@@judytelles9227 yes, and it’s always sad to look up someone on Wikipedia and see their biography begins with “was”, indicating they’re no longer with us
Walter Brennan, one of my all-time favorite actors.. I have been enjoying his portrayals for 70 years.. I don't think he was ever portrayed in the role of a leading man but he would have been good at that too.. Love him..
@frank bennett If that were true it would have been awful, but nobody has ever said anything all these years that I know of, anyway who really knows! As far as an Actor he was Great!!!!!
In 1962, His album “Old Rivers” peaked at # 5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, # 3 U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles and # 2 on U.S. Billboard Easy Listening... I still love the opening and closing songs on that album...
I haven't even got to that bit yet.....but it sounds like CLASSIC Steve Allen to me. And there you go, it was. He had to wait for the audience to catch up though!!
Walter Brennan and Gary Cooper were a great pair together. Walter MADE the Westerner such a great movie! Should have won the Best Actor Oscar for that one.
Yes, but he won due to his friends in extras voting for him (until the Academy revoked their right to vote after Brennan won for the third time). Walter Brennan was a great actor, but I doubt very much that he would have won three times without the help from extras.
The first guest runs a dating service by computer. Imagine the size of that old computer that probably use punch cards or bulky magnetic tape storage. Walter Brennan was head and shoulders above the rest. This was a great entertaining episode.
When I took my computer course for freshman engineers at Cornell (using Fortran IV as the language), I typed out the program on IBM punch cards and they were read by an IBM main frame that was about 50% larger than a large credenza. The output was printed on a large line printer with paper at least 14" wide. My freshman year began 4 years AFTER this episode aired. So assume that what David De Wan was using was at least as primitive if not more so.
I was also impressed by the fact that somebody had the technology and initiative to run a computer dating service back in 1966, indeed probably involving punch cards!
This computer dating service is about 48 1/2 years ago. 48 1/2 years before that, young men would ask a young lady out to a show, or a box social (which is different today) and have her home by 10.
Steve Allen was very funny tonight. It was amusing when he said that tonight's show was directed by John Ford. 1966 was Ford's last active year in directing. Oddly enough, given Allen's Ford comment, Walter Brennan and John Ford worked together exactly once. They did not hit it off -- which is putting it mildly.. And Brennan could get all kinds of work with directors he liked.
I just LOVE Walter Brennan and she is correct....He was an amazing talent as an actor. I watched him in the Real Mccoys when it first came out of TV. and saw him throughout the years in movies of course never really fully appreciating him or his work until now that I am an adult. And besides being a fantastic actor, he was a very nice man !
Walter Brennan may not have been a singer, but he had several hit records in a Western-story style. "Old Rivers" even made the Top 10 in 1962 when "The Real McCoys" was popular.
Recorded on May 22, 1966. Because Gary posted the August 28, 1966 episode as a tribute to Betty White on her 93rd Birthday, the next upload will instead be the September 4, 1966 episode.
Jayne Meadows. In that sparkly gown and in that hair style, she is as pretty as she ever was on WML. And she was smart, too tonight. So what's not to love about her.
Walter Brennan's 1957 mystery guest appearance was arguably the greatest male mystery guest spot of the 1950s. This one isn’t half bad either. So, my question is this: of the popular young modern actors we have today, which one will work steadily for six decades, which one will get better with age, which one will get more famous and popular with age, which one will work steadily until about two years before his death. Brennan was not just prodigious. He was simply amazing. Brennan mentioned his Japanese accent in every one of his appearances.
I think careers of top stars tend to hang on more than those in the past. Remember Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, and lots more were giant film stars for less than 30 years. There are so many more stars today, it is hard to say who will be around until their old. Tom Hanks is definitely one, but he is already nearly 60. Jimmy Fallon is TV, but I think the doors are wide open for him when he leaves the Tonight show.
soulierinvestments I don't know about the new, "rising" stars, but, even before I read Joe Postove's reply, I was also thinking of Tom Hanks as a contemporary actor who so far fits most of the qualifications you mentioned and seems likely to continue to find steady work and to continue to "improve with age." I found this mystery guest segment to be one of the most entertaining and all-around fun I've seen in a long time! I loved the way even John Daly got into the act with his own version of an Irish accent! -- admittedly not as good as Mr. Brennan's. I much prefer this choice of accent to the Japanese one, as that one seemed too much of a stereotype parody for my taste. Having old friends Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows as the "guest panelists" also added to the fun and comfortable feel of the whole episode.
