The comportment, beauty, charm, poise, graciousness, intelligence, etc., of celebrites, from that time, is so superior to anything to be found today, that a person such as Deborah Kerr might just as well be a visitor from another planet as from an earlier time on ours.
@@mtnman6557 I adore him. I adore all his voices, his playfulness, his glee when the panel gets things wrong and I love with he jumps up out of his seat. Can you tell I'm in love? haha
Generally I'm not the game show type, but I've been filling up on "What's My Line" for the past four or five days. This show is like potato chips...you can't watch just one. Thanks for putting them all on here.
She's like Barbara Stanwyck - the best actress who never won an Oscar. Her role in From Here To Eternity broke typecasting, and really showed her brilliant acting skills.
Deborah Kerr was something! She could act and she looked great in the process. She even was a great nun in two different pictures, "Heaven Knows Mr. Allison" and "Black Narcissus". And even if Marnie Nixon sang for her, I really liked Deborah Kerr as Anna Leonowens in the movie version of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical "The King and I" -- she really held her own opposite Yul Brynner as the King. (It was great that Marnie Nixon mimicked Deborah Kerr's accent so perfectly that it was easy to believe Miss Kerr was doing her own singing.)
Read Marni Nixon's memoir "I Could Have Sung All Night" for more of the story. Kerr and Nixon rehearsed together before filming so that Kerr could learn how a singer breathes and phrases a song, as well as giving Nixon a chance to study Kerr's voice. It turned out to be a collaborative performance by the two women, the most satisfying of Nixon's dubbing career. Other actresses like Natalie Wood and Audrey Hepburn didn't even want to know she was on the lot.
@@neilmidkiff For Miss Hepburn, it was understandable as she had practiced and recorded all the songs. She thought her singing voice would be used for Eliza Doolittle and was very disappointed when it was dubbed. She also thought it was the reason she did not win the Oscar.
@@piustwelfth Yes, well, the Oscar deserved to go to Julie Andrews for Mary Poppins. Julie Andrews should have played Eliza in the movie like she did on Broadway. But she got snubbed cause Warner didn't think she was photogenic enough. Well, Julie deserved to win and boy am I glad she did and that Audrey didn't. Audrey didn't make Marni's dubbing job easy, and I believe Audrey was her least favourite to work with. Marni, Deborah and Julie are all amazing. And deserved to get the credit they did.
This show and your careful, considered, time consuming and I'm going to add painstaking uploads put a whole new meaning to the millennial term binge-watching. Thanks again.
These days, I think that many people would just wind up "signing" in with uppercase block lettering, since true penmanship has been disappearing from the classroom as part of the curriculum, for years. People like my grandparents born in the late 1800s and early 1900s - and even my late mother, born in the 30s, had wonderful handwriting. My late father, also born in the 30s, had handwriting that was legible, but small; very much like a doctor. Even my younger sibling and I had penmanship in class in the 70s and 80s. The older I get, the more I seem to use cursive script. Glad I haven't forgotten how to use it!
@@ModMokkaMatti , I agree with you that penmanship isn't considered as important in school as it used to be; and I think it's a shame. I disagree, however, that most modern contestants would sign in with block capitals. Get any American high-school yearbook from 2021 and you'll find that most people still have signatures involving lowercase and even cursive letters, almost always easy to read and sometimes quite pretty.
My mom was a ringer for Deborah, except she was very blonde. When I saw her on From Here to Eternity in that sweater & skirt it was like " Mama!". I was always a fan of all she did, she was so breathtaking in " The Prisoner of Zenda". Such delicate beauty, her tiny hands were gorgeous.
She starred in a wonderful movie with, I think, Cary Grant, An Affair to. Remember, that I try to watch every time TCM shows it. And I tear up every time I see it. I recommend that movie if you have the chance.
John's joke at 19:37 about "sending the panel packing" is a reference to the Cudahy Packing Company, at the time a prominent meat-packing firm based in Omaha.
All these people on the panel lead very busy lives during the daylight hours. It is amazing to me that Dorothy, Bennett, and Arlene rarely missed an episode for 15 years. In the case of Arlene Francis, she worked at night on the Stage. I have no idea how she had time for a late night tv show. I don't mean to exclude Steve Allen from this, but he did not last 15 years on WML.
Maybe Arlene paid her busy life unfortunately with alzheimer disease. So sad ... But this is the profit in showbiz. Other stars such as Fred Astaire worked also very hard their whole life through.
Most Broadway shows took Sunday nights off. There would be a Sunday matinee, then the cast had the time off until the Monday night show. It would mean an exhausting schedule, and never having a day off, but having a Sunday night tv show could be done.
hahahahah did u hear Steve Allen? First guest he asked mistakenly is it something you wear above the head?..he was like.".like a halo or something "lolololol he was sososso funny. thanks for the laughs!
People berate the men of those days for whistling at women, yet everyone commonly and publicly had such polite manners back then, that it ended up being far from disrespectful!
