Rosemary & husband José Ferrer had 5 kids in 5 years. Just a few years latter he was directing a movie in my little town and he brought her and the whole bunch of kids with him, rented a house and they lived here for the entire hot dusty Summer, while he worked. People still talk about it. They ate in local cafes, shopped in local stores and tore around town in a station wagon with kids hanging out of every window. Just like any average American family of that era. The really interesting thing is the movie starred Pat Boone, who also brought his family to town and did the exact same things with his family. A few years latter Boone's daughter Debby would marry Rosemary's son Gabriel Ferrer and they are still married today. The were literally childhood sweethearts and met that Summer right here in my little town.
When i first saw her on this show i thought she was ill favored with an odd chin and jawline. She was different looking but somehow her looks improved over the years.to where she could look quite beautiful.
I first heard Rosemary Clooney on my mother's old breakable 78 rpm records from the 1940's, made before vinyl LP's were introduced. I was probably two years old when I asked who was singing "Beautiful Brown Eyes" and was told, that's Rosemary Clooney. I liked her even then. And you're right, they don't make them like her anymore!
After Rosemary Clooney is revealed asvthe Mystery Guest, she mentions she is headed back to be with her 3 month old baby, to which Benbett quips something about "you are counting your blessings"...a reference to her 1954 movie "White Christmas" and the song she sings Counting My Blessings.
Rosemary Clooney, was so beautiful and stated that she could not wait to get home to her 3 month old son! Priceless! I also loved the "Brenda Star comic strips!"
My favorite part around 17:44: "I laughed Kentucky, didn't I? Always South." Yes!!! I love that Rosemary Clooney and I shared a home state for over a decade before her passing in 2002. Southern girls gotta stick together!! I laugh Kentucky, too.
That W W 2 bunch - if they weren't something - funny, sexy without being filthy, and intelligent and full-of the old nick all at the same time. Reminds me of my beautiful parents. The depth of experience and laughter used to be what I remember at all of our family parties and celebrations. God how I miss these people.
Wow! A contestant brought on after the mystery guest and the panel had enough time to come up with the correct answer! I think that's a fairly rate occurrence.
I'm sure it helped that they finally dispensed of the "wild guess" segment which saved time for them. They'll have even more time for the show when they ditch the "walk of shame" portion.
Thanks for the explanation. I've noticed Arlene likes to make references to the mystery guest rather than outright ask them and it was puzzling me on this instance.
@@user-iv9xw3vs6c Tom literally said, Rosemary's husband Jose Ferrer PLAYED Toulouse-Lautrec in a film about his life. Arlene's question was tongue-in-cheek.
When it was stated she was married to Jose Ferrer I said wait a minute they were married in 1964 but then I look and they were married twice, 1953 to 1961 also. He was married 5 times which 2 of them to her. She was married 3 times which 2 to Jose. She could really sing though. Thanks for the posting.
"Brenda Starr" was my favorite comic in the 1950's. I couldn't wait for the Sunday Comics section when it was in color. Since Dale Messick always kept Brenda in up-to-date fashionable clothes, it is surprising that she wears a suit that looks about 2 sizes too large for her and a hat that doesn't seem to go with the suit. I would've expected Dale Messick to be in a beautifully fitted ensemble with a smashing hat, gloves, pearls, etc. But, she looks dowdy here. However, I'm happy to get to see her since she was a childhood favorite who gave me many happy hours reading about the adventures of Brenda.
Fred Allen made his name as a radio comedian and a rival to Jack Benny but when he moved to television his appearance counted against him - the rings around his eyes and the bony shape of his face looked odd. In later episodes of this show he wore round glasses without lenses so the black rims hid the circles around his eyes. He pointed this out by pushing his fingers through the empty rims on one occasion. He's brilliant at the deadpan, thinking-out-loud comment and the wounded or mystified look when John Daly spouts a long, opaque explanation (which explains nothing, as intended). Some comedians on this show tried too hard and were simply annoying - Groucho Marx for example - but Fred Allen was a team-player. He died in the street from a heart attack while walking his dog and the episode after that was very sad for all the participants.
Loved him and his odd appearance. He had a mock feud with Jack Benny, whose hometown planted a tree in his honor. Allen asked how the tree was going to live when the sap was in Hollywood?
Yes Daylight Savings was always the last Sunday in April and it should have stayed that way. Remember though sometimes these were recorded but maybe not this one.
Personally I think Dorothy was easily the most clever panelist, although Bennett and Arlene were very good. I wish Steve Allen had been the permanent 4th member of the panel through the years
Steve Allen as good, because he was smart and witty and very quick on the uptake. Unfortunately, NBC offered him the position of host of the brand-new "Tonight Show", 90 minutes then, airing after the 11:00 p.m. new (10 p.m. central), and he actually had to do a lot to come up with that show since it had never been done before. I believe he was involved with the writing staff, too. Good for him for doing that, but I agree it was a loss for WML. It was nice, though, when he would come back as a guest panelist and even nicer in later years when they got both Steven Allen and his wife Jayne Meadows as the male and female guest panelists at the same time.
@@donaldmanthei1224 I like Fred more than Steve but Steve is ok. Fred is wittier. I guess his humor would be called "dry humor" which appeals to me. He's never silly as are a lot of comedians.
Rosemary clooney was the best singer wife and mother I have loved her voice forever she is so missed and adoed By many rip beautiful lady great singer with all my love anne
The baby son the Rosemary Clooney was talking about was one of my favorite actors Miguel Ferrer. Mostly resembled his father and play just as many characters that were bad or the good guy that comes off looking shady. He was born February of 1955 and died in 2017. At the time he was on the TV show N.C.I.S. Los Angeles.
I notice the audience has gotten better about not giving up the game when the panelists get close. Their laughter still gives some clues, but they used to applaud when the panelists had a question or a conference where they named the occupation, even when they hadn’t quite concluded.
I was sure the audience would give it away then. Would like show better if there was no "live" tv audience. They usually giggle too much and it appears the producers even hire professional laughers.
