@@boognish999 she always new who was around and that's just not fair..I think she shouldn't have been allowed on the show...along with Bennett Cerf..because he knew too many people and people talk and they always knew the people in town. what fun is that??
Or she was about to know too much. After her last show she was headed for Texas to interview the Texas police about the shots coming from the overpass, at least that’s what I garnered from the articles I read. It’s so maddening that people think they can end other people’s lives! She was given something similar to the Marilyn Monroe cocktail. 😡
I read a quote from Mr. Curtis once. He said he was tired of looking at ''the same old face'' every morning after 11 years. Of course he was talking about his then-wife Janet Leigh. Very mean! He went on to marry a teenager and a few others. His last wife was 45 years younger than him! Tony Curtis was obsessed with young women.
This clip made me fall in love with him. Well, lust, obviously, but really swooning. Reading about him as a result, I’m saddened to learn that he was a bad father and not really a nice guy in general. His last wife was born fifteen years after this appearance and wouldn’t even give his children sentimental items after his death. But rewatching it now, he’s still irresistible.
Dorothy getting up at the end of the second segment and pretending to leave after either outsmarting herself or accidentally phrasing the last question wrong was her funniest moment on the show to date, at least in the episodes posted (i.e. all the known episodes extant).
@@robbob1234 he was a high-class smartypants , extremely intelligent. almost to a fault. he rubbed shoulders with all the elites of Hollywood. And Dorothy pissed off all the elites of Hollywood.
@@harpoon_bakery162 I don't think we will find anyone who disagrees that he was an incredibly intelligent man. The impression I got of him from listening to his post WML interviews is that he was also terribly insecure, which is a pity. I think the Bennett-Dorothy set up was brilliant! He could narrow it down enough for Dorothy to go in for the kill. They were both wonderful, intelligent people, but people nonetheless with human faults like the rest of us.
I just love how intelligent Dorothy is, she strikes me as someone who is usually the most intelligent person in the room and knows it. Bennett is also incredibly intelligent but I think Dorothy has him beat.
I'm thoroughly impressed with Janet Leigh! It's too bad she didn't return more often, especially after the movie career petered out. She would have been a welcomed addition to the post-DK years and the syndicated version. Dottie wouldn't think of cheating. She's too busy playing the game as best as she can. I guess I'm one of the few who is not at all annoyed by her stretching her incremental questions out.
She was too busy skiing with Bob and the girls in Sun Valley (they named a run after her), doing charity work, bringing up 2 girls, writing books, starring in The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Columbo, The Fog, Halloween H20, countless interviews regarding that shower scene, not to mention her weekly tennis matches with friends at her home at 1625 Summitridge Dr. :)
Because the mystery guest was revealed in "a paper in the Midwest" they decided not to play? Interesting. I understand Tony's concern -- but if anyone on the panel knew who it was due to that "paper in the Midwest", they would have recused themselves. Among the truly strange and curious -- & inexplicable -- incidents in the 17 years of WML.
@@igkoigko9950 Dorothy was totally adorable ! .. You don't have to have classic movie star or Barbie Doll looks to be extremely attractive .. And Dorothy, with her gorgeous smile and charm was exactly that.
@@wayne_twentyfive I understand your point but it’s reassuring to know that had we all been single and “of age” 70 years ago and Janet (or Arlene) and Dorothy walked into the converted speakeasy we wouldn’t be competing for the same woman. Or, in contemporary terms, I’d swipe right for Janet, Arlene or a not classic beauty other than Dorothy whose preternaturally waif isn’t, alcoholic physique and parlor, and chinlessness don’t appeal to me.
i like the episodes when dorothy kilgallen, arlene francis and benette cerf are together in the panel...when one of them is missing from the panel i kinda don't like it...i like steve allen at times too...
Bill Talbert was 26 years old at the time of this appearance. He had type 1 diabetes, yet he lived to age 80-- he died on February 28, 1999. A lot of people with type 1 diabetes don't live to an old age because of complications.
Out of all the Hollywood golder era, her story was by far the best. She was offered an opportunity and nailed it every time. She was very special, especially since it's 2020 and we've got her entire career at our fingertips.
