Burl Ives was that rarest of rare birds on Broadway a complete NATURAL as Big Daddy Pollock in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. So good it is hard to imagine anyone else in the role.
It's that time of year to listen to Burl Ives narrate "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer." Had to watch this first. A true talent who will forever be remembered.
Yes! That is a classic! Burle Ives also recorded The Ugly Bug Ball...which was turned into a cartoon. My children LOVED LOVED it but it was a total ear worm to parents andvto this day when I hear his name, the sing returns to haunt me :-)
7:54 - I just blew some smoke towards the screen, and Arlene starts to cough ... I said "sorry" aloud before I knew it, and I'm feeling like a rude time-traveller now.
We saw Mr. Ives twice at Oregon State University along with Peter, Paul and Mary. He was a very talented singer and I still enjoy hearing him Holly, Jolly Christmas on the radio.
@@dinahbrown902 Sadly that's the "way of the world." It's been that way since the apple was eaten in Eden or if you're not biblical, since this physical world began. Although life should be a good experience for all, for far too many, this will never come close to being a peaches & cream world.
Arlene looks adorable and acts adorably with her hair up or down, but given a time machine to travel back before her marriage, to me her hair would look best on my shoulder
I was just over three months old when this aired, so obviously I have no memory of this episode, but some of my earliest TV memories are of game shows including What's My Line, I've Got a Secret and To Tell the Truth -- regular nightly viewing for my parents, and for me when they'd let me stay up late enough! And I grew up with Burl Ives' music as well, dad being a folk music aficionado.
this will sound rather insane, but after 100's of hours of watching Ms Francis I can safely and confidently say, I love and adore her nearly as much as I do my former wife...she is simply perfect in every way.
I also think she is incredibly charming and a really good looking woman with mischievous friendly eyes... So... we fully understand your feelings towards her!... :-))
@@elisabethlinz4256 ..."mischievous, friendly eyes." A perfectly wonderful description! If I had to pick a single TV show to watch on a desert island, I think this would be it!
The most important part of Christmas to me/ my family is that I /we hear Burl Ives. I typed it this way because His singing is more important to me than to them lol. :P
Undoubtedly Arlene was joking when she says something about John not having rehearsed with one of the challengers. John was quick to let the viewers know that he didn't rehearse with the challengers before the show. (7:01)
Jan & Dean were the 1st to do the song though & good as The Beach Boys were, Jan & Dean's version was the one we heard on the radio. They had big hits w/ Sidewalk Surfin' & Deadman's Curve as well. And, don't forget other top songs from this genre: Ronnie & The Daytona's, Little GTO + The Hondells', Little Honda, "a groovy little motorbike."
Interesting that they described the last challenger's occupation as "painting white lines". The preferred color for road marking lines has changed over the years more than once. The first color for center lines in the U.S. was white starting in 1911. Oregon was the first state where yellow was used (1917). For a time, yellow became quite popular in some areas. By Nov. 1954, 47 of the (then) 48 states had adopted white as the standard color. In 1958, white was adopted as the standard for the new Interstate Highway System. But by 1971, yellow was mandated as the color for dividing opposite traffic lanes (most of the changeover accomplished by 1973 and the rest by 1975 - although I know of a back road in NJ that had a white center line for many years after that). White continues to be used for separating lines of traffic going in the same direction and at the edge of the road. It has become known as the white-yellow system.
+Edwin Rivera A lovely variation of a chignon, I would say. It should be noted that WML did not have anyone available for the panelists in terms of makeup, wardrobe or hair styling.
Arlene reminds me of a grandmother type, even in this. However, being born in the late 70s, and having grandmothers who would have been around this age in the 50s, this makes sense.
I was surprised no one mentioned that. I thought maybe they didn’t have to change their shoes back then? I love they way this sweet little lady acted rather shocked at some of the questions!
Mr. Burl Ives. Cat on a hot tin roof is one of my movie because of him. Big, strong, hard working, wanted it all for his family but yet had nothing to love. That was my Grand Father.
would love to have seen the Broadway production with Barbara Bel Geddes as Maggie the Cat, Ben Gazzara as Brick and Midred Dunnock as Big Mama, along with Burl of course.
Burl Ives had a great singing voice, in the tenor range, but with a nice low resonance that most tenors don't have. And he could act. He won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for "The Big Country". Sadly, he was unfairly pegged as a Communist in the McCarthy Era. He testified before HUAC and that got him off the black list, but it created a rift between him and certain other folk singers such as Pete Seeger, who felt that Ives had sold them out to save his own career.
I'm glad that John Daly acknowledged that there was unfair influence by the audience (or actually Cerf). I always hate it when the audience of out of turn panelists burst out and ruin it
+Dick Wilson I don't. I like it when they do because otherwise, they'd be toast. The audience laughing is most helpful for the panel. I've often wondered how I would guess what the line is without the audience laughter to provide more insight than John's crazy "well it could be this, but we don't want to confuse you, but it doesn't have to be this, but blah blah blah." He throws them more off track that way than anything.
I was glad too. The audience started applauding as soon as Bennett advised Arlene (whose turn it was) to include elephants in her list of wild animals (she was naming wild animals primarily in the large cat family).
I think the best joke of this episode got lost in the chatter. Somebody asked the elephant trainer, 'Do you have any with you tonight?' and he answered, 'I couldn't get them in the subway.' Other commenters have added that this man was arrested the next day as a car thief. That would explain why he looks very keen to hide his face and seems reluctant to be on TV - apparently his boss ordered him to appear as a free advert for the circus show.
It’s weird today to see a clean-cut, well-dressed, well-spoken man in a good suit and figure he’s a car thief. I would have taken one look at him and allowed him to date my daughter. Dorothy seemed to like him too. I’m quite disappointed in him. Which is strange, as he likely died of old age decades ago.
