The most classiest group of people on television at the time for a game show. What’s my line is a treat to watch on here. Much better than the garbage on today. I loved Dorothy. Was gone way too soon poor soul. I loved all the panelists. Rest In Peace.
I'll never be able to fully erase his Psycho persona from my mind when I see him, either as himself like here, or in any other role. Hitch perfectly cast him as Norman Bates. It doesn't help me that he was rather creepy in another picture I saw with him, Pretty Poison, even though the real psycho in that film was the gorgeous Tuesday Weld. Maybe Anthony was a nice guy, but I don't think I could ever really trust him. lol
This is one of the more significant Dorothy Kilgallen episodes, given that she pretty much solved everything in sight that night. There's also this business of her using the word "heterosexually" on live TV, something which must have made the CBS censors bite right through the stems of their pipes. Daly's response is something of a classic. But it does make me wonder if this is the first time the word ever appeared on live CBS-TV. I have a hard time figuring out what on CBS TV in the 1950s would bring up the subject.
Missile Inspector, olympic weightlifter, published poet (which was not as easy to accomplish then as it is now). Amazing. More fascinating and accomplished than 90% of the guests and panelists.
Amazing man! Eau Gallie isn't far from the cape and Patrick AFB, where my Dad was stationed. My Dad worked at the Cape on missiles for 10 years. Loved seeing this so much! 👏👏👏👏🥰🥰🥰👍👍👍
@@patrickdowling529....If you watch again, Daly says Reece was a 'member' of the weightlifting team, presumably fulfilling a role outside of competing.
They tried to bring back "What's My Line", but like a lot of shows they tried to re-boot it failed. You cannot remake these wonderful TV Shows of old. It's not the same and it never will be. We loved those personalities of yore.
Interesting (to me) that Jane was in the protagonist role in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1950 thriller “Stage Fright” and Tony had the key role in Hitchcock’s 1960 thriller “Psycho”-and here they met for the first time! Both were photogenic beyond all bounds!
She divorced Ronald Reagan because she said he was obsessed with politics. She was far more interested in show business. He didn't want a divorce and tried to win her back, to no avail. After their divorce, she never spoke a bad word about him.
Anthony Perkins was a doll..... it breaks my heart to think of how tormented he was in his lifetime.... the loneliness, the anguish, the solitude... may he rest in peace.
I have to admit, I've never seen the appeal of Anthony Perkins before this -- the Psycho/Norman Bates connection, I guess -- but he is totally adorable here! Funny, charming, and cute as can be.
Oh he really was an extremely talented actor, and incredibly attractive to boot. His career was full of promise in the 50s, but he didn't get all that much to do outside of Norman Bates-like roles after Psycho. It's a shame.
What's My Line? I'm surprised to read your assessment of Anthony Perkins's career in the above comment. He seems to have had quite an extensive film resume, according to IMDb (www.imdb.com/name/nm0000578/), including roles in such popular films as "Catch-22" and "Murder on the Orient Express," among many others. He also had a number of stage roles in the Broadway theater (see: www.broadwayworld.com/people/Anthony-Perkins/#.U8UoyTDD_IU). I believe I saw him in "Equus" in the 70s.
SaveThe TPC Yes, but he never really had a big role, always part of an ensemble (certainly in the films you cited). His *leading* roles were mostly Psycho sequels and Bates-like roles, such as in "Crimes of Passion". He was fantastic in Welles's "The Trial", a movie a lot of Welles fans don't even like, but I love it. He was capable of much greater things, but was pretty much typecasted. I don't know about, nor was I referring to, his stage career, just films.
melissad75 -- My favorite role for Tony Perkins was in "Friendly Persuasion," which was based on the novel "The Friendly Persuasion" by Jessamyn West. Perkins played a young Quaker man, Josh Birdwell, who was the son of an Indiana Quaker farmer, Jess Birdwell, played by Gary Cooper. The young man decides to take up arms to defend his area of Indiana against raiding rebel troops during the civil war -- his father respects his son's conscience in making that choice while his mother deplores it. The acting gets impressive when Josh returns from the war having killed a man in self-defense and weeps when he tells his father what he did. It was a supporting role for Perkins, but a good one, and Gary Cooper as a Quaker was also impressive.
Anthony Perkins in his early luscious period. Oh my yes. Very adorable. He was a huge favorite of the G - T, appearing on the panel and as a mystery guest any number of times from 1957 to 1967. Here he seems tasked to ask one question after another, but he is amusing anyway. Within a year, he would appear again on the panel on that memorable February 1961 episode on which he and Debbie Reynolds sat on the panel, and recovering Dorothy Kilgallen was the mystery guest -- available somewhere in RUclips.
Jane Wyman. If she and Reagan could have gotten along, she would have been the first lady of the USA from 1981-1989, and I do not think SHE would have used astrologers. "Polyanna," incidentally, was one of the best things Disney ever did -- but it was not a very big success that year. It is almost one of Disney's few flops. "Psycho" was a huge thing that year. That's the thing with audiences: you can never second guess what will turn them on.
