Helen Craig is my mother!!! Such an experience seeing my mom years before I was born. My daughter found this for me when I was telling my girls and grandkids about my family history.
Thank you for sharing that with us. I truly enjoy the historical aspect of these What's my Lines & your type of contributional input enhances that dynamic.
Here, Jeff Chandler was 35 years old. He died rather tragically in 1961 at age 42. He injured his back while playing recreational baseball with extras from a movie being filmed in the Philippines. At a hospital in Culver City, California, he underwent surgery on his lower back to repair a herniated disc. They damaged an artery in the process, which required additional surgery (7-1/2 hours total) and a transfusion of 55 pints of blood. Then came a subsequent operation 10 days later which required 20 pints of blood. At some point, he picked up a blood infection and had complications from pneumonia which resulted in his death. His children sued for malpractice. It was, in my view, a sad and untimely end to the life of a talented actor.
Seeing the great Jeff Chandler takes me back to my childhood. He was a great favourite of mine. He was a fine looking man. There was something magisterial about him. Some of his impressions were top draw. Sadly,he died very young during an operation.
@@cynthiat6505 I just saw "Broken Arrow" again this past week. I do love the movie and, of course, Jimmy Stewart and other the veteran actors who did such a fine job on this early film addressing moral, social problems. I could not agree with you more. Decades ago I fell completely in love with Cochise and, at least, in lust with Jeff Chandler. He had such a terrific voice for acting or announcing, too. Great smile.
Thank you. I couldn't place the name, though it was familiar. Cagney's heydey was before my time, but I would hear his voice often as a kid usually by impersonation. I did recognize Ronald Reagan.
Martin Gabel's new Broadway production "The Recling Figure" was written and directed by Abe Burrows. It played on Broadway for 168 performances. Martin Gabel played "Jonas Astorg" and future "60 Minutes" newsman Mike Wallace (in his only appearance in a Broadway production) played the role of "Samuel Ellis."
I love this show. I remember watching it when I was a teenager. Now I can't get enough of it. It's so funny and clean. I love all the panelist and John daly. Dorothy is so smart and Bennett cerf.
I was surprised that it took the panel so long to guess the mystery guest. I recall an earlier episode where one of the female panelists was trying to guess the name of a female actress. When trying to ascertain what type of actress she was, one of the questions was whether she would be more likely to be the female lead opposite an actor like Jeff Chandler. So apparently at least one of them considered Jeff the prototype for a certain type of lead actor in a certain type of movie. I also find it interesting how the panelists in the early 1950's, and it seems far more often Dorothy and Arlene, classify someone as a leading man: "are you the one who gets the girl in the picture?" We were still 14 years from Virginia Slims!
At 22:14, John said, “Looks like Lewis just got himself a weenie, as Dorothy calls it.” (18th usage) The 7th and 8th “interesting answers” occurred in this episode: Dorothy free guessed baseball umpire for the baseball scout, and Arlene free guessed horse trainer for the bronco buster. First episode with no walks of shame and the first when 2 guests needed the rules explained.
Jeff continued to play Mr. Boyington on the radio version of Our Miss Brooks throughout the run even after becoming a big movie star just because he loved the cast and crew. Of course, he wasn't able to participate in the tv version.
Not only that. Once they tell him they don't know, he gives LESS explanation than he often does. Usually the full explanation has all these parts: 1. We keep score up here, with these cards. 2. No = flip. 3. Flip = $5. 4. Ten flips = win.
@@robertjean5782 I really can't believe contestants weren't explained this before their appearance on the show. It's not like they walk in off the street 2 seconds before filming. I always figured they were told to say no, so there was an excuse (not that Daly needed one), to reiterate for the home audience.
I noticed several people commenting on how Arlene and John pronounce "rodeo." It was originally a Spanish word that was adopted into the English language. They way they pronounce it on WML is basically how it would be said in Spanish, so technically it's not wrong, even though most of us are more familiar with the Anglicized pronunciation.
i always thought it was ROW DEE OH on the east coast and ROW DAY OH on the west coast, because the rich in CA did not want to live on ROW DEE OH drive with the peasants, so they changed the name. peasants go to the ROW DEE OH, rich live on ROW DAY OH drive.
@@cynthiat6505 I wish that were always true! You're right about rodeo, but the California pronunciations of so many place names grate on the ear of anyone who knows a little Spanish. Los Angeles should be said with an "h" sound for the letter g, not a hard g or j sound. San Pedro is spoken as if spelled Peedro, Los Gatos as if it were Loss Gattos.
