I wonder why there wasn't any chat with him at the end. It seemed he left rather abruptly. Perhaps, he was due back on the set. Can't keep Gleason waiting. 😂
@@michaelnivens6267 Art won the Academy Award (1975) for his performance as Best Actor in that film's dramatic role. He also was an excellent voice impersonator, and pianist. He oozed so much talent, in both drama and comedy that few could do both so well.
For years I thought Art Carey won his best actor Oscar for The Late Show. Turns out I was way off and he actually won it for Harry & Tonto, a kind of forgotten movie these days. Does anyone remember Art Carney's 1970s cop show Lannigan's Rabbi ?
Two of my favorite people, Art Carney and Steve Allen. This show is so wonderfully erudite and relaxed. Our entire society seemed so much more, well, civilized then, didn't it?
well yes and no. these were the McCarthy years. I'd give them a miss, if there's a choice. Not that we haven't dropped beneath sea level since then, make no mistake that we agree there.
I just love the way they always introduce the panel and it's heartwarming to hear each of them say 'Good Night'. Classy Program! I almost feel like I should be dressing up to watch it........ Susan in Greensboro, NC
And that trait continued through the remainder of the 1960s into the early-'70s. Then, something changed in the environment-social arena with the unpopular war, end of the gold standard (Aug. 15, 1971) artificially increasing the price level, and the racial tensions!
I briefly caught where Art says he has only been in 1 movie, Arlene stated "He must have been in Korea." Amazing how this show fits in between so much history and we can still laugh along with them.
“Where would you do your acting if not on stage or movies?” That’s how new TV was that she couldn’t think of another medium other than stage or movies. This show was treated almost like a radio show that was recorded in a theater, what an awesome line!
Wow, what a flashback to my childhood. My parents watched this show all the time. I still remember the panelists. They should bring back some of these programs. Today's idea of entertainment really sucks.
I've been hooked on these lately and this is quite the restrained audience response tonight. No wolf whistles for Ms. Sacramento or over-the-top for Art Carney.
I was born in 1962 but I grew up close to my grandparents and heard about these shows and others like it and then got to see reruns. Did you notice the men standing up for the lady? Such a simpler and kinder time in history.
This was Art Carney's first appearance as a mystery guest. Bennett called him Al Carney. When Jackie Gleason appeared as a mystery guest, Arlene called him Jimmy Gleason.
Art Carney, what a classy guy. I love it when he holds his hand up to the blindfolded panel to indicate he needs a conference with Daly. That's something that only a natural would do. So funny!
May late dad watched the Honeymooners all the time. It was one of his favorite shows. He adored Art Carney, maybe even more than Jackie Gleason. He loved that Carney was Irish/Catholic like us.
...and as was Gleason himself. Carney once said that from the first, he and Gleason never rehearsed nor even spoke about their characters,."...just two Irishmen working together, " he explained
This show was broadcast on May 16, 1954. On the very next day, the United States Supreme Court announced its decision in Brown v. Board of Education and turned the world of education upside down.
Carney was very fortunate, like Leslie Nielsen and Betty White, to have a second burst in his career. In the 1970s, he starred in "Harry and Tonto" and won Best Actor, and then made some other films. Carney had a terrific agent for many years who convinced Carney to play Harry despite Carney's view that he was not old enough for the part. In a later MG appearance, Martin Gabel praised Carney's agent by name, many years before he gave Carney that huge boost.
Mrs. Sacremento apparently moved to Arizona in the late 50s and stayed there; she lived in Phoenix for awhile, and then went to Scottsdale, where she lived until her death, at 79, in 2002. Also, because I stopped look him up in more detail: Arlene mentions Arnold Stang at 19:08 or so. He was in a bunch of 50s stuff I never saw but have heard of, but he was also famous basically for being himself in the 70s and 80s. AND played Top Cat, which is where I know him from.
Hahaha, this must've been early in his career, Bennett calls him Al Carney, Lol. I wonder why he's in costume, I guess he just came from the set of Cavalcade Of Stars, or did it air at the same time as WML? I really love these shows, can't thank you enough for posting them. I have always wished that I could've lived in the 50's, it seems like such a great time, watching these programs is like looking through a window into that era.