Jane Wyman publicly stated her absence of regret from her decision to divorce Ronald Reagan, primarily because his talking politics all the time got to her. It is highly unlikely in any event that she ever would have been First Lady -- it was the influence of Nancy's father and his associates that turned Reagan toward the conservative cause and a career in elective politics.
@@preppysocks209 well, that's not true. No-one could make up Ronald Reagan's mind for him, especially when it came to politics. And he was already President of the Screen actors guild when he met Nancy. He became a conservative after battling the communists in Hollywood, and moved further to the right during his time as corporate spokesman for General Electric Theater.
@@preppysocks209 If him talking Politics really is the main reason for the divorce, that's evidence that they never belonged together in the first place. Nancy and Ronald are two people who were meant to be. A real true love ❤️.
Pollyanna was a flop in its day? That'sso surprising, it's such a well made movie with great star performances by Jane Wyman and Haley Mills and a host of wonderful Disney character actors lending support
Why can't the panel ever hear the mystery guests when they speak in low tones? They're miked, aren't they? You'd think they were miles away instead of mere feet.
Groucho broke the deadlock with it several episodes earlier and made it 'ok'. They didn't bat an eyelid. Even then, prior to him a male mystery guest (can't remember who) many many episodes ago said it and there was a bristle of discomfort....but again, it made it 'ok'. OH!! I've just realised you mean the word 'heterosexual'. I thought you meant 'hell'.
Arlene is a little lit! That eye thing must hurt enough for her to medicate it. She looks great as always, and the smile is even better when she's rightly lit
in this show, they do not consider plant life as being alive. only animals are alive. outside of this show, you are correct, hay was once a living grass.
Yes, Jane Wyman was married to Ronald Reagan, but the real love of her life was Fred Karger - the very handsome and talented musical arranger and composer. Jane and Fred were married - and divorced - twice (!) Long after her parting from Ronald Reagan. Interestingly enough, Fred Karger was the biggest unrequited love of Marilyn Monroe's life (before he married Jane for the first time in the early 1950's). Marilyn's star was on its way up in the most incredible way - and as much Fred greatly cared for Marilyn, he could never see her as marriage material. Fred broke Marilyn's heart in dozens of places and she would never forget him.
Yes, she remained friendly with Fred Karger's family after the breakup, and supposedly was dining at a restaurant where, coincidentally, Karger and Jane Wyman were having their wedding reception and she crashed it just to spoil Jane Wyman's big day. But Karger was with MM before anyone thought she would go anywhere, when she was signed for six months to Columbia in 1948 or so, and she was doing her only movie there, a true "B" picture ever there was one, Ladies of the Chorus, and he was assigned as her singing coach. She met her longtime acting coach, Natasha Lytess, in the same period, and Lytess claimed that she rescued MM from one of her earliest suicide attempts, after she had been dropped by both Columbia and Fred Karger. He had a son from a previous marriage and he specifically told MM that he couldn't see her as a stepmother to his son, which devastated her, since she loved children and wanted to be a mother almost as much as she wanted to be an actress.
I REALLY MISS ALL OF THESE WONDER ENTERTAINING PEOPLE WATCHED THEM ALL AS A CHILD. AND SOME STILL TODAY. TODAY MARCH 11,2016. NANCY REAGAN WAS PUT TO REST
I never understood why the producers always let Bennet Cert open his pie hole when it wasn't his turn. He was always blurting out things and giving them away when he should have kept quiet.
Dorothy's guest solving abilities were uncanny. There were times in this episode that I was thinking that she must have been tipped off and was cheating. How did she guess so easily??!!
She was an investigative journalist as well. Her deductive skills were certainly quiet high. Plus given her experience as a journalist she seems to have developed a good mix of intuition and real knowledge. She's able to make non-linear leaps of thought very well which helps immensely in a show like WML.
Miss Mary Ann Messick from Mountain Home, Arkansas, was quite an interesting guest contestant. I wish that Mr. Daly had given her an opportunity to talk more because she had a distinctly heavy regional dialect that's becoming increasingly watered down, as all of our regional dialects are becoming because of people moving all over the place and diluting the original dialects within the region they are moving into (if that makes sense.) It was unfortunate that there were audience members who were snickering at her way of speaking, which upset me a bit, because I really appreciate the historical value and the deep, resonating, social traditions that help define or give validation to, as well as provide our culture with, the offerings of a unique vocal beauty that define our regional dialects--and our country's people. ~drs (10/01/24)
And they end off the evening with the mother of Michael Reagan. Hay, though, was alive at one time. According to Wikipedia, Hay is grass, legumes, or other herbaceous plants that have been cut, dried, and stored
Dov BarLeib Incorrect and so is Wikipedia. By definition hay is the dead, desiccated byproduct of grass or other such herbaceous life. Saying hay use to be alive is not hay, it’s grass or something else. By definition for it to be hay, it must be dead, dedicated and separated from the root system. If it’s alive, it’s not hay. It’s grass or something else, alive. Wiki is incorrect. As a forensic scientist, I have had a good bit of botanical training so I am going to stick to be more technical. Like an asteroid, meteor, and meteorite are the same rock depending on its location. Technicality is all that ever matters.