Yeah....Ah wuz born 'n' raised down here in Fort Worth ("Cowtown," that is), an' we always said, "ROE" (or "ROW") dee oh. Of course, we're all cultured down here too. I always loved the Copland ballet "Row DAY oh!" (And, the proper English pronunciation of "ballet" is "BAL lay," emphasis on the first syllable.)
Wow, the English language has changed even since I was a child going to school in the early 1960's. The bathroom was called the laboratory, pronounced la-bore- a-tory. Garbage was called re-fuse. Rodeo was Ro-dai-o. Hahaha, Arlene Frances is so adorable.
Actually Jeff Chandler did do a comedy--it was called "The Toy Tiger" but it was after this show. His wife divorced Jeff because he worked too hard, never had time for her. But she sure soaked him in the divorce--that's why he was nebulous here about his marriage status. His real name was Ira Grossel (he was Jewish) and his nickname was "Big Gray". He died from an injury on "Merrill's Mauraders when the doctors botched the operation. But he left behind some great films.
This is the first episode where Daly addresses not doing the walk of shame anymore. He says we used to have you go in front of the panel but we are not going to do that now.
It must be bittersweet for Jeff Chandler's daughters, should they ever see this video, to hear their father speak to them from the grave. (probably more bitter than sweet.)
I find it interesting how the first gentleman, Mr. Montague, is from San Francisco, and is a baseball scout for the NY Giants. The Giants would be in San Francisco three years later.
That would have been a bad scouting report. The Candlestick Point site chosen for the first ballpark built in SF for the Giants to play in had some of the worst weather ever seen in the major leagues: cold and damp for night games even through most of the summer, so windy during most games that every pop up was an adventure and pitchers were even known to be blown off the mound in mid-windup (which happened to Stu Miller during the 1961 All-Star Game played there). Although Mark Twain never wrote, "The coldest winter I ever spent was summer in San Francisco" (he had been talking about Paris), Candlestick Park hadn't been built when Twain was in the SF area and he never had to attend a night game there huddled under blankets in June.
your right and your wrong..... Candlestick Park was NOT the first ballpark that the Giants played in when they got to SAn Fran. Seals Stadium at 16th and Potrero St. was. Candlestick Park was built later at the southern end of the city, and your right the weather and the park itself was a piece of garbage and should never of have been built.
In the discussion of Hollywood major studios beginning about 19:55, Arlene refers to "Metro" while Bennett calls it "MGM." I thought that might have been because Bennett was on MGM's board of directors, but as far as I can tell that didn't happen till the later 1950s.
I didn't know Bennett Cerf was on the board of MGM in the late 1950s That is the time that company was very poorly run, lost tremendous amounts of money and had to fire many of its contract players including Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, etc. Cerf was apparently much better at the book business than the film business. Later MGM went bust. People would have expected MGM to have been the studio of Hollywood's Golden Age given its market leading position and profitability. But it crashed and burned. Ironically, the studios that did the best after the demise of the studio system and the rise of TV were Warner and Disney, although Disney had many lean years with poor leadership and stunted creativity for quite a few years after Walt Disney's death.
Arlene had guessed correctly when she said training horses. Bronco Busting is just the expression that cowboys used for horse training. It is the same thing.
All bronco busters are horse trainers; some horse trainers are bronco busters. Richard is correct noting that Arlene was correct. Not crediting Arlene’s correct answer harms the panel in two ways. In addition to denying Arlene credit for a correct answer, it made it less likely that other panelists would solve the problem.
He was a fine radio actor and played Mr Boynton on OUR MISS BROOKS with Eve Arden. In a dream sequence Jeff Chandler kissed Eve Arden in front of the live studio audience and you could hear the audience SCREAM ! "Come here Connie !" then the SCREAMS . He became popular enough that they wanted him in the movies, so Robert Rockwell took over on the TV version. The whole radio cast went to TV except for Chandler.
Dan Celli Eve Arden had stated in MANY interviews, later on, that Jeff Chandler was let go, and wasn’t cast when the remainder of the cast when on to do “Our Miss Brooks,” on Television, because, he’d appeared TOO MACHO for the role! 👍
Pygiana Sorry, but the Walk of Shame continued for another year and a half after this program! I'm not sure why John dispensed with it on this particular program.
