Sweet Helen had just lost her husband of nearly 30 years, one week short of a year before this was recorded. She had lost her 19 year old daughter in 1949 to polio. Helen was a fine, loving human being, who gave of herself and money through her own heartache. Bravo, Miss Helen!
+Johan Bengtsson She was also a child actress, an ingenue, a leading lady and a character actress. She was not glamorous, just superbly talented, to become known as "First Lady of American Theatre".
I feel like a 10 year old little boy watching What's My Line with my Mom and Dad on Sunday night. Sadly...Mom and Dad are gone but what great memories.
Christopher Fortunato Before I broke into the entertainment industry, I worked at the Waldorf-Astoria. I worked in the front office and would take the service elevators up to our cafeteria. One night I got on the service elevator, there were two people on the elevator who were riding up to the ballroom. The door closed and I looked over to check out the other people on the elevator. I literally shrieked, “oh my god.” Loud. Very loud. The two other people were Helen Hayes and Lillian Gish. I almost gave them a heart attack. I apologized. Both were very gracious. Helen was funny and dealt with the situation with humor. I told them what an honor it was to ride the elevator with the two first great ladies of theater and film. I mentioned to Helen that I grew up near her home in Nyack and visited her theater there many times with my mom as a child which brought a rich smile to her face. Lilian was more shy and quieter than Helen. She had kind of dreamy ethereal eyes. Helen took Lillian’s hand and led her to the ballroom. You could tell they were good, good friends.
A true genius of the American theater and yet someone who remained an amazingly unaffected person always associated with good causes. She did not have an easy life, she did have a generous life.
With her large wide set eyes and heart-shaped face, Helen Hayes remained lovely to look out throughout the whole of her long life indeed until her very last days. And for all we know she is looking lovelier than ever somewhere, somehow even now.
From beginning to end this particular show had just a really good feeling to it. Each of the guests including the mystery guest, Helen Hayes brought out smiles on the panel and on John daly.
Helen Hayes, called "the first lady of American theatre", whose son James McArthur became known to all as "Dan-O" on the original Hawaii Five-O series and in supporting roles in the movies. Most the people on Broadway owe their jobs to her in one way or another.
RIP Helen Hayes (10 Oct 1900- 17 Mar 1993) (aged 92), Mary MacArthur (16 Feb 1930-22 Sep 1949) (aged 19), James MacArthur (8 Dec 1937- 28 Oct 2010) (aged 72), and Charles Gordon MacArthur Jr. (5 Nov 1895- 21 Apr 1956) (aged 60) you will truly all be missed and my prayers go out to them all.
Dorothy: "Why would we hire a baseball player?" Bennett doesn't even hesitate: "To hit your husband over the head with a bat." Duh! Dorothy: "Is it something the horse can take off?" John: "By himself?"
Actually not a prince but a Lithuanian-born conman. He started his working life as a Brooklyn pants-presser and invented his royal background to attract customers to his restaurant
@@lindaackerman3507 It was common knowledge at the time, but he was apparently such a nice guy that people indulged him. It was even mentioned in the original "Miracle on 34th Street," although they couldn't say his name.
@@lindaackerman3507 LOL it was hardly a secret, but everyone liked him, just like Radziwil - Jackie O's former brother in law. He was no more a Radziwil than you or I.
The panel couldn't guess this episode's MG based on who was in town because Helen Hayes was a local area resident. They received a lot of their help from the audience reactions.
Amazingly, John Charles Daly was both anchorman of ABC's television evening newscast and head of it's news division between 1953 and 1960, while hosting "What's My Line?".
I had the unexpected pleasure and honor of meeting Mrs. MacArthur, as she preferred to be called, in 1984 when I worked at Columbia University. Mrs. MacArthur founded Helen Hayes Cooperstown Hospital in New York and was attending a Board Meeting at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, which was affiliated with Cooperstown Hospital at the time. It was a beautiful Spring day and Mrs. MacArthur, who was in her 80s at the time, told us that she had been outside gardening when her son (I had no idea at the time who her son was, I was only 23) reminded her that she had the meeting to attend and he accompanied her to the city. She was gracious and friendly to those of us who greeted her when she arrived. She was totally honest to say to us that she far preferred to stay home working in her garden but she also understood she had an obligation to be at Columbia that day for an important meeting. I only knew of her because she appeared in the spoof film "Airplane". There were many well known attendees that made up the Board of Directors, but Mrs. MacArthur is the only one I remember because she was so sweet and kind. It was a memorable day.
Actually, she won the Oscar for best supporting actress for her role in Airport, a serious film (an all star movie that presaged the cycle of disaster films in the early 70's). She was never in Airplane or any of its sequels.
