Whats my line? - Lauren Becall

1953 - 54

[@bregieirofernandes]

I love how she had to hide her famous husky voice

[@dmcoffman]

Her hair is incredible!

[@ariochiv]

There's very little about her that's *not* incredible.

[@DavidMcFarner]

She is fabulous. She’s just gorgeous.

[@patriciamnoel5517]

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[@Grancino1697]

More class in her little finger than all todays wannabe celebs put together! Hope you are having one hell of a party up there Miss.Bacall. What a life!

[@solarprogeny6736]

men always find a way to bring misogyny to these old videos.

[@unowen-nh9ov]

@@solarprogeny6736 Men know how to use CAPITAL LETTERS!

[@solarprogeny6736]

@@unowen-nh9ov then men clearly aren't very adept in linguistics, because if they were, they would know texting is a manner of speech, not a written language, and that therefore the rules of grammar are completely useless to anyone under the age of 40 when texting. It must be tough outing yourself as a boomer, or a really bitter gen X

[@unowen-nh9ov]

She began as NYC movie usherette worshipping Bette Davis & working with Kirk Douglas before he was Kirk Douglas, raised by single Mom & riding public transit. 1 Harper's cover, several classic films, husband Bogie & 2 beautiful babies later she returned to NYC & became the Toast of Broadway (rather than toast in L.A.), 2 Tonys for 2 starring roles in MUSICALS a DECADE apart with THAT voice. NO ONE had a life like Lauren Bacall Betty Perske, sorry I omitted another legendary husband & child. Also rather than Cary Grant & Davis, her life became Bogart & Hepburn. Read her books, she explains it SO much better, why she's also prize winning author.

[@djintheatl]

Lauren Bacall is timeless--the standard of glamour, class, intelligence, and style.

[@rbilleaud]

Arlene Francis was right, Bacall was "devastating". She's still a class act today at 89.

[@mikebarnard7957]

One of the most beautiful and classy Hollywood stars ever. Those eyes and everything about her is just sensational! RIP dear Lauren.

[@JDScott-lb6gx]

they don't make 'em like that anymore. what a beauty.

[@classicchica39]

I love how she gets when they ask about her husband. God what a love they must've shared.

[@MrUnc82alum]

We've just lost one of classiest ever to grace the screen.

[@Jayjee762]

She had the cutest smile!

[@koroconnell]

how bloody fascinating is Lauren Bacall??

[@billolsen1769]

She taught me how to whistle too

[@aaronlane8405]

The host has a great job. One more short conference!

[@Max-do7me]

What a wonderful lady and a class act. She didn't get to talk much in this show, but I've watched a couple of interwievs with her in her late 60ies and in her 70ies and those have been very entertaining. Intelligence, humor, style, dignity personified.

[@haskellbob]

I agree with Jim... wow! And she does rather move like a cat.
So charming! And one of the truly fulfilled people, one of those with a lucky star.

[@chichi6642]

What a charming women!

[@danielstanwyck2812]

Playful, charming, gorgeous.

[@SusanHatcherBeautyWithABeat]

Sad. She lived a good life. I just adore her.

[@roseshay6195]

Lauren bacall is the sweetest cutest person ever I would of done anything to meet her x

[@feverspell]

RIP to a very lovely lady.

[@ChelseaForeverFan]

Wow! .. People of the old days were so classy, unlike now a days.

[@felixramos3078]

They don't make them like that anymore. She was very beautiful. 😍 Oh, and that voice... 💖

[@jamesanthony5681]

Sure they do. Some are classier and nicer.

[@susanb2015]

​@@jamesanthony5681Not in the movies.

[@jamesanthony5681]

@@susanb2015 Sure there are. And better actors.

[@susanb2015]

@@jamesanthony5681 Not since 2005. A few movies in 2010. Hollywood is dead. There needs to be a new breed of actors, actresses, directors and writers to bring it back.

[@jamesanthony5681]

@@susanb2015 It's expensive to make a movie and fewer are released today, than say, the '40's and '50's during Bacall's era. Her claim to fame was her marriage to Bogart, an actor who made everyone look that played opposite him. She never acted in a part that many others could have done just as well, if not better.

[@cynthiareynolds3432]

I adore her hair!!

[@tommyd.743]

Absolute beauty.

[@chrisshatell3097]

love the dress. lauren bacall is sooooo classy. totally trumps over anything modern Hollywood throws out now.

[@djintheatl]

Simply flawless.

