Chris Murtagh : Incredible. This episode of WML was taped in May 1958. Ms. de Havilland who was born in 1916 would live on for another 62 yrs until her death at the age of 104 in July 2020 . Amazing.
After a day's work dealing with the public and all their peccadillos, I can come home and relax with the civility and class of WML. It shows us all how far our society has fallen from class and civility.
Ours has never been a society of class and civility, things were just kept under wraps. You didn't do or discuss certain matters in polite company, it doesn't mean those things weren't done, however.
When I was in college I would receive a note from Olivia around Christmas every year. She was gracious and for such an elegant and famous talent totally at earth level off the screen with many, many friends.
I think Olivia gave up the Christmas card tradition many years ago because of the time it took. From what I have been told, however, is she is still the person she has always been, intelligent, gracious, witty and warm. She never took stardom for granted nor do I think stardom meant that much to her. I think being able to do the best films with the best scripts and best directors and best fellow actors gave her much joy. She and Bette Davis were particular friends; they saw eye to eye on matters of excellence, honesty, and hard work.
@@waynebrasler She explained in her interviews that she tried to enlighten and improve the human condition with her movie roles. So she did an authentic expose on mental illness after encountering it among ww2 soldiers. Also other vital topics such as unwed motherhood and other
She played brilliantly in gone with the wind film. Loved her character - a good hearted woman who loved care for others. So emotional when Melanie died in the end.
Olivia will be 103 in three months as of my writing this. I'm watching a movie on TCM with her in it right now. It's called "The Irish in us" and also stars James Cagney. Olivia was/is a true beauty !!
The banter around Bennett's propensity to cry reminds me of his short speech to screen following Fred Allen's death and how his eyes glistened visibly so, even on b&w grainy film. There are many instances on this little frivilous show which betray the fact that Serf was more than just a businessman doing a TV panellist thing. He had heart as well as brains and seemed so personable, polite, friendly and kind. Unfortunately he can't tell a joke to save his life but you can't have everything. :)
I agree with you about Mr. Cerf. He had the jokes and loved to tell them, but his delivery just didn't cut it. But I believe he certainly had heart, and that is always more important.
Just wanted to say thank you again for posting all these videos of WML. I wasn't born when they aired originially and my only exposure to this show was the syndicated versions, which with no offense to Soupy Sales, Wally Bruner or Larry Blyden and their fans, were no where nearly as entertaining and fun IMO. I loved the Garry Moore version of To Tell the Truth and I think this show is equally enjoyable to watch. I try to watch a couple every night before bed. Thanks again!!
WML was always my favorite by far of the block of late night B&W game shows on GSN, but they're all fun shows. It was always such a nice way to end the evening, watching 90 minutes of these shows. I still miss it, especially since I don't have a collection of To Tell the Truth or I've Got a Secret!
What's My Line? The only way I learned about this show was when it was homaged (satired? parodied?) by Disney's 101 Dalmations as "What's My Crime" and I learned about the reference and discovered the show XD
This is how you know the 50's are truly gone forever, including the more gracious culture that produced 'What's My Line'. Ms. DeHavilland was not quite 42 when this aired, and died last year at the unheard of age of 104. Rest In Peace, all panelists and guest.
Catching up on some episodes I haven't yet seen. The dresses worn by Arlene and Dorothy were to die for! (I was 10 years old when this episode aired and even at that age multiple petticoats were required to get that desired poof-y effect). Loved Mrs. Cliburn--her son inherited her delightful Texan personality.
The film mentioned, The Proud Rebel, may be viewed for free on YT, with Olivia putting in a fine performance as an independent female farmer. Alan Ladd and his young son were co-stars. It's definitely worth your time if you enjoy a good western.
