What's My Line? - Jose Ferrer; Betty White [panel] (Jun 26, 1955)
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- MYSTERY GUEST: Jose Ferrer (theater and film actor, best known for his portrayal of Cyrano de Bergerac)
PANEL: Dorothy Kilgallen, Fred Allen, Betty White, Bennett Cerf
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RIP Betty White. The world will miss your beauty and humor. 💔
Betty White did make a subtle, funny and saucy remark about not keeping the young lady who got married on the show too long, implying that she undoubtedly had "other things" to do later that evening! A Sue-Ann Nivens-like remark!
Betty has always had a very naughty side to her sense of humor! :)
love Betty-and loved her as Sue Ann!
How true
I have to say I LOVE Dorothy's quiet "Not my home" when John mentions the alligators being bred for housepets.
I heard that. Mine either.
What are you talking about? I saw the show. I never heard any alligators mentioned
@@kristabrewer9363 then you weren't paying close enough attention
@@kristabrewer9363 The exchange about alligators starts when Bennett introduces John at 1:49. Dorothy's comment is at 2:17. The whole exchange is in reference to a guest on the previous week's show.
@@kristabrewer9363 He's talking about when John mentions alligators being found in homes as pets and Dorothy says "Not my home."
Jose Ferrer was always so personable and a consummate gentleman. He did a great job of portraying villains who were quite out of character for him.
I have a notion to second that emotion !!
The Puerto Ricans always add a touch of class to any production they appear in. Jose and Rita Moreno to name two.
That's 1955 and here it is 2015 and Betty White has survived all these years.
+James Morgan Quite a profound thing.
2019
It's 2020 now and she's still going
She's not just still alive, but still razor-sharp.
2021 and just celebrated another birthday!
WoW Jose Ferrer my all time favorite actor. He own "Cyrano de Bergerac" for life. What an actor !
I'm still in shock to hear of Betty White's passing just a few hours ago. I can't stop watching, teary-eyed, these old clips of Betty in her youth, she was so funny and beautiful. What a horrible way to leave 2021. R.I.P beautiful lady.
Me too--makes me very sad
Fred Allen - what a brilliant ad lib comic. Probably the best who ever worked sans cigar.
+MarcBrewer Sorry, I found him a little annoying and he liked to hear himself talk IMO.
+MarcBrewer I fully agree with you, Fred Allen was a brilliant ad lib comic. Too bad Brooke here can't see that. I always found Bennett Cerf very annoying, and Fred Allen always makes me laugh with his delightful comments and one-liners.
***** Just to get your goat I always found Steve Allen the same .Took forever to get a line out and liked to hear himself talk. Overrated. I know many liked him though. Oh, and another Groucho Marx. Not that funny.Obnoxious. Not too bad for me I have an excellent sense of humor and I like many comics.
+Brooke Hanley Please give the name of a comic who does not like to hear himself talk (besides the obvious exclusion of Harpo & comics from the silent era)
Between Fred Allen and Bennett Cerf, John Daly must have gotten quite familiar with the decor of the ceiling.
It's sweet how Betty bites her lip at 1:20 just like she did all those years later in The Golden Girls. A person's little idiosynchrasies don't change much over a lifetime.
Holy Underwear, Batman ! This is the first TV show or movie from the 50's that I've seen where Jose Ferrer doesn't wear his toupee ! Sadly, panelist Fred Allen would pass away suddenly of a stroke on the streets of NYC the following March. He was a true wit and one of my favorite comedic performers. THANK YOU so much for sharing this cool video !! :-)
It was actually a heart attack
Was just thinking of Fred and how I wish he had been on WML longer.
@@ltrain4479 He suffered from years of hypertension, which there was little treatment for at the time. I read it was a stroke. But of course, I may have been misinformed & it could have been a heart attack. Long term hypertension can put a terrible strain on the heart too.
@@jerrylee8261 I totally agree ! He was my favorite WML panelist ! He left us much too soon. His was not a caustic wit and he was beloved by all. Known for being a sweet, gentle & caring soul. And a devout Catholic. He was very generous with people he knew were down & out. Bless his heart.... :-)
Betty White - so glamorous.
This programme is like from a golden age. They’re all so classy and civilized.
When Betty White passed away at age 99, she looked like she was 75. She was sharp & funny until the end. The reruns will live forever.