I can't remember whose biography/set of reminisces I first read about Mike Romanoff in, but whoever it was really wrote about him engagingly. (Harpo's autobiography, maybe?) So I'm fangirling about both Romanoff /and/ Helen Hayes, for very different reasons. Because holy mackerel, Helen Hayes! (And, Arlene half-stood for her.) For those unaware and not wanting to search, Romanoff was originally Hershel Geguzin, then Henry Gerguson, then probably something else (or a few something elses), and eventually Mike Romanoff, otherwise known as Prince Michael Dimitri Alexandrovich Obolensky-Romanoff, nephew of Tsar Nicholas II. I don't even know that I'd call him a scam artist, at least not in his California days, because his restaurant was run very well and above-board. I suppose the consulting on European history and manners for various movies might count as scamming. Anyway, he was a Hollywood institution for a couple of decades. Per a 1975 article on the Schilsons: 'Schilson manufactures high-grade hair pieces, tail switches, and artificial tails for the show horses. The average price of a tail switch; a phony fall-like wig that fills out a horse's tail, is $40. An artificial tail, complete with hook-on attachment, sells for $80 and up. Schilson has three full-time employees who produce the pieces out of hair imported from the Orient.' Mrs. Schilson died in 1999.
David Niven writes affectionately about Mike Romanoff in "The Moon's A Balloon" and also possibly in ""Bring On The Empty Horses." While Niven's memoirs are full of fabrications and borrowed anecdotes, he does wonder where Mr. Romanoff spent "the blood-drenched years between 1914-1918." I've wondered what secrets he took to his grave. My favorite anecdote from David Niven is the story of how Mike Romanoff buried treasure around a Southern California beach (fake jewels and doubloons, etc.) for David's sons, complete with a map. He stated, "Children are nature's gentlemen. I far prefer their company to that of grownups." Somehow, this story rings true. David's wife Primmie had just died and he and his children were reeling.
I was just going to say Michael Romanoff seemed to be a real interesting character. Bennet quickly mentioned that he was in fact also a writer in the process of writing his memoirs. I’ve been searching the internet desperately trying to find that memoir. Do you know if in fact there is one? You mentioned you read ‘reminisces of him in some book???
@@dejpsyd0421 I'm pretty sure the book was, in fact, one of Niven's autobiographies, which I definitely read at one point. Romanoff's book doesn't seem to have ever happened.
No problem. I loved diagramming sentences, and John Daly actually kept his grammatically correct, so it would be easy. That was back when grammar was taught in school from kindergarten up, and if anyone said something like "Me and Joe went to lunch" they would get dope slapped by Mrs. Pirazzo, our third grade teacher, until their ears rang. Well of course, I'm not exactly a high school student anymore. In fact, if I were, I wouldn't know what the f-- (current adjective, noun, adverb for everything) diagramming a sentence is.
True...this current batch of '20-30-40'-somethings, would readily mistake the word, 'diagram' for diaphragm'...60 years back, you learned and mastered grammar....Had truly tough English Teachers--these women, who literally scrimped and worked like dogs to put themselves through Teachers College...in the 1910's and '20's, and as Teachers at that time, could NOT retire by State Law until they were 72....Lord, they were a treat, in hindsight...one of them was also my Latin Teacher...and would have the Latin class diagram Cicero and the Aeneid....and Caesar's works...and Penmanship....no Freudian 'Id' lurking, freewheeling, abstract, self-expression set to pen and paper....LoL....
@@stanochocki8984 And a class called "English" was a mandatory basic every year, from first grade through 12th. Then when you entered college, if you still hadn't gotten it enough to qualify for English 101, which was also mandatory for Freshmen, you had to take "bone head English."
Robert Sabella, I agree! I would also have loved being friends with the Gabels. Arlene was lovely and Martin had such energy, humour, intelligence and what a voice! I have noticed several times on these WML comments -- disparaging remarks made about Martin, in reference to being Arlene's husband. These comments were always ( sorry) made by males, of course. Absurd!
@@aileen694 A lot of those commenters focused on other than his intelligence, wit, charm, great voice, etc. To have charmed such a lovely woman such as Arlene speaks volumes for him.
There have been many times the reactions of the audiences alerted the panelists to the Mystery Guests' identities. Those reactions shortened the appearances of those Mystery Guests. Shame, really.
In the movie '' Miracle on 34th Street'...when the Superintendent of the 'Old Age Home', makes a visit to Maureen O'Sullivan's Office...to discuss an issue over Kris Krinkle's sanity....This the the person that he is referring to---''...(paraphrased).why there's this man who runs a restaurant; in Hollywood and Claims to be of Imperial Russian descent...and though many have shown that he is not...many Celebrities go there..'
Helen Hayes speaks of her son Daniel at Harvard.. Daniel went on to play in the series Hawaii Five-O. He played the character of Dano, who was the partner of mcgarrett played by Jack Lord.