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Wow this was broad cast 1 day before I was born my B🎂Day is October 4, 1954 as I got older I begin to watch Jeff Chandler's movies one of my favorites is Foxfire also I enjoy Rory Calhoun's one my favorites starring Rory is The Red Sundown February 18, 2020
Maybe you changed the playback speed (which is a feature on RUclips) and don't realize it-- the video is not sped up. No idea what you're talking about.
Jeff Chandler would have a long affair with Esther Williams in the late Fifties. The following week's MG was Fernando Lamas, who became her third husband. Esther herself was arguably the show's best MG.
2 contestants on this show that aren't fully aware of how the scoring works for the show which basically revolves around the rules of the game. I've seen this a handful of times over the run of the series and it always baffles me how this can possibly happen. I know it's 1954 and things are different, but even if you didn't own a TV set or you'd never seen this show before, you'd think if you knew you were going to be in front of a national TV audience you'd at least learn a little something about it before you made the appearance. You'd think you'd either make it a point to watch the show at least once before being on or be asking friends how the show works. They had to have some knowledge of the show just to be a contestant as they weren't randomly selected from a phone book so you'd think if you knew enough to want to be on the show you'd either know or learn something about how the show worked. And then if you didn't take that initiative you'd think a producer or someone affiliated with the show would at least explain a little about it prior to the show. I'd love to ask these people why they didn't take the initiative to learn the basics of the show that they were going to appear on.
Jeff Chandler was hirsute--in the extreme. To say that his body was carpeted would be an understatement. The studio forced him to keep his bodily hair shaved at all times while working and he was constantly suffering from horrible itching.
Another one of those actors of a certain era who were more of a star off sceen than on, if you get my drift, sad Jeff died so young, a real pleasure to see him on film at least!!!!--------x
Re the baseball scout, there was an umpire in the major leagues name of Ed Montague around this time. I wonder if it was the guy on this episode that changed from being a scout?
I wondered the same thing. However it was his son Ed who was a major league umpire from 1974 until 2009. Ed Sr. died in 1988. Also Ed Montague III played pro baseball for the Ft. Worth Cats of the independent defunct United League Baseball!
It was an unusual bit of serendipitous foreshadowing on Dorothy's part to guess baseball umpire in light of the fact that Ed Jr. would become a baseball umpire. Dorothy had in fact previously guessed a baseball umpire (Ed Hurley) on the wild guess in 1952.
Swimming legend Esther Williams has Jeff Chandler in her as-told-to bio in a big way. It's too naughty to say here, so I recommend reading it. What a handsome man.
@@maddyLV21 Do I think you read Esther admitted she made the whole thing up? Yes I do. From bloggers and commenters. There is not one single shred of first-hand recanting by Esther herself.
I agree. It was not attractive, too young for her, and if somebody should wear it, the season looked like it would be more fitting for spring/summer, not fall. Bennett was a bit blunt when he called it a "gadget" and Arlene had a touch of annoyance in her voice. But he was right. It was definitely a fashion don't for her, something very rare for her.
Do you know which episode had a French woman who was a doctor or some other heavy weight professional, and Bennett asked her to show the panel her can can moves? I read where she ignored him the entire time she was on.
Ro DAY O was what it was called in the west--a Spanish pronunciation. The eastern part of the country called it RO de-o. And those of us who were in our teens wore bobby socks with our saddle shoes. Bobby socks were simply short socks. Adults rarely dressed like teen-agers back then, so the teenagers were referred to as "bobby soxers," especially which when they made a public fuss, screaming an fainting over the likes of Frank Sinatra.
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Helen Craig is my mother!!! Such an experience seeing my mom years before I was born. My daughter found this for me when I was telling my girls and grandkids about my family history.
How great it is to have this video to savor for your posterity!
Bronco Buster. Amazing that she appears in the lovely party dress.
And she's a superb player.
@@rgmrtn Looked like that one guy was flirty with her 😆. Reminds me of Back to the Future.
Thank you for sharing that with us. I truly enjoy the historical aspect of these What's my Lines & your type of contributional input enhances that dynamic.
I remember when Jeff Chandler died in May 1961. I was going on 15 then and was a movie buff at a young age plus I lived near Hollywood too.
