What's My Line? - Ed Wynn (Apr 18, 1954)
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- MYSTERY GUEST: Ed Wynn
PANEL: Dorothy Kilgallen, Steve Allen, Arlene Francis, Bennett Cerf
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Hes so expressive with that violin! You can tell exactly what hes saying in response!
I absolutely love Ed Wynn. Two of my favorite characters that he played is Uncle Albert in Mary Poppins and the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland. Such a talented, joyous, and comedic gentleman.
As soon as he let out with that laugh they had to guess it!
A genuinely funny fellow who doesn't even have to speak to get a laugh.
Agreed. ❤
Ed Wynn seemed so adorable and sweet. (I thought for sure he’d acknowledge the audience.)
Same here! I adore those two characters and are some of my favorite parts of those movies.
When Ed Wynn hit his face with the violin and gave those looks, I must have replayed it 10 times 😂😂😂
So funny. You could hear the smack, and then he looked at John like " that wasn't part of the act ". Just such a wonderful person. He gave the world much laughter.
Ed Wynn seemed like such sweet kind person
Simply delightful. Thank you for preserving these wonderful shows and sharing them with us; they are a treasure.
THIS SHOW IS TOO GOOD
Why isn't there a panel show on American TV this good right now? It's ridiculous.
Because there's no people like this in America anymore.
zerosonico Sure there are. Hollywood only hires the insane people.
Can you imagine a panel with a New York theater critic, a comedian, an actress/TV personality and a publisher today? Hosted by a news anchor? Each episode is such a wonderful snap shot into a different time in our shared popular cultural heritage.
hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh TV was more elite then---but within a few years it became aimed at the lowest common denominator when the price of sets became more affordable.
The closest thing would probably have been the 2000 reboot of To Tell The Truth, the new version has nothing in comon with the classic edition.
It's as much fun watching John Daly's reactions as it is watching Wynn.
Ed’s laugh was so distinctive it gave him away in a second…
Ed Wynn is wonderful. He seems to smile and laugh all the time. To think its still 10 yrs til Mary Poppins!
Steve Allen guest panel episodes are definitely my favorite!
Ed Wynn was a famous vaudeville comic who transitioned to radio, then tv and movies. He had his own show in the 1940’s and was still active in the 50’s when I was a kid. He was part of the great tradition of comics such as WC Fields and Buster Keaton.
He also starred in several Ziegfeld Follies and musical comedies on Broadway.
Wynn was one of the most funny men of that time period, so it is no surprise that his only appearance on WML is one of the most funniest mystery guest sequences of the 1950s. Wynn got into radio and then into TV rather early; his friends thought both were beneath his dignity; and both made him even more famous. So there.
soulierinvestments Are you sure this was his only time on WML?
Susan Sackrison - His IMDb filmography lists just one What’s My Line appearance, in 1954.
Watching these episodes never gets old. Love these delightful looks back into yesteryear! :)
Ed Wynn: Charm and Class personified. So happy to see his legacy (and of course, so many others) carried on through this medium.
Ed Wynn was priceless!! A class act!
15:22 Whoever made those Easter masks sure got creative with them! I love how our bespectacled panelists had glasses and an eyepatch on theirs, while ladies' masks were adorned with cute, delicate flowers.
I’ve watched so many other WML mystery guest segments over the years: Godfrey, Russell, Benny, Armstrong, Marx. But this is the first time I’ve seen Ed Wynn’s and I couldn’t control the laughter. Soooooo funny.
Loved those Easter masks!!! 🥰🥰
The best episodes were the ones with Steve Allen. 😂❤️🥰
I never missed his TV show, My favorite comedian of all time along with Winters and Williams.
Ooh I think Ed surprised himself lol. What a wonderfully talented person.
Wynn was a very talented person. Wish he was still around to make us laugh.
when ed wynn wapped himself with the violin i laughed out loud. funniest bit.
Love these shows that document entertainment history. These guests have actual talents and gifts. Definitely the good old days..!
Wynn was amazing!! 👍👏👍
Ed Wynn was excellent when he was on The Twilight Zone!