If Robin Williams hadn't tragically taken his own life, he might have pulled it off too, though his Parkinson's Disease may have prevented him from continuing to work for as many years.
SaveThe TPC Sadly, Robin Williams had been "cashing in" and not making well regarded films for some years. I don't blame him for it (Deniro's doing the same...basically picking up his checks for "God Father Two" , "Raging Bull", "Goodfella's" and his other early great work with movies like "Rocky and Bullwinkle", "Meet The Parents" (which is a good flick) and other films which are not more than paydays for him). Liam Neesan could, if he makes the right choices, make it for the longrun.
The second contestant is gorgeous. Sadly, she died last year. (From May 2014 Obit) Jacqueline Austin Walker, of Skokie, IL, passed away at age 75. Loving sister of Laurie (the late Richard) Anderson; dear aunt of Don (Me Me) and Jeff; adoring stepmother of Vic, Jr. (Dawn) Lazzaroni; devoted daughter of the late John and the late Jean Walker (nee Marks); beloved and admired mentor to a large community of friends. Multi-talented woman who enjoyed successful careers as an actress, model, pilot, and intuitive consultant.
I enjoyed the film Red River staring Mr John Wayne n Walter Brenner plus Montgomery Cliff n John Ireland plus Paul Fix n Miss Joanne Dru I never get tired of viewing this film
I don't think WB had a series on at this time. "The Real McCoys" ended in 1963. "The Tycoon" lasted a year in 1964-65, and "The Guns Of Will Sonnett" (a classic show which I dearly loved) started in the 1967-68 season, I think.
My brothers & I enjoyed watching "The Guns of Will Sonnett" on ABC each week. I think it was aired on Friday nights. One of the better half hour TV Westerns.
For "Come and Get It" (which was Frances Farmer's movie debut), "Kentucky," and "The Westerner." According to his IMDB profile, his winning that third Oscar led to the disenfranchisement of movie extras in balloting for the Academy Awards.
@@MrMalibu30 Remember the computers were the size of rooms and clunky and slow by today's standards. Computer dating in the 60's was fairly popular. Now we date by phone! 😂😂😂 (like the 50's)!
I can't recall ever seeing Jayne Meadows in anything else, also is she related to Audrey? Walter Brennan plays so many great roles he's one of the best character actors of his time or any time for that matter
That Jacqueline Frankel, who sold airplanes was absolutely gorgeous and so poised, charming and refined. It was no surprise at all that she was a model.
The criteria for membership in the group that voted for Oscars in those days was much different than in later years. Brennan was apparently very popular with younger people in Hollywood in positions in the film industry who were not eligible to vote in later years.
I remember seeing The Gnome Mobile as a kid when it first came out ! It featured the same two child actors that had been in Disney's "Mary Poppins" just a few years before !
In reading Mrs. Walker's obituary and visiting her web site, she mentions her appearance on WML but mistakenly mentions that it was Dorothy Kilgallen instead of Arlene that guessed the "in the air!?" part of her occupation. :P
Well, I suppose Dorothy might have guessed it if she was watching from wherever she was. Arlene actually got a no with "It's more often seen in the water" after determining it didn't principally function on land, and Bennett then came up with "in the air" as a result of Arlene's having narrowed it down, but then went for "heelicopter." Steve came up with airplane as a result, and Jayne is the one who ultimately came up with "You must sell them."
Yes; and in fact because of that resemblance Steve was written into a few installments of the 1955 syndicated Superman newspaper strip (reprinted in a Superman 80 Page Giant in 1963). And in the Lois Lane comic book, #45 (also from 1963), Clark Kent fills in for Steve Allen as a TV show host.
Johan Bengtsson At least Steve had his wife there to put the reins on him! I have to wonder how Phyllis Cerf felt about Bennett's consistent and shameless flirting with attractive women on WML. I also wonder how the married women's husbands felt about it. At least some probably saw the panel's and audience's positive reactions to their wives' beauty as a compliment, but there must have been some that were annoyed by the flirting.
Johan Bengtsson True. Of course, since they didn't have to ask the "Miss or Mrs." question (or anything analogous to it) to men, the panel never knew whether the male contestants were married or not, but Arlene sure was, anyway. ;) I think there may have been a couple of times when Martin was with her on the panel and "reined her in" in similar fashion to what Jayne did with Steve in this episode. Still, I think Bennett's brand of complimenting/flirtatiousness was much more overt than anyone else's -- with the possible exception of Hal Block. The truth is, I think Hal & Bennett might be tied as to the *level* of their comments to attractive women, but Bennett had many more opportunities over many more years to make such comments.
