What's My Line? - Eartha Kitt; Martin Gabel [panel] (Jul 12, 1959)

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  • @melodywalker3359
    @melodywalker3359 7 лет назад +265

    Eartha Kitt was such a beautiful woman her entire life.

    • @TheVetusMores
      @TheVetusMores 6 лет назад +13

      Gorgeous, and also just _real._ There was never any pretense about her!

    • @chuckendweiss4849
      @chuckendweiss4849 5 лет назад +3

      Melody Walker And very talented . Not just a singer dancer actress

    • @jess4metoo
      @jess4metoo 5 лет назад +4

      xxGodx I think she aged beautifully ruclips.net/video/qYQWqLV35J8/видео.html

    • @jackiemartin7239
      @jackiemartin7239 5 лет назад +6

      She had been thru so much in her young 💔 life. She is beautiful ❤️

    • @kevctulu3868
      @kevctulu3868 5 лет назад

      @xxGodx thats true

  • @mazzie9663
    @mazzie9663 5 лет назад +130

    She went through hell and back and survived and thrived and took herself to the top!
    Eartha Kitt was truly one of a kind.❤️

  • @bluesugar58
    @bluesugar58 8 лет назад +158

    Eartha Kitt signed her name on the board like a boss! her facial expressions are hilarious lol

    • @andrewthornhill7042
      @andrewthornhill7042 3 года назад +2

      @bluesugar58 And it's interesting to see how her signature had changed from her first appearance on WML 5 years earlier.

  • @LegionIvory
    @LegionIvory 5 лет назад +104

    Eartha Kitt was just far too diverse in the arts to be placed in a single category. The only thing that could possibly give her away was her voice.

  • @janicebatten5802
    @janicebatten5802 2 года назад +19

    It’s too bad that she was ill before she passed away but it’s great that her daughter was there to help her. She brought a lot of joy to people with her beautiful singing

  • @rachaelreece5695
    @rachaelreece5695 5 лет назад +36

    She's beautiful ans her eyes and demeanour says so much.. Imagine what she saw, went through.. Overcame

  • @princeharming8963
    @princeharming8963 3 года назад +13

    I was privileged to see Ms. Kitt live, at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach, when she was 79. She looked fabulous, and the audience was completely spellbound. One of the all time great show people.. A Star.

    • @diananutt1517
      @diananutt1517 2 года назад +4

      @Prince Harming. 🍀🌿❣️
      I heard once that Otto Preminger was fascinated by Eartha. She was truly unique and no one's version of "Santa Baby" even came close. She understood exactly what the songwriter had in mind. They must have loved her.
      I saw her with Mickey Rooney in a wonderful presentation of "Wizard of Oz" at the Fox Theatre in Detroit about 2000(?). Such a wonderful treat to see both Giants of the industry in this favorite story❣️🐒

    • @princeharming8963
      @princeharming8963 2 года назад +3

      @@diananutt1517 - So cool!

    • @diananutt1517
      @diananutt1517 2 года назад +1

      @@princeharming8963 🌿❣️🍀
      Yes! Way cool, Prince! She must have been a couple of years older than when you saw her, but she made a menacing witch❣️ Wish you could have been there. And I wish I'd seen her in West Palm Beach.
      She probably sang and danced for all of you that evening! How exciting!

    • @princeharming8963
      @princeharming8963 2 года назад +3

      @@diananutt1517 - Orson Welles called her "The Most Exciting Woman in the World" !

    • @diananutt1517
      @diananutt1517 2 года назад +1

      @@princeharming8963 🌿🍀💕
      Yes! I saw that yesterday when I googled Eartha, but I am certain that what I read some years ago named Preminger. Not sure if one of the sources was wrong, but I can see where a multi-talented, professionally behaving dynamo like that woman wouldn't have been greatly admired by those two fantastic directors. Maybe we'll have to seek out an autobiography. Interesting, though.