Regarding the missing episode, Ty Cobb lived in the SF Bay area during much of his retirement. He would have been in NY for the Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremonies on 7/25/55 (the Hall of Fame website lists him as one of attendees in the year that Joe DiMaggio, Gabby Hartnett, Ted Lyons, Dazzy Vance, Home Run Baker and Ray Schalk were inducted. When he was healthy enough to do so, he attended the annual ceremonies in Cooperstown quite often. In the first Hall of Fame vote in 1936, five players were named as the initial class. Cobb received the most votes, 222 out of 226 ballots, ahead of Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson. It's good that WML included baseball from time to time. And yet there's still something missing ...
There were still old-fashioned bowling alleys around in 1955 that hadn't been upgraded to automatic pinsetting and ball-return equipment, though there were plenty of bowling alleys that had been fully automated by then, and all bowling alleys being newly built by then were automated from the outset. The first automated pinsetting equipment went into use in 1946, I believe. So the profession of "pinsetter" was a dying one by 1955, much as "elevator operator" was. We had three bowling alleys in my home suburb of L.A., two new ones that were fully automatic from the outset, and the older one had to upgrade to compete with the two newer bowling alleys because people preferred the automatic equipment.
I have no doubt, corner moose, that you should tip the pinsetter as well as paying the fee to the bowling alley to use the lane. I'll bet they paid minimum wage and tips helped out a lot. (My suburb was Downey, by the way.) We moved there in 1954 when I was two years old.
I remember Ontario quite well -- I went on a winery tour near there once and another time, in second grade, my father's employee had a company picnic at some sort of facility that had a swimming pool and a clubhouse -- it might have been a country club. Also, it's where they used to divert all the incoming commercial flights when fog closed LAX, since Ontario was considerably inland and not subject to fog the way LAX was from time to time.
Jimmy Durante, Bing Crosby & Burl Ives are not just the golden age’s generation of Christmas music but, in 2024, still some of the most famous Christmas artists of all time!
ToddSF 94109 He put on smaller framed style glasses on previous show but changed to thicker frames which look much better, after a viewer mentioned he should wear them to cover bags under his eyes. Took the advice .
I agree with John flipping the cards for that second guest. It's annoying when the audience gives the answer away. First time I've ever seen a non mystery guest sass the panel for meandering around instead of asking them questions.
I wonder how old the first contestant was. She looked "elderly" but was probably only in her fifties. She would have made a good character actress. She had the looks and the voice for it.
I just read his obituary, which someone posted on here. He was also an outstanding tenor (who kept up voice lessons to keep in form) who travelled around the world!
Regarding the elephant-trainer, I think you all are reading a whole hell of a lot out of his appearance on this show in light of what you know happened *after* his appearance on this show. Give the guy a break, and read my comment bellow, if you please! (I mean the comment regarding him--not the little old lady who appeared first!)
Burl Ives has a odd object attached to his right pants leg about mid thigh, which I'd guess could be some type of tape used to keep the curtains together that got stuck on him or not.
If Mr. Bloor is the same Mr. Bloor I think he is, he graduated from Denison University in 1955, and went on to Yale's school of Medicine, after which he joined the Army Medical Corps for a few years before going to San Diego and joining SDSU's School of Medicine (and its pathology department), as a professor and researcher. If the public heard of him at all, it was for his findings about the heart being able to re-route after obstruction of the blood flow, but his colleagues seem to have loved him. He was also a singer, tenor to be specific, and toured with the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus. He had a wife and two kids, and died in 2010. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-giant-in-cardiovascular-research-a-tenor-in-choir-2010sep14-story.html
I was pleasantly surprised to see Colin Bloor who lives in Sandusky, Ohio. I live 12 miles south of Sandusky. I find it interesting that Fred asks if Bloor works at an amusement park. Cedar Point was not very well known at that time but today is very well known. Colin Bloor was 22 years old here. He was born in Sandusky and became a well known Doctor, researcher and author in the medical field, hence the donation of his winnings to the Heart Fund. What a small world?!
Johan Bengtsson And what would you say to a comment added this week to one of the videos saying nothing but "This was my Grandmother's birthday!" The golden rule has little place on the internet. ;)
Regrettably, the What’s My Line episode featuring Ty Cobb as Mystery Guest is missing. It is just as regrettable that the show continued to ignore the Dodgers. But even if the episode is lost, the Dodgers were still in action on July 31 and during the week leading up to it. With no episode to post to, the recap will be in chronological order rather than starting with the day of the episode and then recapping the rest of the week. There were no games played on Monday, July 25. Attention was focused on the Hall of Fame induction ceremonies as well as the Hall of Fame exhibition game (between the Red Sox and Braves that year) in Cooperstown. The Dodgers started their western swing in Cincinnati on Tuesday and started out well. They knocked out starter Rudy Minarcin in the third after scoring a run in the first on Duke Snider’s sacrifice fly, a run in the second on Don Zimmer’s double and two in the third on a walk to Snider and consecutive singles by Roy Campanella, Gil Hodges and Jim Gilliam. At that point, three Redleg relievers shut out the Dodgers over the last 6 1/3 innings, keeping Cincy in the game. And they chipped away at the Dodger lead with runs in the fourth (a single by first baseman Ted Kluszewski and a double by right fielder Wally Post) and the fifth (a leadoff double by shortstop Roy McMillan and two fly outs). But that’s all Don Newcombe would surrender en route to his 17th win. Wednesday’s contest went into extra innings. Cincy struck first with a two run homer by catcher Smoky Burgess in the third inning off Carl Erskine. The Dodgers finally got to Joe Black in the sixth on a leadoff homer by Don Hoak, a single by Pee Wee Reese and a