SaveThe TPC Interesting. Bennett refered to Hal Block as a "clod" and I suppose Bennett thought that Block's comments were what you might expect from a clod (even though I never think of Hal Block as a clod). But Bennett was the sophisticated, learned, well-read publisher who ought to have known better than making the same male chauvinistic remarks of women's beauty all the time. I am sure Martin Gabel found many of the female contestants very attractive but he didn't made comments of them every time, and when he did I find them more of a compliment than a flirt. It is a difference between the two. Had Phyllis Cerf been on the panel as frequently as Martin Gabel, I am sure Bennett would have been more sparing with his remarks. :)
Jayne Meadows was a very smart cookie. Her intelligence was readily apparent throughout this episode. On another episode, it was stated that she made the highest score ever recorded at USC for anyone studying the Chinese language. She proceeded speaking Mandarin, and it was very impressive. RIP, Ms. Meadows.
Second contestant. Jackie Frankl. One of the most famous hair styles in the whole history of WML. It probably required an engineering degree . . . along with curlers. Steve and Jayne were both pretty funny in this game. "She doesn't come with the product." Too bad there.
I'm almost certain it's a hair piece...notice how her front hair is shiny and the top hair is not. I watched aunts and mom style their hair this way...always with an artificial hairpiece.
Still waters run deep. The script for "Rio Bravo" never mentions that Angie Dickinson ("Feather") ended up running off with Stumpy (Walter Brennan)......
Ginger-I'd say that then in the "Good Old Days" there were different kinds of problems.. Civil Rights[lynching,segregation],that pot was illegal in every state and others.
Obama regime? Devisive? Really? Barack and Michelle would have made great panelists and mystery guests (and regular guests, if need be.) Now, imagine Donald and Melania in any of those roles.
Old Walter gave his voice away from the start. It was almost like someone doing a bad WB impression. I guess they didn't get it cus Walter was not on their radar.
I've always found Jane Meadows to be such a delight. She was pretty, very talented, and had a genuinely sunny disposition. When she complemented Walter Brennan and then said so glad to meet you when they shook hands, you could tell she was sincere and not just being polite.
Arlene looks especially lovely in this episode, imo. I've noticed her wearing those pearls without the diamond heart recently, though I think I've seen her wearing them together at other times.
Arlene occasionally, throughout WML, wore something other than the diamond heart, though she almost always did wear it. I wonder if, in this period, she needed a jeweler to repair it. A diamond might have fallen out requiring replacement or perhaps the chain, being thin, caught on something and broke. She had it for a couple of years after husband died, until 1988, when she was mugged as she was getting out of a taxi in New York City and the necklace was stolen from her. It was a dismal thing to do to an octogenarian.
Arlene was always lovely, had oodles of charm, brains & beauty. Total package of a woman. Martin was mighty lucky. Arlene obviously appreciated his mind over looks.
@@ToddSF It is sad, no doubt. And many commenters have made this point in many episodes, understandably. But a thing is a just a thing, even if it has sentimental value. Other women on WML wore the same diamond heart. It was not unique and she could have obtained another. Let us be grateful that in the course of being mugged, Arlene lost only her jeweled heart, and wasn't killed so as to lose her real one.
Walter Huston's performance in "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" is magnificent and conveys the essence of the great them of that film. I am not so much of a fan of his in Dodsworth or The Devil and Daniel Webster. But who could top his falling over dead in Sam Spade's office with the Maltese Falcon?
They were both fine actor. But if I had to choose between the two it would have to be Walter Huston. Now if you'd also included Huntz Hall in your list.....
WALTER BRENNAN won THREE Best Supporting Actor Oscars in his lifetime. Only TWO other actors in Oscar history have won that many: JACK NICHOLSON (two leading, one supporting) and DANIEL DAY LEWIS (all for Best Actor).
Taking nothing away from Mr. Brennan’s considerable talent, his three almost back to back wins were in part a product of his unusual career. He was one of the few members of the extras union to move into featured roles. In the thirties, the extras were the largest number of Academy voters and they were eager to support one of there own. Shortly after Walter’s third win, the rules were changed and extras could no longer vote.
Wonder if the first kid stuck with computers. He may be a billionaire by now. The first girl proves that cleavage has always worked. Mr. Brennan was always one of my favorites.
It's like watching these shows like new but sixty years ago. Just love it.
I am addicted...these are wonderful!!!🤗
I simply love this show n can’t seem to get enough of admiring Arlene Francis
Between Arlene or Jayne, I'll follow Jayne Meadows.