Here, Jeff Chandler was 35 years old. He died rather tragically in 1961 at age 42. He injured his back while playing recreational baseball with extras from a movie being filmed in the Philippines. At a hospital in Culver City, California, he underwent surgery on his lower back to repair a herniated disc. They damaged an artery in the process, which required additional surgery (7-1/2 hours total) and a transfusion of 55 pints of blood. Then came a subsequent operation 10 days later which required 20 pints of blood. At some point, he picked up a blood infection and had complications from pneumonia which resulted in his death. His children sued for malpractice. It was, in my view, a sad and untimely end to the life of a talented actor.
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Grand mother. mother and yours truly are enamoured with Jeff Chandler- A superb specimen of manliness who commanded the screen.
The look on John's face after Bennett's intro is absolutely priceless! 🤣🤣
Jeff Chandler was a funny guest, many different voices. :)
He did a great job, especially since he was not known for that skill in his performances.
The highly enjoyable Jeff Chandler portion begins at 16:02. Who knew he was so adept at comedic impressions!
I had no idea! I do enjoyed the variety of voices. I’m going to Google him now and find out what all the talk was about his marriages. lol
He was gorgeous and a bloody good singer, have a CD of his songs. Good impressionist too.😍😉
Jeff chandler was such a good looking man and a great actor
What a beautiful guy Chandler was - lost too soon.
Another episode where I have never heard of the special guest but liked them very much from the appearance on this show.
Seeing the great Jeff Chandler takes me back to my childhood. He was a great favourite of mine. He was a fine looking man. There was something magisterial about him. Some of his impressions were top draw. Sadly,he died very young during an operation.
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Jeff Chandler was such a handsome man. And I never knew he could do impressions so well!
chr onos Not his wife. Esther Williams dated him and claimed that in a "tell all" book.
But other people refuted this allegation.
I hadn't heard of Jeff Chandler and he was great doing different voices.
Jeff Chandler....The Clooney of his day. :)
He sure was gorgeous.
Oh yeah! I had such a crush on him in Broken Arrow, with Jimmy Stewart and Debra Paget. Such a yummy man!
@@cynthiat6505 I just saw "Broken Arrow" again this past week. I do love the movie and, of course, Jimmy Stewart and other the veteran actors who did such a fine job on this early film addressing moral, social problems. I could not agree with you more. Decades ago I fell completely in love with Cochise and, at least, in lust with Jeff Chandler. He had such a terrific voice for acting or announcing, too. Great smile.
not really clooney can never match chandler......in any measure
@Commander Keen HOOAH!
Kilgallen is incredible.
Dorothy was a investigative reporter for years 😊
Jeff Chandler is pretty good with voices. He does a good Jimmy Stewart.
His Cagney wasn't too bad, either.
Yep I preferred his Cagney.
I favored his Quick Draw McGraw
He also did a good Philip Boynton
Thank you. I couldn't place the name, though it was familiar. Cagney's heydey was before my time, but I would hear his voice often as a kid usually by impersonation. I did recognize Ronald Reagan.
What a good looking man Jeffrey Chandler was!!! Va-Va-Voom 😍‼️
Yes he was!
I liked watching Jeff Chandler in westerns. He was a very good actor.
Jeff Chandler was so handsome. He died so young!
Martin Gabel's new Broadway production "The Recling Figure" was written and directed by Abe Burrows. It played on Broadway for 168 performances. Martin Gabel played "Jonas Astorg" and future "60 Minutes" newsman Mike Wallace (in his only appearance in a Broadway production) played the role of "Samuel Ellis."
I love this show. I remember watching it when I was a teenager. Now I can't get enough of it. It's so funny and clean. I love all the panelist and John daly. Dorothy is so smart and Bennett cerf.
How about a play by the late great Abe Vigoda?
I liked this actor as a boy wonderful man god bless you jeff
God bless you, Ira...
I was surprised that it took the panel so long to guess the mystery guest. I recall an earlier episode where one of the female panelists was trying to guess the name of a female actress. When trying to ascertain what type of actress she was, one of the questions was whether she would be more likely to be the female lead opposite an actor like Jeff Chandler. So apparently at least one of them considered Jeff the prototype for a certain type of lead actor in a certain type of movie.
I also find it interesting how the panelists in the early 1950's, and it seems far more often Dorothy and Arlene, classify someone as a leading man: "are you the one who gets the girl in the picture?" We were still 14 years from Virginia Slims!
At 22:14, John said, “Looks like Lewis just got himself a weenie, as Dorothy calls it.” (18th usage)
The 7th and 8th “interesting answers” occurred in this episode: Dorothy free guessed baseball umpire for the baseball scout, and Arlene free guessed horse trainer for the bronco buster.
