notsusan She was active in selling war bonds and raising money during WWII she had on a fishnet body stocking with stars afixed to the mesh and the stars could be individually removed... for a price.
She was famous because of the success of "Gypsy" on Broadway, based on the vaudeville careers of her and sister/actress June Havoc. The burlesque came later.
brian elliott You have that perfectly backwards. She was in vaudeville as a child & went into burlesque as an adolescent. Later, she wrote the memoir on which the musical Gypsy (later filmed) was based. 🌹
It's wonderful that I can see what Gypsy Rose Lee actually looks like. All I can recall is the movie in which Natalie Wood played her part. And that was wonderful.
I was 13 when this first aired, and I watched it with my family. As usual, I asked what the MG was famous for. My parents told me she was a famous dancer. I then saw Gypsy Rose Lee on various talk shows, and it didn't take long for me to understand that she was more than a dancer.
gypsy is 48 here, and still rocking a body that made her famous, her hey-day was the depression era of the 1930's and 40's, she rewrote the strip tease act into an art form. and her personal life was just as interesting.
@@richardr8753 and what do you call a "mass of people" (majority of republikkklans) who believe obama was a muslim, q-nut conspiracies, that the jan. 6, 2021 was an "act of patriotism and defending freedom", and that joe biden is a socialist? i'd say half the country are too stupid to have an opinion.
Yes that is right, she made all the costumes herself, wrote the act, she was a very hard worker and an incredible woman and wonderful mother. You are right, she changed the form of burlesque at that time for burlesque dancers used to bump and grind their hips a lot and this was considered inappropriate at that time to many people but Gyspy Rose Lee brought in the strip tease act which meant she believed in not showing nudity but keeping the mystery of her body going by stripping slowly, with modesty, using humor and dialogue and using a tease like performance to keep it more exciting. She believed one didn't have to be naked to be a good burlesque dancer and she was right.
I'm surprised and impressed that the audience evidently knew Ms. Rose Lee by sight. I also think it's interesting that it's the female audience members that had the most excited response.
@@SymphonyBrahms Yes, that's what surprises me. The burlesque was a decidedly underground culture, actively denied recognition by the powers of the day. So yes, I think it was remarkable that Ms. Rose Lee's fame penetrated that barrier of social mores.
@@ariochiv well as she said herself in interviews, her strip teases were more tease than strip. She combined her intelligence into her act and left a lot of the strip to the imagination. The whole effect raised the level of what she did to some thing that appealed to a wide variety of audiences.
wasnt Gig and alcoholic? ive only heard pf hom in connection to elizabeth montgomery’s terrible firsthusband. about the baby sitters ..it is interesting how sexism works MALE nurses , MALE babysitters were an anomaly..but one of the boys mentioned it was mostly for boys which implies they were more like coaches or friends and that is sexist but also a cool idea
Gypsy Rose Lee (nee Louise Hovick) died of lung cancer at age 59 in April of 1970. It was a particularly sad week for the field of entertainment. Anita Louise died on April 25, Gypsy died on April 26, Ed Begley, Sr. died on April 28 and Inger Stevens died on April 30. Ms. Stevens attended Gypsy"s funeral, in fact, before committing suicide days later.
@@marcietorrence5361 …she left no note or will and overdosed on barbiturates. She had been recently separated from her husband of nine years, film producer Ike Jones. He used some of the money to open a mental healthcare clinic in Watts, Los Angeles.
@@marcietorrence5361 Now days, an exotic dancer that makes their money in an honest way without picking up bad habits (or bad clients) is nothing to look down on. Having "odd" occupations that pay the bills is not outrageous unless you really want to clutch those pearls...
Gypsy Rose Lee had her own morning tv talk show in San Francisco during 1967+. I think her co-host comedienne sidekick was called "Bobo." She did local interviews and there was a little bit of zany comedy involved.
There is a great audio only recording of her talk show when Judy Garland was a guest on her short lived show. The episode was from 1965, and the two are quite hilarious together. It is very much worth listening to in its entirety.
I do not BELIEVE that ovation !!!!!!!!! Obviously she was recognized on sight. Was her popularity ...... yep, Arlene just posed a question that makes mine unnecessary.
I'm surprised that no one then or now has mentioned that Ethel Merman's role in "Gypsy" was as Rose, the mother of Gypsy Rose Lee. This is one of the rare shows where the "title" role is not the star part. Sandra Church played Louise/Gypsy. Merman was 50, Church 20; the show is about the early years of Louise and sister June. Gypsy herself was 47 when this was first broadcast. It should also be mentioned that she was the author of the source material, her memoirs, on which the musical play was based.
