench coat. In Thunderball he was becoming more of a person rather than caricature. His best Bond was You Only Live Twice. Bond was actually likeable, someone you would have a pint with. He had chemistry with sidekick Tiger and the Bond girls.
      Moore's first Bond rivals Connery's YOLT...perfect balance of fun Bond as well as serious in necessary parts.
      Both films share pluses like witty script, scenery, iconic music, funny sidekicks, beautiful Bond girls, great villains (LALD with several). Moore lost the balance in the later films.
      Brosnan was very good in Goldeneye...his Bond was much like Moore's first Bond....but he held his swagger back. He had more Bond in The Matador.
      Craig hated the role and admitted he did it for the cash. He insisted Bond be killed off. Plus, offscreen he wasn't an ambassador for the 007 brand, unlike Roger and Pierce.

  • @UNOwen1
    @UNOwen1 7 років тому +16

    If you listen really carefully, you'll hear Ms Francis say 'all I know is Sean Connery' (5:23), after the question 'are you filing here in New York' (to which Ms Killgallen - audibly - says 'no').

  • @markheller1382
    @markheller1382 5 років тому +7

    Having the #1 movie star at the time and only 3 networks, made WML and TV the thing to watch!

  • @congared1
    @congared1 3 роки тому +10

    Most of the comments are of the great actor Sean Connery, but I want to say how great Henry Fonda was too. I enjoyed Mr. Fonda in every role he was in.

    • @MOGGS1942
      @MOGGS1942 Рік тому +1

      Fonda was peerless. Too many great films to list. Go watch them all, is my advice.

  • @kbunky69
    @kbunky69 9 років тому +32

    Martin is my favorite guest panelist .. His voice is one for the ages . I could listen to him all day

    • @Beson-SE
      @Beson-SE 9 років тому +9

      Hear, hear! I totally agree! He had a very deep and beautiful voice. The perfect narrator.

    • @aileen694
      @aileen694 5 років тому +14

      Agreed! And I've read several remarks implying that Martin is 'not good enough' for beautiful Arlene. His energy, wit and humour, professional success and That Voice make him an attractive man, they seem a very happy couple!

  • @carollee444
    @carollee444 3 роки тому +6

    Both men fantastic actors! Thx to both 😉

  • @wpl955g9
    @wpl955g9 8 років тому +46

    Ralph Meeker asks Sean Connery if they've ever worked together. Not by 1965, no - but both would appear in The Anderson Tapes (1971) with Sidney Lumet directing....

    • @majorneptunejr
      @majorneptunejr 3 роки тому +7

      Martin Gabel also appeared in Hitchcock's "Marnie" with Connery.

  • @hazelanglin5907
    @hazelanglin5907 Рік тому +3

    I wasn't born yet when this show was aired but I'm loving the programme

  • @robertdiotalevi6073
    @robertdiotalevi6073 7 років тому +49

    "Are you Henry Fonda?" Holy smoke, Arlene! One of the problems with this show is that the whole panel knew who was in town and started eliminating from there.

    • @robyndowning2990
      @robyndowning2990 4 роки тому +4

      Arlene asked the first question and her husband, Martin Gable, asked the second one. Dorothy Kilgallen started with, "Are you Henry Fonda?". It seems like the panel should not be able to ask if someone is starring or opening in Broadway. What is so sad is that Dorothy died about a month after the show date.

    • @sagarsaxena6318
      @sagarsaxena6318 4 роки тому +2

      Holy smoke Arlene but that question was asked by Dorothy. NOT Arlene.

    • @robertdiotalevi6073
      @robertdiotalevi6073 3 роки тому

      @@robyndowning2990 Yup.

    • @robertdiotalevi6073
      @robertdiotalevi6073 3 роки тому

      @MichaelKingsfordGray 👍

    • @johnmahoney3566
      @johnmahoney3566 3 роки тому +1

      Very true. A big drawback

  • @soulierinvestments
    @soulierinvestments 8 років тому +6

    Fonda's first film in 1935 was Victor Fleming's "The Farmer Takes a Wife." John Ford started casting him in films within 4 years and Preston Sturges in 6 years.
    RE: Meeker's comment that Fonda never missed a performance of "Mr.
    Roberts" when Meeker was his understudy. [1948 - 1951 is the period in question] Fonda's tenacity on that point included performing the very evening after his wife [Jane's
    mother] died.

    • @pbohearn
      @pbohearn 2 роки тому

      Committed Suicide

  • @ethelmartin7643
    @ethelmartin7643 Рік тому +2

    I really enjoyed this episode.

