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You Bet Your Life #59-22 Pamela Mason, wife of James Mason ('Table', Feb 18, 1960)
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2014
- There a neat little moment around 3:30, where Groucho makes a special point to Pamela Mason that "many wonderful things are ridiculous", a line of thought that couldn't be more appropriate from a Marx Brother!
COUPLE #1: Pamela Mason, wife of movie actor James Mason / Dr. RC Miller, zoologist and director of the California Academy of Sciences
COUPLE #2: Alice Jones / David Brown, professional Boy Scout
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Episode identification and basic description based on "Tell 'em Groucho Sent You", © 1997 by Mark Petty. Used by permission.
I just want to thank you for posting these episodes of "You Bet Your Life."
It is a pleasure to see these unscripted interviews with famous and not so famous people. That is so rare on talk shows today.
'I don't run a clip joint at all ' THE DOC SCORES!...
so enjoyable. thank you for posting
I use to watch this show when I was a kid.
I watched it too. I liked the duck.
The comely Alice Jones is better known to the public as the actress Quinn O'Hara. She made her small screen debut as a 15 year old in a 1956 episode of Dragnet called "The Suicide Attempt" and reprised the same role of Tami Avalon in the new version of Dragnet 12 years later. She has credits in 55 different vehicles as an actress Never a star and often eye candy with no more than one or two episodes in any of the shows in which she appeared, she was seen most often in her seven appearances in Dallas as Ashley Davidson from 1986 to 1991 (an unusually long time to keep bringing back the same minor character). When she was younger, she was known for some B movie roles, including Sinistra in "The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini" and Jada in "In the Year 2889". And she had the title role in "Rubia's Jungle".
She also was one of two young actresses to appear in a print ad endorsing a product to _gain_ weight, presumably in all the right places.
If she was hoping that her appearance would be a plug for her young career (she didn't appear in anything on small or large screen after the 1956 Dragnet until a year after this episode of YBYL was shown), she must have been disappointed. Groucho focused all the attention on her dating habits and if he ever asked her about her job, it ended up on the cutting room floor.
For those guys who were disappointed in not seeing her red hair (and I'd imagine would also like to see a few more pictures of how well that diet aid worked), as a public service, here's some pictures of Quinn O'Hara (nee Alice Jones) on her website:
www.quinnohara.com/photo.htm
At some point, she retired from acting to become a nurse to senior citizens, most likely in the late 1990's or early in the new century. Since 1998 when she appeared in NYPD Blue, she has had only one other credit, an episode of Las Vegas in 2005.
For additional info on her bio, this is in her own words: www.quinnohara.com/mybio.htm
There are also many more pictures on her website, including some that she calls current (I would guess within the last 10-15 years), The years appear to have been very kind to her.
Thank you.
She was beautiful
No more web site. She died May 5, 2017.
Thanks for the bedtime story. It worked great !
@@hogfarmersforjustice4804 OK. Now what ?
I loved James mason’s voice. So elegant!
James J. Braddock was portrayed in the film Cinderella Man.
What a beauty Alice Jones was. Oh, for a time machine, so that I could go back to meet her, circa 1960!
Girls dressed much more modestly then, which makes the sex wheels in my brain spin all the faster!
Joe Postove I didn't think those wheels could spin any faster. ;)
these wheels on fire!
I agree. Too bad its black and white - can't admire the red hair.
Groucho Marx - You Bet Your Life So fast, Gary, I need a new set :)
Groucho's interrogation of the second couple is truly epic. Merci pour le téléchargement. J'ai presque trop ri.
That scout leader is such a square, but he held his own with Groucho!
"I'm a zoologist" "there's an animal right next to you!" ....too good Groucho. Note: The Boy Scouts has now been castrated in 2018
@Terry, I ceased respect for the Boy Scouts when they admitted homosexuals and girls.
Yes VS A was castrated.
@@WJack97224 Yep!!!🤬👎🏻
Jay Leno is remaking "You Bet Your Life" in September, let's hope he pays respect to the great Groucho and doesn't act like it's his baby
Really . wow. But Nobody can replace Groucho
@@dorothy5996 I feel the same about Johnny Carson, Fallon is now doing it. He's about as funny as a train wreak Carson was the king of monologue
I would like to see James Mason next to his wife...as Mickey Rooney said upon meeting Jane Mansfield,,,"Who wants to be tall?"
