What's My Line? - Edith Young & Phyllis Cerf; Joan Crawford; Peter Ustinov [panel] (Dec 8, 1957)

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  • Опубликовано: 24 янв 2014
  • MYSTERY GUEST: Edith Young & Phyllis Cerf [Bennett's wife!]; Joan Crawford
    PANEL: Arlene Francis, Peter Ustinov, Dorothy Kilgallen, Bennett Cerf
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  • @rdsims8809
    @rdsims8809 3 года назад +31

    Wow!!! The fashion that they are wearing is timeless and classy!!!
    When people used to dress, they acted with dignity and respect back then .... immaculate!!!
    CLASSY!! DRESSING WAS A MANDATORY ROUTINE FOR BOTH MEN AND WOMEN OF ALL SOCIAL AND ETHNIC GROUPS.
    SOCIETY NEEDS TO RETURN BACK. TOP QUALITY FABRICS...TIMELESS!!!
    LOVE IT!!!

    • @richardr2555
      @richardr2555 2 года назад +1

      You can start dressing up any time you like.

    • @rdsims8809
      @rdsims8809 2 года назад +5

      @@richardr2555 I always have and still do. 👍

    • @ninawilliams9279
      @ninawilliams9279 2 года назад

      Yaaaaaas☆☆☆

  • @user-sn5jr1ji9h
    @user-sn5jr1ji9h 3 года назад +57

    Joan Crawford was such a huge star in Hollywood. It's almost hard to comprehend the magnitude of her star power. They don't make film stars like her anymore. Fun fact, during the 1930s and 40s, Crawford was consistently in the top 10 billing actors in Hollywood.

    • @jerrylee8261
      @jerrylee8261 Год назад +3

      Have watched Mildred Pierce several times. A great job of casting and a great job by all in the cast. Love when a bit player who might be on for just a few minutes yet he gives his all.

  • @drednm
    @drednm 5 лет назад +111

    At this point, Joan Crawford was one of the biggest stars the movies had ever seen. 30 years and she was still going strong. The mention of "long golden curls" was a reference to Mary Pickford, who at one point was Crawford's mother-in-law! Joan Crawford, one of the greats!

    • @savethetpc6406
      @savethetpc6406 5 лет назад +12

      @drednm I think Dorothy asked about "long golden curls" (at 21:05) because she was thinking of Shirley Temple. Shirley Temple was no longer making movies in 1957, but she would have still been associated with motion pictures in the minds of most Americans at the time, so it would be sensible for Dorothy to think of her, based on the differing answers from Joan and John to Arlene's questions about her being associated with "pictures." Also, Shirley Temple had brought to life characters "from the pages of a book" in such films as _The Little Princess_ and _Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm_ .

    • @josh6402
      @josh6402 4 года назад +2

      @@savethetpc6406 Pickford made those films too :-)

    • @harveymanfredsenjenson5417
      @harveymanfredsenjenson5417 3 года назад +1

      Bette Davis didn't think so...

    • @SymphonyBrahms
      @SymphonyBrahms 3 года назад +2

      @@harveymanfredsenjenson5417 Bette Davis was the greatest of the greats.

    • @harveymanfredsenjenson5417
      @harveymanfredsenjenson5417 3 года назад +4

      @@SymphonyBrahms Joan Crawford didn't think so...

  • @peteowen3539
    @peteowen3539 4 года назад +33

    Peter Ustinov. What a speaking voice he had!

    • @joeambrose3260
      @joeambrose3260 4 года назад +1

      Yeah, It really grates on you

    • @kugelweg
      @kugelweg 2 года назад +9

      Peter Ustinov had an AMAZING speaking voice! It was so resonant and deep. I've always loved listening to him.

  • @jamesr1703
    @jamesr1703 5 лет назад +65

    John's lengthy and verbose "clarifications" are hilarious.

    • @joeblaumer2085
      @joeblaumer2085 2 года назад +7

      And he won awards as a newscaster.
      I would loved to have met him.

    • @kitcoffey7194
      @kitcoffey7194 Год назад +4

      Masterful deployment of "precision" in excess, for comic effect. Very often comedy is skilled, performative, exaggeration.

    • @sdgakatbk
      @sdgakatbk Год назад

      I call them obfuscations and they were funny. However, by 1957, I think they had gotten a bit played out. I think on earlier shows, particularly how Fred Allen responded some of them were really funny.
      Btw, I took an engineering class in college where there was one teacher who did that when we were taking exams. After 15 minutes, he would "explain" something about one of the questions or how it was written that confused me.

  • @sagarsaxena6318
    @sagarsaxena6318 4 года назад +26

    "You didn't even know your own wife,don't be silly."
    hahaha.

  • @bigoldinosaur
    @bigoldinosaur 10 лет назад +36

    Bennett was sure happy happy happy when he saw Phyllis.

  • @dmison2013
    @dmison2013 5 лет назад +20

    I love these old shows.

  • @andrewgilmore7669
    @andrewgilmore7669 10 лет назад +46

    Theodore Kratzke (one of the department store Santas) was my mother's high school shop teacher!

    • @angelajoseph6709
      @angelajoseph6709 5 лет назад +3

      Andrew Gilmore Wow! Is he the big guy Dorothy referred to as strong-smelling?