First episode with no walks of shame and the first when 2 guests needed the rules explained.
Enjoyed the trivia on Willie Mays; he was one heck of a great baseball player!
When I was a child living in San Francisco we went trick or treating at Willie May’s house. He gave out bubble gum.
I would have taken along my Willie Mays card & asked him if he'd please sign it. I bet he would have; he seemed like a nice guy. @@belindaf4584
Say "hey", and RIP to one of the greatest legends of the game.
Jeff continued to play Mr. Boyington on the radio version of Our Miss Brooks throughout the run even after becoming a big movie star just because he loved the cast and crew. Of course, he wasn't able to participate in the tv version.
What a fine looking man!
I love Bennett's smile
I agree. When I watched this as a child, I just saw him as an "old guy." Now, I think he's a DOLL!
Jeff Chandler was a fine actor and very handsome. Another gone way to soon.
When I was only 8, I SAW HIM AND FELL IN LOVE.
The cartoon character Race Bannon from Johny Quest was modeled after Jeff Chandler.
I always loved Jeff chandler and when i met my dad, who left when I was a few years old, I realized he looked just like him
I had never heard of Jeff Chandler, so I looked him up. It seems his life turned out to be rather tragic.
He was fantastic in Return to Peyton Place. Dreamy man.
Wow! Someone actually DID NOT know how SCORE is kept when John asked him. One other I remember not knowing was Walter Cronkite.
Wow...two on one episode had to have scoring explained..
Not only that. Once they tell him they don't know, he gives LESS explanation than he often does. Usually the full explanation has all these parts:
1. We keep score up here, with these cards.
2. No = flip.
3. Flip = $5.
4. Ten flips = win.
2 contestant on this show didn't know about scoring.😊
@@robertjean5782 I really can't believe contestants weren't explained this before their appearance on the show. It's not like they walk in off the street 2 seconds before filming. I always figured they were told to say no, so there was an excuse (not that Daly needed one), to reiterate for the home audience.
Mr Jeff Chandler was a good Actor.R.I.P.
I noticed several people commenting on how Arlene and John pronounce "rodeo." It was originally a Spanish word that was adopted into the English language. They way they pronounce it on WML is basically how it would be said in Spanish, so technically it's not wrong, even though most of us are more familiar with the Anglicized pronunciation.
i always thought it was ROW DEE OH on the east coast and ROW DAY OH on the west coast, because the rich in CA did not want to live on ROW DEE OH drive with the peasants, so they changed the name.
peasants go to the ROW DEE OH, rich live on ROW DAY OH drive.
Nope, the Spanish Word is pronounced Row-DAY-oh in California because it is formerly Mexican territory and they pronounce Spanish words appropriately.
@@cynthiat6505 I wish that were always true! You're right about rodeo, but the California pronunciations of so many place names grate on the ear of anyone who knows a little Spanish. Los Angeles should be said with an "h" sound for the letter g, not a hard g or j sound. San Pedro is spoken as if spelled Peedro, Los Gatos as if it were Loss Gattos.
Yeah....Ah wuz born 'n' raised down here in Fort Worth ("Cowtown," that is), an' we always said, "ROE" (or "ROW") dee oh. Of course, we're all cultured down here too. I always loved the Copland ballet "Row DAY oh!" (And, the proper English pronunciation of "ballet" is "BAL lay," emphasis on the first syllable.)
Wow, the English language has changed even since I was a child going to school in the early 1960's. The bathroom was called the laboratory, pronounced la-bore- a-tory. Garbage was called re-fuse. Rodeo was Ro-dai-o. Hahaha, Arlene Frances is so adorable.
Jeff Chandler has always reminded me of the Race Bannon character from Jonny Quest.
I definitely think the cartoonists were inspired by him too for Race Bannon!
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Actually Jeff Chandler did do a comedy--it was called "The Toy Tiger" but it was after this show. His wife divorced Jeff because he worked too hard, never had time for her. But she sure soaked him in the divorce--that's why he was nebulous here about his marriage status. His real name was Ira Grossel (he was Jewish) and his nickname was "Big Gray". He died from an injury on "Merrill's Mauraders when the doctors botched the operation. But he left behind some great films.
I remember "Toy Tiger." I also liked the movies where he played Cochise.
I have heard that he was the star of Rock Hudson's first movie.
Didn't he make a movie with Esther. Williams?
He certainly played a comedy role as "Mr. Boynton" on the "Our Miss Brooks" radio show for about six years.