@@doclee8755 Anything that is dead used to be alive. The fact that you give it a new name once it is dead doesn't change that. To use your example, a meteorite was a meteor that hit the ground. A big rock that was never a meteor is not a meteorite.
@@jackkomisar458 You are incorrect. Upon death there are several biological and biochemical changes that take place...and that only occurs once death occurs. That changes the properties of the material in question. Your analogy about the space rock is incorrect because whether it’s an asteroid, meteor, or meteorite the composition does NOT change, only the location of the space rock. It’s still the same composite materials either in the Kupier or asteroid belt and then al the way to earth. So that’s an incorrect analogy such the hay has some compositional changes that takes place after life ceases, like most biological organisms.
@@doclee8755 You are the one who initiated the meteor analogy. Anyway, I understand that there are biochemical changes when something dies. But it had to have been alive in order to die. If you don't want to admit this, you must say that every time a panelist asks if something has ever been alive, the guest must say "no". I admit that the connection between the product and the living thing can be so remote that one would properly not answer "yes". For example, a road has never been alive, even though it is made from asphalt that is derived from petroleum that came from plants that died millions of years ago. But when there is a direct, obvious, tangible relationship between the living thing and what it becomes when it dies, as grass is to hay, then it is correct to say that it was once alive. And there would be no nutritional value in hay if it had never been alive.
I just read all the comments and all the ensuing replies and thought surely someone wold have mentioned about Arlene seemingly slurring her speech. I suppose that eye issue was very painful and she was clearly on medication for it.
Do we have as much of those beautiful regional accents these days as we did 60 years ago? Has television diminished greatly the differences in our speech patterns and the flavor of geographical styles of talking?
The justice of the peace from Arkansas has manners and accent that are distinct from those of the panel, you'd think she is from another country. As someone who move to North America recently, I appreciate this show because it helps me understand today's American society a little bit better.
Definitely. But then and now, the many different regional accents are NOT represented or portrayed in public things such as media/television. This is the case even more today.
While John Daly didn't use it consistently on this episode, this is the first time I heard him use the phrase "enter and sign in please." He said it with the second and fourth challengers. By the time I was old enough to stay up late enough to watch the show from time to time (I was only 7 years old when this episode aired), it was the only phrase I remember him using. I believe that the phrase rolled off the tongue better than "come in and sign in please."
Lois Simmons I've been watching from the beginning. I'm SURE he's said 'enter and sign in please' often prior to this episode. Would've sworn he has. No?
@@davidsanderson5918 I also watched from the beginning and as I said, this was the first time I noticed him saying it that particular way. Could I have missed one? Possibly. The only way to know for sure is to go back and watch them again, which is not on my agenda right now.
In the 40's she made a move called ; PRIVATE DETECTIVE, It was a cute movie, and she was the detective and like Torchy Blaine got in her policeman boyfriend's hair. She had long blond hair in this one, and had the cutest round face profile.
Not to doubt John Daly (heaven forfend), but Mr. Reece is not listed as a participant in the Official Report of the 1952 summer games. Possibly he was an alternate, or something. (Or maybe he was in the Melbourne games, instead.) I also don't find him on IMDB, but that doesn't mean anything.
It was quaint seeing the panel and Miss Wyman trying to remember the name of the musical picture she had been in. We've lost something in our streak of lightening Googling age.
Sometimes I really think some of these panelists are cheating. I mean Dorothy Kilgallen guesses out of freakin' nowhere. It's so great to see these gems on RUclips though. And I agree that Perkins is charming to watch.
They get a lot of cues from the audience also with their reaction to the questions. Sometimes I would prefer the audience not do that because they help the panelists too much.
"Did your divorce of a b-list actor assure that the first person to ever betray his sacred oath of marriage would be elected to betray his oath of office as president?" "Um-hmm" "It must be Jane Wyman!" Hindsight can make these shows even more fun to watch
Yes. Also, Mr. Reese's remark to Mr. Perkins, "Well why didn't you start on that trail,we won't have ended so fast," sounds like a kind of come on in "code". Whether Mr. Reese was wearing a ring or not, I think he was flirting with Perkins.
I am on record with my comments on those early episodes as a fan of Hal Block. But whereas the others dealt in sexual innuendos, Block was usually sexual in your face.
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Love how Tony is able to laugh at himself
Dorothy is magnificent. An incredible deductive reasoner.
Amen. The panel guessed less correctly as a whole after her demise. Sad.