Rosemary Clooney only made a few movies, but I have to say she was really cute in those films. Much later in life, when her nephew George Clooney was still in the cast of "ER", she played a woman who sang but, due to dementia, could not identify herself when she arrived in the hospital.
I notice in most of these videos Arlene wears her heart shaped diamond necklace. It must have been special to her.I was laughing so hard at the guesses for the hog buyer. Wonderful to see Rosemary Clooney.
gina It was a gift from her husband, Martin Gabel, for their first wedding anniversary. Unfortunately somebody stole it from her, while she was getting out of a taxi in approx. 1988, two years after her husband had died.
Goodness, people were so bright, quick, and funny in the 1950'S!! ALL of these people were SPOT ON amazing for their positions on this panel!! I miss these kinds of shows, and this kind of people and times!
Rosemary Clooney and Ruth Lyons were some celebs that my Dad met way back when he was a kid. He didn't know who they were at the time but he was being hospitalized for hepatitis and a bunch of humanitarians came along as well as Rosemary & Ruth. They gave him a plastic baggy of soldier men that he kept for years and he said it was one of the nicest things he ever gotten because he hardly had any toys when he was young. The doctors snatched it up soon as he got them though. There was also a celeb that my grandmaw had met in Las Vegas long time ago too. The situation she found herself in with him is hilarious imo. :)
During the 60's on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson; during the opening monologue, whenever Johnny needed an odd, obscure reference as a punchline it was frequently either "Totie Fields" or "Rosemary Clooney".
My Dad went to America as a trumpeter in her touring band in the early 60s she was great in White Christmas with Vera Allen and Danny Kaye and Bing Crosby great to see these shoes
I can tell you from personal experience, and as a medical professional, anti-depressant/mental health medications have major side effects of weight gain. I've read Ms. Clooney was on psychiatric meds for depression. I'm willing to bet a lot of her weight gain came from those. (Then other organs were altered, requiring more/various pharmaceuticals which added on more weight.) Pay attention to the exhaustive list of side effects during medications commercials, especially psychiatric meds. Weight gain is frequently listed.
She had five kids in five years--- It must have been like "postpartums" depression. She had her own show for some time. I recall seeing her singing on it when she looked like she ought to be giving birth. Jose Ferrer would probably not have been one to help change diapers.
It's interesting how Dale Strom (Messick) came on like an average, rather shy woman from the Midwest. I thought she was going to have some workaday sort of job. In a sense, she was a bit of a celebrity herself.
The cartoonist was interesting the cartoon Brenda Starr was a hot red head well endowed and racy for its time so interesting to see the lady who drew it
mrpuniverse2 -- I grew up reading that comic strip, "Brenda Starr", seven days a week in the Los Angeles *Times*. Mrs. Strom, as mentioned, used her maiden name Dale Messick for that purpose (Dale being a nickname for "Dalia", her given name). I remember seeing her, back in the 1960's, on "To Tell the Truth" where the panel on that show had to pick out the real Dale Messick vis-a-vis two impostors.
+mrpuniverse She was based on a very beautiful redhead movie star, Rita Hayworth, but named her after a debutante of the 1930's. The strip and character was created in 1940, As Madonna sang, "Rita Hayworth" gave good face ... and so much more. Unlike many other beautiful redheads (like the one Bennett yearned to see, Rhonda Fleming), I see no evidence that Miss Hayworth ever appeared on WML or any other panel show. Sadly her career was cut short by her early 40's by early onset Alzheimer's. She could only handle small roles in her last few active years, and then nothing at all.
+ToddSF 94109 Brenda Starr was also one of my must reads on the opposite coast in the New York Daily News. That was the newspaper that gave Dale her first big break. Nothing like starting at the top with the newspaper that enjoyed the largest circulation in the U.S.
Her clever mind and knoweldge about Marilyn Monroe's death perhaps got her killed. However it remained a mystery as some said she died due to overdose. The unsolved mystery.
She was 52 when she died, and so could have been puffy from menopause. There is far more circumstantial evidence that she was murdered than that she died of a drug overdose. Especially since she died in the same way as Marilyn Monroe, and they both had connections to the Kennedy crime family.
I swear, Bennet Serf is given the answers prior to the show. I've seen him on many occasions with his first "question" get WAY to close to the "line" where the odds of someone guessing either right on or that close are astronomical. NO one is THAT good without prior or "inside" information.
@@thebeatnumber I think my observation is quite fair. If you've seen enough episodes, it's very easy to come to the same conclusion. I never said the others weren't smart. But, when I watch, it just seems too funny to me that Bennet always seems to either hit it on the head right away or come very close from the first question.
I don't think there was any outright cheating going on, but in one show he admits hanging out back stage to see if he could pick up any clues before the show. He was an endearing kind of nosey. 😆
Regarding Bennett, I think in the comments of another episode, it was stated that Bennett's wife often had inside information. I've watched many of these & it's obvious when Bennett didn't know beforehand, & when he did.
@@FocusBeyond777Well that is indirect cheating. He also guessed Mystery Guests but did make it a point to always read up in the Newspapers who was in town. So he got an edge.
Classy and pretty Rosemary- patternal aunt of George Clooney. He has taken after her somehow, I don't know how... but this is a fact. Correct me if i am wrong, please !
So since John flubbed it up for Toogood, why didn't he flip all the cards and give him the $50, when he had the type of job where he could have used that amount? John applied such an uneven hand as to when he would flip all the cards, that it becomes a question as to why the producers just didn't tell him to always do it when things were questionable or had gotten confused or exposed in some way.
According to Gil Fates' book, all contestants were awarded the same amount, and it was more than $50. The card-flipping was really just a formality. Also, all panelists earned equal amounts.
@@rmelin13231 Appearances matter. But, of course, they would all have gotten their expenses paid to get there and stay there and get home plus whatever the AFTRA union rate was for non-union single performances.