He was indeed, a wonderful performance :-)
Definitely One for the Angels!!
I just love this cast! I’ve seen the very first group and I’ve seen others come in just for a night or two And I’ve seen other shows with other panelists but I just can’t think of a better group than this.
If only our society was of stronger Faith, and could enable the human race to have these wonderful talents to bring us smiling Joy, once again. As the Late, Great, Ed Wynn sang in Mary Poppins: “I love to Laugh!” We all laughed with him. Thank you, Ed Wynn. ✨🕊✨
Ed Wynn, a veteran showman and comedian. When he was performing in Indiana, a young boy was interested in seeing the theater. Ed showed the boy around, who was Red Skelton. Did Ed accidentally hit himself with that violin, or did he do that for a gag? Regardless, it's hysterical.
He looked kind of genuinely startled and maybe embarrassed, I suspect it was an accident.
It was an accident, but like any good comedian, he rolls with it.
Watching the civility and formality of What's My Line is a great respite from the current state of the world, in which the self is of paramount importance in people's vapid, empty lives.
Ed Wynn did a number of things for Disney. Great comedian.
His last ever film was a Disney film. Sadly, he died before it was released.
Ten years prior to Ed Wynn's memorable appearance in the 1964 Disney musical movie _Mary Poppins_.
You mean He played in the MOVIE? As Mary Poppins friend? I KNEW he looked familiar! (I had to look up the cast of Mary Poppins; now I wanna watch it).
@@kristabrewer9363 : He sang "I Love to Laugh"!
Ed Wynn was the voice of the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland but also, he played the dentist 🦷 in The Diary of Anne Frank and was nominated for an Oscar for that role.
Ed Wynn - funny, entertaining. A joy to watch!
I had forgotten about Mr. Wynn, and how very much I loved him on tv when I was a really little boy: I love him still. THANK YOU so much for this post. This is on a par with Roz Russell's wild - time appearance.
This show aired exactly 63 years before the final day of the 2017 tax season. It was one of my most difficult ever (and I've been a professional tax preparer since 1989). I worked practically non-stop on the last day from before 8 AM until I sent off my final return or extension at 11:20 PM, just 40 minutes before the deadline.
It's good to be back watching WML episodes. And it was a great episode to come back to. I am not usually into silly comedy but Ed Wynn's performance as MG provided much needed comic relief as my body recovers from the strain.
No body asked?!
lol WTH
15:00 : those holiday masks were an interesting experiment which WML never repeated. I would have paid money to see them in Christmas masks: either elf motif or with reindeer antlers.
The mask did something for Dorothy. She looked good in it.
As a person who lives outside of the US and doesn'tget the Game Show Channel, Thank You for postingthis.:)
+Paul McMurray You're very welcome!
+What's My Line? with living in britian ive only seen ed wynn twice on bewitched in the 60s and in mary poppins would loved to have seen more of this guy many thanks for the downloads
So Mr. Ford was husband to Mrs. Bancroft, the sword swallower! Those two liked to play with knives, didn't they? ;) As soon as I saw Ed Wynn the first words to pop out of my mouth was: "Mary Poppins!!" I recognized his as the uncle and he is so good in that movie. That was one of the funnier MG segments, for sure. I'm glad Bennett disqualified himself. That was a classy move. Good for him!
When there was intelligent entertainment for adults on TV!
I always loved the fact that the program was always so urbane.
R.i.P Ed Wynn 1886-1966
"He's been used by ladies, too."
Ha! Steve Allen is such a hoot.
Dorothy Kilgallen looks like Betty Boop in this episode, just so cute and adorable.
Dorothy: "Are you an actor or actress"? John Daly: "What other did you have in mind?" Sadly, they'd have an answer for that today.
I would have loved to have meet Mr Cerf
Mr. Ed Wynn is my favorite Mad Hatter, ever.