I don't watch any after Dorothy if I noticed that it's after 1965 I just don't I've tried to watch one but they just don't interest me.@@bt10ant
The most classiest group of people on television at the time for a game show. What’s my line is a treat to watch on here. Much better than the garbage on today.
I loved Dorothy. Was gone way too soon poor soul. I loved all the panelists. Rest In Peace.
Anthony Perkins: "When these people leave....uh, having left..."
Lol, he was a cutie!
The part that made me snerk was 'having left, comma, are they...'
I was in love with him
I'll never be able to fully erase his Psycho persona from my mind when I see him, either as himself like here, or in any other role. Hitch perfectly cast him as Norman Bates. It doesn't help me that he was rather creepy in another picture I saw with him, Pretty Poison, even though the real psycho in that film was the gorgeous Tuesday Weld. Maybe Anthony was a nice guy, but I don't think I could ever really trust him. lol
Anthony Perkins was so adorable.... thanks for posting!
I love the accent of the Justice of the Peace.
Same.
I wanted to hear her say more.
They were blown away by it. Could not help themselves from imitating it!
Super tall
This is one of the more significant Dorothy Kilgallen episodes, given that she pretty much solved everything in sight that night. There's also this business of her using the word "heterosexually" on live TV, something which must have made the CBS censors bite right through the stems of their pipes. Daly's response is something of a classic. But it does make me wonder if this is the first time the word ever appeared on live CBS-TV. I have a hard time figuring out what on CBS TV in the 1950s would bring up the subject.
Must have been her sitting next to Tony Perkins, who was having affairs with men throughout the 1950s and 60s.
More like relationships. And way past the 60's.
I'd have to agree that CBS didn't exactly have its happy face on, after Dorthy's use of the word.
I love John's response to if they come in heterosexually. "Most of the time they come by bus."
She's switched on.
Anthony Perkins was a gorgeous GORGEOUS man.
He sure was.
@@steventrosiek2623 I agree
Tab Hunter certainly thought so 👍🏻
Arlene Francis - a pirate at heart
Missile Inspector, olympic weightlifter, published poet (which was not as easy to accomplish then as it is now). Amazing. More fascinating and accomplished than 90% of the guests and panelists.
Could not find any record of Charles Reece being on the 1952 U.S. Olympic weightlifting team. Perhaps he was an alternate.
Amazing man! Eau Gallie isn't far from the cape and Patrick AFB, where my Dad was stationed. My Dad worked at the Cape on missiles for 10 years. Loved seeing this so much! 👏👏👏👏🥰🥰🥰👍👍👍
@@patrickdowling529....If you watch again, Daly says Reece was a 'member' of the weightlifting team, presumably fulfilling a role outside of competing.
...and handsome to boot! 🙂
They tried to bring back "What's My Line", but like a lot of shows they tried to re-boot it failed.
You cannot remake these wonderful TV Shows of old. It's not the same and it never will be. We loved those personalities of yore.
They’d only ruin it,bring tears to the eyes
Its the blend of personalities that make a show. You can't fake a genuine relationship and these people jelled.
Anthony Perkins was a beautiful man!
justess martin - very handsome, loved him in Psycho, such a mama’s boy - lol
@@jolenaagapisou3803 yes
WHEN IT WAS STILL OK TO STAY IN THE CLOSET.
This is such a treat! LOVE Jane Wyman!!
James Fox and she got the academy award without saying a word!!
James Fox • Me,Too!
James Fox - saw her old movie the other night, Johnny Belinda, Jane played a deaf & mute farm girl, it was poignant movie, j really liked it
@@jolenaagapisou3803 Think she won an Academy Award
When programs like this were KING.
Remember To Tell the Truth? They always had interesting people on that show, too.
Interesting (to me) that Jane was in the protagonist role in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1950 thriller “Stage Fright” and Tony had the key role in Hitchcock’s 1960 thriller “Psycho”-and here they met for the first time! Both were photogenic beyond all bounds!
She divorced Ronald Reagan because she said he was obsessed with politics. She was far more interested in show business. He didn't want a divorce and tried to win her back, to no avail. After their divorce, she never spoke a bad word about him.
She made a comment once that if you asked Ronnie what time it was he would tell you how the clock was made.
@@m.e.d.7997 That's the Irish in him. I'm also Irish, and we love to talk! My Mom calls it "the gift of gab". I think it's rather a curse.
@@piustwelfth I got the impression Jane Wyman did not like that quality in him. Long-winded.He and Nancy always seemed happy though
@@m.e.d.7997 He liked to tell stories which is exactly what actors are doing. Strange. Probably she wanted to be the center of attention
They never make fun of Jersey accents. That’s rude
I like the young Tony Perkins every time he appears on WML.
He was on Password a lot, too and there are quite a few of them on RUclips...❤
Anthony Perkins was a doll..... it breaks my heart to think of how tormented he was in his lifetime.... the loneliness, the anguish, the solitude... may he rest in peace.