Very suspicious Arlene with the last question that can be asked mysteriously narrows it down to the guests business establishment. The previous questions all seemed to be going in the direction of someone in the movie making business.
The story goes that Michael Romanoff pretended to be a royal prince of Russian extraction, but that was complete nonsense. He was born in Lithuania as Hershel Geguzin and later took the name Harry F. Gerguson (at age 10). "Michael Romanoff" was simply a name he adopted for use in the public eye. He sometimes claimed to be the son of British Prime Minister William Gladstone, but most of the time claimed to be ""Prince Michael Dimitri Alexandrovich Obolensky-Romanoff", nephew of Czar Nicholas II. I'd have thought he'd have gone with the first name "Mikhail", the Russian form of "Michael", to go with all those other Russian names he made up. I don't suppose he harmed anyone with his bogus claims. If people thought, when they ate in his restaurant, that they were dining in a place owned by a Russian prince, if they liked the food well enough, they go what they paid for.
Bennet Cerf quickly mentioned that Michael Romanoff was in the process of writing his memoirs. Anyone know of such a memoir/book exists…I’ve been searching the internet high and low!?
That restaurant, Romanoff's, was as well known on the west coast as Toots Shor's in New York. Even to people not necessarily in the entertainment world.
+lastbreathsigh Watch the April 7, 1957 episode. Numerous times, to get back at Bennett, John Daly remarks that he doesn't want a blizzard in Nebraska (where Bennett would be appearing during the upcoming week), but if there was one that Bennett should be caught in it. Well lo and behold, there was some heavy snow when Bennett was in Nebraska.
Arlene turned her head so she could peek through the space between the mask and her nose. She admitted to doing that in a TV interview on CBC television in Canada.😄
If I were producing a revival of "What's My Line?", I wouldn't reveal contestants' occupations to viewers until either a panelist guessed the contestant's occupation or until the contestant has stumped the panel.
Jess4metoo According to the web, it was located in the Huntington Hotel, one of the posh hotels on Nob Hill. The restaurant closed in 1960 and was replaced by L'Etoile (which closed in 1990); the hotel is still there.
The Huntington Hotel is at the corner of California and Taylor Streets, diagonally across the intersection from Grace Cathedral. The California Street cable car line runs past it. They closed the Huntington Hotel in early 2014 and reopened it four months later as "The Scarlet Huntington Hotel" after renovations.
If the horse has to wear a fake tail, then they are definitely not normal. So John Daly answered that one wrong: Is it normal for horses to wear a thing of this kind? And John pretty much said the horses were very normal. Well! At least the lady didn’t make false teeth for horses. That would be even funnier than false tails! HaHa 😆😆.
(born , February 20, 1890 - September 1, 1971), known as , was a Hollywood restaurateur, con man and actor born in Lithuania. He is perhaps best remembered as the owner of the now-defunct Romanoff's, a Beverly Hills restaurant popular with Hollywood stars in the 1940s and 1950s. He claimed to be a member of Russia's royal House of Romanov (sometimes spelled "Romanoff" in English). This was widely known to be untrue throughout his career, but press reports tended to treat the deception as a humorous matter.
Too many 'guests' who are part of the panelists' social circle, families, or associated with WML production in the USA or o'seas versions. The ordinary occupation contestants are far more interesting to watch.
Changing one's birth name is disrespectful & unnecessary. This also applies to people who drop their last birth name. It's esp true if it's done for the anticipation of greater recognition & or financial gain. It's like selling-out, to perhaps an Agent or Studio Mogul, while at the same time being ashamed of their Father.
+Zac M. Variety is the spice of life. She didn't have the looks of Arlene or most of the young female challengers so naturally she took her intellectual role seriously. She was usually among the top 2 panelists in insight and asked great questions. Arlene was so into the standard sexual roles of the time. Dorothy was a relief from the stereotypical sexual innuendo comments the other panelists, including Arlene, made ad nausea.
Thanks for saying what nobody else has said here, at least to my knowledge. I love both Dorothy and Arlene and they are part of my very earliest memories. But Dorothy's astringency is a welcome antidote to Arlene's compulsive, incessant efforts to charm. They balanced each other out beautifully. And yes, most of the sexual innuendos fall flat. I do love the erudition, though. This was a mainstream show, not directed at a highbrow audience, and the panelists could assume, correctly, that most adults in the U.S. would understand the word 'peripatetic.'
Dorothy has always been my favorite regular. She was intelligent, driven, successful, always took the game seriously and wasn't afraid to challenge John. I also agree about the looks thing. Arlene to me is more made up than DG (and as an side, her husband oozes an air of snobbery imo). Never understood why folks rip on Dorothy's looks. She has a simple more natural type of attractiveness despite the often hideous attire and hairstyles of the day.
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Sweet Helen had just lost her husband of nearly 30 years, one week short of a year before this was recorded. She had lost her 19 year old daughter in 1949 to polio. Helen was a fine, loving human being, who gave of herself and money through her own heartache.