Ed Wynn's biggest test as a performer came in October, 1956 when he created the role of "Army", the washed-up boxer's trainer, in Rod Serling's "Requiem for a Heavyweight", written especially for this LIVE (!) 90-minute TV presentation. Ed in his first serious role on LIVE TV ("Playhouse 90")! The tension during rehearsals was very high, as Ed kept flubbing his lines, etc. But....he went on LIVE..nationwide, nevertheless. I won't spoil it for you: watch the old kinescope show yourself and see what happened. Ed's son Keenan Wynn played the corrupt manager, Jack Palance (superb in this) was boxer "Mountain McClintock". (The 1962 film version featured Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, and Mickey Rooney in the 3 lead roles...ALL of them terrific, especially Gleason). LR
Ed Wynn and his son Keenan Wynn are both immensely talented. The two of them were in probably my two favorite episodes of Twilight Zone.
So amazing. Old school class and joy.
Priceless!!!
He was in the movie of “The diary of Anne Frank” and nominated for an academy award for his role .
Arlene looks so beautiful here....
I love to laugh, and this made me laugh.
18 April 1954 I was born on this very day - don't think the maternity ward had a telly though! Apart from that this series is great, showing the great and famous of the time.
My dad was born on April 18, but turned 56 at this point.
Also, I don't know a lot about Ed Wynn, but this is fairly amusing as a segment. (It helps Arlene really got into it.)
+juliansinger "The Perfect Fool"
I'd seen something of the already elderly Ed Wynn when I was a child, so that when I saw _Mary Poppins_ in 1964 (and liked it a lot even though, at age 12, I thought I might not), I recognized Ed Wynn when he played Uncle Albert and sang "I Love to Laugh" while floating in the air near the ceiling of the room. I'm 64 now and I think most people of my generation remember him from that role. My parents knew him well from many other appearances they'd seen. (I also, at one point, learned that he was Keenan Wynn's father.)
Ed Wynn was so funny.
I wonder how much of pre-Tonight Steve Allen show got kinescoped and preserved.
The Mad Hatter and Bravo Fox are loving this episode especially @ 15:31!!!!!!!
As of the original airdate of this show, over a decade had to go by before the former “Perfect Fool” would cement a place in cinema history as Mary Poppinsʼ light-hearted (and every other part) Uncle Albert.
Was he in the Diary of Anne Frank?
Mary Poppins Ed sings, ''when I laugh hahaha, I love to laugh hahaha, laughing n laughing, haha I float so high ahaha higher and higher ....
That was hilarious -- Elmer Fudd as the Easter Bunny😄😉😁!
Love those masks, love these old, clean shows
I wonder if anyone has analyzed the handwriting of various individuals as they signed in. So many different styles, and supposedly can be used to indicate personality type.
a condition would have to obtain as an a priori requisite
Our polysyllabic moderator was the best.
red watch - You just made me laugh out loud in my kitchen.
A voice actor and doing a number of characters (among my favorite work to do in fact) Ed Wynn happens to be one I do well and would love the opportunity to bring that inimitable (well I guess I should say in my case, almost inimitable? :-) voice and accent to some project, at some time or other.
Loved him in that Twilight Zone episode, "One for the Angels!"
MAKES ARCH SUPPORTS
KNIFE THROWER IN CIRCUS
As noted, Mr. Ford is actually Fred Ford Bancroft, who died in 1963. Married to Elizabeth Bancroft, the sword swallower from April 4th.
There's some pre-circus pictures of him at Find A grave, and another site with a 40s era picture of the Elizabeth and Fred. But not a lot of other info out there. (And despite his fairly unique name, I can't find anything on Mr. Burns.)
www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=58796984
bucklesw.blogspot.com/2006/08/rowe-bros-circus-1940-5.html
This was the first time I noticed Dorothy's slightly sneezy nasal affliction when she introduced Steve Allen. This would be more common in later years. It only seems to occur at the beginning of the program.
I've always thought it ironic that a character who played such a gentle and sweet man would have a son that more often than not played heavies in the movies. I think of Keenan Wynn more in gangster, or loud-mouth roles, and I wonder what his father thought about his son's persona.
I found it hard to believe Keenan Wynn was Ed's son, based on the completely opposite personas their on-screen characters had. But my guess is Ed approved, he did appear with Keenan in Absent-Minded Professor (when Keenan's character was tricked into wearing the flubber shoes and Ed's character was the helpless fire chief trying to calm him down)
Keenan Wynn sang and danced in Kiss Me Kate.