I still remember the classic guest turn Miss Kerr did on the Jack Benny radio program, in the early 50's ,after The Snows of Kilamanjaro came out. ( am I showing my age ?) This was my favorite Benny program, and showcased Miss Kerr's versatility.
I made a comment about this myself in the Facebook group when we watched this show earlier for our weekly "live chat"! She was on the Benny show for two consecutive weeks, as a matter of fact-- up there among the best of the 1950s Jack Benny shows-- which is quite a contest. :)
My pet starling kept making a laughing noise and I wondered where he got it from. (Besides me!) I've been bingeing these and realized he learned it from these audiences. :3 He cheered up as soon as I put this episode on, I think he really loves What's My Line. I do too!
Bennett himself accused DK of hogging the limelight, by unnecessarily asking question after question when she already knew the answers, to prolong her time in front of the camera. But he does the same thing himself in his questions for Deborah Kerr...
@Peter Mack Just out of curiosity, how do you know this? I am not one bit surprised - Bennett Cerf was very competitive and loved to steal the punchline, steal the answer by blurting it out when another panel member was getting close, and so on. But I am curious as to how you know this tidbit. I loved Dorothy, and it breaks my heart that her life was stolen from her. We lost a brilliant mind way too soon.
@@petermack2825 Thank you. I can't stand Bennety in about a quarter of the episodes. Dorothy plays fairly and exactly. Bennett hogs the spotlight whenever he gets the chance.
@dutchtea8354 - re: "MG" = 1. do you talk in acronyms in daily life, too?!? 2. average reader would not know ... right away ... what "MG" means. 3. too much trouble to spell out words ... for your fingers ... being smaller than a breadbox?
There are kind, articulate, moral, and decent people still left. Not everyone has sold their soul in this Brave New World. Some of us remember at least a good portion of the last half of the 20th Century and were fortunate enough to have parents and relatives from the earlier part of those past hundred years. I am one of them, and I subconsciously still seek out like-minded people to this day. Occasionally I am even pleasantly startled to meet younger folks who truly display old-fashioned qualities that label them quickly as people who, like me, as somewhat born out of their era. Whenever I feel the urge to generalize, I remember that not all people, male or female, are good or bad just because of their gender or when they were born.
I think the potential certainly exists in the format. Sadly, I think it's very unlikely that the people and style that should be chosen by a production company and a television channel would be even a tenth as charming as the original What's My Line? still is after seventy years: I think they'd choose to make it obnoxious.
@@smadafYes, the mood and banter wouldn’t be the same. Part of the charm was how they handled innuendo with subtlety and a twinkle in the eye. The only person who could pull that off today would be the British host Graham Norton. If he did it, it could stand a chance of being great.
I've never seen Deborah Kerr quite so animated before, it's delightful. When it comes to 20th Century actresses, I call Crawford, Davis, K Hepburn & Stanwyck The Big Four because they were all huge movie stars and great actresses. But I have a 2nd Tier which includes Miss Kerr, Shelley Winters, Julie Harris and Rosalind Russell who were all dynamite actresses as well. I love Deborah in The Chalk Garden with Hayley Mills, it's one of my Top 10 films of all time.
Cool to have had someone from Auburn, NY on the show! And before this in another episode have Syracuse mentioned; I’m about 20 minutes away from downtown. Anyway, a surprisingly high number of people nowadays don’t even know or remember that Auburn has the maximum security prison, not really sure how, especially if they live within an hour away.
Deborah Kerr made a WW II movie with William Holden called PROUD AND PROFANE. I watch it about twice a year. Thankfully, it was better than the book, …this time.
"From here to eternity", in Finnish "Täältä ikuisuuteen"; when I was a boy that sounded so mysterious and grand to me. Still does. Of course later I learnt that there was a classic beach scene, later to be honoured e.g. by David Bowie in China girl.
Yes. You can see that he had the amplifier in his jacket pocket, which in this era could have used tiny vacuum tubes or possibly transistors, which were used in hearing aids before they were used in pocket radios (the first transistor radio came out in 1954).
Most of these sources are from reruns on GSN (where they inserted their own commercials). From what I read on another episode on the channel, there are other digital versions but not necessarily of the same quality. I know some episodes have had the lower quality commercials spliced in, but I imagine that's a lot of work, and I'm not sure if they're available for all episodes.
Writing, signing in cursive was a must then… nowadays my students don’t know how to sign their names. The schools are failing to teach all around simple subjects.
We certainly have lost a lot of Grace since the 1950s. People were 'delicate' about Private matters & not blatantly vulgar as they are today. Now so called celebs try to be as unkind & hurtful as possible.
Mr. Samuel Moser has the first hearing-aid I've seen held in place by a band over the top of the head. It's certainly less conspicuous than other 1950s electronic hearing-aids I've seen.
That may be personal preference. I believe a lot of hearing aids at that time were in ear, or over the ear. As a glasses user (like Moser was), I can tell you I can't keep an in ear device in place to save my life, and an over the ear product is extremely uncomfortable. Using a headband is really the best way to go given those two things.