And two of the regular panelists rebutted the comments made on last week's episode on this channel. No, they did not find Debbie Reynolds to be annoying, and in fact thoroughly enjoyed it.
I believe this was the year (1959) that Debbie’s husband, Eddie Fisher, left her for Debbie’s best friend, Elizabeth Taylor. The double betrayal was a big scandal, even for Hollywood, and a lot of folks considered it a real shame so perhaps Bennet was being publicly supportive of Reynolds with his complimentary remarks.
My parents -- Veloz and Yolanda -- were in Florenz Ziefeld's last Broadway extravaganza with Gypsy, called "Hot Cha", in 1932, I believe, and she was so very kindly to my folks, calling them "my children" It was a very funny show, with the subtitle "Laid in Mexico" at the insistence of Gypsy's then boyfriend, millionaire boss gangster and Broadway "angel", Waxy Gorden and his partner "angel", the murderous Dutch Schultz. One of the more hilarious songs was "Jose, can you see?"
Gig Young can be heard but not seen in "Rear Window" as the voice of Jimmy Stewart's editor. Ten years after this appearance, he won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"
WOW! ... I always wondered if it was the same guy who was the editors voice in The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman (1974-TVM) as I felt they sounded exactly alike.
I used to write for `This Week` when Jim Fixx was editor. Did a now famous piece on `Women in Men`s Jobs`. Fixx said he`d pay $750 but liked it so much he paid $1000. 13 million readers..did not know the size of the readership. Great!!!
GRL was well known for not being a good dancer and being a bad singer. Ethel Merman box-office gold and the play production was first-class despite being a low-class subject
Gypsy Rose Lee was hugely popular with all kinds of people. She appeared in the movie 'The Trouble With Angels' as someone asked by the Mother Superior of a convent school to teach the young students how to move gracefully. I don't believe her appearance was considered scandalous by the Church. I knew her name before I even knew what a strip teaser was.
Oh yeah the her memoirs came out like two years before the musical. There are photos of Natalie Wood and her together backstage. She went on to host her own TV show, perform for US soldiers in Vietnam and died of cancer at 59 in 1970, which is far too young.
I have enjoyed these programs since childhood in the 50s, but it is rather sad that none of Dorothy's friends ever questioned her death or the bogus coroner's report, which was controlled at the time by the mafia.
In 1941-42, Gypsy Rose Lee lived with Carson McCullers, WH Auden and others in a boarding house in Brooklyn Heights. She wrote "The G-String Murders" when she resided there. At other times, residents of the boarding house included Richard Wright and Benjamin Britten.
Not being judgmental here, but she forced son Erik to watch her stip from the age of six. www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/son-gypsy-rose-lee-watched-9474621 rather cringy.
Bennett Cerf sure has an unlimited quantity of lame jokes and puns stored in his brain that apparently passed for sophisticated wit in his day. He went all over the country giving lectures and was obviously popular with audiences. It was a much simpler time in America back then.
Unlike Dorothy to make a mistake, but introducing Gig Young she said he was co-starring in the new Debbie Reynolds film Ask Any Girl - however Debbie was not in the movie! The star was Shirley MacLaine.
I'm from a part of the country where Benoit is a fairly common name, and I appreciated Dorothy's knowing how to pronounce it. It was jarring to hear John Daly say "Ben-WAH" (accent on second syllable) multiple times, and it was nice to hear Dorothy's normal pronunciation of the word (neither syllable accented).
The woman was French, so the correct pronunciation (which she herself used, naturally) is BenWAH. It's natural for us to Americanize French names (Detroit and Des Moines are prime examples), but it would be bizarre for her to do so.
This show ran the day after my 7th birthday. I recently saw the 1962 movie musical "Gypsy" on TV so it's interesting to see the real life person which Natalie Wood portrayed.
Ms. Kilgallen mentions Ethel Merman, who had such power she nixed the idea of an amateur like Stephen Sondheim writing the music to Gypsy. They let Sondheim write the lyrics and brought in the great Jule Styne to write the music.
Whoops. Debbie Reynolds was indeed a funny Mystery Guest on the previous WML, and "Ask Any Girl" was indeed a funny film co-starring current panelist Gig Young, but there is no connection between the two -- in spite of Dorothy's introduction, the female star of that film was Shirley MacLaine!