  • @thejupiter2574
    @thejupiter2574 9 лет назад +56

    I loved when one of the panelists asked Ms. Kitt if she sang Gospel music. The look on Ms. Kitt's face was like, noooo way, the complete opposite :) It looks like Ms. Kitt was on this show three times. I loved her singing and acting. RUclips is filled with impressive interviews with Ms. Kitt and clips of things she has done and appeared in. Every decade she would be involved with something current be it movies and Broadway and Disco In her later years she became very popular as a voice over actress for kid's cartoons and Disney so kids loved her without even knowing what she looked like. Ms. Kitt was the voice of two popular characters, Yzma and Queen Vexus . My Christmas each year is not complete until I hear her sing her iconic song Santa Baby. Ms. Kitt died on Christmas of Colon Cancer, her only child named Kitt McDonald Shapiro took care of her mother at home in her last month of illness and when she passed on Christmas, all the radio and TV stations played Santa Baby song with each hours' broadcast.

  • @hcombs0104
    @hcombs0104 3 года назад +9

    Eartha Kitt. Worked right up to the very end. She was supposed to do a concert, but passed before it could happen. Even though she lived to 81, it seemed like she should have kept on going.

  • @DaveGringo
    @DaveGringo 7 лет назад +62

    Miss Kitty looked truely stunning here.... Such a natural beauty and charming....

  • @tonyseay7648
    @tonyseay7648 3 года назад +10

    She is a Wow personality.Loved the way she carries herself through all her battles.Came out triumphly...

  • @Mai2727
    @Mai2727 5 лет назад +24

    I've always loved the Eartha Kitt appearances because it looks like she had so much fun playing the game!

  • @miyoshiumeki
    @miyoshiumeki 2 года назад +9

    You just fall in love with Eartha in this segment

    • @shable1436
      @shable1436 2 года назад +1

      Not true I was in love long ago 😂

    • @ChrisHansonCanada
      @ChrisHansonCanada Год назад +1

      Yes, Dorothy's chinless face could melt a man's heart.

  • @wonhoptoo
    @wonhoptoo 7 лет назад +50

    19:21- What you came for
    You're welcome! ...Peace...

  • @lydiarodgers
    @lydiarodgers 4 года назад +15

    what a delightful, contagious laugh eartha kitt had

  • @donnacook8994
    @donnacook8994 Год назад +2

    Just loved Eartha Kitt's performance!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰👏👏👏 So, so beautiful!!!

  • @aileen694
    @aileen694 3 года назад +12

    Arlene's background comments, as usual, are hilarious while John does his "conferencing."

    • @rmelin13231
      @rmelin13231 Год назад

      Oh, weren't they priceless?!! I cracked up with each one.

  • @mikegendron3723
    @mikegendron3723 5 лет назад +22

    Best answer by a contestant, ever. Martin Gabel asks the man who makes roulette wheels "What is the best number" He says "The winning number" Brilliant!!!!

  • @robertdiotalevi2882
    @robertdiotalevi2882 5 лет назад +26

    Eartha was purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrfect!

  • @shadykatie100
    @shadykatie100 Год назад +3

    Eartha was really a beautiful woman! Best Cat Woman ever!

  • @jillgordon1003
    @jillgordon1003 9 лет назад +63

    23:23
    I love that look that Eartha Kitt gives Dorothy, when she asks if she's a gospel singer

    • @ToddSF
      @ToddSF 9 лет назад +5

      Jill Gordon -- In today's idiom, I think Eartha Kitt was thinking "as if'"! She wasn't close to being a gospel singer. Her style was much more of a cabaret singer type. When she sang, she put a little bit of sexiness in it.

    • @jillgordon1003
      @jillgordon1003 9 лет назад +11

      Yeah, I understand what she meant. I just love the look she gave her.

    • @ajmarveldc5505
      @ajmarveldc5505 6 лет назад +5

      Jill Gordon me too.. priceless!!!

  • @rdsims8809
    @rdsims8809 2 года назад +5

    CLASSY EARTHA KITT!!!