Bravo, Miss Helen!
Thank you for this info. God bless.
So much younger here than I remember her from her TV Snoop Sisters sleuthing days with Mildred Natwick. As the panel said, the greatest of all time.
Her son, James MacArthur played Danno in the original Hawaii 5-0
he was adopted by Helen & her husband@@scegenius8751
Helen Hayes was one of the few who won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award.
She is also great with a car with number 53 on it.
+Johan Bengtsson
She was also a child actress, an ingenue, a leading lady and a character actress. She was not glamorous, just superbly talented, to become known as "First Lady of American Theatre".
Interesting. Never knew that.
So has Whoopie Goldberg and Jennifer Hudson
I didn’t know that Helen has had lost her daughter. I was surprised she didn’t bow toward the audience audience.
I feel like a 10 year old little boy watching What's My Line with my Mom and Dad on Sunday night. Sadly...Mom and Dad are gone but what great memories.
Exactly! This show was new when I was a year and a half old, and it takes me right back to those times.
Same here my parents and 6 brothers and sister. I being the oldest 87😢
They don't make game shows like this anymore. I am grateful for youtube to watch it anytime. Thank you for posting this show. :-)
Agree, but note ironically that availability of these classic shows ever so slightly diminishes the market for new copycat shows
I met Helen Hayes and Lilian Gish when I was a teen. They were together. It was the most amazing experience.
interesting because I thought that Ms Hayes resembled Ms Gish somewhat when I saw her
Wow! What great memories you must have.
You should describe that meeting here.
Christopher Fortunato Before I broke into the entertainment industry, I worked at the Waldorf-Astoria. I worked in the front office and would take the service elevators up to our cafeteria. One night I got on the service elevator, there were two people on the elevator who were riding up to the ballroom. The door closed and I looked over to check out the other people on the elevator. I literally shrieked, “oh my god.” Loud. Very loud. The two other people were Helen Hayes and Lillian Gish. I almost gave them a heart attack. I apologized. Both were very gracious. Helen was funny and dealt with the situation with humor. I told them what an honor it was to ride the elevator with the two first great ladies of theater and film. I mentioned to Helen that I grew up near her home in Nyack and visited her theater there many times with my mom as a child which brought a rich smile to her face. Lilian was more shy and quieter than Helen. She had kind of dreamy ethereal eyes. Helen took Lillian’s hand and led her to the ballroom. You could tell they were good, good friends.
Wow.
A true genius of the American theater and yet someone who remained an amazingly unaffected person always associated with good causes. She did not have an easy life, she did have a generous life.
With her large wide set eyes and heart-shaped face, Helen Hayes remained lovely to look out throughout the whole of her long life indeed until her very last days. And for all we know she is looking lovelier than ever somewhere, somehow even now.
She was as women like her were referred to back then, "a lady."
One of America's finest actresses. They don't make 'em like they used to.
RMPsumma Gladys Cooper is fantastic too
From beginning to end this particular show had just a really good feeling to it. Each of the guests including the mystery guest, Helen Hayes brought out smiles on the panel and on John daly.
Very easy to binge watch this show.
Also a good remedy for depression 😊
I love it when the panel get real enjoyment when the occupation is revealed, like the woman who made false tails for horses.
I love how Bennett smiles in admiration at the contestants when he finds what they do. Such a genuine and lovely response - respectful of the person.
Watching friends have fun together.
Helen Hayes was a truly beautiful special lady.
Arlene: "Has my husband paid his bills?" lolololol
Helen Hayes, called "the first lady of American theatre", whose son James McArthur became known to all as "Dan-O" on the original Hawaii Five-O series and in supporting roles in the movies. Most the people on Broadway owe their jobs to her in one way or another.
Daniel Fronc didn’t know James went to Harvard - wonder if he got in because of whose son he was
@@pattimaeda6097 And he married Joyce Bulifant. :)
Helen Hayes, Box 222, New York. A very different era. She was amazing.
I just love the panel crack up with laughter It is rare when all four smile when the contestant line is reveled
RIP Helen Hayes (10 Oct 1900- 17 Mar 1993) (aged 92), Mary MacArthur (16 Feb 1930-22 Sep 1949) (aged 19), James MacArthur (8 Dec 1937- 28 Oct 2010) (aged 72), and Charles Gordon MacArthur Jr. (5 Nov 1895- 21 Apr 1956) (aged 60) you will truly all be missed and my prayers go out to them all.
Keep it up - love this show! Thanx for uploading the series one episode at a time. :)
You're very welcome. Glad you're enjoying the shows.
@@WhatsMyLine Gary, has no idea of the amount of pleasure he brings to people because probably a lot don't post. Kudos to him.
Helen Hayes was a giant in the theatre. A great woman.