Based on interviews with the Masons' son Alexander when the son was an adult, it appears that Groucho brought up a topic that Pamela Mason did not want the public to know when Groucho asked about parties. First of all, Alexander said that his parents were extremely permissive with him and his sister, Portland. Nothing was taboo to them as long as they acted like adults. His sister was wearing makeup and high heels at age 7 and dating boys at age 9. Alexander was smoking by age 4, drinking beer by age 5 and mixing martinis at age six for Pamela's nightly all-night parties for about 50 guests. James, when not out of town on location, would go to bed at 10 PM. The parties would break up around 5 AM, but according to her son, Pamela was often horizontal as well, but not asleep and not with her husband.
While James was somewhat rude and anti-social, Pamela was one of the most popular socialites in Hollywood. As Groucho said, he had often seen the couple at parties, including ones that they threw, and knew her reputation as a popular socialite. She was able to deftly deflect Groucho's question to one about singles hunting for a new mate. If she had left it at saying she didn't like parties, and didn't change the subject, she knew Groucho was likely to have a very surprised look on his face.
And I note that she never said that she would donate any winnings to charity the way most celebrities did. Maybe with all those parties, she really did need the money.
By 1964, James had enough and filed for divorce. Pamela got the better of the settlement by far, however. It was the case where Marvin Michelson began to build his reputation as the go to divorce attorney for wealthy celebrities.
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Thank you for that info!
Yeah Pamela sounds like a typical debauched English woman.
His name was not Alexander, it was Morgan.
@@HolgerRuneFan Actually his birth name was Alexander Morgan Mason. I read those interviews five years ago, so I don't remember the source(s) of the interviews or whether they used his first name or his middle name.
a regular movie theatre filled with people smoking ........when smoking was healthy ..
And half the country died of lung cancer.
Love Groucho. He was so real. Little bit of a chauvinist but charming nevertheless.
4:30 Boy and the men think they pick out the women - no truer word Groucho - you got it - IT IS THE WOMAN WHO CHOOSES THE MAN - never the other way around - he can do nothing until she allows it.
'I wish chances were thrown at me' - is he unmarried during this show? He sometimes invites his daughter............................
John Fennerman was extremely good looking
"George" Fenneman
@@robertklose2140 You are right! Thank you for correcting me.
How innocent society (and how different from lust-drivien degenerate society) is from today.
Here, Pamela Mason gives a fine example of an old-time upper-upper-class female English accent. You don’t hear that accent much any more, although there’s a little of it in Queen Elizabeth’s voice when she speaks.
That boy scout WAS a disgrace, as Groucho said. Not very bright either.
Makes you wonder if he ever got laid, even though he claimed to be married.
You want me to make up a word? Wow!
19m23s I see Groucho is smoking one of those banana cigars on this episode ... or he kept it in his back pocket.
Did the producers of YBYL ever consider going to videotape once it became viable in the late 50's? By 1960 were any other game or panel shows filmed, rather than being live or on tape? I'm glad it's filmed (and maybe they didn't want to change the "look" of the show that had been on film for so many years) but I know they burned through a lot of film stock to get the best of Groucho and tape would have saved a lot of money. But then we would have never seen the outtakes.
Not from anything I've read. I think we were talking about this on the WML recently, the fact that film was, surprisingly, actually much cheaper than videotape well into the 1960s, some shows still being kinescoped even in the 1970s. The reason those Twilight Zone second season shows were forced on Rod Serling for budgetary reasons wasn't because videotape itself was cheaper, than film, but because videotape called for an entirely different, faster, cheaper style of production using multiple cameras. Filmed TZ shows were made like mini movies, with each camera setup filmed independently and out of sequence.
I think possibly another part of the reason videotape wasn't used for YBYL is that the technology wasn't up to the task. Again, a show like the Twilight Zone or the rare variety specials that were videotaped were recorded with multiple cameras, the videotape recording the camera takes called for by the technical director. There was no need for major editing after the fact. On YBYL, they went as far as to sometimes eliminate single words from sections of interviews if it helped the pace of the show (this according to the show's director, Robert Dwan). My understanding (which is very possibly wrong) is that videotape wasn't yet capable of this level of precision editing. You'll see when we get to the "WML at 25", created 13 years after YBYL went off the air, that the transitions between edits are quite rough.