  • @bigoldinosaur
    @bigoldinosaur 9 років тому +42

    Hey it's Connery...Sean Connery.

    • @RaoulThomas007
      @RaoulThomas007 9 років тому +9

      bigoldinosaur Shak'n not stirred!

    • @bigoldinosaur
      @bigoldinosaur 3 роки тому

      Is that a Connery reference or are you really calling me a coward?

  • @brookehanley3659
    @brookehanley3659 8 років тому +14

    A year earlier Arlene tells him to "come back to the theatre where you belong." And he did.

  • @Beson-SE
    @Beson-SE 9 років тому +31

    I am impressed by John's memory. He remembers every question and how it was asked. For example 22:12 Of course there were occasions when he was wrong but not often.

    • @savethetpc6406
      @savethetpc6406 9 років тому +3

      Johan Bengtsson
      Yet he couldn't remember the correct names of the Bond films! (6:30)

    • @Beson-SE
      @Beson-SE 9 років тому +5

      SaveThe TPC Maybe John wasn't a great fan of Bond films.

    • @davidsanderson5918
      @davidsanderson5918 4 роки тому +2

      SaveThe TPC That's not a matter of memory though.

  • @44032
    @44032 3 роки тому +6

    Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker) shaking hands with James Bond, (Sean Connery). Two guys who knew how to get rough with the bad guys and would have understood each other very well.

  • @jmccracken1963
    @jmccracken1963 6 років тому +7

    Exactly 2 months after this WML? episode aired, on Friday, 3 December 1965, Henry Fonda wed Shirlee Mae Adams - his fifth marriage. As with his second marriage (to Frances Seymour Brokaw), this one lasted "till death do us part": his death, of heart failure, on 12 August 1982, at the age of 77.

  • @johnnydtractive
    @johnnydtractive 7 років тому +25

    I want to live in a New York City that has Henry Fonda in it.

    • @QuadMochaMatti
      @QuadMochaMatti 4 роки тому +2

      I would consider living in a New York City that has neither Bill de Blasio, nor any of the infamous Cuomos in it. Little chance though that I would give up being a left-coaster, though - even if things on this side are as messed up as in the east.

    • @DB9CR7
      @DB9CR7 3 роки тому +1

      @@QuadMochaMatti One down, two to go!

    • @tonyb.6376
      @tonyb.6376 Рік тому

      @@DB9CR7 I admired Mario Cuomo, a politician with a heart, as opposed to a certain party in our times. Are you anti-immigrant and anti-people?

    • @DB9CR7
      @DB9CR7 Рік тому

      @@tonyb.6376 you should not judge children by the actions of their father, nor should you shelter bad people due to affection for their parents. Bill de Blasio and the Cuomo brothers are neither for immigration nor people - they are out for themselves and their political and monetary gains. Everything else is a facade. If you believe that the current Cuomos are good people, then i can only conclude that you do not know enough about them. I am not anti-immigration, so long as it is legal. Anti-people in general? No. Just bad people. If I made a remark a year ago as to the fact that one of the Cuomos is gone from the limelight, and your conclusion is that i am anti-immigration and people - so be it. I don't have any beef with you, nor do i care if you think i am a bad person due to what i wrote. Have a blessed holiday season, my fellow youtube commentator.

  • @vintagetvandexciting
    @vintagetvandexciting 3 роки тому +13

    Rest in Peace Sean Connery.

  • @reinacoffee8557
    @reinacoffee8557 6 років тому +7

    Bond...James Bond. Very handsome then, and very handsome today. He's aged gracefully. Love him!

  • @Jolar70
    @Jolar70 7 років тому +34

    Great to see Sean Connery, at the hight of his Bond fame, on this show! I've never seen "A Fine Madness", but I highly recommend "The Hill" to those who might not have seen it. I think it's his best movie and it feels very modern still. In a way it reminds me of something Christopher Nolan might make today in that it's very rigorous; the military setting dictates the pacing of the story, and it's visually inventive and just exquisite cinematically. It's a shame more of that kind of work alluded his career, especially later on..."Meteor"..."The Rock"...etc, and, of course, although I love Roger Moore and Daniel Craig, he will always be the most perfect James Bond!

  • @stephencampbell6424
    @stephencampbell6424 9 років тому +4

    THANK YOU - PRICELESS!

  • @phyllisfarley48
    @phyllisfarley48 7 місяців тому

    Being out of the Country for a few years, most of WML is all new to me. Enjoying all the panel and guests😮

  • @suzannepelosi6164
    @suzannepelosi6164 4 роки тому +12

    Sean Connery was dreamy omg

  • @deboraholsen2504
    @deboraholsen2504 3 роки тому +4

    Interesting beginning of introducing the mystery guest! Never seen it done that way before on WML!