homer by Snider. The Redlegs were held scoreless until the ninth. Center fielder Gus Bell led off with a single. Two walks and a strikeout later, Matt Batts was sent up to the bat for the pitcher. The Dodgers countered by taking out Johnny Podres and bringing in Clem Labine. On a grounder to Reese, the Dodgers got the force at second but couldn’t complete the double play as Bell scored the tying run. In the tenth with one out, Post singled, Bell singled and runners ended up on second and third on Carl Furillo’s error. After left fielder Bob Thurman was walked intentionally, third baseman Milt Smith strode to the plate. He had played in his first major league game six days earlier, handed the starting job when Bobby Adams was dealt to the White Sox. He was hitting .107 when he stepped to the plate and only managed to hit .196 for the season. But this time he came through with a single to center and the game was over. The rubber game was on the Dodger side of the ledger from the get go as they scored four in the first inning and led 7-0 after three. Reese homered in the first, followed by singles by Snider and Hodges and some sloppy play by the Redlegs. That put the Dodgers up 4-0. When Roger Craig, a notoriously weak hitting pitcher, led off the second with a single, Art Fowler was sent to the showers and Gerry Staley came in. Hoak bunted Craig to second. After Reese was retired, Snider was walked intentionally. Campanella spoiled the strategy with a run-scoring single and another Redlegs error made the score 6-0. Zimmer’s homer in the third added another run. The Dodgers scored at least one run against all five pitchers they faced as they beat Cincinnati 10-2. Craig went the distance for the win. From there it was on to St. Louis. It was their best weekend and the culmination of their best week in quite a while. Friday’s game saw the Cardinals jump in front with their first two batters when third baseman Ken Boyer singled, stole second and scored on a single by second baseman Red Schoendienst. The Cards kept chipping away at Karl Spooner with runs in the third and the sixth. Boyer got things started again in the third with a bunt single, followed by a walk to Schoendienst and an RBI single by first baseman Stan Musial. Center fielder Bill Virdon’s towering homer added the third run. The Dodgers finally solved Larry Jackson with two outs in the seventh. After Hodges led off with a single, Jackson retired Gilliam and Furillo. But Zimmer kept the inning alive with a single and Newcombe, batting for Spooner, drove Hodges in with a double. Hoak’s 3-run homer put the Dodgers in front. The Cardinals retied the game against Russ Meyer in their half of the inning. 36-year old Harry Walker had replaced Eddie Stanky as manager of the Cardinals on May 28. He hadn’t played in the majors since a brief appearance in 1951, but he had been a player-manager in the minors in 1952-54 and he proved he could still hit. He activated himself as a player in July for this situation: to pinch hit in a key spot (he was 4 for 9 as in that role in 1955). And he came through with a single. Then he took himself out for a pinch runner who moved to second on pinch hitter Solly Hemus’s sacrifice bunt. Then Boyer came through with his third hit of the game, a double, to drive home the run. The Dodgers answered the call once again in the eighth. And again it came with two outs. Gilliam worked out a walk and Furillo drove him home with a double. Labine held the Cards in check for the last two innings and the Dodgers had come away with the one-run victory, 5-4. The next two games would prove to be much easier. Saturday’s game actually started out as a pitcher’s duel between Podres and Tom Poholsky. Leading off the sixth, Zimmer’s home run snapped the scoreless tie. Three batters later, Poholsky would be lifted from the game, even though the Dodgers didn’t get a ball out of the infield. After Podres grounded out, Hoak beat out an infield hit and Reese walked. Paul La Palme entered the game and struck out Snider, but then Campanella singled home Hoak. Mel Wright was waved in to pitch and Hodges drove in Reese with a single. With runners on first and second, Wright should have been out of the inning on Gilliam’s grounder to short. But Alex Grammas threw the ball into the stands and the fourth and final run of the inning crossed the plate. Podres struggled in the sixth as he gave up three singles and a walk. But a timely double play ball allowed him to escape without allowing a run. He stranded the bases loaded when right fielder Rip Repulski flied out. So when he surrendered a two out double in the seventh to catcher Nelson Burbrink and he walked Grammas, Manager Walt Alston didn’t tempt fate twice. He waved in Don Bessent. When pinch hitter Wally Moon took a called third strike, the shutout was preserved. And Bessent would preserve the shutout the rest of the way for his first save. The Dodgers tacked on two more runs in the ninth for a 6-0 win. It was also the first victory for Podres since June 14. With an injury-plagued second half of the season, June 14 was also his last complete game of the season … until games 3 and 7 of the World Series. The last day of July was the high water mark of Newcombe’s season. He went the distance to raise his record to 18-1 and the Dodgers gave him plenty of run support. He struggled with arm problems the last two months and lost his next three decisions before finishing with a 20-5 record, still an excellent winning percentage. His mound opponent, All-Star rookie Luis Arroyo, failed to retire a batter in the second as he gave up a double to Hodges, a single by Jackie Robinson and another double by Furillo to give the Dodgers a 1-0 lead. Floyd Wooldridge came in and Zimmer’s fly out made it 2-0. Campanella’s homer in the third extended the lead. Newcombe faltered in the fourth when Schoendienst and Musial hit back to back homers onto the roof at old Busch Stadium. But from then on it was all Dodgers as Newk gave up only one hit in the last five innings and his teammates pounded out 8 more runs for an 11-2 win. Campy went 4 for 5 with 3 RBI’s and Hodges added another double and single in five trips to pace the attack. Robinson added a 2-run double in his first start since July 14. Finishing the month on a high note, the Dodgers continued to lead the Braves by 13½. Trying not to look too far ahead, their biggest question mark was who would they face in the World Series: the defending AL champ Indians, the Yankees who they had met in five World Series in the past 15 years or the first place White Sox who led those two teams by one slim game? And the Red Sox were only 3 back and the Tigers were not out of the question at 7½ back with a record of 55-47. There were a lot of teams to scout: an enviable position to be in.