In fairness, Dorothy Kilgallen did correct herself in the "Good night"s at the end of the show. But, as to her added remark, "I was thinking of that other movie that he's in now," I have no idea which one she could be talking about. Doris Day was the lead female in Gig Young's two films prior to ASK ANY GIRL (those two films being THE TUNNEL OF LOVE and TEACHER'S PET), and the lead female in his next film of 1959, THE STORY ON PAGE ONE, is Rita Hayworth. Nor did Debbie Reynolds co-star with Gig Young in any of his drama anthology series appearances during 1958 or 1959.
I think it's a bit of a stretch to claim that a newspaper advice column has "nothing to do with entertainment." I hope that the vast majority of newspaper readers are seeking amusement rather than specific help from columns like this. At least by the time I moved to the Bay Area for grad school in the late 1970s, the advice columns in the San Francisco papers were more witty than wise, it seemed to me. I never read "Entre Nous" so I may be unfair to Ms. Benoit's column.
The only reason I’m watching this cause this my birth day, May 31 , 1959. I’m 63 years old. I’m pretty sure my Mother didn’t catch this the first time so I just showed it to her. Oh, she 90 and doing great. Her neighbour at the home got a kick out of it too, Elisabeth is 103 and her birth day is May 13, 1919. Which means she was 40 years old and use to watched this program.
Chang Anita Most people with mental disorders or demons look perfectly normal. What else are they supposed to look like? I worked in various psychiatric facility for 5 years. I remember Gig Young from my childhood. Even before his killings it was well known that he had demons. Living at a time when there were virtually no medications, compared to today (2018) they were very hard to treat. Maybe electroshock, lithium (nasty side effects, etc.) were the order of the day. Most afflicted took to self medication with alcohol. It was a living hell for the poor souls.
BLAIR M Schirmer There was little doubt that Gig Young had a lifetime of demons which he couldn't get effective treatment for. I grew up in the '60s and his ongoing psychiatric problems and history thereof were no secret whatsoever. Even the newspapers entertainment sections no longer paid attention to it after a while since there was no secret. I felt great sorrow, and still do, for his wife as she surely loved him enough to stay with him and try to obviate the demons and to give him a quality of life once more. No one was surprised really at his way of solving his problem, although why he killed his wife too no one knows. In the end, suicide under his conditions is the ultimate form of protecting oneself from oneself. Today, anti-depressant and anti-psychotic medications are large money makers. Seems like half the U.S. is on one anti-depressant or another. Alleged? It was approximately a 99% lock that he did the deed. As I said, I was born in the late '50s and grew up to hearing about his condition throughout the '60s. Also, what motivation would someone else have to perpetrate this? As for him not seeming troubled, remember that actors are the very best at hiding such conditions.
@MrSting17 way too many Hollywood stars took to the bottle. Maybe they thought it would get them through tough times. Unfortunately it took them down a rocky road. There are better ways! Try praying!
Many years ago therapists used to have people try to speak clearly despite having marbles in their mouth. Eliza Doolittle had to recite a passage this way. She swallowed one & Henry Higgins put more in her mouth.
bookwoman53 The classic example is the ancient Greek orator Demosthenes, who practiced speaking with pebbles in his mouth to overcome a stammer, according to Plutarch.
Topps: makers of bubble gum packaged with a Bazooka Joe comic and baseball cards that were popular in the 1950's. (The gum in the baseball cards was of inferior quality.) I could never figure out why Mort, one of Joe's friends, always wore the top of his turtleneck sweater pulled over his mouth.
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Dorothy at about 12:05 says "San Francisco is such a gay city"!
Oh, boy...if she only knew!
My thoughts exactly.
I just lost it when she said that. 😆
She said that and I had to go to the comments... three comments down is all it took!😅👍🏻
I think she knew.
I just love that in the 50s there was a burlesque performer famous enough to get applause like that on TV.
notsusan
She was active in selling war bonds and raising money during WWII she had on a fishnet body stocking with stars afixed to the mesh and the stars could be individually removed...
for a price.
She was famous because of the success of "Gypsy" on Broadway, based on the vaudeville careers of her and sister/actress June Havoc. The burlesque came later.
brian elliott
You have that perfectly backwards. She was in vaudeville as a child & went into burlesque as an adolescent. Later, she wrote the memoir on which the musical Gypsy (later filmed) was based. 🌹
@gcjerryusc Well you are wrong. Natalie Wood was great in the role. Your taste is up your.....!
