Dorothy Kilgallen over the years looked better and better as she got older, and I would dare say was quite attractive at 51. When I was 8 years old watching this show I didn't think much of Arlene's looks, just because of the age difference; but looking at her now when I'm 10 years older than she was when this episode was broadcast, she's _extremely_ attractive in every way -- looks, figure, brains, vivaciousness, and a quick wit - even ribald at times. Martin Gabel picked a pistol when he came a'courtin' Arlene Francis.
I prefer the eps with Steve Allen and Tony Randall on the panel. Steve is so funny. I was a child when Art's daughter died. He always seemed so kind. I watched his show, Kids Say the Darndest Things, when new, and I was a child.
SIX months later, Grissom, White, and Chaffee, died tragically at Cape Kennedy. These GEMINI astronauts died inside their capsule interior as it caught fire and burned on January 27, 1967. A big tragic memory for this 11 year-old boy.
The first contestant interested me especially because of the details shared about her boss Alan Shepard and reference to his circling the earth on May 5, 1961, also memorable for me personally as I met my husband-to-be that day when we were teenagers. A question was asked about whether she had anything to do with the calculations for the flights, which brought to mind the fascinating, fairly recent movie Hidden Figures, which featured the group of ladies (unsung heroes) who served as human computers in those early days and included footage from that May 5 flight.
He WAS a regular panelist at the beginning of the show..then moved on and would come back periodically...simply pay attention...its been said dozens of times
After his daughter Diane fell to her death in 1969, Linkletter started his own campaign against illicit drug abuse. He can take credit with others for influencing the start of the Nixon Administration's "War on Drugs." In retrospect and with 45 years of hindsight and research, the "war on" for which Linkletter should have campaigned was mental illness. That is a campaign still in need today.
Exactly! It is NOT the war on "drugs" but rather it's an open awareness on "mental illness" because that is the ultimate and deciding factor, not the drugs. People need to be aware of the cause not the symptom, but it's too easy to attack the inanimate than accept responsibility that some humans have "flaws" and aren't perfect.
Exactly. Yet people still want to ban drugs and create this ridiculous "war on drugs." Focusing on a symptom not the cause never helps. Take away drugs, people will find other ways to "cope" with their mental illness. I have always hated that whole "war on drugs" thing because it also is an attempt to absolve parents of what they MIGHT, though not always, be doing to these kids that are causing them such extreme amounts of pain and trauma, OR the other more clinical forms of mental illness that folks are made fun of if they try to ask for help.
The first challenger was known affectionately as the "Den Mother" of the astronauts for the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions. From what I read, Lola Morrow left NASA in 1972, but still has an interest in the space program, albeit from a distance in Colorado.
My late father worked on those missions in Florida. I loved the astronauts and admired them immensely! Thank you for all you did to support them! 👏🥰🚀🚀🚀
I had nearly forgotten that Art's son, Jack Linkletter, had a growing career of his own. He was handsome and like his father seemed likable and talented. But he never reached the heights in show business that his father achieved and he apparently diverted more of his energies to business and philanthropic interests. He last appeared on screen in 1978 (other than archive footage). And father outlived son by ~2½ years, so it's not like he was living off of inheritance (although he was probably receiving some money through estate planning vehicles).
Art Linkletter was a very sharp businessman. On Larry King he told the story of how Walt Disney asked him to MC the opening ceremonies of one of the theme parks. (It may have been the one in Anaheim.) But, Disney couldn’t pay him. So Linkletter asked for the camera film concession in the park - the entire park. He made a fortune from that. If Jack inherited his father’s business acumen, I have no doubt he did well.
Extremely sad event of January 1967 ... over the years ... the space capsule "fire accident" turned into questions of "other than an accident." Gus Grissom was outspoken that NASA was nowhere near being able to put a man on the moon before 1970.
Two of the astronauts that the first guest mentioned that she worked for, Gus Grissom and Ed White, were killed about 18 months later in the Apollo 1 fire.
What's pretty cool is that "Kids Say the Darndest Things" is STILL going on today! In fact, it's just starting up again now. How is that for some longevity?
I looked up that strange thing Arlene said “ Bees you got bugs everybody do.” It was from "She Was Eighteen and a Half: A Memoir" by Albert J. Elias. Has anyone ever read that or is familiar with the quote?
Henry Morgan ... writing a children's book?? Henry would smoke on television, while on a panel show, was not funny in the slightest, could be rude, too.
For the benefit of anyone else not familiar with Chicagoland, Steve Allen (who said at 11:20 "In your neighborhood, sir, they race horses") was referring to the world-class racetrack called Arlington Park or "Arlington International Racecourse" located in Arlington Heights IL. I can't imagine how Kenneth Butler failed to notice it.