Whatever did that newspaper think to reveal beforehand that he would be a mystery guest? It is a shame and the shame is on the newspaper editor who leaked this.
Fred Allen's "Treadmill to Oblivion " , about his radio years, I've read that FIVE times - the first time I had it finished in two days! I couldn't put it down (hardly)! But his other book, "Much Ado About Me" is NOT in good shape, anyway, that's my opinion...
That was one surprisingly eminent episode. They're all great, but this one had me instantly with its undeliberate fun and many hillarious moments. And my oh my, Janet Leigh. Whooh. Stunning. It has been a privilege watching this. Spontanious laughs all the way through. 10/10
As they don their masks for the second mystery guest, Bennett jokingly asks Janet if she's ever been married before. I couldn't hear her reply but she'd actually been twice before marrying Tony; one marriage was annulled (she was 15) and then she married again when she was 18 (divorced within 3 years).
Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1961), the closest unabridged I have to the time of this show, in the pronunciation key for "reproduce" has "sometimes rep-" with a short "e" in the first syllable. So it's not the most common, but used often enough to make it into the dictionary as an alternate.
At 24:08, Fred Allen jokes, referring to the Davis Cup, "I think it's wonderful after all of the flying saucers we have the cup here back in this country." He was probably referring to the film "The War of the Worlds" (1953), which was loosely based on an alien invasion story by H.G. Wells. The year after this episode aired, 1956, there was another flying saucer film, "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers." As a boy of six at the time, I found this film terrifying.
@kiranjit rana "Great actor" ? I suggest you go and watch The Black Shield of Falworth. He was awful. Janet Leigh made watching that, for me, less than a total waste of time.
While Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh had starred in several films; one of my very favorite of them was The Vikings(1958) which also had Kirk Douglas, and Earnest Borgnine; who'd already won both Golden Globes and Academy awards for Best Actor in 1956 for Marty. Something about The Vikings just hit all the right beats for me as a kid in the 60s/70s. The teenage me would also appreciate their other film for 1958: The Perfect Furlough, for other reasons. 😎
As so many have commented in other episodes or even possibly this very one, that "walk of shame" thing is a huge time-waster at best and occasionally cringeworthy, as when one of the female panelists wants to look at the labels inside someone's clothing or feel his biceps. Ditto for the four "wild guesses" as to the profession. WML was greatly improved when they finally got rid of the walk of shame and wild guesses and got right to the question and answer portion of the proceedings for any given contestant, and shaking hands on the way out afterwards was actually fine with me -- it went on while the audience was applauding and was sometimes actually interesting in some ways -- seeing how each panelist reacted to the contestant, knowing what they did for a living, with smiles, etc., or when a contestant made a product such as a "nosewarmer" for use in winter and presented each panelist with one on the way out. Ditto for changing the procedure for questioning Mystery Guests, one question at a time for each panelist in rotation, flipping a card if the answer was in the negative. Guessing a celebrity's identity was somehow different that guessing someone's profession and the rotation thing helped make the Mystery Guest segment more fun.
Great parting joke by Allen! And after seeing about 50 of WMLs, it's noticeable that in the quick pan of the panel after the reveal of the MG, the current comic nearly always doesn't relax and smile or laugh with the other three panelists. It reminds one that comics in general seem a rather tense lot, or maybe sad.
Fred Allen had only a little over 1 year to live from this airdate. He was only 61 when he had a heart attack,. Saturday night, Mar. 17, 1956 in Manhattan, NYC. Steve Allen (no relation) took his place on Sunday evening, barely 24 hours after Fred's death on the previous night.
I think this is the point at which Bennett started to put some coloring in his hair, which is why he looks younger in later episodes than he did in the earlier ones.
This episode illustrates that Gil Fates was not entirely correct in his book observations. Fred Allen DID too solve more than one occupation as he did here. Fates was right that when dtermined game player Dorothy did funny things, it was a big bonus -- as tonight in her reaction to getting right up to identifying the object in the living room and then missing it. LOLOF
I would say this: As pertaining to Mr Daly attributing to the attractiveness of a couple in himself per se, in and of himself, as being germane to the condition of that as a couple, he would in fact detract to that said quality, which being wholly determinable by another, not necessarily oneself, one would, with my permission, disagree, with reservation, conditionally upon beauty being in the eye of the beholder, although not necessarily in the beholder’s own eye, that being in and of himself.