Dorothy: "Why would we hire a baseball player?"
Bennett doesn't even hesitate: "To hit your husband over the head with a bat." Duh!
Dorothy: "Is it something the horse can take off?"
John: "By himself?"
14:19 Daly's laugh is phenomenal. This is the hardest I've heard and seen him laugh in any episode. Thanks for uploading this!
He only laughs harder in the Groucho Marx epi.
Loved seeing the owner of Romonoff's one of the best restaurants frequented by celebrities in the 50's..he was a prince too, so cool.
Actually not a prince but a Lithuanian-born conman. He started his working life as a Brooklyn pants-presser and invented his royal background to attract customers to his restaurant
@@robertqac1 very interesting, surprised they never talk about that. Thx.
@@lindaackerman3507 It was common knowledge at the time, but he was apparently such a nice guy that people indulged him. It was even mentioned in the original "Miracle on 34th Street," although they couldn't say his name.
@@accomplice55 Yes it was! Very esoteric.
@@lindaackerman3507 LOL it was hardly a secret, but everyone liked him, just like Radziwil - Jackie O's former brother in law. He was no more a Radziwil than you or I.
22:48 "She's the great Leading Woman of all time."
Martin was always so lovely ❤
Dorothy's outfit tonight is over the top and I love it.
And Arlenes also 😊
Always love what's my line
The panel couldn't guess this episode's MG based on who was in town because Helen Hayes was a local area resident. They received a lot of their help from the audience reactions.
I really enjoyed it. Thank you for uploading it.
Amazingly, John Charles Daly was both anchorman of ABC's television evening newscast and head of it's news division between 1953 and 1960, while hosting "What's My Line?".
Helen Hayes was wonderful! !
Helen Hayes was amazing and such a lovely woman! 👏🥰
The horse tail lady's segment was hilarious! 🐎🐎🐎🐎
Helen Hayes was known as "The First Lady of the American Theater".
"Murder at Rominoffs" was one of the funniest Jack Benny radio skits
I love Helen Hayes
Goodness gracious, Dorothy! Those are quite the epaulettes!
Yikes. That cape-ette has a certain...Ninja Turtle flair about it. Arlene should have been a good friend and told her to "Stopette".
I had the unexpected pleasure and honor of meeting Mrs. MacArthur, as she preferred to be called, in 1984 when I worked at Columbia University. Mrs. MacArthur founded Helen Hayes Cooperstown Hospital in New York and was attending a Board Meeting at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, which was affiliated with Cooperstown Hospital at the time. It was a beautiful Spring day and Mrs. MacArthur, who was in her 80s at the time, told us that she had been outside gardening when her son (I had no idea at the time who her son was, I was only 23) reminded her that she had the meeting to attend and he accompanied her to the city. She was gracious and friendly to those of us who greeted her when she arrived. She was totally honest to say to us that she far preferred to stay home working in her garden but she also understood she had an obligation to be at Columbia that day for an important meeting. I only knew of her because she appeared in the spoof film "Airplane". There were many well known attendees that made up the Board of Directors, but Mrs. MacArthur is the only one I remember because she was so sweet and kind. It was a memorable day.
Actually, she won the Oscar for best supporting actress for her role in Airport, a serious film (an all star movie that presaged the cycle of disaster films in the early 70's). She was never in Airplane or any of its sequels.
@@krscanskekaraoke986 Ethel Merman had a cameo in Airplane. She was the First Lady of Musical Theatre.
Helen Hayes, truly a classy lady of the theatre.
I can't ever remember hearing the word "snood" before. I did not realize that it was a hair net, or that horses wore them.
A very old, centuries old, hair net. The word, I believe, is of French origin.
Jonathan C horses don’t - he was referring to a blinker or blinder
It's in "White Christmas," when Danny is looking for the train tickets! :D
Dorothy’s dress looks like she won ‘The Run for the Roses.’ 😀
I can't remember whose biography/set of reminisces I first read about Mike Romanoff in, but whoever it was really wrote about him engagingly. (Harpo's autobiography, maybe?)
So I'm fangirling about both Romanoff /and/ Helen Hayes, for very different reasons. Because holy mackerel, Helen Hayes!
(And, Arlene half-stood for her.)
For those unaware and not wanting to search, Romanoff was originally Hershel Geguzin, then Henry Gerguson, then probably something else (or a few something elses), and eventually Mike Romanoff, otherwise known as Prince Michael Dimitri Alexandrovich Obolensky-Romanoff, nephew of Tsar Nicholas II. I don't even know that I'd call him a scam artist, at least not in his California days, because his restaurant was run very well and above-board. I suppose the consulting on European history and manners for various movies might count as scamming. Anyway, he was a Hollywood institution for a couple of decades.