@@Baskerville22 Van Cliburn is ranked 26 on the Ranker list of the Best Pianists in the World. His name shows up on lots of lists of great pianists. Van Cliburn is included in Harold C. Schonberg's book "The Great Pianists - From Mozart to the Present." Schonberg was the senior music critic for the New York Times. In this capacity he published daily reviews and longer features on operas and classical music on Sundays. In 1971, he became the first music critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Schonberg also wrote articles for Harper's and High Fidelity magazine, among others. Pianists were a specialty of Schonberg. In addition to writing "The Great Pianists," he wrote a biography of Vladimir Horowitz, entitled "Horowitz: His Life and Music" (1992), as well as "The Collector's Chopin and Schumann" (1959), and "The Glorious Ones: Classical Music's Legendary Performers" (1985). Schonberg's aunt, Alice Frisca was an early influence and his first music teacher; she was a former concert pianist, and had studied with Leopold Godowsky. He started piano lessons with Frisca at four years old, and "discovered early on that he had a superb musical memory that allowed him to remember pieces in great detail after a single hearing." Schonberg received a Bachelor of Arts at Brooklyn College (1937), during which he published his first music criticism in the Musical Advance journal. He then studied as a graduate student at New York University, receiving a Master of Arts in 1938 while studying under the composer Marion Bauer. His dissertation concerned Elizabethan songbooks, which he studied in both musical and literary contexts. I write about Schonberg's credentials to indicate that he knows whereof he speaks when it comes to assessing pianists. Of Cliburn, Schonberg wrote, "Cliburn, a pupil of Rosina Lhevinne, had brilliant pianistic credentials, including a technique that could take care of anything (his big piece was the Rachmaninoff D minor Concerto) and a golden tone. Of all the Americans of his generation, Cliburn was able to produce the most sensuous of sounds - rich, never percussive, a real piano sound that reminded old-timers of the great romantic pianists of the past."
I found a bunch of 'good lord, this exists' news articles on the tees, in 1957, and then nothing afterward. Mr. Zeller went into his dad's family business, and owned Max Zeller Furs (and Outerwear) until his death in 1997. (He married Rhodi Bokoff, who owned her own clothing store (Maxims); they had 3 kids. She died in 1993.)
The Amish Umpire He died at his home in Mount Kisco, aged 73, (Aug. 27, 1971) but there are no references to how, or what he died of. I've heard he suffered from Alzheimers in his late years, but cannot confirm it as an accurate truth. Maybe other commenters could be of some help? :)
@@theamishumpire1301 He was born in 1898. He was still working part time and doing the show into the fall of 1967, not showing signs of serious mental decline. He wrote his memoir thereafter, so I would guess he had not had enough time in those 4 years to be destroyed by Alzheimer's, as it usually takes longer to wreak its total destruction. For some reason, I thought I'd read somewhere, or gotten the impression from someone I'd read, that he dropped dead suddenly at home, though he may have had underlying health problems leading to it.
The second Japanese born actress WML Mystery Guest within a month. If the panel had ascertained that Miss de Havilland was born outside of the United States, that could have led them down the garden path for a little while at least.
My father was in the mink tee business with Gene Zeller. It was a novelty item. It was a conventional golf tee with a small piece of mink draped around the collar. They sold in in plastic case and I believe there were two tees in a case. I don’t believe it was a big seller. Gene Zeller’s history elsewhere in comments is correct. He was a furrier, and the son of Max Zeller of Max Zeller furs. The mink on the tees had to be remnants. The original business was in downtown Springfield, MA and continues in the same family in West Hartford, CT.
I'm appreciating it as I hit 60 next month. This show happened two years before I was born, and it helps me understand the national mood a little bit better, into which I would soon be born.
I love the stunned look of the panel with the mink tee guy...they share my opinion that this is the stupidest occupation in the history of the show! LOL
I am sure there are things in your life that you consider commonplace that someone in a poor country would find extravagantly frivolous to the point they would consider it silly for you to spend resources to acquire it.
How I'd love to be part of one of those piano lessons - or maybe I wouldn't - nice to see my profession represented here. What an amazing son Mrs. Cliburn had..
Ha ha I liked Olivia's look of concern at John when he said about 'a different form of questionning'.....that's a lady who would be well-rehearsed before going on stage, so the suggestion of something she wasn't prepared for on live television, woah!!! Then the penny dropped. I do get the feeling Bette Davis had plenty of respect for Olivia. When someone like Bette, who would neither suffer fools or tolerate anyone with attitude, likes someone I think that means they're pretty worthy professionally and personally. :)
Maybe I've never noticed it before and don't normally pay attention to the end but this is the first time iv'e noticed someone's hand taking off the "Whats my line?" picture at 26:07
The Spooners had three kids. Mrs. Spooner died in 1989 (in NYC). I somehow managed to find that out without falling down an arguing-about-body-armor rabbithole which I assure you most certainly must exist. A guy testing the armor: blog.modernmechanix.com/most-dangerous-job-bullet-proof-vest-tester/
I thought Bennett’s question of Olivia “Are you a happily married actress?” impertinent. What relevance does it have to identifying the MG unless he was intimately privy to their relationship? Even then, one can never assume a marriage is going swimmingly therefore potentially putting the MG in an awkward position if that were the case.