@gcjerryusc Well, pearls before swine.
It's wonderful that I can see what Gypsy Rose Lee actually looks like. All I can recall is the movie in which Natalie Wood played her part. And that was wonderful.
Jeepers!! I was afraid the whole time that Gypsy would swallow some of those marbles!
Me too, but I thought they were candy
What a handsome group of young men, and wonderful manners! 👏👏
How charming Gypsy Rose was! A delight!
How charming gypsy rose lee is
THIS SHOW IS ADDICTIVE!
It is indeed. And it causes people to smile. Certainly myself, anyway.
She was smart and special. Charismatic and kind. After such a rough childhood, too. Good for her.
My wonderful mother was born on this very day, may 31, 1959 (:
My mom was engaged
what a sweet comment
Loved the way Gypsy took off her gloves and twirled them round 17:25
I was 13 when this first aired, and I watched it with my family. As usual, I asked what the MG was famous for. My parents told me she was a famous dancer. I then saw Gypsy Rose Lee on various talk shows, and it didn't take long for me to understand that she was more than a dancer.
gypsy is 48 here, and still rocking a body that made her famous, her hey-day was the depression era of the 1930's and 40's, she rewrote the strip tease act into an art form. and her personal life was just as interesting.
GRLs act was Absolutely NOT an art form!!! It was a titillating comedy performance.
@@marcietorrence5361 Ummm, comedy is one of the arts.
You can pretty much call anything art if it deals with creativity, but the average mass of people would disagree.
@@richardr8753 and what do you call a "mass of people" (majority of republikkklans) who believe obama was a muslim, q-nut conspiracies, that the jan. 6, 2021 was an "act of patriotism and defending freedom", and that joe biden is a socialist? i'd say half the country are too stupid to have an opinion.
Yes that is right, she made all the costumes herself, wrote the act, she was a very hard worker and an incredible woman and wonderful mother. You are right, she changed the form of burlesque at that time for burlesque dancers used to bump and grind their hips a lot and this was considered inappropriate at that time to many people but Gyspy Rose Lee brought in the strip tease act which meant she believed in not showing nudity but keeping the mystery of her body going by stripping slowly, with modesty, using humor and dialogue and using a tease like performance to keep it more exciting. She believed one didn't have to be naked to be a good burlesque dancer and she was right.
I was born in 56, and know my mom loved the stage. I bet I was an early viewer! What grace and charm humans used to exhibit. I long for this today....
I'm surprised and impressed that the audience evidently knew Ms. Rose Lee by sight.
I also think it's interesting that it's the female audience members that had the most excited response.
She was famous. Her photo was familier to audiences all over the world.
@@SymphonyBrahms Yes, that's what surprises me. The burlesque was a decidedly underground culture, actively denied recognition by the powers of the day. So yes, I think it was remarkable that Ms. Rose Lee's fame penetrated that barrier of social mores.
What a woman
@@ariochiv She was vaudeville, not burlesque, as Mama Rose always insisted. Gypsy's 'class' image elided the pecking order.
@@ariochiv well as she said herself in interviews, her strip teases were more tease than strip. She combined her intelligence into her act and left a lot of the strip to the imagination. The whole effect raised the level of what she did to some thing that appealed to a wide variety of audiences.
Gig Young had such a tragic and mysterious end. Loved the babysitters! I cant help but wonder if they remained entrepreneurs.
wasnt Gig and alcoholic? ive only heard pf hom in connection to elizabeth montgomery’s terrible firsthusband. about the baby sitters ..it is interesting how sexism works MALE nurses , MALE babysitters were an anomaly..but one of the boys mentioned it was mostly for boys which implies they were more like coaches or friends and that is sexist but also a cool idea
Sadly, she died at age 59 of lung cancer in 1970. RIP.
Quite sad, I remember her when I was a young lad in the SF bay area, when she had a daily talk show.
As did many from that era. But the cigarette companies made a fortune, so I guess that was more important.
Her sister, on the other hand, lived to be 97.
Love Gypsy's glove strip.
SJ Cohen - Me too. She stopped with the gloves, however. Great mystery guest!
Gypsy Rose Lee (nee Louise Hovick) died of lung cancer at age 59 in April of 1970. It was a particularly sad week for the field of entertainment. Anita Louise died on April 25, Gypsy died on April 26, Ed Begley, Sr. died on April 28 and Inger Stevens died on April 30. Ms. Stevens attended Gypsy"s funeral, in fact, before committing suicide days later.