I hate my delight that John Daly reveals his utter self-absorption so thoroughly in this episode when Burl Ives stands to leave and for a moment John does not realize the mystery guest is departing because he has already gone off into one of his stories about himself and a friend of his through whom he met Ives years before. He had said goodbye to Ives, so was intending to be speaking of himself and not including Ives in a conversation. He does this often.
Regarding the pinsetter, I thought that the disagreement about whether anyone removed their clothes would be about shoes, taking off your regular shoes and putting on bowling shoes. So in 1955 they still had human pinsetters, but I think by 1960 machines had replaced them all.
That's what I was thinking, that many people need to change their shoes. Even those who own bowling shoes don't necessarily wear them traveling to and from the bowling alley.
yes, but, the question was, do they take off any of their clothes. shoes are not usually considered clothes. and if you change into something, that is not usually considered taking it off. if the question was, do they take off any clothing and put on something else, the answer would have to be, yes.
I'm not familiar with the panel members; before my time. I don't know if they were movie stars or what. I was born five days after this particular show aired. I vaguely remember Burl Ives. I hear his music on the radio occasionally.
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Burl Ives had a voice like no other. ❤️
He Shure did.
Burl Ives was that rarest of rare birds on Broadway a complete NATURAL as Big Daddy Pollock in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. So good it is hard to imagine anyone else in the role.
He was also impressive in The Big Country.
such lovely people,...another time, another world...
eoselan7 oh yes it was ! If only .....
eoselan7 Arlene Francis was such a lady.
It's that time of year to listen to Burl Ives narrate "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer."
Had to watch this first. A true talent who will forever be remembered.
Yes! That is a classic! Burle Ives also recorded The Ugly Bug Ball...which was turned into a cartoon. My children LOVED LOVED it but it was a total ear worm to parents andvto this day when I hear his name, the sing returns to haunt me :-)
It wasn't until 1964 that the "Rudolph" special first aired on television.
Or sing: "Have a Holly Jolly Christmas".
Unique definitely 😊
I love the first lady; she is so cute!
Burl Ives was the greatest folk singer of all time. RIP Sam Snowman/Big Daddy.
He certainly way. Even Carl Sandburg said so. And an awesome actor.
7:54 - I just blew some smoke towards the screen, and Arlene starts to cough ... I said "sorry" aloud before I knew it, and I'm feeling like a rude time-traveller now.
I love Arlene's hair up in this episode. It's such a lively style.
I totally agree 💯 percent 😊
i love the way fred allen says "John" all the time!...very funny.
Maybe that's where #JohnnyHorizon comes from !
He is hilarious. Reminds me of Gary Shandling.
@@alexanderh.5814 gary shandling?!...how so? you got me curious!....yeah i see it....kinda deadpan...but killer...
We saw Mr. Ives twice at Oregon State University along with Peter, Paul and Mary. He was a very talented singer and I still enjoy hearing him Holly, Jolly Christmas on the radio.
Lovely man and it's so sweet the way Arlene praises his superb abilities.
I so love this show. I sure wish we could go back to this time.
Except if you're Black, female or LGBT.
If you lived during the period you would know this is just a tv show and everything wasn’t peaches and cream
@@kentetalman9008 - Stupid comment. Truly mindless.
@@dinahbrown902 Sadly that's the "way of the world." It's been that way since the apple was eaten in Eden or if you're not biblical, since this physical world began. Although life should be a good experience for all, for far too many, this will never come close to being a peaches & cream world.
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Arlene looks adorable with her hair up like that! ❤️
Arlene looks adorable and acts adorably with her hair up or down, but given a time machine to travel back before her marriage, to me her hair would look best on my shoulder
I was just over three months old when this aired, so obviously I have no memory of this episode, but some of my earliest TV memories are of game shows including What's My Line, I've Got a Secret and To Tell the Truth -- regular nightly viewing for my parents, and for me when they'd let me stay up late enough! And I grew up with Burl Ives' music as well, dad being a folk music aficionado.
This is a brief period when they still have 'the walk of shame' but have eliminated the idiotic guesses. Thank God when ALL of this bore was gone.
this will sound rather insane, but after 100's of hours of watching Ms Francis I can safely and confidently say, I love and adore her nearly as much as I do my former wife...she is simply perfect in every way.
I also think she is incredibly charming and a really good looking woman with mischievous friendly eyes...
So... we fully understand your feelings towards her!... :-))
@@elisabethlinz4256 ..."mischievous, friendly eyes." A perfectly wonderful description!
If I had to pick a single TV show to watch on a desert island, I think this would be it!
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Thank you, Chris... :-))
@@chriskozik2573 I agree...pandemic has felt like my own personal island and this has been my company
A new biography on Arlene entitled All Three Channels by Jennifer Bitman (2023) is worth reading.
The most important part of Christmas to me/ my family is that I /we hear Burl Ives. I typed it this way because His singing is more important to me than to them lol. :P
Undoubtedly Arlene was joking when she says something about John not having rehearsed with one of the challengers. John was quick to let the viewers know that he didn't rehearse with the challengers before the show. (7:01)
They had to make sure there were no impropriety in the show
I noticed in almost every episode, Fred Allen continued to ask a question that couldn't be answered with a YES or NO.
The first contestant was just like that "little old lady from Pasadena" in the Beachboys' song--except that she came directly from Hollywood!
very true
Jan & Dean were the 1st to do the song though & good as The Beach Boys were, Jan & Dean's version was the one we heard on the radio. They had big hits w/ Sidewalk Surfin' & Deadman's Curve as well. And, don't forget other top songs from this genre: Ronnie & The Daytona's, Little GTO + The Hondells', Little Honda, "a groovy little motorbike."
Interesting that they described the last challenger's occupation as "painting white lines". The preferred color for road marking lines has changed over the years more than once. The first color for center lines in the U.S. was white starting in 1911. Oregon was the first state where yellow was used (1917). For a time, yellow became quite popular in some areas.