He did marry and they had two sons ...
www.nytimes.com/1992/09/16/arts/anthony-perkins-s-wife-tells-of-2-years-of-secrecy.html
@gcjerryusc
WHAT! WHAT AN INACCURATE STATEMENT!
@gcjerryusc - You're a moron. A flaming one at that.
Jane Wyman....classy...thank you~
Mr. Tony Perkins did the best he could! A wonderful actor and person!
anthony perkins’ smile mesmerizes me. warmest smile ive ever seen.
"Well why didn't you start on that trail,we won't have ended so fast"
that was a well mannered "savage" moment. Great guest.
More often than not, they take the bus. Thank you, John Daly.
I have to admit, I've never seen the appeal of Anthony Perkins before this -- the Psycho/Norman Bates connection, I guess -- but he is totally adorable here! Funny, charming, and cute as can be.
Oh he really was an extremely talented actor, and incredibly attractive to boot. His career was full of promise in the 50s, but he didn't get all that much to do outside of Norman Bates-like roles after Psycho. It's a shame.
What's My Line?
I'm surprised to read your assessment of Anthony Perkins's career in the above comment. He seems to have had quite an extensive film resume, according to IMDb (www.imdb.com/name/nm0000578/), including roles in such popular films as "Catch-22" and "Murder on the Orient Express," among many others. He also had a number of stage roles in the Broadway theater (see: www.broadwayworld.com/people/Anthony-Perkins/#.U8UoyTDD_IU). I believe I saw him in "Equus" in the 70s.
SaveThe TPC Yes, but he never really had a big role, always part of an ensemble (certainly in the films you cited). His *leading* roles were mostly Psycho sequels and Bates-like roles, such as in "Crimes of Passion". He was fantastic in Welles's "The Trial", a movie a lot of Welles fans don't even like, but I love it. He was capable of much greater things, but was pretty much typecasted. I don't know about, nor was I referring to, his stage career, just films.
What's My Line? Tony sure as hell was alluring.
melissad75 -- My favorite role for Tony Perkins was in "Friendly Persuasion," which was based on the novel "The Friendly Persuasion" by Jessamyn West. Perkins played a young Quaker man, Josh Birdwell, who was the son of an Indiana Quaker farmer, Jess Birdwell, played by Gary Cooper. The young man decides to take up arms to defend his area of Indiana against raiding rebel troops during the civil war -- his father respects his son's conscience in making that choice while his mother deplores it. The acting gets impressive when Josh returns from the war having killed a man in self-defense and weeps when he tells his father what he did. It was a supporting role for Perkins, but a good one, and Gary Cooper as a Quaker was also impressive.
Arlene looks lovely and appealing in that eye patch.
Honestly, it's the prettiest she's ever looked!
Anthony Perkins in his early luscious period. Oh my yes. Very adorable. He was a huge favorite of the G - T, appearing on the panel and as a mystery guest any number of times from 1957 to 1967. Here he seems tasked to ask one question after another, but he is amusing anyway. Within a year, he would appear again on the panel on that memorable February 1961 episode on which he and Debbie Reynolds sat on the panel, and recovering Dorothy Kilgallen was the mystery guest -- available somewhere in RUclips.
Did I detect some subtle flirting between Perkins and the fetching Charles Reece, the Atlas missile inspector, possibly two way?
@@OctoberArt66 I thought exactly the same thing.
@@OctoberArt66 that’s what I thought! Lol
No, they just shook hands.
Why would any of the panelists need or want hay in or near their homes?
Jane Wyman. If she and Reagan could have gotten along, she would have been the first lady of the USA from 1981-1989, and I do not think SHE would have used astrologers.
"Polyanna," incidentally, was one of the best things Disney ever did -- but it was not a very big success that year. It is almost one of Disney's few flops. "Psycho" was a huge thing that year. That's the thing with audiences: you can never second guess what will turn them on.
Jane Wyman publicly stated her absence of regret from her decision to divorce Ronald Reagan, primarily because his talking politics all the time got to her. It is highly unlikely in any event that she ever would have been First Lady -- it was the influence of Nancy's father and his associates that turned Reagan toward the conservative cause and a career in elective politics.
@@preppysocks209 well, that's not true. No-one could make up Ronald Reagan's mind for him, especially when it came to politics. And he was already President of the Screen actors guild when he met Nancy. He became a conservative after battling the communists in Hollywood, and moved further to the right during his time as corporate spokesman for General Electric Theater.
@@preppysocks209 If him talking Politics really is the main reason for the divorce, that's evidence that they never belonged together in the first place. Nancy and Ronald are two people who were meant to be. A real true love ❤️.
Pollyanna was a flop in its day? That'sso surprising, it's such a well made movie with great star performances by Jane Wyman and Haley Mills and a host of wonderful Disney character actors lending support
The justice of the peace also ran a feed and grain store in Sixth Toe County, Arkansas.
ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVES. THERE WAS SIMPLY NOTHING SHE COULD NOT DO AND DO SO WELL. WHAT A TALENT!
Oh my gosh was Jane Wyman adorable.
Ronald Reagan thought so too.........
Loved Mary Anne Messick!!
May she RIP.
I loved the fact she was wearing petticoats under her dress. I love the way they move
Dorothy just couldn't resist spoiling it.
Tony was a great actor.
"Yes, mother....."
And a very intelligent man as well.
I really liked it when Dorothy Kilgallen asked if people come to her in a heterosexual way. Great question!
Jane Wyman has gorgeous eyes. Wow!
And a wee button pug nose!
Just imagine the all of the great and famous people that they've met on this show over the years that it aired?
Why can't the panel ever hear the mystery guests when they speak in low tones? They're miked, aren't they? You'd think they were miles away instead of mere feet.
The thing is, Dorothy almost always knows who's going to be in town, that's why she guesses sssoooo many !
Can't believe Dorothy said the "H" word on national TV in 1960!
That is one hot rocket man!🚀
And the audience tittered.
And I think Tony Perkins too, after John mentioned weightlifting. He did after all say he was thinking about it ;-)
Groucho broke the deadlock with it several episodes earlier and made it 'ok'. They didn't bat an eyelid. Even then, prior to him a male mystery guest (can't remember who) many many episodes ago said it and there was a bristle of discomfort....but again, it made it 'ok'.
OH!! I've just realised you mean the word 'heterosexual'. I thought you meant 'hell'.
Arlene is a little lit! That eye thing must hurt enough for her to medicate it. She looks great as always, and the smile is even better when she's rightly lit
She looks stunning here!!
1959-60 Arlene was gorgeous. She was always attractive but those years, just wow.
Hay was alive. Should have been a “yes.”
in this show, they do not consider plant life as being alive. only animals are alive.
outside of this show, you are correct, hay was once a living grass.
Yes, Jane Wyman was married to Ronald Reagan, but the real love of her life was Fred Karger - the very handsome and talented musical arranger and composer. Jane and Fred were married - and divorced - twice (!) Long after her parting from Ronald Reagan. Interestingly enough, Fred Karger was the biggest unrequited love of Marilyn Monroe's life (before he married Jane for the first time in the early 1950's). Marilyn's star was on its way up in the most incredible way - and as much Fred greatly cared for Marilyn, he could never see her as marriage material. Fred broke Marilyn's heart in dozens of places and she would never forget him.
Yes, she remained friendly with Fred Karger's family after the breakup, and supposedly was dining at a restaurant where, coincidentally, Karger and Jane Wyman were having their wedding reception and she crashed it just to spoil Jane Wyman's big day. But Karger was with MM before anyone thought she would go anywhere, when she was signed for six months to Columbia in 1948 or so, and she was doing her only movie there, a true "B" picture ever there was one, Ladies of the Chorus, and he was assigned as her singing coach. She met her longtime acting coach, Natasha Lytess, in the same period, and Lytess claimed that she rescued MM from one of her earliest suicide attempts, after she had been dropped by both Columbia and Fred Karger. He had a son from a previous marriage and he specifically told MM that he couldn't see her as a stepmother to his son, which devastated her, since she loved children and wanted to be a mother almost as much as she wanted to be an actress.
What a great show! Fun! 😊
I was looking for more information about Charles T. Reece, but could not find any.
Anthony Perkins is very sweet here, a far contrast to the announced up coming role in Psycho.
Daly gave away the first guest's occupation HONORABLE. I though of Judge when he mentioned that word. I guess close enough.
I THOUGHT THE SAME THING. But it didn't get there anyway. Well, Dorothy DID get it.
- Me too.
Pirate ARLENE is tipsy....again.....and I happen to Love it 😍💓
Dorothy is sharp as a knife....😎
I REALLY MISS ALL OF THESE WONDER ENTERTAINING PEOPLE WATCHED THEM ALL AS A CHILD. AND SOME STILL TODAY. TODAY MARCH 11,2016. NANCY REAGAN WAS PUT TO REST
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Tony Perkins seemed so nervous. Like he was about to pull back a shower curtain and.....
I never understood why the producers always let Bennet Cert open his pie hole when it wasn't his turn. He was always blurting out
things and giving them away when he should have kept quiet.
Jane's disguised voice sounds like one of Lucille Balls.
An inspector of missiles whose education consisted of "some college". How times have changed!
Couldn't find Mr "Reece" in the US Olympic records or any acting credits...wonder if he used a stage name...
Mr Missile was just gorgeous, and they are so polite xoxo
Dorothy's guest solving abilities were uncanny. There were times in this episode that I was thinking that she must have been tipped off and was cheating. How did she guess so easily??!!
She was an investigative journalist as well. Her deductive skills were certainly quiet high. Plus given her experience as a journalist she seems to have developed a good mix of intuition and real knowledge. She's able to make non-linear leaps of thought very well which helps immensely in a show like WML.