    • @philippapay4352
      @philippapay4352 4 года назад +1

      Andrew Gilmore - Cheltenham? Abington? They were good school districts back then with some bucks, so I am pleased to know the girls were allowed to take shop, not just boys.

    • @terrib9381
      @terrib9381 3 месяца назад

      I was born & raised in Ardsley, PA right next door to Roslyn where Mr. Kratzke was from

  • @wchumphries
    @wchumphries 8 лет назад +41

    What a fun episode! Thank you Gary.
    Ustinov, erudite and charming as he was, was an excellent panellist.

    • @davidkendrick4453
      @davidkendrick4453 Год назад

      And Daly kept butchering his name. The Russian spelling of “Ustinov” began with the vowel for YOO, not OO.

    • @rmelin13231
      @rmelin13231 9 месяцев назад +1

      Mr. Ustinov never fails to amuse me. I could watch and listen to him for hours.

  • @keetrandling4530
    @keetrandling4530 3 года назад +7

    Oh John, how you always make me smile. I wish I could have met you.

  • @juanettebutts9782
    @juanettebutts9782 4 года назад +29

    A female Santa Claus?! Never crossed my mind.
    How adorable: when Bennett and Phyllis exchanged a kiss she gave her leg a little kick back.

    • @lynettepalecek3141
      @lynettepalecek3141 2 года назад +5

      @Juanette Butts. That showed that Phyllis and Bennett Cerf were happily married. 💖

    • @CellGames2006
      @CellGames2006 2 года назад +2

      Also sweet how she blew a kiss to John for making that one explanation.

  • @bigwilson8794
    @bigwilson8794 9 лет назад +45

    The comments about eyebrows, ageing, adoption, family etc regarding Joan Crawford have a place. But there is no doubt that Joan Crawford did more to dignify the role of women in the movies than any actress ever. She was an incredible person with an amazing life story.

  • @robbycan
    @robbycan 3 года назад +27

    Bennett always smiles so nicely when it's revealed what they are. Quite the gentleman, and a great sport.

    • @mikejschin
      @mikejschin 3 года назад +10

      Bennett seemed to enjoy himself immensely on this show. At times, it strikes me that there is still a lot of little boy in him. There's alway something that lights him up like a kid who just got his first hit in Little League.

    • @jerrylee8261
      @jerrylee8261 Год назад +2

      @@mikejschin I think that applies to all men as far as having a little boy inside. Men and boys are put under a lot of pressure to talk, act, walk, etc. in a certain manner. Otherwise a lot of finger wagging and mean comments ensue. We would be better off to just relax and be ourselves.

    • @GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath
      @GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath Год назад

      Ted Bundy had a nice smile too.

  • @rivaridge7211
    @rivaridge7211 6 лет назад +42

    Joan really didn't disguise her voice much in this episode - I was surprised the questioning went on for as long as it did. She made several appearances as "Mystery Guest" during the WML show's long run. Her comment to Bennett at the show's end is very funny! Thanks for all the fun posts!!

    • @44032
      @44032 5 лет назад +4

      I think they knew who it was and stretched it out so the show wouldn't come up short.

    • @sleb99
      @sleb99 4 года назад +4

      Steven Chappell I think Bennett knew instantly. Watch his body language. He kindly let them have some fun and experience before revealing who they were. He’s a highly intelligent man. He knew his wife’s voice. I think his protest at the end, when he stated he recognized the other lady’s voice rather than wife Phyllis’s, was just a generous compliment to her.

  • @keithhyttinen8275
    @keithhyttinen8275 4 года назад +31

    Joan plays her best role five years in the future (1962) as the crippled sister in "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?"

    • @poetcomic1
      @poetcomic1 3 года назад +6

      You probably never saw Humoresque or Mildred Pierce.

    • @jp0308
      @jp0308 3 года назад +2

      @Keith Hyttinen: Undoubtedly one of her stellar performances! Commenter "poetcomic1" also mentions "Humoresque" & "Mildred Pierce" but lets not forget another of her impactful performances in "Flamingo Road".

    • @poetcomic1
      @poetcomic1 3 года назад +2

      @@jp0308 There was a costume party in Hollywood that year and Joan wore her Carnival Girl dress from Flamingo Road and looked great.

    • @2getha5eva
      @2getha5eva 2 года назад +2

      I thought she was amazing in Grand Hotel, The Women and A Woman's Face, as well as the other mentioned above.

    • @jerrylee8261
      @jerrylee8261 Год назад +1

      @@jp0308 I think Joan in Flamingo Road slapped the hell out of Sydney Greenstreet. Another of my favorite actors.

  • @chrisn7259
    @chrisn7259 7 лет назад +28

    Joan thought she was through with movies, but that changed when her husband Al Steele (Pepsi Cola bigwig) died leaving her in debt. She continued to make movies until 1970.

    • @kjgammon1658
      @kjgammon1658 5 лет назад +10

      Baby Jane $$ got her WAY out of debt!

    • @jaymc5011
      @jaymc5011 4 года назад +9

      Loved her on the 1st episode of Night Gallery.