Rabbit Taylor= pun, Robert Taylor.
Wish they still showed this
Instead of a falsetto voice, Ed chose to play the violin!
Great show... I'm not sure in what season this changed, but the best thing they ever dud was eliminate the practice of having the contestant walk over in front of the panel prior to the questioning. It was a waste of time that could be... and eventually was... better spent on questioning. I do however like when they started the practice of having the contestants shake hands with the panel.
I think it was 1955 or 1956.
I am curious if one of those rabbit masks exist today, I compliment the designs of each mask. :)
U-tube
Mr. Burns. Boy, that name did not imply cartoons back then.
Those bunny masks should be in the Smithsonian!
What is hilarious is that with Mr. Ford the free guesses one said clown and another mentioned elephants as part of an expression. Clowns and elephants it's like they circled his workplace unknowingly. He more than likely knew some clowns and an elephant.
Oh, I love to laugh!
Steve Allen was brilliant 21:30
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20:01, lol!
His reaction to it was hilarious, didn’t miss a beat!
I’m dying
Comments left on prior version of this video:
valcaron 1 year ago (edited)
I didn't get the "Rabbit Taylor" reference at 16:00. Google yields nothing. The audience and host seemed shocked at the joke, though, so it must have been topical for the era.
What's My Line? 1 year ago
It was one of Bennett's typical puns, this time on the then-famous movie actor Robert Taylor, because Bennett was wearing a rabbit mask, I guess!
TheMinnieme2011 7 months ago
I think it was Easter weekend, and Cerf was making a pun on Robert Taylor. My apologies if I'm wrong.
What's My Line? 7 months ago
+TheMinnieme2011 Do you honestly not see that I answered directly above you? In August of 2014?
roselle lu 5 months ago
is he Uncle ALbert? hehe, Mystery GUest. He is so adorable in Mary Poppins :D I love his character. I realized when the panel asked him if he was in a musical movie, i argued with myself here coz he answered no, and when i saw the date this was aired it was before MAry Poppins, hehe, silly of me. Didn't he do any musical movies before MAry Poppins? +What's My Line?
winterlandboy 5 months ago
Are you talking about Buster Merryfield who was Uncle Albert on Only Fools and Horses?
We're so sorry Uncle Albert
roselle lu 5 months ago
no im talking about Ed Wynn, Uncle ALbert on MAry Poppins
roselle lu 5 months ago
actually i really wish i was born in the USA and in this time/era, i love these people here and the way they act, I love how prim and proper they all were.
Matthew Offenbacher 4 months ago
+roselle lu There are many of us still existing my dear!
roselle lu 4 months ago
+Matthew Offenbacher thank God :) whew.......
MattTheSaiyan 4 months ago
Ed Wynn's 1949-1950 TV series is very underrated.
Johan Bengtsson 10 months ago (edited)
Either it was done intentionally or accidentally, when Ed Wynn slaps his face with the back of his violin, he created great comedy. 20:00
His son Keenan Wynn was twice a guest panelist on WML.
PepsiMama2 1 year ago
I love Ed Wynn...
graperonto 1 year ago
Bennett was LOVING the mystery guest spot... watching Ed Wynn play the violin while the others were still blindfolded.
joed596 8 months ago
Thanks for these uploads! Arlene looks particularly lovely tonight
It was a bad pun on the name of actor Robert Taylor.
That parading of contestants in front of the panel (and exiting behind John Charles Daly) was so ridiculous and no doubt humiliating for at least some of the contestants. I’m glad somebody had the good sense to eliminate both.
I just realized it's not much the walk of shame that bothered me, if it had only consisted in shaking hands with the panelists in a very formal way, I would have been cool with that but the whole "may I see your hands?" "what's inside your pocket" "show me your muscle" was very annoying.