Here's a case of Bennett doing what he accused Dorothy of doing (in that infamous interview), asking questions to get more screen time. He clearly knows that the guest is Deborah Kerr, but keeps asking questionsthat show that he knows who she is. But of course when Dorothy did it, this was objectionable.
I don't think Bennett was screen hogging, though. They often figured out who the mystery guest was too early and so tried to extend the questioning, all of them, so that the audience wouldn't be disappointed at a very short MG round. When Dorothy did this sort of thing in the regular rounds, it was just deadly dull, and it was pretty clearly only to give herself more screen time. Not entertaining to the audience, and inconsiderate of her fellow panelists. I love Dorothy, but let's be honest here. She DID hog the screen at times in the 1950s. She'd pretty much stopped this doing this entirely by the 1960s, so clearly she learned her lesson.
+Brent McKee In this particular case, it seems to me that Bennett was plugging Miss Kerr's career a bit, and a prodigious career it was. After all, the panelists knew one of the reason's why the MG was there, just like each panelist gets a plug from the previous panelist (or in Miss Kilgallen's case from the announcer) on their career, whether it is their new role or new book or new record album, etc.
Brent McKee i know what you mean. Hes also accused Dorothy of finding out the occupations of certain guests as well as mystery guests early on when they have screen time on the show, where I've seen him do the exact same thing with mystery guests within Maybe 1 or 2 or 3 questions being asked by the other panelists, and then when it comes to him he goes and thinks he knows exactly who it is and wants to answer it before Dorothy gets to it. And I know I've had criticisms about Hal Block in the past but since hes been gone whenever there was an exceptionally beautiful female panelist on the show Bennett Cerf as well as John Daly gets into mooning over the guest as well as making maybe not as crude a comments as Hal Block would have, but they do their share of verbal molestation of a contestant also as I've seen on some occasions. I didn't exactly hate Hal Block, but his actions even on a show like this back in the fifties of kissing female contestants all the time when they were done with their stint on the show was a little bit shocking.
Steve Allen says, “Let’s see, what’s left?” and the audience laughs. Today, they wouldn’t laugh, because we all “know” there are over 600 kinds of genders!! 😆 How did I become a member of this crazy world of today?!
I've never seen Deborah Kerr in any movies before however I thought she was funny.And it would b very hard I imagine to work out the profession of a fish hook instructor.
It was a bit of byplay between Bennett Cerf and John Daly that started two episodes earlier (July 26, 1953) when Bennett announced on the show that John had just been named a Vice-President of the American Broadcasting Company. At the episode's close, Bennett said to John "Good night, Prexy" in recognition of John's new title. On that episode and the following one, John called him "Bean". An "s" was added by John to that nickname in this episode. My surmise is that it was nickname only known by a few who knew Bennett well: a takeoff on his first name and also possibly due to the fact that around the time that Bennett was getting two separate bachelor's degrees from Columbia, the British upper class slang of calling a male friend "Old Bean" had temporarily come into vogue as an American affectation.
In "At Random" Bennett mentions that his college nickname at Columbia was Beans. Nothing to do with Boston, though; he was born, raised, and educated in New York City.
The internet indicated Arlene made $1000 per show, and Dorothy made $500 per show, but the internet references did not indicate the year of these salaries. The internet did not indicate the salaries of the male panelists or of the host.
11-21-23: Highly recommended: "A Life In Movies," a memoir by Michael Powell [1905-1990]; Alfred A. Knopf [William Heinemann Ltd London 1986]) (1986 hardcover). What does this have to do with Deborah Kerr? Read it and find out. You will not be disappointed!
This is the first episode I've run across in which they refer to them as "our award-winning panel," which they seem to have been called for the rest of the run. Do we know what award they won and when?
Kerr = phonetically "cur." Deborah was NOT going to correct Daly with the proper pronunciation of her last name, in front of the world. Such is labeled ... CLASS !!
10:00 If this were not 1953 when people had common sense we could say there are umpteen bzillion other sexes, excuse me genders left. Since it is 1953, his musing is funny.
Without watching anywhere near every show, one can see that your statement is in error. Just take a look at the consecutive five leading up to this one.
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"From Here to Eternity" was a big letdown. It was nothing more than a movie about a bunch of soldiers getting into trouble before being shipped off to war. I expected some very dramatic moive rather than the sill ppa that it turned out to be.
Is it a legal obligation that they always have to say if a show is ''on another network' if so, or not so, why? I find it un=entertaining and distracting when show people talk about the producer, the sponsor, ''our affiliate'' Why should we care ?
Acyutananda das For many decades I saw people on TV rather sheepishly refer to 'other networks' or, as in the case of the UK, 'the other side' (ITV rather than BBC). They were very much in competition and preferred to only talk about their own network, only referring to another if they had to as in this case. So much so that in the 1970s, in the UK, there was a different magazine for each 'channel.....Radio Times for BBC, TVTimes for ITV. The mention of the sponsor of course was to do with the commercial product sponsoring, therefore providing finance for, the show. No doubt it was a contractual obligation to mention the sponsor at some point.