@@donnawoodford6641 Arlene and Dorothy are my fave . I look at their wikipedia to see their life ,unfortunately their deaths also
@@judytelles9227 yes, and it’s always sad to look up someone on Wikipedia and see their biography begins with “was”, indicating they’re no longer with us
Walter Brennan, one of my all-time favorite actors.. I have been enjoying his portrayals for 70 years.. I don't think he was ever portrayed in the role of a leading man but he would have been good at that too.. Love him..
He was delighted when Martin Luther King was assassinated. A fine actor but a terrible person.
This one is refreshing. They solved all the puzzles and Walter Brennan was great.
Walter was such a magnificent character player!
I agree 100 per cent !!
Winner of 3 Academy Awards !!!!!
@frank bennett If that were true it would have been awful, but nobody has ever said anything all these years that I know of, anyway who really knows! As far as an Actor he was Great!!!!!
@@scottmiller6495 it’s on his wiki page for what that’s worth. But he was a talented actor either way.
@@johnpersechini4951 OK
In 1962, His album “Old Rivers” peaked at # 5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, # 3 U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles and # 2 on U.S. Billboard Easy Listening... I still love the opening and closing songs on that album...
Steve Allen & Jayne Meadows did very well at the end of that first segment.
That Jackie Frankel was absolutely gorgeous and charming.
"I'll take a stab in the dark because I'm wearing my blindfold" had me in stitches.
TheJMascis666 same here,🤣🤣😅
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I haven't even got to that bit yet.....but it sounds like CLASSIC Steve Allen to me.
And there you go, it was. He had to wait for the audience to catch up though!!
Walter Brennan and Gary Cooper were a great pair together. Walter MADE the Westerner such a great movie! Should have won the Best Actor Oscar for that one.
He never really won an Oscar.
@@MarkHarrison733 He won 3.
@@CvilleAndBeyond Only because the Union of Extras were allowed to vote for the nominees then.
@@MarkHarrison733Fo you have verbal diarrhea? You made your point.
Walter Brennan won THREE Academy Awards in his great career.
Yes, but he won due to his friends in extras voting for him (until the Academy revoked their right to vote after Brennan won for the third time). Walter Brennan was a great actor, but I doubt very much that he would have won three times without the help from extras.
Jayne is not just a pretty face. Smart too. solved two of the occupations.
13:18 "Mrs. Frankel doesn't go with the product, darling." 🤣🤣🤣
I love when Jayne and Steve are on together ❤️
The first guest runs a dating service by computer. Imagine the size of that old computer that probably use punch cards or bulky magnetic tape storage. Walter Brennan was head and shoulders above the rest. This was a great entertaining episode.
When I took my computer course for freshman engineers at Cornell (using Fortran IV as the language), I typed out the program on IBM punch cards and they were read by an IBM main frame that was about 50% larger than a large credenza. The output was printed on a large line printer with paper at least 14" wide. My freshman year began 4 years AFTER this episode aired. So assume that what David De Wan was using was at least as primitive if not more so.
I was also impressed by the fact that somebody had the technology and initiative to run a computer dating service back in 1966, indeed probably involving punch cards!
Jayne looks so glamorous in this episode, John lets her slide with a non-Yes/No question with the Computer Dating fellow.
Nice panel, no Suzy Knickerbocker, Phyllis "when you do what you do" Newman or Helen Gurley Brown. So refreshing and great entertainment.
I like all 3 women. Jane is conceited.
@@beachelbowels2769
Shove that up your bowels, you beach.
This computer dating service is about 48 1/2 years ago. 48 1/2 years before that, young men would ask a young lady out to a show, or a box social (which is different today) and have her home by 10.
Bennett's question to the first guest, inquiring which computers the dating service uses, is one inspired by Bennett's interest in stock investing.
I haven’t seen him for so long I’ve forgotten how much I loved Walter Brennan! Still do I guess. L O L
Steve Allen was very funny tonight. It was amusing when he said that tonight's show was directed by John Ford. 1966 was Ford's last active year in directing. Oddly enough, given Allen's Ford comment, Walter Brennan and John Ford worked together exactly once. They did not hit it off -- which is putting it mildly.. And Brennan could get all kinds of work with directors he liked.
Steve Allen was always funny - a great ad libber, a natural brilliant comedic mind.
I just LOVE Walter Brennan and she is correct....He was an amazing talent as an actor. I watched him in the Real Mccoys when it first came out of TV. and saw him throughout the years in movies of course never really fully appreciating him or his work until now that I am an adult. And besides being a fantastic actor, he was a very nice man !
