@ 1981OSNY. I couldn't have said it better myself! You are so right that "What's My Line" should be shown nightly on television to show the current generation in this country how classy people were to each other back in the 1950's and 1960's.
Years prior to Mr. Fontaine passing I got to meet and dine with him when his manager was Mr. Frank Shilosky. I recollect him coming to Mr. Shilosky's home on one Christmas day. I laughed so much that my sides were sore from the laughter. He, at least when I was around, always smiled and laughed He was not just an entertainer with a pleasant disposition but always made the environment so pleasant and happy.
I grew up in Haverhill Massachusetts.... French Canadian family. We lived in the Lafayette Square area...the French section. Frankie came from our neighborhood. My father knew him. Met him and shook his hand in the very early 60's. A local hero. Great video. So many memories.
I grew up near Fitchburg Massachusetts. Lots of French Canadiens all around Massachusetts. Those who were not French Canadiens were Finnish. Those who were not Finnish were Irish. Particularly the closer you got to Boston
Although I was just a young boy at the time I still remember the Jackie Gleason show and crazy Guggenheim, however it's the first time I ever saw Frank Fontaine as himself
This was apparently well before there was much known about chiropractic medicine. The name McGillicuddy was the name that Lucille Ball used as her maiden name in I Love Lucy. I loved Desi Arnaz’s pronunciation of McGillicuddy.😂
A particularly delightful show. John and the panel come across as very kind and gracious people and it's obvious that they have a genuine fondness for one another. Frank Fontaine was also delightful and I'm sorry that I was too young to see him on TV. I will search for him and Jackie Gleason here on RUclips.
I grew up watching Ingalls and Frank Fontaine and they were funny as hell. Both could have had their own Vegas shows. Just FYI : Ingalls was married to actress Shirley Jones almost 40 years!
I think Mrs. Mcgillicuddy was trying to say that she was, indeed, a relation to Connie Mack (I think I heard that) but Bennett's verbal freight train was moving so fast she didn't have a chance to get it out.
Bennett should have lost his turn, and Mrs. McGillicuddy should have advanced $5, but John Daly was trying to catch up on the verbal freight train (good phrase!) and missed Bennett’s mistake. Bennett had just been a guest panelist on Front Page Challenge in Toronto (same format as WML) and likely thought a challenger from Toronto must have been the waitress who served him in the bar of The Royal York Hotel, drove his taxi, or dry-cleaned his suit. It would have been more polite to be less self-centred and listen to Mrs. McGillicuddy’s explanation of her relationship to Con Mac. Imagine being a chiropractor in 1919 - that lady likely had some interesting stories.
Too bad they don't make shows like this anymore. The stupid stuff they have on today just isn't to the level of the quality of the shows in the '50's and '60's, even some in the '70's. My parents and grandparents loved this show and so many others of this era.
TV has always pandered to the lowest common denominator. Unfortunately, folks today are considerably dumber than they were fifty years ago, which is why today's shows are more vapid.
I watched these shows in the 60’s, they were all great! The reason we don’t have ANTHING in movies or TV nowadays is because of the 1 MAJOR problem; STUPID NO-TALENT “ACTORS, DIRECTORS, PRODUCERS, WRITERS” ETC.! They’re just too interested in popularity online, their “image”, & idiotic left-wing politics! They’re completely incapable of creating anything good or funny. They attempt to make “modern” copies of the truly great old shows & ALWAYS fail miserably!
My Dad and I watched Gleason Show every week and I loved Frankie Fontaine as Crazy G. - at age 6- he was my first celebrity impression - I'm a male - btw
Frank Fontaine was also a wonderful singer. He often sang on Gleason's show, and released an album, which I bought as a teenager. It did very well, as I recall. He also appeared on the Jack Benny Program, but I don't remember that he sang.
Spoofed in many cartoons..(As that lion in those two Huckleberry Hound cartoons, voiced by Daws Butler., and as Pete Puma in the early Bugs cartoon, by Butler fdreidn Stan Freberg. Freberg and Butler at Hanna-Barbera wou;d have been a dream treat for them, and me.:))
I remember watching Marty Ingels in the situation comedy "I'm Dickens, he's Fenster." I first saw it when I was with my family in England in 1962, when the show started on both sides of the Atlantic.
I remember that show well. It ran for only one season. Marty Ingles played Fenster, and John Astin (who later played Gomez Addams on the Addams Family) was Dickens. It was an excellent situation comedy that should have had a longer run. Unfortunately, it was doomed by being aired in a time slot dominated by two major hit series: Sing Along With Mitch and Route 66.
Two of Frank Fontaine's most memorable performances as a supporting player in the movies are the 1950 film "Stella" (in which he plays Don) and especially the 1951 film "The Model and The Marriage Broker" (in which he plays Hjalmar Johansson).
Use to watch the repeat of the Jackie Gleason show in the mid 1970s, was a preeteen when our family loved "Craze", what a great low key great comedian, one of the the best in TV.