The comportment, beauty, charm, poise, graciousness, intelligence, etc., of celebrites, from that time, is so superior to anything to be found today, that a person such as Deborah Kerr might just as well be a visitor from another planet as from an earlier time on ours.
Spoken very eloquently and truthfully
@@9682482 There Are (Still) Some Shining Lights Today.. but Not Many
It was a more formal time, in general. That wasn’t always a good thing, although sometimes I miss it.
So very-well put.
Always enjoy Arlene's form of questioning. She is so graceful, dignified and respectful of everyone.
And funny. I think all of the panelists are pretty respectful, but she and Steve Allen, too, are always kind, with warmth and good humor.
I have to say that John Charles Daly is a big reason why this show is so much fun to watch.
All the more so when he uses 1 of his different voices : )
@@mtnman6557 I adore him. I adore all his voices, his playfulness, his glee when the panel gets things wrong and I love with he jumps up out of his seat. Can you tell I'm in love? haha
Generally I'm not the game show type, but I've been filling up on "What's My Line" for the past four or five days. This show is like potato chips...you can't watch just one. Thanks for putting them all on here.
Haha same! One of the very very few upsides of lockdown!
I loved Deborah Kerr in An Affair to Remember!!! Cary Grant also!
Oh my goodness Yes!!! I absolutely adore An Affair to Remember!! Deborah was gorgeous and amazing in it! And gotta love Cary Grant!
Arlene has such a lovely smile, especially when she correctly guesses the contestant's job
Wow!!! Deborah Kerr' s dress was totally sensational!
Yes it was. She looked so sexy in it. I kept looking away and glancing back- thinking, surely, she had revealed more skin than she aactually did.
She's like Barbara Stanwyck - the best actress who never won an Oscar. Her role in From Here To Eternity broke typecasting, and really showed her brilliant acting skills.
Deborah Kerr was something! She could act and she looked great in the process. She even was a great nun in two different pictures, "Heaven Knows Mr. Allison" and "Black Narcissus". And even if Marnie Nixon sang for her, I really liked Deborah Kerr as Anna Leonowens in the movie version of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical "The King and I" -- she really held her own opposite Yul Brynner as the King. (It was great that Marnie Nixon mimicked Deborah Kerr's accent so perfectly that it was easy to believe Miss Kerr was doing her own singing.)
I think 'The Innocents' was another excellent movie starring Deborah Kerr.
The other day I saw her in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. She was so beautiful that it was difficult to concentrate on the storyline.
Read Marni Nixon's memoir "I Could Have Sung All Night" for more of the story. Kerr and Nixon rehearsed together before filming so that Kerr could learn how a singer breathes and phrases a song, as well as giving Nixon a chance to study Kerr's voice. It turned out to be a collaborative performance by the two women, the most satisfying of Nixon's dubbing career. Other actresses like Natalie Wood and Audrey Hepburn didn't even want to know she was on the lot.
@@neilmidkiff For Miss Hepburn, it was understandable as she had practiced and recorded all the songs. She thought her singing voice would be used for Eliza Doolittle and was very disappointed when it was dubbed. She also thought it was the reason she did not win the Oscar.
@@piustwelfth Yes, well, the Oscar deserved to go to Julie Andrews for Mary Poppins. Julie Andrews should have played Eliza in the movie like she did on Broadway. But she got snubbed cause Warner didn't think she was photogenic enough. Well, Julie deserved to win and boy am I glad she did and that Audrey didn't. Audrey didn't make Marni's dubbing job easy, and I believe Audrey was her least favourite to work with. Marni, Deborah and Julie are all amazing. And deserved to get the credit they did.
Deborah was a gem, thank you for this.
Kerr is really a great actress and a beautiful , classy woman. Wow!!!
These shows are wonderful to watch. So much class & respect.
This show and your careful, considered, time consuming and I'm going to add painstaking uploads put a whole new meaning to the millennial term binge-watching. Thanks again.
Slo-mo binge watching.
Deborah Kerr makes me wish I was born earlier - what talent and beauty and charm!
Love this show. Love seeing the clothes they wore back then.
Wish we still wore these fabulous clothes!
@@deboraholsen2504Ha! No, you don’t. They were damned uncomfortable to wear.
Deborah Kerr was exquisite. Just a beautiful lady.
I remember some of these shows because I was only very young when my family and I used to watch them. It's great seeing these older shows.
Wow, From Here to Eeternity had just opened in NY on Wed. Aug 5th, 5 days before this show! Kerr must've been in town for the premiere.
Borgnine, Sinatra, and Lancaster too.
Don’t forget Monty Clift.
