What's My Line? - CA Governor Edmund Brown; Harry Belafonte; Peter Lind Hayes [panel] (Nov 16, 1958)

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  • Опубликовано: 21 ноя 2024
  • MYSTERY GUEST: CA Governor Edmund Brown; Harry Belafonte [calypso singer]
    PANEL: Dorothy Kilgallen, Peter Lind Hayes, Arlene Francis, Bennett Cerf

Комментарии • 140

  • @battlegirldeb
    @battlegirldeb Год назад +7

    One thing I love about Dorothy was her taste in music and knowing when the best singers were in New York like Harry Belafonte. R.I.P. Mr. Belafonte 4/25/2023

  • @vintagehollywoodstars
    @vintagehollywoodstars 6 лет назад +45

    Dorothy and Arlene’s dresses on this episode are stunning!!

    • @slaytonp
      @slaytonp 4 года назад +3

      One of the many improvements of this show as it went along, was introducing the panel members as they walked out, so the ladies got to show off their gowns, which were usually elegantly stunning. Occasionally one could think of a different, less positive word for the attire, but it was part of the enhanced entertainment over-all.

    • @hcombs0104
      @hcombs0104 3 года назад +1

      Yes, in fact they both look particularly good.

    • @PeterCruzPosts
      @PeterCruzPosts 23 дня назад

      Simply ravishing

  • @lllowkee6533
    @lllowkee6533 2 года назад +12

    Arlene was so sweet and funny …a quick wit.. Charming.

  • @TruckTaxiMoveIt
    @TruckTaxiMoveIt 6 лет назад +36

    Class, style grace sophistication intellect and wit
    This was a time when you can watch television and get an education.

    • @princeharming8963
      @princeharming8963 5 лет назад +8

      Well, it's Possible... to get an education from watching the Kartrashians... IF.. you're watching for the purpose of learning what NOT to do with your life.

    • @deboraholsen2504
      @deboraholsen2504 4 года назад +1

      Prince Harming: Your humor is thought-provoking. Too bad it has truth to it!

    • @slaytonp
      @slaytonp 4 года назад

      With the exception of biology. The scientific classification of living organisms seemed to escape them more often than not.

    • @stevekru6518
      @stevekru6518 2 года назад

      Now one can watch RUclips or other podcasts, like MOOCs, and get a real education in any subjectv

  • @mjanavel
    @mjanavel 3 года назад +21

    This show was a cultural treasure trove.

  • @loissimmons6558
    @loissimmons6558 6 лет назад +36

    I recollect with a fair degree of certainty that earlier on the day of this WML episode, I had sponge cake with chocolate frosting (quite possibly QT), ice cream and Hammer Beverage soda (either black cherry or root beer). I also blew out some candles. It was my sixth birthday. I was born on a Sunday, and it was the first time my birthday was on a Sunday since then. It was also the last time the original version of WML would coincide with my birthday.

    • @hopelewis5650
      @hopelewis5650 2 года назад

      >*>>>>>

    • @roberttelarket4934
      @roberttelarket4934 Год назад +1

      I am 2 years older than you but never had the opportunity to watch WML since we didn't have a television till 1959.

  • @bigwilson8794
    @bigwilson8794 9 лет назад +16

    Bennet's "I was there....Charley" at 12:20 was a reference to the "Baron Munchausen" radio show ("Was you there, Charlie?")

  • @bleepiestofbloops
    @bleepiestofbloops 2 года назад +9

    Count De Gama had the most audible conference with John I've heard!

  • @justinmay3451
    @justinmay3451 Год назад +5

    Rest In Peace, Harry Belafonte! Thanks for everything!

  • @roberttelarket4934
    @roberttelarket4934 Год назад +1

    Dorothy's sequined gown is beautiful and so is her necklace and hairdo!!!

  • @PeterCruzPosts
    @PeterCruzPosts 23 дня назад

    Love this episode love love

  • @kenhenderson7999
    @kenhenderson7999 8 лет назад +18

    Brown defeated Richard Nixon when he ran for re-election in 1962, but lost to Ronald Reagan when he ran for a 3rd term in 1966. Today, California governors are limited to 2 terms.

    • @shirleyrombough8173
      @shirleyrombough8173 4 года назад +4

      Ken Henderson - As a Californian I regret deeply that my state did not have term limits when Reagan became governor.