Margaret.
' Taza, son of Cochise ', if my memory is reliable.
This is the first episode where Daly addresses not doing the walk of shame anymore. He says we used to have you go in front of the panel but we are not going to do that now.
Great move! That walk down was ridiculous!
@@blueduck5589It did help the panel at times to what their line was😊
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I find it interesting how the first gentleman, Mr. Montague, is from San Francisco, and is a baseball scout for the NY Giants. The Giants would be in San Francisco three years later.
I thought the same thing--LOL, his "scouting report": come to SF, the weather's nicer. ;)
That would have been a bad scouting report. The Candlestick Point site chosen for the first ballpark built in SF for the Giants to play in had some of the worst weather ever seen in the major leagues: cold and damp for night games even through most of the summer, so windy during most games that every pop up was an adventure and pitchers were even known to be blown off the mound in mid-windup (which happened to Stu Miller during the 1961 All-Star Game played there). Although Mark Twain never wrote, "The coldest winter I ever spent was summer in San Francisco" (he had been talking about Paris), Candlestick Park hadn't been built when Twain was in the SF area and he never had to attend a night game there huddled under blankets in June.
your right and your wrong..... Candlestick Park was NOT the first ballpark that the Giants played in when they got to SAn Fran. Seals Stadium at 16th and Potrero St. was. Candlestick Park was built later at the southern end of the city, and your right the weather and the park itself was a piece of garbage and should never of have been built.
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I’m surprised Mr Bennett Cerf didn’t figure out Mr Montague was a scout, he’s usually right on target when baseball pops up
One of a kind Gentle Giant: Jeff left us way too soon
In the discussion of Hollywood major studios beginning about 19:55, Arlene refers to "Metro" while Bennett calls it "MGM." I thought that might have been because Bennett was on MGM's board of directors, but as far as I can tell that didn't happen till the later 1950s.
I didn't know Bennett Cerf was on the board of MGM in the late 1950s That is the time that company was very poorly run, lost tremendous amounts of money and had to fire many of its contract players including Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, etc. Cerf was apparently much better at the book business than the film business. Later MGM went bust. People would have expected MGM to have been the studio of Hollywood's Golden Age given its market leading position and profitability. But it crashed and burned. Ironically, the studios that did the best after the demise of the studio system and the rise of TV were Warner and Disney, although Disney had many lean years with poor leadership and stunted creativity for quite a few years after Walt Disney's death.
The marriage question for the Mystery Guest was awkward because he got divorced a few months earlier.
Bennett Cerf always seems to guess the mystery guest just at the end. Amazing.
I always stop looking for my pencil right after I find it.
He did that by listening to the answers from the first three panelists 😊
Jeff Chandler had me in tears sounding like a dolt.
Arlene had guessed correctly when she said training horses. Bronco Busting is just the expression that cowboys used for horse training. It is the same thing.
All bronco busters are horse trainers; some horse trainers are bronco busters. Richard is correct noting that Arlene was correct. Not crediting Arlene’s correct answer harms the panel in two ways. In addition to denying Arlene credit for a correct answer, it made it less likely that other panelists would solve the problem.
He was a fine radio actor and played Mr Boynton on OUR MISS BROOKS with Eve Arden. In a dream sequence Jeff Chandler kissed Eve Arden in front of the live studio audience and you could hear the audience SCREAM ! "Come here Connie !" then the SCREAMS . He became popular enough that they wanted him in the movies, so Robert Rockwell took over on the TV version. The whole radio cast went to TV except for Chandler.
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Eve Arden had stated in MANY interviews, later on, that Jeff Chandler was let go, and wasn’t cast when the remainder of the cast when on to do “Our Miss Brooks,” on Television, because, he’d appeared TOO MACHO for the role!
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HE had his own radio show; Michael Shayne. The described him as a red headed Irishman. On radio he was.
Jeff was so Handsome!
Sadly Jeff died so young
Back then nobody was doing impersonations to any degree. Great show.
Kim Novak did a very sensitive impression of a ‘London Cockney flower girl’, (para Wendy Hillier, 1935, in ‘Pygmalion’ as ‘Eliza Doolittle’)
Red skelton for one😊
The scout who discovered Mays...nice sports historical tidbit.
I wish one of the movie channels on Dish would show his movies.
Utube has a multitude of old movies from 1900s😊
this would appear to be the first episode that the contestants don't have to take a walk in front of the panelists before the questioning starts.