Shirley Jones appeared as a WML Sunday night mystery guest once. Her first husband was Jack Cassidy, who appeared fairly regularly on syndicated WML. After his accidental death, she married tonight's guest panelist Marty Ingels.
Second contestant. Arlene does one of the best line of general to specific questioning I seen in a while. If Arlene had applied herself to finishing the job, Dorothy would not have scooped it up for herself so easy.
Arlene Francis is a real pro - she filled an awkward pause when Frank Fontaine had not a lot to say and there wasn't time to bring on a 3rd contestant. John Daly could have filled in with a question but Arlene got in first with her praise of Mr Fontaine. I think her actor's instinct told her to keep the show going when Mr F wasn't as funny as the audience expected.
John Gee - He was a funny man, but quite shy, as many performers are when just as themselves. Arlene was often quick to step in, even with someone like Steve Allen as the MG, and mention his new book which John neglected to plug. John was mostly busy plugging his past experiences and things his acquaintances had done. Arlene almost always, Dorothy sometimes and even someone like Tony Randall, who was a consummate performer, would step in and mention the name of a play or movie or book and keep the MG in the swim of things onstage while John was off living out his onanistic love of himself. To the great credit of Arlene, Tony, Martin Gable, sometimes Dorothy they gave kudos to performers who had something wonderful up presently or had done some great work in their past. When they were planning a retrospective on this show's 17 years on network some years back, they had wanted to do a huge segment on the MGs because they thought people would appreciate seeing some of the old stars. They could not use most of what they had because it was John talking about what he had done with them in the past or someone he knew that he thought they should know or making some comment about their number of children, which is not the most interesting facet of an exceptional artist or scientist or athlete. Or it was John blathering on about not wanting to embarrass them, but that they were the most wonderful whatever it was ever, instead of discussing their career and work with them in an interesting, less sugary manner. So they left out the MGs part of the retrospective because when compiled it was truly that godawful with John. He was good when he was moderating the game in progress, but that was it.
......I think it would have been a treat to the audience, the panel and Daly if Frankie had sung a bar or two of a song in that incredibly smooth, unmistakable honeyed baritone of his just to confirm to everyone that it was really him.....! Lol
@@SueProv I am sorry, but it is noticeable when you watch these consecutively. It is true and in all the books about the program that the network could not use the MG segments in their 25 year anniversary show because they had not realized, until watching a lot of them at once, that John went on about himself a lot. He was a good moderator for the running of the show, so I was criticizing this one aspect - his interviewing.
I'm not surprised Ingels got "Crazy Guggenheim". They were both essentially expert supporting actors. Surely he knew Fontaine's act pretty well as different as his was. I liked the Gleason show, mainly for The Honeymooners, even though the second version didn't come close to the quality of the first. Oh, and i loved the June Taylor dancers and their mini-Busby Berkeley performances. However, for unadulterated and constant laughter, nothing on that show matched Fontaine with Gleason as Crazy Guggenheim and Joe the Bartender. I remember wishing the sketch would go on longer than whatever its allotted time was. It's nice to see him here and rekindle those entertaining memories. As for his singing, it was like Jim Nabors as Gomer vs Jim Nabors as Carol Burnett's first guest every year. As a kid, I was amazed.
the first time I saw him sing,wow.I couldn't believe it .beautiful voice,coming out of that crazy face.lol.wow, he could really sing,wonder full,he was one of my favorite comedian s.
His "Crazy" mannerisms and sometimes his voice, bears a striking resemblance to Curly of The Three Stooges. However, Curly's high-pitched voice was one he made up for the character, and not his real, deep voice, which sometimes he used in a short. Example, "Crash Goes the Hash" (1944), when he is talking to Larry on getting a picture as a server to the guests.
He could have broken out in his marvelous baritone singing! I remember when he died in 1970, at such a young age from a heart attack. He was marvelous, just as Art Carney was to be the other comedic foil for Jackie. They were 3 of the finest comedic talent seen on network television then, and never surpassed after Jackie's show ended also in 1970.
I had a hih? Reaction with the intro of Dorothy being followed by Marty Ingles' thanks for his intro and had to look twice to make sure Dorothy hadn't undergone some kind of trasmorgrification. Sometimes those missing bits can cause confusion😄
“It's time to end this little masquerade. There ain't no Atlas, kid. Never was. Fella in my line a work takes on a variety of aliases. Hell, once I was even a Chinaman for six months. But, you've been a sport, so I guess I owe you a little honesty. The name's Frank
Feeling jumpy? Look at how the kinescope jumps from Dorothy taking her place, to Marty taking himself. No doubt damage from assembling "What's My Line at 25".
I remember watching the "Jackie Gleason American Scene Magazine." Amazing show. Frank Fontaine was fantastic both in comedy and singing. 11 children. When did he find time to sing?
@@HansDelbruck53, if he could financially do it, at least he repopulated the earth, and did not think about his generation as being it. Our birthrate in this country is at historic lows, and taxation-wise and economically speaking it is going to come back to bite us sooner rather than later. In fact, even from a survival standpoint, it will. Its indisputably inescapable..