+Joe Postove Yes, and I believe it's been in a picture that was posted on the WML facebook page. The picture is of the stage and is from a far enough distance that the clock is visible. If I remember correctly it's high over the heads of the panel.
@@jvcomedy I always wondered why there wasn't a clock in the distance so the panel could see as well. John's constant staring at the clock just adds tension and sometimes it seems like the panel doesn't even pick up on his body language when he's trying to hurry them along.
It would probably be more accurate to say it began to change in 1979 when Sally Ride was selected to be part of the NASA astronaut program. But since Steve's question was whether the challenger's line applied "equally" to men and women, it would be a while longer before anything close to gender parity was achieved by the U.S. space program. However it should be noted that the more recent classes of new astronauts have been at or near 50-50.
I have long found it interesting how the music world is chockablock with songs that include the lyrics "sally ride" or "ride sally ride", including those that predate the astronaut's career considerably. "Mustang Sally" by Wilson Pickett and "Dance to the Music" by Sly and the Family Stone quickly come to mind, but there's also "Ride Sally Ride" by Lou Reed and "Sally Ride" by Janelle Monae. Pickett's song initially was a bit of an inside joke among friends. It was in reference to Della Reese's new Mustang and was originally "Mustang Mama". Mutual friend Aretha Franklin suggested changing it to Mustang Sally. It may have been influenced by a children's song "Little Sally Walker" which includes the lyrics "Rise Sally rise". Dr. Sally Ride certainly rose to heights where no U.S. woman had gone before.
Art Linkletter claimed not to be in movies, but he made a few. In "Champagne for Caesar" (1950) he plays Happy Hogan, a television host even more ebullient than his usual persona. It's a very funny film about a quiz show sponsored by soap manufacturer Vincent Price and a professor played by Ronald Colman who is winning too much money on the show. I think every WML addict would love it.
+Neil Midkiff Dorothy asked if he was a motion picture "star", If would have been misleading to give a "yes" to that question, just as Dorothy's prior appearances in movies didn't make her a motion picture star.
@@loissimmons6558 Thanks for the correction; of course you're right. I'm glad I made the mistake, though, if it leads others to seek out Champagne for Caesar -- an unjustly obscure film.
@@neilmidkiff And one that almost anticipates the quiz scandals of a few years later, as Vincent Price's character hires a woman to find out what Colman's character doesn't know so the show can devise a question to eliminate him.
Fans of the film will also enjoy this audio interview with Vincent Price and Art Linkletter, from a 1990 film festival: ua-cam.com/video/wHNQ7yM5HmA/v-deo.html
Great film! Ronald Colman, Celeste Holm and Vincent Price were terrific. Art Linkletter was annoying, but he was supposed to be. Seeing Colman continuously put him down was amusing.
When I was much younger, the moth balls in my area must have been especially fast working. In the Hudson River just south of the Bear Mountain Bridge that carries U.S. routes 6 and 202 across the river, there used to be something there known as the "moth ball fleet".
I remember the odor of mothballs in my Grandmother's closet and to a lesser extent my Mother's. I don't seem to smell them anymore these days. Is it the advances or changes in clothes that have made them less needed or am I wrong about that?
I sell vintage clothes and sometimes I will purchase a box of them that have been quite overcome with mothballs and I tell you, it is a very difficult smell to remove from the clothes. I personally would rather have a moth hole than that smell haha. But also i dont think moths are fond of polyester etc, so 40s-60s the fabrics used attracted more moths
Mothballs were made of camphor for a long time, then petroleum-based synthetic chemicals like naphthalene and the para-dichlorobenzene cited by the contestant became in common use. They sublimate: give off gases directly from the solid state. Wikipedia says that both these have a pungent, sickly-sweet odor. Moth larvae eat wool, mohair, and other animal fibers like fur; we dress in cotton and synthetic fibers to a great extent nowadays so don't have as much need for mothballs.
Linkletter's KIDS SAY THE DARNDEST THINGS was a nonfic bestseller for a couple of years in the 50s. It had illustrations by none other than Charles Schulz. I have often wondered whether Schulz's rise to fame as a cartoonist owed as much to his work for KIDS as it did for PEANUTS, in the sense that people who read KIDS may have become interested in checking out Schulz' strip.
I don't know about how much AL's book helped CS, but Peanuts began, I think in 1948 and was pretty well known by 1965. It was, I believe that same year that the first Peanuts TV special came out on Christmas.