And we are all thankful we will have her on film forever.
Plastic surgery.
Thank God she didn’t destroy her beauty with cosmetic surgery. She aged naturally,
@@stephaniezimbalist3757 White had loads of plastic surgery.
Betty was and is still such a beautiful woman!
Sexy.
You speak the truth, Kemo Sabe !!
She was 98 last month, and she had NEVER changed her looks!
Not anymore. She just passed away today at the age of 99.
Jose Farrer was charming! strange that no one heard Dorothy guess him correctly the first time, even the audience didn't applaud until she guessed him a second time
5:50 - Fred Allen: "Alcatraz is humanity on the rocks." - Wow. You can hear the audience taking a gasp.
What a 'nail-on-the-head' comment from Fred--Succinct--'Word'!
Hotel Alcatraz, in 1955 offered stunning Golden Gate Sunsets, and bars in every room.... most of the panel would approve. 😂😉
Truth sometimes makes people nervous.2022
Wow, Miguel Ferrer really, really looks like his dad.
R.I.P.
Yeah, I saw that yesterday : sad. He was in a lot of tv stuff and got to portray varied characters. I play his mom's music often; I love her voice. R.I.P.
I've been a regular watcher of "NCIS: Los Angeles" for some time and was shocked to see Miguel Ferrer's emaciated appearance when the current season premiered in the Fall of 2016. He also was speaking in a sort of garbled way that made him hard to understand. So I wondered if he were not seriously ill -- it really wasn't until his death that it was disclosed he'd died from throat cancer. In fact, it had been said previously that fans of the show had started the rumor that he was ill. So when the news of his death was announced, I was not really surprised or shocked, only to hear it. And yes, he really resembled his father -- if you didn't know Rosemary Clooney was his mother, you'd never have guessed because he didn't resemble her at all. Good actor. I'll miss him.
MIguel was a scene-stealer on Twin Peaks. I'm also a big fan of his mother, Rosie. I don't know too much about his father, Jose, except for Cerano. And I really don't like his cousin George.
@@Bigbadwhitecracker try The Caine Mutiny (1954) he portray a supporting character but he steals the movie at the end.
I'm so happy Jose mentioned June Allyson she really was a favorite of mine. She should have been much more famous
Had a crush on June as a teen. Had some crushes on members of the same sex, too.😊
All the older guests get a kick out of Fred Allen in particular - they lived with him for years on the radio.
Right on ! You know your stuff ! He was one of radio's biggest stars but by the mid-50s his heydey was over and he had to make a living mostly as a panelist & author. One of my all time favorite comedic performers !
In those days, we laughed at just about anything.
Sometimes I want to go back in time so badly, - it actually hurts.
I like how he indicated that the Federal Reserve wasn't apart of the government. Everyone thinks it is.
The Federal Reserve System is part of the government. It is the central bank of the United States. It was established by an act of Congress. The seven members of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. On its website, it talks about agreements it has with "other government agencies."
John Daly acted like a professional clock watcher, eyeballs checking out the clock on the wall every 30 seconds.
Live TV....he has people counting it down
Thank You for showing this.
Amen to that !! :-)
all these years and Betty is still cute as hell
she's not THAT cute. You might wanna look up the word hell
@@kristabrewer9363 she is very cute! she always was.
1. I would have loved to hear Dorothy and Betty harmonize My Funny Valentine!
and 2. I thought it was hilarious when Betty ended with, "Come on home, Arlene, all is forgiven."
Betty and Arlene was very much alike😊
Crikey! I know that Betty White was in show business for a while before The Golden Girls (which was the first I saw of her--I am a child of the 80s) but holy cow I have never seen her looking so young as this. She was a rare jewel and is sadly missed by many.
I'm constantly surprised how many Americans don't have a distinction between "jail" and "prison" and use the terms interchangeably. The panel did some of that tonight -- asking the contestant questions with the word "jail" in them after it had been established he was associated with San Quentin Prison. They're both places of incarceration, but not the same thing.
My understanding, without looking it up, is that a jail is where they hold someone awaiting trial and a prison is where one goes after conviction and sentencing. The general public isn't always fussy about the precision of those terms. The distinction between ships and boats is another one that is often blurred.
because, we Americans dont care where the prisoner is kept, as long as they keep him somewhere.
could be the trunk of 1956 chevy in a backyard in Togo.
prison, jail penitentiary, the big house, slammer, up the river, guest of the state, makng license plates.
we really dont care.