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I like watching how people signed their names
These days, I think that many people would just wind up "signing" in with uppercase block lettering, since true penmanship has been disappearing from the classroom as part of the curriculum, for years. People like my grandparents born in the late 1800s and early 1900s - and even my late mother, born in the 30s, had wonderful handwriting. My late father, also born in the 30s, had handwriting that was legible, but small; very much like a doctor. Even my younger sibling and I had penmanship in class in the 70s and 80s. The older I get, the more I seem to use cursive script. Glad I haven't forgotten how to use it!
@@ModMokkaMatti , I agree with you that penmanship isn't considered as important in school as it used to be; and I think it's a shame. I disagree, however, that most modern contestants would sign in with block capitals. Get any American high-school yearbook from 2021 and you'll find that most people still have signatures involving lowercase and even cursive letters, almost always easy to read and sometimes quite pretty.
I could watching this every day bc thouse people are so polite and humble!
Deborah Kerr looks so young and happy
Love Deborah Kerr. She was once complimented on her beauty and she replied she looked like a beautiful cow.
Ive been binge watching these all day ty for putting these up
Kerr : What an actress !!!
The masseuse, Eve Enhelder, lived to be 101 years old, passing away in Glendale, CA, in 2008.
Deborah Kerr is a beatiful, charming woman. I adore the shape of the lines of her face.
I was decades along before i had my heart stolen by miss kerr in " heaven knows mr. Allison"
My mom was a ringer for Deborah, except she was very blonde. When I saw her on From Here to Eternity in that sweater & skirt it was like " Mama!". I was always a fan of all she did, she was so breathtaking in " The Prisoner of Zenda". Such delicate beauty, her tiny hands were gorgeous.
I don't care how ridiculous this sounds, I love Steve Allen. I mean love. Love. Love. 💥💕💥💕💋💋💋‼️‼️‼️
Me too! I only knew the name before watching WML here! Steve’s just wonderful!
Love her eyes, her smile. Lord, she's beautiful.
I just loved Steve Allen ❤️
He seems to be popular with the ladies.
Deborah Kerr is adorable!
She starred in a wonderful movie with, I think, Cary Grant, An Affair to. Remember, that I try to watch every time TCM shows it. And I tear up every time I see it. I recommend that movie if you have the chance.
@@shirleyrombough8173 I love that movie!! An Affair To Remember has to be my favourite Deborah Kerr movie!! Closely followed by The King and I!
Very beautiful n most brilliant people ever i simply fall in love with the most charming ❤ Arlene Francis every time I see her
John's joke at 19:37 about "sending the panel packing" is a reference to the Cudahy Packing Company, at the time a prominent meat-packing firm based in Omaha.
All these people on the panel lead very busy lives during the daylight hours. It is amazing to me that Dorothy, Bennett, and Arlene rarely missed an episode for 15 years. In the case of Arlene Francis, she worked at night on the Stage. I have no idea how she had time for a late night tv show. I don't mean to exclude Steve Allen from this, but he did not last 15 years on WML.
Maybe Arlene paid her busy life unfortunately with alzheimer disease. So sad ... But this is the profit in showbiz. Other stars such as Fred Astaire worked also very hard their whole life through.
Most Broadway shows took Sunday nights off. There would be a Sunday matinee, then the cast had the time off until the Monday night show. It would mean an exhausting schedule, and never having a day off, but having a Sunday night tv show could be done.
@@nancypine9952 The Broadway tradition is to take Monday nights off as well.
Arlene also had a son, her own home show, filled in for Dave Garaway on the Today show.
@@sandrageorge3488 She would later fill in for Jack Paar on The Tonight Show.
Recently watched Kerr In " The Sundowners " with Robert Mitchum and she was fantastic
also good In comedic roles ,such as In Casino Royale with David Niven
Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum had a mutual admiration society. They were great friends and co-stars in quite a few films.
hahahahah did u hear Steve Allen? First guest he asked mistakenly is it something you wear above the head?..he was like.".like a halo or something "lolololol he was sososso funny. thanks for the laughs!
If people today talked more like this I would be addicted to social gatherings. But since their not it’s back to my cave.
It's nice to receive a notice one of these have been posted .
New videos every Sunday this summer, Robert!
People berate the men of those days for whistling at women, yet everyone commonly and publicly had such polite manners back then, that it ended up being far from disrespectful!
I still remember the classic guest turn Miss Kerr did on the Jack Benny radio program, in the early 50's ,after The Snows of Kilamanjaro came out. ( am I showing my age ?) This was my favorite Benny program, and showcased Miss Kerr's versatility.
I made a comment about this myself in the Facebook group when we watched this show earlier for our weekly "live chat"! She was on the Benny show for two consecutive weeks, as a matter of fact-- up there among the best of the 1950s Jack Benny shows-- which is quite a contest. :)
"I'm thinking it over!"
Tre404 - Ha ha, classic Jack Benny response to “Your money or your life?”...! Love Old Time Radio. :D
My pet starling kept making a laughing noise and I wondered where he got it from. (Besides me!) I've been bingeing these and realized he learned it from these audiences. :3 He cheered up as soon as I put this episode on, I think he really loves What's My Line. I do too!
there just arnt enough fish hook inspectors these days!