    • @esmeephillips5888
      @esmeephillips5888 3 года назад +1

      Pat Brown was the one who made Tricky retire from politics, snarling at the press: 'You won't have Nixon to kick around any more.' He ended on a slightly more conciliatory note, however, Search 'November 7, 1962' on YT for this farewell.
      Six years later he was in the White House. Four years after that, he won a second term in a landslide. Two years after that, he resigned in disgrace, abandoned by most of his own party.

    • @herondelatorre4023
      @herondelatorre4023 2 года назад +1

      @@shirleyrombough8173 Why???? Reagan only served two terms as governor. Did he try to run for a third term????

    • @shirleyrombough8173
      @shirleyrombough8173 2 года назад

      @@herondelatorre4023 - No, but Pat Brown did.

    • @herondelatorre4023
      @herondelatorre4023 2 года назад

      @@shirleyrombough8173 Oh OK. So then you mean that "Pat" Brown should not have tried to run for a third term ????

  • @adititida
    @adititida 2 года назад +3

    Interesting to see the second contestant, because I'm currently living in Vasco-da-Gama, India! I thought the 'Count' was a little weird but I guess it was a tradition and passed down through ancestors.

  • @algoritmosalfredohipicasig7116
    @algoritmosalfredohipicasig7116 5 лет назад +13

    It was pointless to book a major state governor a week after elections or a performer the day before their show.

  • @graperonto
    @graperonto 8 лет назад +7

    So wonderful to see the Japanese woman bow for everyone, and even bowed to the audience after shaking hands.

    • @michaelnaisbitt1639
      @michaelnaisbitt1639 5 лет назад +1

      graperonto Women in Japan are very much the subservient sex. In their society. The men however were absolute bastards and murdered th9usands and thousand of women and children throughout as8a

    • @waldolydecker8118
      @waldolydecker8118 3 года назад +1

      @@michaelnaisbitt1639 - Didn't Caucasians do the same thing throughout Asia (Vietnam, etc), North America, South America, Africa, Australia, Hawaii, and Europe (WWI and II) - aka "Everywhere they've been." Certainly your college-prep schooling provide you the details of these atrocities, so you must have simply conveniently "forgot."

    • @randyhutton9371
      @randyhutton9371 Год назад

      Bowing is a more civilized - and sanitary - custom than shaking hands.

  • @steveburrus9347
    @steveburrus9347 7 лет назад +11

    And we all know of course [tjose of us of a certain age] that Ed mund Brown was the father of the current CA governor, Jerry Brown, Governor "Moonbeam".

    • @libertyann439
      @libertyann439 6 лет назад +3

      Jerry's daddy. I helped Jerry Brown win the Colodo primary in 1992.
      What a remarkable story about how he got his name.

    • @shirleyrombough8173
      @shirleyrombough8173 4 года назад +3

      Steve Burrus - We don't need to be of a certain age to know that this Gov. Brown is the father of Jerry Brown, once known as "Governor Moonbeam." Just a political junkie.

    • @shirleyrombough8173
      @shirleyrombough8173 4 года назад +1

      Steve Burrus - Jerry Brown was governor for two terms, separated by a number of years. He dated Linda Ronstadt during his first term. He was a terrific governor both times.

    • @operadog2000
      @operadog2000 4 года назад +4

      @@shirleyrombough8173 Horrible governor as is his successor.

    • @shirleyrombough8173
      @shirleyrombough8173 4 года назад

      @@operadog2000 How can you be a fan of opera and not appreciate the Governors Brown? I am from California, where most of my family members still live, and know that both were well liked and respected. I guess one can love opera and not human rights and freedom, as exemplified by the late Justice Scalia.

  • @galileocan
    @galileocan 5 лет назад +15

    Not sure why, but Governor-Elect Brown just seemed like he was a very nice person

    • @nankerphelge3771
      @nankerphelge3771 4 года назад +2

      I agree with you. He seemed to be self effacing rather than self aggrandizing. Which is not what we see from most politicians today.

    • @operadog2000
      @operadog2000 4 года назад +1

      His son, Jerry, is a piece of shit.

    • @sandrageorge3488
      @sandrageorge3488 3 года назад +2

      His son seems so too.

    • @waldolydecker8118
      @waldolydecker8118 3 года назад +3

      @@operadog2000 - there's always at least one, isn't there folks? In defense of Jerry, he'd probably say so is your son...just a much smaller piece.