In the places I have lived, both Nevada and Idaho, we think of "jail" as being local--either city or county holding pens for short term incarcerations, and prison suggesting state of federal incarceration, with penitentiary more likely to imply a federal institution. However, the distinctions are still rather loose.
They are basically the same but even when used synonymously, most know that jail is short term and local while prison is long term and either state or federal.
Jail is a blanket term, but we all know the distinction
Spent her wedding evening at the What's My Line theater, eh? How romantic. In a similar vein, Jose Ferrer was married and divorced 4 times..including from his "lovely" current bride, Rosemary Clooney!
I'm so glad to see the accolades for Betty White in the comments. At the same time, it's surprising not to see any reference to her portrayal of Elka Ostrovsky on Hot in Cleveland from 2010 to 2015. That was one of the best characters she ever played.
I swear to God they've got an audience plant for laughing. The man who exuberantly laughs so loudly and unabashedly throughout this video especially when Fred is joking around. I swear I've heard that same laugh many times since I've started watching all these videos.
I always wanted to see a photo of 'the laughing man'. I guess I'll never will, darn it. I imagine he's a fat man in his 50's ?
It's kinda irritating to me that the producers think they have to resort to what is almost canned laughter which in their minds brightens the show. I think it's insulting to the tv audience and not respectful of their intellect.
In today's tv audience, there is no intellect which should be respected.
@@jerrylee8261 Lucille Ball used a professional laugher. Not on "I Love Lucy," which was funny, but later on.
@@akrenwinkle Have read that Desi Arnaz originated the canned laughter so I would guess I Love Lucy is where that awful habit started. Canned laughter or false "live audience" laughter both are degrading and superficial and insulting and certainly do not make unfunny lines funny.
@@jerrylee8261 I got curious about it and looked who invented it. I was led to the Laff Box, invented by a CBS engineer at the time of "I Love Lucy" but no credit is given to Desi.
Jose Ferrer was a brilliant actor and a brilliant man. He obtained his Master's degree at Princeton at an early age. He was a gifted actor and director.
Yet another lack of a distinction -- Miss Kilgallen determined that "greenbacks" or paper money were the product involved and then asked the contestant if she works in "any mint". Mints have nothing to do with currency (paper money) -- mints only make coins. In fact, coins are said to be minted, whereas currency is said to be printed. Betty White had the same lack of distinction when she said if you had anything to do with the printing of money you'd work in a mint. No, you wouldn't.
By the way I believe Arlene not Bennett asked Rosemary Clooney if she was married to Toulouse-Lautrec.
Betty Was The Cutest Thing Ever!! So Hilarious And I Loved Her Dimples!!
What a day for the last contestant! Married and on TV on the same day☺️ Am I correct in remembering that this show was filmed and aired on Sundays?
The show aired live on Sundays at 10:30 Eastern time. Lucky for us, episodes were filmed on kinescope and most have survived so we can enjoy them.
The movie Cyrano made me have a huge crush on Jose Ferrer
There was a prior show where the guest had something to do with money and Fred Allen asked the exact same questions without knowing the "product". Such as "is this a product that if a woman had would make her more attractive to the opposite sex" and "if a woman had enough of this on her when she went out, would you be able to smell it".
The lady money counter for Brinks
Truly one of the very few actors I would have very
much like to have met.
Someone commenting on WML, having learned that I am from the NYC area and was alive during most of the WML episodes, asked me a while ago if I knew any of the challengers. As far as I knew, the answer was no.
Then I realized as I watched this episode that I might have a direct connection to the last challenger. On the morning of this episode, she married someone whose last name was Alimanestianu. Outside of Romania, that isn't going to be a particularly common name (and fortunately I still remembered how to spell it). I knew that Joan wasn't likely to be the mother of the people I knew. They were a couple of years older than me, and I was 2½ years old when this episode aired. But she could have been a step-mother or some other relative.
Looking into it, I was correct. Joan Carpenter married Calin Alimanestianu on 6/26/55. He was the brother of the father of at least two children (a daughter and a son) who went to the same private junior-senior high school that I did.