Joe Postove You're right about A CB CHRISTMAS, but PEANUTS per se started in 1950. Linkletter's book came out in 1957 or so, a time when many people may not have been aware of PEANUTS. I'm thinking that the exposure from the Linkletter book boosted Schulz' profile.
Chris Barat The early Peanuts are really different from DC's later stuff. However, he never lost his style. It is a great testament that almost 15 years after his death hundreds of newspapers are still running his strip. He never authorized a replacement like so many other comics. What you see now, is Peanuts by Charles Schultz.
Dorothy mentioned that Bennett received an honorary doctorate from Washington & Jefferson College. Is she referring to the one in Washington, PA? (Close to Pittsburgh)
Bennett is so hung up on nepotism. Even when they're so short on time he has to ask people if they're related to some famous so and so. Why? Guess on their own merits, not if they're distantly related to someone famous. That's always bugged me.
Lilly Beans Bennett, himself related to Ginger Rogers, is familiar with who's related to who in showbiz....so why not ask about it if it helps to narrow it down?
@@davidsanderson5918 I know he is, he's related by marriage. I just find his particular focus on nepotism, dreary. It's a bit like Dorothy's focus on the blue book. Times haven't changed.
He used that line of questioning as a shortcut, just in case they DID have some sort of relationship -- because it would narrow down the possibilities of what they _might_ be doing as a line. That hasn't bothered me as much, although his name-dropping at times inferred that as a publisher he was in rarefied company and flaunted it.
I don't understand why people are given "honourary doctorate" degrees. What's that even for? I've heard of entertainers being given them from all over the place where they never even went to school. Is it a money thing as most are?
Sometimes, when they are given to wealthy individuals, and sometimes to donors or prospective donors. Other times they are designed to boost the profile of the school. I have never heard of Washington and Jefferson College but by giving Bennett a DHL they were mentioned in two consecutive weeks on national tv. Often there is a commencement speech given by one of the honorary degree recipients and that can bring renown to the university -- Steve Jobs at Stanford, George Marshall at Harvard, Alexander Solzhenitsyn at Harvard, Winston Churchill at Westminster College are probably the most famous. Father Hesburgh of Notre Dame I believe received the most, no scam there. A way of giving professional recognition sometimes. And often entertainers are given honorary degrees because they can bring some humor to the proceeding.
Art Linkletter sat on the board of Western Airlines during the late 70s and early 80s when I was hired as a flight attendant. All public-facing employees dreaded him. He'd devise little tests like ringing the call button just as the plane rotated off the runway and if a crew member didn't approach him within a few seconds, he wrote up the entire crew. Obviously management didn't expect you to attempt to answer a passenger call when the airplane was just a few feet off the ground but the entire crew would have to write a detailed explanation of the incident. Just a miserable man.
He was more and more generous with the card-flipping the longer the show was on the air it seems. Not that $50 was a ton o' money anyway -- especially when each panelist was getting what would be equivalent to $5,000 today, _per episode._ They might've stayed on a few years longer on CBS had they raised the stakes a little.
Hello, What’s My Line UA-cam channel. I read in one of the comments that Bennett gave Arlene the heart necklace. Please tell me that’s not true and that it was her lovely husband, Martin!
I have heard it said many times that it was a gift of her husband. You can't believe everything you read on here, with the biggest example being the phony conspiracy theory that Dorothy was murdered.
@@gailsirois7175 it is 100% false, with no evidence behind it at all. Those who say it is true refuse to offer any proof that would be admissible in court that casts any doubt whatsoever on the official cause of death. Dorothy's family has repeatedly declined opportunities to support this contention.
Mostly everyone was slim back then. I imagine they got more exercise. More people walked and took the bus probably too. We walked about 10 blocks to school. We played hopscotch, jump rope, tag you're it, climbed monkey bars and such. We watched a little T. V. Saturday morning cartoons. Sunday my mom let us watch Ed Sullivan show even though bedtime was 8 o'clock we got to stay up.
I remember Art Linkletter in “Art Linkletter’s House Party “ . Just thinking about Dorothy being only 5months from being murdered, she does look great here!
It's so irritating how Bennett has to aaaaaalways start off with these ridiculous comments asking if people are related to so-and-so to try and show off and take up time, even when John has very specifically said that time is short and they're in a rush. He can be such an ass. People complain about Dorothy hogging camera time, but Bennett is the queen of that.
+Joe Postove Joey, you should know better. You have the wrong Lola. That Lola frequented clubs in Oklahoma where they drink champagne and it tastes just like cherry cola ... c-o-l-a cola. This Lola frequents Connecticut, Cape Canaveral (FL) and Houston (TX). That Lola talked like a man. This Lola talks like a woman. For more information check with Ray Davies, formerly of The Kinks. From what I heard, he was quite "taken" with *that* Lola.