Why did gorgeous Inger Stevens commit suicide? Was she openly friends aith a stripper? That would be outrageous even by today's standards
@@marcietorrence5361 …she left no note or will and overdosed on barbiturates. She had been recently separated from her husband of nine years, film producer Ike Jones. He used some of the money to open a mental healthcare clinic in Watts, Los Angeles.
@@marcietorrence5361 : Many people were "openly friends" with Gypsy Rose Lee. She was a huge talent and didn't really even strip.
@@marcietorrence5361 Now days, an exotic dancer that makes their money in an honest way without picking up bad habits (or bad clients) is nothing to look down on.
Having "odd" occupations that pay the bills is not outrageous unless you really want to clutch those pearls...
@@accomplice55 that's why it was called a "strip TEASE".
It was so nice that Bennet mentioned Debbie Reynolds. She was so sweet especially her visit in 1954...
Thank you for this! Gypsy was amazing. Imagine using marbles, so clever!
I love all the smiles on the panelists. They are so cute!
Gig Young was SO good in Teacher's Pet with Doris Day and Clark Gable.
Yes he was! Tragic ending. So sad.
He was actually just coming off an Oscar nomination for that performance.
Gypsy Rose Lee had her own morning tv talk show in San Francisco during 1967+. I think her co-host comedienne sidekick was called "Bobo." She did local interviews and there was a little bit of zany comedy involved.
I would watch her show. She had her son on ;Otto Preminger was the father.
There is a great audio only recording of her talk show when Judy Garland was a guest on her short lived show. The episode was from 1965, and the two are quite hilarious together. It is very much worth listening to in its entirety.
I do not BELIEVE that ovation !!!!!!!!! Obviously she was recognized on sight. Was her popularity ...... yep, Arlene just posed a question that makes mine unnecessary.
Gypsy made me laugh so much. Then when J Daly says "nervous as a cat on hot rocks for fear she swallows one!" (Or how ever he said it) ha!
I heard someone saying bubble gum out loud in the audience. Anyway, it was a great show overall. Very amusing, loved Gypsy's participation. 💓
I'm surprised that no one then or now has mentioned that Ethel Merman's role in "Gypsy" was as Rose, the mother of Gypsy Rose Lee. This is one of the rare shows where the "title" role is not the star part. Sandra Church played Louise/Gypsy. Merman was 50, Church 20; the show is about the early years of Louise and sister June. Gypsy herself was 47 when this was first broadcast. It should also be mentioned that she was the author of the source material, her memoirs, on which the musical play was based.
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We're all trying to forget it! jk Her voice is like nails on a chalkboard to me. She was very funny, but I didn't care for her singing voice.
For me, Rosalind Russell will always be Rose.
At 20:54, Arlene mentions Ethel Merman.
Other shows where the title character is not the lead character include The Wiz, Bye Bye Birdie, The Mikado, and Julius Caesar.
Mrs. Benoit passed on 11.30.2011. The SF Chronicle had a nice obit about her.
What a classy, sophisticated woman with a style all her own.
"Mrs. Benoit, San Francisco is such a gay city..." LOL!
+goldenthroat86 Ain't that the truth. Interesting name "Goldenthroat86", lol
She ask "does your sevice hs anything to do with entertainement , amusement or food " . Today , she would add: sex !
Yes and yes
@@Nicolas-zb9uw Grow up
I know it had a different meaning back that but she has no clue how right she is especially today
That trolley remark was a nice pun from Mr. John Daly("lady conductors")
I agree with Bennett. Debbie was hilarious as the mystery guest every time...
I think her first appearance was the best mystery guest ever!
I agree. She was amazing in both appearances. A remarkable woman.
We called them 'agony aunt' columns here in the UK.
Geez, Debbie sure left an impression on them for them to bring her up a week later.
And two of the regular panelists rebutted the comments made on last week's episode on this channel. No, they did not find Debbie Reynolds to be annoying, and in fact thoroughly enjoyed it.
Watch that show YOU will remember it as well!!🤩😁
I believe this was the year (1959) that Debbie’s husband, Eddie Fisher, left her for Debbie’s best friend, Elizabeth Taylor. The double betrayal was a big scandal, even for Hollywood, and a lot of folks considered it a real shame so perhaps Bennet was being publicly supportive of Reynolds with his complimentary remarks.