Calin came to the United States in 1953 and became a naturalized citizen in 1961. He worked in the hotel industry, mostly in New York City and vicinity, but also in Chicago early in his career and in Florida at the end of his career. He was married in 1948, and divorced in 1953. Joan was his second wife. They were only married for two years, but she would have been an aunt to the people I knew during that time. After Calin divorced Joan, he married twice more, both of those marriages also ending in divorce. He only fathered one child, a daughter, apparently by his fourth wife.
His brother Mihai (the father of my schoolmates) met a tragic end. He was aboard UTA Flight 772 from Brazzaville to Paris with a stopover at N'Djamena in Chad on September 19, 1989. He was one of 156 passengers and 14 crew members who were aboard when a bomb placed in the forward cargo hold by Libyan terrorists exploded. There were no survivors.
Lois Simmons Great Memory!
Lois Simmons Thank you for this information. My regular guests were always my favorite part of WML.
Thanks for this important information 👍
john is taking some deserved heat from cerf for the "alligators are found in the home" answer the previous week, and a bit of a lame explanation that the guy "sold baby alligators to kids", in arizona of all places... he even struggled with the "indigenous" question about alligators in arizona. oh well, he's usually got it under control.
For years, there was an urban legend in NYC (and perhaps other places as well) about the sewer system being full of full grown alligators. The reason was all the people who brought home the baby ones as pets and then when the gators got too big, flushed them down the toilet (lest they henceforth be known as "Lefty"). Of course, they usually were brought back from Florida, not Arizona, but the idea is the same.
@@loissimmons6558 horrible to the animals -- it's distressing to know they were raised for pets and even more distressing that people didn't anticipate the alligators would grow
John should not have flipped card at 13:17, as Fred couched his question as a negative.
Dick Wilson These unfair Nos John gave to Fred Allen has become something a passion of yours, hasn't it? ;)
I didn't plan on it, but I guess I've developed an ear for them.
Dick Wilson I appreciate the comments, sincerely. :)
Thanks. I appreciate all that you do.
Fred certainly asked a lot of questions as a negative and John credited him wrong on occasion. Fred actually asked two in a row to this contestant with the first being "you don't work for the government" and he wasn't charged with a no and then he asked "you don't wash old money" and he wasn't charged with a no, but I think what got him in this instance was after asking those two negatives he said I thought you might have a money laundromat and since he didn't say that in a negative I think that's what John gave him the "no" answer on. Because he wasn't given a no to the two negatives and then said he thought she might have a money laundromat John replied "you get a no for that". It's kind of a stretch, but in this case I think that's what got him. But you're right.......in general Fred has asked a lot of questions as a negative and it confounds John at times.
Jose’ was delightful ❤
Betty White!!🥰
A mambo instructor?!!! We NEED more of them to smooth out the stupid shit noise we're hearing in 2020! Mambo away!
On the first season of “Leave It To Beaver” called “Captain Jack” Wally and Beaver order a baby alligator through the mail from a magazine. It arrived at the post office in a shoe box with holes in it. I thought this couldn’t be true, who would sell them as pets especially to children, but maybe someone did until they realized what a dangerous thing it proved to be. 😮
Babies weren't dangerous, kept in aquarium 😊
My hubby is a former parole officer in Dallas
josa ferra was so good as the attorney in the cane mutiny made is the 1950,s, good actor.
I really liked him as Cyrano. I saw it as a teen and was impressed.
The first guest didn’t shake Betty’s hand. He acknowledged her as he went to his seat.
MiketheYung God
Please look again. Betty White never offered her hand. After shaking Bennett's hand, he looked at Betty, there was no offer, he moved on. Contrast to Dorothy's hand that was offered before the contestant finished shaking Fred's hand. Very strange behavior from Betty White based upon my image of her over many years. Out of character...Why???
Oops
I was reading an older mystery (Nero Wolfe or Miss Silver). In it, a man introduces himself and sticks out his hand. The woman looks disgusted and says, "Ladies do not shake hands." Perhaps Miss White split the difference-- she did not offer her hand, but shook any hand offered to her.
70 years ago women had the prerogative of choosing to shake hands😊
Damm Betty White was a dish in her younger years!
Betty was beautiful her entire life😊
Parole and rehabilitation - two words guaranteed to bring joy to those inside prison, and fear, dread, and disgust to those outside.
Parole Boards sure make a lot of mistakes don’t they
Speak for yourself. The ultimate goal of the prison system is rehabilitation, or should be. The current obsession with everlasting punishment is symptomatic with Mich thst is wrong in this country.