  • @FloatingOnAZephyr
    @FloatingOnAZephyr Рік тому +3

    You really get the feeling watching these that the theatre was far more central to 1950s entertainment than it is today. I love how civilised everyone is; it's downright refreshing.

    • @RonGerstein-tf5tp
      @RonGerstein-tf5tp 3 місяці тому

      Theatre ranks first
      Then nightclubs and personal services
      Then movies
      Then television

  • @judywhiting4684
    @judywhiting4684 3 роки тому +6

    MAD FOR MEEKER.....a fine actor...looks like a sweet guy with a wonderful smile( the original HAL in PICNIC on Broadway)....

  • @p994able
    @p994able 6 років тому +6

    Mr. Fonda was a very handsome man. Jane was and still is beautiful, despite their rocky relationship even thought of they somewhat made their peace with each other right before his passing.

  • @echoecho3108
    @echoecho3108 2 роки тому +3

    Thanx for sharing this little gem!
    Although I love everything Mr Fonda has been in, I prefer his comedic roles. Mr Roberts is a favorite.
    If you want just a fun time watching a movie, catch Mr Fonda with the adorable Terrence Hill, in My Name Is Nobody.
    Wonderful performances, and interaction, by both gentlemen.
    (edit bc my stupidphone cannot spell properly 🙄 )

  • @STI2000
    @STI2000 2 роки тому +6

    I’m a huge “Bond” fan but my favorite movie with Sean Connery in the credits is “Robin and Marion”. It stars he and Audrey Hepburn as Robin Hood and Maid Marion in
    a more advanced stage of their lives, I really enjoy it.

  • @davidsanderson5918
    @davidsanderson5918 4 роки тому +7

    Daly and Kilgallen....one journalistic figure taking on another.....csn be a fascinating tussle. Have to say, much as I notice and admire Kilgallen's prowess at the game, Daly wins this time hands down.

  • @carlstawicki1915
    @carlstawicki1915 4 роки тому +22

    "Are you Sean Connery?"
    "YESH!"

  • @matafuko
    @matafuko 3 роки тому +3

    I watched that film The Hill that Connery's talking about a couple of months ago - it's awesome.

  • @Johnnycdrums
    @Johnnycdrums 7 років тому +13

    Ralph Meeker - "Paths Of Glory"

  • @mymanjosquin
    @mymanjosquin Рік тому +2

    oh golly Sean Connery is young!
    he had a long distinguished career.

    • @mymanjosquin
      @mymanjosquin Рік тому

      p.s. i love how WML attracted all the important american actors of the time. there is nothing quite like it today.

  • @Danmark30
    @Danmark30 3 роки тому +7

    I like how Arlene developed a stronger English accent when she asked Sean Connery a question!

    • @SR-iy4gg
      @SR-iy4gg Рік тому

      I'm not sure why she would have one at all. She was American, born and raised.

    • @RonGerstein-tf5tp
      @RonGerstein-tf5tp 3 місяці тому

      Sean Connery was Scottish.

  • @evasivy855
    @evasivy855 7 років тому +11

    I am fascinated by the fact that the male panelists stand to greet the guests while the women remain seated. Representative of the times, I suppose.

    • @margaretmccleskey6971
      @margaretmccleskey6971 7 років тому +13

      It shows that the men are gentlemen. That is how they are supposed to act.

    • @davidsanderson5918
      @davidsanderson5918 4 роки тому +4

      Eva's Ivy It didn't surprise me at all when I saw the first episode here on YT because I remember those modes of behaviour very well.
      I notice it's common now for younger people to expect things in history to be how they are now...."how come they're doing this? how come that's happening?". I find it striking because not that long ago I was also their age and I remember understanding naturally that whatever was normal to me was modern while not necessarily normal in the past.
      I think this has come about with the apparent concurrence of EVERYTHING via the internet. Younger people who don't remember a time prior to it have difficulty considering things for being 'of their time'. Very VERY strange, I don't like it...but that's what's happened.

    • @davidsanderson5918
      @davidsanderson5918 4 роки тому +2

      Margaret McCleskey The challenge now I think is to explain to a young person WHY these things happened.
      "Well women were on a pedestal, you see?"
      "But they're sitting down!"
      "Yes I know but....ah, never mind!"