It was a deliberate slap in the face to Gypsy R. L. who was getting too much press. They wanted Debbie Reynolds to win an award, not Gypsy
My parents -- Veloz and Yolanda -- were in Florenz Ziefeld's last Broadway extravaganza with Gypsy, called "Hot Cha", in 1932, I believe, and she was so very kindly to my folks, calling them "my children" It was a very funny show, with the subtitle "Laid in Mexico" at the insistence of Gypsy's then boyfriend, millionaire boss gangster and Broadway "angel", Waxy Gorden and his partner "angel", the murderous Dutch Schultz. One of the more hilarious songs was "Jose, can you see?"
Thank you Guy Veloz - what a priceless memory!
Also one of the shows which established the teenaged Eleanor Powell as Broadway's best hoofer. Flo sure could pick 'em.
Gig Young can be heard but not seen in "Rear Window" as the voice of Jimmy Stewart's editor. Ten years after this appearance, he won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"
WOW! ... I always wondered if it was the same guy who was the editors voice in The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman (1974-TVM) as I felt they sounded exactly alike.
and they shoot wives, don't they? LOL!
I used to write for `This Week` when Jim Fixx was editor. Did a now famous piece on `Women in Men`s Jobs`. Fixx said he`d pay $750 but liked it so much he paid $1000. 13 million readers..did not know the size of the readership. Great!!!
I don't know why the producers of Gypsy didn't ask the real GRL to play the mother . She seemed well capable and likeable character .
I'm sure a production about a stripper required a big name to get it off the ground.
@@kjlightbearer946 at the time her name was big enough however she really was not a singer and gypsy after all was a musical
GRL was well known for not being a good dancer and being a bad singer. Ethel Merman box-office gold and the play production was first-class despite being a low-class subject
"Where does Mrs Benoit work?"
"At home"
Ooh the devastating damage of a failed broadside....
I love what Gypsy Rose Lee said about 8 o'clock in the morning.
Gypsy Rose Lee was hugely popular with all kinds of people. She appeared in the movie 'The Trouble With Angels' as someone asked by the Mother Superior of a convent school to teach the young students how to move gracefully. I don't believe her appearance was considered scandalous by the Church. I knew her name before I even knew what a strip teaser was.
The only celebrity guest that the applause gives me goosebumps. But surprisingly John Daly didn't seem happy at the beginning of her appearance.
That over applause was because of the particular audience in this particular episode, I think.
Probably the marbles wasn’t lady like
But he’d sneak in to see her you can bet
He was afraid she'd swallow a marble and choke beside him
I was today years old to learn Gypsy Rose Lee was a real person and not only knew of the Broadway show about her but approved of it.
Oh yeah the her memoirs came out like two years before the musical. There are photos of Natalie Wood and her together backstage. She went on to host her own TV show, perform for US soldiers in Vietnam and died of cancer at 59 in 1970, which is far too young.
Mrs Benoit was stunning!
If they could see San Francisco now, they would all wonder what happened. Arlene is so witty! Ms Benoit was beautiful!
I have enjoyed these programs since childhood in the 50s, but it is rather sad that none of Dorothy's friends ever questioned her death or the bogus coroner's report, which was controlled at the time by the mafia.
I know! Of course that was all hush hush! I'm sure she knew the truth & was probably going to write it! Really sad!
Ooh-la-la! I saw Mrs Benoît and noe I’m lovelorn.
This episode was on my exact birthday, May 31, 1959!
After bullfighter, I think advice columnist is the most common profession seen on the show.
Raising worms
The Hovick sisters had blasts on WML.
In 1941-42, Gypsy Rose Lee lived with Carson McCullers, WH Auden and others in a boarding house in Brooklyn Heights. She wrote "The G-String Murders" when she resided there. At other times, residents of the boarding house included Richard Wright and Benjamin Britten.
Hard to believe a hit tv show on the air for 10 yrs couldn't scare up extra chairs to accommodate extra contestants. That is just weird.. lol
And the movie with Ms Russell and Natalie Wood was so very good.
I love Mrs Benoit's dress. I wonder what color it was.
$0.75 cents/hour! Such extravagance!
I 1970 I babysat for $.50 hour. Rich kids in private school had $$$clientel
Gypsy Rose Lee was such a lovely lady. I am full of admiration for her.