Dorothy was ALWAYS like a dog on a bone. She was determined to figure it out!
She guessed Jane Wyman way too fast.
Miss Mary Ann Messick from Mountain Home, Arkansas, was quite an interesting guest contestant. I wish that Mr. Daly had given her an opportunity to talk more because she had a distinctly heavy regional dialect that's becoming increasingly watered down, as all of our regional dialects are becoming because of people moving all over the place and diluting the original dialects within the region they are moving into (if that makes sense.) It was unfortunate that there were audience members who were snickering at her way of speaking, which upset me a bit, because I really appreciate the historical value and the deep, resonating, social traditions that help define or give validation to, as well as provide our culture with, the offerings of a unique vocal beauty that define our regional dialects--and our country's people. ~drs (10/01/24)
Anthony Perkins had those weird eyes n Hitchcock brilliantly chose him to be the phylogenetic killer in his film PHYCO
Yes, it's all in his eyes. Hitch knew the score.
Miss Messick was 27 here. Never married and retired as a Postmaster.
You know way too much
And they end off the evening with the mother of Michael Reagan. Hay, though, was alive at one time. According to Wikipedia, Hay is grass, legumes, or other herbaceous plants that have been cut, dried, and stored
Dov BarLeib Incorrect and so is Wikipedia. By definition hay is the dead, desiccated byproduct of grass or other such herbaceous life. Saying hay use to be alive is not hay, it’s grass or something else. By definition for it to be hay, it must be dead, dedicated and separated from the root system. If it’s alive, it’s not hay. It’s grass or something else, alive. Wiki is incorrect. As a forensic scientist, I have had a good bit of botanical training so I am going to stick to be more technical. Like an asteroid, meteor, and meteorite are the same rock depending on its location. Technicality is all that ever matters.
+Doc Lee Yes, but this was not their reasoning: as they've made clear elsewhere they consider only animals to have been alive!
@@doclee8755 Anything that is dead used to be alive. The fact that you give it a new name once it is dead doesn't change that. To use your example, a meteorite was a meteor that hit the ground. A big rock that was never a meteor is not a meteorite.
@@jackkomisar458 You are incorrect. Upon death there are several biological and biochemical changes that take place...and that only occurs once death occurs. That changes the properties of the material in question. Your analogy about the space rock is incorrect because whether it’s an asteroid, meteor, or meteorite the composition does NOT change, only the location of the space rock. It’s still the same composite materials either in the Kupier or asteroid belt and then al the way to earth. So that’s an incorrect analogy such the hay has some compositional changes that takes place after life ceases, like most biological organisms.
@@doclee8755 You are the one who initiated the meteor analogy. Anyway, I understand that there are biochemical changes when something dies. But it had to have been alive in order to die. If you don't want to admit this, you must say that every time a panelist asks if something has ever been alive, the guest must say "no". I admit that the connection between the product and the living thing can be so remote that one would properly not answer "yes". For example, a road has never been alive, even though it is made from asphalt that is derived from petroleum that came from plants that died millions of years ago. But when there is a direct, obvious, tangible relationship between the living thing and what it becomes when it dies, as grass is to hay, then it is correct to say that it was once alive. And there would be no nutritional value in hay if it had never been alive.
I just read all the comments and all the ensuing replies and thought surely someone wold have mentioned about Arlene seemingly slurring her speech. I suppose that eye issue was very painful and she was clearly on medication for it.
- I didn't think Arlene slurred her speech. She sounded like she always did.
She sounded perfectly normal to me.
Television series was Falcon Crest later on
arlene’s eye patch is kinda cute. i love it.
Do we have as much of those beautiful regional accents these days as we did 60 years ago?
Has television diminished greatly the differences in our speech patterns and the flavor of geographical styles of talking?
Being friends with many people from different states, they still have those accents.
The justice of the peace from Arkansas has manners and accent that are distinct from those of the panel, you'd think she is from another country. As someone who move to North America recently, I appreciate this show because it helps me understand today's American society a little bit better.
Definitely. But then and now, the many different regional accents are NOT represented or portrayed in public things such as media/television. This is the case even more today.
They sure stereotyped that southern woman
“You look like in espionage lady, have you flown a U2 lately?” No but you ended up on RUclips.
“More often they take the bus.” 😂😂😂
While John Daly didn't use it consistently on this episode, this is the first time I heard him use the phrase "enter and sign in please." He said it with the second and fourth challengers. By the time I was old enough to stay up late enough to watch the show from time to time (I was only 7 years old when this episode aired), it was the only phrase I remember him using. I believe that the phrase rolled off the tongue better than "come in and sign in please."
Lois Simmons I've been watching from the beginning. I'm SURE he's said 'enter and sign in please' often prior to this episode. Would've sworn he has. No?
@@davidsanderson5918 I also watched from the beginning and as I said, this was the first time I noticed him saying it that particular way. Could I have missed one? Possibly. The only way to know for sure is to go back and watch them again, which is not on my agenda right now.