By Nov. 1954, 47 of the (then) 48 states had adopted white as the standard color. In 1958, white was adopted as the standard for the new Interstate Highway System. But by 1971, yellow was mandated as the color for dividing opposite traffic lanes (most of the changeover accomplished by 1973 and the rest by 1975 - although I know of a back road in NJ that had a white center line for many years after that). White continues to be used for separating lines of traffic going in the same direction and at the edge of the road. It has become known as the white-yellow system.
Lois, you're a pip! would love to play Trivial Pursuit with you.. as long as I was on your team!
Interesting. Of course in the 1980s, 'white lines', had an all together, different connotation.
Arlene!! Wow, she looks GREAT tonight.
Gorgeous woman ❤😊
Burl had some of the nicest hit songs in the early 60s.
Miss Arlene always looks beautiful but I have to say... hair pulled back on the sides, she is stunning.
and in good humor considering the theft that had just happened.
+Edwin Rivera
A lovely variation of a chignon, I would say. It should be noted that WML did not have anyone available for the panelists in terms of makeup, wardrobe or hair styling.
Marc Sinclaire was Dorothy's hairdresser and also did her makeup.
Besides being attractive, it seems as if it would be more comfortable on a hot night to have the hair pulled away from the face.
Arlene reminds me of a grandmother type, even in this. However, being born in the late 70s, and having grandmothers who would have been around this age in the 50s, this makes sense.
Arlene always gorgeous.
Gosh, I really like Miss Iden. (Who died in 1975, and was born in Montana, and was about 70 here.)
Love the first lady shes a hoot!
I thought John was thinking of taking off the shoes, but maybe they didn't have specific bowling shoes back then.
Yes, I thought the same thing, too.
And special bowling shoes were required back then ...
I was surprised no one mentioned that. I thought maybe they didn’t have to change their shoes back then? I love they way this sweet little lady acted rather shocked at some of the questions!
Mr. Burl Ives. Cat on a hot tin roof is one of my movie because of him. Big, strong, hard working, wanted it all for his family but yet had nothing to love. That was my Grand Father.
would love to have seen the Broadway production with Barbara Bel Geddes as Maggie the Cat, Ben Gazzara as Brick and Midred Dunnock as Big Mama, along with Burl of course.
Burl Ives had a great singing voice, in the tenor range, but with a nice low resonance that most tenors don't have. And he could act. He won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for "The Big Country". Sadly, he was unfairly pegged as a Communist in the McCarthy Era. He testified before HUAC and that got him off the black list, but it created a rift between him and certain other folk singers such as Pete Seeger, who felt that Ives had sold them out to save his own career.
And so he did. Enhanced his '50s career equally with Ward Bond.
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15:32 - love that Fred gets his comeuppance by the guest.
One of the great lines by a contestant, ever.
My stepdad was a bowling pin setter as a teenager in the 60s
Burl Ives was great as "Big Daddy" in Cat on a hot tin roof.
And as Sam the Snowman in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer as well!! ⛄
Ron n. Ives deserved a best supporting oscar for his great acting in cat on a hot tin roof,
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Yes he was...
I'm glad that John Daly acknowledged that there was unfair influence by the audience (or actually Cerf). I always hate it when the audience of out of turn panelists burst out and ruin it
+Dick Wilson I don't. I like it when they do because otherwise, they'd be toast. The audience laughing is most helpful for the panel. I've often wondered how I would guess what the line is without the audience laughter to provide more insight than John's crazy "well it could be this, but we don't want to confuse you, but it doesn't have to be this, but blah blah blah." He throws them more off track that way than anything.
+gcjerryusc
Applause, applause - life is our cause ...
Agreed. I hate it too. And often, Mr. Daly gives them clues, through his amusing chatter. 😕
Why did they have a live audience? They've done this so many times, they HAVE to know by now)
I was glad too. The audience started applauding as soon as Bennett advised Arlene (whose turn it was) to include elephants in her list of wild animals (she was naming wild animals primarily in the large cat family).
LOVE MISS IDEN.
So did I :)
The first guest was the cutest!!!
I like Arlene's hair pulled up occasionally. And Dorothy with the Betty Boop look 🙂
"We're back to me now?" LOL
Also: "They wouldn't fit on the subway."
Some brazen banter from the car thief.
I think the best joke of this episode got lost in the chatter. Somebody asked the elephant trainer, 'Do you have any with you tonight?' and he answered, 'I couldn't get them in the subway.' Other commenters have added that this man was arrested the next day as a car thief. That would explain why he looks very keen to hide his face and seems reluctant to be on TV - apparently his boss ordered him to appear as a free advert for the circus show.
It’s weird today to see a clean-cut, well-dressed, well-spoken man in a good suit and figure he’s a car thief. I would have taken one look at him and allowed him to date my daughter. Dorothy seemed to like him too. I’m quite disappointed in him. Which is strange, as he likely died of old age decades ago.
How tremendously bizarre. Lol.
@@petemarshall8094 People said the same about Ted Bundy.
@@ChrisHansonCanada Well, if Ted Bundy was playing WML today, the panel would find that his last occupation was "a conductor".
@@petemarshall8094 You can’t tell by appearance or occupation if a person is a good soul
Regarding the missing episode, Ty Cobb lived in the SF Bay area during much of his retirement. He would have been in NY for the Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremonies on 7/25/55 (the Hall of Fame website lists him as one of attendees in the year that Joe DiMaggio, Gabby Hartnett, Ted Lyons, Dazzy Vance, Home Run Baker and Ray Schalk were inducted. When he was healthy enough to do so, he attended the annual ceremonies in Cooperstown quite often.
In the first Hall of Fame vote in 1936, five players were named as the initial class. Cobb received the most votes, 222 out of 226 ballots, ahead of Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson.
It's good that WML included baseball from time to time. And yet there's still something missing ...