  • @freelikeyve
    @freelikeyve Год назад +1

    She is such a gorgeous unique beauty! Cannot take my eyes off of her. Love her attitude and her spunk. ❤

  • @gbrumburgh
    @gbrumburgh 4 года назад +4

    Jorunn Kristiansen, born in 1940, the Norwegian beauty queen in the 1950s, later married actor Barry Coe, who died in 2019. She turned to painting. They had two children.

  • @cuttersboi08
    @cuttersboi08 3 года назад +7

    Eartha Kitt! Nothing less than stunning every time! Even as a kid I preferred her over Julie Newmar as Catwoman.

  • @johngiovine8792
    @johngiovine8792 4 года назад +16

    I had a voluptuously singing and swaying Eartha Kitt sit in my lap during a live cabaret radio broadcast concert, while my parents were sitting next to me… was I blushing, oh YES!

    • @googleuser7454
      @googleuser7454 3 года назад +6

      Oh my! What an experience

    • @johngiovine8792
      @johngiovine8792 3 года назад +7

      @@googleuser7454 As she came down from the stage I could see that she was focusing on me, and I sweating at that point. Eartha Kitt was very gracious and kind.

    • @williamlynnroden
      @williamlynnroden 3 года назад +5

      @John Giovine.
      Lucky, lucky you!

  • @sherenay3109
    @sherenay3109 3 года назад +13

    Eartha Kitt's expressions are hilarious 😂

  • @RalphOnofrio
    @RalphOnofrio Месяц назад

    Whoever does this site...Great job...I watched this show on our first TV with my parents..They should bring this show back into primetime TV.

  • @tashapointer6725
    @tashapointer6725 5 лет назад +19

    She is sooooo gorgeous

  • @neilmidkiff
    @neilmidkiff 4 года назад +9

    It looked as if the studio was very warm -- Eartha Kitt slipped her fur piece off her shoulders, and Arlene was fanning herself with her note pad -- but it wasn't a particularly warm day out in New York City, just 75 degrees F. at 5 pm, but very humid at 88%. Of course TV lighting back then had to be intense and thus hot, so we'll have to blame it on the lights rather than the weather.

    • @lamibonxd
      @lamibonxd Год назад

      i had the same thought! i noticed guests fanning themselves in multiple episodes…must be those hot lights!!

  • @sheltv100
    @sheltv100 3 года назад +3

    I wish I was born the same year as Ertha Kitt was, because I would have loved for her to be my girl.

  • @pleasestopforcingmetopicka2679
    @pleasestopforcingmetopicka2679 6 лет назад +26

    The Eartha Kitt segment was so enjoyable to watch.

  • @ald668
    @ald668 2 года назад +7

    I LOVE EARTHA! A TRUE ORIGINAL!

  • @matthiaslohr9082
    @matthiaslohr9082 3 года назад +3

    I had 2 months in 1959. In Germany we had a similar edition: "Was bin ich? Who am I"

  • @2ndEndingVintage
    @2ndEndingVintage 5 лет назад +6

    Beautiful woman, Eartha...

  • @horatiohornblower5626
    @horatiohornblower5626 3 года назад +7

    Dorothy always gave the female guests an appraising comprehensive look from head to foot after she had shaken their hands.

    • @dinahbrown902
      @dinahbrown902 2 года назад +1

      Woman checking another out. I find it pathetic

    • @shable1436
      @shable1436 2 года назад +2

      @@dinahbrown902 what that supposed to mean? Looking at what she's wearing, or looking at figure and looks?

  • @dancelli714
    @dancelli714 4 года назад +4

    Dental assistant is the term used now. . . . . . And Eartha Kitt besides being talented was also super CUTE.

    • @bluecamus5162
      @bluecamus5162 2 года назад +2

      Small conference please, with your permission, I think Mr Celli would agree, in our broad terms of reference, that a Dental Nurse today would be called a Hygienist, who is certified to work in patient's mouths. A Dental Assistant handles instruments and other duties, but does not actually touch the patient. As I understand it.