On this date, the Dodgers lost to the Giants 11-10, a wild affair that saw the Giants score 6 runs in the top of the 10th only to see the Dodgers rally in the bottom half. But the Dodgers fell one run short, stranding runners on first and second when the final out was recorded. Even so, the Dodgers continued their winning streak at the start of the season by sweeping four games from the Phillies, the first two in Philadelphia and the last two at Ebbets Field. The Giants snapped the Dodgers winning streak at Ebbets Field the next day and the Dodgers won on Saturday. That put the Dodgers at 11-2, 2½ games ahead of the Braves. They didn't play again until Wednesday (at least one rainout probably) but started an 11 game winning streak that day. Monday April 18 was Ed Roebuck's major league debut with the Dodgers, beginning his fine relief pitching career as the Dodgers won 5-2. The Dodgers scored all their runs in the 5th inning, with Duke Snider's three run home run overcoming a 2-0 lead by the Phillies and pitcher Carl Erskine driving in the final two runs. What I find interesting is that Roebuck's recounting of his first game differed in many respects from the official transcript of the game. He remembers coming in the game in relief of Carl Erskine in the 5th inning and getting a win. He actually came in during the 6th inning (same circumstances, Erskine started walking batters) and got retroactive credit for a save one of 12 he had that year, tied for a career high. He remembers coming in to face Del Ennis. Ennis made the last out of the 5th inning against Erskine. He remembers getting Ennis to hit into a double play because he was a sinker ball pitcher. The first batter Roebuck retired was Stan Palys, a fringe major league player while Ennis was the star power hitter of the Phillies for many years. Palys did not hit into a double play. He flied out to right. Regardless, he gave up no hits and no runs pitching the final 3 2/3 innings, and he did get a double play in the 9th inning after walking Palys. Veteran Floyd Baker, whose major league career would end less than a month later, hit into the double play. Major League players tend to embellish their stories over the years. Roebuck would record a save in the next game as well, and another in the game that started their 11 game winning streak 8 days later. On Wednesday April 20, the Dodgers again overcame a 2-0 Phillies lead, scoring three runs on only one hit, a two-run single by Gil Hodges (they only had three hits in the entire game). This time it was Clem Labine who nailed down the win with his first save of the year. The final game of the winning streak saw the Dodgers explode for 14 runs, 10 (7 unearned) coming against Phillies star pitcher Robin Roberts. 1955 was the 6th straight and last year Roberts would win 20 or more games as he led the league with 23 wins. It was also the fourth straight and last year he would lead the league in complete games (26) and innings pitched (305, his 6th straight year of 300 or more innings). But he didn't have it that day as was knocked out in a 7-run fourth inning, surrendering home runs to Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider and Sandy Amoros. Don Zimmer and Carol Furillo also contributed four hits apiece to the onslaught. The Dodgers finally proved human when they lost at home to the Giants on Friday, April 22. Johnny Podres held the Giants scoreless through 7, stranding the bases loaded in the 7th inning with one out to protect a 3-0 lead. But this time it was the opposing team who would come up with a 5 run inning, The Giants broke through in the eighth but Podres left the game leading 3-2. But Whitey Lockman greeted relief pitcher Jim Hughes (the Dodgers best reliever in 1954) with a double and when Don Zimmer's relay throw ended up in the dugout, Lockman came around to score an important insurance run as the Dodgers came back with one run in their half of the eighth. The Dodgers came back to win the middle game of the series, 3-1 with both pitchers going the distance: Erskine raising his record to 3-0, while Sal Maglie lost his third straight decision to start the season. Fuses were short in this game and Robinson was in the middle of most of it. First Maglie threw a pitch behind Robinson's head and sent a few other Dodger hitters to the dirt and high inside pitches. The next time up, Robinson bunted with the idea that Maglie would cover first base and he could run him down in the process. Instead, he collided with Davey Williams covering first base after Whitey Lockman fielded the bunt. Williams was considered one of the few players on the Giants who was not a dirty player at that time (Willie Mays was another) and one of the last players Robinson would have targeted. Williams injured his back on the play and he never fully recovered. The Giants starting second baseman the three previous seasons, by mid-July he was on the bench for 15 straight days. He started the game on July 31, had to come out in the 7th inning and the Giants released him after the end of the game. He was a Giants coach for the rest of that year and all of 1957, but when the Giants left for San Francisco, Williams didn't go with them and left professional baseball for good at age 29. There was one more collision in the game, Al Dark colliding with him the following inning at third base, causing Robinson to drop a throw that would have retired Dark trying to stretch a double into a triple. But Erskine stranded Dark by getting Mays to fly out to end the inning. The Dodgers would finally tend to the matter at hand by scoring two runs in the bottom of the eighth to snap a 1-1 tie, a double by Hodges, a triple by Amoros and a single by Furillo sealing the Giants fate.
+Teri Anne Beauchamp It is belated protest to the fact that the Brooklyn Dodgers were a highly successful NYC team that won four pennants and one World Series (and finished second three other times, twice losing the pennant on the last day of the season) and yet were relatively ignored by "What's My Line?" in bringing on celebrities from the Dodgers compared to the number that they brought on from the Yankees and Giants in the years (1950-57) when WML was on the air and the Dodgers were still in NYC. In 1955 in particular, the Dodgers won the World Series and yet not once during or after the season did WML bring a player or manager on the show from the World Champions. And when they finally brought a member of the Dodgers on WML during the 1956 World Series, they chose Sal Maglie who had been on the team less than a full season and whose career was primarily with the Dodgers hated rival, the Giants. Besides, RUclips only shows the first four lines of the post. If you aren't interested, it is very easy for you to scroll past on not click on "read more". It's not like my post is using up bandwidth on your computer.
There may have been more than two by this time, but this is the second time with a left-handed challenger that they used a different camera to capture the challenger signing in, meaning that John Daly looked to his immediate left to introduce the challenger rather than straight ahead.
I'm a little confused by the atomic references, since Operation Teapot, which was not at Yucca Flats, had tests in April and May (but before this in April), and Project 56. which was, had tests in November. (I suspect it's just that a) the test times changed, and b) Dorothy was wrong on location.) I can't find later information on Mr. Toogood just now (there's 2 possible death dates and I'm at work), but he and his family came over from England in 1948.
Inside jokes maybe and funny moments yet today in my country GB we now have people fully naked on mainstream TV as dating Quiz shows. What have we come from and they're not even funny anymore.