What the hell does that lady have on top of her head? The astronaut secretary,It is interesting that most female guests and the panel appear to be wearing the living room curtains
The bouffant was a mainstream hairstyle in the mid-to-late 18th century in western Europe. It was thought to be created for Marie Antoinette, as she had relatively thin hair and wanted to create the illusion of having very full hair. The modern bouffant is considered to have been invented by Raymond Bessone.[1] The hairstyle again became popular during the 1960s and early 1970s. Jacqueline Kennedy was the first First Lady to wear the bouffant.[ Hair on the top of the head was raised, using a comb being dragged back and forward to create the raised effect which used knots in the hair caused by the comb. The hairstyle was lightly combed over the top to give a neat look
Brigit Kelly Many thanks for your thorougly information! :) I remember the bouffant very well from the 60's, and must admit I didn't like it. It looked in a way too artificial, and didn't suit many either. This lady's hairdo was in particular all wrong. It made her face look more square and longer than it already was. The way her side hair was combed, made it worse. But that's my opinion. ;)
***** Yes, but even when I have to admit I wasn't very fond of the hair style of the 60s, Dorothy and Arlene would never look as bad as this lady with this particular hairdo. In my opinion, she deserved a better hairdresser for the occasion. ;)
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I love these show's!Such a golden age of television!!❤
Even the cameramen on this show were good. They always managed to capture the smiles of the panelists when they learned the contestant’s line.
I completely agree. Cameramen don't always receive the recognition they deserve. It's a tricky profession.
I just love Steve Allen. He ALWAYS makes me laugh out loud!! 👏🥰👏
Dorothy looked really good this night-her gown, her hair, her makeup. The way her gown fit looked so contemporary.
I know it's been said many times but Arlene is so beautiful and Dorothy looks especially lovely here!💞
Dorothy Kilgallen over the years looked better and better as she got older, and I would dare say was quite attractive at 51. When I was 8 years old watching this show I didn't think much of Arlene's looks, just because of the age difference; but looking at her now when I'm 10 years older than she was when this episode was broadcast, she's _extremely_ attractive in every way -- looks, figure, brains, vivaciousness, and a quick wit - even ribald at times. Martin Gabel picked a pistol when he came a'courtin' Arlene Francis.
I prefer the eps with Steve Allen and Tony Randall on the panel. Steve is so funny. I was a child when Art's daughter died. He always seemed so kind. I watched his show, Kids Say the Darndest Things, when new, and I was a child.
SIX months later, Grissom, White, and Chaffee, died tragically at Cape Kennedy. These GEMINI astronauts died inside their capsule interior as it caught fire and burned on January 27, 1967. A big tragic memory for this 11 year-old boy.
The first contestant interested me especially because of the details shared about her boss Alan Shepard and reference to his circling the earth on May 5, 1961, also memorable for me personally as I met my husband-to-be that day when we were teenagers. A question was asked about whether she had anything to do with the calculations for the flights, which brought to mind the fascinating, fairly recent movie Hidden Figures, which featured the group of ladies (unsung heroes) who served as human computers in those early days and included footage from that May 5 flight.
Art , one of my all time favorites - delightful
Art Linkletter ... a fascinating, well-liked entertainer.
My favorite panel. Too bad Steve never became a regular panelist.
He WAS a regular panelist at the beginning of the show..then moved on and would come back periodically...simply pay attention...its been said dozens of times
@@gailsirois7175
No, YOU pay attention and stop lecturing others! Pontificating windbag 🙄
Totally agree…I love when the 4 of them are on the show…Steve’s facial expressions are hysterical!
I loved him when he was a regular panelist back at the beginning but he's not even funny anymore. Not like he was anyway.
After his daughter Diane fell to her death in 1969, Linkletter started his own campaign against illicit drug abuse. He can take credit with others for influencing the start of the Nixon Administration's "War on Drugs." In retrospect and with 45 years of hindsight and research, the "war on" for which Linkletter should have campaigned was mental illness. That is a campaign still in need today.
Exactly! It is NOT the war on "drugs" but rather it's an open awareness on "mental illness" because that is the ultimate and deciding factor, not the drugs. People need to be aware of the cause not the symptom, but it's too easy to attack the inanimate than accept responsibility that some humans have "flaws" and aren't perfect.