This has to be a show were John had some real fun making sure Walter Brennan didn't get guess to early.
Walter Brennan may not have been a singer, but he had several hit records in a Western-story style. "Old Rivers" even made the Top 10 in 1962 when "The Real McCoys" was popular.
I love 'Old Rivers' and 'Mama Sang a Song'. If people don't know them, have a listen. Both beautiful.
I ❤️Steve Allen on the show.
Steve Allen was the funniest panelist - both intentionally and unintentionally, haha!
Did they have any idea that we would use computers to watch this episode?
Walter Brennan was indeed a brilliant actor.
Sensational actor who we Will never see again Ever Period!!!!
Ladies and gentlemen, the man who brought us tinder
Recorded on May 22, 1966.
Because Gary posted the August 28, 1966 episode as a tribute to Betty White on her 93rd Birthday, the next upload will instead be the September 4, 1966 episode.
Jayne Meadows. In that sparkly gown and in that hair style, she is as pretty as she ever was on WML. And she was smart, too tonight. So what's not to love about her.
She wasn't as good as Audrey :o)
46-year-old Jayne Meadows looks much younger with the straight hair.
Her debut was with Katharine Hepburn in 1946 in "Undercurrent" at 26.
You're right as far as movies are concerned. However, she was on the Broadway stage in 1941 in a play called "Spring Again."
+Vahan Nisanian I LOVE Undercurrent.
In an interview I saw with her, she said that she was referred by some people as a younger Kate Hepburn...
Walter Brennan's 1957 mystery guest appearance was arguably the greatest male mystery guest spot of the 1950s. This one isn’t half bad either.
So, my question is this: of the popular young modern actors we have today, which one will work steadily for six decades, which one will get better with age, which one will get more famous and popular with age, which one will work steadily until about two years before his death. Brennan was not just prodigious. He was simply amazing.
Brennan mentioned his Japanese accent in every one of his appearances.
I think careers of top stars tend to hang on more than those in the past. Remember Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, and lots more were giant film stars for less than 30 years. There are so many more stars today, it is hard to say who will be around until their old. Tom Hanks is definitely one, but he is already nearly 60. Jimmy Fallon is TV, but I think the doors are wide open for him when he leaves the Tonight show.
soulierinvestments I don't know about the new, "rising" stars, but, even before I read Joe Postove's reply, I was also thinking of Tom Hanks as a contemporary actor who so far fits most of the qualifications you mentioned and seems likely to continue to find steady work and to continue to "improve with age."
I found this mystery guest segment to be one of the most entertaining and all-around fun I've seen in a long time! I loved the way even John Daly got into the act with his own version of an Irish accent! -- admittedly not as good as Mr. Brennan's. I much prefer this choice of accent to the Japanese one, as that one seemed too much of a stereotype parody for my taste. Having old friends Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows as the "guest panelists" also added to the fun and comfortable feel of the whole episode.
If Robin Williams hadn't tragically taken his own life, he might have pulled it off too, though his Parkinson's Disease may have prevented him from continuing to work for as many years.
SaveThe TPC Sadly, Robin Williams had been "cashing in" and not making well regarded films for some years. I don't blame him for it (Deniro's doing the same...basically picking up his checks for "God Father Two" , "Raging Bull", "Goodfella's" and his other early great work with movies like "Rocky and Bullwinkle", "Meet The Parents" (which is a good flick) and other films which are not more than paydays for him). Liam Neesan could, if he makes the right choices, make it for the longrun.
Clint Eastwood is 85 and DOING IT!
The first personal computer was made by Olivetti in 1964.
The second contestant is gorgeous. Sadly, she died last year.
(From May 2014 Obit)
Jacqueline Austin Walker, of Skokie, IL, passed away at age 75. Loving sister of Laurie (the late Richard) Anderson; dear aunt of Don (Me Me) and Jeff; adoring stepmother of Vic, Jr. (Dawn) Lazzaroni; devoted daughter of the late John and the late Jean Walker (nee Marks); beloved and admired mentor to a large community of friends. Multi-talented woman who enjoyed successful careers as an actress, model, pilot, and intuitive consultant.
Bennett saying he's going to buy an airplane!
She certainly was stunningly beautiful. What a shame she died at an unseemly age of 75. Something must have happened to her health.
At least she lived a long life
A woman ahead of her time RIP
Arlene was the MVP of the show.
I love this show. It was when men could be men.
I enjoyed the film Red River staring Mr John Wayne n Walter Brenner plus Montgomery Cliff n John Ireland plus Paul Fix n Miss Joanne Dru I never get tired of viewing this film
Can never forget WB's oft' repeated line in "Meet John Doe" -- "Heelots". Excellent Movie available on RUclips.