I know some like Fred Allen but his appeal is lost on me… The introductions: these are for paying a compliment or ‘promoting’ the next person- he never did that. He used the introduction to say some silly quip that he had come up with. (under the guise of “Dorothy just told me that… “ or who ever he was introducing) He quite often talked over others while his mic was on. He never seemed particularly clever to me, either. He also didn’t seem to really enjoy the game very much. (IMHO) Sorry all who like him! LOL I just don’t see it! 😆😂
I rather enjoy him, but wonder if they didn't change the intro's from "on my left," to "on my right," because Arlene possibly wasn't very fond of his intro's. I believe it was the previous episode he said, "...on my left is Arlene Francis," and she immediately chimed in, " ...THAT's ENOUGH!"
Yes, I'm pretty much with you on that. I was never really a Fred Allen fan, although he could make me laugh at times. Maybe he was better on radio, I don't know. Likewise Jackie Gleason, and a few others of the time frame. Can't please all of us all the time! 😉
I figured it was private information, since a butler would work in a private home for the family living there, probably a well-to-do family who might not want their name mentioned on television. Different from working for a corporation or firm. If he'd been a butler at the White House or Gracie Mansion (where the Mayor of New York City lives), that they could have mentioned it because with such public "official residences", there is no issue of privacy since everyone knows who the President is and a whole lot of people know the Mayor of NYC.
They did ask him where he was from and he replied. (he named a specific town in Connecticut) It's no different than how they greet the other contestants. For example Daly asked Ms. Dodd where she was from and she replied a specific town in Ohio. I know where they are from and where they work could be different, but they don't always differentiate so I don't think they were purposely trying to hide anything or treat the butler any different than any other contestant. It was entirely possible that he could have worked in the same town that he said he was from.
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Rosemary & husband José Ferrer had 5 kids in 5 years. Just a few years latter he was directing a movie in my little town and he brought her and the whole bunch of kids with him, rented a house and they lived here for the entire hot dusty Summer, while he worked. People still talk about it. They ate in local cafes, shopped in local stores and tore around town in a station wagon with kids hanging out of every window. Just like any average American family of that era. The really interesting thing is the movie starred Pat Boone, who also brought his family to town and did the exact same things with his family. A few years latter Boone's daughter Debby would marry Rosemary's son Gabriel Ferrer and they are still married today. The were literally childhood sweethearts and met that Summer right here in my little town.
I thought Debbie Boone was no longer married to Boones son. That is good to know they are still together. Maybe they were separated for a while.
@@m.e.d.7997 You mean Debbie, no longer married to Gabriel? lol
@@ceciliem1811 Yeah. lol Ferrer's.
WHAT TOWN?!!!!
That is a great story!
Rosemary is luminous and just so delightful and lovely. I’ve always loved how her eyes squint up when she smiles.
When i first saw her on this show i thought she was ill favored with an odd chin and jawline. She was different looking but somehow her looks improved over the years.to where she could look quite beautiful.
Rosemary Clooney, what a beautiful woman and very talented artist.
I had the great pleasure of seeing Ms Clooney perform live twice - once solo and once as part of 4 girls 4. They don't make them like her any more.
I first heard Rosemary Clooney on my mother's old breakable 78 rpm records from the 1940's, made before vinyl LP's were introduced. I was probably two years old when I asked who was singing "Beautiful Brown Eyes" and was told, that's Rosemary Clooney. I liked her even then. And you're right, they don't make them like her anymore!
After Rosemary Clooney is revealed asvthe Mystery Guest, she mentions she is headed back to be with her 3 month old baby, to which Benbett quips something about "you are counting your blessings"...a reference to her 1954 movie "White Christmas" and the song she sings Counting My Blessings.
Rosemary Clooney, was so beautiful and stated that she could not wait to get home to her 3 month old son! Priceless! I also loved the "Brenda Star comic strips!"
Sad. She is so excited her but life got sad for her. At least she did not outlive
that little boy.
Love her.
Gorgeous singing voice.
My favorite part around 17:44: "I laughed Kentucky, didn't I? Always South." Yes!!! I love that Rosemary Clooney and I shared a home state for over a decade before her passing in 2002. Southern girls gotta stick together!! I laugh Kentucky, too.
Her laugh did scream "ROSEMARY CLOONEY
That W W 2 bunch - if they weren't something - funny, sexy without being filthy, and intelligent and full-of the old nick all at the same time. Reminds me of my beautiful parents. The depth of experience and laughter used to be what I remember at all of our family parties and celebrations. God how I miss these people.
Are you a writer? If not, you should be! Beautifully and eloquently expressive. 😊
I have loved Rosemary Clooney for decades. Such a warm, talented woman. Sad that so many people know her now as only George Clooney's aunt.
Yes. Rosemary is his aunt,not George' s mom.
Henry S. Toogood... one of the coolest names for a contestant thus far.
I literally just put two and two together and realized the baby she was talking about was the now late Miguel Ferrer.
Ohhh..... I didn't realise.
Bless them.
This was back in the day when men stood up for ladies, and people used Sir and Ma'am. So lovely to see people dressed up as well.
Dorothy knew how to get information and draw out the contestants. It's what she did so she had a bit of an edge on the others.
Dorothy was a investigative reporter for years 😊
I was 2 days old when this show originally aired!
I was 7.
Wow! A contestant brought on after the mystery guest and the panel had enough time to come up with the correct answer! I think that's a fairly rate occurrence.
I'm sure it helped that they finally dispensed of the "wild guess" segment which saved time for them. They'll have even more time for the show when they ditch the "walk of shame" portion.
It was planned. Someone has to convince me that Bennett was not tipped on RClooney’s identity.
"rare"
17:03, "are you married to toulouse-lautrec?" a french painter played in the 1952 movie "moulin rouge" by her husband jose ferrer.
Thanks for the explanation. I've noticed Arlene likes to make references to the mystery guest rather than outright ask them and it was puzzling me on this instance.
didn't he die in 1901? or that is another one?)
@@user-iv9xw3vs6c Tom literally said, Rosemary's husband Jose Ferrer PLAYED Toulouse-Lautrec in a film about his life. Arlene's question was tongue-in-cheek.