Exactly. Yet people still want to ban drugs and create this ridiculous "war on drugs." Focusing on a symptom not the cause never helps. Take away drugs, people will find other ways to "cope" with their mental illness. I have always hated that whole "war on drugs" thing because it also is an attempt to absolve parents of what they MIGHT, though not always, be doing to these kids that are causing them such extreme amounts of pain and trauma, OR the other more clinical forms of mental illness that folks are made fun of if they try to ask for help.
I remember how her death shook up my parents as they and their friends realized that being "good parents" did not mean their kids were protected.
If they had a war on greed, there wouldn't be a drug problem.
@@keithhyttinen8275 A war on "greed" would be ridiculous and result in immense impoverishment.
The first challenger was known affectionately as the "Den Mother" of the astronauts for the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions. From what I read, Lola Morrow left NASA in 1972, but still has an interest in the space program, albeit from a distance in Colorado.
My late father worked on those missions in Florida. I loved the astronauts and admired them immensely! Thank you for all you did to support them! 👏🥰🚀🚀🚀
11:40 -- when Dorothy is funny, it is always a bonus for producers.
Very unusual hairdo that secretary had. She was quite poised and cordial; a great representative for the astronauts.
We have three hosts of the Tonight show on. Art and Arlene who guest hosted and Steve Allen who started it all!
@Jaxxon Immanuel For free? How?
I have vague memories of Art Linkletter's "House Party." Linkletter was almost as good at commercials as Arthur Godfrey and was at it for decades.
I also vaguely remember “House Party”.
Cerf always latches on to anything to do with the space program
Mr. Scanlon was from my hometown, Arlington Heights IL!!!
I had nearly forgotten that Art's son, Jack Linkletter, had a growing career of his own. He was handsome and like his father seemed likable and talented. But he never reached the heights in show business that his father achieved and he apparently diverted more of his energies to business and philanthropic interests. He last appeared on screen in 1978 (other than archive footage). And father outlived son by ~2½ years, so it's not like he was living off of inheritance (although he was probably receiving some money through estate planning vehicles).
Art Linkletter was a very sharp businessman. On Larry King he told the story of how Walt Disney asked him to MC the opening ceremonies of one of the theme parks. (It may have been the one in Anaheim.) But, Disney couldn’t pay him. So Linkletter asked for the camera film concession in the park - the entire park. He made a fortune from that. If Jack inherited his father’s business acumen, I have no doubt he did well.
The first contestant Lola Morrow mentioned Ed White and Gus Grissom. Both of them along with Roger Chaffee died as heroes serving their country.
Extremely sad event of January 1967 ... over the years ... the space capsule "fire accident" turned into questions of "other than an accident." Gus Grissom was outspoken that NASA was nowhere near being able to put a man on the moon before 1970.
Two of the astronauts that the first guest mentioned that she worked for, Gus Grissom and Ed White, were killed about 18 months later in the Apollo 1 fire.
Art Linkletter and Steve Allen were 2 of the nicest TV personalities of all time.
.. he's (unintentionally?) BLENDING Other Mystery Guests Togther Here,!..
🙂☺️😊😌😎👏👏👏
As Allan Sherman sang "Al n' Yetta, fans of Art Linkletta.... then they switched to 'What's My Line'." :)
What's pretty cool is that "Kids Say the Darndest Things" is STILL going on today! In fact, it's just starting up again now. How is that for some longevity?
I looked up that strange thing Arlene said “ Bees you got bugs everybody do.” It was from "She Was Eighteen and a Half: A Memoir" by Albert J. Elias. Has anyone ever read that or is familiar with the quote?
Henry Morgan wrote a children's book? I find that hard to believe.
Henry Morgan ... writing a children's book?? Henry would smoke on television, while on a panel show, was not funny in the slightest, could be rude, too.
I live in Arlington Heights, IL and we haven't had horses in a very long time.
For the benefit of anyone else not familiar with Chicagoland, Steve Allen (who said at 11:20 "In your neighborhood, sir, they race horses") was referring to the world-class racetrack called Arlington Park or "Arlington International Racecourse" located in Arlington Heights IL. I can't imagine how Kenneth Butler failed to notice it.
I took it to mean farms with horses, which is what AH was like many years ago. I've been to the track more times than I can count!
Is there a picture of that clock that John must have looked a couple of thousand times over the years?
+Joe Postove Yes, and I believe it's been in a picture that was posted on the WML facebook page. The picture is of the stage and is from a far enough distance that the clock is visible. If I remember correctly it's high over the heads of the panel.
@@jvcomedy I always wondered why there wasn't a clock in the distance so the panel could see as well. John's constant staring at the clock just adds tension and sometimes it seems like the panel doesn't even pick up on his body language when he's trying to hurry them along.
Yeah, even back then they were being rushed for time. The producers must of been pushing him to get more guests on. Kinda ruined it for me.