I was so disappointed Ty was not available to watch on this show - greatest baseball player of all time ,next to the Babe - Jmho
There were still old-fashioned bowling alleys around in 1955 that hadn't been upgraded to automatic pinsetting and ball-return equipment, though there were plenty of bowling alleys that had been fully automated by then, and all bowling alleys being newly built by then were automated from the outset. The first automated pinsetting equipment went into use in 1946, I believe. So the profession of "pinsetter" was a dying one by 1955, much as "elevator operator" was. We had three bowling alleys in my home suburb of L.A., two new ones that were fully automatic from the outset, and the older one had to upgrade to compete with the two newer bowling alleys because people preferred the automatic equipment.
ToddSF 94109 My dad told me you were expected to tip the pinsetter. This, too was in the suburbs near L. A.
I have no doubt, corner moose, that you should tip the pinsetter as well as paying the fee to the bowling alley to use the lane. I'll bet they paid minimum wage and tips helped out a lot. (My suburb was Downey, by the way.) We moved there in 1954 when I was two years old.
ToddSF 94109
Born in about the same year, Ontario.
I remember Ontario quite well -- I went on a winery tour near there once and another time, in second grade, my father's employee had a company picnic at some sort of facility that had a swimming pool and a clubhouse -- it might have been a country club. Also, it's where they used to divert all the incoming commercial flights when fog closed LAX, since Ontario was considerably inland and not subject to fog the way LAX was from time to time.
My father set pins in the 1930s. It was one of those jobs that teens usually did on nights, weekends and the summer.
That first contestant was a hoot.
I could recognize Burl Ives voice blindfolded anyday
At 24.37 you realize that this studio in New York in August is not air conditioned and these people are really sweating.
Jimmy Durante, Bing Crosby & Burl Ives are not just the golden age’s generation of Christmas music but, in 2024, still some of the most famous Christmas artists of all time!
Todd....would have been great if one of the panelists had guessed his profession as car-thief after his walk of shame!
I just love this show, it's fascinating eaven though it's almost 70yrs ago. 😊
A funny question from Fred to John, but it is the contestant who delivers the punchline. That's timing! 15:15
That was great passive aggressive
@@bazazpa As befitting a car thief who was arrested the next day.
That was classic!
I lived Miss Iden, the bowling lady, who knew exactly what the answer should be lol. Didnt let John tell her what to say😁😆
Cat On a Hot Tin Roof was one of my mother's favourite movies . Big daddy, Berl Ives has a striped beard here. He had his own style.
I like Fred Allen's glasses -- they suit him, actually.
ToddSF 94109 He put on smaller framed style glasses on previous show but changed to thicker frames which look much better, after a viewer mentioned he should wear them to cover bags under his eyes. Took the advice .
He's doing his best to keep Robert Q 'hornrimmed glasses extraordinaire' Lewis off the show!! :)
The person who gave him the advice that they would hide the bags under his eyes, was right.
I think that it was very generous of Mr. Daly to give the elephant trainer the money. 😀
I agree with John flipping the cards for that second guest. It's annoying when the audience gives the answer away. First time I've ever seen a non mystery guest sass the panel for meandering around instead of asking them questions.
I wonder how old the first contestant was. She looked "elderly" but was probably only in her fifties. She would have made a good character actress. She had the looks and the voice for it.
Colin Bloor turned out to be one of the world’s leading cardiovascular experts. He died in 2010.
Wow, that's amazing!
I just read his obituary, which someone posted on here. He was also an outstanding tenor (who kept up voice lessons to keep in form) who travelled around the world!
A Renaissance Man
So the second contestant was actually ' between jobs '.
Amazing story.
RIP Burl Ives (1909-1995; died from oral cancer as a result from smoking)
I recall his voice as Sam the Snowman.
It was a hot and humid day in New York City, 91°F at 5 pm, and still 74° at 10 pm with 91% humidity.
Mark Richardson Old weather reports are available if you know where to look for them
@Mark Richardson One of the online databases that I can access through a local library lets me view the New York Times back issues.
Burl lived in Seattle for a while... and he wrote "In a Cardboard Box out on Puget Sound".
Back in the day when people were courteous and gracious and so were the stars.
Will today’s ( cough cough ) stars be remembered and revered as the stars of this era? Hardly.
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer!
the last guy's line literally was lines.
... and the first challenger's line was lanes. If only the second challenger trained lions instead of elephants.
just before 18:50 you can see something click in bennetts brain. i think he recognized Burl Ives' voice just then.
What's my Line Up hahaha
Saw Burl Ives the broadway play Cat on the Hot Tin Roof.
Dynamic performance
The woman who set up bowling pins was right . What she did was not amusing. It was the game that was amusing.
Have a hooy jolly Christmas 🎄⛄
Holly jolly😊
Miss Iden answers in a cute way haha
I remembering John commenting several times about how hot it is. Can you imagine not having central air. Those were the days, my friend.
I don't have to imagine it, I lived through those times. Fans didn't help at all!😢
@@robertjean5782 you are absolutely right. I’m 74 and I remember it well.
Burl Ives was only 45 here?!
He looked much older, didn't he?
Regarding the elephant-trainer, I think you all are reading a whole hell of a lot out of his appearance on this show in light of what you know happened *after* his appearance on this show. Give the guy a break, and read my comment bellow, if you please! (I mean the comment regarding him--not the little old lady who appeared first!)
Burl Ives has a odd object attached to his right pants leg about mid thigh, which I'd guess could be some type of tape used to keep the curtains together that got stuck on him or not.
It's so annoying when the audience gives it away
They're so into the game 😊
If Mr. Bloor is the same Mr. Bloor I think he is, he graduated from Denison University in 1955, and went on to Yale's school of Medicine, after which he joined the Army Medical Corps for a few years before going to San Diego and joining SDSU's School of Medicine (and its pathology department), as a professor and researcher.