I take it as a consolation that cute moment where Tony Curtis says "Hi!" i can replay that clip just for that moment :) Disappointing maybe a little bit but still memorable within that 'disappointment' effect
james joyce It's the second time so far that it's happened (watching them chronologically) and I think it's an excellent move by the programme makers to try and deter the press from letting out the secret. By printing things before the live broadcast the reward for the dastardly culprit is the wrath of an annoyed television audience by having their favourite weekly programme ruined. I'm surprised it didn't nip it in the bud the first time! The first time they did it was with Van Johnson.
this episode had a Girdle model on, and I have also seen one with a seller of men's corsets, would there happen to be a master list of Lines, that someone could check for other girdle or corset related things.?
I estimate there were over a dozen guests-maybe over 20-involved in corsetry / underthings over the years, almost half of them men (sellers, designers, manufacturers). A list of such episodes would be desirable. In one of them Arlene Francis said she didn't wear a girdle. (A bit awkward for DK!)
Carol V - True dat. I never liked that bleach blonde look that hit in the 50s. Only Marilyn Monroe and a few others could pull it off. Janet just looked mismatched.
I don't get it.. how a piano is not mechanically operated? It's pretty much making sound by pressing keys that will move hammers that hit the strings, what vibrates.. its all mechanics...
It's John's 18th wedding anniversary but gets divorced 4 years later in 1959. He remarries a year after his divorce in 1960 and remains married to her for 31 years until his death in 1991.
Yeah and he went through the whole divorce and picking up with Warren seamlessly. I guess they had been cheating on the side, but the cast just waltzed in the new wife after knowing John's previous wife for nearly 20 years. That is sad to me.
In my mind Janet Leigh was a cool blonde and Jamie Lee Curtis’ mom, but in this show, her warmth and vibrancy shows through. I feel like I got to know her a bit.
![What's My Line? - Janet Leigh (Apr 4, 1954) [CORRECTED]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/h8h9aCc8vqs/mqdefault.jpg)
I swear to God! I have watched dozens and dozens of these videos, and that friggin Dorothy gets at least 80% of the guests! She is awesome!!
John Stucko, I am with you, man. Kilgallen was amazing.
She is smart as hell is someone feeding her the answers 😂
You should listen to Bennett Cerfs take on Dorothy. She took the game seriously and wanted to win everytime lol
Dorothy also knew who was in town (New York) and promoting current projects.
@@boognish999 she always new who was around and that's just not fair..I think she shouldn't have been allowed on the show...along with Bennett Cerf..because he knew too many people and people talk and they always knew the people in town. what fun is that??
My dad -- Lee Vines -- was the announcer on this show.
must be a thill for you ,, did you spend much time with him,,
I bet he had stories to tell 🙂
Yeah who cares? Stop trying to live through your dad.
@@vitalyjohnson3514 I wish you could see me laughing at your stupidity.
@@jimvinespresents...8463 it is healthy to live your own life. Hollywood children, go figure. :-p
Ms. Janet Leigh! 😍😍 Not only was she stunningly beautiful,but brilliant and classy.
Not only was she smart, but finished a degree at night school while signed to MGM in the early days. :)
She deserved better than Tony Curtis, as much as he was an Adonis.
Her face has masculine features in some camera angles.
Her teeth were not attractive
She was all stunning with her teeth and everything
Becoming quite addicted to this show!
@Camille. Show is comforting and calming
I think you're a little late though.
Dorothy was so insanely good at this...hate that we lost her so early on. Rest easy, sweet angel.
She was murdered because she was too smart.
Big controversy about her death. There are some interesting videos on UA-cam about it.
@@MsAppassionata because she knew too much perhaps.
Or she was about to know too much. After her last show she was headed for Texas to interview the Texas police about the shots coming from the overpass, at least that’s what I garnered from the articles I read. It’s so maddening that people think they can end other people’s lives! She was given something similar to the Marilyn Monroe cocktail. 😡
@@CarinaPiersaymeh... Always a conspiracy
Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh; one of the most beautiful couples in the history of cinema!