There are some references to the ongoing McCarthy hearings on the show. "I'll have to ask you to repeat that question." 14:18 "Point of order." 14:31 "Could we have that read back, please?" 17:48 And by a happy coincidence the final contestant is a McCarthy look-alike of whom Bennett even says, "I hate to tell you what senator he reminds me of." 21:04
I think the final contestant looks like then-Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson, not McCarthy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson#/media/File:Senator_Lyndon_Johnson.jpg
The HUAC hearings had left a bitter taste in the collective mouth of WML. One of the charter panelists, Louis Untermeyer, had been investigated by the HUAC, and after considerable pressure from the show's sponsor, Jules Montanier of Stopette, was fired from the show. Untermeyer, who was sixty-five years of age at the time of his firing, went into deep seclusion and seems never to have recovered fully from the public ignominy he had suffered. Cerf was Untermeyer's replacement on the WML panel.
@@jasonhurd4379 Technically it wasn't HUAC, as McCarthy was as Senator. I believe it was the Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations HUAC was 20 years or so earlier
Was going to shutdown and get some sleep when i refreshed YT one last time and found Art Carney as the mystery quest. I had to watch it no telling when I will sleep now.
John Fuentes Yes, it was too easy to get "yes" answers to mystery guest questions because they were so often in one of the entertainment fields. Glad they changed that along with the awkward parading of guests (as though they were in a beauty contest or fashion show) and the silly guesses.
I wouldn't be too happy if I was a huge star and one of the panelists got my first name wrong as well as my hometown (Mount Vernon instead of New Rochelle). Bennett Cerf, in trying to appear so knowledgeable, laid a huge egg.
The big "Honeymooner's" show that was filmed between 1955 and 1956 had yet to premiere (though Honeymooner skits had been done on Jackie Gleason's show) so I wonder if Art Carney was extremely well known yet, especially to the panel, who, I would bet, might only lower themselves to watch such shenanigans in strict privacy. AL CARNEY!??
Carney once commented in an interview that he and Gleeson never rehearsed together, and incredibly enough, never even discussed their characters together.."Just two Irishman working together, I guess." he explained.
This was a year before the standalone Honeymooners, so I guess they recognized Art Carney off the skits from The Jackie Gleason show? Still goes to show you how small the film and TV industry was at this point that they could identify someone by just being associated with “a very important comedian!”
Carney's appearance is actually before The Honeymooners made it's debut. The character of Ed Norton first appeared on the Calvacade of Stars and the Jackie Gleason show
@clash5j. Unless I'm mistaken, didn't "The Honeymooners" originally air as a regular sketch on Gleason's show and then in 1955, Gleason decided to turn the sketch into a full-fledged episodic TV show of its' own?
It was a radio show and then became a hit on tv. Love that he is dressed as Norton. He also played the guy who stays in his cabin when Mt St Helens blew it was a sad 😭😭 u moment
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They show him as Ed Norton and I am not sure if they were meant as a novelty item or what. Purchased at a thrift store years ago. Not many can say that they sleep with Norton but I can.
Later, Richard Boone would come on dressed as Paladin. Those are the only two mystery guests I remember being in costume as their most famous character.
Looking at the show through the years: Wow, what a difference 10 or 12 years makes to the way they look. I hope my own aging has not been quite so obvious -- but perhaps it has.
Thank goodness they eliminated the business of the contestants parading themselves in front of the panelists and also the exiting of the contestants behind John Charles Daly.
Wow, Mrs. Wilma Sacramento, was a knock out. She could have been a movie star. I wonder what ever became of her. What natural beauty and a Traffic Cop in those days. She had a lovely smile.