To me this was an ancestor to Facebook..Honeywell and IBM imagine that...
I don't think WB had a series on at this time. "The Real McCoys" ended in 1963. "The Tycoon" lasted a year in 1964-65, and "The Guns Of Will Sonnett" (a classic show which I dearly loved) started in the 1967-68 season, I think.
In the 1970\71 TV season Mr
Brennan costarred with John Forsythe in the sitcom To Rome With Love. He replaced Kay Medford in that show.
My brothers & I enjoyed watching "The Guns of Will Sonnett" on ABC each week. I think it was aired on Friday nights. One of the better half hour TV Westerns.
what a lucky marriage...for jayne meadows ;)
Jayne Meadows - what a sweetheart
I loved the cursive handwriting.
What the heck! Computer service in 1966
You got to see this what's My Line Episode.. and that's My Ruling!
I loved John Daly joining in on the Irish dialect, and effectively confusing the panel, haha!
Walter was a natural, you don't even think he's acting when he's doing a part. Not recognized enough as a fine actor, in these days anyway.
Walter Brennan won three Oscars for Best Supporting Actor in 1936, 1938 and 1940.
+Johan Bengtsson I think he should have won for Rio Bravo as well.
+Heidi Myers Yes indeed. A very good movie.
For "Come and Get It" (which was Frances Farmer's movie debut), "Kentucky," and "The Westerner." According to his IMDB profile, his winning that third Oscar led to the disenfranchisement of movie extras in balloting for the Academy Awards.
@@jmccracken1963 was masterful in mentoring Coop in Sergeant York, too.
@@alansorensen5903 He & Coop became close friends. They also co-starred in "The Westerner", "Meet John Doe" & "Task Force"
Computer dating service in the 60's? Wow!
Really ahead of his time..by approx. 35 years............
@@MrMalibu30 Remember the computers were the size of rooms and clunky and slow by today's standards.
Computer dating in the 60's was fairly popular.
Now we date by phone! 😂😂😂 (like the 50's)!
They had those Giant Computers then, and only Companies or Government!
I can't recall ever seeing Jayne Meadows in anything else, also is she related to Audrey? Walter Brennan plays so many great roles he's one of the best character actors of his time or any time for that matter
Audrey was her sister. Other game shows a few movies.
Jayne was a regular on the TV game show I've Got a Secret for some time.
That Jacqueline Frankel, who sold airplanes was absolutely gorgeous and so poised, charming and refined.
It was no surprise at all that she was a model.
I didn't know Walter Brennan won all those Oscars!
The criteria for membership in the group that voted for Oscars in those days was much different than in later years. Brennan was apparently very popular with younger people in Hollywood in positions in the film industry who were not eligible to vote in later years.
Walter Brennan used that accent in a movie...The Gnome Mobile
I remember seeing The Gnome Mobile as a kid when it first came out ! It featured the same two child actors that had been in Disney's "Mary Poppins" just a few years before !
“Has it any moving parts? I’ll take one.”😂
Greatest character actor in history
no brag just fact.
Love the show when i was kid watch it but it makes me sad to think all those people are dead
In reading Mrs. Walker's obituary and visiting her web site, she mentions her appearance on WML but mistakenly mentions that it was Dorothy Kilgallen instead of Arlene that guessed the "in the air!?" part of her occupation. :P
Well, I suppose Dorothy might have guessed it if she was watching from wherever she was. Arlene actually got a no with "It's more often seen in the water" after determining it didn't principally function on land, and Bennett then came up with "in the air" as a result of Arlene's having narrowed it down, but then went for "heelicopter." Steve came up with airplane as a result, and Jayne is the one who ultimately came up with "You must sell them."
Steve Allen looks like Clark Kent.
Yup, he always was really super, man.
James Avery I always thought that as a kid. 😊
He sure does look like Clark Kent.
Yes; and in fact because of that resemblance Steve was written into a few installments of the 1955 syndicated Superman newspaper strip (reprinted in a Superman 80 Page Giant in 1963). And in the Lois Lane comic book, #45 (also from 1963), Clark Kent fills in for Steve Allen as a TV show host.
Mrs Walker was stunning. Wow.
The better to sell planes.