@@Yowza78 It’s very hard for most to get completely out of the system once you get yourself in. Persecution continues for a person and their families for at least a decade after the sentence is served and fines are paid.
@@dinahbrown902They do the best they can!😊
Dorothy looks dynamite here.
Fred being given more lines here for the 2nd contestant. He asked the same line of questions months back with the lady who counted money. It kind of takes the fun out of it knowing that the producers gave him and Steve Allen questions to ask.
Your statement is false😅
I can't believe that no one on the panel didnt congratulate the newlywed. 🙁
Oh my darling Clementine 😍 ❤️
Betty did😊
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back then they said Girl and nobody cried.
98 years old and Betty White has NEVER changed her looks from that day to this!
She is gone now
federal reserve not part of Government?
No
The Federal Reserve lady doesn't have a "product". She burns unwanted money. She provides a service.
agree
@@emmabradford137 ....unless the "product" is ASHES
Dorothy Kilgallen and Betty White sang a duet of "Careless Valentine"?
My Funny Valentine
@@randysills4418 It's a wonderful song.
Although this is about 20 years before she played the part, I keep expecting Betty White to come out with some catty remark à la Sue Ann Nivens from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"!
+519DJW Such a wonderful actress and she really made her TV acting debut on the later side of her life. She did act in plays on the stage earlier on.
Actually she was the star of her own TV show when this show aired so she was starring in TV in the 50's.
I really don't know why but it's so shocking to watch Betty White in 1955 and in 2020
Why? Don't you realise that people age as the years go on? Haven't you? That's life.
@@brucemarsico6 I know but its the fact that the world has changed so much since then its hard to imagine someone like Betty White came from the 20's
@@depressedhomo9330 well dang, I'd say she's an inspiration
Majority of audience were from the great depression 😮
My grandmother doesn't do the mamba
Let me guess. Know it all Bennett Surf will guess the mystery guest right off. Yup. Party pooper. Someone should have told Bennett that the show would be much more fun if he didn't spend so much time researching celebrity whereabouts in the daily newspapers before every show.
Amen
All the panelist did!😊
While I enjoy these shows, I miss the cast.
Dorothy Kilgallen
On the last Sunday in June (and first summer Sunday), the Dodgers were blanked by the Braves in Milwaukee. Bob Buhl pitched a 5-hit shutout. Russ Meyer matched zeroes with him until two outs in the 5th inning when he gave up a double to shortstop Johnny Logan. They intentionally walked third baseman Eddie Mathews and took their chances with right fielder Hank Aaron. However, they didn’t take any further chances with Meyer who had allowed 8 base runners up to this point and had been living on the edge. Ed Roebuck came in and induced Aaron to hit into an inning ending force play.
Roebuck didn’t do as well in the 6th inning, but an error by Pee Wee Reese didn’t help matters. The run that catcher Del Crandall singled in was unearned.
The Dodgers batted for Roebuck in the top of the 8th and still trailed 1-0. Jim Hughes came in to pitch and the Braves upped their lead. Buhl, one of the weakest hitters in the history of baseball, stroked a one-out single. (One year he had 70 at bats and not one base hit among them. His lifetime batting average was .089 and he struck out 45% of the time.)
Hughes struck out center fielder Billy Bruton, but Logan kept the inning alive with a single. That put the Dodgers in the unenviable position of pitching to Mathews with two men on base. Even with Aaron hitting behind him, they had walked him three times that day, twice intentionally. It was one time too few. Mathews hit a three run homer and the Braves had a comfortable cushion to bring into the 9th.
Buhl had an easy inning and the Braves won two out of three in the series. Throughout his career, he had a reputation as being particularly effective against the Dodgers.
The week started much better for the Dodgers. After another Monday travel day, they found themselves in the sunshine at Wrigley Field. Trying to gain ground, surely the second place Cubs would do better at home than they did in Brooklyn. In fact, they lost all three games of the series.
On the first day of summer, “The Boys of Summer” opened the scoring in the 2nd when Roy Campanella led off with a double, Sandy Amoros followed with a triple and Gil Hodges launched a sacrifice fly. But that’s all they would score through the regulation nine innings. Shortstop Ernie Banks provided most of the offense for the Cubs against Don Newcombe. He led off the fifth with a triple and scored when first baseman Dee Fondy singled. Then he homered in the seventh.