Isn’t it amazing how different most rich and famous people were back then? Despite their glamour, none of the panelists passed any hint of judgment of any of the contestants or their occupations. Has anyone else noticed how genuinely warm and kind the panelists’ greeting to the contestants are when they do their ‘walk by’? When there is an attractive contestant on the show, the celebrities compliment them and sometimes suggest they consider show business. I think that more recent celebrities would be much less genuine and even feel a little threatened today, even if they wouldn’t openly admit it. This show was made some 20 years before I was even born, but I still long for the days when people were decent.
He beats Barney, as a far more brilliantly comic and more talented than Don Knotts could ever be on his best day! Art was multi-multi talented! Actor, impressionist (as heard here in his different voices), pianist ("The $99,000 Answer" on The Honeymooners) shows his piano playing skill, credible singer-dancer, you name it, Art could do it!
I did not like the MG format at this time when one panelist could dominate the questioning until getting a 'No'. A good thing they changed that later to have one question by a panelist, whether a 'yes' or 'no' answer. That also gave the others a chance to make funny questions or remarks!
Mr. Art Carney was a real man! There was something in him that strikes a chord with me. I remember during one academy award show, Lucile Ball was having trouble reading the award cards and asked “would one of you boys come up and help me with this? I'm not joking.”. Both Mr. Art Carney, and Milton Burl, started up the stage. Burl reached Miss Ball first, and as Mr. Carney was turning to leave, Burl snarled at him and yelled “get off the stage” as if Mr. Carney was some bum from the audience. Mr. Carney spun around and was heading toward Burl, but then I guess he thought better of it and went back to his seat. I’m not sure, but Miss Ball may have said something like “now, boys don’t fight”, in a motherly tone. (Too bad Mr. Carney didn’t rip Burl’s fucking head off.) Those few seconds of the show revealed who these people really were. Mr. Carney was a real flesh and blood and sweat and tears man.
@@jasonhurd4379 Oh yes, indeed. Jolson once called Berle every anti Semitic name in the book because Berle had upstaged him., and Jolson was a Jew too. Jolson had the biggest ego of anyone in show biz. He only liked toadies and yes men. Jolson only loved himself and he returned his affection.
Art Carney must have had to go somewhere immediately after his appearance on "What's My Line?" because as soon as Bennett Cerf guessed correctly who he was, Carney got up and left!
Normally mystery guests like it when the panel can't guess them, but I think he was upset Dorothy Kilgallen couldn't fathom he worked in television then Steve Allen continued with the radio. That's why Art Carney mentioned he wasn't on radio anymore. With Bennet Cerf getting his name wrong he would be ticked off. It's one thing for the panel not to guess the mystery guest, but it's quite another to not know who you are at all.
But Google Maps shows the correct and original spelling of Pittsburgh, with the final "h"; it was only spelled Pittsburg from 1891 to 1911. The U.S. Board on Geographic Names had ruled in 1891 that all town names ending in -burgh would be simplified to -burg. This explains Pittsburg, Kansas, as an example. But the Pennsylvania city didn't want to go along, and eventually their petition to use the historic spelling was approved in 1911.
But, can it core a Apple? Smart of Carney to appear in costume. Very famous comedians have done this when they are known for mostly one part. For instance, Pee Wee Herman (Paul Reubans) would show up in costume and never break character even when he appeared on radio.
When Bennett said about the final contestant during the free guess round "I hate to tell you what Senator he reminds me of" he was obviously referring to Joe McCarthy. During this time the famous Army-McCarthy hearings were being held and the Senator was perhaps by now being shown in a rather poor light.
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I've watched so many of these early WML episodes recently, I'm beginning to want to buy a bottle of Stopette!
Don’t laugh I loved the smell of Finesse shampoo & conditioner in the 70’s. I think they even made a lotion 😊
Hysterical 😃
Do you need it?
You could always trace the chain of ownership and find the current descendant.
That's cute, I've watched so many black and white movies and shows recently. That I'm actually considering getting rid of my cellphone
I was only 4 days old when this aired. I was and still am a big fan of the Honeymooners, especially Art Carney, a true classic of comedy. Thanks.
I heartily concur!
Art Carney was always a class act! So funny and charming!