    • @operadog2000
      @operadog2000 3 года назад

      @@waldolydecker8118 MORON. I'll bet you love the job Newson has done in California: he rewarded China by buying 2 billion dollars in PPE. How about Biden on the California /Mexico boarder by welcoming in a million ILLEGAL Covid infected people of which many are criminals and terrorists. Yep, you're a brainwashed fool waiting for his next Stimulus check.

  • @poolside16190
    @poolside16190 6 месяцев назад

    The first guest was also the Attorney General under John’s father in law Earl Warren!

  • @leesher1845
    @leesher1845 2 года назад +2

    Senators, governors and other politicians seemed so dignified back then.

  • @roberttelarket4934
    @roberttelarket4934 Год назад +2

    Edmund Brown, a good man!

  • @pukulu
    @pukulu Год назад +2

    Harry Belafonte died just a few weeks ago at age 96.

  • @stevekru6518
    @stevekru6518 2 года назад +3

    Contemporary viewers complain John asks ladies if they are Miss or Mrs. Given the last contestant signed in by writing Japanese, and John pretended to read it , John should’ve asked “o jo” or “ Fujin”

  • @VahanNisanian
    @VahanNisanian 10 лет назад +7

    Here's a little bit of trivia on the subject of California Governors:
    Earl Warren (1943-1953) was John Daly's father-in-law. He even appeared as a mystery guest once in 1951, according to IMDB.

    • @murrayaronson3753
      @murrayaronson3753 8 лет назад +5

      In 1951 John Daly was not yet married to Earl Warren's daughter.

  • @danielsr8226
    @danielsr8226 3 года назад +4

    This was recorded the day after Tyrone Power died

  • @poeiabird
    @poeiabird 5 лет назад +9

    It's so funny that Bennett Cerf said he pronounced something wrong. He has the a combination of the most unique & the most bizarre pronunciations I've ever heard. In the episode I just watched, he pronounced Johnny Unitas's name like "unitard" (YOU-ni-tass)

    • @sleb99
      @sleb99 4 года назад +1

      Jane Ash I think it’s mostly just a regional accent. Much of that has been lost in the 21st century due to mass communication, but there are still regional differences.

    • @shirleyrombough8173
      @shirleyrombough8173 4 года назад +2

      Jane Ash - He also pronounced pizza as pits-uh. Maybe that is closer to the original Italian.

    • @neilmidkiff
      @neilmidkiff 4 года назад +1

      @@shirleyrombough8173 Musicians pronounce "pizzicato" with a short first "i" vowel, as in "pits", so you're probably right.

    • @neilmidkiff
      @neilmidkiff 4 года назад

      Earlier today I left detailed comments on the previous week's episode on this point; instead of repeating them here, let me suggest that they may be interesting. I even brought up the parallel case of "chemise" as mentioned this week.

    • @MrYfrank14
      @MrYfrank14 4 года назад +1

      regional pronunciations can sound like a different word.
      I am from CT and met a girl from Oklahoma who pronounced "whale" as "well" and hail " as "hell".
      then there s the MA accent that refuses to pronounce the letter "R". they apparently banned it by law. under the penalty of death.
      if you introduce yourself as "Robert" they will call you "Ahbert".
      they don't invte you a party, then invte you to a potty.
      Harvard started a college there and they wouldn't even let him keep one of the "R's".

  • @rmelin13231
    @rmelin13231 Год назад +1

    Where does Bennett get the idea that the Japanese lady would have any relationship to a Chinese production? At least Peter Lind Hayes knew better.

  • @MrJoeybabe25
    @MrJoeybabe25 4 года назад +3

    Arlene thinks that Pat Brown doesn't sound like an easterner. Well then, if you go by the rules of Manhattan, he must be from California.
    There is only New York and L.A. right, Ma?
    The middle is the little people's land and they don't count.

    • @MrJoeybabe25
      @MrJoeybabe25 4 года назад

      @@AiMR Some of the elite believe there is NYC and the coast and the rest is just an overfly.

  • @lindaroper2654
    @lindaroper2654 2 года назад +1

    That was rude Arlene telling Dorathy to say ask forgiveness.

  • @hthought
    @hthought 4 года назад +2

    How the hell did she go to government ? Clever woman.

  • @stgeorgesprincipal
    @stgeorgesprincipal 6 месяцев назад

    this was on , on the day of my birth..lol..lol

  • @Dios67
    @Dios67 2 года назад +2

    When the panel know a special guest right away they should always disqualify themselves so it would have been more fun.