Cubs starting pitcher Warren Hacker continued to match Newcombe through the 10th. But in the 11th, Dodger bats woke up. Campanella got things started again with a leadoff double, his fourth hit of the game. Amoros drove in the go ahead run with a single. With two outs, Carl Furillo singled. Hal Jeffcoat came in to keep the Cubs close. Spoiling their strategy, Newcombe provided his own cushion with a two run double, his second two base hit of the day. An error by Banks prolonged the inning. A wild pitch allowed Newk to score. After a walk to Reese, Jim Davis was waived in from the bullpen. Duke Snider greeted him with a single to drive in the fifth and final run of the inning.
After a leadoff walk in the bottom half of the inning, Newcombe set down the Cubs on two strikeouts and a pop up to clinch the 7-2 victory. The big righthander was now 12-1 on the year.
Wednesday’s game was another tight contest that twice saw the Dodgers score a run and the Cubs come back to tie. The Dodgers got on board in the 1st when Reese doubled with one out and Snider singled him home. The Cubs manufactured a run in the fourth when center fielder Lloyd Merriman walked, second baseman Gene Baker bunted him to second and Banks continued to vex Dodger pitching with a two out RBI single.
The Dodgers got the run back the next inning when Rube Walker homered. The Cubs then threatened in the bottom of the sixth when singles by Baker and Banks put two men on. Manager Walt Alston called upon Hughes to relieve Meyer and get out of the jam. He retired power hitting left fielder Hank Sauer to end the inning.
But Hughes wasn’t able to protect the slim lead in the seventh. With one out, Fondy doubled. With two outs, Jim King batted for Cubs starter Bob Rush. King singled in the tying run.
Once again, the Dodgers came back in the following inning. It wasn’t pretty but it was the deciding run. Jeffcoat came in once again and Reese greeted him with a single. Snider was called on to bunt and not only did he lay down a good one, he reached base on Jeffcoat’s error while Reese hustled all the way to third. Hodges grounded one back to Jeffcoat and when he threw to second to get the force on Snider, Reese alertly scampered home with the winning run.
In the bottom of the eighth, Banks reached base on his third hit of the day. Roebuck was brought in to hold the lead and he did it in fine fashion, retiring all five batters he faced. Banks never got past first and the Dodgers had a 3-2 win.
In Thursday’s contest, the Dodgers finally held Banks hitless. But the Cubs led in this game after 6 innings. Once again, the Dodgers struck first on Jackie Robinson’s 2nd inning single and Furillo’s triple. The Cubs answered back in their half of the inning on singles by Sauer, third baseman Randy Jackson and catcher Clyde McCullough.
In the fourth, Hodges was walked by Cubs starter Sam Jones. After Robinson forced him at second, Jones’s errant pickoff throw allowed Robinson to motor all the way to third. Furillo had his second RBI of the day with a single.
The Cubs took the lead in a game for the first time in this series. With two outs in the bottom of the 5th, Jones helped his own cause with a single. Dodgers starter Clem Labine uncorked a wild pitch to move Jones into scoring position. Merriman’s double retied the score and Baker’s single broke the deadlock. Jackson’s solo homer in the 6th padded the lead.
But it wasn’t enough. In the 7th, recent acquisition Bob Borkowski, giving Snider a day off in center field, had a leadoff single. With one out, Newcombe batted for Labine and was hit by a pitch. Carl Erskine ran for Newk. Jim Gilliam grounded to Fondy, but all hands were safe when Jones covering first dropped his throw for another error. Reese singled in two runs to tie the score again and went to second on the throw to the plate. Amoros was walked intentionally to reload the bases. Hodges singled home two more runs to retake the lead.
The Dodgers brought in Karl Spooner in the bottom of the seventh. This game gave Brooklyn fans hope that the Spooner they saw at the end of the 1954 season was back. He held the Cubs hitless in the final three innings, allowing only one harmless walk and struck out seven of the ten batters he faced. The Dodgers tacked on one more run in the ninth on Furillo’s third RBI of the game, a sacrifice fly, and Labine was credited with the 7-4 victory even though he wasn’t particularly effective. It raised his record to 6-0.