When it was stated she was married to Jose Ferrer I said wait a minute they were married in 1964 but then I look and they were married twice, 1953 to 1961 also. He was married 5 times which 2 of them to her. She was married 3 times which 2 to Jose. She could really sing though. Thanks for the posting.
When I think of or see Rosemary Clooney I go back to the old commercial "Extra value is what you get, when you buy Coronet."
"Brenda Starr" was my favorite comic in the 1950's. I couldn't wait for the Sunday Comics section when it was in color. Since Dale Messick always kept Brenda in up-to-date fashionable clothes, it is surprising that she wears a suit that looks about 2 sizes too large for her and a hat that doesn't seem to go with the suit. I would've expected Dale Messick to be in a beautifully fitted ensemble with a smashing hat, gloves, pearls, etc. But, she looks dowdy here. However, I'm happy to get to see her since she was a childhood favorite who gave me many happy hours reading about the adventures of Brenda.
She probably used Brenda as an alter ego. She was the "Clark Kent" of the team. 😉
1955 has been fantastic so far
I was 6 years old!!
@@kmgirl1967 Heck I wasn't born yet. A year later I popped out.
My grandma was born in March of that year
@@kmgirl1967 I was 13. The beginning of the horrible teen yrs.😊
So so pretty when she was young!! Love you Rosey
Dale Strom (Messick) drew comic strips until she was 92 years old!
Fred Allen made his name as a radio comedian and a rival to Jack Benny but when he moved to television his appearance counted against him - the rings around his eyes and the bony shape of his face looked odd. In later episodes of this show he wore round glasses without lenses so the black rims hid the circles around his eyes. He pointed this out by pushing his fingers through the empty rims on one occasion. He's brilliant at the deadpan, thinking-out-loud comment and the wounded or mystified look when John Daly spouts a long, opaque explanation (which explains nothing, as intended). Some comedians on this show tried too hard and were simply annoying - Groucho Marx for example - but Fred Allen was a team-player. He died in the street from a heart attack while walking his dog and the episode after that was very sad for all the participants.
He's probably the wittiest man I have seen on tv or anywhere for that matter.
Loved him and his odd appearance. He had a mock feud with Jack Benny, whose hometown planted a tree in his honor. Allen asked how the tree was going to live when the sap was in Hollywood?
I have to agree with you about Groucho. But it seems we're in the minority.
@@JD-jc8gpI never liked Groucho at all. Loved the attention on himself, talked constantly and was not funny.
@@jerrylee8261He was not funny to me
Fred Allen is hilarious. He asked the lady if she moved her watch up last night...must have been daylights savings.
Yes Daylight Savings was always the last Sunday in April and it should have stayed that way. Remember though sometimes these were recorded but maybe not this one.
Personally I think Dorothy was easily the most clever panelist, although Bennett and Arlene were very good. I wish Steve Allen had been the permanent 4th member of the panel through the years
Steve Allen as good, because he was smart and witty and very quick on the uptake. Unfortunately, NBC offered him the position of host of the brand-new "Tonight Show", 90 minutes then, airing after the 11:00 p.m. new (10 p.m. central), and he actually had to do a lot to come up with that show since it had never been done before. I believe he was involved with the writing staff, too. Good for him for doing that, but I agree it was a loss for WML. It was nice, though, when he would come back as a guest panelist and even nicer in later years when they got both Steven Allen and his wife Jayne Meadows as the male and female guest panelists at the same time.
I like Fred too!
@@donaldmanthei1224 I like Fred more than Steve but Steve is ok. Fred is wittier. I guess his humor would be called "dry humor" which appeals to me. He's never silly as are a lot of comedians.
Steve Allen was a very special talent
@@donaldmanthei1224 Me too and so sad he passed away on March 17, 1956 (aged 61)
Fred Allen is just hilarious 😂😂😆
Explain that to all the younger generations! They naturally don't understand dry humor can be hilarious 😂
Mrs. Clooney is the definition of charming.
R.I.P Miguel Ferrer 1955-2017.
“She associates with them.” Brilliant dry wit, Mr. Allen!
Rosemary clooney was the best singer wife and mother
I have loved her voice forever she is so missed and adoed
By many rip beautiful lady great singer with all my love anne
Wow! The first contestant was from my home town, what a treat!
The baby son the Rosemary Clooney was talking about was one of my favorite actors Miguel Ferrer. Mostly resembled his father and play just as many characters that were bad or the good guy that comes off looking shady. He was born February of 1955 and died in 2017. At the time he was on the TV show N.C.I.S. Los Angeles.
Yes so sad. A least his mother died before.
I notice the audience has gotten better about not giving up the game when the panelists get close. Their laughter still gives some clues, but they used to applaud when the panelists had a question or a conference where they named the occupation, even when they hadn’t quite concluded.
I was sure the audience would give it away then. Would like show better if there was no "live" tv audience. They usually giggle too much and it appears the producers even hire professional laughers.
Rosemary was so darling! She was only 27 here I believe. :)
Rosemary Clooney only made a few movies, but I have to say she was really cute in those films. Much later in life, when her nephew George Clooney was still in the cast of "ER", she played a woman who sang but, due to dementia, could not identify herself when she arrived in the hospital.
I notice in most of these videos Arlene wears her heart shaped diamond necklace. It must have been special to her.I was laughing so hard at the guesses for the hog buyer. Wonderful to see Rosemary Clooney.
gina It was a gift from her husband, Martin Gabel, for their first wedding anniversary. Unfortunately somebody stole it from her, while she was getting out of a taxi in approx. 1988, two years after her husband had died.
@@tessar.9779 Thank u for explaining. So awful someone would steal it.
@@ginaloverofangels Jewelry can be replaced. Under the circumstances, she was lucky not to have suffered serious physical injury or even death.
@@preppysocks209 I don't know about her background.
Goodness, people were so bright, quick, and funny in the 1950'S!! ALL of these people were SPOT ON amazing for their positions on this panel!! I miss these kinds of shows, and this kind of people and times!
Fred Allen is on fire in this episode - I'm laughing out loud and it's only the first contestant
When Fred Allen said the contestant associates with hogs, that cracked me up!