    • @kjgammon1658
      @kjgammon1658 3 года назад

      @@cdrugly a lot of untruths in that.. poetic lisence..no wonder olivia sued..unfortunately the laws don't protect much...

    • @SymphonyBrahms
      @SymphonyBrahms 3 года назад +2

      Dreadful movies like "Berserk" and "Trog". But I guess that they paid the bills.

  • @preppysocks209
    @preppysocks209 4 года назад +25

    According to wikipedia, Joan Crawford was very close to Dorothy and morose when she died. "In an interview with the Fort Lauderdale News, actress Joan Crawford said she was distraught over the death of her close friend Kilgallen. Crawford, who was traveling in Florida, said, “Perhaps it’s just as well I won’t be at the funeral. I hate them. I want to remember her as she was . . . her fineness, her beauty.”

    • @su8483
      @su8483 3 года назад +1

      Interesting. It wouldn't have occurred to me that they were close ...

    • @SymphonyBrahms
      @SymphonyBrahms 3 года назад

      Her vicious pen.

    • @preppysocks209
      @preppysocks209 3 года назад +1

      @Sheila collins Readers should note that no evidence is offered to support any of the contentions of this comment.

  • @kenowens9021
    @kenowens9021 8 лет назад +23

    Phyllis Cerf was a former actress named Phyllis Fraser. She starred with John Wayne in "Winds of the Wasteland"

    • @donaldwarren463
      @donaldwarren463 5 лет назад +4

      Cerf was married for a very brief period to Sylvia Sidney ..

    • @lllowkee6533
      @lllowkee6533 2 года назад +2

      and Phyllis married former NYC mayor R. Wagner after Bennetts death…

  • @drusilladelp5162
    @drusilladelp5162 5 лет назад +21

    Phyllis is so cute!

  • @CoxJoxSox
    @CoxJoxSox 5 лет назад +37

    These were Arlene's pirate days

    • @joeambrose3260
      @joeambrose3260 4 года назад +2

      She forgot the puffy shirt

    • @kennethlatham3133
      @kennethlatham3133 3 года назад +10

      Aaaaarrrr-lene Francis, matey!

    • @alexandermarquis6197
      @alexandermarquis6197 3 года назад +1

      She's full of it, no one knew her on the west coast or cared enough

    • @siggylloyd3566
      @siggylloyd3566 2 года назад +1

      @@alexandermarquis6197 they're all full of it; that's what makes viewing it so entertaining--the pretenses of a bygone era.

  • @nancypine9952
    @nancypine9952 6 лет назад +35

    At 13:18 John Daly refers to Arlene Francis as "Miss Hathaway." Hathaway Shirt Company had a series of ads that featured a very distinguished man with an eyepatch. It's considered to be among the best ad campaigns in American advertising history.

    • @cookingprof
      @cookingprof 5 лет назад +3

      Only Arlene would epitomize the phrase; "The show must go on". IMHO when she appeared in a jeweled eye patch showed her as the trooper that she was.

    • @Feroal2
      @Feroal2 4 года назад +2

      thank you

    • @juanettebutts9782
      @juanettebutts9782 4 года назад +6

      He called her Ms. Hathaway last week. I wondered at the reference. Thank you for clearing it up for me!

  • @gregmoorhead7203
    @gregmoorhead7203 5 лет назад +17

    I’ve read/heard so many crazy things/stories about Joan Crawford as I was growing up. But, in this episode, she appears to be a very kind and personable lady.

    • @tedmaire1599
      @tedmaire1599 3 года назад +7

      There weren't any wire hangers on the stage.

    • @harveymanfredsenjenson5417
      @harveymanfredsenjenson5417 3 года назад +2

      @@tedmaire1599 lol nice one

    • @harveymanfredsenjenson5417
      @harveymanfredsenjenson5417 3 года назад +10

      She had her public face on. They all do.
      "There's no people like show people, they smile when they are low"

    • @SymphonyBrahms
      @SymphonyBrahms 3 года назад +5

      She covered her tracks well.

    • @d.dorough
      @d.dorough 3 года назад +6

      Her public persona was well rehearsed I think.

  • @InspektorDreyfus
    @InspektorDreyfus 5 лет назад +22

    For a second I wondered why there are no comments from 70 years ago. 😂

    • @jennymode
      @jennymode 4 года назад +5

      That cracked me up, i can relate, thank you!

    • @joeambrose3260
      @joeambrose3260 4 года назад +2

      For a second I wondered if your IQ was above 70

    • @dinahbrown902
      @dinahbrown902 Год назад

      🤣

  • @jamesfox2579
    @jamesfox2579 6 лет назад +16

    This is such a TREAT!!😁

  • @dorothykilgallenwasmurdere1653
    @dorothykilgallenwasmurdere1653 2 года назад +5

    Crawford and Kilgallen were super good friends, and Crawford didn't disguise her voice at all. Crawford was even at Dorothy's house the day she died.

  • @gretchenking5952
    @gretchenking5952 5 лет назад +19

    John didn't have to say it was a duo bill. A lot of times he gives too much away.

  • @t4texastomjohnnycat978
    @t4texastomjohnnycat978 6 лет назад +11

    In the 1920s & 1930s, fellow Texan J.Crawford was HOT.