If the public heard of him at all, it was for his findings about the heart being able to re-route after obstruction of the blood flow, but his colleagues seem to have loved him.
He was also a singer, tenor to be specific, and toured with the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus.
He had a wife and two kids, and died in 2010. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-giant-in-cardiovascular-research-a-tenor-in-choir-2010sep14-story.html
I was pleasantly surprised to see Colin Bloor who lives in Sandusky, Ohio. I live 12 miles south of Sandusky. I find it interesting that Fred asks if Bloor works at an amusement park. Cedar Point was not very well known at that time but today is very well known. Colin Bloor was 22 years old here. He was born in Sandusky and became a well known Doctor, researcher and author in the medical field, hence the donation of his winnings to the Heart Fund. What a small world?!
Thanks for this information.
Oh the elephant man got the best joke in and nobody heard him. She said you didn’t bring elephants tonight he said he couldn’t get them on the subway.
I heard it and thought it was cute. Several people mentioned it in the comments.
This is a funny one
A pin setter, an elephant "trainer" with a hook and a road painter all jobs that are obsolete now.
SETS PINS IN BOWLING ALLEY
TRAINS ELEPHANTS
PAINTS WHITE LINES ON HIGHWAYS
Sam the Snowman
Some do Some don't!!! Still true.
Duckpin setter? They don't have jobs like that anymore now that they have automated pin stters.
Sad isn’t it.
❤️👍🏽
The elephant trainer was very funny
Big Daddy!
love too see some of these in color
At last Fred Allen asks John the question I have asked myself so many times. 5:16
Excellent, Fred!!! (thanks for always providing the time codes when you reference moments in the videos, Johan-- so helpful!)
What's My Line? You're most welcome! It's an old habit of mine, never take for granted that everyone knows what you're talking about.
Johan Bengtsson Most people do take it for granted. :)
What's My Line? I follow The Golden Rule,"One should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself." :
Johan Bengtsson And what would you say to a comment added this week to one of the videos saying nothing but "This was my Grandmother's birthday!" The golden rule has little place on the internet. ;)
Don't even get me started on What's My Fine? 😂 #iykyk
Regrettably, the What’s My Line episode featuring Ty Cobb as Mystery Guest is missing. It is just as regrettable that the show continued to ignore the Dodgers. But even if the episode is lost, the Dodgers were still in action on July 31 and during the week leading up to it. With no episode to post to, the recap will be in chronological order rather than starting with the day of the episode and then recapping the rest of the week.
There were no games played on Monday, July 25. Attention was focused on the Hall of Fame induction ceremonies as well as the Hall of Fame exhibition game (between the Red Sox and Braves that year) in Cooperstown.
The Dodgers started their western swing in Cincinnati on Tuesday and started out well. They knocked out starter Rudy Minarcin in the third after scoring a run in the first on Duke Snider’s sacrifice fly, a run in the second on Don Zimmer’s double and two in the third on a walk to Snider and consecutive singles by Roy Campanella, Gil Hodges and Jim Gilliam.
At that point, three Redleg relievers shut out the Dodgers over the last 6 1/3 innings, keeping Cincy in the game. And they chipped away at the Dodger lead with runs in the fourth (a single by first baseman Ted Kluszewski and a double by right fielder Wally Post) and the fifth (a leadoff double by shortstop Roy McMillan and two fly outs). But that’s all Don Newcombe would surrender en route to his 17th win.
Wednesday’s contest went into extra innings. Cincy struck first with a two run homer by catcher Smoky Burgess in the third inning off Carl Erskine. The Dodgers finally got to Joe Black in the sixth on a leadoff homer by Don Hoak, a single by Pee Wee Reese and a homer by Snider.
The Redlegs were held scoreless until the ninth. Center fielder Gus Bell led off with a single. Two walks and a strikeout later, Matt Batts was sent up to the bat for the pitcher. The Dodgers countered by taking out Johnny Podres and bringing in Clem Labine. On a grounder to Reese, the Dodgers got the force at second but couldn’t complete the double play as Bell scored the tying run.
In the tenth with one out, Post singled, Bell singled and runners ended up on second and third on Carl Furillo’s error. After left fielder Bob Thurman was walked intentionally, third baseman Milt Smith strode to the plate. He had played in his first major league game six days earlier, handed the starting job when Bobby Adams was dealt to the White Sox. He was hitting .107 when he stepped to the plate and only managed to hit .196 for the season. But this time he came through with a single to center and the game was over.
The rubber game was on the Dodger side of the ledger from the get go as they scored four in the first inning and led 7-0 after three. Reese homered in the first, followed by singles by Snider and Hodges and some sloppy play by the Redlegs. That put the Dodgers up 4-0.
When Roger Craig, a notoriously weak hitting pitcher, led off the second with a single, Art Fowler was sent to the showers and Gerry Staley came in. Hoak bunted Craig to second. After Reese was retired, Snider was walked intentionally. Campanella spoiled the strategy with a run-scoring single and another Redlegs error made the score 6-0. Zimmer’s homer in the third added another run. The Dodgers scored at least one run against all five pitchers they faced as they beat Cincinnati 10-2. Craig went the distance for the win.
From there it was on to St. Louis. It was their best weekend and the culmination of their best week in quite a while. Friday’s game saw the Cardinals jump in front with their first two batters when third baseman Ken Boyer singled, stole second and scored on a single by second baseman Red Schoendienst. The Cards kept chipping away at Karl Spooner with runs in the third and the sixth. Boyer got things started again in the third with a bunt single, followed by a walk to Schoendienst and an RBI single by first baseman Stan Musial. Center fielder Bill Virdon’s towering homer added the third run.
The Dodgers finally solved Larry Jackson with two outs in the seventh. After Hodges led off with a single, Jackson retired Gilliam and Furillo. But Zimmer kept the inning alive with a single and Newcombe, batting for Spooner, drove Hodges in with a double. Hoak’s 3-run homer put the Dodgers in front.