[@climbeck]

I LOVE HER!!!! Amazing person, amazing heart. TRUE STAR!

[@donnaparker3417]

That gorgeous dress!!

[@beligerentlondoner]

"Small Conference, Awfully Sorry"
You SLAY me!

[@marcusjones5755]

Absolutely Beautiful,, Love Her Hair

[@heru-deshet359]

Wow, wow, wow! What a woman!!

[@bentonxavier5094]

It's genuinely depressing that someone so beautiful such as Lauren Bacall lived in a different era to me. I don't think there's ever been a more attractive person that has ever lived.

[@surrepeight]

Betty Bacall was one lovely woman. Look at that hair when she turns her head. She was gorgeous from every angle. I remember reading in her autobiography that some guy in makeup on her first film wanted to trim her full eyebrows and the filmaker told him "don't you touch her eyebrows, I want her to look exactly the way she looks!" ...or something like that.

[@kittygrimm7301]

Gods, what a stunner!

[@lindaeasley4336]

She started out her career at the age of 18 as a model . She was discovered by Hollywood when Howard Hawkes's wife saw her on the cover of Harper's Bizarre magazine

[@SueProv]

@@lindaeasley4336 Harper's Bazaar.

[@muskratbill]

I have always loved her....a true fox!

[@calalilygirl]

She was so gorgeous in her 1940's movies.

[@robertcguenveur5944]

I was 10 when this aired. My wife was 3. Our daughter b. 1985 is named Lauren.
Both class acts.

[@prez58]

Lauren Bacall makes my heart skip a beat.

[@poetcomic1]

Black and white makes Bacall GORGEOUS. I don't think she ever looked more beautiful than sitting here on this show being herself.

[@GL00MYG1RL]

One of the most gorgeous women ever.

[@amyleah7971]

0:17 The sound that person made in the audience had me crying with laughter 😂

[@ediekoller2636]

She was so awesome....Loved her in "To Have and Have Not"

[@chris812125]

She has such a nice smile! I love her!

[@stephenvincent4989]

Who would have not wanted a small conference with Ms Bacall.
Great beauty, intelligence and style a rare combination.

[@Bluejeans0701]

I love the dress Lauren Bacall wears in this clip. I am thrilled to see how beautiful she was in her youth. And I am also glad to realize she, an octogenarian, still keeps appearing in motion pictures. She is a very good model for the future generations of
actresses in Hollywood. Her class remains exactly the same as it did decades ago.

[@golden-63]

That wiggle!

[@oldfart4751]

goldenthroat86 Back in the 50's celeb was not a common word, they were stars. Anyone can be a celeb these days, even the weather girl.

[@DerAdventurer]

OmGod! Somebody bring us a TIME MACHINE! I just love the charm of past people. Their 'finesse' and colloquial terms. Such adorable times.
A true shame time passes and people go. Bacall is alive, however, as for April 2012!

[@pocm100]

shit imagine having Lauren Bacall whispering in you ear I'm weeeakk

[@nuccten]

I'd be tempted to have many "side conferences" too! Class act.

[@lunsj]

Lauren Bacall was a stunner and she was especially beautiful on this night. Not to mention obviously having a good time. John was also loving it! And who could blame him!

[@MANUELFARINELLI]

Wow! a great deal of class.. without being too obvious and delightful instead!! Class .. pure class!

[@RubyTuesday717]

She was ageless and amazingly talented; she looked like she had so much fun taping this episode.

[@shawnanthony1992]

Every time she says "Oui" ... Oh my.

[@MandeMonium89]

Definition of drop dead gorgeous!!!

[@dangraphic]

What a GORGEOUS lady!

[@lonewulf44]

If ever RUclips needed a whistle comment button this would be it ... Becall is simply stunning!

[@maxrm114]

She's having soooo much fun!

[@brookehanley3659]

A++++++++++a unique beauty.

[@austinpink9018]

BEAUTIFUL AND CHARMING Lauren Bacall.

[@unowen-nh9ov]

She's having so much fun teasing them all!

[@randysmailbox]

RIP LEGEND - HAWT!

[@brosue4]

she is so stunning!

[@Jannemann27]

pure elegance and grace! wonderful!

[@Roygbiv04]

Lauren looks soo gorgeous!

[@danielfronc4304]

Betty Bacall. What a babe!

[@cogidubnus1953]

Absolute star quality

[@lrpv1688]

ms. bacall is so beautiful!