@@czcrossman, if you are not snowing us, the last time I saw your uncle was while I was living in Odessa, Tx., and on TV he was doing local ads/tv spots for an RV store in town..That was in 1985-1989 territory.. What happened to him? I can do an impression of him which is my impression of the Loony Toon's PETE PUMA which he or someone else voiced.. "ONE LUMP OR TWO, MR.BUNNY RABBIT. (sleeeesh).." As Crazy G.: "Set another one up, Joe..sleeesh.." What did happen to him? I just read that he died in '78 at 58 of a heart attack.. It must have been an actor pretending to be CRAZY GUGGENHEIM IN ODESSA.. I'll be darned..
Unusual for a woman, Mrs Mc Gillicuddy, to be a chiropractor since 1919. She was so petite and her hands looked so arthritic. It takes physical strength to adjust the spine and neck.
+Chris Barat He was probably warned by CBS to not mention any happenings of the current day after his faux pas in mentioning the Mets-Giants game still going on during the show of May 31.
Final: Philadelphia Phillies 6, New York Mets 0, in the first game of a double-header sweep for the Phillies at Shea Stadium. The game took only 2 hours and 19 minutes. Bunning struck out 10 along the way. (Losing picture for the Mets was Tracy Stallard, who gave up all 6 Phillies runs in 5 2/3 innings of pitching (1 in the 1st, 1 in the 2nd, and 4 in the 6th).) By the way: Gus Triandos was the Philadelphia catcher for that game. The first run was driven in by Dick Allen, and Bunning himself drove in the last 2 runs with a 2-out double to center field in the 6th. And Philadelphia beat the Mets 8-2 in the second game of the double-header. Rookie pitcher Rick Wise picked up the win in his first major-league game pitched. (Frank Lary was the losing pitcher for the Mets.) At days' end, the Phillies' won-loss record was 38-23; the Mets, 20-47. (Another by the way: 17 days earlier, on 4 June 1964, the Phillies had been on the losing end of a no-hitter thrown by Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax (his 3rd of four career no-hitters). The Dodgers beat the Phillies 3-0 in a game at Connie Mack Stadium which took only 1 hour and 55 minutes.)
+Tom Dockery The Mets-Phillies double header was long over by the time WML came on this day. I would be surprised if there was ever any other Sunday where one of the NY baseball teams was still playing when WML was on.
+jmccracken1963 Bunning is one of only five pitchers to throw a no-hitter in both leagues and Triandos is one of only five catchers to catch a no-hitter in both leagues. Bunning was with the Tigers when he no-hit the Red Sox on July 20, 1958. Exactly two months later, Triandos caught Hoyt Wilhelm's no-hitter against the Yankees.
[ 10:30 ] Dorothy looked great in 1964. Big hairstyles. Not skinny. She didn’t miss a broadcast from mid 1963 to her accident [stay tuned] in early 1965. Another high waist line on Dorothy. Her dress would have looked stunning on color TV. So would the dress of the first contestant. As I wrote in other posts, my mother at the time wondered if Dorothy were pregnant. Good trick for a woman of 50. I wonder what went on between Dorothy and Marty that Fates considered it worthy of WML-25
Perhaps nationally Arlene Francis was first woman to have a talk show, but it was Ruth Lyons in Cincinnati who invented what is now known as the modrrn day talk show. She also had the first simulcadt tv/radio broadcast worldwide!
Ingles also voiced Beelzebub in several episodes of DARKWING DUCK, including the notorious (and subsequently censored) "Hot Spells," in which DW literally sold his soul to the devil.
@@jmccracken1963 You'd think perhaps a business card, but she took a long time setting it on the desk, rather than just handing it to him. Why would he want it, unless he travelled to Toronto often and had back pain? But, as she went down the line to depart, he was looking at it carefully, then picked it up and it almost looked like a trinket or piece of jewelry and Arlene was looking at it with him. Perhaps a tchotchke from Toronto?
always loved the classy repertoire maintained for this game show. always dressed to the hilt and so respectful to the guests. i think a lot of that had to do with new york being the 2nd center of the entertainment industry in those days. a very different atmosphere.
When Frank was on as the mystery guest, as the game went on, his normal voice began to creep back in so I knew it wouldn't last long. But he has the type of voice that would be hard to disguise anyway.
SuperWinterborn And I hate how YT/G+ marked TheGadgetPanda's comment as spam. I saw nothing wrong with his comment. What gave them the right to mark it as spam?
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What's My Line? This is what happens when a company is getting too big. The brains fall out, and the consumers are stuck with the idiocy. If you at least by fraternizing with the burglar could get him arrested, it would be something! But alas! I'm afraid that's not how it works either.*G+ vs FB. Who wins?* It wouldn't surprise me if a third part showed up in the arena soon. What a wonderful new world.