Bennett himself accused DK of hogging the limelight, by unnecessarily asking question after question when she already knew the answers, to prolong her time in front of the camera. But he does the same thing himself in his questions for Deborah Kerr...
when and in what context was this?
Peter Mack , I agree
@Peter Mack
Just out of curiosity, how do you know this? I am not one bit surprised - Bennett Cerf was very competitive and loved to steal the punchline, steal the answer by blurting it out when another panel member was getting close, and so on. But I am curious as to how you know this tidbit.
I loved Dorothy, and it breaks my heart that her life was stolen from her. We lost a brilliant mind way too soon.
@@lisahinton9682 There's a long series of interviews with him somewhere. I think that's where he says it.
@@petermack2825
Thank you. I can't stand Bennety in about a quarter of the episodes. Dorothy plays fairly and exactly. Bennett hogs the spotlight whenever he gets the chance.
Deborah Kerr was the 2nd MG to make a TV debut on WML.
At 21:28, Steve asked, “Is it smaller than a breadbox?” (16th usage)
@dutchtea8354 - re: "MG" = 1. do you talk in acronyms in daily life, too?!? 2. average reader would not know ... right away ... what "MG" means. 3. too much trouble to spell out words ... for your fingers ... being smaller than a breadbox?
@@warriormanmaxx8991 How very … kind of … you.
Why are there no women like this in the world anymore?
And why are there no men like this either?
There are kind, articulate, moral, and decent people still left. Not everyone has sold their soul in this Brave New World. Some of us remember at least a good portion of the last half of the 20th Century and were fortunate enough to have parents and relatives from the earlier part of those past hundred years. I am one of them, and I subconsciously still seek out like-minded people to this day. Occasionally I am even pleasantly startled to meet younger folks who truly display old-fashioned qualities that label them quickly as people who, like me, as somewhat born out of their era. Whenever I feel the urge to generalize, I remember that not all people, male or female, are good or bad just because of their gender or when they were born.
Dear Cynthia Lyman, Beautifully put. I'm with you. Thank you for your words. Love from San Diego, CA.
Thank you sincerely. Glad to see an endangered species doesn't necessarily translate into an extinct one.
Or men either, for that matter.
I remember Deborah mostly from her role as an older lady in "A Woman of Substance".
I wish some network would do a modern version of this show, that would be very interesting..
I think the potential certainly exists in the format. Sadly, I think it's very unlikely that the people and style that should be chosen by a production company and a television channel would be even a tenth as charming as the original What's My Line? still is after seventy years: I think they'd choose to make it obnoxious.
@@smadafYes, the mood and banter wouldn’t be the same. Part of the charm was how they handled innuendo with subtlety and a twinkle in the eye. The only person who could pull that off today would be the British host Graham Norton. If he did it, it could stand a chance of being great.
It would be coarse and vulgar. I hope it is never re-made. Like so many things that have been re-done, it would be destroyed.
I've never seen Deborah Kerr quite so animated before, it's delightful. When it comes to 20th Century actresses, I call Crawford, Davis, K Hepburn & Stanwyck The Big Four because they were all huge movie stars and great actresses. But I have a 2nd Tier which includes Miss Kerr, Shelley Winters, Julie Harris and Rosalind Russell who were all dynamite actresses as well. I love Deborah in The Chalk Garden with Hayley Mills, it's one of my Top 10 films of all time.
Cool to have had someone from Auburn, NY on the show! And before this in another episode have Syracuse mentioned; I’m about 20 minutes away from downtown. Anyway, a surprisingly high number of people nowadays don’t even know or remember that Auburn has the maximum security prison, not really sure how, especially if they live within an hour away.
The celebrity rarely get the 50dollar price but the last challenger always does because of time
Limitations
Deborah Kerr made a WW II movie with William Holden called PROUD AND PROFANE. I watch it about twice a year. Thankfully, it was better than the book, …this time.
How times have changed. Back then a$50 prize was nothing to sneeze at.
That $50 was the average monthly house payment in 1955.
"From here to eternity", in Finnish "Täältä ikuisuuteen"; when I was a boy that sounded so mysterious and grand to me. Still does. Of course later I learnt that there was a classic beach scene, later to be honoured e.g. by David Bowie in China girl.
Finnish a relative of Estonian?
@@peternagy-im4be yes, very close.
A truly great and beautiful actress 💕💕💕
I absolutely adore Deborah Kerr.
Sultry, sultry. I think Bennett is enchanted.
was the first guest wearing an early style hearing aid?
Yes. You can see that he had the amplifier in his jacket pocket, which in this era could have used tiny vacuum tubes or possibly transistors, which were used in hearing aids before they were used in pocket radios (the first transistor radio came out in 1954).
I like to watch the old commercials...I wish they would leave them in but it may be a reason they don't.
Most of these sources are from reruns on GSN (where they inserted their own commercials). From what I read on another episode on the channel, there are other digital versions but not necessarily of the same quality. I know some episodes have had the lower quality commercials spliced in, but I imagine that's a lot of work, and I'm not sure if they're available for all episodes.