Steve: I'll take one! (about the product the beautiful airplane seller deals with)
Jayne: Mrs Frankel doesn't go with the product, darling! 13:08
Johan Bengtsson
At least Steve had his wife there to put the reins on him! I have to wonder how Phyllis Cerf felt about Bennett's consistent and shameless flirting with attractive women on WML. I also wonder how the married women's husbands felt about it. At least some probably saw the panel's and audience's positive reactions to their wives' beauty as a compliment, but there must have been some that were annoyed by the flirting.
SaveThe TPC Arlene was also rather persistent with her flirting with the good-looking young men whose wives and girlfriends maybe felt the same.
Johan Bengtsson
True. Of course, since they didn't have to ask the "Miss or Mrs." question (or anything analogous to it) to men, the panel never knew whether the male contestants were married or not, but Arlene sure was, anyway. ;) I think there may have been a couple of times when Martin was with her on the panel and "reined her in" in similar fashion to what Jayne did with Steve in this episode.
Still, I think Bennett's brand of complimenting/flirtatiousness was much more overt than anyone else's -- with the possible exception of Hal Block. The truth is, I think Hal & Bennett might be tied as to the *level* of their comments to attractive women, but Bennett had many more opportunities over many more years to make such comments.
SaveThe TPC Interesting. Bennett refered to Hal Block as a "clod" and I suppose Bennett thought that Block's comments were what you might expect from a clod (even though I never think of Hal Block as a clod). But Bennett was the sophisticated, learned, well-read publisher who ought to have known better than making the same male chauvinistic remarks of women's beauty all the time. I am sure Martin Gabel found many of the female contestants very attractive but he didn't made comments of them every time, and when he did I find them more of a compliment than a flirt. It is a difference between the two.
Had Phyllis Cerf been on the panel as frequently as Martin Gabel, I am sure Bennett would have been more sparing with his remarks. :)
Johan Bengtsson
I concur. Bennett has definitely become the "dirty old (albeit erudite) man" of the panel lately.
Jayne Meadows (born September 27, 1919) is 95 and still alive!
Joe Postove Two months after you posted, she's not. She is missed. As is Steve.
Jayne Meadows was a very smart cookie. Her intelligence was readily apparent throughout this episode.
On another episode, it was stated that she made the highest score ever recorded at USC for anyone studying the Chinese language. She proceeded speaking Mandarin, and it was very impressive. RIP, Ms. Meadows.
I missed the news of her death completely. I feel very isolated here in Israel.
Second contestant. Jackie Frankl. One of the most famous hair styles in the whole history of WML. It probably required an engineering degree . . . along with curlers. Steve and Jayne were both pretty funny in this game. "She doesn't come with the product." Too bad there.
It could have been a fall/hair piece/extention (whatever you want to call it).
I'm almost certain it's a hair piece...notice how her front hair is shiny and the top hair is not. I watched aunts and mom style their hair this way...always with an artificial hairpiece.
Walter Brennan a leading man? Maybe leading the way to the chuckwagon!
Still waters run deep. The script for "Rio Bravo" never mentions that Angie Dickinson ("Feather") ended up running off with Stumpy (Walter Brennan)......
Ha! That's great!
the quality of the program is the same as 1957. lol
When Arlene asks "does it {airplane} work on land" they should just give a straight answer of yes. The hesitation gives it away, I think.
Wooowww... the same day I was born!
Walter Brennan, teeth and all!
"Mrs. Frankel doesn't go with the product, darling." 😂😂😂😂
Walter : 3 Oscars....brillant actor!
Hey, this is Stumpy!!
Chance told him to stay back there & keep an eye on Joe Burdett !
How wonderful those days were not so sick as our USA is today
It was just as sick, but in different ways.
Ginger-I'd say that then in the "Good Old Days" there were different kinds of problems.. Civil Rights[lynching,segregation],that pot was illegal in every state and others.
Any year before the dreadfully divisive Obama regime took power was "the good old days" in comparison to today.
@@MrAdrenaline1982
Indeed.
Obama regime? Devisive? Really? Barack and Michelle would have made great panelists and mystery guests (and regular guests, if need be.) Now, imagine Donald and Melania in any of those roles.
I was up in age before I found out that Walter Brennan had a career in film before The Real McCoys...born 1955...
Old Walter gave his voice away from the start. It was almost like someone doing a bad WB impression. I guess they didn't get it cus Walter was not on their radar.
That may have been the point. Graham Greene once entered a writing contest to see who could best imitate Graham Greene. He came in third.
Interesting thing in this episode is the panel wasn't the normal woman-man-woman-man sitting arrangement, with the ladies surrounded by the men..
Today they'd need 14 chairs.
One for each gender.
I think that’s the only time I have seen Walter Brennen walk without a limp!