So much for global warming! It is June 19th, 2024! 60 years later! I am 26, and this is so fascinating to me! A snapshot in time! As an addendum: it is the middle 90s in Cleveland!
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MY DAD adored Frank Fontaine, more for his great baritone than anything else! ♥
Mine as well.
Frank Fontaine was a superb gentleman and a great entertainer!!!!!
Such a joy to watch this show.
Dolphin 2121 - I know. I'm addicted.
The big three game shows. What's My Line, To Tell The Truth and I've Got A secret. Miss them all.
Check out Joe e Brown, Jack Benny and you'll be laughing your socks off 😂😊
Frank Fontaine was a great talent. Arlene's comment to him was very classy.
Networks today should run reruns constantly of this entire series to show people in the present day how to act like civilized adults
@ 1981OSNY. I couldn't have said it better myself! You are so right that "What's My Line" should be shown nightly on television to show the current generation in this country how classy people were to each other back in the 1950's and 1960's.
@@1981OSNY Amen to that... many things have chsnged for the better in the past 56 years, but the dignity of human beings is, sadly, not among them.
Indeed he was... so versatile and a wonderful talent.
Sweet that frank Fontaine waved to the audience. 11 children! 😮
I loved watching the Jackie Gleason show, weekly. My favorite Crazy Guggenheim, line was : Hiya Joe, hello Mr Dunnaghy🤣
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Years prior to Mr. Fontaine passing I got to meet and dine with him when his manager was Mr. Frank Shilosky. I recollect him coming to Mr. Shilosky's home on one Christmas day. I laughed so much that my sides were sore from the laughter. He, at least when I was around, always smiled and laughed He was not just an entertainer with a pleasant disposition but always made the environment so pleasant and happy.
I grew up in Haverhill Massachusetts.... French Canadian family. We lived in the Lafayette Square area...the French section. Frankie came from our neighborhood. My father knew him. Met him and shook his hand in the very early 60's. A local hero. Great video. So many memories.
I grew up near Fitchburg Massachusetts. Lots of French Canadiens all around Massachusetts. Those who were not French Canadiens were Finnish. Those who were not Finnish were Irish. Particularly the closer you got to Boston
Frankie was my father's cousin. They look alike
THAT is how you do a Mystery Guest appearance: yes and no in a false accent. Nothing more to give yourself away.
Although I was just a young boy at the time I still remember the Jackie Gleason show and crazy Guggenheim, however it's the first time I ever saw Frank Fontaine as himself
This was apparently well before there was much known about chiropractic medicine.
The name McGillicuddy was the name that Lucille Ball used as her maiden name in I Love Lucy. I loved Desi Arnaz’s pronunciation of McGillicuddy.😂
I love it when the mystery guest really disguises his voice. Using a British accent was a stroke of genius.
A particularly delightful show. John and the panel come across as very kind and gracious people and it's obvious that they have a genuine fondness for one another. Frank Fontaine was also delightful and I'm sorry that I was too young to see him on TV. I will search for him and Jackie Gleason here on RUclips.
John Daly was an absolute darling of a man.
That he was.
The world was blessed by Frank Fontaine.
I grew up watching Ingalls and Frank Fontaine and they were funny as hell. Both could have had their own Vegas shows. Just FYI : Ingalls was married to actress Shirley Jones almost 40 years!
Didn't think, and still don't, that they were married that long..he was a mistake in her life..THAT I know
Don't know WHAT she ever saw in him..Cassidy was a mistake as well
... maybe she wanted to try marrying a nice guy ... ?
I think Mrs. Mcgillicuddy was trying to say that she was, indeed, a relation to Connie Mack (I think I heard that) but Bennett's verbal freight train was moving so fast she didn't have a chance to get it out.
I was thinking she had something to do with I Love Lucy, lol. I always thought Mrs McGillicuddy was a made up name.
Bennett should have lost his turn, and Mrs. McGillicuddy should have advanced $5, but John Daly was trying to catch up on the verbal freight train (good phrase!) and missed Bennett’s mistake. Bennett had just been a guest panelist on Front Page Challenge in Toronto (same format as WML) and likely thought a challenger from Toronto must have been the waitress who served him in the bar of The Royal York Hotel, drove his taxi, or dry-cleaned his suit. It would have been more polite to be less self-centred and listen to Mrs. McGillicuddy’s explanation of her relationship to Con Mac. Imagine being a chiropractor in 1919 - that lady likely had some interesting stories.
Too bad they don't make shows like this anymore. The stupid stuff they have on today just isn't to the level of the quality of the shows in the '50's and '60's, even some in the '70's. My parents and grandparents loved this show and so many others of this era.
TV has always pandered to the lowest common denominator. Unfortunately, folks today are considerably dumber than they were fifty years ago, which is why today's shows are more vapid.
I was lucky enough to be able to watch it as a kid, as early as the mid-'50s. It was the only night I was allowed to stay up that late.