  • @RaquelRoxx
    @RaquelRoxx 6 лет назад +17

    Her reaction to the question at 23:20 was my favorite 🤣

  • @god-talkwithannesiademeece2721
    @god-talkwithannesiademeece2721 5 лет назад +8

    Mrs kitt baby hair on fleek ☺

  • @scottfeuerhammer3595
    @scottfeuerhammer3595 3 года назад +2

    I'm in love! 50 years to late. ❤❤😍🥰🔥💋

  • @ancienttech4636
    @ancienttech4636 3 года назад +2

    "Alternate sponsor"? Kudos to the network and the producers for not giving in! 👍👍

  • @ajmarveldc5505
    @ajmarveldc5505 6 лет назад +9

    Another great episode!! Eartha was great! I'm subscribing!

  • @battlegirldeb
    @battlegirldeb 9 лет назад +17

    Watch all of the episodes with Eartha Kitt. Just to see how many Guest it takes before she is found out.

  • @shable1436
    @shable1436 2 года назад +2

    Bentler had a son named Franz who was famous in his own right, a professional orchestra musician, violin player and was based out of Chicago

  • @savethetpc6406
    @savethetpc6406 10 лет назад +7

    Everyone appreciated Arlene's comment that John didn't have any conferences with Mr. Benteler (the roulette wheel-maker), but actually he had already had a "small meeting" with him regarding his "yes" answer to wearing less in his work than he had on for the show (beginning around 12:54, with Bennett's question).

  • @geoffm9944
    @geoffm9944 3 года назад +6

    I disagree with John Daily, regarding the dental nurse. Is there a product involved? The answer must be no. She’s delivering a service.

  • @JackDecker63
    @JackDecker63 3 года назад +2

    Wow! Ms. Kitt was beautiful.

  • @spockboy
    @spockboy 5 лет назад +23

    Eartha was hot.

  • @evonza4858
    @evonza4858 2 года назад +1

    I love Eartha🥰❤️🖤💚and all of my chocolate brothers and sisters happy black history forever 🥰❤️ 🖤💚

  • @kulturekritik9665
    @kulturekritik9665 3 года назад +4

    Arlene: "Why don't they just go off together?!" LOL.

  • @neilmidkiff
    @neilmidkiff 4 года назад +4

    At 1:29, Arlene refers to Bennett as the "compiler" of his columns of anecdotes, and she's being accurate. In his foreword to his 1944 book of anecdotes titled "Try and Stop Me", Bennett writes "I did not make them up; I *collected* them."

  • @smithsmith9379
    @smithsmith9379 9 лет назад +20

    At 13:50 I think Dorothy's journalist habits came through when she asked a question followed by "is that the position you're taking?" She was always a reporter first, carefully digging for the facts.

  • @oksills
    @oksills 6 лет назад +15

    Miss Kitt’s voice! Loved it!

  • @sharonlaudat3297
    @sharonlaudat3297 3 года назад +4

    If Andra Day didn't already play Billie Holiday, I think she would be perfect as Eartha Kitt.

  • @disvids8754
    @disvids8754 7 лет назад +7

    first comment on Dorothy's hairstyler - I think it's very flattering here

    • @stevekru6518
      @stevekru6518 3 года назад

      Miss Norway, Arlene, Miss Kitt, and you compliment fuzz on a billiard ball. Seems like describing the moon landing as an opportunity to drink Tang

    • @accomplice55
      @accomplice55 2 года назад +2

      @@stevekru6518: Wow, that's rude.

  • @Aariyan096
    @Aariyan096 5 лет назад +40

    I believe Taraji could portray her in a biopic

    • @otom3487
      @otom3487 4 года назад +2

      absolutely!!!!!!!

    • @bradredford4846
      @bradredford4846 4 года назад +1

      Ooh. That would be awesome!

    • @sparkly21
      @sparkly21 4 года назад +4

      Fuck no... Taraji is a mess, get someone who’s more elegant to play Eartha Kitt than that tacky bitch.

    • @joeambrose3260
      @joeambrose3260 4 года назад +1

      Who on God's green earth is Taraji?