The Cardinals retied the game against Russ Meyer in their half of the inning. 36-year old Harry Walker had replaced Eddie Stanky as manager of the Cardinals on May 28. He hadn’t played in the majors since a brief appearance in 1951, but he had been a player-manager in the minors in 1952-54 and he proved he could still hit. He activated himself as a player in July for this situation: to pinch hit in a key spot (he was 4 for 9 as in that role in 1955). And he came through with a single. Then he took himself out for a pinch runner who moved to second on pinch hitter Solly Hemus’s sacrifice bunt. Then Boyer came through with his third hit of the game, a double, to drive home the run.
The Dodgers answered the call once again in the eighth. And again it came with two outs. Gilliam worked out a walk and Furillo drove him home with a double. Labine held the Cards in check for the last two innings and the Dodgers had come away with the one-run victory, 5-4. The next two games would prove to be much easier.
Saturday’s game actually started out as a pitcher’s duel between Podres and Tom Poholsky. Leading off the sixth, Zimmer’s home run snapped the scoreless tie. Three batters later, Poholsky would be lifted from the game, even though the Dodgers didn’t get a ball out of the infield. After Podres grounded out, Hoak beat out an infield hit and Reese walked. Paul La Palme entered the game and struck out Snider, but then Campanella singled home Hoak. Mel Wright was waved in to pitch and Hodges drove in Reese with a single. With runners on first and second, Wright should have been out of the inning on Gilliam’s grounder to short. But Alex Grammas threw the ball into the stands and the fourth and final run of the inning crossed the plate.
Podres struggled in the sixth as he gave up three singles and a walk. But a timely double play ball allowed him to escape without allowing a run. He stranded the bases loaded when right fielder Rip Repulski flied out. So when he surrendered a two out double in the seventh to catcher Nelson Burbrink and he walked Grammas, Manager Walt Alston didn’t tempt fate twice. He waved in Don Bessent. When pinch hitter Wally Moon took a called third strike, the shutout was preserved. And Bessent would preserve the shutout the rest of the way for his first save. The Dodgers tacked on two more runs in the ninth for a 6-0 win.
It was also the first victory for Podres since June 14. With an injury-plagued second half of the season, June 14 was also his last complete game of the season … until games 3 and 7 of the World Series.
The last day of July was the high water mark of Newcombe’s season. He went the distance to raise his record to 18-1 and the Dodgers gave him plenty of run support. He struggled with arm problems the last two months and lost his next three decisions before finishing with a 20-5 record, still an excellent winning percentage.
His mound opponent, All-Star rookie Luis Arroyo, failed to retire a batter in the second as he gave up a double to Hodges, a single by Jackie Robinson and another double by Furillo to give the Dodgers a 1-0 lead. Floyd Wooldridge came in and Zimmer’s fly out made it 2-0. Campanella’s homer in the third extended the lead.
Newcombe faltered in the fourth when Schoendienst and Musial hit back to back homers onto the roof at old Busch Stadium. But from then on it was all Dodgers as Newk gave up only one hit in the last five innings and his teammates pounded out 8 more runs for an 11-2 win. Campy went 4 for 5 with 3 RBI’s and Hodges added another double and single in five trips to pace the attack. Robinson added a 2-run double in his first start since July 14.
Finishing the month on a high note, the Dodgers continued to lead the Braves by 13½. Trying not to look too far ahead, their biggest question mark was who would they face in the World Series: the defending AL champ Indians, the Yankees who they had met in five World Series in the past 15 years or the first place White Sox who led those two teams by one slim game? And the Red Sox were only 3 back and the Tigers were not out of the question at 7½ back with a record of 55-47. There were a lot of teams to scout: an enviable position to be in.
Jimmie Mitchell's the spitting image of a young Noam Chomsky!
Same morals too!
Lavender's Blue and Rudolph
Lavender for Ives isapropo
I hate my delight that John Daly reveals his utter self-absorption so thoroughly in this episode when Burl Ives stands to leave and for a moment John does not realize the mystery guest is departing because he has already gone off into one of his stories about himself and a friend of his through whom he met Ives years before. He had said goodbye to Ives, so was intending to be speaking of himself and not including Ives in a conversation. He does this often.
Mr. Mitchell looks like a teacher or professor. Maybe even a business man. The panel is very smart though. Looks can't fool them, sometimes.
He’s a 747 trainer 😊
Regarding the pinsetter, I thought that the disagreement about whether anyone removed their clothes would be about shoes, taking off your regular shoes and putting on bowling shoes. So in 1955 they still had human pinsetters, but I think by 1960 machines had replaced them all.
Shoes weren't clothes😊
You can see someone peeking through the curtain from backstage at 10:09.
no.
but i see someone peaking through at 10:14 and 10:16.
it looks like he walks past at 10:09, then returns and peeks.
May have been Burl. U never know. 😉
Of course who I'm talking about is Burl Ives,
shotgunned a beer during this video.
I know Arlene was trying to be flattering, but the idea of Big Daddy performing on the guitar in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof is absurd.
Don't they take their shoes off to bowl?
That's what I was thinking, that many people need to change their shoes. Even those who own bowling shoes don't necessarily wear them traveling to and from the bowling alley.
yes, but, the question was, do they take off any of their clothes.
shoes are not usually considered clothes.
and if you change into something, that is not usually considered taking it off.
if the question was, do they take off any clothing and put on something else, the answer would have to be, yes.
15:20 Dean and Jerry did split up about a year later
I'm not familiar with the panel members; before my time. I don't know if they were movie stars or what. I was born five days after this particular show aired. I vaguely remember Burl Ives. I hear his music on the radio occasionally.
Will you are young man, I was nearly 5 years old when this was On the air