Writing, signing in cursive was a must then… nowadays my students don’t know how to sign their names. The schools are failing to teach all around simple subjects.
@ms.victoria9023 - public schools today ... and better known as "pubic schools" ... more concerned about ... the "pubic" area !!
The best actress ever to come out of Scotland IMO. It's pronounced Kerr and not Carr.
We certainly have lost a lot of Grace since the 1950s. People were 'delicate' about Private matters & not blatantly vulgar as they are today. Now so called celebs try to be as unkind & hurtful as possible.
And there were only 2 sexes as it should be and scientifically is for a fact.
Mr. Samuel Moser has the first hearing-aid I've seen held in place by a band over the top of the head. It's certainly less conspicuous than other 1950s electronic hearing-aids I've seen.
That may be personal preference. I believe a lot of hearing aids at that time were in ear, or over the ear. As a glasses user (like Moser was), I can tell you I can't keep an in ear device in place to save my life, and an over the ear product is extremely uncomfortable. Using a headband is really the best way to go given those two things.
Here's a case of Bennett doing what he accused Dorothy of doing (in that infamous interview), asking questions to get more screen time. He clearly knows that the guest is Deborah Kerr, but keeps asking questionsthat show that he knows who she is. But of course when Dorothy did it, this was objectionable.
I don't think Bennett was screen hogging, though. They often figured out who the mystery guest was too early and so tried to extend the questioning, all of them, so that the audience wouldn't be disappointed at a very short MG round. When Dorothy did this sort of thing in the regular rounds, it was just deadly dull, and it was pretty clearly only to give herself more screen time. Not entertaining to the audience, and inconsiderate of her fellow panelists. I love Dorothy, but let's be honest here. She DID hog the screen at times in the 1950s. She'd pretty much stopped this doing this entirely by the 1960s, so clearly she learned her lesson.
+Brent McKee
In this particular case, it seems to me that Bennett was plugging Miss Kerr's career a bit, and a prodigious career it was. After all, the panelists knew one of the reason's why the MG was there, just like each panelist gets a plug from the previous panelist (or in Miss Kilgallen's case from the announcer) on their career, whether it is their new role or new book or new record album, etc.
Brent McKee i know what you mean. Hes also accused Dorothy of finding out the occupations of certain guests as well as mystery guests early on when they have screen time on the show, where I've seen him do the exact same thing with mystery guests within Maybe 1 or 2 or 3 questions being asked by the other panelists, and then when it comes to him he goes and thinks he knows exactly who it is and wants to answer it before Dorothy gets to it. And I know I've had criticisms about Hal Block in the past but since hes been gone whenever there was an exceptionally beautiful female panelist on the show Bennett Cerf as well as John Daly gets into mooning over the guest as well as making maybe not as crude a comments as Hal Block would have, but they do their share of verbal molestation of a contestant also as I've seen on some occasions. I didn't exactly hate Hal Block, but his actions even on a show like this back in the fifties of kissing female contestants all the time when they were done with their stint on the show was a little bit shocking.
Even the handwriting back then was beautiful in most cases. Today, most people scribble.
I from the King and I shows up. I, but not me.
I guess she’s my namesake, but if I could LOOK like her, I’ll have to admit I’d be a little more thankful!
Awww..... 💗
This Deborah feels the same.
What a signature!
L was eight months old at the time of this showing.
Who in Hades is "L" ?!?
As beautiful as Deborah is here, imagine how glorious she must have looked in color.
Steve Allen says, “Let’s see, what’s left?” and the audience laughs. Today, they wouldn’t laugh, because we all “know” there are over 600 kinds of genders!! 😆
How did I become a member of this crazy world of today?!
No one claims there are that many, but that's not an excuse for you to get snippy about how we have learned it isn't as binary as we all thought.
Scottish actress never understood why her last name was pronounced Car and not KERR as it is in Scotland!
Louis B. Mayer, head of MGM, coined the phrase "Kerr as in Star!".
I've never seen Deborah Kerr in any movies before however I thought she was funny.And it would b very hard I imagine to work out the profession of a fish hook instructor.
Jade Shannon they’re all amazing!!
I highly recommend An Affair To Remember, The King and I, The Sundowners, If Winter Comes, and The Grass is Greener! They're all amazing tho!
Did I hear John Daly refer to Bennett Cerf (twice) as "Beans"? Wonder what's up with that???
It was a bit of byplay between Bennett Cerf and John Daly that started two episodes earlier (July 26, 1953) when Bennett announced on the show that John had just been named a Vice-President of the American Broadcasting Company. At the episode's close, Bennett said to John "Good night, Prexy" in recognition of John's new title. On that episode and the following one, John called him "Bean". An "s" was added by John to that nickname in this episode.
My surmise is that it was nickname only known by a few who knew Bennett well: a takeoff on his first name and also possibly due to the fact that around the time that Bennett was getting two separate bachelor's degrees from Columbia, the British upper class slang of calling a male friend "Old Bean" had temporarily come into vogue as an American affectation.