Haha, and he even took it in stride when the Broadway columnist suggested he couldn’t have been a real actor if he hadn’t appeared on stage!
I certainly have a notion to second THAT emotion !!
I loved how Art Carney came dressed as his character....
May have come right from the set.
Hey ralphie boy
I wonder why there wasn't any chat with him at the end. It seemed he left rather abruptly. Perhaps, he was due back on the set. Can't keep Gleason waiting. 😂
And removed his chewing gum.
@@waynej2608 They started the chat format a couple of years later.
Art Carney was a totally underrated actor, he was a great character actor, and made some great movies.
Harry and Tonto being a classic
@@michaelnivens6267 Art won the Academy Award (1975) for his performance as Best Actor in that film's dramatic role. He also was an excellent voice impersonator, and pianist. He oozed so much talent, in both drama and comedy that few could do both so well.
@@freeguy77 -I know -terrific film and a superb portrayal
Check out Carney’s appearance on ‘The Twilight Zone’ episode ‘The Night of the Meek’ aired Dec 23, 1960. He was a very fine actor.
For years I thought Art Carey won his best actor Oscar for The Late Show. Turns out I was way off and he actually won it for Harry & Tonto, a kind of forgotten movie these days. Does anyone remember Art Carney's 1970s cop show Lannigan's Rabbi ?
Two of my favorite people, Art Carney and Steve Allen. This show is so wonderfully erudite and relaxed. Our entire society seemed so much more, well, civilized then, didn't it?
You think...?!
well yes and no. these were the McCarthy years. I'd give them a miss, if there's a choice. Not that we haven't dropped beneath sea level since then, make no mistake that we agree there.
absolutelly ,totally,you can say that again!
Well yeah they're all formally dressed and well mannered
Amen! We've degenerated
Yes the brilliant art Carney one of the most underrated actors of the 20th century
I agree 100 percent !
That show had a classy group of panelists and moderator. A time when families were so close...watching Lawrence Welk, Ed Sullivan, and What's My Line.
I just love the way they always introduce the panel and it's heartwarming to hear each of them say 'Good Night'. Classy Program! I almost feel like I should be dressing up to watch it........
Susan in Greensboro, NC
This is one of the best WML shows I've seen on RUclips- (really captures how cute people were back in 1954).
And that trait continued through the remainder of the 1960s into the early-'70s. Then, something changed in the environment-social arena with the unpopular war, end of the gold standard (Aug. 15, 1971) artificially increasing the price level, and the racial tensions!
As Snagglepuss would say, "Indubitably!"
This show made my day
It was indeed quite entertaining !!
I briefly caught where Art says he has only been in 1 movie, Arlene stated "He must have been in Korea." Amazing how this show fits in between so much history and we can still laugh along with them.
She said " a career".. meaning one movie didn't sound like a career...
“Where would you do your acting if not on stage or movies?” That’s how new TV was that she couldn’t think of another medium other than stage or movies. This show was treated almost like a radio show that was recorded in a theater, what an awesome line!
Wow, what a flashback to my childhood. My parents watched this show all the time. I still remember the panelists. They should bring back some of these programs. Today's idea of entertainment really sucks.
There is a lack of class for a remake to be any good. Too many attention seeking clowns on TV now.
I don’t think the panel had any idea how famous Art Carney would become. Hilarious!
Same when they had Gleason on
Al Carney
@@rpc717 ART Carney.
@@kathkwilts I'm aware. That's what Bennett called him. @19:39
Carney got better and better and better and better and better and turned out a true legend. Ty AL
This is my favorite panel. All of them are great at the game.
I love when someone goes on a streak of affirmative answers and doesn't know what to do next!
I've been hooked on these lately and this is quite the restrained audience response tonight. No wolf whistles for Ms. Sacramento or over-the-top for Art Carney.
I was born in 1962 but I grew up close to my grandparents and heard about these shows and others like it and then got to see reruns.
Did you notice the men standing up for the lady?
Such a simpler and kinder time in history.
Arlene Francis looked lovely here and as always, she demonstrated class.
now, reeaaally Johhnn......