    • @sparkly21
      @sparkly21 4 года назад

      Night Witch you first

  • @sylviayeager2675
    @sylviayeager2675 6 лет назад +6

    Eartha Kitty beautiful n adorable. ❤️ Her. Thanks for posting,

  • @sarasoda7442
    @sarasoda7442 5 лет назад +13

    Eartha Kitt comes in at 19:28

  • @savethetpc6406
    @savethetpc6406 10 лет назад +15

    In general, the panel was less sharp than usual on this episode, but it was entertaining to watch, none-the-less. :)

  • @babygoose8716
    @babygoose8716 4 года назад +5

    Love her facial expressions

    • @shable1436
      @shable1436 2 года назад

      Have you seen her song clip I'm evil? Her facial expressions are so modern and copied by actors down the line that they are still in use today, she went to private arts schools and took lots of drama growing up

  • @arrghhouse
    @arrghhouse 6 лет назад +7

    "The winning number." So quick and clever!

    • @neilmidkiff
      @neilmidkiff 4 года назад +1

      I'd guess that it wasn't the first time he'd been asked that question.

  • @chelseymarie1493
    @chelseymarie1493 5 лет назад +10

    Eartha is so cute...

  • @RobertLofrano
    @RobertLofrano 4 года назад +3

    Eartha was so talented, beautiful and sexy and her voice.......

  • @romeman01
    @romeman01 10 лет назад +13

    Akiko Kojima of Tokyo became Miss Universe at the end of July 1959, having "narrowly edged out Miss Norway, Jorunn Kristiansen, 18, for the title ..." the Associated Press reported at the time.

    • @44032
      @44032 3 года назад +1

      I thought Ms. Kristiansen at 3:03 said she came from "Most Nervous".

  • @georgemartin1436
    @georgemartin1436 2 года назад +2

    As a kid, I realized I was a male when I saw Eartha on Batman..

  • @RonGerstein
    @RonGerstein 14 дней назад

    Eartha Kitt sang a sexy Christmas song that was #1 in the holiday charts.

  • @ninarue
    @ninarue 4 года назад +4

    I love her laugh

  • @fridgemagnet
    @fridgemagnet 6 лет назад +16

    she was HOT!!!

  • @jvcomedy
    @jvcomedy 9 лет назад +4

    Ms. Kristiansen married actor Barry Coe and is currently an artist. Here's her web site.
    1stavecontemporarygallery.com/coe.html

  • @richatlarge462
    @richatlarge462 4 года назад +2

    Arlene at 9:33: "Why don't they just go home together?" Great line! (Or was it "Why don't they just go off together?")

  • @shable1436
    @shable1436 2 года назад +2

    I'm here for Eartha

  • @Qboro66
    @Qboro66 4 года назад +4

    It looked like the air conditioning was on the fritz.

  • @actownsend7288
    @actownsend7288 11 месяцев назад

    Seeing the look on her beautiful sneaky face as she fooled that panel was priceless especially when Dorothy asked Eartha if she was a gospel singer. You should have let her sing before the credits, Mr. Daly.

  • @dannydoc1969
    @dannydoc1969 5 лет назад +6

    "The winning number", hahahahaha what a quick wit.

  • @k-bullion5805
    @k-bullion5805 5 лет назад +9

    Eartha Kitt @19:31👌

  • @keithnaylor1981
    @keithnaylor1981 13 дней назад

    Surprised the panel struggled so much with the casino wheel maker. It was obvious he was the man who makes the thing that drills the holes that holds the ring that drives the knob that turns the rod that works the thing-ummy-bob.

  • @galileocan
    @galileocan 5 лет назад +7

    Was John in some sort of misleading mood on this episode? With the first guest who was a dental nurse, he said she dealt with a product..? and she used soap!?? What the....

  • @Broc13
    @Broc13 6 лет назад +9

    I've never really seen them so lost as this episode. They got stuck on a loop on the "wearing less than now" and the machinery. I think they thought he operated some kind of machine for people in the nude or in his undies because they seemed so perplexed about the clothing part haha.