When asked “are you happily married,” the actress would answer based upon the public perception of her marriage regardless of what goes on inside the mansions’ walls. She is not testifying under oath. There is an online game, Akinator. I think it’s free. You think of a famous person and the computer asks yes or no questions until it guesses. If you try it you’ll notice many questions which seem impertinent but are actually effective
Eamonn Andrews asked if the person who partakes of her service (piano lessons) is better for having done so. I think John Daly misunderstood, in that perhaps he was thinking of an spiritual or emotional betterment, and Mrs. X was answering the question directly that she could see if someone was getting better at what was being taught.
where have the wonderful actresses--like Olivia de Havilland and her sister Joan Fontaine--gone? it's funny, but i always thought that Olivia was much more robust and taller than Joan, but they were actually both 5'3" tall.
nowvoyagerNE -- There's a lengthy list of film actors and actresses from the 1930's through the 1960's or so that just have no equals today, in my opinion, or very few equals anyway. There's a wonderful "coffee table" book of glamorous photos of female movie stars from the 1930's called "They Had Faces Then" that I highly recommend. It has posed publicity portraits as well as stills from the sound stages featuring costumes and sets. Sadly, it's out of print now, but you can find copies on eBay and used book sources. Looking through it, I kept turning the pages and saying "Wow!" I don't think you could come up with a book quite like that with today's movie stars and have the same "wow-factor". It's not that there aren't talented actresses or actors working in Hollywood now, but as the book title states, they had faces then.
Olivia De Haviland spent about half her life in the States and the rest in France, yet the British made her a Dame. They give too many of these titles out now adays but basically Olivia got it because she lived so long. If she deserved it so did her sister both were wonderful actresses.
The thought of Minks being slaughtered just to create novelty golf tees seems particularly appalling and unforgivable. I hope the craze was soon recognised as such and swiftly brought to an end.
I watched her sister, Joan Fontaine, on a very very early version of “the match game” and I can see why Olivia didn’t want to speak to her for the rest of her life.
@@peternagy-im4be they competed with each other for Oscars and one of them beat out the other one one year but beyond that you’d have to research it if it didn’t go to the grave with both of them
chord972 I've seen it many times on the small screen over he years, but I only got to see it on the big screen once back in college. I'm sure the latest restoration would be like a whole new experience. I just don't know if I can sit still in a movie theater for 4 hours at this point in my life!
you can see bennet's eyes moving back and forth between the lady and john...i suspect john had an odd look on his face or nodded or something which made bennet hesitate to believe the lady's response.
What's My Line? -- A mink-trimmed golf tree definitely had to have been a novelty item. I'm thinking the company that made them probably bought small pieces of mink, the trimmings, from companies that made mink coats, stoles, muffs, etc., because those small bits of leftover mink would be suffiicient to trim out something as small as a golf tee. Mink pelts in the coat and stole industry had to be trimmed to specific sizes and shapes, mostly four sided, so that they could be sewn together to form a coat or stole, leaving all the pieces surrounding such shapes that wouldn't be useful to the coast and stole manufacturers. Not that I approve of killing minks or chinchillas or the like for making coats in the first place, but, in 1958, people thought nothing of it and almost every woman would have loved to have had mink coat if they could have afforded to buy one and pay for its ongoing upkeep.
According to information turned up by one of the best commenting sleuths on this channel, Mr. Zeller's family's business was furs. They would have had plenty of remnants and presumably no other minks would need to be killed. Under the scenes we'd like to see department: taking your golf tee to get it appraised.
Hi! :) Me again! I love Olivia de Havilland, she's amazing. I'm continuing to watch as many of these episodes as I can; I know this is a far stretch, but do you happen to have any episodes of the original Password? I hope this doesn't come off as ungrateful because I really am so glad you upload all these WMLs, there's just a huge shortage of Password's here and if you have some that would be amazing. But again, thanks so much for these WMLs and I really look forward to the next 9 years worth :D
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RIP Miss Olivia de Havilland. The world will truly miss you.
Chris Murtagh : Incredible. This episode of WML was taped in May 1958. Ms. de Havilland who was born in 1916 would live on for another 62 yrs until her death at the age of 104 in July 2020 . Amazing.
She was a great actress, a class act and a legend.
@@johnburnett3432 Exactly !!!!!
I loved that both Miss Francis and Miss Kigallen rose to greet Mrs. Cliburn.
They knew etiquette! We don't teach it anymore. 😢
After a day's work dealing with the public and all their peccadillos, I can come home and relax with the civility and class of WML. It shows us all how far our society has fallen from class and civility.
Absolutely.
Class and civility were lost with the loss of Christianity
Here, here. Does anyone even use that phrase anymore?