Idek how long it's been since I last turned my TV on 😂
I watched these shows in the 60’s, they were all great! The reason we don’t have ANTHING in movies or TV nowadays is because of the 1 MAJOR problem; STUPID NO-TALENT “ACTORS, DIRECTORS, PRODUCERS, WRITERS” ETC.! They’re just too interested in popularity online, their “image”, & idiotic left-wing politics! They’re completely incapable of creating anything good or funny. They attempt to make “modern” copies of the truly great old shows & ALWAYS fail miserably!
My Dad and I watched Gleason Show every week and I loved Frankie Fontaine as Crazy G. - at age 6- he was my first celebrity impression - I'm a male - btw
A male named Rachel?
Frank Fontaine was also a wonderful singer. He often sang on Gleason's show, and released an album, which I bought as a teenager. It did very well, as I recall.
He also appeared on the Jack Benny Program, but I don't remember that he sang.
His LP, "Songs I Sing On The Jackie Gleason Show," had been released in 1963.
Spoofed in many cartoons..(As that lion in those two Huckleberry Hound cartoons, voiced by Daws Butler., and as Pete Puma in the early Bugs cartoon, by Butler fdreidn Stan Freberg. Freberg and Butler at Hanna-Barbera wou;d have been a dream treat for them, and me.:))
I had that same Frank Fontaine album. I remember the song "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles." Ah, those were the days of national innocence.
@@SteveCarras Pete the Puma did not like hot tea. (Because of the lumps.)
Here's the Jack Benny Program that Frank Fontaine appeared on: ruclips.net/video/WR3iyMNf3SA/видео.html
Arlene Francis, one beautiful lady.
I remember watching Marty Ingels in the situation comedy "I'm Dickens, he's Fenster." I first saw it when I was with my family in England in 1962, when the show started on both sides of the Atlantic.
I remember that show well. It ran for only one season. Marty Ingles played Fenster, and John Astin (who later played Gomez Addams on the Addams Family) was Dickens. It was an excellent situation comedy that should have had a longer run. Unfortunately, it was doomed by being aired in a time slot dominated by two major hit series: Sing Along With Mitch and Route 66.
Two of Frank Fontaine's most memorable performances as a supporting player in the movies are the 1950 film "Stella" (in which he plays Don) and especially the 1951 film "The Model and The Marriage Broker" (in which he plays Hjalmar Johansson).
I’m add those two films to my bucket list.
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Frank Fontaine had beautiful cursive! The schools that discontinued cursive were very misguided.
@@leannsherman6723My mom had beautiful cursive handwriting. She was born in 1922. ❤
Always loved when Craze came on!! ❤️
Use to watch the repeat of the Jackie Gleason show in the mid 1970s, was a preeteen when our family loved "Craze", what a great low key great comedian, one of the the best in TV.
Mr.Fontaine also appeared on the nationally syndicated version of"What's My Line"years later.
Shirley Jones appeared as a WML Sunday night mystery guest once. Her first husband was Jack Cassidy, who appeared fairly regularly on syndicated WML. After his accidental death, she married tonight's guest panelist Marty Ingels.
She looked pissed off that they didn't guess her.
Shirley Jones' appearance was fraught with technical difficulties.
Unbelievably !??? What WAS she thinking? Shirley Jones had a beautiful voice !
22:00, Arlene what a class act! This was a fabulous show! A+!
Amazing T.V. Entertainment with one sponsor.❤ that hasn’t happened for a while.
Love the whistles from the guys.
They've been doing that since the mid-50s... and the 60s. And.... ?
Frank Fontaine was the greatest!
Back then they all respected one another very well spoken.. They were very well dressed and we could tell who was male and female.
11 kids, Crazy wasn't as crazy as he seemed!!
Marty Ingels was married to actress Shirley Jones for 38 years - lucky dog!!
Yeah, still trying to figure that one out
He didn't deserve her
Second contestant. Arlene does one of the best line of general to specific questioning I seen in a while. If Arlene had applied herself to finishing the job, Dorothy would not have scooped it up for herself so easy.
soulierinvestments - I like your statements. They are usually astute.
People on tv were so much more gracious & well mannered then.
McGillicuddy was the maiden name that Lucille Ball used in I Love Lucy. 😂
John explaining Honda...LOL yes I remember their pre cars days too!
"Crazy" Guggenheim!!!
This is the reality TV of those days!
Arlene Francis is a real pro - she filled an awkward pause when Frank Fontaine had not a lot to say and there wasn't time to bring on a 3rd contestant. John Daly could have filled in with a question but Arlene got in first with her praise of Mr Fontaine. I think her actor's instinct told her to keep the show going when Mr F wasn't as funny as the audience expected.
