You Bet Your Life #54-05 High school financier; Boxing referee (Secret word 'Window', Oct 14, 1954)
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- Опубліковано 30 січ 2025
- COUPLE #1: Maggie Ritter / Louis Orick
COUPLE #2: Marie LeDoux / Fraser Felter, high school student financier
COUPLE #3: Abe Roth, boxing referee / Kathleen O'Flynn, maternity nurse
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Another Great show. Groucho didnt use teleprompters or scripts. He was just a Comic Genius! RIP Groucho.
I love this show! I could watch it for hours and hours. Thanks.
Mrs. Ritter’s beautiful smile reminds me of the actress Julia Robert’s’ smile. Natural beauties, both!
One of the things I have always dearly loved about Groucho is how transparent & honest his face was...you could always tell what he was feeling from his expressive face & little mannerisms.
Anytime he was keenly interested in what someone was saying, his head would tilt slightly & he'd lean towards them
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Mr. Tuxedo seems to fit the stereotype of a business man who behaves as though his marriage is on hold when he goes out of town to national conventions.
I love all these old shows... thank you!
I try not to get sentimental about this era being one of a classier society, populated by people who took more than a cursory interest in presenting themselves like ladies and gentleman -- there are dark elements in every time and place -- but watching these shows it gets hard to deny that that was actually reality during this era. Just look at and listen to the high schooler on this episode. Sure, there are gifted students in today's society, but there's just something about this era where you're not surprised to see him behaving like a well-composed, intelligent, mature man, even at his young age.
And, contrary to the image of the 50's being buttoned-down and boring, YBYL proves that people still enjoyed themselves.
mwoelfle I know what you mean..there were problems then, but it seems like people are so much less civilized and *just dont care what anything thinks* to the point where we are completely disconnected to one another.
+mwoelfle Very well said.
Very true and factual statement.
The guy with the After Six tuxedo company said it best when he said:
"Men are dressing up more today than they did before."
Today people look like slobs.
I agree with all of you.
They did dress up more, but they weren't terribly bright or well-read, were they? The questions are all so easy but they get the answers wrong so often.
Abe Roth actually played in a few movies as a referee: The Harder they fall; Here come Mr. Jordan and a couple of others. A couple of his decisions were contested towards the end of his career; either stopping some fights too soon or others not soon enough. Born in 1898, Abraham Roth left us in 1972. Merci pour le téléchargement. Une fois de plus, Julius me fait rire comme un fou!
Was Abe Roth related to Babe Ruth?
@@deziramson3451 Yes, a misread of last name on the birth certificate and going home with the wrong parents kept them from knowing each other, or, maybe not. Your choice.
Fraser Felter, community relations director at Brookside Hospital in San Pablo, Richmond area of Nor Cal, died aprox 82 years.
b.1937
Love this show, I am hooked. Very interesting contestants 😊
I’m watching (binging) on Groucho -- miss his form of comedy!, 💜
When Maggie smiled and touched her tongue to her upper teeth I melted....😮
I love your dimples, too
Geographical questions are easy while musical question are extremly hard.
I wasn't born at "Queen of Angels," but when I was a kid that was our "family hospital." I don't think it's there anymore, though! :(
Thank you.
(at 10:33) The Contour Chair-Lounge was first shown at the World Investors Show in Los Angeles in 1947. Quoting the Contour Chair-Lounge Inventor Marie Ledoux, the December 10, 1949, New Yorker Magazine states, "with the help of my medical knowledge and a St. Louis upholsterer friend, Mr. Joseph F. Laskowitz, I invented the Contour Chair to keep my husband comfortable." Marie LeDoux retired from the company in 1952
His humour is excellent.
Marie LeDoux was really foxy for an "older woman"!
Puts a smile on me
Neither men nor women dress up anymore. Pity. It’s so nice. The days when women wore hats.
I make it a point to dress everyday. There are also groups of people who aspire to dress well everyday. I would say the modesty of the clothing today is what is lacking in the masses.
Isn't there really only one best way to play this game? Start high and work your way down to the $60 question. The reason being that you don't want to cut your earnings in half with the hardest questions last. Am I right or what?
You're 100% right. It's amazing how few of the contestants figured this out. They should have been taking the biggest risk (the highest dollar value questions) when the potential loss was the lowest (before they earned any money yet).
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No
You are. I just gave an explanation in my recent post above.
@@daviddean9943 You do not understand math or betting.
Groucho was at his best in this show.
21:35 does Groucho the word say "Cay-pricorn" aloud here, as the couple is trying to figure it out?
Tropic of Capricorn!
+Artsy Tyger Thanks! I was wondering as it cut off too early.
That was my answer...and the only reason I knew its cause of that Seinfeld episode...But the video ended before the answer was given...So that is the answer Tropic of Capricorn?
Hi! I'm looking for Episode #5.4 aired 7 October 1954, featuring Chef Joe Milani, do you have any informations about that one by any chance? thanks!
The Philadelphia Athletics, as you can imagine, ended up in Oakland.
However, they were in Kansas City, Mo from '55 to '67 before Oakland
The couples almost always have bad strategy. Here the supposed bright student too. For the first bet, the couples are betting $50, so they should choose a hundred dollar question. That is two to one and all the others are less. Then it is so on. There are two reasons to change the strategy. If they think say the 90/100 dollar questions are too hard for them, they should start at 80 and go down.
If they advance and say get of to $370, they might want to stop, because in the next bet they will be betting $185 to win $70. Did Groucho ever have a gambler or mathematician on his show?
Feynman’s student was a contestant.