Yeah, looks aren't everything. 🙄
Always..
She was no Hope Emerson (hubba hubba!) but Ms. Francis was indeed one beautiful lady.
Great Idea! Here’s what we’re doing while we’re on lockdown for COVID19; playing What’s My Line with the three great grandmas!
Art Carney's one film (at the time) was "Pot 'o' Gold" (1941) starring James Stewart. Art sang and played as part of Horace Heidt's orchestra.
Steve Allen was a genius. Also wrote over 5000 songs
5,000 songs with 4,999 that none of us know.
@@ChrisHansonCanada Yes, I could say I made 500 short films too. On my backyard with an old vhs camcoder.
@@ChrisHansonCanada 😆
@@ChrisHansonCanada "This Could Be The Start of Something Big" I'm sure you have heard.
And maybe over 100 books!!
Steve Allen is a riot. "He's a chalk breaker!"
This was Art Carney's first appearance as a mystery guest. Bennett called him Al Carney. When Jackie Gleason appeared as a mystery guest, Arlene called him Jimmy Gleason.
There was an actor named James Gleason. I think she just misspoke.
@@accomplice55 Indeed. James Gleason was a veteran character actor, mostly in comedic roles.
Art Carney, what a classy guy. I love it when he holds his hand up to the blindfolded panel to indicate he needs a conference with Daly. That's something that only a natural would do. So funny!
He is motioning the audience to stop laughing, fool.
@@krystonjones you could have made your point without the insult
@@emmabradford137Agree😊
Norton!!! What a blast to see him at this stage!
May late dad watched the Honeymooners all the time. It was one of his favorite shows. He adored Art Carney, maybe even more than Jackie Gleason. He loved that Carney was Irish/Catholic like us.
+guyfihi Jackie Gleason was also an Irish Catholic.
...and as was Gleason himself. Carney once said that from the first, he and Gleason never rehearsed nor even spoke about their characters,."...just two Irishmen working together, " he explained
But Gleeson was Irish as well
My dad was from the Bronx & dark Irish. Knew all those characters Gleason did. Carney lived up in Yonkers. My uncle knew his sons.
Such a pleasure to watch these shows.
I could not agree more !!
Dorothy not even thinking of television acting as an option us pretty funny!
This show was broadcast on May 16, 1954. On the very next day, the United States Supreme Court announced its decision in Brown v. Board of Education and turned the world of education upside down.
That was the day before my second birthday.
This was 6 days after my second birthday...
American education* not world education
@@allindbz "World of education", not world education, not world's education. Do try to keep up with the details..
That's the cutest cop I've ever seen.
Art's just a naturally funny man!
That's for sure !!
"Have you been in motion pictures?"
"One."
Haha thats hilarious
Carney was very fortunate, like Leslie Nielsen and Betty White, to have a second burst in his career. In the 1970s, he starred in "Harry and Tonto" and won Best Actor, and then made some other films. Carney had a terrific agent for many years who convinced Carney to play Harry despite Carney's view that he was not old enough for the part. In a later MG appearance, Martin Gabel praised Carney's agent by name, many years before he gave Carney that huge boost.
@@preppysocks209 Absolutely. Carney was real good in The Late Show, with Lily Tomlin, too. Very talented guy.
Art Carney was one of the magical people!
Mrs. Sacremento apparently moved to Arizona in the late 50s and stayed there; she lived in Phoenix for awhile, and then went to Scottsdale, where she lived until her death, at 79, in 2002.
Also, because I stopped look him up in more detail: Arlene mentions Arnold Stang at 19:08 or so. He was in a bunch of 50s stuff I never saw but have heard of, but he was also famous basically for being himself in the 70s and 80s. AND played Top Cat, which is where I know him from.
Arnold Stang - "Chunky! What a chunk of chocolate!". I grew up with that.
Hahaha, this must've been early in his career, Bennett calls him Al Carney, Lol. I wonder why he's in costume, I guess he just came from the set of Cavalcade Of Stars, or did it air at the same time as WML? I really love these shows, can't thank you enough for posting them. I have always wished that I could've lived in the 50's, it seems like such a great time, watching these programs is like looking through a window into that era.