  • @Beson-SE
    @Beson-SE 9 лет назад +49

    Bennett: Is one of you creatures married to me? :) 8:35

    • @henrygrove100
      @henrygrove100 9 лет назад +3

      A lot of jewelry

    • @oksills
      @oksills 5 лет назад

      Johan Bengtsson WHAT?

    • @accomplice55
      @accomplice55 3 года назад +2

      @@oksills : He was quoting Bennett. What's your confusion?

  • @neilmidkiff
    @neilmidkiff 6 лет назад +18

    Going back for a second round of viewing these in order... First, kudos to Arlene for balancing the diagonal strap of her eye patch with an off-one-shoulder neckline. Classy as always, even when injured. Second, it's amazing to see Joan Crawford in the process of getting used to appearing on live TV. She seems absolutely terrified in the beginning, but as she gets into the spirit of the show, her warmth and humor become evident, and by the end, she's seemingly comfortable with it all. Of course, the genial WML team spirit must have helped a lot; I'll bet she was glad to have used this program for her broadcast debut.

    • @jerrylee8261
      @jerrylee8261 Год назад +2

      Neil, am on a second round myself. It never gets old and will third round it. Priceless entertainment. I thought Joan looked very unhappy at first. Maybe it was nerves as you posted.

    • @jacquelinebell6201
      @jacquelinebell6201 Год назад +2

      Once she started smiling more she was lovely.

  • @marianrohrbach1986
    @marianrohrbach1986 6 лет назад +59

    I love Joan Crawford. She started as a dancer and became an amazing actress. It's disgusting to me that her image and accomplishments have been tarnished by a book that was published after her death and to which she could not respond.

    • @manhhilston3063
      @manhhilston3063 5 лет назад +4

      A deeply disturbed woman a shame .. she was a true artist and gifted actress

    • @lilybean835
      @lilybean835 5 лет назад +13

      There were plenty of Joan's peers who backed up Christina's stories of what she and Christopher suffered at the hands of Joan. Joan's an incredible actress but used her adopted children to boost her image and as pawns, and she abused them horribly. She may be dead but that doesn't mean her acts weren't vile.

    • @jackanthony976
      @jackanthony976 4 года назад +1

      What makes you think she would have responded to that book?

    • @brkitdwn
      @brkitdwn 3 года назад +1

      @@lilybean835 Joan had her moments of fanaticism.

    • @2getha5eva
      @2getha5eva 2 года назад +3

      What's worse is the people who feel the need to comment "WhErE's ThE wIrE hAnGeRs" or "bEt ThE kiDS wErE tiED tO tHe BeD WIth KniTTiNg nEeDlEs" and crap like that, like they knew her and didn't just see a fictional movie.

  • @cosmojonesmusic
    @cosmojonesmusic 3 года назад +3

    Oh no!! As soon as he said Jenkintown I thought of the Goldbergs.
    Mr. & Mrs. Cerf seem so genuinely happy. I love that.

  • @soulierinvestments
    @soulierinvestments 10 лет назад +29

    1957. unlucky year for Arlene Francis. First her broken ankle and then an eye problem that required a patch. From 1953 to 1960, Arlene appeared on WML with an eye patch on 4 different occasions, and on another occasion, her eye problems necessitated wearing dark glasses on live TV.

    • @WhatsMyLine
      @WhatsMyLine  10 лет назад +11

      There's a strange comment about Arlene's eye problems in the Gil Fates book-- he claims she had a habit of "sticking her fingernail in her eye". I've never heard of anyone doing such a thing before in my life. I guess this was a nervous habit?

    • @jmccracken1963
      @jmccracken1963 10 лет назад +6

      In fact, I think that she was wearing dark glasses at the end of the previous week's show - during the "Good night"s.

    • @gaelengesser9484
      @gaelengesser9484 10 лет назад +7

      At first I thought cataracts, but that doesn't make much sense. Conjunctivitis, maybe? Considering the costume and makeup changes she went through in a day it wouldn't be too strange.
      Also, if sticking her finger in her eye was a nervous habit why didn't we see it on any of the episodes? You don't just stop a habit like that for the cameras.

    • @WhatsMyLine
      @WhatsMyLine  10 лет назад +13

      Dixie Alexander Yes, you can, Dixie, when you're a thorough-going professional like Arlene Francis was. Think about a celebrity who tended to bite his nails: would he be totally unable to stop doing so for 30 minutes while being broadcast to 40 million people live? If he was so unable, he wouldn't become a regular panelist on a top rated show! Nervous habit doesn't mean uncontrollable, constant compulsive behavior. It means something a person does when nervous.

    • @soulierinvestments
      @soulierinvestments 10 лет назад +4

      Not nervous habit. Clutziness. Fates I think overstated his observation in his book to that point. So far as I can tell, Arlene appeared with eye problems maybe 5-6 times on Sunday night WML. What's My Line?

  • @erichanson426
    @erichanson426 4 года назад +12

    Having a lady in the group of Santas is most likely what threw them off their sled.

  • @jimthompson606
    @jimthompson606 3 года назад +5

    When Bennett heard Phyllis laugh at the outset, I could tell her recognized her laugh.