"Schlagerparade"
Butcher's-parade
Tuxedo is in Orange County, NY. it's on Rt.17
Groucho was actually not well educated. He did not even complete high school. He was, however, self educated and extremely well read and obviously highly intelligent.
If Groucho only knew in 2024 men can have babies and periods.....we've gone nutz.
High schoolers were more mature and ready to enter adulrhood.
A Dilettante Presumptuous Theorem: These shows are the best, but the largest city in Canada is not Montreal, it is Toronto.
1. Toronto Ontario 5,429,524
2 .Montreal Quebec 3,519,595
3 .Vancouver British Columbia 2,264,823
4 .Calgary Alberta 1,237,656
Toronto has always been the largest city in Canada.
Maybe not by population but by area.
Perhaps in 1954 he was correct?
somehow when i see such young men on the show i cant help working out how old they would have been at the outbreak of the Vietnam war... i wonder if he was drafted and if he returned ? Depressing i know
Well...if he was 17 when the show aired and could have been drafted at age 31 in 1968 and would have only been 36ish in 1973, so it's entirely possible.
@asking Americans I'm not seeing how my original comment revealed me as stupid. Looks to me like you need to lighten up, Francis.
21:48 Tropic of Capricorn
Is the guy at 7:55 John cusack? 🤣
No. I'm positieve that he wasn't even born yet!
Fraser 17 and going on 30.
It’s a bummer to wind up with 75 dollars as zero dollars automatically give a hundred dollars !
Can you imagine that kid today ? Hed be wearing sneakers, have long hair, tattoos and
be carrying his cell phone. Business ? Hell, no, hed be a socialist !
NORTH POLE???
At 1.59 did he say " I like to spread a little VERIDITION around here too....." If so it seems that somehow he got caught halfway between the word veridiction and erudition !!
Erudition. Means intelligent. Erudite.
@@SheriSoltes Erudition is having vast and profound knowledge, by ex. in one or more sciences. And yes, one must be intelligent to get there. And intelligent people are attracted by profound knowledge and, if lucky, get there.
"North Pole"? And that was almost sixty-two-and-a-half years ago as I write this. I'd like to be polite about it, but what an incredibly ignorant answer!
Especially since they were looking for the Southern line!
And they VOLUNTARILY picked geography as their subject?
15:35 of course u realixze the dayz are getting shorter
For those who think this show was cheap 50$ in 1954 is equivalent to 500$ today thanks to the rate of inflation. People did dress more civilized back then too no pj wearing in public for sure!
Groucho is a master.
GROUCHO HAD A LOT OF CLASS ALWAYS HAD A POLKA DOT BOWTIE ON
Maggie reminds me of Jennifer Garner.
....of Capricorn...
Frazier definitely got Marie
Grouch Marx-You Bet Your Life, WHY DO YOU CUT OFF SOME SCENES AND DON'T FINISH SOME OF THE EPISODES, "YOU CUT THEM OFF". ALSO, STOP CUTTING OFF THE COMMERCIALS, WE LOVE THEM.
Groucho was actually well educated and bright besides being the quickest wit in the west.
Actually, Groucho left school after the eighth grade. He was an avid reader and had a thirst for knowledge.
Much as I like Groucho, the way he constantly interrupts really drives me nuts.
My father was a huge Groucho fan back in the '50's, he imitated him in every way, including the useless and rude interruptions! All of us kinds had stuttering and stammering problems because of this and all of us had to seek speech therapy.
Obviously you dont get the show. His interuptions are the absolute beauty of it.
@@lakemaniac No. I get the show, it's just a platform for his comedy, not an actual game show. The fact that his comedy relies entirely upon interrupting people 50 times a minute is obnoxious. Doesn't mean he's not funny, it's just an annoying sort of funny.
But it's cool. You keep pretending you're a hyper intellectual and that your opinion and your opinion alone -- especially on a subjective subject like this -- is the only correct one. It doesn't make you an asshole in the slightest. Promise.
Yeah, he was unnecessarily rude in many ways.
@@DocFunkenstein Yeah, I get it, but I think we're having trouble because we're looking through multiple lenses. He's "the one, the only Groucho." The audience proclaims its devotion to this prospect and, imagining what "outside the box" thinking must have looked like back in the '50's, you can see his annoying-ness is part of the point. His entire comic persona was always built on interjection; being the gadfly was his magic. When his wit was moved to go, it just went. He's timeless because his mind was so wide-ranging it was able to adapt;. in the '20's and '30's, it was completely counter-cultural: iconoclastic, chaotic, abstract (think: his contemporary, Picasso). 25 years later, it found other estuaries. Sometimes he seems stodgy, staunchly old-world, his jokes relying on gender, body-size, ethnicity. At other times, he's ahead of his time (or at least party to the most socially-progressive thinking of his time). Then there's age, cussedness, fame, and..well, the arrogance that comes with it all: a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. I say (as I suspect you might): give him a break. If you want to really understand the 20th century, there's a couple-dozen people you'll have to look at especially close-up: one of them is Groucho Marx.
I used to love this show on reruns. Still good.
So many times the contestants seem to be put off by Groucho’s comments.
🍺 cheer's
8:18 she sounds 50 , looks about 40
0:52 she looks 41
9:08 17yrs old
Looks 35
Tropic of Capricorn, come on people
Grouchy was jealous you can see it
Mrs Ritter reminds me of Jennifer Garner.
capricorn
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North Pole!!!!????
This is the cheapest game show ever. They can when up to 2500-3000. But they have to split it. Who does that!!!
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Groucho was rude and annoying .
"Schlagerparade"
Zarock could you teach me german
Wir haben Sie das erste Mal gehört! :)
This is the cheapest game show ever. They can when up to 2500-3000. But they have to split it. Who does that!!!