Ours has never been a society of class and civility, things were just kept under wraps. You didn't do or discuss certain matters in polite company, it doesn't mean those things weren't done, however.
@@texan903 - That was Maynard's point. The unseemly aspects of today's culture which are now paraded openly were not on open display then.
Dame Olivia de Havilland at that time still had 61 years ahead of her. WML is truly a time capsule!
She would outlast Dorothy Kilgallen by over 54 years.
When I was in college I would receive a note from Olivia around Christmas every year. She was gracious and for such an elegant and famous talent totally at earth level off the screen with many, many friends.
I think Olivia gave up the Christmas card tradition many years ago because of the time it took. From what I have been told, however, is she is still the person she has always been, intelligent, gracious, witty and warm. She never took stardom for granted nor do I think stardom meant that much to her. I think being able to do the best films with the best scripts and best directors and best fellow actors gave her much joy. She and Bette Davis were particular friends; they saw eye to eye on matters of excellence, honesty, and hard work.
@@waynebrasler She explained in her interviews that she tried to enlighten and improve the human condition with her movie roles. So she did an authentic expose on mental illness after encountering it among ww2 soldiers. Also other vital topics such as unwed motherhood and other
Estupendo. Y ¿cómo se ganó usted ese derecho y esa suerte de que Olivia de Havilland le felicitara cada año?
I love the fact that Suave (as in shampoo, conditoner, etc., still available in 2019) are part of the sponsors! of these old shows How fun!
She played brilliantly in gone with the wind film. Loved her character - a good hearted woman who loved care for others. So emotional when Melanie died in the end.
Today is Olivia’s 104th birthday, born 1st July 1916! We are so lucky to still have her with us.
Didn't make it more than three weeks more after your comment, but 104 is quite an achievement.
Rich at Large yes, heartbreaking. She lived a long and happy life.
Mrs Van Cliburn lived in Shreveport, La when her son was elementary aged. She’s got a beautiful, soft Southern accent.
Olivia will be 103 in three months as of my writing this. I'm watching a movie on TCM with her in it right now. It's called "The Irish in us" and also stars James Cagney. Olivia was/is a true beauty !!
“ Just because it’s your birthday, don’t go around breaking the rules”. I love when John said that to Bennett.
Bennett Cerf is one of my favorite panelist.
The banter around Bennett's propensity to cry reminds me of his short speech to screen following Fred Allen's death and how his eyes glistened visibly so, even on b&w grainy film. There are many instances on this little frivilous show which betray the fact that Serf was more than just a businessman doing a TV panellist thing. He had heart as well as brains and seemed so personable, polite, friendly and kind. Unfortunately he can't tell a joke to save his life but you can't have everything. :)
I agree with you about Mr. Cerf. He had the jokes and loved to tell them, but his delivery just didn't cut it. But I believe he certainly had heart, and that is always more important.
Cerf was a scam artist. Scanned $42 millions from wannabe writers with his phony “Famous Writers School”
Did you know he had a son at Hahvud?
Happy 100th Birthday Olivia de Havilland!!!!!
Mrs. X is so typical of Southern women at the time. Charming, gracious, effervescent and witty!
Yes what happened?
Just wanted to say thank you again for posting all these videos of WML. I wasn't born when they aired originially and my only exposure to this show was the syndicated versions, which with no offense to Soupy Sales, Wally Bruner or Larry Blyden and their fans, were no where nearly as entertaining and fun IMO. I loved the Garry Moore version of To Tell the Truth and I think this show is equally enjoyable to watch. I try to watch a couple every night before bed. Thanks again!!
WML was always my favorite by far of the block of late night B&W game shows on GSN, but they're all fun shows. It was always such a nice way to end the evening, watching 90 minutes of these shows. I still miss it, especially since I don't have a collection of To Tell the Truth or I've Got a Secret!
What's My Line? The only way I learned about this show was when it was homaged (satired? parodied?) by Disney's 101 Dalmations as "What's My Crime" and I learned about the reference and discovered the show XD
Olivia de Havilland is very much still alive today in 2020 at 103 awesome years old!!!
This is how you know the 50's are truly gone forever, including the more gracious culture that produced 'What's My Line'. Ms. DeHavilland was not quite 42 when this aired, and died last year at the unheard of age of 104. Rest In Peace, all panelists and guest.
It's fun to watch. This was before my time but I remember being told about these shows by my parents and sometimes I catch them on antenna television.
RIP Olivia de Haviland. Such a gracious, lovely, and great woman.
"The only real bullet-proof vest there is". I wish I'd invested in that company.