John Gee - He was a funny man, but quite shy, as many performers are when just as themselves. Arlene was often quick to step in, even with someone like Steve Allen as the MG, and mention his new book which John neglected to plug. John was mostly busy plugging his past experiences and things his acquaintances had done. Arlene almost always, Dorothy sometimes and even someone like Tony Randall, who was a consummate performer, would step in and mention the name of a play or movie or book and keep the MG in the swim of things onstage while John was off living out his onanistic love of himself. To the great credit of Arlene, Tony, Martin Gable, sometimes Dorothy they gave kudos to performers who had something wonderful up presently or had done some great work in their past. When they were planning a retrospective on this show's 17 years on network some years back, they had wanted to do a huge segment on the MGs because they thought people would appreciate seeing some of the old stars. They could not use most of what they had because it was John talking about what he had done with them in the past or someone he knew that he thought they should know or making some comment about their number of children, which is not the most interesting facet of an exceptional artist or scientist or athlete. Or it was John blathering on about not wanting to embarrass them, but that they were the most wonderful whatever it was ever, instead of discussing their career and work with them in an interesting, less sugary manner. So they left out the MGs part of the retrospective because when compiled it was truly that godawful with John. He was good when he was moderating the game in progress, but that was it.
......I think it would have been a treat to the audience, the panel and Daly if Frankie had sung a bar or two of a song in that incredibly smooth, unmistakable honeyed baritone of his just to confirm to everyone that it was really him.....! Lol
@@philippapay4352ou have the nerve to talk about John Daly blathering?
@@SueProv I am sorry, but it is noticeable when you watch these consecutively. It is true and in all the books about the program that the network could not use the MG segments in their 25 year anniversary show because they had not realized, until watching a lot of them at once, that John went on about himself a lot. He was a good moderator for the running of the show, so I was criticizing this one aspect - his interviewing.
I'm not surprised Ingels got "Crazy Guggenheim". They were both essentially expert supporting actors. Surely he knew Fontaine's act pretty well as different as his was. I liked the Gleason show, mainly for The Honeymooners, even though the second version didn't come close to the quality of the first. Oh, and i loved the June Taylor dancers and their mini-Busby Berkeley performances. However, for unadulterated and constant laughter, nothing on that show matched Fontaine with Gleason as Crazy Guggenheim and Joe the Bartender. I remember wishing the sketch would go on longer than whatever its allotted time was. It's nice to see him here and rekindle those entertaining memories. As for his singing, it was like Jim Nabors as Gomer vs Jim Nabors as Carol Burnett's first guest every year. As a kid, I was amazed.
I remember his "Crazy Guggenheim" on "The Jackie Gleason Show."
I've known who Crazy was ever since I was very young. I'm 64 now. But, here today on June 24th, 2024 is when I first heard his real voice.
the first time I saw him sing,wow.I couldn't believe it .beautiful voice,coming out of that crazy face.lol.wow, he could really sing,wonder full,he was one of my favorite comedian s.
McGillicuddy was Lucy’s maiden name in
“I Love Lucy.” 😂
All Frank Fontaine probably had to do was speak in his normal voice since everyone at the time would think of him as Crazy Guggenheim! 🤣🤣
His "Crazy" mannerisms and sometimes his voice, bears a striking resemblance to Curly of The Three Stooges. However, Curly's high-pitched voice was one he made up for the character, and not his real, deep voice, which sometimes he used in a short. Example, "Crash Goes the Hash" (1944), when he is talking to Larry on getting a picture as a server to the guests.
Marty was a very good guest panelist.
I want to go back to that time.
I wonder what Mrs. McGillicuddy gave to Bennett Cerf.
The legendary FRANK FONTAINE doing his Crazy Guggenheim shtick on WML?…now THAT’S CLASSIC TV!
He could have broken out in his marvelous baritone singing! I remember when he died in 1970, at such a young age from a heart attack. He was marvelous, just as Art Carney was to be the other comedic foil for Jackie. They were 3 of the finest comedic talent seen on network television then, and never surpassed after Jackie's show ended also in 1970.
Dorothy was a genius.
I had a hih? Reaction with the intro of Dorothy being followed by Marty Ingles' thanks for his intro and had to look twice to make sure Dorothy hadn't undergone some kind of trasmorgrification. Sometimes those missing bits can cause confusion😄
Loved his laugh along with Gildersleeve and the red pop commercials LOL
“It's time to end this little masquerade. There ain't no Atlas, kid. Never was. Fella in my line a work takes on a variety of aliases. Hell, once I was even a Chinaman for six months. But, you've been a sport, so I guess I owe you a little honesty. The name's Frank
I see im not the only one here for this reason
Oh, come on John Charles Daly - they were clearly more men using motorcycles back then.
Yeah a am sure of that, even now, but 'near' half.
Wonder is she rode one, they didnt ask :(
Very sharp 77year- old!
And walks straight!
Feeling jumpy? Look at how the kinescope jumps from Dorothy taking her place, to Marty taking himself.
No doubt damage from assembling "What's My Line at 25".
Always looked forward to watching him on the Jackie Gleason show. Was it Crazy Guggenheim?
I see that Frank Fontaine WAS NOT billed as "Crazy Guggenheim" (ala "Rochester").
Marty Ingels was very sharp!!