  • @HollyCranfan
    @HollyCranfan 10 лет назад +27

    Phyllis Cerf is also Ginger Rogers' cousin

    • @markxxx21
      @markxxx21 7 лет назад +6

      Actually he's her cousin-in-law. Cerf's WIFE is Ginger Roger's cousin.

    • @Sylvander1911
      @Sylvander1911 5 лет назад +17

      @@markxxx21 That is what Holly said

  • @michaeldishler9673
    @michaeldishler9673 9 лет назад +10

    amazing Joan

  • @11redlions
    @11redlions 6 лет назад +70

    NOBODY SHOULD JUDGE A DECEASED PERSON BY A BOOK THAT WRITTEN AFTER THEIR DEATH.

    • @nadiazahroon6573
      @nadiazahroon6573 6 лет назад +7

      Mickey Rooney wrote horrible things about Eva Gardner, cad

    • @chriskellerson9740
      @chriskellerson9740 5 лет назад +8

      She beat her kids and mentally abused them. A mean Drunk was Joan 🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸

    • @marilynwillett804
      @marilynwillett804 5 лет назад +10

      Ava was gorgeous and he had short man anger.

    • @ronnelson6007
      @ronnelson6007 4 года назад +12

      @@marilynwillett804 ron n maybe her kids said what they said because Joan was always busy with her career and maybe they did not get much of her money when she died,. The lord tells us not to judge others.

    • @MrJoeybabe25
      @MrJoeybabe25 4 года назад +5

      Does that include Jesus?

  • @markblass4490
    @markblass4490 2 года назад +2

    Joan Crawford answered "Never!" when asked if she ever appeared on Broadway, however she did appear in 2 musical revues on Bdwy in the 1920s.

  • @guyinsf
    @guyinsf 3 года назад +4

    Joan Crawford didn't even try to disguise her voice and they still couldn't guess right away.

  • @cookielady9995
    @cookielady9995 5 лет назад +10

    I didn't care for Joan, but will not deny her talent.

  • @alexandermarquis6197
    @alexandermarquis6197 3 года назад +4

    Mr Peter Ustinov was a handsome chunky Papa

  • @paulbalares2307
    @paulbalares2307 2 года назад +4

    "Is one of you creatures married to me!" 😂

  • @jamesr1703
    @jamesr1703 5 лет назад +4

    "Wunderbar!"

  • @stevensacks2771
    @stevensacks2771 2 года назад +3

    When she said she was not in the movies anymore she could not have known that five years later she would be in What Ever Happened To Baby Jane ?

    • @jerrylee8261
      @jerrylee8261 Год назад +1

      A great movie. Recorded it a few weeks ago but did not watch as was
      just not in mood. Bette had to have had a ball with her character being overdressed and manic and mean as hell.

  • @SG-ug9xj
    @SG-ug9xj 2 года назад +4

    Ustinov was awesome as Nero in Quo Vadis!

  • @tooldhollywoodandbeyond
    @tooldhollywoodandbeyond 8 лет назад +14

    Arlene is adorable here.

  • @geoffm9944
    @geoffm9944 4 года назад +7

    Peter Ustinov was a wonderfully talented man, who excelled in acting on stage and screen, behind the camera as a director, and as playwright and author. However, he seemed overawed on this occasion, as his contributions were somewhat muted. I’m not sure whether this was because he was not truly comfortable being on this type of panel show. Although Ustinov was a highly intelligent man, he never seemed to get to grips with the appropriate line of questioning of guests.

  • @MrJking065
    @MrJking065 3 года назад +15

    Wow Joan was pure class.

  • @golden-63
    @golden-63 Год назад +1

    *No wire hangers! EVER!!!*

  • @TacomaPaul
    @TacomaPaul Год назад +1

    "Auntie Mame"
    Forrest Tucker fell off a cliff... and young boy "he lifts the ropes everywhere" (with Peggy Cass) ... and he married at 23 with his wife. ;-)

  • @aarnotuhnu4011
    @aarnotuhnu4011 2 года назад +4

    It gives me a strange feeling to see this, because she is 99 % same as my ex. My ex had almost as good looks too, but the demeanor is unmistakable.
    I feel I know exactly this type of personality, and I don't mean anything negative about it. Maybe some people who read this know what I mean.

  • @stxrstrxckmxteo515
    @stxrstrxckmxteo515 2 дня назад

    she was lowkey funny asf here. “Not anymore” lmfaooo the pettiness I love her

  • @erichanson426
    @erichanson426 4 года назад +1

    I've had 2 of those tonight John, only 1 more.😀😀😀

  • @RedNekLvr22
    @RedNekLvr22 7 лет назад +16

    I always forget just what a HUNK Peter Ustinov was!!! 😁

  • @salaciousbum1161
    @salaciousbum1161 3 года назад +3

    "HOLLYWOOD ROYALTY"

  • @bt10ant
    @bt10ant 3 года назад +4

    Thanks. Such a classy show....just one example is that John Daly refers to the audience as being in "the theatre" rather than the "studio audience."

  • @kfl611
    @kfl611 4 года назад +6

    people dressed so stylishly back then

    • @dinahbrown902
      @dinahbrown902 Год назад +1

      They were appearing on tv. I bet you would dress stylish too

  • @louislamonte334
    @louislamonte334 11 месяцев назад

    Joan looks radiant here!