I love how everyone stood up for the first guest
Catching up on some episodes I haven't yet seen. The dresses worn by Arlene and Dorothy were to die for! (I was 10 years old when this episode aired and even at that age multiple petticoats were required to get that desired poof-y effect). Loved Mrs. Cliburn--her son inherited her delightful Texan personality.
Never would die for a dress, but admittedly in my younger years I might take risks to get Arlene out of her dress
Olivia de Havilland still alive today (2019) at 102 !
104 soon
@@gretchenmyers4368 She will be 104 on July 1st, 2020. This coming Wednesday!
I know babe
Olivia is 104 today! How lucky we are to still have her, the last remaining classic Hollywood actress.
@@lucytaylor8315 Let's all take up a collection and send her a carton of Lucky's.
The film mentioned, The Proud Rebel, may be viewed for free on YT, with Olivia putting in a fine performance as an independent female farmer. Alan Ladd and his young son were co-stars. It's definitely worth your time if you enjoy a good western.
Mrs. Cliburn must have been the finest piano teachers ever! Her son was truly the greatest pianists the world has ever known.
I doubt he was in the top 100
@@Baskerville22 Van Cliburn is ranked 26 on the Ranker list of the Best Pianists in the World. His name shows up on lots of lists of great pianists.
Van Cliburn is included in Harold C. Schonberg's book "The Great Pianists - From Mozart to the Present."
Schonberg was the senior music critic for the New York Times. In this capacity he published daily reviews and longer features on operas and classical music on Sundays. In 1971, he became the first music critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Schonberg also wrote articles for Harper's and High Fidelity magazine, among others.
Pianists were a specialty of Schonberg. In addition to writing "The Great Pianists," he wrote a biography of Vladimir Horowitz, entitled "Horowitz: His Life and Music" (1992), as well as "The Collector's Chopin and Schumann" (1959), and "The Glorious Ones: Classical Music's Legendary Performers" (1985).
Schonberg's aunt, Alice Frisca was an early influence and his first music teacher; she was a former concert pianist, and had studied with Leopold Godowsky. He started piano lessons with Frisca at four years old, and "discovered early on that he had a superb musical memory that allowed him to remember pieces in great detail after a single hearing."
Schonberg received a Bachelor of Arts at Brooklyn College (1937), during which he published his first music criticism in the Musical Advance journal. He then studied as a graduate student at New York University, receiving a Master of Arts in 1938 while studying under the composer Marion Bauer. His dissertation concerned Elizabethan songbooks, which he studied in both musical and literary contexts.
I write about Schonberg's credentials to indicate that he knows whereof he speaks when it comes to assessing pianists.
Of Cliburn, Schonberg wrote, "Cliburn, a pupil of Rosina Lhevinne, had brilliant pianistic credentials, including a technique that could take care of anything (his big piece was the Rachmaninoff D minor Concerto) and a golden tone. Of all the Americans of his generation, Cliburn was able to produce the most sensuous of sounds - rich, never percussive, a real piano sound that reminded old-timers of the great romantic pianists of the past."
Truely indeed, wonderful actress, who was top in her field
RiP🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
The epitome of civilty in that time. Even then it stood out. What an era.
I miss does days of class and civility.
I found a bunch of 'good lord, this exists' news articles on the tees, in 1957, and then nothing afterward. Mr. Zeller went into his dad's family business, and owned Max Zeller Furs (and Outerwear) until his death in 1997. (He married Rhodi Bokoff, who owned her own clothing store (Maxims); they had 3 kids. She died in 1993.)
Bennett Cerf turned 60 this day, and did still have his 'boyish' look intact...
Thank's for the information, I have a 2 questions, when he died how old was he, and what did he die of if anything.
The Amish Umpire He died at his home in Mount Kisco, aged 73, (Aug. 27, 1971) but there are no references to how, or what he died of. I've heard he suffered from Alzheimers in his late years, but cannot confirm it as an accurate truth. Maybe other commenters could be of some help? :)
SuperWinterborn Thank you.
@@theamishumpire1301 He was born in 1898. He was still working part time and doing the show into the fall of 1967, not showing signs of serious mental decline. He wrote his memoir thereafter, so I would guess he had not had enough time in those 4 years to be destroyed by Alzheimer's, as it usually takes longer to wreak its total destruction. For some reason, I thought I'd read somewhere, or gotten the impression from someone I'd read, that he dropped dead suddenly at home, though he may have had underlying health problems leading to it.
He was a frequent guest star on the syndicated Whats My Line from 1968 to June 1971. He had gotten surgery about three weeks prior to his death.