Thats convenient that Frank Fontaine is also the villain in bioshock😂
My fifth grade friend Franny was a Frank Fontaine fanatic
I remember watching the "Jackie Gleason American Scene Magazine." Amazing show. Frank Fontaine was fantastic both in comedy and singing. 11 children. When did he find time to sing?
soulierinvestments Ask his wife.
He was my uncle and his little sister (my grandma) had FOURTEEN KIDS lol they were good Catholics 😂
@@czcrossman Not a exactly a family sponsored by Trojan condoms.
@@HansDelbruck53, if he could financially do it, at least he repopulated the earth, and did not think about his generation as being it. Our birthrate in this country is at historic lows, and taxation-wise and economically speaking it is going to come back to bite us sooner rather than later. In fact, even from a survival standpoint, it will.
Its indisputably inescapable..
@@czcrossman, if you are not snowing us, the last time I saw your uncle was while I was living in Odessa, Tx., and on TV he was doing local ads/tv spots for an RV store in town..That was in 1985-1989 territory..
What happened to him? I can do an impression of him which is my impression of the Loony Toon's PETE PUMA which he or someone else voiced..
"ONE LUMP OR TWO, MR.BUNNY RABBIT. (sleeeesh).." As Crazy G.:
"Set another one up, Joe..sleeesh.."
What did happen to him?
I just read that he died in '78 at 58 of a heart attack..
It must have been an actor pretending to be CRAZY GUGGENHEIM IN ODESSA..
I'll be darned..
I haven't seen a bread box in decades!
I have one. My neighbor who loved to work with wood, made it for me.
Marty Ingels was good at this...
4 months later in Santa
Monica, the TAMI show!
That was my 14th birthday.Yes,it was hot.
Unusual for a woman, Mrs Mc Gillicuddy, to be a chiropractor since 1919. She was so petite and her hands looked so arthritic. It takes physical strength to adjust the spine and neck.
Crazy Googlheim was my favorite on Jackie Gleason, Hi ya Joe
My Dad loved walking around the house imitating Crazy Gugenheim.
Frank Fontaine is going to be in the "Royal Box". But I heard the "Royal Box" was closed for repairs....
Huh, no mention of the perfect game Jim Bunning pitched for the Phillies that day at Shea! I thought Bennett, at least, would be all over that.
+Chris Barat He was probably warned by CBS to not mention any happenings of the current day after his faux pas in mentioning the Mets-Giants game still going on during the show of May 31.
Final: Philadelphia Phillies 6, New York Mets 0, in the first game of a double-header sweep for the Phillies at Shea Stadium. The game took only 2 hours and 19 minutes. Bunning struck out 10 along the way. (Losing picture for the Mets was Tracy Stallard, who gave up all 6 Phillies runs in 5 2/3 innings of pitching (1 in the 1st, 1 in the 2nd, and 4 in the 6th).)
By the way: Gus Triandos was the Philadelphia catcher for that game. The first run was driven in by Dick Allen, and Bunning himself drove in the last 2 runs with a 2-out double to center field in the 6th.
And Philadelphia beat the Mets 8-2 in the second game of the double-header. Rookie pitcher Rick Wise picked up the win in his first major-league game pitched. (Frank Lary was the losing pitcher for the Mets.)
At days' end, the Phillies' won-loss record was 38-23; the Mets, 20-47.
(Another by the way: 17 days earlier, on 4 June 1964, the Phillies had been on the losing end of a no-hitter thrown by Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax (his 3rd of four career no-hitters). The Dodgers beat the Phillies 3-0 in a game at Connie Mack Stadium which took only 1 hour and 55 minutes.)
Don Drysdale had permission to miss that game.When told that Koufax had pitched a no-hitter he asked:"Did he win?"
+Tom Dockery
The Mets-Phillies double header was long over by the time WML came on this day. I would be surprised if there was ever any other Sunday where one of the NY baseball teams was still playing when WML was on.
+jmccracken1963
Bunning is one of only five pitchers to throw a no-hitter in both leagues and Triandos is one of only five catchers to catch a no-hitter in both leagues. Bunning was with the Tigers when he no-hit the Red Sox on July 20, 1958. Exactly two months later, Triandos caught Hoyt Wilhelm's no-hitter against the Yankees.
Why doesn’t John Daly be quiet and let his guests answer for themselves?
Wonderful show. Was it my imagination, or was Arlene snockered?
[ 10:30 ] Dorothy looked great in 1964. Big hairstyles. Not skinny. She didn’t miss a broadcast from mid 1963 to her accident [stay tuned] in early 1965.
Another high waist line on Dorothy. Her dress would have looked stunning on color TV. So would the dress of the first contestant. As I wrote in other posts, my mother at the time wondered if Dorothy were pregnant. Good trick for a woman of 50.
I wonder what went on between Dorothy and Marty that Fates considered it worthy of WML-25
Who was Marty?
Mr. Ingalls.
I love her, but she's looking unappealing enormous in this episode
arlene was one very very smart lady and the first lady to have her own talk show
Perhaps nationally Arlene Francis was first woman to have a talk show, but it was Ruth Lyons in Cincinnati who invented what is now known as the modrrn day talk show. She also had the first simulcadt tv/radio broadcast worldwide!