In any event, you couldn't be more on target about those stag reel films, which are absolutely precious. There's a new one for the final season included in the new Shout Factory "Marx Brothers TV Collection" which has just been released this summer. If the show had been done on videotape, those segments would, in all likelihood, have been lost forever.
I guess you know about the "Dumont Film System" which combined film cameras and television cameras, so the director could call the shots. YBYL is obviously not shot movie style (one camera) but with several cameras because of the style of the show. However, it must have been a major hurdle to go in afterwards and get a show out of that.
Joe Postove First off, my apologies for not being clearer on this point: YBYL was filmed with movie cameras, but you're completely right, it was NOT filmed movie-style (i.e., one camera shot at a time with retakes for alternate angles). There were, as I recall reading, 4 cameras on stage, so that when the film ran out on one camera and needed to be changed, the other three would still be going. The rest of what I was trying to say may make more sense in this context: it was easier and more precise to edit film, and cheaper to archive and store it, than videotape. .
The Dumont system has always fascinated me. It was called "Electronicam", and was pushed *hard* by Jackie Gleason. The "Classic 39" episodes of The Honeymooners (all that was rerun for decades until the late 1980s) were all recorded using this system. The whole idea of it was incompatible with YBYL's production approach, because the purpose was to combine the style of live TV direction (choosing shots as they happened) with the preservation capacity of film (the selected camera image was recorded to film, not as a kinescope, but just as a traditional film would be). There was never any intention in the Electronicam system for major post-production editing. which was an essential part of the success of YBYL.
I think there were other shows that were produced using Electronicam, but it was essentially a colossal failure, Gleason himself returning to live TV (and kinescopes) the following year. But I've always thought the idea made a lot of sense, and when I first learned about it was surprised that it didn't catch on more, at least until the videotape era truly arrived.
As always, I find this stuff fascinating, but I couldn't be more of an amateur, with only the most limited of knowledge of how any of this worked. My apologies to anyone who knows better and whose cranial blood vessels are hemorrhaging at reading my basically ignorant comments.
Groucho Marx - You Bet Your Life
you for the most part completely grasp the entire subject and explain it quite well. movies are storyboarded, all the angles and stuff are already planned before an inch of film was shot. television in the early days was mostly done live like you said. you bet your life allowed them to film with all 4 cameras at pre-set angles and focus ranges. it minimized cost in having the cameras mostly not needing to be touched. in editing they were allowed to use this film to do something similar to how a movie is shot. this show actually was one of the pioneers of this type of filming and it was used very commonly for years and years later til the videotape era truly started like u said.
Groucho Marx - You Bet Your Life
and yeah film was literally cut with a machine and could be done down to the exact still frame needed then the film was spliced back together. film editing is a lost, lost art. look back to the original king kong. i remember reading peter jackson tried to recreate the lost dinosaur footage using old, traditional methods and couldn't.
Unfortunately Quinn O'Hara passed away in 2017 (January 3, 1941 - May 5, 2017), born Alice Jones, was a Scottish-born American actress. Info on her acting is on imdb and wiki
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"It's very annoying if they pursue you and you don't want them to...". Was Pamela trying to educate Groucho regarding his foremost tedious habit on the show?
Not at all, she was explaining how men were on a date!
All these people are dead and I'm older now than they were then.
That's your problem
@@joeambrose3260 What a lame response!!!🤬🖕👎🏻
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They were sure some beautiful women back then not like now
Listen to the protocol's of the learned elders of Zion. Its all you need to know.
Also the most drop dead gorgeous men back then. Unlike now.
HAAAAAAA !
That's the only thing I don't like about this show - he interrogates people about their dating history, wanting to know why he or she isn't married, puts them on the spot, and asking what one thinks of the other which is awkward as hell.
What is your problem? It is hilarious!
It's cheeky, relatable and often funny there's been plenty of times when people didn't want to elaborate and Groucho certainly wasn't going to force them. Lighten up
I think anyone who appeared on YBYL knew what they were in for.
That's part of his schtick. You take that away and what's he going to talk about with, sometimes not that riveting contestants, climate change?
Back then it was acceptable
I'm surprised Pamela stayed clothed and vertical long enough to appear on television.
He looked down on people. Treated women like objects, wonder how he would have liked it if other men treated his 2 daughters like that. I like the show, disliked him
You are full of shit.
@@CD-db1zo eat shit. He suxed so do you.
That girl is not from Scotland! She may have been born there but she wasnt raised there because just listen to her American Accent! Another deceitful woman!