+J. Dovales that's nothing. When Jackie Gleason was on, Arlene couldn't come up with his name.
Art Carney wore those clothes in his every day life.
He won an Oscar for "Harry & Tonto", great film.
There are some references to the ongoing McCarthy hearings on the show. "I'll have to ask you to repeat that question." 14:18 "Point of order." 14:31 "Could we have that read back, please?" 17:48
And by a happy coincidence the final contestant is a McCarthy look-alike of whom Bennett even says, "I hate to tell you what senator he reminds me of." 21:04
I think the final contestant looks like then-Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson, not McCarthy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson#/media/File:Senator_Lyndon_Johnson.jpg
The HUAC hearings had left a bitter taste in the collective mouth of WML. One of the charter panelists, Louis Untermeyer, had been investigated by the HUAC, and after considerable pressure from the show's sponsor, Jules Montanier of Stopette, was fired from the show. Untermeyer, who was sixty-five years of age at the time of his firing, went into deep seclusion and seems never to have recovered fully from the public ignominy he had suffered. Cerf was Untermeyer's replacement on the WML panel.
@@justjohnney I can see the McCarthy resemblance
@@jasonhurd4379 Technically it wasn't HUAC, as McCarthy was as Senator. I believe it was the Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations HUAC was 20 years or so earlier
Actually he looks more to me like Edward R. Murrow.
Hey Ralphie boy!
He’s a natural, I love the old-time vaudeville actors!
Was going to shutdown and get some sleep when i refreshed YT one last time and found Art Carney as the mystery quest. I had to watch it no telling when I will sleep now.
I LOVE Art Carney!!
Arlene called Gleason "Jimmy Gleason" in 1953 and in 1954 Bennett Cerf called Art Carney "Al Carney".
wow. I think that Arlene Francis was just so beautiful ... wow
She became more attractive as she aged.
"Are you that New Rochelle kid, Al Carney?" OMG!!!!!!!!!
Carney was from Mt Vernon. I claim New Rochelle as my birthplace.
I am glad that they changed the format.......I really hate when one person hogged all the questions. :)
John Fuentes
Yes, it was too easy to get "yes" answers to mystery guest questions because they were so often in one of the entertainment fields. Glad they changed that along with the awkward parading of guests (as though they were in a
beauty contest or fashion show) and the silly guesses.
Hard to believe that the first contestant is not a model or a film star!
My Goodness Art Carney got up pretty darn fast when his name was guessed. Shook hands and was outta there!
I wouldn't be too happy if I was a huge star and one of the panelists got my first name wrong as well as my hometown (Mount Vernon instead of New Rochelle). Bennett Cerf, in trying to appear so knowledgeable, laid a huge egg.
R R
He may have had to be somewhere. These appearances were likely squeezed into the schedule.
@@loissimmons6558 not one of Cerf's better moments, and Mr. Carney corrected him during a subsequent guest appearance
that looked like time restraints of the show. I don't see carney getting irate over a goofup from a blindfolded panelist.
I think Art Carney said too much.
the 1st contestant's occupation makes sense i'm sure she stopped lots of traffic
You can clearly see that they all loved each other dearly
I think it throws the panel more when the mystery guests put on an accent (or several accents) than when they do the squeaky or whispery voice.
Art Carney genius clown character. Love him.
Art was a wonderful actor!
The big "Honeymooner's" show that was filmed between 1955 and 1956 had yet to premiere (though Honeymooner skits had been done on Jackie Gleason's show) so I wonder if Art Carney was extremely well known yet, especially to the panel, who, I would bet, might only lower themselves to watch such shenanigans in strict privacy.
AL CARNEY!??
Art Carney was a great actor. he could play any role. one of his best roles was as a Deacon in a Burt Reynolds film. W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings
Carney once commented in an interview that he and Gleeson never rehearsed together, and incredibly enough, never even discussed their characters together.."Just two Irishman working together, I guess." he explained.