Ingles also voiced Beelzebub in several episodes of DARKWING DUCK, including the notorious (and subsequently censored) "Hot Spells," in which DW literally sold his soul to the devil.
Reality TV the way it was meant to be
What did the chiropractor lady give to Bennett?
It may have been a business card. As she is exiting, it looks as though he is adjusting his glasses to read whatever she gave him.
Her address and telephone number. Lol
Probably her business card.
It seemed too large for biz card...
@@jmccracken1963 You'd think perhaps a business card, but she took a long time setting it on the desk, rather than just handing it to him. Why would he want it, unless he travelled to Toronto often and had back pain? But, as she went down the line to depart, he was looking at it carefully, then picked it up and it almost looked like a trinket or piece of jewelry and Arlene was looking at it with him. Perhaps a tchotchke from Toronto?
11 kids!!!!
No way could there be a character like Crazy Guggenheim on TV today. The “woke” crowd would go insane.
Doubt it
My dad loved Frank Fontaine as Crazy Guganhiem.
always loved the classy repertoire maintained for this game show. always dressed to the hilt and so respectful to the guests. i think a lot of that had to do with new york being the 2nd center of the entertainment industry in those days. a very different atmosphere.
Francis was the best.
Oh come on John Daly. Everyone knows that there were more men riding motorcycles back in your day.😜
He apparently did not... she should of corrected him.
Arlene is a babe.
When Frank was on as the mystery guest, as the game went on, his normal voice began to creep back in so I knew it wouldn't last long. But he has the type of voice
that would be hard to disguise anyway.
Dorothy loved this empire waist dresses didn't she.
Arlene was right about Bennett. He was truly charming and extremely intelligent. A fine gentleman. RIP🙏
I’m pretty sure Bennett wrote the introduction for Arlene to read
What happened to Dorothy Kilgallen?😮
I don't think Bennett ever blew Dorothy a kiss. 😣
Joe Postove I think he did
May 31, 1964 :)
@@robbob1234 YEAH. Thanks. I just checked it out. 😄😄😄😄😄
That's the voice of Pac-Man from the 80's animated series! (Marty Ingles I mean).
***** Again YT/G+ has denied me the pleasure of giving a "Thumb up", but here it is: *+ !* ;)
SuperWinterborn And I hate how YT/G+ marked TheGadgetPanda's comment as spam. I saw nothing wrong with his comment. What gave them the right to mark it as spam?
***** I have given up to figure out how YT/G+ works, it seems like an engine working on its own somewhere out there. Conc. *****'s comment : On the page (below the video) it doesn't show anything at all, neither a "Thumb up", nor down? (I'm always answering directly under the video, maybe you see something I don't..? Btw, I tried once again now, and it worked! :)
SuperWinterborn ***** ***** Comments with links are almost always flagged as spam. What's beautiful about this is that even when people post comments linking to another video on THIS channel, they still get flagged as spam. I approve falsely flagged messages at least once a day, though, so this is less of an issue than the myriad other bugs in this mess of a "system".
My favorite G+ idiocy just happened to me yesterday. I got an email from G+ suggesting that I might want to connect with another user named Michael Milburn. This is literally the *first* suggestion I've ever received from G+ to connect to someone, and guess who Milburn is? One of the people who is stealing my videos and reposting them. Seriously. This is like G+ saying to me, "Remember that guy who broke into your apartment, ransacked it, and put all the pilfered goods on sale in the lobby of your own building, while wearing a Gary mask so people will think he's you? Why not connect with him on Google+?"
So helpful.
What's My Line? This is what happens when a company is getting too big. The brains fall out, and the consumers are stuck with the idiocy. If you at least by fraternizing with the burglar could get him arrested, it would be something! But alas! I'm afraid that's not how it works either.*G+ vs FB. Who wins?* It wouldn't surprise me if a third part showed up in the arena soon. What a wonderful new world.
There Bennett goes again! He blows a kiss to Arlene (#5,654) and NOT ONE for poor Dorothy! 😞
Jeepers!
Bennett had some problem with Dorothy that could be seen in most episodes
If you read The Reporter who knew too much, you will learn that Dorothy was unliked by the others. She was left out of activities as a result.
Dr. McGillicuddy, DC
20:49 Arlene Francis: You're not Art Carney?
Frank Fountaine: No.
John Daly (correcting Fountaine): Yes, you are not Art Carney.
And? That's the proper way to do it. I'm not sure why you even posted this comment.
No AC in the 50s
AC started in the 1930s
I’m glad Marty Ingalls got one. ☺️
So much for global warming! It is June 19th, 2024! 60 years later! I am 26, and this is so fascinating to me! A snapshot in time! As an addendum: it is the middle 90s in Cleveland!
It's November 18/2024 today and it reached 64 degrees here in CANADA. (Ontario)
14:14 Is it bigger than a breadbox?