Mrs. X played the game wonderfully and was so charming with the panel.
Just when I thought Bennett was going to make a bulletproof deduction, he couldn't blow out the candle.
Olivia de Havilland still alive at 101!
And still kicking judging by her recent lawsuit!
27 December 2019
103 years old
Date of birth: July 1, 1916
Olivia now belongs to the ages, joining her sister, parents, and her son.
love the cameo by thing at the end.
must have still been in college at ths time.
Was there ever a more beautiful woman than Olivia? Nope. She was like a goddess.
She was the perfect combo of beauty and grace
Mamie van Doren, Hedy Lamarr, Elizabeth Taylor?...
Olivia de Havilland es única. Pocas, como ella, reúnen belleza, simpatía y clase.
The second Japanese born actress WML Mystery Guest within a month. If the panel had ascertained that Miss de Havilland was born outside of the United States, that could have led them down the garden path for a little while at least.
My father was in the mink tee business with Gene Zeller. It was a novelty item. It was a conventional golf tee with a small piece of mink draped around the collar. They sold in in plastic case and I believe there were two tees in a case. I don’t believe it was a big seller. Gene Zeller’s history elsewhere in comments is correct. He was a furrier, and the son of Max Zeller of Max Zeller furs. The mink on the tees had to be remnants. The original business was in downtown Springfield, MA and continues in the same family in West Hartford, CT.
Bennett Cerf (Born May 25, 1898) he is 60 years old here💯💯‼️‼️
I'm appreciating it as I hit 60 next month. This show happened two years before I was born, and it helps me understand the national mood a little bit better, into which I would soon be born.
He would be 123 now
Mrs. Spooner was the first to protect our Boys in Blue!
Mink-trimmed Golf tees?!?...now I've heard in all!🤣🎩
It's crazy that Olivia de Havilland is still alive today as off 10th October 2019!!
as of Jan 26 2020 god bless her, keep her here on earth, she's one of the few left from old hollywood
I love the stunned look of the panel with the mink tee guy...they share my opinion that this is the stupidest occupation in the history of the show! LOL
Kenneth Butler Arlene asked the guy, “Why” as he shock her hand!
I have to assume you would have to be very rich to understand why someone would need such a thing.
I still don't understand what that is.
I am sure there are things in your life that you consider commonplace that someone in a poor country would find extravagantly frivolous to the point they would consider it silly for you to spend resources to acquire it.
This is the first time I’ve seen Ms. DeHaviland. I first heard her name when Elmer Fudd said that he very much wanted to meet her.
11:57 Bennett quizzically cocking his head and John humming the "3 down and 7 to go~" was so charming and funny!
It's Nov. 19th, 2019 and Olivia is now 103 yrs. old......Wow....
I think you'll find that it's Nov. 20th, 2019.
How I'd love to be part of one of those piano lessons - or maybe I wouldn't - nice to see my profession represented here. What an amazing son Mrs. Cliburn had..
RIP Olivia DeHavalland
Ha ha I liked Olivia's look of concern at John when he said about 'a different form of questionning'.....that's a lady who would be well-rehearsed before going on stage, so the suggestion of something she wasn't prepared for on live television, woah!!! Then the penny dropped.
I do get the feeling Bette Davis had plenty of respect for Olivia. When someone like Bette, who would neither suffer fools or tolerate anyone with attitude, likes someone I think that means they're pretty worthy professionally and personally. :)
Maybe I've never noticed it before and don't normally pay attention to the end but this is the first time iv'e noticed someone's hand taking off the "Whats my line?" picture at 26:07
+Ashoodle Oh, that's great-- I don't think I ever saw that before! Thanks for pointing it out.
Years later according to the legend, that hand would make a comeback as Mister Bill on Saturday Night Live.
That hand went on to play "Thing" in the Addams Family 6 years later.
@@loissimmons6558 Sixty-two year-old, Señor Wences moonlighting. Don't scoff, Mr. Moreno would keep working to the sprightly age of 100.
+Alfredo Santiago
Easy for Mr. Moreno. For me ees very deefeecult! But s'aright.
*_Piano Teacher (Van Cliburn's Mother)_*
*_Makes Bullet Proof Vests_*
*_Makes Mink Trimmed Golf Tees_*
The Spooners had three kids. Mrs. Spooner died in 1989 (in NYC). I somehow managed to find that out without falling down an arguing-about-body-armor rabbithole which I assure you most certainly must exist.