And they gave birth to Jamie Lee Curtis.
#FAIL
I read a quote from Mr. Curtis once. He said he was tired of looking at ''the same old face'' every morning after 11 years. Of course he was talking about his then-wife Janet Leigh. Very mean! He went on to marry a teenager and a few others. His last wife was 45 years younger than him! Tony Curtis was obsessed with young women.
Was this after Debbie Reynolds?
inurtrash LOL
Dorothy was so smart.
Craig I don't think so.
@@vitalyjohnson3514
She was. She just overplayed her hand at the end.
Dorothy's brilliance never ceases to amaze me.
Wow, Tony Curtis is breathtaking in the thumbnail.
And damn, he looks just as good in the actual segment. It wasn’t just a flattering angle.
What a shame his appearance was cut short.
This clip made me fall in love with him. Well, lust, obviously, but really swooning. Reading about him as a result, I’m saddened to learn that he was a bad father and not really a nice guy in general. His last wife was born fifteen years after this appearance and wouldn’t even give his children sentimental items after his death. But rewatching it now, he’s still irresistible.
@kiranjit rana He was a horrible father, and I’m sure there were enough sentimental items that the widow and each child could have had some to keep.
Dorothy getting up at the end of the second segment and pretending to leave after either outsmarting herself or accidentally phrasing the last question wrong was her funniest moment on the show to date, at least in the episodes posted (i.e. all the known episodes extant).
Lois Simmons
She up for it by naiking Bill Talbot!
It was certainly her most exasperated moment. She had a brilliant flash of inspiration and then stepped in it.
She has a nasty habit of saying ‘is it something other than x’ and it’s inevitably ‘x’ lol
@@williambryant6175 Isn't that the truth! I can't count the number of times she's done that. She was a gem.
Dorothy PLAYED the piano, hence her reaction.
I never realized Janet Leigh was so darn pretty! Never her saw her this young. Her personality is so cute as well. Gotta love her.
If the Flintstones did What's my Line , they would be Stoney Curtis and Granite Leigh ..
Dorothy is just amazing RIP
Everyone here is Deceased And deserves an RIP
Curtis looks like a star from 100 miles away!
+What's My Line? Dorothy Kilgallen simply owned What's My Line. She was well read, well informed and I'm convinced did research before each episode.
telephotousa The smartest one on the panel.
@@craigsmith157 No, cerf was
@@harpoon_bakery162 I think you meant smarmiest? ;)
@@robbob1234 he was a high-class smartypants , extremely intelligent. almost to a fault. he rubbed shoulders with all the elites of Hollywood. And Dorothy pissed off all the elites of Hollywood.
@@harpoon_bakery162 I don't think we will find anyone who disagrees that he was an incredibly intelligent man. The impression I got of him from listening to his post WML interviews is that he was also terribly insecure, which is a pity. I think the Bennett-Dorothy set up was brilliant! He could narrow it down enough for Dorothy to go in for the kill. They were both wonderful, intelligent people, but people nonetheless with human faults like the rest of us.
Janet Leigh was a great panelist.
She was!
I just love how intelligent Dorothy is, she strikes me as someone who is usually the most intelligent person in the room and knows it. Bennett is also incredibly intelligent but I think Dorothy has him beat.
I'm thoroughly impressed with Janet Leigh! It's too bad she didn't return more often, especially after the movie career petered out. She would have been a welcomed addition to the post-DK years and the syndicated version.
Dottie wouldn't think of cheating. She's too busy playing the game as best as she can. I guess I'm one of the few who is not at all annoyed by her stretching her incremental questions out.
She was a great guest star on Columbo in the 70s
@@pearlshifer1776 Yes "The Forgotten Lady" which was one of her and Peter Faulk's favourite episodes. A bit like life imitating art.
She was too busy skiing with Bob and the girls in Sun Valley (they named a run after her), doing charity work, bringing up 2 girls, writing books, starring in The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Columbo, The Fog, Halloween H20, countless interviews regarding that shower scene, not to mention her weekly tennis matches with friends at her home at 1625 Summitridge Dr. :)
@@pearlshifer1776 she was murdered right after President Kennedy was murdered!!