[@MissBriannaNicole]

"Are you over 21?" "Oui!" "You'll do!" Hahahahaha

[@martynelson2666]

Daly's reaction to the "glamor girl" question was fantastic...."yeaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

[@jg0582]

Quelle belle voix ! quel charme !

[@Ava50019]

Anyone else on a 'What's my Line?' marathon while in lockdown?

[@classicmovieclub9760]

"Are you over 21?"
"Oui mMnsieur"
"You'll do!" Lol!!

[@emdpete89]

0:32 is the most adorable thing i've ever seen!
I love Lauren Bacall! A fantastic talent and an incredibly beautiful woman!

[@djintheatl]

Simply glamorous.

[@pinkypavlova8608]

STUNNING. JOHN DALY CAN'T KEEP HIS EYES OR HANDS OFF OF HER. HE NEVER ACTRD LIKE THIS WITH ANY OTHER WOMAN

[@Ladeliciadelinda]

Lmao at the "yeah". Miss her dearly!

[@jenniferrodgers57]

What a beauty!

[@celebrityrog]

1:51 her smile is just so special in that moment.

[@soulierinvestments]

Bacall was expressive and talented all over -- for sure.

[@Lillyvon]

Thank you joanfontaine fan for posting these up - they are fantastic!

[@el7jake]

She has what those others could never have--mystique.

[@adambomber28]

She was a beautiful woman that was so seductive looking in this clip.

[@jodiea8110]

R.I.P Betty

[@sonjabrisson8318]

I'm doing research right now to find out how to replicate that hairdo. And that dress. Oh-la-la!

[@schnellschnell]

i love how the men stand for her when she comes over and greets the panel! signs of a time LONG gone

[@Lampshade51]

Oh my God!
Bogie was some lucky bastard.

[@jackanthony976]

If you marry enough times you are bound to get lucky. I believe Lauren was Bogie's third try at marriage.

[@alanfoster6589]

@@jackanthony976 Correct. His second wife was a raging alcoholic.

[@SueProv]

Actually 4th as I have heard Lauren Bacall say herself

[@marenmacdonald3341]

@@alanfoster6589 3rd , Bacall was his fourth

[@DameMartina]

Wow, Lauren look wonderful!

[@kelseyann4]

Yeah.....she had an absolutely adorable smile, and a rather contagious one too if you ask me!

[@Sweetserenei]

Just a gorgeous woman, love Lauren!

[@Bambi_Harris_Author]

so beautiful and elegant, a true lady

[@moxie127]

Lauren is ll poise and class.

[@CarolinaFlorezCoaching]

So many people commenting that “they don’t make em like that anymore” “that is a real woman”, etc...
the industry use to be able to control all these celebrity’s images, so no, they don’t ‘make em’ like that anymore because celebrities are under major surveillance with their private lives shared with the public, which makes it almost impossible to craft and maintain such a strong narrative and public image like in those days.
Ultimately, they would create an image that would sell to the public and celebrities had to maintain that image and do things like take on certain roles (even if they didn’t want to - in Lauren’s case, she was kicked out of the studio several times for refusing roles) because they didn’t have the autonomy they have today.
These celebrity personalities are not authentic, they just learned to maintain them in the public eye and the whole industry was involved in upholding it.
The industry and these values haven’t changed because celebrities are creating increasingly impossible to reach beauty standards, so I’m not praising what it is today and I wouldn’t advise romanticizing what it used to be either. Romanticizing any of this upholds contrived ideals of beauty and what it means to be a woman.

[@kokobunni5897]

facts

[@bronxbearbud272]

The better giveaway question towards the end would have been "Do you know how to whistle?"

[@fourniturev]

What a great lady! First class all the way

[@adena539]

This is a real star! i hope the future famous people can become more classy like how it was long before i was born!

[@MissLizaMay]

She and Bogie were such a great couple. She lost him far too soon.

[@EandMetal]

Her later appearance on the show talking about her successful run in Cactus Flower was in the 1960s. She was older then and also Bogart had died by then. I don't think she was necessarily influenced by Monroe here, but just being her animated self. Maybe in real life, at that point in her life, she was like this, maybe playing it up a little for the audience. It was quite entertaining.

[@ssoomee]

i don't know what people are talking about- she is sexy and beautiful, those eyes, that way of walking, her voice, her open femininity, she's all around wonderful

[@mca1218]

I love the "Oui, Madame" Ms. Bacall gives Ms. Francis at 3:28. Just lovely.

[@JuicyTaz201]

Best part starts at 00:37