I've always found Jane Meadows to be such a delight. She was pretty, very talented, and had a genuinely sunny disposition. When she complemented Walter Brennan and then said so glad to meet you when they shook hands, you could tell she was sincere and not just being polite.
Also highly intelligent
"Is Batman a western"
Batman is a eastern.... LOL...
I think the Irish accent is great.
My favorite movie Brennan played is Rio Bravo. 👏👏👏
he died in 74, so he only had 9 years to live when this was filmed
The first computer as we know it today was produced around the mid 1800s.
I love the Irish brogue!🍀🍀🍀💚💚💚💚💚
Arlene looks especially lovely in this episode, imo. I've noticed her wearing those pearls without the diamond heart recently, though I think I've seen her wearing them together at other times.
Arlene occasionally, throughout WML, wore something other than the diamond heart, though she almost always did wear it. I wonder if, in this period, she needed a jeweler to repair it. A diamond might have fallen out requiring replacement or perhaps the chain, being thin, caught on something and broke. She had it for a couple of years after husband died, until 1988, when she was mugged as she was getting out of a taxi in New York City and the necklace was stolen from her. It was a dismal thing to do to an octogenarian.
Arlene was always lovely, had oodles of charm, brains & beauty. Total package of a woman. Martin was mighty lucky. Arlene obviously appreciated his mind over looks.
@@ToddSF It is sad, no doubt. And many commenters have made this point in many episodes, understandably. But a thing is a just a thing, even if it has sentimental value. Other women on WML wore the same diamond heart. It was not unique and she could have obtained another. Let us be grateful that in the course of being mugged, Arlene lost only her jeweled heart, and wasn't killed so as to lose her real one.
Jayne looked great here.
Who was a better actor, Walter Huston or Walter Brennan?
Walter Matthau.
Walter Huston's performance in "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" is magnificent and conveys the essence of the great them of that film. I am not so much of a fan of his in Dodsworth or The Devil and Daniel Webster. But who could top his falling over dead in Sam Spade's office with the Maltese Falcon?
@@preppysocks209 Treasure of the Sierra Madre was one of the greatest movies ever! (and loved Walter's son, director John Huston's cameo with Bogart!)
They were both fine actor. But if I had to choose between the two it would have to be Walter Huston. Now if you'd also included Huntz Hall in your list.....
Walter Winchell.
And how about this? Tomorrow will be the final b&w episode of the show!
Surprise us Gary, and show us the videotape!
Joe Postove And lose the bet? Never.
:)
+Joe Postove doing his Warner Wolf impersonation as he tries to fool +What's My Line? into losing a bet.
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WALTER BRENNAN won THREE Best Supporting Actor Oscars in his lifetime. Only TWO other actors in Oscar history have won that many: JACK NICHOLSON (two leading, one supporting) and DANIEL DAY LEWIS (all for Best Actor).
Yes indeed ! Mr Brennan is still the only person to win three Oscar for Best SUPPORTING Actor.
Taking nothing away from Mr. Brennan’s considerable talent, his three almost back to back wins were in part a product of his unusual career. He was one of the few members of the extras union to move into featured roles. In the thirties, the extras were the largest number of Academy voters and they were eager to support one of there own. Shortly after Walter’s third win, the rules were changed and extras could no longer vote.
Wonder if the first kid stuck with computers. He may be a billionaire by now.
The first girl proves that cleavage has always worked.
Mr. Brennan was always one of my favorites.
I've googled him. He went to and now still works in Silicon Valley.
How could anyone not love Walter Brennan? He was, indeed, the Real McCoy (Luke, the barn! Luke, the barn!)
Surprised Brennan does not come out wearing a white hood.
Why?
Hey danny...
Why don't you go away wearing a ballgag?
@@TheBatugan77 because you never gave it back
Jayne Meadows Allen and Arlene were beautiful
John singles out everyone on the panel for praise except for Arlene Francis. Odd.
The audience shouldn't clap when they say things. It could give things away .
Jayne Meadows was smart, too.
I didn't even know computers were invented then!
It was misleading to say that Walter Brennan was *not* a comedian, since "The Real McCoys" was certainly a situation comedy.
the first few words and they knew who he was......
I want to be Arlene when I grow up ... except that I'm older now than she was then! 😂😢
The Real McCoys
Brennan was a staunch supporter of segregation.
Wow jacqie is a real knockout
Be funny if Walter B. used his own voice and they said "Oh no another Walter Brennan imitation and this is the worse yet!"
Walter Brennan was a true character actor. . . . And a true gentleman!