Per a 1975 article on the Schilsons: 'Schilson manufactures high-grade hair pieces, tail switches, and artificial tails for the show horses. The average price of a tail switch; a phony fall-like wig that fills out a horse's tail, is $40. An artificial tail, complete with hook-on attachment, sells for $80 and up. Schilson has three full-time employees who produce the pieces out of hair imported from the Orient.'
Mrs. Schilson died in 1999.
David Niven writes affectionately about Mike Romanoff in "The Moon's A Balloon" and also possibly in ""Bring On The Empty Horses." While Niven's memoirs are full of fabrications and borrowed anecdotes, he does wonder where Mr. Romanoff spent "the blood-drenched years between 1914-1918." I've wondered what secrets he took to his grave. My favorite anecdote from David Niven is the story of how Mike Romanoff buried treasure around a Southern California beach (fake jewels and doubloons, etc.) for David's sons, complete with a map. He stated, "Children are nature's gentlemen. I far prefer their company to that of grownups." Somehow, this story rings true. David's wife Primmie had just died and he and his children were reeling.
I was just going to say Michael Romanoff seemed to be a real interesting character. Bennet quickly mentioned that he was in fact also a writer in the process of writing his memoirs. I’ve been searching the internet desperately trying to find that memoir. Do you know if in fact there is one? You mentioned you read ‘reminisces of him in some book???
@@dejpsyd0421 I'm pretty sure the book was, in fact, one of Niven's autobiographies, which I definitely read at one point. Romanoff's book doesn't seem to have ever happened.
A true challenge would be a high school student trying to diagram one of John Daly's sentences! 😖
Mister Grandpa's Bakery ~ Ha!!! SO TRUE!!!
No problem. I loved diagramming sentences, and John Daly actually kept his grammatically correct, so it would be easy. That was back when grammar was taught in school from kindergarten up, and if anyone said something like "Me and Joe went to lunch" they would get dope slapped by Mrs. Pirazzo, our third grade teacher, until their ears rang. Well of course, I'm not exactly a high school student anymore. In fact, if I were, I wouldn't know what the f-- (current adjective, noun, adverb for everything) diagramming a sentence is.
Mister Grandpa's Bakery 😂
True...this current batch of '20-30-40'-somethings, would readily mistake the word, 'diagram' for diaphragm'...60 years back, you learned and mastered grammar....Had truly tough English Teachers--these women, who literally scrimped and worked like dogs to put themselves through Teachers College...in the 1910's and '20's, and as Teachers at that time, could NOT retire by State Law until they were 72....Lord, they were a treat, in hindsight...one of them was also my Latin Teacher...and would have the Latin class diagram Cicero and the Aeneid....and Caesar's works...and Penmanship....no Freudian 'Id' lurking, freewheeling, abstract, self-expression set to pen and paper....LoL....
@@stanochocki8984 And a class called "English" was a mandatory basic every year, from first grade through 12th. Then when you entered college, if you still hadn't gotten it enough to qualify for English 101, which was also mandatory for Freshmen, you had to take "bone head English."
I wish I could go back in time and be a neighbor of Martin Gabel.
Robert Sabella, I agree! I would also have loved being friends with the Gabels. Arlene was lovely and Martin had such energy, humour, intelligence and what a voice! I have noticed several times on these WML comments -- disparaging remarks made about Martin, in reference to being Arlene's husband. These comments were always ( sorry) made by males, of course. Absurd!
He and Arlene made perfect dynamic duo
@@aileen694 A lot of those commenters focused on other than his intelligence, wit, charm, great voice, etc. To have charmed such a lovely woman such as Arlene speaks volumes for him.
They lived next to Cerf😊
Helen Hayes went to my elementary school.
Helen Hayes became a widow on April 21, 1956, when Charlie MacArthur died. This episode aired just short of a year from that event, on April 14, 1957.
Three ways to spread information: Telegraph, telephone, tell Phyllis Cerf.
Or tell a woman😅
Those claps gave it away
There have been many times the reactions of the audiences alerted the panelists to the Mystery Guests' identities. Those reactions shortened the appearances of those Mystery Guests. Shame, really.
In the movie '' Miracle on 34th Street'...when the Superintendent of the 'Old Age Home', makes a visit to Maureen O'Sullivan's Office...to discuss an issue over Kris Krinkle's sanity....This the the person that he is referring to---''...(paraphrased).why there's this man who runs a restaurant; in Hollywood and Claims to be of Imperial Russian descent...and though many have shown that he is not...many Celebrities go there..'
Yep!! I mentioned that above. And Kris Kringle IS Santa Claus. :)
LOVELY and charming one of my favorites as a boy
Mr. Romanoff was so genteel and generous! 🥰
Helen Hayes speaks of her son Daniel at Harvard.. Daniel went on to play in the series Hawaii Five-O. He played the character of Dano, who was the partner of mcgarrett played by Jack Lord.