Once again the Dodgers traveled up highway 41 to Milwaukee. The Dodgers were clobbered on Friday June 24. Nevertheless, it would prove to be an important day in Dodger history.
The Braves scored early and often. A 1st inning homer by Mathews put them on the board. They erupted in the 2nd on a single by left fielder Bobby Thomson, a double by first baseman Joe Adcock to drive home Thomson, and Crandall’s two-run home run.
After the Dodgers notched a run in the top of the 3rd, the Braves broke the game open with three more in their half. After Logan singled and Mathews walked, Erskine surrendered his third homer of the game when Aaron made the score 7-1. Hughes came in and hurled two scoreless innings before the Dodgers batted for him in the top of the fifth.
A 19 year old bonus baby came in to help mop up the rest of the game. He had been signed the previous December, but spent the beginning of the season on the disabled list with a bad ankle. He spent 15 days in the bullpen before getting into his first game. Logan greeted him with a bloop single. Mathews hit one right back to him and trying to get the double play, he threw it into center field. Then he walked Aaron to load the bases. But then he struck out Thomson and got Adcock to hit into a double play. He retired the Braves in order in the 6th and then was removed for a pinch hitter. The Dodgers lost 8-2. Sandy Koufax made his major league debut.
On Saturday, the Dodgers tallied their 50th win against 17 losses. Once again, as he did so often during this season, the pitching arm and bat of Newcombe was a huge factor in the victory. It wasn’t his best outing as he gave up 3 runs on 10 hits and 3 walks. And he needed help in the 9th. But he won and went 3 for 4 at the plate as well.
Of the twenty hits in the game, only two went for extra bases, none by the Dodgers. The slugging team proved they could play small ball when necessary. After the Braves pushed over a run in the second, the Dodgers finally solved Gene Conley in the 5th. Battery mates Walker and Newcombe led off with singles and Gilliam walked to load the bases. Reese lofted a fly to Bruton in center, deep enough to score the slow-footed Walker and tie the score. Snider’s hit scored Newcombe with Gilliam going to third and Snider advancing to second on the throw to the plate. After Robinson fouled out to Crandall, the Dodgers pulled off a double steal for their third run of the inning.
Conley was lifted for a pinch hitter in the bottom of that inning and it was Ray Crone who the Dodgers faced in the 7th. Gilliam led off with a single and when Aaron misplayed Reese’s drive in right, Gilliam came all the way around to score and Reese was safe at second. Snider bunted Reese to third and then Robinson laid down a beautiful bunt for a single that brought home Reese with the Dodgers fifth and final run of the game.
In the eighth, the Braves reached Newcombe on consecutive singles by Bruton, Logan and Mathews. Bruton scored on the third hit, but Newk caught a break when they trapped Logan in a rundown, although Mathews did advance to second. But Newcombe got Aaron to ground out to Reese and the Dodgers still led by three.
The Braves strung together three more singles in the ninth. After Thomson singled, Newcombe struck out Adcock and second baseman Danny O’Connell. But Crandall kept the inning alive with a hit and Andy Pafko batted for the pitcher and singled to score Thomson. With the winning run at the plate in the bottom of the ninth, Spooner came in to strike out Bruton and preserve the 5-3 victory.
After the Braves took the rubber game of the series on Sunday, the Dodgers still had a commanding lead, 12½ ahead of the Cubs and 13 ahead of the Braves. They headed back to Brooklyn to face the Giants.
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Great uploads! Just one small suggestion: since some of the celebrity guest are rather unknown to many today, maybe you could add a short description after their name? Like in this instance you can write "José Ferrer, actor" :)
Thanks for the suggestion. I guess I was thinking that anyone watching these shows would probably already be familiar with the era-- most of the mystery guests are truly huge stars. But if there are folks who would find it helpful, sure. I doubt I'll have the patience to go back and modify the descriptions for the 100+ shows already posted, but I'll try to add that from now on.
What's My Line?
Personally I don't think you need to go to all that trouble. Anybody can put the person's name into Google or Wikipedia and find out for themselves- why take several hours to do something anyone else can do in five seconds?
Why do it? Because I'm just *that nice of a guy.* ;)
No, but seriously, I don't think Marcus is expecting mini biographies and imdb links, just a short identification which will take me all of 10 seconds to add per show. Going back and modifying the descriptions for the shows already posted would take forever (thanks to youtube's craptastic user interface), so I'm not planning to do that.