    • @Jeweleye62
      @Jeweleye62 2 роки тому +2

      @Margaret McCleskey as a woman, I think it is nicer to stand. It shows respect, both ways. However, I remember it well, and it was a sign of the times.

  • @liesljones5987
    @liesljones5987 7 років тому +28

    The play Arlene and Ralph were appearing in, MRS. DALLY by William Hanley, was originally an off-Broadway play
    that introduced Estelle Parsons as a serious actress in 1962. Hanley added a second one-act that featured the
    wife's insenstive husband as opposed to her young lover in the first script. Always on the lookout for a decent
    script, Arlene tested the show in summer stock with Ralph and young Robert Forrester. Acting as producer,
    Arlene's husband Martin Gabel produced the play (with Arlene's money?) in New York in September of 1965.
    Though the critics praised Arlene for playing an atypical, middle-class woman, the evening couldn't overcome
    its modest one-act inspiration and closed in about six weeks, a financial failure. Arlene showed up a year
    later on Broadway in an all-star revival of the old comedy DINNER AT EIGHT, which ran a nice four months.

  • @laurahoward5426
    @laurahoward5426 Рік тому +2

    Sean Connery is so beautiful 😍

  • @sgsmozart
    @sgsmozart 5 років тому +5

    Sean Connery and Martin Gabel were both in Hitchcock's " Marnie".

  • @gailsirois7175
    @gailsirois7175 3 роки тому +3

    Omg..such a young Sean Connery

  • @tartman540
    @tartman540 Рік тому

    Who doesn't love Sean and Henry?!!! 🩷🩷🩷

  • @lindasmilesrfree6067
    @lindasmilesrfree6067 8 років тому +13

    Love Sean Connery!

    • @boognish999
      @boognish999 5 років тому +1

      Especially when he slaps women?

    • @martiwest1753
      @martiwest1753 3 роки тому +1

      Good actor. Also an excellent drinker and wife beater. I hate the so called man.

  • @juliansinger
    @juliansinger 4 роки тому +3

    Al LaBohm was quite a basketball player in his high school days. (Which is to say, the 40s and 50s, so he was in the Tall White Guy era.)
    He died sometime before 2018, which is when his wife died. They had two kids, and a bunch of grandchildren.

  • @Beson-SE
    @Beson-SE 9 років тому +10

    When I did my military service in Sweden, I used to climb telephone poles. It was rather fun :)

  • @tomtriffid
    @tomtriffid 9 років тому +32

    I like that Arlene is familiar with the worst poem ever published, Joyce Kilmer's "Trees." I also like the way Arlene went out of her way to include Dorothy in the fun when John was making so much of the fact that Arlene was there tonight with both her stage husband and her actual husband. Arlene Francis might have been the classiest American woman who ever lived.

    • @Beson-SE
      @Beson-SE 9 років тому +5

      I was not familiar with neither Joyce Kilmer nor "Trees" so I googled and read it. The poem was maybe not so good but I liked it since I am a sentimental person who like poems with rhymes and meter. :)

    • @miriamfeigenbaum3611
      @miriamfeigenbaum3611 9 років тому +3

      For several generations, "Trees" was a poem many people had to memorize in elementary school.

    • @Beson-SE
      @Beson-SE 9 років тому +2

      ***** Interesting. How is your relation to the poem today? :)

    • @WhatsMyLine
      @WhatsMyLine  9 років тому +2

      ***** There's even a maudlin tune that was written afterwards to go with the words!

    • @miriamfeigenbaum3611
      @miriamfeigenbaum3611 9 років тому

      Johan Bengtsson I very rarely think about it, but it was impressed in my memory at such an early age that I believe i could still recite all of the words, but might get some of the verses in the wrong order. And I can't stand the tune they put it to.

  • @Spitalhatch
    @Spitalhatch 7 років тому +6

    So much more enjoyable without the distraction of the advertising signboards all over the place - and much less tacky!

  • @bonasa99
    @bonasa99 Рік тому +2

    I suspect this will be the last time Dorothy Kilgallen asked a mystery guest the question she asked so often--about dropping a notebook from a helicopter on a Greek isle.
    She never got an affirmative response. I've always wondered who she was trying to suss out with this. Maybe it's in the Gil Fates book?

    • @beachchaos1863
      @beachchaos1863 9 місяців тому +1

      I've read on another video that it was about Tony Perkins but there was no proof provided. Wonder if it was referenced in one of the episodes he was in

    • @kentetalman9008
      @kentetalman9008 5 місяців тому +2

      Tony Perkins. But she didn't ask the question when he was actually on.