He asked the lady if she moved her clock forward.
Wow! Mrs. Strom's chapeau is amazing. Like a "half-bonnet"!
I'm not gonna pretend to be a massive fan of hers; however from what I've seen, she was a beautiful talented woman. I love her so much, RIP
I can’t help thinking about Fred arriving to the studio on a Hog.🤣
I mean he is a comedian, but that’s farfetched even for him.😂
It would have to have been the Harley version! 😁
Beautiful lady.
A Butler named Toogood. How appropriate. ;)
File it under the category of "you can't make these things up".
Rosemary Clooney and Ruth Lyons were some celebs that my Dad met way back when he was a kid. He didn't know who they were at the time but he was being hospitalized for hepatitis and a bunch of humanitarians came along as well as Rosemary & Ruth. They gave him a plastic baggy of soldier men that he kept for years and he said it was one of the nicest things he ever gotten because he hardly had any toys when he was young. The doctors snatched it up soon as he got them though.
There was also a celeb that my grandmaw had met in Las Vegas long time ago too. The situation she found herself in with him is hilarious imo. :)
Do tell us the funny story re your "grandmaw!"
Please don't leave us hanging?!
Rosemary is lovely!
During the 60's on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson; during the opening monologue, whenever Johnny needed an odd, obscure reference as a punchline it was frequently either "Totie Fields" or "Rosemary Clooney".
My Dad went to America as a trumpeter in her touring band in the early 60s she was great in White Christmas with Vera Allen and Danny Kaye and Bing Crosby great to see these shoes
Very sad how Rosemary's life progressed. Lot's of heartache and challenges.
Brooke Hanley she talked about post partum depression
@@nadiazahroon6573 Gained a ton of weight and suffered from bipolar disorder. She seems like such a nice lady here. Quite beautiful too.
Yes she had a difficult life. She always seemed like a really classy lady though.
I can tell you from personal experience, and as a medical professional, anti-depressant/mental health medications have major side effects of weight gain. I've read Ms. Clooney was on psychiatric meds for depression. I'm willing to bet a lot of her weight gain came from those. (Then other organs were altered, requiring more/various pharmaceuticals which added on more weight.)
Pay attention to the exhaustive list of side effects during medications commercials, especially psychiatric meds. Weight gain is frequently listed.
She had five kids in five years--- It must have been like "postpartums" depression. She had her own show for some time. I recall seeing her singing on it when she looked like she ought to be giving birth. Jose Ferrer would probably not have been one to help change diapers.
I just adore Rosemary Clooney.
"Will you be the aunt of your nephew George who will be born in six years" "Yes." "Then you must be Rosemary Clooney!"
It's interesting how Dale Strom (Messick) came on like an average, rather shy woman from the Midwest. I thought she was going to have some workaday sort of job. In a sense, she was a bit of a celebrity herself.
Arlene was so smart!
And charming. Beautiful woman 😊
I enjoy watching What's my line? on RUclips and RIP to all the panel, panelists and host on this show they will truly be missed.
And obviously the shows producers, audience 😊
The cartoonist was interesting the cartoon Brenda Starr was a hot red head well endowed and racy for its time so interesting to see the lady who drew it
mrpuniverse2 -- I grew up reading that comic strip, "Brenda Starr", seven days a week in the Los Angeles *Times*. Mrs. Strom, as mentioned, used her maiden name Dale Messick for that purpose (Dale being a nickname for "Dalia", her given name). I remember seeing her, back in the 1960's, on "To Tell the Truth" where the panel on that show had to pick out the real Dale Messick vis-a-vis two impostors.
+mrpuniverse
She was based on a very beautiful redhead movie star, Rita Hayworth, but named her after a debutante of the 1930's. The strip and character was created in 1940,
As Madonna sang, "Rita Hayworth" gave good face ... and so much more.
Unlike many other beautiful redheads (like the one Bennett yearned to see, Rhonda Fleming), I see no evidence that Miss Hayworth ever appeared on WML or any other panel show. Sadly her career was cut short by her early 40's by early onset Alzheimer's. She could only handle small roles in her last few active years, and then nothing at all.
+ToddSF 94109
Brenda Starr was also one of my must reads on the opposite coast in the New York Daily News. That was the newspaper that gave Dale her first big break. Nothing like starting at the top with the newspaper that enjoyed the largest circulation in the U.S.
Rosemary Clooney is a 27-year-old young woman there. Wow!
The aunt of George Clooney😊
Anyone here in 2024?
...and yes, George is related. He's her nephew.
RIP beautiful 📽🎙🎶
Thank goodness they changed the format of having the contestants leave behind John Daly.
Such a bygone era. Everyone so happy and proud to be an American. Nothing but optimism for the future.
Im convinced the 50s-60s were peak civilization. lol
Dorothy looks beautiful here.
Dorothy ALWAYS looks beautiful.
My computer screen must be broken
@@stevekru6518
How cheeky... hahaha!!!
Yes, Dorothy does look especially beautiful tonite.
My goodness she was lovely
WOW! 24:35 in Jon actually said "Thankyou" to Bennett. Better book mark this one.
Dorothy was so intelligent! I think it got her killed.
Her clever mind and knoweldge about Marilyn Monroe's death perhaps got her killed. However it remained a mystery as some said she died due to overdose. The unsolved mystery.
If you see her in later years, she was so puffy like a drug user....and died full of drugs....
She was 52 when she died, and so could have been puffy from menopause. There is far more circumstantial evidence that she was murdered than that she died of a drug overdose. Especially since she died in the same way as Marilyn Monroe, and they both had connections to the Kennedy crime family.
the baby son she was talking about was the late great Miguel José Ferrer
I thought the "is it larger than a breadbox" question was first used by Steve, not Fred, Allen.
thomas thompson, someone on the panel asked it last week too, it wasn’t Fred
Its true, Steve was the first one to ask the question on the show.
It was Steve.
I swear, Bennet Serf is given the answers prior to the show. I've seen him on many occasions with his first "question" get WAY to close to the "line" where the odds of someone guessing either right on or that close are astronomical. NO one is THAT good without prior or "inside" information.
