What's My Line? Secretaries to the panelists, January 13, 1957
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- What's My Line's blindfolded panelists Dorothy Kilgallen, Arlene Francis and Bennett Cerf attempt to identify their personal secretaries. Along for the ride, in the fourth chair, is Peter Lawford.
This clip can certainly be enjoyed on it's own but it takes on more significance when combined with my true crime blog entry that deals with the accidental death of Albert Rodecker.
Read more about it at asclosetocrime...
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I'm obsessed with this show, I love it so much. It's old, and it's vintage with its values, but the humor is just as humanly fresh today as it was back then, and I find myself constantly laughing out loud, which almost *never* happens when I watch anything else...
Thanks for posting! 😊
Just out of curiosity, how old are you because I'm in my twenties and this is the kind of TV I love. I admit I also love programs like The Sopranos and true crime. But it's really nice to just see this class and wholesomeness
@SomethingSomethingg I'm 64 years old. This show premiered before I was even born, and while I could have watched it in the early 60s, my parents were more into The Twilight Zone and the Jackie Gleason Show, lol
I didn't start watching these shows regularly until they came to YT, here
It's great you like them, too! Doesn't matter how old you are.
You listen, read, watch, and dance to whoever/whatever YOU want to and don't listen to others because it's what makes you unique! 👍✨️👍✨️👍
What an absolutely gem of a program this was. John Daly was the perfect host and thank God Arlene Francis was always there
Someone seriously needs to revive this show if they can get the right host and panel!
@@shuboy05 John O’Hurlihey perfect host with Jennifer Aniston or Christina Applegate in the Arlene role
Thank god for Dorothy Kilgallen. Rest in peace!
@@shuboy05 the right host and panel is essential to success. Tough to beat host John Daly and this panel .
There was also one panel of mystery guests who were the spouses of the celebrities. That was even funnier, but this was truly hilarious! :-)
Christmas Day, 1960
I loved Arlene Francis a fine actress and a total classy lady rip dear one love anne
Me too Anne. She’s my escape during these crazy times. What a joy it must have been to know her. Dinner and drinks with her must have fun.
These are totally awesome times. An Epic Time. Wished I was alive and kickin''' in this Generation. I watch this all the time. Have actually Binge Watched. They may be gone,, however not forgotten. Peace to all here in 2021, we need it.
Me too!
Arlene's secretary, Muriel Fleit of the infamous falling dumbell death case.
What a grotesque and dreadful accident that was. No fault of Arlene's or Martin's, of course.
Would like to more about this
It wasn't Arlene's secretary, it was their housekeeper. She was to have shampood the carpeting while Arlene, Martin and Peter were vacationing.
It was the maid. She used the dumbbell to prop open the windows after she shampood the carpeting so the smell would disappear
😊😊😊this was class.
Lawford was a better game show panelist than actor. He could hold his own with the regulars. Later in his decline after Sinatra booted him from the Clan, Lawford most of his living from games.
The next morning, all three secretaries were summarily fired and were never able to work in New York again.
Did Arlene say "Sh*t"? :) John Daly asked what they said and she had her hand over her mouth!
Most of the questions were of a general nature trying to pin down the occupation, so how did Bennet come up with the very precise question at the end about a connection to the panel when his previous questions were just as random as the others? Maybe he recognized the voice of his own secretary, but it just seemed way too precise a question.
I think maybe he thought it was their wives :)
But failure to recognize close subordinates- genuinely or otherwise- implies that the three panelists were kind of aloof from the help. Whether it was a fix or not, it does not reflect well on the employers.
I think because when they go on and on and don't get closer to the answer or when the audience laughs so loudly at certain answers, it sometimes tips off the panel to one of John Daly's and the producers' favorite tricks: Bringing in someone (or multiple people) from the panelists' lives. But, yes, it is true that the tone or word choices in the last answers by his secretary might have piqued his curiosity or rang a bell with him.
And they were all fired the following Monday
guess they couldn't get Peter's secretary
Lawford next to Kilgallen...what freakin irony.
Why
@@bambi274 Lawford part of the Kennedy club
@@tomy5868 oohhh. Ok
Dorothy -- the woman who knew too much and was ended because of it.
The truth about it all will be revealed soon...
There should've been chairs for the other 2 women.
It was a live broadcast, so they didn't have time to move the chairs on and off stage.
No, because if all three had been seated the two in back would’ve been difficult to see. Furthermore, the two standing women had to be able to lean forward to get closer to the microphone to answer.
Hahahahaha they got stumped by their own s secretaries
Sadly thought the panel always were given the identity of the contestants.
They are, except in the case of mystery guests. Then they guess the person's identity and their occupation becomes obvious.
I would sue them for sex discrimination in the workplace!