Bennett was from Boston.
In "At Random" Bennett mentions that his college nickname at Columbia was Beans. Nothing to do with Boston, though; he was born, raised, and educated in New York City.
The internet indicated Arlene made $1000 per show, and Dorothy made $500 per show, but the internet references did not indicate the year of these salaries. The internet did not indicate the salaries of the male panelists or of the host.
Never believe the internet
John made huge sums of money on WML - at one point he was reportedly making $4,000 an episode. And he only missed four episodes of 876.
@zekezacker9449 - Arlene making $1000 per show ... worth EVERY penny !! Who cares how much each made. Enjoy nostalgic television !!
Deborah Kerr 1921 - 2007
11-21-23: Highly recommended: "A Life In Movies," a memoir by Michael Powell [1905-1990]; Alfred A. Knopf [William Heinemann Ltd London 1986]) (1986 hardcover). What does this have to do with Deborah Kerr? Read it and find out. You will not be disappointed!
18:10 what do they mean by pictures on broadway? Is it movies that are in theaters? I just associate Broadway with musicals
Yes, most broadway theaters could and would present either live shows (plays) or major motion pictures.
@@Walterwhiterocks Oh, I see... Thanks!
Fish hook inspector: they'll never get it!!!
At 1:38. Did Bennet actually say John's name correctly?
His stage name (John Charles Daly) yes, but not his full name (John Charles Patrick Croghan Daly Jr.) which Bennett rarely managed to get right. :)
I love it when Dorothy didn't get her turn, as in the first game. It must have bugged the hell out of her.
This is the first episode I've run across in which they refer to them as "our award-winning panel," which they seem to have been called for the rest of the run. Do we know what award they won and when?
why did the masseuse say she only deals with women? didn't men get massages from women back then?
She said that, undoubtedly, because she only massaged women. :) But I was surprised by the answer as well.
Would it be to indicate that she was a legitimate massage therapist and not be misunderstood. These were modest times.
Deborah Kerr's is the third way I've encountered to pronounce the surname "Kerr": first like "care", then like "cur", now like "car".
Kerr = phonetically "cur." Deborah was NOT going to correct Daly with the proper pronunciation of her last name, in front of the world. Such is labeled ... CLASS !!
No women or men.....
Deborah Kerr, Arlene Francis, Bennett Cerf....And the lot!
What happened to class and feminine beauty?
Safety pins in the cheeks, studs in the tongues, and torn jeans.
10:00 If this were not 1953 when people had common sense we could say there are umpteen bzillion other sexes, excuse me genders left. Since it is 1953, his musing is funny.
Go Eve from Minnesota! This season the Vikings will go to the Superbowl I think.
Hey kasper ... your thoughts about the Superbowl is not apropos to this video. ehhh?
Where is Mister Block??
Hal Block was fired from the show about 5 episodes before this one.
@@InjuredRobot. he made the show more interesting and entertaining.
10:11 In 2023 there are 4-5 selections for sex on forms. …. And government officials cannot answer the question: “what is a female?”
Who murdered Dorothy Killigan.
10:13- i know she didnt mean for it to look this way, but Arlene's face creepily comes into the frame. like she is going to kill Steve and eat hm.
Fascinating. I would never have recognized her as I only know her as Mindy's grandmother on Mork & Mindy.
Dakota - I think that’s Elizabeth Kerr on Mork & Mindy, not Deborah Kerr. :)
Arlene never extends her hand to regular guests -- only to the famous ones. Watch every show.
I was never a fan of AF. She put on a great act.
Without watching anywhere near every show, one can see that your statement is in error. Just take a look at the consecutive five leading up to this one.
@@michaelwalsh1035 - Get Lost !!
@clearfield2009 - Arlene Francis was NOT a snob !! Obviously, you have NOT watched every show.
tu bylawciazy.
BC with the see thru mask again and again - quite ridiculous
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"From Here to Eternity" was a big letdown. It was nothing more than a movie about a bunch of soldiers getting into trouble before being shipped off to war. I expected some very dramatic moive rather than the sill ppa that it turned out to be.
Is it a legal obligation that they always have to say if a show is ''on another network' if so, or not so, why? I find it un=entertaining and distracting when show people talk about the producer, the sponsor, ''our affiliate'' Why should we care ?
Acyutananda das For many decades I saw people on TV rather sheepishly refer to 'other networks' or, as in the case of the UK, 'the other side' (ITV rather than BBC). They were very much in competition and preferred to only talk about their own network, only referring to another if they had to as in this case. So much so that in the 1970s, in the UK, there was a different magazine for each 'channel.....Radio Times for BBC, TVTimes for ITV.
The mention of the sponsor of course was to do with the commercial product sponsoring, therefore providing finance for, the show. No doubt it was a contractual obligation to mention the sponsor at some point.
I have a feeling Arlene might have been bisexual. Just a feeling.