  • @roberttelarket4934
    @roberttelarket4934 Год назад

    If Dorothy married the Count she would be Countess Dorothy Kilgallen da Gama!

  • @lechatbotte.
    @lechatbotte. 2 года назад +4

    This Governor Brown was much better than his son Moonbeam lol

  • @bluecamus5162
    @bluecamus5162 2 года назад

    Count Da Gama appears to have the polished bearing and education of old nobility, so it strikes me odd that he has such a down-to-earth American business as pool table sales and service.

  • @Mafon2
    @Mafon2 25 дней назад

    I wonder, why do they have guests from Japan so often. It's not like it's close to New York.

  • @ChrisHansonCanada
    @ChrisHansonCanada Год назад +1

    *_Attorney General and Governor Elect of California_*
    *_Sells and Repairs Pool Tables_*
    *_Movie Critic_*

  • @Bigstooler0
    @Bigstooler0 8 лет назад +5

    The Browns take care of California.

    • @princeharming8963
      @princeharming8963 4 года назад +1

      Yeah... like when a mafia boss says... "Take care of'em."

  • @robertmelson2130
    @robertmelson2130 9 лет назад +2

    Pat Brown was somewhat out of the public eye by the time I was old enough to pay much attention to politics, but I certainly (eventually) knew who he was. I have not, though, seen much footage of him. He has one of the oddest laughs, though that impression may partly come from his being on top of the microphone. It's particularly evident when he is laughing when the camera isn't on him. 6:21-6:25, 6:56, 7:05-7:09, 7:58-8:00.

    • @shirleyrombough8173
      @shirleyrombough8173 2 года назад

      I knew he went by Edmund G. Pat Brown but I never knew where the "Pat" came from, and I a former California girl. My family all voted for him.

  • @pinedelgado4743
    @pinedelgado4743 2 года назад

    Edmund "Pat" Brown was the father of one of my favorite Governors of my home state of California (The "Golden State"), Jerry Brown--a guy who dated Linda Ronstadt. :) :) :) :)

  • @leesher1845
    @leesher1845 2 года назад +1

    You make peanut butter sandwiches? 😂

    • @Mafon2
      @Mafon2 25 дней назад

      Yes, I do.

  • @esmeephillips5888
    @esmeephillips5888 3 года назад +3

    Peter Lind Hayes asks the Japanese contestant if she knows Red Buttons. That is a tactless allusion to 'Sayonara' (1957). Red had played an American airman in occupied Japan who commits suicide with his Japanese wife rather than be separated by reposting. Umeshi Miyoki, who won an Oscar as the wife, was an MG.

  • @lindaroper2654
    @lindaroper2654 2 года назад

    These people dress very fancy for a game show. Look like their going to a ball.

  • @esmeephillips5888
    @esmeephillips5888 3 года назад +5

    In the 1950s 'black' men (Harry Belafonte was half white with a Jewish grandpa) were not supposed to touch white women on screen. As late as 1968 Petula Clark caused a minor rumpus by laying a hand on Harry's arm during a TV special; the sponsor at first wanted fheir duet to be retaped. But in 1958 Arlene and Dorothy already have no qualms about shaking Harry's hand.

  • @leesher1845
    @leesher1845 2 года назад

    “Governor to be…” vs. governor elect…😂

  • @libertyann439
    @libertyann439 6 лет назад +5

    Mrs. Kamuri in a kimono, where are you from?

    • @slaytonp
      @slaytonp 4 года назад

      Well, she could have said, Brooklyn, N.Y.

  • @neilmidkiff
    @neilmidkiff 6 лет назад +16

    Can anyone explain to me why Peter Lind Hayes was ever invited back to the panel? I know that he and his wife were popular TV personalities, and their joint appearance as mystery guest was sort of fun, but he contributes nothing to this game as a panelist that I can see.

    • @princeharming8963
      @princeharming8963 5 лет назад +4

      Oh, I thought he was great. Charming.. funny.. personable. Would have been interesting to see what he might do with a 2nd chance.

    • @sandrageorge3488
      @sandrageorge3488 3 года назад +2

      He is mean also.

    • @esmeephillips5888
      @esmeephillips5888 3 года назад

      Always remember PLH as the nice adult in one of the most sinister kids' films, Dr Seuss's 'The 5,000 Fingers of Dr T', with Hans Conried as the boy trapper. Brrh! Mary Healy was in it too.