Sdk ElMaruecan - I preferred the shaking hands with the panel as they left at the end, which was instituted much later. The walk before the panel always struck me as demeaning. Why should they have the right to feel your muscles or check out your manicure close-up to see if they could get a clue as to what you do? I adore this show. Did then, still do. But I would have been tempted to say, "No, I am not a trained monkey; I don't think I will parade before the panel. Thank you." It's OK at a distance if they get a sense of how you use your body as you walk with John to the desk or as with one Tony Randall guess where he noticed the musculature of the contestant's neck, when he correctly guessed him as a professional boxer. But, not close-up. It and the random guesses had to go.
Those things were done to get a clue of what type of work the contestant did 😊
Ty
There's a famous story of Ed Wynn stealing laughs from fellow comedian W.C. Fields. (This was in 1915 in The Ziegfeld Follies!) Fields finally had enough and as he was doing his pool table routine, with Wynn making faces under the table, Fields conked him on the head and knocked him out cold. That stopped that! Two great individual comics should NEVER share the stage.
I would disagree, there are many cases of great comedians working together quite well. W.C. Fields was a large ego as well as a large talent and couldn't handle anyone sharing his spotlight.
They both turned down the role of the Wizard In " The Wizard Of Oz "
The guy with the violin is as mad as a hatter!
zerosonico that guy is "Ed Wynn" , only one of the best entertainers of the 20th Century
Was he bigger than a breadbox?? :-D
+zerosonico
An excellent subtle reference to one of Ed's most famous voiceover roles, as well as the silly hats he usually wore (or his Texaco fire chief helmet). I'm surprised that others missed what you were getting at.
Susan Sackrison of course, and Ed was the voice of The Mad Hatter in Disney's "Alice In Wonderland"
As well as Keenan Wynn's father!
Baggy pants are the clothes that we NEVER wear to school!
I would think arch supports could be fairly described as "medicinal," in that they can be prescribed as a remedy for a physical malady.
Especially today, when people get custom-made orthotic arch supports from podiatrists to correct such problems as plantar fasciitis (which can include the formation of painful heel spurs). Maybe "medical" would be a slightly better adjective, but I don't think "medicinal" is that much of a stress. I suspect the contestant might have been involved in making over-the-counter arch supports, which are still sold today -- you can get them at the drugstore or even at shoe-repair shops.
This is why John asked Bennett to clarify what he meant by medicinal. An arch support could be considered therapeutic, orthopedic or medical, but there is no medicine involved and therefore not medicinal.
This is over 70 years ago, those materials didn't exist 😊
God needs more Angels😊
Love the masks!
NOTICE THE HAND SHAKE HE IS A MASTER MASON
I didn't catch that.
Edit: I rewatched it and I think you're right. I remember one other contestant looked like he tried to give that handshake to John Daly, and he didn't allow it. A website I looked at said Masons only use their identifying signals in their lodge halls, not in public, so maybe that's why JD didn't allow it. (The website was written by a Mason, I think, so who knows? )
God needs more angels😊
I don't know how Mr. Burns's arch supports were made, but all the ones I've ever owned have elasticity, typically springy foam rubber or similar materials.
@neilmidkiff those materials didn't exist 70 years ago 😊
@@robertholman8730 Not true; see en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foam_rubber which dates it to 1929.
Those masks were awful indeed!! Bennett really lucked out getting to take that it off.
Those have got to be some of the creepiest masks I have ever seen.
What's worse, Steve Allen gave a plug to the makers of the masks!
Usually WML would find challengers with an unusual connection to the day or season (like jelly bean maker or egg farmer), or maybe Mel Blanc as the mystery guest. This was an ill-advised alternative. But when you are dealing with rabbits, bad ideas can breed fast.
i assume they blocked the eye holes to turn them into masks.
it was how they blocked the eye holes that made them look creepy.
looks like a mask the killer wears just before he kills you in the horror moves.
Yes indeed, especially Bennett’s weird mask which looks rather sinister. Could be just me, but I think Arlene looks kind of cute, her mask doesn’t seem quite so strange. :)
They've got a Wicker Man vibe!
Bennett always spoils it
Ouch @ 20:01!!!!!!!!
Steve Allen had a black Slinky toy atop his head in this episode. Mr. Ford's hair made him look like a relative of John Daly.