@@fraserthomson5766 Dorothy was murdered right after President Kennedy!!
Tony Curtis was one of the most handsome men on earth! ❤
I LOVE THIS CHANNEL.
Someone has to.
Because the mystery guest was revealed in "a paper in the Midwest" they decided not to play? Interesting. I understand Tony's concern -- but if anyone on the panel knew who it was due to that "paper in the Midwest", they would have recused themselves. Among the truly strange and curious -- & inexplicable -- incidents in the 17 years of WML.
Yeah, he prob thought so much of himself!
Even Dorothy, who worked in the industry, was pretty unlikely to just read some random paper in the Midwest on a Sunday. Very odd.
What a ridiculous reason Tony Curtis gave for not playing. I think he was afraid of something being revealed if he was questioned
Photo op to market self?
kiranjit rana Why are you showing off your ring?
Dorothy and Janet Leigh are adorable ladies.
Wonderful, absolutely wonderful
“Adorable ladies.” Both are ladies, but only Janet is adorable.
Yes,the diction is cristal clear.very nice on the ears.
@@igkoigko9950 Dorothy was totally adorable ! .. You don't have to have classic movie star or Barbie Doll looks to be extremely attractive .. And Dorothy, with her gorgeous smile and charm was exactly that.
@@wayne_twentyfive I understand your point but it’s reassuring to know that had we all been single and “of age” 70 years ago and Janet (or Arlene) and Dorothy walked into the converted speakeasy we wouldn’t be competing for the same woman. Or, in contemporary terms, I’d swipe right for Janet, Arlene or a not classic beauty other than Dorothy whose preternaturally waif isn’t, alcoholic physique and parlor, and chinlessness don’t appeal to me.
Wow. Janet Leigh looked so young and beautiful!
Tony curtis is absolutely gorgeous..so so good looking
And kept his good looks all his life..
Also a very kind man. I met him once and the best celebrity meeting I ever had.
Dorothy and Bennett were my two favorite panelists. ❤
i like the episodes when dorothy kilgallen, arlene francis and benette cerf are together in the panel...when one of them is missing from the panel i kinda don't like it...i like steve allen at times too...
Bill Talbert was 26 years old at the time of this appearance. He had type 1 diabetes, yet he lived to age 80-- he died on February 28, 1999. A lot of people with type 1 diabetes don't live to an old age because of complications.
He was handsome as a movie star.
He was 36.
Nor should they!
Always had a Crush on Janet Growing up, and watching her Movies etc, May she RIP & is Sadly missed by all of her Fans etc.
Out of all the Hollywood golder era, her story was by far the best. She was offered an opportunity and nailed it every time. She was very special, especially since it's 2020 and we've got her entire career at our fingertips.
Smart,intelligent show.very nice quick snappy banter you don't see anymore.
Tony And Janet Were A Beautiful Couple Too Bad It Didn't Work Out, But They Did Give Us The Wonderful Blessings That Is Jamie Lee Curtis 🙏💞😁💯
Unfortunately some people thought Dorothy was too smart. 😔
J Edgar mabee?
Loved how Janet delights in the show
such a shame tony only made an appearance it would have been so cool to see janet try and guess
Whatever did that newspaper think to reveal beforehand that he would be a mystery guest? It is a shame and the shame is on the newspaper editor who leaked this.
They should do this show in today's time...
THERE ARE NO CELEBRITIES TODAY, THEY ALL SUCK, SO WHO WOULD THEY GET, GEORGE CLOONEY?
But keep it in black and white
There aren't any interesting lines any more. Machines do the work now.
Language spoken was more articulate then.
No real celebrities would show up. The stars of today think they are too good to do game shows. We would end up with Kardashians and Tik Tok stars.
Fred Allen was a very unique looking fellow - I've never seen him before and he had a very interesting face.
Jamie Lee Curtis is such a mix of best of both of her parents!
I’d say that Dakota Johnson is a younger “gosh, she looks just like the child of her parents!” actress.
No. She was not as good looking as the parents but pretty cute younger.