  • @elizabethmelnychuk6034
    @elizabethmelnychuk6034 6 років тому +8

    The ladies are seated to shake hands because this proper etiquette. A gentleman stands to shake another gentleman’s hand, but the ladies remains in her seat.

    • @davidsanderson5918
      @davidsanderson5918 4 роки тому

      Elizabeth Melnychuk Yes, we know.

    • @kathleenmichlin8616
      @kathleenmichlin8616 Рік тому +1

      @@davidsanderson5918 Not everyone knows or can even remember proper etiquette because it is not used anymore!

  • @terribelbliss9646
    @terribelbliss9646 6 років тому +2

    30 days after this episode Miss Killgallen would die of a heart attach. RIP

    • @preppysocks209
      @preppysocks209 4 роки тому +1

      Her father, a well connected journalist, publicly claimed, erroneously,that a heart attack was the cause of death, probably to avoid embarrassment, as in 1965, death from overdose of alcohol and barbituates was far less common and had more of a stigma, particularly if people concluded that the cause of death was suicide. The coroner's official conclusion was an accidental overdose.

    • @sbalman
      @sbalman 4 роки тому

      Don't think so.

    • @gailsirois7175
      @gailsirois7175 3 роки тому

      Was not a heart attack !!

    • @beadyeyedbrat
      @beadyeyedbrat 6 місяців тому +1

      She died of a drug overdose.

  • @NeeneeH
    @NeeneeH 8 років тому +42

    Sean Connery was beautiful then and is beautiful now 😍😍😍

  • @gilbertotongco1054
    @gilbertotongco1054 3 роки тому +5

    Sean Connery,90.
    Rest in peace

  • @vertxxgg
    @vertxxgg 8 років тому +21

    no 007 like the first 007 ...the Scotman :-)

    • @brentonyancheck4861
      @brentonyancheck4861 Рік тому

      Original (first bond, original film) was George Lazenby, On her majesty's secret service!!!!

    • @john81566
      @john81566 4 місяці тому

      ​@@brentonyancheck4861 There has been 27 Bond movies.
      Sean Connery was in the first five movies:
      1. Dr No (1962)
      2. From Russia with Love (1963)
      3. Goldfinger (1964)
      4. Thunderball (1965)
      5. You Only Live Twice (1967)
      The sixth Bond film was with George Lazenby:
      6. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1967)
      Sean Connery came back for the 7th Bond film:
      7. Diamonds are Forever (1971)
      Sean Connery also played Bond in the
      movie Never Say Never Again (1983)
      In the other Bond movies, Bond was played by Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig.
      Sean Connery is the original secret agent James Bond and many consider him to be the best.

    • @brentonyancheck4861
      @brentonyancheck4861 4 місяці тому

      @@john81566 learn your history first!! Lazenby in Her Majesty's Secret Service!!!! WOW 😳 thought you'd at least know that!? 😉😂 Ian Fleming would be VERY upset about your Ludicrous statement!! Have a great day!!!

  • @nightshift5201
    @nightshift5201 Рік тому +2

    It always amazes me how New York centric the panelists are. I guess if you were a famous actor back in the day you had to be on Broadway.

    • @jeffreyamster6020
      @jeffreyamster6020 Рік тому

      Once upon a time in America, The City of NY was the Center of the Universe.

    • @kentetalman9008
      @kentetalman9008 5 місяців тому +1

      Watching this show as a kid in the '50s, I was determined that when I was old enough I'd move to NYC. And I did, when I was 18, with $17 in my pocket. Good (but hungry) times.

    • @QuadMochaMatti
      @QuadMochaMatti 3 місяці тому

      @@jeffreyamster6020 Thank goodness that there are those of us from way out in the "far-flung remote outposts" of the Pacific Northwest that neither saw nor thought of it in that way.

  • @Rose-zn5ql
    @Rose-zn5ql 5 років тому +29

    I’ve always admired Arlene’s diamond heart pendant, timeless.

    • @friendofdorothy9376
      @friendofdorothy9376 4 роки тому +2

      That it was. That pendant had some rather large diamonds in it, as you can see it from a distance. I believe in the 50s episodes her pendant had another diamond dangling down in the center of the heart, that is missing in the later episodes? I know her husband gave it to her and I’m sure she treasured it. It was really awful that someone grabbed it off her neck when she was getting out of a taxi cab, in the 80’s I think it was.

    • @preppysocks209
      @preppysocks209 4 роки тому +2

      @@friendofdorothy9376 She was lucky all the mugger took was her pendant and not her life.