How did they manage to make it so easy, sure it was a lost guessing, yesterday Papers?
Again despite fast finds the last one could not finish :(
3:51 All that would change when Sally Ride went into space in 1983.
It would probably be more accurate to say it began to change in 1979 when Sally Ride was selected to be part of the NASA astronaut program. But since Steve's question was whether the challenger's line applied "equally" to men and women, it would be a while longer before anything close to gender parity was achieved by the U.S. space program. However it should be noted that the more recent classes of new astronauts have been at or near 50-50.
I have long found it interesting how the music world is chockablock with songs that include the lyrics "sally ride" or "ride sally ride", including those that predate the astronaut's career considerably. "Mustang Sally" by Wilson Pickett and "Dance to the Music" by Sly and the Family Stone quickly come to mind, but there's also "Ride Sally Ride" by Lou Reed and "Sally Ride" by Janelle Monae.
Pickett's song initially was a bit of an inside joke among friends. It was in reference to Della Reese's new Mustang and was originally "Mustang Mama". Mutual friend Aretha Franklin suggested changing it to Mustang Sally. It may have been influenced by a children's song "Little Sally Walker" which includes the lyrics "Rise Sally rise".
Dr. Sally Ride certainly rose to heights where no U.S. woman had gone before.
The secretary to the Project Mercury astronauts appeared on the March 18, 1962 episode.
Certain "animals" are always good for a laugh. Moths and fleas, for example, always good for yocks.
They were forward thinking to have the secretary as a guest.
Art Linkletter claimed not to be in movies, but he made a few. In "Champagne for Caesar" (1950) he plays Happy Hogan, a television host even more ebullient than his usual persona. It's a very funny film about a quiz show sponsored by soap manufacturer Vincent Price and a professor played by Ronald Colman who is winning too much money on the show. I think every WML addict would love it.
+Neil Midkiff
Dorothy asked if he was a motion picture "star", If would have been misleading to give a "yes" to that question, just as Dorothy's prior appearances in movies didn't make her a motion picture star.
@@loissimmons6558 Thanks for the correction; of course you're right. I'm glad I made the mistake, though, if it leads others to seek out Champagne for Caesar -- an unjustly obscure film.
@@neilmidkiff And one that almost anticipates the quiz scandals of a few years later, as Vincent Price's character hires a woman to find out what Colman's character doesn't know so the show can devise a question to eliminate him.
Fans of the film will also enjoy this audio interview with Vincent Price and Art Linkletter, from a 1990 film festival: ua-cam.com/video/wHNQ7yM5HmA/v-deo.html
Great film! Ronald Colman, Celeste Holm and Vincent Price were terrific. Art Linkletter was annoying, but he was supposed to be. Seeing Colman continuously put him down was amusing.
*_SECRETARY TO GEMINI ASTRONAUTS_*
*_MAKES MOTH BALLS_*
*_WINDOW WASHER_*
When I was much younger, the moth balls in my area must have been especially fast working. In the Hudson River just south of the Bear Mountain Bridge that carries U.S. routes 6 and 202 across the river, there used to be something there known as the "moth ball fleet".
RIP Lola 1927-2021
Art Linkletter was the Bob Barker of this time.
Not apparent at the time -- NOT the last but one of the last appearances of the "Varsity Team" of WML.
I remember the odor of mothballs in my Grandmother's closet and to a lesser extent my Mother's. I don't seem to smell them anymore these days. Is it the advances or changes in clothes that have made them less needed or am I wrong about that?
I sell vintage clothes and sometimes I will purchase a box of them that have been quite overcome with mothballs and I tell you, it is a very difficult smell to remove from the clothes. I personally would rather have a moth hole than that smell haha. But also i dont think moths are fond of polyester etc, so 40s-60s the fabrics used attracted more moths
Mothballs were made of camphor for a long time, then petroleum-based synthetic chemicals like naphthalene and the para-dichlorobenzene cited by the contestant became in common use. They sublimate: give off gases directly from the solid state. Wikipedia says that both these have a pungent, sickly-sweet odor. Moth larvae eat wool, mohair, and other animal fibers like fur; we dress in cotton and synthetic fibers to a great extent nowadays so don't have as much need for mothballs.
Linkletter's KIDS SAY THE DARNDEST THINGS was a nonfic bestseller for a couple of years in the 50s. It had illustrations by none other than Charles Schulz. I have often wondered whether Schulz's rise to fame as a cartoonist owed as much to his work for KIDS as it did for PEANUTS, in the sense that people who read KIDS may have become interested in checking out Schulz' strip.
