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.
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. 🌹
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.
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...
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
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 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'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.
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!!!
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?"
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
IAM puzzled about the number of people who post a comment only to find they end up in a slanging match with someone else who happens to have a diffent point on the same topic. What is the point of this ??? Everyone has opinions Stop cluttering up the comment section
Dorothy along with Darlene Francis made this show. Women from this period used their intelligence to their advantage much better than they do now, then that was the alternative.
Mrs. Benoit was one FINE azz woman. The marbles in Gypsy Rose's mouth were an unnecessary distraction, she could have just disguised her voice like everyone else.
gam90000 And the way she was stuffing them into her mouth looked dangerous as well, though I suppose it wouldn't have been that big of a deal had she swallowed any. Also, loved the little twirl she gave her glove after she took it off before getting out the marbles. Good sense of humor!
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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.
How charming Gypsy Rose was! A delight!
What a handsome group of young men, and wonderful manners! 👏👏
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....
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 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.
Jeepers!! I was afraid the whole time that Gypsy would swallow some of those marbles!
Me too, but I thought they were candy
She was smart and special. Charismatic and kind. After such a rough childhood, too. Good for her.
THIS SHOW IS ADDICTIVE!
It is indeed. And it causes people to smile. Certainly myself, anyway.
My wonderful mother was born on this very day, may 31, 1959 (:
My mom was engaged
what a sweet comment
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.
Thank you for this! Gypsy was amazing. Imagine using marbles, so clever!
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.
How charming gypsy rose lee is
Loved the way Gypsy took off her gloves and twirled them round 17:25
This episode was on my exact birthday, May 31, 1959!
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.
That trolley remark was a nice pun from Mr. John Daly("lady conductors")
Love Gypsy's glove strip.
SJ Cohen - Me too. She stopped with the gloves, however. Great mystery guest!
It was so nice that Bennet mentioned Debbie Reynolds. She was so sweet especially her visit in 1954...
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".
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
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 love all the smiles on the panelists. They are so cute!
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.
We called them 'agony aunt' columns here in the UK.
"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
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'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.
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.
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!!!
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.
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.
I heard someone saying bubble gum out loud in the audience. Anyway, it was a great show overall. Very amusing, loved Gypsy's participation. 💓
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.
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 lived in Elizabeth N. J. and went to a boarding school there. This brings back memories.
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.
If they could see San Francisco now, they would all wonder what happened. Arlene is so witty! Ms Benoit was beautiful!
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
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.
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
I love what Gypsy Rose Lee said about 8 o'clock in the morning.
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 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.
It was really groovy to re visit this far out show man !
"Where does Mrs Benoit work?"
"At home"
Ooh the devastating damage of a failed broadside....
And the movie with Ms Russell and Natalie Wood was so very good.
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.
She was very witty, warm and intelligent.
I love Mrs Benoit's dress. I wonder what color it was.
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
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.
The Hovick sisters had blasts on WML.
She's a hoot!
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.
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).
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 mystery guest Gypsy Rose Lee was popular then huh?
Purple Capricorn Oh yes! Especially in the Forties!
YES!!!
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.
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
After bullfighter, I think advice columnist is the most common profession seen on the show.
Raising worms
Gig Young was soooo handsome💕
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.
SO Pretty.
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$0.75 cents/hour! Such extravagance!
I 1970 I babysat for $.50 hour. Rich kids in private school had $$$clientel
@@meman6964...... That's so funny, because my Mom said she was paid 50 cents an hour too.....( then again, they are male )? 😅😂🤣
Gypsy Rose Lee was a beautiful lady
Back when the whole family sat down and enjoyed tv shows together
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 was surprised that John pronounced her name as ben- oyt instead of Ben-wah.
I am as addicted to this show as a heroin addict is to heroin.
I used to watch her tv show at that time.
Man, Gig Young is GASSSED here!
he killed himself
golden age of TV the nice and highly educated strip teaser minn Rose Lee
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.
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.
The baby sitters were so cute.
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.
I feel sorry for the bubble gum tester who only got a few moments!
*_Own and Operate Babysitting Agency_*
*_Writes Advice To Lovelorn Column_*
*_Bubblegum Tester_*
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.
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!
Gypsy Rose Lee doesn't come out until the 17:00 minute mark.
Most of us enjoy the entire episodes.
I which they had spent more time on that last contestant.
IAM puzzled about the number of people who post a comment only to find they end up in a slanging match with someone else who happens to have a diffent point on the same topic. What is the point of this ??? Everyone has opinions Stop cluttering up the comment section
She was a beautiful woman
Bennett Cerf really kinda is gross and creepy. Even moreso in this episode. *shivers*
Dorothy along with Darlene Francis made this show. Women from this period used their intelligence to their advantage much better than they do now, then that was the alternative.
Clifford Drive
Arlene, love...not Darlene
Arlene's necklace in this episode is stunning! Would those be real or costume?
Gypsy Rose Lee looks like Joyce Grenfell
Gee ! People with class, dressed to the nines, no Dick jokes, and the show was a success.
Mrs Benoit was stunning!
Gig called her Francis 🤦🏼♀️
In 1978, 3 years after marrying, Gig shot his wife to death and then himself.
I never read her column and I was born in SF. I never heard of her. I remember we had a columnist named Count Marco (About women fashion)
One of those babysitters looks a lot older than high school. He seems like the type Arlene would flirt with.
Extraordinary comment.
Mrs. Benoit was one FINE azz woman. The marbles in Gypsy Rose's mouth were an unnecessary distraction, she could have just disguised her voice like everyone else.
gam90000 And the way she was stuffing them into her mouth looked dangerous as well, though I suppose it wouldn't have been that big of a deal had she swallowed any. Also, loved the little twirl she gave her glove after she took it off before getting out the marbles. Good sense of humor!
And kinda edgy, given that Gypsy guzzled amphetamines.
a woman who does an advice column for the lovelorn in san Francisco. now that's a stretch
dodge96neon think of dear abby
Adrienne Gormley Yeah, but not written in or for San. Fran. It was syndicated across the U.S.