    • @richardpoplis6777
      @richardpoplis6777 3 роки тому +2

      Arlene wore that necklace all the time.. it was beautiful...

    • @donclark4685
      @donclark4685 3 роки тому

      So did my Mom. My Dad bought her a necklace just like it.

  • @dpm-jt8rj
    @dpm-jt8rj 5 років тому +3

    Dorothy Kilgallen passed away a month after this episode.

    • @aileen694
      @aileen694 4 роки тому

      I thought of that too. She certainly was missed! RIP

  • @gordonm7038
    @gordonm7038 6 років тому +8

    The Hill is an amazing movie, knockout performances by every actor.

  • @VahanNisanian
    @VahanNisanian 9 років тому +21

    The 1960s was when the spy craze began. The first three Bond films put the genre on the map, and everybody wanted a piece of the action.
    The UK had "Carry On Spying", part of the Carry On series, and the Harry Palmer series with Michael Caine.
    The US had shows like "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." and its Chick spinoff "The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.", "Get Smart" and "Mission: Impossible", and films such as the "Flint" series with James Coburn, and the Matt Helm series with Dean Martin.

    • @Jantv81
      @Jantv81 9 років тому +4

      Don't forget "the Avengers" with Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg.

    • @VahanNisanian
      @VahanNisanian 9 років тому +2

      Janna Watson Oh, how could I forget "The Avengers"? Thank you!

    • @scooterthelostduckling1356
      @scooterthelostduckling1356 8 років тому +2

      +Vahan Nisanian and there was "I Spy", "The Man From Uncle", the satirical "Get Smart", even "The Wild, Wild West" was about a federal agent in the old west. In the movies, there were the Matt Helm movies with Dean Martin and the Flint movies with James Coburn. The TV show "It Takes a Thief" was about a former thief turned spy, stealing things for the government.

    • @VahanNisanian
      @VahanNisanian 8 років тому +2

      Shannon MacGregor I already mentioned Matt Helm and Coburn's "Flint" series in my post.
      But yeah, I forgot about all those other ones, too.

    • @Jolar70
      @Jolar70 7 років тому +3

      Also...there was Europe! And specifically Italy, that made literally hundreds of 007-inspired rip offs! Just like the spaghetti westerns, they sometimes starred American b-movie actors and sometimes starred their own handsome / beautiful people, but they made TONS of these things! Check out the very fun "Electra One", or the great "Kommissar X" films, here on UA-cam, for examples!

  • @brigitkelly5317
    @brigitkelly5317 9 років тому +6

    though I haven't seen a lot of interviews with Henry Fonda, so I am not sure where I had the perception that he was a reserved man, but I must say, I am pleased to see how animated he is and the little skip he made to the desk after he signed in was quirky,

  • @jameshenson3826
    @jameshenson3826 Рік тому

    From movies I watch I’m used to Sean Connery old and Henry Fonda young. Nice to see them both here.

  • @waynehowell6160
    @waynehowell6160 9 років тому +19

    What's My Line? (TV Series 1950-1967) You are a wonder! I never saw a difference in quality where you edited the two copies together. Great job!

  • @willremmers
    @willremmers 9 років тому +8

    Got Fonda after two questions. Wow.

    • @ultrakool
      @ultrakool 6 років тому +1

      they should have given celebs a bell or clicker or something (you know, ring once for yes and twice for no). some of their voices are immediate giveaways.

    • @preppysocks209
      @preppysocks209 4 роки тому +1

      As they said, they were expecting him because of his new show -- they even figured he would be the first MG.

  • @MrJoeybabe25
    @MrJoeybabe25 9 років тому +6

    Arlene's reference to Italy was Pope Paul VI visit to New York and homily in Yankee Stadium the very next day (courtesy, partially, I'm sure of the fact that the Yanks were not in the World Series that year).

    • @Beson-SE
      @Beson-SE 9 років тому +1

      Was there no more dignified place for the Pope's sermon than Yankee Stadium?

    • @MrJoeybabe25
      @MrJoeybabe25 9 років тому +2

      Johan Bengtsson The Bowery was too far. Actually the men at the Bowery needed the Pope more than those who crowded Yankee Stadium. Seriously, I imagine Yankee Stadium was the biggest gathering spot in NY. And a Papal visit was I would guess, a sell out (although it was probably free admission).