@@davidsanderson5918: I thought he always said "enter and sign in please."
Mystery Guest Aunt Polly
Next week, Dorothy comes on with her peg leg. Tune in!
Bennett Cerf was the busiest man. He had guests at home after the show. When did he have time to breathe.
Or be a good husband and father
2:35 - anyone know what a "cram alarm" is, or was?
Dorothy is Genius
In the 40's she made a move called ; PRIVATE DETECTIVE, It was a cute movie, and she was the detective and like Torchy Blaine got in her policeman boyfriend's hair. She had long blond hair in this one, and had the cutest round face profile.
Jane was so cute and pretty, and a quick wit in those early films. She, Glenda, Jean, Joan and Ginger were my favorites.
Dorothy could have substituted for Raymond Burr on Perry Mason!
I was a justice of the peace once. I performed a marriage of one of my neighbors. Only once I did that, she got a divorced two years later.
wow charles reece.............. I'm in love! but I can't find him anywhere in google. not even as part of the 1952 Olympics US weightlifting team.
Not to doubt John Daly (heaven forfend), but Mr. Reece is not listed as a participant in the Official Report of the 1952 summer games. Possibly he was an alternate, or something. (Or maybe he was in the Melbourne games, instead.) I also don't find him on IMDB, but that doesn't mean anything.
John didn't book the guests, he was just a puppet
jane wyman in just for you = GREAAAAAAAT SINGING!!!
Bigmouth (Bennett Smurf) strikes again
It was quaint seeing the panel and Miss Wyman trying to remember the name of the musical picture she had been in.
We've lost something in our streak of lightening Googling age.
From the very first to the very last episode (1950-1967): bad acoustics. Apparently the production team didn't consider this to merit remedial action.
Frank Lloyd Wright said he could fix it when he was a guest, but I guess they didn't take him up on it!
Sometimes I really think some of these panelists are cheating. I mean Dorothy Kilgallen guesses out of freakin' nowhere. It's so great to see these gems on RUclips though. And I agree that Perkins is charming to watch.
They get a lot of cues from the audience also with their reaction to the questions. Sometimes I would prefer the audience not do that because they help the panelists too much.
Yeah, Dorothy's strained explanation for how she guessed Jane Wyman made no sense at all.
I think they have a sixth sense.
@@Cosmo-Kramer didnt make any sense to me
DK was an investigative reporter besides being a Broadway columnist.
13:22 Not Arlene asking if missiles are a product "we on the panel might be interested in" while looking like a Bond villain. Love it!
What's the "Miss Hathaway:" reference by Daly? (For those of us with poor memories). Thanks.
Civil War supplier Hathaway, adopted an eye patch gentleman wearing a dapper button down dress shirt as their distinguished
Logo.
@@dcasper8514 that logo and shirt store or factory for many many years, not just Civil War. May still be around for all I know
I agree calling down someone for their looks is out of bounds.
Hay _was_ alive. Did they not consider plant life, life? I've seen them do the same thing in other episodes.
Me too.her accent was refreshing
The lady from Arkansas resembles Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy pre First Lady years.
Raymond Curry - yrs she does, but she’s as big as a horse - lol
Disagree
dorothy's hair looked nice tonight
Has anyone ever noticed that the announcer says "What's My Mine"?
He actually has done this for a number of episodes.
I never commented on this, bit I've definitely heard him say it.
Probably prerecorded
Bennett blurts out the answer out of turn again. What a dork.
In 1960s live TV, I would like to know where else the conversation would bring up "heterosexually."
The woman who broke Ronald Reagan's heart.
"Did your divorce of a b-list actor assure that the first person to ever betray his sacred oath of marriage would be elected to betray his oath of office as president?"
"Um-hmm"
"It must be Jane Wyman!"
Hindsight can make these shows even more fun to watch
The hate is strong in this one.
Scroo u, Reagan was great. Suppose u like O and Brandon? Now we're talking about betrayal and worse.
Mr Reese and Mr Perkins can pass as either a couple or brothers 😆
Yes. Also, Mr. Reese's remark to Mr. Perkins, "Well why didn't you start on that trail,we won't have ended so fast," sounds like a kind of come on in "code". Whether Mr. Reese was wearing a ring or not, I think he was flirting with Perkins.
Nice DK show at 2nd contestant
AHHHH Tony :-}
Watching this show, I find it quite comical that they fired Hal Block for being "too much" but even with him gone, the sexual innuendos continue...
I am on record with my comments on those early episodes as a fan of Hal Block. But whereas the others dealt in sexual innuendos, Block was usually sexual in your face.
Dorothy Kilgallen was known to be a very open heterosexual!
I think she was Bi. I've seen her give googlyeyes to several female guests right after complimenting their looks or figure. Kinda creepy, TBH.
Arlene looks like Tony thought she was Janet Leigh.