Fred Allen: Have you read my book? Hahaha
"Have you read my book?"
brilliant deadpan delivery.
Also,Janet Leigh's eye rolling & utmost sincerity as a panelist was so adorable.
Dorothy certainly is an amazing with incredible detective skills showing that she was an amazing journalist. RIp
Fred Allen was very funny in this episode.!
Fred Allen's "Treadmill to Oblivion " , about his radio years, I've read that FIVE times - the first time I had it finished in two days! I couldn't put it down (hardly)! But his other book, "Much Ado About Me" is NOT in good shape, anyway, that's my opinion...
@@bobbyfrancis8957 Considering that he died before finishing "Much Ado", it's hardly surprising that it seems less polished than "Treadmill".
Allen is the turd in the toilet bowl. Get over yourself.
When Fred asked the guest "Have you read my book?," you could see Janet Leigh cracking up.
I still can't understand why that mean guy stabbed her in the shower.
He was a psycho
His mother made him do it.
It would've been too messy to do it in the hall.
Funnnny ;}
Norman didn't do it, he was in NY, auditioning for a play. It was his stand-in. That's a true story
That was one surprisingly eminent episode. They're all great, but this one had me instantly with its undeliberate fun and many hillarious moments.
And my oh my, Janet Leigh. Whooh. Stunning.
It has been a privilege watching this. Spontanious laughs all the way through. 10/10
What a great comment. I agree 100%
As they don their masks for the second mystery guest, Bennett jokingly asks Janet if she's ever been married before. I couldn't hear her reply but she'd actually been twice before marrying Tony; one marriage was annulled (she was 15) and then she married again when she was 18 (divorced within 3 years).
And of course, the marriage to Tony also did not last.
What they might have done was bring Tony Curtis straight back out as the mystery guest.
Back in the days of pure style and glamour
17:45 "Rep-produce" I always enjoy when Bennett pronounces words in a quirky way :)
Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1961), the closest unabridged I have to the time of this show, in the pronunciation key for "reproduce" has "sometimes rep-" with a short "e" in the first syllable. So it's not the most common, but used often enough to make it into the dictionary as an alternate.
Ooh he's gorgeous!
Who? Curtís? Yes, indeed. Just stunning.
At 24:08, Fred Allen jokes, referring to the Davis Cup, "I think it's wonderful after all of the flying saucers we have the cup here back in this country." He was probably referring to the film "The War of the Worlds" (1953), which was loosely based on an alien invasion story by H.G. Wells. The year after this episode aired, 1956, there was another flying saucer film, "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers." As a boy of six at the time, I found this film terrifying.
Dorothy was very smart!
just4mygrl, I agree! Her intelligence is amazing and charming.
Wow . my first tennis racket had Billy Talbots name on it and I loved that racket . It was a beautifully manufactured racket .
That Janet was so beautiful, you can see why Tony fell in love with her 😍❤.
But then started cheating
I think Janet Leigh was a class above Tony Curtis in many respects
@kiranjit rana "Great actor" ? I suggest you go and watch The Black Shield of Falworth. He was awful. Janet Leigh made watching that, for me, less than a total waste of time.
@kiranjit rana We get it! You love Tony. AND asterisks! 🙄
@@bethe192 You are obviously ignorant of what constitutes an "asterisk"
While Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh had starred in several films; one of my very favorite of them was The Vikings(1958) which also had Kirk Douglas, and Earnest Borgnine; who'd already won both Golden Globes and Academy awards for Best Actor in 1956 for Marty. Something about The Vikings just hit all the right beats for me as a kid in the 60s/70s. The teenage me would also appreciate their other film for 1958: The Perfect Furlough, for other reasons. 😎
I agree, and loved both movies, which I saw at the drive-in movie with my family.
The back story to the movie THE VIKINGS being made is most fascinating.
It took several years of research and prop making.
MARTY is definity one of the best movies ever made !! My husband would watch it over and over........and I would be right there watching with him.