    • @epaddon
      @epaddon 9 років тому +2

      Joe Postove I have the actual NBC news coverage of the Papal visit to Yankee Stadium (it's preserved in original pristine color videotape quality) and the NBC newsman Bill Ryan at one point when describing the papal vehicle inside the stadium committed this unintentional blooper when he said dead seriously, "The Pope is around third base headed for home plate." But in all seriousness, this was a stop made following a Papal visit to the UN and from there, following the Mass at Yankee Stadium, the Pope then went to the Vatican Pavilion at the New York World's Fair, which was in its final week (and was one of the most attended pavilions because Michelangelo's Pieta was on display there) and from there flew out from JFK Airport.

    • @MrJoeybabe25
      @MrJoeybabe25 9 років тому +1

      epaddon I was at the Fair in 1965,and I don't remember an Israeli Pavilion for me! There probably was one, but I don't remember it. Is the Pope's visit on UA-cam?

    • @epaddon
      @epaddon 9 років тому +1

      Joe Postove No it isn't although a clip of it was in the 2000th episode of "Jeopardy" from 1972 (as part of a video question) that used to be on YT but it looks like it was taken down. There was an "American-Israel Pavilion" at the Fair. www.nywf64.com/amerisr01.shtml

  • @Stoneycombe
    @Stoneycombe 3 роки тому +2

    Love Jonns Quip at the end when discussing the telephone pole inspectors job," to see whether it has chilblains or something"

  • @soulierinvestments
    @soulierinvestments 8 років тому +9

    "Mrs Dally Takes a Lover" is one of those titles where you feel as if it is being set up for sequels. Mrs. Dally Takes a Vacation. Mrs. Dally Takes The Cake. Mrs Dally Takes the A Train.

    • @loissimmons6558
      @loissimmons6558 5 років тому +4

      +soulierinvestments
      You left out my all-time favorite, "Mrs. Dally Takes a Valium". And of course there's Snoopy's favorite, "Mrs. Dally Takes Six Bunny-Wunnies on a Picnic."

    • @QuadMochaMatti
      @QuadMochaMatti 4 роки тому +1

      "Mrs. Dally Takes a Message."

    • @QuadMochaMatti
      @QuadMochaMatti 4 роки тому +1

      @@loissimmons6558 inside the magical Kaleidoscope egg? But I think that's my most favourite part of the entire Peanuts Easter special, 40+ years after first seeing it.

    • @geraldkatz7986
      @geraldkatz7986 2 роки тому +1

      So I wonder if words like dalliance and dilly-dally were derived from this story or did those words exist first for Mrs. Dally to be aptly named.

  • @SnowWalker1
    @SnowWalker1 6 років тому +7

    Sean Connery at his peak in gorgeousness 8-)

  • @57highland
    @57highland Рік тому +2

    I always liked Ralph Meeker.
    "The Dirty Dozen", "The St. Valentine's Day Massacre", "I Walk The Line", to name a few of his films.

  • @mham1330
    @mham1330 Рік тому

    I was 3 months old when this aired.🙂

  • @smdftb8495
    @smdftb8495 2 роки тому +5

    To think we lost Dorothy a month later. Just so sad.

  • @dennispearson9287
    @dennispearson9287 2 роки тому +2

    The ULTIMATE James Bond , Sean Connery !!!!!.....

  • @gretchenking5952
    @gretchenking5952 Рік тому +2

    Sean Connery was so handsome!

  • @Timbergal
    @Timbergal Рік тому +1

    What a fabulous looking man ❤

  • @kennithumperovitch1312
    @kennithumperovitch1312 2 роки тому +2

    We named the dog Indiana! My best imitation of Sean Connery.

  • @MrJoeybabe25
    @MrJoeybabe25 9 років тому +4

    Henry Fonda's play "Generation" was a success and went on to have 300 shows. It was at the Morosco Theatre where Sol Burton was the manager.

    • @jmccracken1963
      @jmccracken1963 6 років тому

      +Joe Postove
      "Generation" was written by William Goodhart (with incidental music by Jerry Bock). The show opened on Wendesday, 6 October 1965 and closed on Saturday, 25 June 1966.
      In addition to Henry Fonda (who played Jim Bolton), the other cast members were A. Larry Haines, Sandy Baron, Don Fellows, Richard Jordan, and Holly Turner.
      The production was directed by Gene Saks, with sets and lighting designed by George Jenkins and costumes designed by Albert Wolsky. The show's producer was Frederick Brisson.

  • @soulierinvestments
    @soulierinvestments 8 років тому +6

    I like the speculation that Connery's agent insisted on that voice over opening introduction of Sean -- the only time I can think of this sort of introduction happening on WML. It would Be darned interesting to know who got the voice over assignment since it is not Johnny Olsen. What did Franklin Heller or Bob Bach sound like?