She makes tails for horses. Pony tails
Very suspicious Arlene with the last question that can be asked mysteriously narrows it down to the guests business establishment. The previous questions all seemed to be going in the direction of someone in the movie making business.
Arlene is very intelligent and studious 😊
OWNER OF ROMANOFF'S RESTAURANT
MAKES FALSE TAILS FOR HORSES
Wow. Helen's son couldn't be there bc he had an exam at Harvard, and not bc he was in rehab. How things have changed.
At Hollywood restaurant owner Michael Romanoff seemed like a real sweet gentleman.
The story goes that Michael Romanoff pretended to be a royal prince of Russian extraction, but that was complete nonsense. He was born in Lithuania as Hershel Geguzin and later took the name Harry F. Gerguson (at age 10). "Michael Romanoff" was simply a name he adopted for use in the public eye. He sometimes claimed to be the son of British Prime Minister William Gladstone, but most of the time claimed to be ""Prince Michael Dimitri Alexandrovich Obolensky-Romanoff", nephew of Czar Nicholas II. I'd have thought he'd have gone with the first name "Mikhail", the Russian form of "Michael", to go with all those other Russian names he made up. I don't suppose he harmed anyone with his bogus claims. If people thought, when they ate in his restaurant, that they were dining in a place owned by a Russian prince, if they liked the food well enough, they go what they paid for.
Of course, Hollywood is the land of reinvention, so his lying put him in good company out there.
He was referenced, parenthetically, in "Miracle on 34th Street" (the Edmund Gwen version)
as long as your stories do not hurt anyone, like claiming to accept donations for a charity you do not represent, i don't think anyone cares.
@@MrYfrank14 And even then some don't, if you're a rich celeb with Russian hands (and Roman fingers).
dorothy was pretty fancy looking tonight
So was Arlene 😊
@@robertjean5782 thats who i meant i got the names mixed up hehehe
Helen Hayes was extremely close to her daughter who she lost to a terrible disease. Miss Hayes never fully recovered.
Bennett, at 21:41, says something like, 'If you're wrong, Mike Todd'll get you.' Snerk.
Her son was "Danno" on Hawaii 50.
Bennet Cerf quickly mentioned that Michael Romanoff was in the process of writing his memoirs. Anyone know of such a memoir/book exists…I’ve been searching the internet high and low!?
Sadly, James McArthur , Helen’s son died of cancer at Mayo Clinic in Jax when I worked there.
However did they get that particular restaurant...?
That restaurant, Romanoff's, was as well known on the west coast as Toots Shor's in New York. Even to people not necessarily in the entertainment world.
About first contestan, Michael Romanoff:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Romanoff
What was Bennett's comment right at the end all about, re John Daly and the weather?
+lastbreathsigh
Watch the April 7, 1957 episode. Numerous times, to get back at Bennett, John Daly remarks that he doesn't want a blizzard in Nebraska (where Bennett would be appearing during the upcoming week), but if there was one that Bennett should be caught in it. Well lo and behold, there was some heavy snow when Bennett was in Nebraska.
I believe her father was President Rutherford B. Hayes
I had such a crush on Haye's son in Hawaii 5.0
Who was the gentleman at the beginning of the show???
I didn't know Dano was Helen Hayes' son. . . .
Yes indeed he is
Who is this Dano?
@@peternagy-im4be james macarthur
@@susanrutherford866 god almighty
@@peternagy-im4be adopted by charles macarthur and helen hayes
Arlene turned her head so she could peek through the space between the mask and her nose. She admitted to doing that in a TV interview on CBC television in Canada.😄
That's not what she said!😮
Dorothy needs to be quiet when it’s not her turn and Bennet needs to quit trying to find a loophole to argue about the answer given by a guest
Cerf is an annoying jerk. Wouldn't have liked to work for him.
Send them an email 😅
Bennett, “Rainmaker?” Doncha mean “snowmaker?”
John answered too many questions on behalf of Mrs. Schilson.
What does Mrs. MacArthur say to Dorothy at 22:05?
My hearing isn't 100% anymore. 🙂
They're scared to name a character actor.
Thank you, @@sandrageorge3488!
EGOT winner. Rare.
If I were producing a revival of "What's My Line?", I wouldn't reveal contestants' occupations to viewers until either a panelist guessed the contestant's occupation or until the contestant has stumped the panel.
Where was Romanoff's in San Francisco?
Did this come up in the video? I'm only aware of a Romanoff's in L.A.
At 11:41 he says he has three one in San Francisco.
Jess4metoo According to the web, it was located in the Huntington Hotel, one of the posh hotels on Nob Hill. The restaurant closed in 1960 and was replaced by L'Etoile (which closed in 1990); the hotel is still there.