A guy testing the armor: blog.modernmechanix.com/most-dangerous-job-bullet-proof-vest-tester/
Centuries later, The Federation would give the job of testing Phaser-proof vests to the guys wearing the red shirts.
Olivia de Havilland is lovely!
I thought Bennett’s question of Olivia “Are you a happily married actress?” impertinent. What relevance does it have to identifying the MG unless he was intimately privy to their relationship? Even then, one can never assume a marriage is going swimmingly therefore potentially putting the MG in an awkward position if that were the case.
When asked “are you happily married,” the actress would answer based upon the public perception of her marriage regardless of what goes on inside the mansions’ walls. She is not testifying under oath. There is an online game, Akinator. I think it’s free. You think of a famous person and the computer asks yes or no questions until it guesses. If you try it you’ll notice many questions which seem impertinent but are actually effective
A "no" answer would mean she is either single, widowed or unhappily married which allows some elimination.
Happy birthday Bennett 🎉❤
Loovvee how Olivia is aging!! RIP 😇😇😇
The hand taking away the sign at the end. I guess that guy was in a hurry
Anyone wonder if John and Bennett had already begun celebrating Mr. Cerf's birthday before the show started?
Yes!
Olivia will be 104 in July!
People don’t write like that anymore 🙁
Bennett was watching Steve Allen!
+Joe Postove
For at least the second Sunday in a row.
Joe Postove They're all buddies with Allen having been a panellist for so long so I would be astonished if they didn't keep a tab on each other.
Gone with the wind. Light in the Pavillion. And so much more.
"Piazza"
2:05 "Panel mawdahwaydah". 10:30 I'm always amused by people who appeared to have had no neck.
Eamonn Andrews asked if the person who partakes of her service (piano lessons) is better for having done so. I think John Daly misunderstood, in that perhaps he was thinking of an spiritual or emotional betterment, and Mrs. X was answering the question directly that she could see if someone was getting better at what was being taught.
Yes.
She lived another 62+ years.
The questions about current movies tended to spoil the celebrity slot.
I wish they had shown a picture of a mink golf tee
AT LAST my profession came up! (first guest)
Bennett looked mad about the mink golf tee. Har har! 😡
1013pka - Thank you. Me too. What a stupid pointless item to spend money on.
Mink golf tees is hands down the STUPIDEST product ever on WML.
poetcomic1 - Boy that’s for sure. What an asinine concept.
@@lauracollins4195 Oh, I think it was par for the course.
Alfredo Santiago - Ha ha! You just made a hole in one. :D
@@algoritmosalfredohipicasig7116 Thanks for the laugh!
@@lauracollins4195 Thank you also for a good laugh.
Every Frenchman Has One
~ Olivia deHavilland
crippled children's treatment center.
how times have changed.
I remember Van Cliburn!
Dorothy would only have a few months,Olivia would have 62 years🎩
Is there a list of occupations (lines) anywhere?
The TV Guide website gives the lines of the contestants by episode: www.tv.com/shows/whats-my-line/episodes/all/?sortmode=oldest
Even her signature was beautiful
A bullet-proof vest IS restraining in that it restrains bullets from getting at you.
That question got a yes, but the follow up whether it can "subdue an opponent" got a no.
Eamon Andrews hosted the U.K. version of "This Is Your Life."
Bennett was 60, I think. Here is the only starring role he had in the movies.
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where have the wonderful actresses--like Olivia de Havilland and her sister Joan Fontaine--gone? it's funny, but i always thought that Olivia was much more robust and taller than Joan, but they were actually both 5'3" tall.
nowvoyagerNE -- There's a lengthy list of film actors and actresses from the 1930's through the 1960's or so that just have no equals today, in my opinion, or very few equals anyway. There's a wonderful "coffee table" book of glamorous photos of female movie stars from the 1930's called "They Had Faces Then" that I highly recommend. It has posed publicity portraits as well as stills from the sound stages featuring costumes and sets. Sadly, it's out of print now, but you can find copies on eBay and used book sources. Looking through it, I kept turning the pages and saying "Wow!" I don't think you could come up with a book quite like that with today's movie stars and have the same "wow-factor". It's not that there aren't talented actresses or actors working in Hollywood now, but as the book title states, they had faces then.
ToddSF 94109 thanks for the info :-) it sounds lovely.
They had style. They had grace. Rita Hayworth gave good face.
@@ToddSF Yes. Nowadays, the actresses are all botoxed, fake-bosomed, Malibu Barbies and the men are mostly emasculated.
@@loissimmons6558 🤣
Olivia De Haviland spent about half her life in the States and the rest in France, yet the British made her a Dame. They give too many of these titles out now adays but basically Olivia got it because she lived so long. If she deserved it so did her sister both were wonderful actresses.