I don't know about how much AL's book helped CS, but Peanuts began, I think in 1948 and was pretty well known by 1965. It was, I believe that same year that the first Peanuts TV special came out on Christmas.
Joe Postove
You're right about A CB CHRISTMAS, but PEANUTS per se started in 1950. Linkletter's book came out in 1957 or so, a time when many people may not have been aware of PEANUTS. I'm thinking that the exposure from the Linkletter book boosted Schulz' profile.
Chris Barat Perhaps so.
Chris Barat The early Peanuts are really different from DC's later stuff. However, he never lost his style. It is a great testament that almost 15 years after his death hundreds of newspapers are still running his strip. He never authorized a replacement like so many other comics. What you see now, is Peanuts by Charles Schultz.
Dorothy mentioned that Bennett received an honorary doctorate from Washington & Jefferson College. Is she referring to the one in Washington, PA? (Close to Pittsburgh)
Another double-up, as earlier that same night, the August 29 show was videotaped.
Bennett is so hung up on nepotism. Even when they're so short on time he has to ask people if they're related to some famous so and so. Why? Guess on their own merits, not if they're distantly related to someone famous. That's always bugged me.
Lilly Beans Bennett, himself related to Ginger Rogers, is familiar with who's related to who in showbiz....so why not ask about it if it helps to narrow it down?
@@davidsanderson5918 I know he is, he's related by marriage. I just find his particular focus on nepotism, dreary. It's a bit like Dorothy's focus on the blue book. Times haven't changed.
me too
A lot of things bother me about Bennett and this certainly is one of them.
He used that line of questioning as a shortcut, just in case they DID have some sort of relationship -- because it would narrow down the possibilities of what they _might_ be doing as a line. That hasn't bothered me as much, although his name-dropping at times inferred that as a publisher he was in rarefied company and flaunted it.
Nice to see Steve Allen but he did not have much to say.
There is a concerning number of people with an excess of 1000 comments on this channel.
By admission, the final challenger was a third story woman.
I don't understand why people are given "honourary doctorate" degrees. What's that even for? I've heard of entertainers being given them from all over the place where they never even went to school. Is it a money thing as most are?
Sometimes, when they are given to wealthy individuals, and sometimes to donors or prospective donors. Other times they are designed to boost the profile of the school. I have never heard of Washington and Jefferson College but by giving Bennett a DHL they were mentioned in two consecutive weeks on national tv. Often there is a commencement speech given by one of the honorary degree recipients and that can bring renown to the university -- Steve Jobs at Stanford, George Marshall at Harvard, Alexander Solzhenitsyn at Harvard, Winston Churchill at Westminster College are probably the most famous. Father Hesburgh of Notre Dame I believe received the most, no scam there. A way of giving professional recognition sometimes. And often entertainers are given honorary degrees because they can bring some humor to the proceeding.
The school does it for its own publicity. They are always looking for money.
I wonder if Art Linkletter was as nice a man in his private life as he seemed to be in public.
Art Linkletter sat on the board of Western Airlines during the late 70s and early 80s when I was hired as a flight attendant. All public-facing employees dreaded him. He'd devise little tests like ringing the call button just as the plane rotated off the runway and if a crew member didn't approach him within a few seconds, he wrote up the entire crew. Obviously management didn't expect you to attempt to answer a passenger call when the airplane was just a few feet off the ground but the entire crew would have to write a detailed explanation of the incident. Just a miserable man.
If not for Cerf I could actually fully enjoy this show, but he runs it for me
Agreed!
You have made 784 comments on this channel. Everyone has flaws.
did you mean *ruins, or "runs?" If "ruins" then you cannot spell properly!
In 2024 the use of mothballs is negligible.
Why does John Daly flip all the cards over after only a couple of questions directed to the first guest? I've never seen that happen so fast before.
Time pressure?
He was more and more generous with the card-flipping the longer the show was on the air it seems. Not that $50 was a ton o' money anyway -- especially when each panelist was getting what would be equivalent to $5,000 today, _per episode._ They might've stayed on a few years longer on CBS had they raised the stakes a little.
Steve Allen,who was on the panel at that time-only no longer with us hailed originally from Chicago-with the same holding true of Barbara Bain.
The second contestant looks exactly like Roberts Blossom.
Fixed - how do they get to the space program so quickly?
There are many Instances where panelists are given a clue either by signal or before hand : and I am not the only one that feels that way
Bennett closely followed the space program
Hello, What’s My Line UA-cam channel. I read in one of the comments that Bennett gave Arlene the heart necklace. Please tell me that’s not true and that it was her lovely husband, Martin!