As so many have commented in other episodes or even possibly this very one, that "walk of shame" thing is a huge time-waster at best and occasionally cringeworthy, as when one of the female panelists wants to look at the labels inside someone's clothing or feel his biceps. Ditto for the four "wild guesses" as to the profession. WML was greatly improved when they finally got rid of the walk of shame and wild guesses and got right to the question and answer portion of the proceedings for any given contestant, and shaking hands on the way out afterwards was actually fine with me -- it went on while the audience was applauding and was sometimes actually interesting in some ways -- seeing how each panelist reacted to the contestant, knowing what they did for a living, with smiles, etc., or when a contestant made a product such as a "nosewarmer" for use in winter and presented each panelist with one on the way out. Ditto for changing the procedure for questioning Mystery Guests, one question at a time for each panelist in rotation, flipping a card if the answer was in the negative. Guessing a celebrity's identity was somehow different that guessing someone's profession and the rotation thing helped make the Mystery Guest segment more fun.
Love watching these so much. But, it's so sad that that the vast majority of the panel and guests have passed. Great stars unlike so many today.
This show was close to my birthday Feb 1955
I believe this was made in
1956. They refer to the Olympics that were held
In Melbourne Australia in that yesr.
Watching chronologically I think that's only the second time I've seen the take off your masks for the mystery guest because a newspaper spoiled it.
I can’t believe how they didn’t figure out that it was a piano mid way through. Of course it was Dorothy who guessed it.
people back then spoke so proper with clear pronounced words....
People were judged more by the content of their character than their skin color prior to Martin Luther king Jr. and Affirmative Action.
@@20alphabet oh bless your ignorant heart
Kilgallen must read every newspaper to figure it was Bill Talbert. Great Job!
Tony Curtis! I love him!
I did too, but cannot believe how he aged so atrociously.
Well he was married 6 times. Married to Janet Leigh from 1951-1962.
Great parting joke by Allen! And after seeing about 50 of WMLs, it's noticeable that in the quick pan of the panel after the reveal of the MG, the current comic nearly always doesn't relax and smile or laugh with the other three panelists. It reminds one that comics in general seem a rather tense lot, or maybe sad.
Agree.
Fred Allen for absolute certain. Groucho or Jonathan Winters always had a twinkle in their eye.
The two players that Bill Talbert mentioned who won the Davis Cup (Tony Trabert (86) and Vic Seixas (93)) are both still alive in 2017.
They are still both alive today. 87 and 94.
Still alive today. 90 and 97!
Dorothy the greatest
That reminds me...I need to have my piano tuned again! :)
Tony Curtis......Awesomely adorable!
Fred Allen had only a little over 1 year to live from this airdate. He was only 61 when he had a heart attack,. Saturday night, Mar. 17, 1956 in Manhattan, NYC. Steve Allen (no relation) took his place on Sunday evening, barely 24 hours after Fred's death on the previous night.
Janet Leigh was a real beauty. Wow!
Her daughter was not as beautiful.
I think this is the point at which Bennett started to put some coloring in his hair, which is why he looks younger in later episodes than he did in the earlier ones.
I liked his gray-haired look from the early 1950s.
😊 Precious Memories Sweetheart's Blessing's. 🌟🦋🍑🦄💜
Love, love, love Janet Leigh!!!
August 2024.....I'm so glad I found these on UA-cam! Jaimie Lee Curtis parents!!!!! WOW!!!! Tony was so handsome!
Tony❤❤❤
Dorothy,Dorothy,Dorothy.....I think she was a genius...Not only on this show....Brilliant lady.
class,class, class. how i wish i grew up this era.
Bennett of all people should know better than to judge a book by its cover!
Janet Leigh travelling on the train wow
I'm so hooked on this.
One of the funniest episodes.
Agree!
This episode illustrates that Gil Fates was not entirely correct in his book observations. Fred Allen DID too solve more than one occupation as he did here. Fates was right that when dtermined game player Dorothy did funny things, it was a big bonus -- as tonight in her reaction to getting right up to identifying the object in the living room and then missing it. LOLOF
Janet was so pretty. And what a treat seeing her as a panelist
watching this in 2020
Yup!
2 weeks in a row a guest from ft lauderdale
“ is it something other than a piano?”
“No”
Guess I phrased that question wrong.
Some mystery guests wanted to fool the panel and others wanted to be identified. Talbert looked thrilled to be identified by name.
