Isn't that so true! Having been born in 1948, I've witnessed, along with my contemporaries, a lot of transitions in social behaviors, which include how we seem to continue losing our sense of purpose and our personal and collective spirituality in our lives. I really loved your comment here and you're willingness to post it. Thank you.
According to the information I was able to find, this show aired on Dec. 25, 1955 or thereabouts. Dec. 25 fell on Sunday that year but can't say for sure if this is when it aired.
This is the only time I've ever seen guests on the old "What's My Line?" perform. It was beautiful. The Salvation Army band consisted of two married couples. At least at one time, I believe members of the Salvation Army were only permitted to be married to other members.
It is now 9-10-2024 Of which I have not seen their band play in perhaps 30 years or longer. But the factors of which we now live in a very different time and age.
Let’s do a little math. This show was from December 1955. That’s 69 years ago. If the band members were 30, they’d be 99 now. So highly unlikely. (Hard to tell how old they were as people back then looked older than they were - at least to me.) BTW, I was only 18 months old in December 1955! Just a wee tot.
Okay, just one more comment: It clearly shows you what kind of budget this program works off of when they can't even afford to have, or "locate," a fifth chair for the guest panelist from Puerto Rico who joined them in an impromptu moment!
The Remington Rand commercial was an absolute riot to watch, given that I'm seeing this in June of 2024! You just wonder how we were able to ever evolve into anything grander than what was displayed in that 1950s commercial-- without the electric typewriters and that $5,832,371.41 giant computer monstrosity anchored against an entire wall!
Just watch "It's a Wonderful Life," which I assume still plays annually on TV and you will hear it. How about "A Charlie Brown Christmas"? No one is canceling Christmas any more than the Golf Channel or cooking shows are canceled because not everyone finds them entertaining. If you'd like to hear more Christmas music on TV, then encourage everyone to stop watching "reality shows" that have as much to do with reality as What's My Line has to do with nuclear physics, and encourage the production of variety shows like we had dozens of from the 1950's to 1970's, presenting standard music of all sorts including Christmas carols during the season. We can do without the police procedurals after 20 years of being inundated with them and their multiple spinoffs too. That's why you don't hear Christmas songs on TV, because you don't hear songs, period, except on rare specials like The Kennedy Center Honors or the Tony Awards.
I guess you could say that. Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy were guests on lots of TV variety shows. They played in clubs. They were in several undistinguished films. And they did have their own TV shows. She lived to be 96, he 88. They also had a radio show broadcast from their home, like Dorothy Kilgallen and her husband, and a number of other married couples in the entertainment industry over the years. They were performers I thought of as "TV personalities" when I was growing up. Very genial personas on the small screen.
They were relatively popular in the 50’s and very early ‘60’s. I was born in ‘54 and I do remember them. They were fairly well known, but not superstars.
As a child growing up during the 1950s, you get exposed to certain behaviors that are socially acceptable for that time period, and therefore, you often learn to embrace them in various ways/places. But now, in 2024, after becoming "reacquainted" with aspects of that decade while looking at a number of these "What's My Line" programs on video, I'm bothered by when "beautiful" women come onto the show as contestants, they are whistle at (et al.) by audience members and are often "seductively" commented on by the panelists. These are behaviors that seem a bit unnerving to me--and inappropriate, and this is coming from a guy born in 1948. Also, I don't think that Fred Allen's comments are always appropriate; at times, they can be a "little too audacious," which can occasionally translate into a kind of rude rhetoric (however one wishes to view it...). This is just an observation after watching him on a number of these videos.
Also (as if I haven't said enough already), I think Arlene Francis is an underrated comedienne. She is just naturally funny, having absolutely perfect timing and a great wit. I really appreciate her!
@@daler.steffy1047 some how seems expected from audience, sure became a tradition, adult evening show, least Panel guys mostly married like Fred, do seem to puch a bit for that TV period. Many have suggested meeting latter, that I dont like.
Don't watch the early shows with Hal Block (preceded Bennett) who was fired for being too risqué. Everyone should be appalled today at his cracks. Your point is well taken. When I was watching these shows as a kid, and certainly now, I was taken aback by the verbal leering that the very married Bennett Cerf and sometimes Daly would engage in when a pretty woman firefighter or helicopter pilot would be the contestant, less so if it was Lana Turner or Kim Novak as the mystery guest, who after all, used their beauty to make lots of money and knew that was at least part of what they were selling. Not to say they didn't have any talent, but Bette Davis, Judith Anderson and Katherine Hepburn they weren't.
![What's My Line? - Patti Page; Jim Backus [panel] (Sep 22, 1957)](/img/1.gif)
I was BORN JULY 24, 1955
THANKYOU FOR THIS SHOW !!
This is the BEST WML show EVER!!!! I laughed until I cried!
Especially the woman who was on the show in Puerto Rico!
Still fun to watch a show I had watched at my parents, brothers and sisters as a child at 5 years old (now 70 years LATER!)
Nice to see them welcome the guest from Puerto Rico. She actually looked like my grandmother when she was young.
Listening to them play that tune brought a tear of joy to my eyes because of wonderful childhood memories.
Arlene and Dorothy had class brain beauty compassion and wit
70 years later and I'm addicted to this show. Everyone on this show died before I was born !
That was very sweet of Dorothy to say “Flip the cards. It’s my treat.”
Loved the evening gloves on the lady from Puerto Rico.
The Remington Rand commercial was great!
What a time of purity and respect for God
Isn't that so true! Having been born in 1948, I've witnessed, along with my contemporaries, a lot of transitions in social behaviors, which include how we seem to continue losing our sense of purpose and our personal and collective spirituality in our lives. I really loved your comment here and you're willingness to post it. Thank you.