What's My Line? I don't want to be pedantic but José Ferrer signs in with an accent in his first name and you spell his name "Jose". :)
Johan Bengtsson Pedantic point or not, it's a royal pain in the butt to make letters with an accent on a U.S. keyboard. I think it's fine as it is.
Would Jose Ferrer make a good Joker back in the 1960s Series?
Nathaniel Preston I grew up watching Batma . There can be no better Joker then Cesar Romero!
We dont know, but i can only say Cesar Romero was an average actor and Joe Ferrer was one of the best of his generation even when he is not well remembered today. Batman was an action comedy TV Show, Romero was good at it but ferrer was not unfamiliar neither. We can only guess, but the guessing nowdays is more based on the fact the show was very popular and Romero characterization becomes a pop icon and that Jose Ferrer had been forgoten, nobody talk about him, he was a huge Hollywood star just in the 1950s. I have read in someplace been refered as Miguel's dad when Miguel never enjoyed the kind of success and stardom of his father. This is how he has been neglected and our opinion can just be so subjective about what about him as the Joker or Him as Kojak. Famous character he never portrait but he almost do.
Only Cesar.
He would have been memorable as ANY villian on the classic Batman series !
He would have made a wonderful guest villain--there's a Silver Age-era villain called the Cavalier that would have been a great chance for him to break out his fencing skills again after "Cyrano." :)
I saw an episode or two of Life with Elizabeth.
Husband seemed oppressive Possibly a sign of the 50s?
Maybe more like frustration, with Betty playing a person with no common sense. But it was funny. Thanks for reminding me of that series, will have to watch more of them.
Wonder why Betty didn’t shake the first guys hand?
Women often didn't shake hands with men in that era. It's more surprising that Dorothy offered him her hand; you could tell he was not expecting it.
Okay so let's meet tonight's MIST-
PAROLE OFFICER AT SAN QUENTIN
BURNS MONEY (FEDERAL RESERVE BANK)
MAMBO INSTRUCTOR
Baby alligators in homes ? Yikes !
Big fad in the 50s...why they ended up in states where one would not expect to find them, like the baby turtle fad
Many folks had one or two. Or a croc
Once again, I can hear that boisterous and annoying man laughing loudly and just disrupting everything. He's got to be a relative or something because he's in every audience. I think he's one of those people planted in audiences to try and churn out laughter, but this is definitely not organic and he's in every single episode.
Merrida100 He might have been an employee of the show.
Yes, I hear him on other shows.
I'd sure like to see what he looked like, 50 and fat ?
I've never noticed a plant in the audience and I've been watching WML for 5 years on youtube. Maybe it's because I always keep the volume down so I can only hear the discussion
Regarding Ms. Miller, with respect...I have to suggest that my EX-WIFE was much better at BURNING MONEY than this lady could ever have been.
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Back when San Francisco was heaven🥰
What happened?
@@peternagy-im4be lots of tall buildings obstructing the view of the Bay
They sure liked men with receding hair lines.
Betty's last statement was very cryptic; she said, "Come on home Arlene, all is forgiven." I suppose we'll not ever know what that was about.
oh it was just a reference to old dramas. edwardian romances and melodramas and things. "all is forgiven" was usually said at the dramatic moment of reconciliation when whoever was holding onto their grudge was overcome by longing to see the person. all embrace; tears are shed; etc.
Arlene was just on vacation for a couple weeks, but I imagine Dorothy missed her, and was making a sincere emotional appeal, couched in a joke about old melodramatic stories.
again the voice is too recognizable. destroyed the show
To be fair, Cert had read in the newspaper mere minutes before that Mr farrar had just gotten back from europe.
Poor old Fred Allen. Wasn’t he ugly
Don't be so silly.
He won the ugly nan of the year award. And he had a bad case of Zacharies disease sadly.
@peternagy-im4be 😮
Totally outrageous disgusting despicable behavior 😢
Not particularly for his age.
And he was married to the lovely and talented, Portland Hoffa for 29 years before his sudden death of a heart problem.
A 'whatever'...Betty White's appearances on WML is seemingly too 'forced, Faked, and Damned annoyingly Cutesy......and NOT Funny....Fred is always a treat....a Natural.....
I'm finding her treacly as well; agree about Fred
I still prefer Betty to Arlene
I personally like the both of them😊