I would say this: As pertaining to Mr Daly attributing to the attractiveness of a couple in himself per se, in and of himself, as being germane to the condition of that as a couple, he would in fact detract to that said quality, which being wholly determinable by another, not necessarily oneself, one would, with my permission, disagree, with reservation, conditionally upon beauty being in the eye of the beholder, although not necessarily in the beholder’s own eye, that being in and of himself.
Groo Vin8tor : Exactly, John. Hahaha!
Groo Vin8tor - What? Did you have John as your mentor? Cool
Hahahaha….hahaha (what old people say instead of lol)
probably the most disappointing moment in Mystery Guest history
I take it as a consolation that cute moment where Tony Curtis says "Hi!" i can replay that clip just for that moment :) Disappointing maybe a little bit but still memorable within that 'disappointment' effect
yea, really weird too.
It certainly was. I was looking forward to Tony...
I know ......I was like WHAT?Tony has a thick NYC accent.
james joyce It's the second time so far that it's happened (watching them chronologically) and I think it's an excellent move by the programme makers to try and deter the press from letting out the secret. By printing things before the live broadcast the reward for the dastardly culprit is the wrath of an annoyed television audience by having their favourite weekly programme ruined. I'm surprised it didn't nip it in the bud the first time!
The first time they did it was with Van Johnson.
Janet Leigh is adorable.
God in heaven, why didn't they have Janet Leigh on more often?
I don't know. Wny don't you ask Him?
Can’t stand watching her and her big eyes
My mother and my father were both nominated for Oscars in different categories, "I just won an Oscar."
Jamie Lee Curtis 2023
this episode had a Girdle model on, and I have also seen one with a seller of men's corsets, would there happen to be a master list of Lines, that someone could check for other girdle or corset related things.?
I estimate there were over a dozen guests-maybe over 20-involved in corsetry / underthings over the years, almost half of them men (sellers, designers, manufacturers). A list of such episodes would be desirable. In one of them Arlene Francis said she didn't wear a girdle. (A bit awkward for DK!)
The master list is the Dictionary of Occupational Titles” published by the Dept of Labor
Both episodes with Janet Leigh had a guest involved with girdles (girdle tester was the guest in the episode where Leigh was the mystery guest).
my mother had such a crush on him in his younger days
If I was a panelist and Tony Curtis was a mystery guest, I would ask him to repeat, "Yonder lies the castle of my fodder."
Which is a line he has stated he never said. It has been misquoted.
Tony also played The Boston Strangler on n the movie from around 1968. Bet Bennet knew the guest panelist was Tony
Janet Leigh is eyebrow goals.
With her skin, I bet she would've been prettier with her natural dark hair.
Carol V - True dat. I never liked that bleach blonde look that hit in the 50s. Only Marilyn Monroe and a few others could pull it off. Janet just looked mismatched.
And so are you.
@@XXthekingofyouXX yeah kim novac for example
Rowr! Hiss! Claws in, kiity!
I don't get it.. how a piano is not mechanically operated? It's pretty much making sound by pressing keys that will move hammers that hit the strings, what vibrates.. its all mechanics...
It's John's 18th wedding anniversary but gets divorced 4 years later in 1959. He remarries a year after his divorce in 1960 and remains married to her for 31 years until his death in 1991.
Yeah and he went through the whole divorce and picking up with Warren seamlessly. I guess they had been cheating on the side, but the cast just waltzed in the new wife after knowing John's previous wife for nearly 20 years. That is sad to me.
I know and he looks a bit old already, probably very tired of his then wife haha!
And he had four sons named John!
Janet Leigh - last time I saw someone so beautiful it was Jeanne Crain, and that was many shows ago.
She looks stunning here! In a few years she plays Marion Crane in Psycho
Damn! Was Tony Curtis ever actually a guest on the show? I was looking forward to how he'd fool Janet!
In my mind Janet Leigh was a cool blonde and Jamie Lee Curtis’ mom, but in this show, her warmth and vibrancy shows through. I feel like I got to know her a bit.
Anthony Perkins appeared on the panel several times. It would have been great if he could be on the panel at the same time as Janet Leigh.