  • @snarkyenigma9219
    @snarkyenigma9219 Год назад +1

    It's nice that Arlene finally acknowledged the (thunderous) applause as a clue. Couldn't Joan have at least tried to disguise her voice?

  • @wiguy3
    @wiguy3 10 лет назад +17

    Were the acoustics & microphones quite antiquated in this studio? How many hundreds of times have we seen people asking for repeat Q&As because they just can't hear?

    • @WhatsMyLine
      @WhatsMyLine  10 лет назад +7

      That definitely seems to be the case, though I think it was even worse in the previous studio.

    • @kenowens9021
      @kenowens9021 8 лет назад +8

      +wiguy3 Frank Lloyd Wright was a guest and he said he could do something about the acoustics.

    • @wiguy3
      @wiguy3 8 лет назад +4

      He performed wonders in some of his public spaces but I'm not sure even his genius could have helped- not without huge amounts of $$$$ any way.

    • @juliansinger
      @juliansinger 8 лет назад +5

      +wiguy3 The acoustics on this show are really about the worst I've ever seen on a regular program. Of other live and/or filmed before studio audience shows, the 70s Match Game had some people with bad hearing/acoustics problems, but that was mostly because they were all trying to crack jokes a mile a minute and weren't listening.

    • @keithnaylor1981
      @keithnaylor1981 Год назад

      A club I used to go to had bad acoustics, but they put down poison and soon got rid of them!

  • @jamesr1703
    @jamesr1703 5 лет назад +3

    Mommy, she said ding dong!

  • @photo161
    @photo161 2 года назад +1

    When there were movie stars...Where did they go?

  • @gbrumburgh
    @gbrumburgh 4 года назад +5

    Dorothy, Arlene and Joan all appeared on the Monday, November 8, 1965 episode of TO TELL THE TRUTH. It was a relatively new gimmick started on the quiz show in which all three were covered by hats and dark veils while their voices were electronically altered and disguised. It was then up to the four TTTT panelists, through questions posed, to determine who was the REAL Joan Crawford. The strange thing about it all was that Dorothy had been discovered dead from an overdose of alcohol and pills in the early hours of November 8th. So, after the show ended, the CBS News came on with Douglas Edwards and he reported Dorothy' death, explaining the bizarre situation that had home viewers quite upset and puzzled. They learned that the 11/8 TTTT show had actually been taped on 11/2.

    • @syd8802
      @syd8802 4 года назад +3

      Do you know if that episode is on RUclips I would like to watch it but I can't find it

    • @gbrumburgh
      @gbrumburgh 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@syd8802No. We believe it is one of many destroyed.

  • @joycefolsom130
    @joycefolsom130 11 месяцев назад

    How nice that people dressed up in those days. Joan Crawford was a HUGH star in those days

  • @gabe-po9yi
    @gabe-po9yi 4 года назад +5

    Wow, did you hear Edith Young, the co-author with Bennett Cerf’s wife say that the show wouldn’t let her disguise her voice? Also, John Daly told the panel right up front that there were two of them, which he never does. Were the producers afraid Bennett would get upset if he didn’t guess them? I can’t think of any other reason. I can see Bennett pouting about something like that, though.

    • @QuadMochaMatti
      @QuadMochaMatti 4 года назад +3

      Bennett was a bit of a pouty boy, more so when nobody appreciated his little silly puns.

    • @gabe-po9yi
      @gabe-po9yi 4 года назад

      ModMokkaMatti Yeah, he had a big streak of immaturity.

    • @errorsofmodernism9715
      @errorsofmodernism9715 3 года назад +1

      bennett appeared to be quite a pansy

    • @gabe-po9yi
      @gabe-po9yi 3 года назад +1

      alfred e neuman Agreed.

    • @dinahbrown902
      @dinahbrown902 Год назад +2

      Bennett’s wife looks bothered when they said dual

  • @ChrisHansonCanada
    @ChrisHansonCanada Год назад +1

    14:52 Creepy smile! YIKES!

  • @davidsanderson5918
    @davidsanderson5918 4 года назад +10

    The love of the audience for Crawford is palpable and rightly so. Mind you, I'm interested that the applause for her is far far more robust than in recent weeks for people like Gene Kelly and Mickey Rooney. The latter for instance was the no.1 Hollywood attraction box office-wise for three years running. Interesting to see who stayed in favour with the public. Or at least the audience of WML!
    In all honesty I'm not keen on Crawford. The pedantic manner she exhibits with Serf (about her not being in movies any more!) before she leaves the stage is just the sort of passive-aggressive manner I don't like. I'm with 'team Bette Davis'!! :)

    • @Patrick3183
      @Patrick3183 2 года назад +4

      At this Point in her life she thought she was retiring from film. Two years Later she was suddenly widowed and left in debt and had to keep working.

  • @kennethlatham3133
    @kennethlatham3133 3 года назад +1

    Ahoy! Miss Aaaarrrrgrrrr-lene Francis, matey!

  • @brucemarsico6
    @brucemarsico6 3 года назад +3

    Joan made those ultra women's pictures, with great melodrama, face slapping, and storming around in some sort of near hysteria. Great to watch on a rainy afternoon....like 'Harriet Craig' or 'The Damned Don't Cry' or 'Female On The Beach.' They're almost comedic in their intense over acting......