Also interesting to watch the OLD commercials!
According to the information I was able to find, this show aired on Dec. 25, 1955 or thereabouts. Dec. 25 fell on Sunday
that year but can't say for sure if this is when it aired.
The band was marvelous!
This is the only time I've ever seen guests on the old "What's My Line?" perform. It was beautiful. The Salvation Army band consisted of two married couples. At least at one time, I believe members of the Salvation Army were only permitted to be married to other members.
On the episode with the Calypso band, they sang and played a song written, especially for what's my line about the panelist and the show.
Arlene is always so friendly and charming.
More Salvation Army on T V - please.
Love Arlene’s eye mask.
What a beautiful woman was the girl from Puerto Rico
$200 was a substantial sum to give to the Salvation Army. In 1955 you could fill your gas tank for $5.
Yes, it would be $2350 today. Then again, Goodson & Todman could afford it.
It is now 9-10-2024
Of which I have not seen their band play in perhaps 30 years or longer.
But the factors of which we now live in a very different time and age.
Are any of the band members on show that night still living?
God knows.
Let’s do a little math. This show was from December 1955. That’s 69 years ago. If the band members were 30, they’d be 99 now. So highly unlikely. (Hard to tell how old they were as people back then looked older than they were - at least to me.)
BTW, I was only 18 months old in December 1955! Just a wee tot.
Okay, just one more comment: It clearly shows you what kind of budget this program works off of when they can't even afford to have, or "locate," a fifth chair for the guest panelist from Puerto Rico who joined them in an impromptu moment!
The band played a familar song but sounded definitely like music tones from the 50s
The Remington Rand commercial was an absolute riot to watch, given that I'm seeing this in June of 2024! You just wonder how we were able to ever evolve into anything grander than what was displayed in that 1950s commercial-- without the electric typewriters and that $5,832,371.41 giant computer monstrosity anchored against an entire wall!
the woman trumpeter looks like radar o' reilly from the tv show m*a*s*h
Hark the Hearld angels Sing - try singing or playing that on TV today
Just watch "It's a Wonderful Life," which I assume still plays annually on TV and you will hear it. How about "A Charlie Brown Christmas"? No one is canceling Christmas any more than the Golf Channel or cooking shows are canceled because not everyone finds them entertaining.
If you'd like to hear more Christmas music on TV, then encourage everyone to stop watching "reality shows" that have as much to do with reality as What's My Line has to do with nuclear physics, and encourage the production of variety shows like we had dozens of from the 1950's to 1970's, presenting standard music of all sorts including Christmas carols during the season. We can do without the police procedurals after 20 years of being inundated with them and their multiple spinoffs too.
That's why you don't hear Christmas songs on TV, because you don't hear songs, period, except on rare specials like The Kennedy Center Honors or the Tony Awards.
I live in SW France and we always hear this music @@gnirolnamlerf593
I heard it several times over Christmas. What’s wrong with you?
@@gnirolnamlerf593Well said!
The mystery guests. No idea who they are. Their "fame" must have been a 50's thing.
I guess you could say that. Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy were guests on lots of TV variety shows. They played in clubs. They were in several undistinguished films. And they did have their own TV shows. She lived to be 96, he 88. They also had a radio show broadcast from their home, like Dorothy Kilgallen and her husband, and a number of other married couples in the entertainment industry over the years. They were performers I thought of as "TV personalities" when I was growing up. Very genial personas on the small screen.
They were relatively popular in the 50’s and very early ‘60’s. I was born in ‘54 and I do remember them. They were fairly well known, but not superstars.
ELOCUTION! NOT SHUSHAN!
As a child growing up during the 1950s, you get exposed to certain behaviors that are socially acceptable for that time period, and therefore, you often learn to embrace them in various ways/places. But now, in 2024, after becoming "reacquainted" with aspects of that decade while looking at a number of these "What's My Line" programs on video, I'm bothered by when "beautiful" women come onto the show as contestants, they are whistle at (et al.) by audience members and are often "seductively" commented on by the panelists. These are behaviors that seem a bit unnerving to me--and inappropriate, and this is coming from a guy born in 1948. Also, I don't think that Fred Allen's comments are always appropriate; at times, they can be a "little too audacious," which can occasionally translate into a kind of rude rhetoric (however one wishes to view it...). This is just an observation after watching him on a number of these videos.
Also (as if I haven't said enough already), I think Arlene Francis is an underrated comedienne. She is just naturally funny, having absolutely perfect timing and a great wit. I really appreciate her!
@@daler.steffy1047 some how seems expected from audience, sure became a tradition, adult evening show, least Panel guys mostly married like Fred, do seem to puch a bit for that TV period.
Many have suggested meeting latter, that I dont like.
Don't watch the early shows with Hal Block (preceded Bennett) who was fired for being too risqué. Everyone should be appalled today at his cracks. Your point is well taken. When I was watching these shows as a kid, and certainly now, I was taken aback by the verbal leering that the very married Bennett Cerf and sometimes Daly would engage in when a pretty woman firefighter or helicopter pilot would be the contestant, less so if it was Lana Turner or Kim Novak as the mystery guest, who after all, used their beauty to make lots of money and knew that was at least part of what they were selling. Not to say they didn't have any talent, but Bette Davis, Judith Anderson and Katherine Hepburn they weren't.
@@gnirolnamlerf593 no point taken regarding him, never witness, better than annoying Fred Allen, as other Pushers.
And yet, Daler, their behaviors are far, far, FAR more refined and polite than anything you’d see on TV nowadays.
The host has tooo much to say! 🙂🙋♀️🇭🇲
It was the Christmas show and they were all having fun rather than playing the game terribly seriously.