Not being judgmental here, but she forced son Erik to watch her stip from the age of six. www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/son-gypsy-rose-lee-watched-9474621 rather cringy.
I lived in Elizabeth N. J. and went to a boarding school there. This brings back memories.
The mystery guest Gypsy Rose Lee was popular then huh?
Purple Capricorn Oh yes! Especially in the Forties!
YES!!!
Bennett Cerf sure has an unlimited quantity of lame jokes and puns stored in his brain that apparently passed for sophisticated wit in his day. He went all over the country giving lectures and was obviously popular with audiences. It was a much simpler time in America back then.
And many best selling books.
@@JDAbelRN : Also, Cerf was a co-founder of Random House (publishing).
Gig Young was soooo handsome💕
Is it just me, or does Gypsy Rose look a lot like Emma Thompson? :D
No
Do you look like Emma Thompson?
I don't see it.
She was very witty, warm and intelligent.
The baby sitters were so cute.
Unlike Dorothy to make a mistake, but introducing Gig Young she said he was co-starring in the new Debbie Reynolds film Ask Any Girl - however Debbie was not in the movie! The star was Shirley MacLaine.
I'm from a part of the country where Benoit is a fairly common name, and I appreciated Dorothy's knowing how to pronounce it. It was jarring to hear John Daly say "Ben-WAH" (accent on second syllable) multiple times, and it was nice to hear Dorothy's normal pronunciation of the word (neither syllable accented).
The woman was French, so the correct pronunciation (which she herself used, naturally) is BenWAH. It's natural for us to Americanize French names (Detroit and Des Moines are prime examples), but it would be bizarre for her to do so.
Daly gives so many clues! And the audience also!
True, but the clues are very subtle. The experienced panelists can often pick up on them.
This show ran the day after my 7th birthday. I recently saw the 1962 movie musical "Gypsy" on TV so it's interesting to see the real life person which Natalie Wood portrayed.
I call BS. Post birth certificate
SO Pretty.
🎨
Ms. Kilgallen mentions Ethel Merman, who had such power she nixed the idea of an amateur like Stephen Sondheim writing the music to Gypsy. They let Sondheim write the lyrics and brought in the great Jule Styne to write the music.
I am as addicted to this show as a heroin addict is to heroin.
It was really groovy to re visit this far out show man !
I used to watch her tv show at that time.
I was surprised that John pronounced her name as ben- oyt instead of Ben-wah.
Whoops. Debbie Reynolds was indeed a funny Mystery Guest on the previous WML, and "Ask Any Girl" was indeed a funny film co-starring current panelist Gig Young, but there is no connection between the two -- in spite of Dorothy's introduction, the female star of that film was Shirley MacLaine!
In fairness, Dorothy Kilgallen did correct herself in the "Good night"s at the end of the show. But, as to her added remark, "I was thinking of that other movie that he's in now," I have no idea which one she could be talking about. Doris Day was the lead female in Gig Young's two films prior to ASK ANY GIRL (those two films being THE TUNNEL OF LOVE and TEACHER'S PET), and the lead female in his next film of 1959, THE STORY ON PAGE ONE, is Rita Hayworth. Nor did Debbie Reynolds co-star with Gig Young in any of his drama anthology series appearances during 1958 or 1959.
I think it's a bit of a stretch to claim that a newspaper advice column has "nothing to do with entertainment." I hope that the vast majority of newspaper readers are seeking amusement rather than specific help from columns like this. At least by the time I moved to the Bay Area for grad school in the late 1970s, the advice columns in the San Francisco papers were more witty than wise, it seemed to me. I never read "Entre Nous" so I may be unfair to Ms. Benoit's column.
The only reason I’m watching this cause this my birth day, May 31 , 1959. I’m 63 years old. I’m pretty sure my Mother didn’t catch this the first time so I just showed it to her. Oh, she 90 and doing great. Her neighbour at the home got a kick out of it too, Elisabeth is 103 and her birth day is May 13, 1919. Which means she was 40 years old and use to watched this program.
Gee ! People with class, dressed to the nines, no Dick jokes, and the show was a success.
THERE WAS A NAME THAT TUNE IN THOSE TIMES?! ❤
golden age of TV the nice and highly educated strip teaser minn Rose Lee
Gypsy Rose Lee doesn't come out until the 17:00 minute mark.
Most of us enjoy the entire episodes.
I feel sorry for the bubble gum tester who only got a few moments!
pretty creepy episode knowing that gig young shot his wife to death then himself.