What a couple of wonderfully innovative & talented icons of comedy !!
Re Hair Guy: "This product of yours, do you use it yourself?"
Art is sooo fun to wwatch!
This was a year before the standalone Honeymooners, so I guess they recognized Art Carney off the skits from The Jackie Gleason show? Still goes to show you how small the film and TV industry was at this point that they could identify someone by just being associated with “a very important comedian!”
Art Carney is very beloved. I think you can tell from his appearance here.
You speak the truth, Kemo Sabe!
Carney did great impressions. He could have answered with the voice of FDR or Truman.
That's true! He was a very active radio actor who regularly impersonated famous people.
I loved when he played Santa in that Twilight Zone episode
The brilliant art Carney
Carney's appearance is actually before The Honeymooners made it's debut. The character of Ed Norton first appeared on the Calvacade of Stars and the Jackie Gleason show
@clash5j. Unless I'm mistaken, didn't "The Honeymooners" originally air as a regular sketch on Gleason's show and then in 1955, Gleason decided to turn the sketch into a full-fledged episodic TV show of its' own?
It was a radio show and then became a hit on tv. Love that he is dressed as Norton. He also played the guy who stays in his cabin when Mt St Helens blew it was a sad 😭😭 u moment
NO. The Ed Norton character first appeared around 1951.
Then this could explain why Bennett called him Al Carney.
Its debut, not it's debut.
Art Carney is one of my favorites - and only part of it has to do with him being from my hometown of Mt. Vernon, NY :-)
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I thimnk that the best acting that Carney ever did was in the movie "Harry and Tonto" near the end of his fairly long life. He won an Oscar for that.
I love Art Carney more than you do as I have Art Carney sheets and pillow cases.
Please explain in graphic de tail what those sheets and pillow cases look like with Carney's image all over them.
They show him as Ed Norton and I am not sure if they were meant as a novelty item or what. Purchased at a thrift store years ago. Not many can say that they sleep with Norton but I can.
Later, Richard Boone would come on dressed as Paladin. Those are the only two mystery guests I remember being in costume as their most famous character.
Love the memories
So long ago but it was a great show!!
What a fine show.
“Do you go around the country as a living example”? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
One movie…20 years later wins Oscar for Best Actor.
I loved Steve Allen. Great sense of humor
Anyone got a spare delorean? I wanna go back.
hair growing tonic from a bald man; i'll buy that!
Steve Allen was so funny. 😂❤
Art Carney as Norton (and others) was brilliant.
Looking at the show through the years: Wow, what a difference 10 or 12 years makes to the way they look. I hope my own aging has not been quite so obvious -- but perhaps it has.
Wow ms.Sacramento 😍😍
He's a great advertisement for his hair lotion.
Lolz.
LOL was thinking the same.
The pizza guy was clueless on the questions he was getting.
Thank goodness they eliminated the business of the contestants parading themselves in front of the panelists and also the exiting of the contestants behind John Charles Daly.
Wow, Mrs. Wilma Sacramento, was a knock out. She could have been a movie star. I wonder what ever became of her.
What natural beauty and a Traffic Cop in those days. She had a lovely smile.
2 of my Heroes: Dorothy Kilgallen and Steve Allen
Isn’t it amazing how different most rich and famous people were back then? Despite their glamour, none of the panelists passed any hint of judgment of any of the contestants or their occupations. Has anyone else noticed how genuinely warm and kind the panelists’ greeting to the contestants are when they do their ‘walk by’? When there is an attractive contestant on the show, the celebrities compliment them and sometimes suggest they consider show business. I think that more recent celebrities would be much less genuine and even feel a little threatened today, even if they wouldn’t openly admit it. This show was made some 20 years before I was even born, but I still long for the days when people were decent.
was 2 days old when this was aired!
Art Carney's ONE picture was Pot of Gold in 1941 as part of a band and an announcer near the end of the movie. It's definitely him.
oh dear, im sure i dont need to point out that the second guest was in great need of his own product hehe
This show aired on the day I was born in 1954, long time ago lol.