Pygiana Sorry, but the Walk of Shame continued for another year and a half after this program! I'm not sure why John dispensed with it on this particular program.
What's My Line? at the very beginning he said he was in a capricious mood
Jeff Vaughn And after the game was done, there was a little time to chat with the contestant. That was a big improvement. Too bad it didn't last.
Yeah it seems to be lthe case but how about the next several WML shows after this one? That was such a "schlocky" p ractice of the panel-walk.
Hahaha. Yes I cringe everytime I see that. THE WALK OF AWKWARDNESS .
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DREAMBOAT .........JEFF , WHATTA HUNK.............
That’s right, Chandler died young.
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Wow this was broad cast 1 day before I was born my B🎂Day is October 4, 1954 as I got older I begin to watch Jeff Chandler's movies one of my favorites is Foxfire also I enjoy Rory Calhoun's one my favorites starring Rory is The Red Sundown February 18, 2020
Jeff chandler has an unfortunate death: malpractice.
Arlene calls John “Old Boy”. 🤣
Why is this one so speeded up? I love Jeff Chandler.
Maybe you changed the playback speed (which is a feature on RUclips) and don't realize it-- the video is not sped up. No idea what you're talking about.
After watching dozens of episodes, this is the first time I notice John made an error in scoring .. (the baseball scout).
He has made other errors one with Mickey Rooney
He made one one other time I remember and Dorothy reminded him to turn the card. Which I thought was very nice and fair of her.
He's done this numerous times 😊
Jeff Chandler would have a long affair with Esther Williams in the late Fifties. The following week's MG was Fernando Lamas, who became her third husband. Esther herself was arguably the show's best MG.
In this episode CD is singlehandedly eliminating the so called walk of shame in front of the panel.
Who is CD?
Perhaps "Charles" Daly? Bennett always introduces him as John Charles Daly.
I want a voice transplant, Sexiest male voice of all time, Where would I be today if I had that voice.
Jeff Chandler sure passed away in an unfortunate way. A severed artery during back surgery. And only 42 years old.
Zac M. My mother loved him.
Medical malpractice and his daughters sued the hospital for millions.
I've read that they sued for 1.5 million, don't know the court outcome.
they had a settlement but the exact amount unknown my guess would be at least 1M since it was a cinch win based on the evidence
He died on June 17, 1961. The cause was a blood infection complicated by pneumonia.
2 contestants on this show that aren't fully aware of how the scoring works for the show which basically revolves around the rules of the game. I've seen this a handful of times over the run of the series and it always baffles me how this can possibly happen. I know it's 1954 and things are different, but even if you didn't own a TV set or you'd never seen this show before, you'd think if you knew you were going to be in front of a national TV audience you'd at least learn a little something about it before you made the appearance. You'd think you'd either make it a point to watch the show at least once before being on or be asking friends how the show works. They had to have some knowledge of the show just to be a contestant as they weren't randomly selected from a phone book so you'd think if you knew enough to want to be on the show you'd either know or learn something about how the show worked. And then if you didn't take that initiative you'd think a producer or someone affiliated with the show would at least explain a little about it prior to the show. I'd love to ask these people why they didn't take the initiative to learn the basics of the show that they were going to appear on.
It’s a tv show. I don’t believe the contestants didn’t know. Rather, the powers that be decided it was time to announce the process to the audience.
I believe Robert q Lewis to be one of the best guest panelists.
He has no middle name. The "q" is a professional name.
Good Cagney impression
Jeff Chandler was hirsute--in the extreme. To say that his body was carpeted would be an understatement. The studio forced him to keep his bodily hair shaved at all times while working and he was constantly suffering from horrible itching.
No Time for Sargeants
So sad...they are all gone....
jEFF cHANDLER WAS 6'4". tALL DUDE.
Another one of those actors of a certain era who were more of a star off sceen than on, if you get my drift, sad Jeff died so young, a real pleasure to see him on film at least!!!!--------x
I've never heard of Jeff Chandler. Probably I'm a bit young to remember him.
Good actor. Watch him in broken arrow, where he plays an Indian. Only time he was nominated for an oscar
I wonder if Mr. Montague had anything to do with the NY Giants becoming the SF Giants.
If being a cross dresser is the worst thing Jeff Chandler ever did, I don't see a problem.
BASEBALL SCOUT FOR NEW YORK YANKEES
BRONCO BUSTER
Re the baseball scout, there was an umpire in the major leagues name of Ed Montague around this time. I wonder if it was the guy on this episode that changed from being a scout?