Doug w. Looked it up and got it. Creepy indeed and he seemed like perfectly normal even charming guy
Chang Anita Most people with mental disorders or demons look perfectly normal. What else are they supposed to look like? I worked in various psychiatric facility for 5 years. I remember Gig Young from my childhood. Even before his killings it was well known that he had demons. Living at a time when there were virtually no medications, compared to today (2018) they were very hard to treat. Maybe electroshock, lithium (nasty side effects, etc.) were the order of the day. Most afflicted took to self medication with alcohol. It was a living hell for the poor souls.
BLAIR M Schirmer There was little doubt that Gig Young had a lifetime of demons which he couldn't get effective treatment for. I grew up in the '60s and his ongoing psychiatric problems and history thereof were no secret whatsoever. Even the newspapers entertainment sections no longer paid attention to it after a while since there was no secret. I felt great sorrow, and still do, for his wife as she surely loved him enough to stay with him and try to obviate the demons and to give him a quality of life once more. No one was surprised really at his way of solving his problem, although why he killed his wife too no one knows. In the end, suicide under his conditions is the ultimate form of protecting oneself from oneself. Today, anti-depressant and anti-psychotic medications are large money makers. Seems like half the U.S. is on one anti-depressant or another. Alleged? It was approximately a 99% lock that he did the deed. As I said, I was born in the late '50s and grew up to hearing about his condition throughout the '60s. Also, what motivation would someone else have to perpetrate this? As for him not seeming troubled, remember that actors are the very best at hiding such conditions.
Doug w. Even creepier is that Dorothy Kilgalin died under mysterious circumstances.
@MrSting17 way too many Hollywood stars took to the bottle. Maybe they thought it would get them through tough times. Unfortunately it took them down a rocky road. There are better ways! Try praying!
Man, Gig Young is GASSSED here!
he killed himself
Arlene's necklace in this episode is stunning! Would those be real or costume?
In 1978, 3 years after marrying, Gig shot his wife to death and then himself.
"Gone Music"? +What's My Line, what is Bennett talking about?
Gone was a slang term that would be like, cool or hip
Joie Fulton - In the early days of rock & roll the music was characterized as "gone" the way "cool" is used today. I think.
That's one real gone cat.
I which they had spent more time on that last contestant.
Gypsy Rose Lee looks like Joyce Grenfell
She was a beautiful woman
*_Own and Operate Babysitting Agency_*
*_Writes Advice To Lovelorn Column_*
*_Bubblegum Tester_*
Gig called her Francis 🤦🏼♀️
One of those babysitters looks a lot older than high school. He seems like the type Arlene would flirt with.
Extraordinary comment.
I'd have to agree with Dorothy at 12:06, but maybe not in the sense that she meant! :-)
Back when the whole family sat down and enjoyed tv shows together
How did she keep that stuff in her mouth?
Many years ago therapists used to have people try to speak clearly despite having marbles in their mouth. Eliza Doolittle had to recite a passage this way. She swallowed one & Henry Higgins put more in her mouth.
bookwoman53 The classic example is the ancient Greek orator Demosthenes, who practiced speaking with pebbles in his mouth to overcome a stammer, according to Plutarch.
Neil Midkiff I’ve heard about that. It doesn’t look easy though. Very easy to swallow one or choke.
Why did all those kids in the beginning look cross-eyed?
Inbreeding?
@@QuadMochaMatti In what?
They had probably spent a few minutes in the green room with Gypsy Rose Lee!
@@robbob1234 k
what did she put in her mouth exactly - rocks or hard candy? 5/31/59 - 1 day after my 10th birthday.
Marbles.
@@feverspell so she quite literally had marbles in her mouth.
Topps: makers of bubble gum packaged with a Bazooka Joe comic and baseball cards that were popular in the 1950's. (The gum in the baseball cards was of inferior quality.) I could never figure out why Mort, one of Joe's friends, always wore the top of his turtleneck sweater pulled over his mouth.
He was afraid of the covid.
No one mentioned JRL's joke about losing your marbles?
Who is JRL?
@@keymaninmusic Gypsy Rose Lee. The subject of the video.
When Ms. Benoit came out to sign-in please, did John say, "June is busting out all over"????
That was fro a song, regarding the plants and flowers of June.
@@barbarak2836 double meaning from Johnny Boy
@@HelloooThere Whatever you say.
@@barbarak2836 not nice