”Make mine mink!”
Mink trimmed golf tees? Say what!?? 😂
The thought of Minks being slaughtered just to create novelty golf tees seems particularly appalling and unforgivable. I hope the craze was soon recognised as such and swiftly brought to an end.
Why did the women on the panel stand to shake the hand of the first contestant? They didn't for Olivia de Havilland.
Good question
They did that when the contestants were older than them, or when they were a very influential figure such as Eleanor Roosevelt.
@@juliehuston8609 But Arlene Francis did NOT stand for Mrs Roosevelt. Which I found odd.
I sometimes think Bennet Cerf was given a hint of what the guests' lines were.
I watched her sister, Joan Fontaine, on a very very early version of “the match game” and I can see why Olivia didn’t want to speak to her for the rest of her life.
Why not?
That sounds like a totally disrespectful thing to say. Joan was a brilliant actress and starred in the very best versions of Jane Eyre and Rebecca.
@@peternagy-im4be they competed with each other for Oscars and one of them beat out the other one one year but beyond that you’d have to research it if it didn’t go to the grave with both of them
A guy that makes mink lined golf tees? That should fool everybody on the panel.....AND DID. LOL.
Arlene doesn’t miss a chance to butter up a producer if not marry them
Didn’t seem right seeing Olivia without Errol Flynn!
I never seen Gone with the Wind. Is it worth watching?
Doug w. Absolutely.
chord972 I've seen it many times on the small screen over he years, but I only got to see it on the big screen once back in college. I'm sure the latest restoration would be like a whole new experience. I just don't know if I can sit still in a movie theater for 4 hours at this point in my life!
+Doug w. A little long
Have you seen it yet ? If not its worth watching I promise .
For lovers of this movie the length is irrelevant. A lover here.
how many times did Dot say "rah-ther than"
11:54 what is happening? :)
you can see bennet's eyes moving back and forth between the lady and john...i suspect john had an odd look on his face or nodded or something which made bennet hesitate to believe the lady's response.
Mink trimmed golf tees? Talk about conspicuous consumption! (Don't tell PETA).
Seriously! I can't imagine a more unnecessary product to kill animals for!
What's My Line? I totally agree, I have been asked to make a lot of strange things, but never this product.
Naturally you can buy these things on ebay and etsy. The 50's also gave us mink-trimmed sunglasses.
What's My Line? -- A mink-trimmed golf tree definitely had to have been a novelty item. I'm thinking the company that made them probably bought small pieces of mink, the trimmings, from companies that made mink coats, stoles, muffs, etc., because those small bits of leftover mink would be suffiicient to trim out something as small as a golf tee. Mink pelts in the coat and stole industry had to be trimmed to specific sizes and shapes, mostly four sided, so that they could be sewn together to form a coat or stole, leaving all the pieces surrounding such shapes that wouldn't be useful to the coast and stole manufacturers. Not that I approve of killing minks or chinchillas or the like for making coats in the first place, but, in 1958, people thought nothing of it and almost every woman would have loved to have had mink coat if they could have afforded to buy one and pay for its ongoing upkeep.
According to information turned up by one of the best commenting sleuths on this channel, Mr. Zeller's family's business was furs. They would have had plenty of remnants and presumably no other minks would need to be killed.
Under the scenes we'd like to see department: taking your golf tee to get it appraised.
Hey . This woman had Erroll Flynn. .they were in love. She just new deep down he was a player.
Mr Bennet is celebrating his 38th birthday ?? wtf. How times have changed. My son is 38
John was joking, Bennett was 60 that day.
Bennett was born in 1898.
Hi! :) Me again! I love Olivia de Havilland, she's amazing. I'm continuing to watch as many of these episodes as I can; I know this is a far stretch, but do you happen to have any episodes of the original Password? I hope this doesn't come off as ungrateful because I really am so glad you upload all these WMLs, there's just a huge shortage of Password's here and if you have some that would be amazing. But again, thanks so much for these WMLs and I really look forward to the next 9 years worth :D
No, I don't have Password, sorry. WML is the only old game show I have a large run of.
What do Arlene and Patti Page have in common? They both actually looked better in the latter 50s than the earlier 50s.
Bennett Cerf looks a lot older than 38
Back the day, when Men Stood for a Lady.
Equal rights? No. Equal pay? No.Thanks, but men can stay seated.
Women’s Lib ruined that
@@suible 🙄
Cerf fans: Beware of wolves in sheep’s clothing