That's not fair. Dorothy was easily the strongest of the panelists but the others, including Cerf, weren't no slouches.
@@thebeatnumber I think my observation is quite fair. If you've seen enough episodes, it's very easy to come to the same conclusion. I never said the others weren't smart. But, when I watch, it just seems too funny to me that Bennet always seems to either hit it on the head right away or come very close from the first question.
I don't think there was any outright cheating going on, but in one show he admits hanging out back stage to see if he could pick up any clues before the show. He was an endearing kind of nosey. 😆
Regarding Bennett, I think in the comments of another episode, it was stated that Bennett's wife often had inside information. I've watched many of these & it's obvious when Bennett didn't know beforehand, & when he did.
@@FocusBeyond777Well that is indirect cheating. He also guessed Mystery Guests but did make it a point to always read up in the Newspapers who was in town. So he got an edge.
I only remember Rosemary as an older woman.
Classy and pretty Rosemary- patternal aunt of George Clooney. He has taken after her somehow, I don't know how... but this is a fact. Correct me if i am wrong, please !
So since John flubbed it up for Toogood, why didn't he flip all the cards and give him the $50, when he had the type of job where he could have used that amount? John applied such an uneven hand as to when he would flip all the cards, that it becomes a question as to why the producers just didn't tell him to always do it when things were questionable or had gotten confused or exposed in some way.
According to Gil Fates' book, all contestants were awarded the same amount, and it was more than $50. The card-flipping was really just a formality. Also, all panelists earned equal amounts.
@@rmelin13231 Appearances matter. But, of course, they would all have gotten their expenses paid to get there and stay there and get home plus whatever the AFTRA union rate was for non-union single performances.
On this date, the Dodgers lost to the Giants 11-10, a wild affair that saw the Giants score 6 runs in the top of the 10th only to see the Dodgers rally in the bottom half. But the Dodgers fell one run short, stranding runners on first and second when the final out was recorded.
Even so, the Dodgers continued their winning streak at the start of the season by sweeping four games from the Phillies, the first two in Philadelphia and the last two at Ebbets Field. The Giants snapped the Dodgers winning streak at Ebbets Field the next day and the Dodgers won on Saturday. That put the Dodgers at 11-2, 2½ games ahead of the Braves. They didn't play again until Wednesday (at least one rainout probably) but started an 11 game winning streak that day.
Monday April 18 was Ed Roebuck's major league debut with the Dodgers, beginning his fine relief pitching career as the Dodgers won 5-2. The Dodgers scored all their runs in the 5th inning, with Duke Snider's three run home run overcoming a 2-0 lead by the Phillies and pitcher Carl Erskine driving in the final two runs. What I find interesting is that Roebuck's recounting of his first game differed in many respects from the official transcript of the game. He remembers coming in the game in relief of Carl Erskine in the 5th inning and getting a win. He actually came in during the 6th inning (same circumstances, Erskine started walking batters) and got retroactive credit for a save one of 12 he had that year, tied for a career high. He remembers coming in to face Del Ennis. Ennis made the last out of the 5th inning against Erskine. He remembers getting Ennis to hit into a double play because he was a sinker ball pitcher. The first batter Roebuck retired was Stan Palys, a fringe major league player while Ennis was the star power hitter of the Phillies for many years. Palys did not hit into a double play. He flied out to right. Regardless, he gave up no hits and no runs pitching the final 3 2/3 innings, and he did get a double play in the 9th inning after walking Palys. Veteran Floyd Baker, whose major league career would end less than a month later, hit into the double play. Major League players tend to embellish their stories over the years. Roebuck would record a save in the next game as well, and another in the game that started their 11 game winning streak 8 days later.
On Wednesday April 20, the Dodgers again overcame a 2-0 Phillies lead, scoring three runs on only one hit, a two-run single by Gil Hodges (they only had three hits in the entire game). This time it was Clem Labine who nailed down the win with his first save of the year.
The final game of the winning streak saw the Dodgers explode for 14 runs, 10 (7 unearned) coming against Phillies star pitcher Robin Roberts. 1955 was the 6th straight and last year Roberts would win 20 or more games as he led the league with 23 wins. It was also the fourth straight and last year he would lead the league in complete games (26) and innings pitched (305, his 6th straight year of 300 or more innings). But he didn't have it that day as was knocked out in a 7-run fourth inning, surrendering home runs to Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider and Sandy Amoros. Don Zimmer and Carol Furillo also contributed four hits apiece to the onslaught.
The Dodgers finally proved human when they lost at home to the Giants on Friday, April 22. Johnny Podres held the Giants scoreless through 7, stranding the bases loaded in the 7th inning with one out to protect a 3-0 lead. But this time it was the opposing team who would come up with a 5 run inning, The Giants broke through in the eighth but Podres left the game leading 3-2. But Whitey Lockman greeted relief pitcher Jim Hughes (the Dodgers best reliever in 1954) with a double and when Don Zimmer's relay throw ended up in the dugout, Lockman came around to score an important insurance run as the Dodgers came back with one run in their half of the eighth.
The Dodgers came back to win the middle game of the series, 3-1 with both pitchers going the distance: Erskine raising his record to 3-0, while Sal Maglie lost his third straight decision to start the season. Fuses were short in this game and Robinson was in the middle of most of it. First Maglie threw a pitch behind Robinson's head and sent a few other Dodger hitters to the dirt and high inside pitches. The next time up, Robinson bunted with the idea that Maglie would cover first base and he could run him down in the process. Instead, he collided with Davey Williams covering first base after Whitey Lockman fielded the bunt. Williams was considered one of the few players on the Giants who was not a dirty player at that time (Willie Mays was another) and one of the last players Robinson would have targeted. Williams injured his back on the play and he never fully recovered. The Giants starting second baseman the three previous seasons, by mid-July he was on the bench for 15 straight days. He started the game on July 31, had to come out in the 7th inning and the Giants released him after the end of the game. He was a Giants coach for the rest of that year and all of 1957, but when the Giants left for San Francisco, Williams didn't go with them and left professional baseball for good at age 29.