    • @dinahbrown902
      @dinahbrown902 Год назад +1

      Emoters

    • @brucemarsico6
      @brucemarsico6 Год назад

      @@dinahbrown902 Emoters? Who, who was, or who, who is, in hollywood is NOT an emoter?
      Is emoter ever a REAL word? i think you mean to write 'emotionalist'. That's it....

  • @jmccracken1963
    @jmccracken1963 10 лет назад +8

    Regarding this episode: Joan Crawford may have come across as a LITTLE (emphasis mine) bit difficult, but she also is still a very classy lady - and one just has to look at her eyes when she's on-screen, just as in all of her movie performances. And at least her answers were intelligible to the panel (unlike the previous week's Mystery Guest, Errol Flynn, whose (drunken, perhaps?) unintelligible responses thoroughly exasperated Martin Gabel)......

    • @tjbnyc76
      @tjbnyc76 9 лет назад +10

      Crawford had never done live television at this point, and I think any "difficulty" she gave the panel during the questioning stemmed both from nervousness (and her tendency to fall back on "grahhhnd lady" mannerisms in such instances) and also her sincere, perhaps competitive desire to stump the panel. (I've rewatched this since reading your comment, and she seems to be enjoying herself, for the most part.) JC also displays a surprising amount of humor in her initial quip to Arlene, and just as she exits, with her parting shot to Bennett. And, in her many subsequent Mystery Guest appearances, once she'd become comfortable with both the format and the panelists, she's quite funny -- a sense of humor usually not something ascribed to Miss Crawford, perhaps unfairly.

  • @alanaronald244
    @alanaronald244 3 года назад +3

    I would say that Santas entertain.

  • @rayizard5687
    @rayizard5687 7 месяцев назад

    Peter Ustinov: What are you doing here?
    Oscar the Grouch: A very brief cameo
    Peter Ustinov: Me too

  • @alskndlaskndal
    @alskndlaskndal 10 лет назад +9

    I wonder who would get it if you sent a picture to that address today?

    • @Beson-SE
      @Beson-SE 9 лет назад +4

      Let's try! :)

    • @loissimmons6558
      @loissimmons6558 6 лет назад +3

      You'd probably get something similar to what Elvis sang about (with vocal backing by the Jordanaires) in one of his movies ...
      ruclips.net/video/u7FWidbrEkw/видео.html

    • @joeambrose3260
      @joeambrose3260 4 года назад

      The person who lives there,
      Einstein

    • @QuadMochaMatti
      @QuadMochaMatti 4 года назад

      Bill de Blasio will keep it on file and send out his thugs to throw you in jail for not wearing a mask.

  • @terryniblett9329
    @terryniblett9329 5 лет назад +6

    Why couldn't they afford another chair for more than one guest...HOW STUPID!!!

  • @geniusmchaggis
    @geniusmchaggis 6 лет назад +5

    jeez arlene had some EYE incidents eh...she had a patch on her LEFT eye earlier in the fifties!

    • @jessicaphillips4542
      @jessicaphillips4542 2 года назад +1

      She always was sticking her fingernails into her eyes after she takes off her mask after the mystery guest seems to me

    • @geniusmchaggis
      @geniusmchaggis 2 года назад

      @@jessicaphillips4542
      LOL

  • @syd8802
    @syd8802 4 года назад +3

    I'm about to make some people mad I love Joan but I have never watched mommie dearest

    • @SymphonyBrahms
      @SymphonyBrahms 3 года назад

      Read the book. It's better than the movie.

    • @faithmitchell8310
      @faithmitchell8310 3 года назад

      same, i refuse to watch it

    • @SymphonyBrahms
      @SymphonyBrahms 3 года назад

      Faye Dunaway overacted and chewed the scenery all the way through it. I'm not a Faye Dunaway fan and I'm not a Joan Crawford fan. But I will admit that when Joan was good she was very, very good (Mildred Pierce, Humoresque, Possessed) and when she was bad she was horrid (Berserk. What a laugh fest).

    • @dinahbrown902
      @dinahbrown902 Год назад

      Who knows a person really except for themselves. Gossip

    • @ChrisHansonCanada
      @ChrisHansonCanada Год назад

      There is no reason to. Joan wasn't in it.

  • @laurelremington2056
    @laurelremington2056 Год назад

    I am of the generation that was terrified of Joan Crawford for all the horrible things she did to her children. I never would watch her in movies.

    • @hopsiepike
      @hopsiepike 9 месяцев назад

      Watch whatever happened to baby Jane. Joan’s performance is hilariously bad, acting as if it were a serious drama, and not the camp fest that Bette Davis knew it to be.
      “You wouldn’t do these awful things to me if I weren’t in this chair.”
      “But ya ARE, Blanche! ya ARE in that chair!”

  • @jhellyer2010
    @jhellyer2010 9 лет назад +13

    Did you wear long, golden curls? Lol

    • @JCarlosCS1221
      @JCarlosCS1221 5 лет назад +6

      A Mary Pickford reference (at one time Joan Crawford's mother-in-law).