    • @st.louisdxer9616
      @st.louisdxer9616 3 роки тому +1

      It sort of reminds me of the 1974-75 shows where they would briefly tease one of the contestants.

    • @truthandreality8465
      @truthandreality8465 2 роки тому +1

      It might have been Ralph Meeker because, of course, he was right there.

  • @guyfihi
    @guyfihi 7 років тому +5

    I advise people to see "The Tin Star(1957)" with Henry Fonda and Antony Perkins, one of my favorite westerns. Henry Fonda at his best and Antony Perkins does a fine job also. Not your normal western. This one about jaded retired lawman turned bounty hunter Fonda exasperated by inexperienced town sheriff Perkins. The interplay between the two is remarkable.

    • @jmccracken1963
      @jmccracken1963 6 років тому +1

      +guyfihi
      I second your recommendation. That is an outstanding film, well-written (screenplay by Dudley Nichols, based on a story by Joel Kane and Barney Slater), very well-directed (by Anthony Mann), excellent cinematography (by Loyal Griggs) and musical score (by Elmer Bernstein), and chock-full of excellent performances in parts both big and small - including, in addition to Henry Fonda and Anthony Perkins, such actors and actresses as Betsy Palmer, Michel Ray, Neville Brand, John McIntire, Mary Webster, Peter Baldwin, Lee Van Cleef, Richard Shannon, James Bell, and Howard Petrie.

    • @loissimmons6558
      @loissimmons6558 5 років тому +1

      However unlike Perkins, Fonda never lost his address book while flying in a helicopter over Greece.

    • @MOGGS1942
      @MOGGS1942 Рік тому

      Superb Western. Ono of my favourites. Surprisingly not very well known.

  • @РудольфМихельсон-с6е

    Amazing!

  • @omargonzalez2641
    @omargonzalez2641 6 років тому +8

    This is one of the best "What's My Line" even though I miss Benneth Cerf.

    • @Walterwhiterocks
      @Walterwhiterocks 3 роки тому +3

      Really ? Interesting. I find the episodes without Cerf more pleasant and enjoyable than when he is there. I find him pretentious, elitist, and somewhat of a boorish ham. Fundamentally, he's nothing more than a highly paid book salesman.

    • @ejej6934
      @ejej6934 2 роки тому +1

      @@Walterwhiterocks I think you're correct.

    • @kathleenmichlin8616
      @kathleenmichlin8616 Рік тому

      @@ejej6934 Mr. Cerf, is probably a tad shy is all.

    • @kentetalman9008
      @kentetalman9008 5 місяців тому

      @@Walterwhiterocks I actually met Bennett once, and had a long chat with him. Extremely intelligent and a total gentleman.

  • @soulierinvestments
    @soulierinvestments 9 років тому +20

    First and only time that the director introduced a mystery guest before the program to the TV audience. Why then? Why Sean Connery?
    Connery's voice disguise is an all time memorial great. I don't hear any hint of Scotland.
    Dorothy never did get to ask Tony Perkins her helicopter question who did lose that darned address book. This is the last time she asked that question that appeared off and on for about four years.

    • @MrJoeybabe25
      @MrJoeybabe25 9 років тому +3

      I thought that was strange. I wonder why they didn't continue it?

    • @savethetpc6406
      @savethetpc6406 9 років тому +1

      soulierinvestments
      I was actually wondering whether that was something that was introduced during the GSN rebroadcasts. How could they possibly have given a hint like that before a live show? And how would they have gotten that footage of Connery on the WML set?

    • @MrJoeybabe25
      @MrJoeybabe25 9 років тому +2

      SaveThe TPC I imagine they taped SC before the show while the panel was either not there or in the "green" room. Not a smart thing to do, I think. Part of my memory of watching WML, was, even if it was a not such a hot show that week, we waited for the MG.

    • @savethetpc6406
      @savethetpc6406 9 років тому +3

      Joe Postove
      I was just about to correct my previous post after rewatching the introductory segment with Sean Connery. The background wall behind him does *not* look like the WML set after all. I wonder where it did come from and when they taped it. Even though the panel had no Smart Phones back then, on which they could receive texts informing them immediately of the identity of the just advertised mystery guest, it still just feels a bit risky to me to have the MG announced before the panel is blindfolded and ready for him and with a few minutes of show left before that would happen. But maybe that's just me being extra cautious?

    • @MrJoeybabe25
      @MrJoeybabe25 9 років тому

      SaveThe TPC By "texts" do you mean telegrams? Is it true that the only time the mystery Guest was blindfolded was when Eleanor Roosevelt was on?