He was voted the second best character ever on television. Just after Barney Fife. Quite correct.
He beats Barney, as a far more brilliantly comic and more talented than Don Knotts could ever be on his best day! Art was multi-multi talented! Actor, impressionist (as heard here in his different voices), pianist ("The $99,000 Answer" on The Honeymooners) shows his piano playing skill, credible singer-dancer, you name it, Art could do it!
As noted before, I'm glad they did away with the introduction to the panel by shaking hands and free guessing line..
Arlene stated...."just a housewife"....wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I did not like the MG format at this time when one panelist could dominate the questioning until getting a 'No'. A good thing they changed that later to have one question by a panelist, whether a 'yes' or 'no' answer. That also gave the others a chance to make funny questions or remarks!
Mr. Art Carney was a real man! There was something in him that strikes a
chord with me. I remember during one academy award show, Lucile Ball
was having trouble reading the award cards and asked “would one of you
boys come up and help me with this? I'm not joking.”. Both Mr. Art
Carney, and Milton Burl, started up the stage. Burl reached Miss Ball
first, and as Mr. Carney was turning to leave, Burl snarled at him and
yelled “get off the stage” as if Mr. Carney was some bum from the
audience. Mr. Carney spun around and was heading toward Burl, but then I
guess he thought better of it and went back to his seat. I’m not sure,
but Miss Ball may have said something like “now, boys don’t fight”, in a
motherly tone. (Too bad Mr. Carney didn’t rip Burl’s fucking head
off.) Those few seconds of the show revealed who these people really
were. Mr. Carney was a real flesh and blood and sweat and tears man.
ATINKERER Milton Berle
From what I've heard, Milton Berle was an all around S.O.B. who thought the sun rose and set on hum and him alone.
Allegedly the size of his manhood was legendary.
@@Deutschie Al Jolson was cut from the same cloth. He and Milton Berle were true a**holes.
@@jasonhurd4379 Oh yes, indeed. Jolson once called Berle every anti Semitic name in the book because Berle had upstaged him., and Jolson was a Jew too. Jolson had the biggest ego of anyone in show biz. He only liked toadies and yes men. Jolson only loved himself and he returned his affection.
He's dressed as Norton😄
Thanks for the information, Einstein. 😁
@@geewhizz1970 E=mc2
Art Carney must have had to go somewhere immediately after his appearance on "What's My Line?" because as soon as Bennett Cerf guessed correctly who he was, Carney got up and left!
Normally mystery guests like it when the panel can't guess them, but I think he was upset Dorothy Kilgallen couldn't fathom he worked in television then Steve Allen continued with the radio. That's why Art Carney mentioned he wasn't on radio anymore. With Bennet Cerf getting his name wrong he would be ticked off. It's one thing for the panel not to guess the mystery guest, but it's quite another to not know who you are at all.
North Braddock is a suburb of Pittsburg. It is east of Braddock and north of East Pittsburg. It is fun to look this stuff up on Google Maps.
But Google Maps shows the correct and original spelling of Pittsburgh, with the final "h"; it was only spelled Pittsburg from 1891 to 1911. The U.S. Board on Geographic Names had ruled in 1891 that all town names ending in -burgh would be simplified to -burg. This explains Pittsburg, Kansas, as an example. But the Pennsylvania city didn't want to go along, and eventually their petition to use the historic spelling was approved in 1911.
In a very quick search I didn't see any movie Art Carney was in before this 1954 WML show.
But, can it core a Apple? Smart of Carney to appear in costume. Very famous comedians have done this when they are known for mostly one part. For instance, Pee Wee Herman (Paul Reubans) would show up in costume and never break character even when he appeared on radio.
Oh, it can core a apple!
Al Carney! Bennett is always getting names wrong.
When Bennett said about the final contestant during the free guess round "I hate to tell you what Senator he reminds me of" he was obviously referring to Joe McCarthy.
During this time the famous Army-McCarthy hearings were being held and the Senator was perhaps by now being shown in a rather poor light.