    • @belindaalbright8798
      @belindaalbright8798 2 года назад +1

      He had a dry, flat personality but every so often he is amusing. I too often wondered why he was on more than one episode.

    • @kentetalman9008
      @kentetalman9008 Год назад

      I could never stand Peter Lind Hayes' smile. It was more like a sneer.

  • @kulturekritik9665
    @kulturekritik9665 4 года назад +6

    That Dorothy--she was such a know-it-all.

  • @TheBraveIntrovert
    @TheBraveIntrovert 9 лет назад +3

    Question: Arlene stands for Elderly, political figures and religious figures.....Why doesn't Dorothy? Were women supposed to stand for certain people or only they wanted too?

    • @ToddSF
      @ToddSF 9 лет назад +3

      Purple Capricorn -- Dorothy stood to shake hands with Roman Catholic priests and nuns and the occasional elderly person. Arlene stood for any nun or member of the clergy, regardless of denomination, and for elderly people.

    • @juliansinger
      @juliansinger 8 лет назад +6

      +Purple Capricorn Technically, according to the etiquette standards of the time, men were supposed to stand up for anyone, when shaking hands. Women didn't have to, but did in some circumstances as a sign of respect. Arlene tended to be more liberal about who she stood up for than Dorothy. Which fits their general personalities, really. (Though Dorothy does stand up for some folks. She stood up for Eleanor Roosevelt!)

    • @anneroy4560
      @anneroy4560 7 лет назад +5

      Arlene has FAR better manners than Dorothy.

    • @libertyann439
      @libertyann439 6 лет назад +4

      Purple Capricorn Zsa
      Actually Dorothy did stand for Bishop Sheen. In fact she kissed his ring.

    • @esmeephillips5888
      @esmeephillips5888 3 года назад +1

      @@ToddSF Dorothy stood for Frank Lloyd Wright and Eleanor Roosevelt, to name two.

  • @TyrSkyFatherOfTheGods
    @TyrSkyFatherOfTheGods 9 лет назад +3

    God love him, but John Daly can ask the most banal questions.

  • @nelsonricardo3729
    @nelsonricardo3729 3 года назад +1

    Funny...he doesn't look Portuguese.

  • @algoritmosalfredohipicasig7116
    @algoritmosalfredohipicasig7116 5 лет назад +1

    Mr. Brown, are you the father of a future California governor? Who knows, maybe.

    • @davidturk6301
      @davidturk6301 5 лет назад +1

      Alfredo Santiago - well known yes.

  • @hthought
    @hthought 4 года назад +3

    I could confidently say that current governors of California would not get applauded today. And would probably appear in the show wearing tax-edos.

  • @cmlazar
    @cmlazar 2 года назад +2

    How rude of the audience to laugh at the Japanese woman.

  • @beadyeyedbrat
    @beadyeyedbrat Год назад

    I don't get Peter Lind Hayes

  • @Baskerville22
    @Baskerville22 3 года назад +4

    I disliked Peter Lind Hayes

  • @carollee444
    @carollee444 3 года назад +3

    Dorothy always ruines everything! Homely smart alec!

  • @galileocan
    @galileocan 10 лет назад +3

    Ok, I don't know why but I found "Count" De Gama annoying and pretentious. Why was he a Count? And I just rolled my eyes, the way he bowed and then kissed the ladies hands when he departed

    • @atronish
      @atronish 5 лет назад +4

      Vasco De Gama was awarded the noble title of Don (lord) in perpetuity for himself, his siblings and their descendants,' so this Count person could have been called Don, instead!; but then don is a respectfully way in Spanish to call any male adult as in sir in English hence the Count title to differentiate a regular don from a nobility.

    • @shirleyrombough8173
      @shirleyrombough8173 4 года назад

      Harry Belafonte was so handsome.

    • @shirleyrombough8173
      @shirleyrombough8173 4 года назад +1

      atronish - Thank you for this helpful information. We here in the US have been less enamoured by noble titles due to our founders choosing to try to abide by the value of "all men being created equal." For which I am grateful. By the way I think Vasco da Gama means "head of the cow" I think. Can anyone confirm that?

    • @accomplice55
      @accomplice55 2 года назад

      @@shirleyrombough8173: Google probably could.

    • @stevekru6518
      @stevekru6518 2 года назад +1

      @@shirleyrombough8173 Google translate shows no connection