There was one more collision in the game, Al Dark colliding with him the following inning at third base, causing Robinson to drop a throw that would have retired Dark trying to stretch a double into a triple. But Erskine stranded Dark by getting Mays to fly out to end the inning.
The Dodgers would finally tend to the matter at hand by scoring two runs in the bottom of the eighth to snap a 1-1 tie, a double by Hodges, a triple by Amoros and a single by Furillo sealing the Giants fate.
Lois Simmons why are you constantly posting baseball junk t hat has nothing to do with the show.
+Teri Anne Beauchamp
It is belated protest to the fact that the Brooklyn Dodgers were a highly successful NYC team that won four pennants and one World Series (and finished second three other times, twice losing the pennant on the last day of the season) and yet were relatively ignored by "What's My Line?" in bringing on celebrities from the Dodgers compared to the number that they brought on from the Yankees and Giants in the years (1950-57) when WML was on the air and the Dodgers were still in NYC. In 1955 in particular, the Dodgers won the World Series and yet not once during or after the season did WML bring a player or manager on the show from the World Champions. And when they finally brought a member of the Dodgers on WML during the 1956 World Series, they chose Sal Maglie who had been on the team less than a full season and whose career was primarily with the Dodgers hated rival, the Giants.
Besides, RUclips only shows the first four lines of the post. If you aren't interested, it is very easy for you to scroll past on not click on "read more". It's not like my post is using up bandwidth on your computer.
Quiet, Lois!
her laugh was a dead giveaway!
I enjoyed Miss Dodd a bunch.
(She appears never to have married, and died in 1997, at the age of 95.)
I enjoyed her also. Glad to see she lived to a ripe age.
Ms. Massick is the second lefty contenstant I've seen in this show. :)
There may have been more than two by this time, but this is the second time with a left-handed challenger that they used a different camera to capture the challenger signing in, meaning that John Daly looked to his immediate left to introduce the challenger rather than straight ahead.
I'm a little confused by the atomic references, since Operation Teapot, which was not at Yucca Flats, had tests in April and May (but before this in April), and Project 56. which was, had tests in November. (I suspect it's just that a) the test times changed, and b) Dorothy was wrong on location.)
I can't find later information on Mr. Toogood just now (there's 2 possible death dates and I'm at work), but he and his family came over from England in 1948.
The atomic era started in July of 1945 when the US set off the first atomic explosion. I have my apartment decorated in "atomic 1950's"
Rosemary Clooney - she was Diana Krall's mentor and idol.
poetcomic1 she was George clooney's aunt
I never cared for Fred Allen. They seemed to like him though. He died either this year or the year after but I think it was this year.
He died in the Spring of 1956 of a heart attack.
She was hot. Beautiful woman with a fine voice.
parkay says butterrrrrrrrrrrr
Lee Vines is the announcer.
Interesting. The Real life Brenda Starr had no idea about Herr. Dorothy Killgarron.
Can anyone tell me what Fred Allen said when he shook hands with Miss Dodd (around 2:40)?
"Did you move your watch up last night", presumably referring to the start of Daylight Savings Time.
Thanks for the info and for the uploads. I'm loving this show. I'm 50, and I never knew it existed!
By the way, Rosemary Clooney was George Clooney's aunt
And fire burns
No, George is Rosie's nephew
The Apple fell FAR from the tree
He was Toogood for that show.
Inside jokes maybe and funny moments yet today in my country GB we now have people fully naked on mainstream TV as dating Quiz shows. What have we come from and they're not even funny anymore.
Well, I would watch Arlene and Dorothy naked 😘
I know some like Fred Allen but his appeal is lost on me…
The introductions: these are for paying a compliment or ‘promoting’ the next person- he never did that. He used the introduction to say some silly quip that he had come up with. (under the guise of “Dorothy just told me that… “ or who ever he was introducing)
He quite often talked over others while his mic was on.
He never seemed particularly clever to me, either.
He also didn’t seem to really enjoy the game very much. (IMHO)
Sorry all who like him! LOL I just don’t see it! 😆😂
I rather enjoy him, but wonder if they didn't change the intro's from "on my left," to "on my right," because Arlene possibly wasn't very fond of his intro's. I believe it was the previous episode he said, "...on my left is Arlene Francis," and she immediately chimed in, " ...THAT's ENOUGH!"
I agree, extremely cringeworthy
Yes, I'm pretty much with you on that. I was never really a Fred Allen fan, although he could make me laugh at times. Maybe he was better on radio, I don't know. Likewise Jackie Gleason, and a few others of the time frame. Can't please all of us all the time! 😉
I just read that Rosemary was a heavy smoker and died of lung cancer at 74. Sad. Did she smoke in any of her movies?
Rosemary Clooney is bae material
ho george clooney's aunt
John never revealed where the butler worked. Maybe it was a secret....
I figured it was private information, since a butler would work in a private home for the family living there, probably a well-to-do family who might not want their name mentioned on television. Different from working for a corporation or firm. If he'd been a butler at the White House or Gracie Mansion (where the Mayor of New York City lives), that they could have mentioned it because with such public "official residences", there is no issue of privacy since everyone knows who the President is and a whole lot of people know the Mayor of NYC.
They did ask him where he was from and he replied. (he named a specific town in Connecticut) It's no different than how they greet the other contestants. For example Daly asked Ms. Dodd where she was from and she replied a specific town in Ohio. I know where they are from and where they work could be different, but they don't always differentiate so I don't think they were purposely trying to hide anything or treat the butler any different than any other contestant. It was entirely possible that he could have worked in the same town that he said he was from.
Old line Connecticut 😊
Rosemary Clooney 15:00 :-)
A hog Is Just a large pig
Arlene is so funny: too bad Toogood.
George Clooney looks a lot like his aunt.
About last contestant: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Messick
What is the relationship between stonybrook ny and rosemary Clooney?
Is the man's name Charles Toogood?
+Joie Fulton Yep. Toogood's apparently an English family name.
Wow George's mother resembled HER mother! may both his mom and grandmother CONTINUE to RIP
George?
Tutigiz is my 🐱🐱🐱🐱