I have heard it said many times that it was a gift of her husband. You can't believe everything you read on here, with the biggest example being the phony conspiracy theory that Dorothy was murdered.
It was Martin, not idiot cerf
@@preppysocks209 it is 100% true
@@gailsirois7175 it is 100% false, with no evidence behind it at all. Those who say it is true refuse to offer any proof that would be admissible in court that casts any doubt whatsoever on the official cause of death. Dorothy's family has repeatedly declined opportunities to support this contention.
Mostly everyone was slim back then. I imagine they got more exercise. More people walked and took the bus probably too. We walked about 10 blocks to school. We played hopscotch, jump rope, tag you're it, climbed monkey bars and such. We watched a little T. V. Saturday morning cartoons. Sunday my mom let us watch Ed Sullivan show even though bedtime was 8 o'clock we got to stay up.
Nobody staring blankly at screens all day believing all the nonsense on social media and government outlets
@@peternagy-im4be Good points.
WOW that last contestant didn't look very bright at all.
7:50 What was so funny?
***** They laughed because somebody started whistling when this contestant signed in.
They don’t even consider the women. Wow.
The more I see these reruns the less I like Bennett
I see. Have a great day y'all.
Art Linkletter by all accounts was a miserable tyrant and control freak.
You must have loved him 😂😂😂😂😂
Moth balls are NOT "helpful" to moths.
Art Linkletter lived to 97 y.o. and was married to the same gal for 75 years.
I remember Art Linkletter in “Art Linkletter’s House Party “ . Just thinking about Dorothy being only 5months from being murdered, she does look great here!
Why did Dorothy Kilgallen always wear gloves?
She didn’t always. I’m guessing they just went with her outfit, as some panelists/challengers wore hats, stoles or carried a handbag.
To hide the bruises from all her drunken falls.
It's so irritating how Bennett has to aaaaaalways start off with these ridiculous comments asking if people are related to so-and-so to try and show off and take up time, even when John has very specifically said that time is short and they're in a rush. He can be such an ass. People complain about Dorothy hogging camera time, but Bennett is the queen of that.
He's been dead for 50 years..why get upset?
@darkwood777 I don't think Bennett was like that at all. When he gets a "no" he just laughs. He always seems to be in good spirits.
they were both attention lovers - many people are
Bennett is harmless. And sweet.
I met Cerf once, and had a very nice conversation with him. He was extremely intelligent and a gracious gentleman.
Does the first contestant, the astronaut secretary have a little Christine Jorgensen thing going on?
+Joe Postove
Joey, you should know better. You have the wrong Lola. That Lola frequented clubs in Oklahoma where they drink champagne and it tastes just like cherry cola ... c-o-l-a cola. This Lola frequents Connecticut, Cape Canaveral (FL) and Houston (TX).
That Lola talked like a man. This Lola talks like a woman.
For more information check with Ray Davies, formerly of The Kinks. From what I heard, he was quite "taken" with *that* Lola.
What the hell does that lady have on top of her head? The astronaut secretary,It is interesting that most female guests and the panel appear to be wearing the living room curtains
SJ Bobkins That thing on top of her head is definetely not hair. It must be something from "A Hairdresser's Midsummer Nightmare".
SuperWinterborn It looks like a cimmaron bun.
The bouffant was a mainstream hairstyle in the mid-to-late 18th century in western Europe. It was thought to be created for Marie Antoinette, as she had relatively thin hair and wanted to create the illusion of having very full hair. The modern bouffant is considered to have been invented by Raymond Bessone.[1]
The hairstyle again became popular during the 1960s and early 1970s. Jacqueline Kennedy was the first First Lady to wear the bouffant.[
Hair on the top of the head was raised, using a comb being dragged back and forward to create the raised effect which used knots in the hair caused by the comb. The hairstyle was lightly combed over the top to give a neat look
Brigit Kelly Many thanks for your thorougly information! :) I remember the bouffant very well from the 60's, and must admit I didn't like it. It looked in a way too artificial, and didn't suit many either. This lady's hairdo was in particular all wrong. It made her face look more square and longer than it already was. The way her side hair was combed, made it worse. But that's my opinion. ;)
***** Yes, but even when I have to admit I wasn't very fond of the hair style of the 60s, Dorothy and Arlene would never look as bad as this lady with this particular hairdo. In my opinion, she deserved a better hairdresser for the occasion. ;)
Assum i love thes eppadods as if thay are still whith us friky.eny budy ellis .
^ Thank you very much for this.
Do you have a cold?
Quit over explaining John. He could be so long winded sometimes. It's only a half hour show John. Get on with it!
Well, there’s very little we can do about it now.
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