    • @neilmidkiff
      @neilmidkiff 4 года назад +2

      Yes, Dorothy's question at 17:50 corroborates your point that she was imagining an undressed, or at best half-clad, Mr. Benteler in his shop.

  • @ronfarbman8124
    @ronfarbman8124 Год назад

    In show business there is MS Mitt and they there is everyone else. No question the most exciting woman who has ever been on the planet

  • @donnacook8994
    @donnacook8994 Год назад +1

    Mr Bentler had a good sense of humor! 😂

  • @regeneratedsun6105
    @regeneratedsun6105 7 лет назад +16

    sultry at it's best

  • @lorichambo2756
    @lorichambo2756 2 года назад +2

    they must not have had AC in large buildings yet at that time...or at least not in THIS theater

    • @shable1436
      @shable1436 2 года назад +1

      They did, but when full of ppl large spaces are hard to cool in summer

  • @vintageincolor
    @vintageincolor Год назад

    When Dorothy asked if she was known as a gospel singer and the other guest asked if she sang an opera I truly wondered if they thought she was Joyce Bryant

  • @thunderball6908
    @thunderball6908 2 месяца назад

    I think Dorothy looks particularly lovely in this episode.

  • @k-bullion5805
    @k-bullion5805 5 лет назад +4

    The look she gives @22:57😂....KeKe Palmer could definitely play her in a movie!

  • @francoamerican4632
    @francoamerican4632 2 года назад +1

    I didn't hear any whistling or catcalling while Eartha Kitt was signing in. Am I missing something?

  • @JerjerB
    @JerjerB 3 года назад +5

    I always have to point to these videos when people say the first black people on TV in America were the Supremes...

  • @leannsherman6723
    @leannsherman6723 Год назад +2

    You can be sure that Arlene was keeping an eye on Martin when he shook Miss Norway’s hand. She was easily jealous.

  • @garyjones1688
    @garyjones1688 4 года назад +1

    Eartha kitt was beautiful

  • @monicaclark9581
    @monicaclark9581 24 дня назад

    The dental assistant really was a natural beauty

  • @thewanderer1598
    @thewanderer1598 3 года назад +1

    Hheheheh her voice would be an intentional giveaway way

  • @eveevelittleevil7422
    @eveevelittleevil7422 6 лет назад +7

    Let me say this, after watching EPs of this old show, something I kinda gathered- Mr. Cerf, though kindly and benign on the surface, was, in fact, not.

  • @ChrisHansonCanada
    @ChrisHansonCanada Год назад +1

    *_Dental Nurse_*
    *_Makes Roulette Wheels_*

  • @chiikasheunique
    @chiikasheunique 5 лет назад +3

    Watching in 2019💜

  • @permijitdunkley1697
    @permijitdunkley1697 2 года назад +1

    Miss Eartha Kitt Fashion Designer Beauty : computer EDIT 🎇🎇🎇

  • @kulturekritik9665
    @kulturekritik9665 3 года назад +3

    What's going on with Arlene's hair in this episode? She looks like she just got out of a long convertible ride.

  • @geoffm9944
    @geoffm9944 3 года назад +2

    Do they use any soap in your work? I would have thought the answer was no! I’ve been to the dentist countless times and mouthwash was used, but at no time was soap used by the dentist.

    • @mikejschin
      @mikejschin 3 года назад +5

      I would guess that they were referring to the dentist and assistant using soap to wash their hands before working on a patient.

  • @EricBrushaber-x9p
    @EricBrushaber-x9p 3 месяца назад

    Class act

  • @petermelian1346
    @petermelian1346 4 года назад +3

    '
    Eartha Kitt unequally talented in singing phonetically in various foreign languages. Her Spanish was absolutely unparalled incremented by the personal wit and piquancy she used to put into it. No social, ethnical or political satire escaped her spicy and peppery tongue and the audience loved it, at least abroad, -bien entendu- since the low intellectual level of the American crowds made it impossible for them to grasp its intention.

  • @wellcom4530
    @wellcom4530 21 день назад

    Jorunn Kristjansen was first runner up for the Miss Universe pageant of 1959