    • @savethetpc6406
      @savethetpc6406 5 лет назад +2

      @mermaidmotelxx and @
      José Carlos C. Salazar
      I think Dorothy was probably thinking of Shirley Temple. It makes sense, since she said that she wasn't "associated with pictures" anymore, but John said that many people would definitely still associate her with the movies she had made in the past.

  • @gareththomas6714
    @gareththomas6714 2 года назад +2

    she made no attempt to disguise her voice

  • @Baskerville22
    @Baskerville22 9 месяцев назад

    Bennet must have known earlier that his wife was one of the first mystery guests. Probably knew it before he left home to do the show.

  • @geoffm9944
    @geoffm9944 3 года назад +2

    Peter Ustinov was an amazing actor, director and writer, but like so many British celebrities who appeared on this programme he had very little knowledge of current Hollywood stars.

  • @ChrisHansonCanada
    @ChrisHansonCanada Год назад +1

    1:51 "Panel mawdahwaydah."

  • @carolyoung6732
    @carolyoung6732 5 лет назад +2

    I just noticed that Dorothy doesn’t wear her brooch later in the show.

  • @GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath
    @GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath Год назад

    Somebody needs to make a narrative film about WML that shows the non Polly Anna truth. I would donate to that

  • @jmccracken1963
    @jmccracken1963 10 лет назад +5

    I have noticed on the most recent episodes of WHAT'S MY LINE? that all of the contestants are now allowed to shake hands with the panel (on-screen) as they make their exit - not just the Mystery Guest. Any idea which episode that started with? (I think that it had to be some time in 1957, because the 1956 episodes that I've watched reserve that privilege to the Mystery Guest.)

    • @hetmanjz
      @hetmanjz 8 лет назад +3

      +jmccracken1963 I've also been trying to figure out (or I guess I should just say "catch") when that started. Maybe our (RUclips channel) "host" will chime in! (Though he probably has elsewhere on another clip....)

    • @WhatsMyLine
      @WhatsMyLine  8 лет назад +5

      I don't know which was the specific show when they started having the regular guests shake hands with the panel, sorry!

    • @juliansinger
      @juliansinger 8 лет назад +9

      +jmccracken1963 It was a slow phase in. First they stopped the walk of shame, and just had people wander off-stage. And then a few people shook hands (in 1956ish), mostly on their own initiative, and then the show just made it part of the exit strategy, somewhere between March and May of '57. Anyway, Spring.

    • @joeambrose3260
      @joeambrose3260 4 года назад

      Who gives a rats' fanny

    • @su8483
      @su8483 3 года назад +2

      @@joeambrose3260 I would point out that nobody cares about YOUR opinion, but that would be rude. Oh yeah, I don't care.

  • @GeeBee909
    @GeeBee909 9 месяцев назад

    Later Joan would appear on t.v. shows Route 66 and Password

  • @brookehanley3659
    @brookehanley3659 9 лет назад +5

    Joan Crawford at her homeliest here.

    • @ladya1953
      @ladya1953 5 лет назад +2

      No, actually, she got homelier later on.

    • @SymphonyBrahms
      @SymphonyBrahms 3 года назад +1

      I never thought that she was that beautiful. Not like Norma Shearer or Greta Garbo.

  • @msgigirogers1559
    @msgigirogers1559 4 года назад +2

    Phyllis is ginger rogers' cousin

  • @kkallebb
    @kkallebb 9 лет назад +3

    Did Crawford say that she was not associated with pictures any more? By the time this show was made, she had made eleven movies in the past seven years. What was she talking about?

    • @MrVidaeverdade
      @MrVidaeverdade 9 лет назад +3

      William S. She explained here that she hadn't made a film since the previous year, apparently due to her new marriage.

    • @kkallebb
      @kkallebb 9 лет назад +5

      Yes I posed my question too soon. Still, I find it an odd comment.

    • @brkitdwn
      @brkitdwn 3 года назад

      @@kkallebb Perhaps because Joan was odd.

  • @roberttelarket4934
    @roberttelarket4934 Год назад +1

    Can’t Daly pronounce Ustinov Youstinoff instead Oostinoff like everybody else?

  • @pressureworks
    @pressureworks 3 года назад +1

    Peter and Bennett weren't invited to the benefit ?

  • @770WT
    @770WT 4 года назад +1

    Peter Ustinov still young here but aged plenty by 1970 .

  • @GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath
    @GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath Год назад

    Mommy Dearest

  • @ChrisHansonCanada
    @ChrisHansonCanada 6 месяцев назад +1

    CO-AUTHORS OF BOOK OF GAMES
    PROFESSIONAL SANTA CLAUSES

  • @garydeblasio8810
    @garydeblasio8810 3 года назад

    Why can't these mystery guests answer YES or NO, period.

  • @kitcoffey7194
    @kitcoffey7194 Год назад +2

    Mrs Cerf was cute!

  • @yourroyalhighness7662
    @yourroyalhighness7662 3 года назад +1

    These towering figures...where have they gone?

  • @jackieo4980
    @jackieo4980 2 года назад +2

    Something off about her.

  • @gilbertotongco1054
    @gilbertotongco1054 3 года назад +1

    Mr Ustinov was always clueledd