The Huntington Hotel is at the corner of California and Taylor Streets, diagonally across the intersection from Grace Cathedral. The California Street cable car line runs past it. They closed the Huntington Hotel in early 2014 and reopened it four months later as "The Scarlet Huntington Hotel" after renovations.
And one in Palm Springs, too, as well as the well-known one in Beverly Hills (not in Hollywood as WML displayed).
According to Wikipedia, there were two restaurants, both in Beverly Hills. It also seems that this man was a fraud.
I love John Daly...but ..my god !...that hair cut..!🥶🥶🥶
Actually it's a toupee he's had for years 😊
If the horse has to wear a fake tail, then they are definitely not normal. So John Daly answered that one wrong: Is it normal for horses to wear a thing of this kind? And John pretty much said the horses were very normal. Well! At least the lady didn’t make false teeth for horses. That would be even funnier than false tails! HaHa 😆😆.
"A horse is a horse, of course.."
I think she was the first
Back in the day when holding a women's hand and kissing her on the cheek was considered not only proper but classy. Ah, the good old days.
(born , February 20, 1890 - September 1, 1971), known as , was a Hollywood restaurateur, con man and actor born in Lithuania. He is perhaps best remembered as the owner of the now-defunct Romanoff's, a Beverly Hills restaurant popular with Hollywood stars in the 1940s and 1950s. He claimed to be a member of Russia's royal House of Romanov (sometimes spelled "Romanoff" in English). This was widely known to be untrue throughout his career, but press reports tended to treat the deception as a humorous matter.
She was the first
Too many 'guests' who are part of the panelists' social circle, families, or associated with WML production in the USA or o'seas versions. The ordinary occupation contestants are far more interesting to watch.
I agree to disagree 😊
Agree. Mr. Gabel was husband of Arlene Francis.
I'm half-convinced Cerf's blindfolds were see-through, because so little got past that guy.
No incentive to cheat😊
He was world renowned and owned s publishing company intelligent 😊
Changing one's birth name is disrespectful & unnecessary. This also applies to people who drop their last birth name. It's esp true if it's done for the anticipation of greater recognition & or financial gain. It's like selling-out, to perhaps an Agent or Studio Mogul, while at the same time being ashamed of their Father.
3:15 THAT is one huge honker and abnormally large ears!
James MacArthur and Hawaii Five O.
James MacArthur also appeared as the eldest son in the Disney movie Swiss Family Robinson in the very early 1960’s.
"Prince Michael Romanoff" was quite a fellow! Try to Google him.. ;)
daniel stanwyck Yes! ;)
Dano's mom
Sometimes I think the panelists cheat! 😂
What's the insentive?😊
The one time stupid Cerf does not ask if it has anything to do with food or drink it is a restaurant
Why is it that patetcs always come in pers?
That first guest had a nose that W. C. Fields would have been proud of. Wonder if he was alcoholic, too.
Except ponies are NOT horses!!
In that era "pony" was said often in reference to all horse breeds.
Sometimes it seemed that Dorothy took this game way to seriously and became defensive at times. Seems strange since it is a game after all.
+Zac M. Variety is the spice of life. She didn't have the looks of Arlene or most of the young female challengers so naturally she took her intellectual role seriously. She was usually among the top 2 panelists in insight and asked great questions. Arlene was so into the standard sexual roles of the time. Dorothy was a relief from the stereotypical sexual innuendo comments the other panelists, including Arlene, made ad nausea.
Thanks for saying what nobody else has said here, at least to my knowledge. I love both Dorothy and Arlene and they are part of my very earliest memories. But Dorothy's astringency is a welcome antidote to Arlene's compulsive, incessant efforts to charm. They balanced each other out beautifully. And yes, most of the sexual innuendos fall flat. I do love the erudition, though. This was a mainstream show, not directed at a highbrow audience, and the panelists could assume, correctly, that most adults in the U.S. would understand the word 'peripatetic.'
mark pope actually if we were to base this on looks I'm more of a Dorothy person.
Dorothy has always been my favorite regular. She was intelligent, driven, successful, always took the game seriously and wasn't afraid to challenge John. I also agree about the looks thing. Arlene to me is more made up than DG (and as an side, her husband oozes an air of snobbery imo). Never understood why folks rip on Dorothy's looks. She has a simple more natural type of attractiveness despite the often hideous attire and hairstyles of the day.
She tells you that she will not do it anymore so to please you.
Dorothy's gown looks like a prom dress from Hell.
Just take the vertical sash in front off, the rosettes and the sashes around the arms and you'd have a nice dress.
@@christopherfortunato6018 Hmmm...I suppose...🤔
@@jasonhurd4379 I do like your initial comment, though. Sometimes, Dorothy wore some crazy couture unlike Arlene.
@@christopherfortunato6018 Dorothy had some outrageous wigs too, like a female drag queen.
@@jasonhurd4379 yes they were. The bouffaint was probably the most sedate.