I wondered the same thing. However it was his son Ed who was a major league umpire from 1974 until 2009. Ed Sr. died in 1988. Also Ed Montague III played pro baseball for the Ft. Worth Cats of the independent defunct United League Baseball!
It was an unusual bit of serendipitous foreshadowing on Dorothy's part to guess baseball umpire in light of the fact that Ed Jr. would become a baseball umpire. Dorothy had in fact previously guessed a baseball umpire (Ed Hurley) on the wild guess in 1952.
My birthday!...albeit 25 years earlier haha
Swimming legend Esther Williams has Jeff Chandler in her as-told-to bio in a big way. It's too naughty to say here, so I recommend reading it. What a handsome man.
Esther Williams admitted it was lies that the book publishers told her to put more juicy stories in her book to sell it
@@maddyLV21 Do I think you read Esther admitted she made the whole thing up? Yes I do. From bloggers and commenters. There is not one single shred of first-hand recanting by Esther herself.
He was fantastic in merrill marraders.. died far too soon
Died from botched back surgery. Shame.
There was an umpire in the 70s and 80s named Ed Montague.
His Son.
Who chose Arlene's hat? Of all the different outfits she's worn on the show to date, this one could have been skipped.
I agree. It was not attractive, too young for her, and if somebody should wear it, the season looked like it would be more fitting for spring/summer, not fall. Bennett was a bit blunt when he called it a "gadget" and Arlene had a touch of annoyance in her voice. But he was right. It was definitely a fashion don't for her, something very rare for her.
Lois Simmons He calls it a gimmick and she does not sound annoyed, she sounds friendly and jovial
I loved the hat!
Arlene wore that hat for the play she was acting in after the show.😊
Omg , Jeff Chandler and Gian Maria Volonte are lost twins!
John Daly is confusing Shakespeare with royalty when he remarks upon the first contestant's name.
Allyson Lawrence Well, not royalty, but aristocracy. "Montagu" without the final e is the family name of the Dukes of Manchester.
yum yum
BEST SWIMMER TO CO STAR WITH ESTHER WILLIAMS
Chandler also did a great Gollum voice!
Jeff Chandler can do Gollum's voice 😳😮
So, does anyone know the word that Robert Q Lewis guessed for the first contestant? I tried to look it up but must be getting the spelling wrong.
I couldn’t find it either😟
I tried and couldn't find it. I'm looking here for the answer!!!
@@killerlalu1 apparently (according to comments elsewhere on this video), it was just a word he made up as a joke.
@@glenbe4026 Yeah, I bet that REALLY drove people crazy back then! 😂 They couldn't just hop on the internet for answers!!!
Refreshing to hear Craig actually said correctly and not "Creg"
Not Cricket, old boy? How delicious.
I met Willy Mays in 1970
Oops... Looks like no feelings were hurt but Mr Cerf weren't really careful with his words when asking a recent diivorcee if he's married...
Very late with this, but Cerf was NEVER careful about possibly embarrassing people. He was a smart but first-class jerk!
Do you know which episode had a French woman who was a doctor or some other heavy weight professional, and Bennett asked her to show the panel her can can moves? I read where she ignored him the entire time she was on.
Since they were trying to guess WHO IT WAS, how would he know the mystery guest was recently divorced?
@@lemorab1 6 Jun 1954: the George & Gracie episode.
@@dutchtea8354 Thank you so much! Bennett could be such a dork. I just watched it.
They had had like 6 guesses on Montague's job and they failed...
I am off to discover Elvis Aaron Presley working at Crown Electric in Memphis.
Good luck
@@peternagy-im4be Thanks.
Lock over the forehead type boys
Jeff Chandler reminds me of Rod Serling.
Would somebody PLEASE tell me what a "Bobby Socks" is? I've heard that SO many times on this show now!
And how did we get Rodeo from Ro-deo?
Krista Brewer toe-may-toe to-mat-toe
Ro DAY O was what it was called in the west--a Spanish pronunciation. The eastern part of the country called it RO de-o. And those of us who were in our teens wore bobby socks with our saddle shoes. Bobby socks were simply short socks. Adults rarely dressed like teen-agers back then, so the teenagers were referred to as "bobby soxers," especially which when they made a public fuss, screaming an fainting over the likes of Frank Sinatra.
Bobby Socksers are teenage girls.