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What's My Line? - Charles Coburn (Aug 2, 1953) [UPGRADE!]

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 พ.ค. 2016
  • It's week two of the WML "Summer of Upgrades"!
    Every Sunday this summer, I'll be posting upgraded versions of episodes already posted to this channel. Today's video replaces a version that had significant a/v dropouts throughout.
    MYSTERY GUEST: Charles Coburn
    PANEL: Dorothy Kilgallen, Steve Allen, Arlene Francis, Bennett Cerf
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  • @MrSceneNine
    @MrSceneNine 5 ปีที่แล้ว +121

    I'm watching these chronologically and so far Mrs. Sheridan has to be my favourite guest so far. The deadpan delivery and straight face mixed with her accent made her answers somehow very funny.

    • @bluecamus5162
      @bluecamus5162 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      She was so deadpan, she was almost catatonic. She sure kept everyone in the studio amused.

    • @briane173
      @briane173 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      She was so taciturn and reserved (a product of her deep Southern upbringing, no doubt) you almost couldn't hear her. THIS to me is the definition of "charming." One of the sweetest young women I've ever seen or heard in any venue. If all women in the South had her personality and character, that would be the ONLY thing that would entice me to move to the South.

    • @tompaulcampbell
      @tompaulcampbell ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@bluecamus5162 She reminded me of Steven Wright!

    • @kasperjoonatan6014
      @kasperjoonatan6014 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Yes, and she said that she was scared and still managed to pull that bar joke. Wunderbar!

    • @Tahgtahv
      @Tahgtahv 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Candy Sheridan was born Juanita Frech in Paris, Tennessee. She got the name Candy due to her looks. Was originally married to a Mr Lee. Married in Charleston, he worked in Charleston and Memphis until they moved to Galena, Alaska. She started work than as a weatherwoman with a GS-3 rating. Worked there until her husband was killed in a hunting accident, at which point she returned with her son to Tennessee. At the time of the show she was married to a Mr Sheridan, an aircraft communications specialist with the Civil Aeronautics Administration (precursor the FAA), and as stated in the show currently stationed at Nantucket now at a GS-5. Her duties included sending helium air balloons to 100,000 ft where in her words "Boom! They explode.", and drawing weather maps. --- paraphrasing from "The New Yorker" December 19, 1953 pp 21-22.

  • @ilex_holly5604
    @ilex_holly5604 5 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    Candy Sheridan was absolutely delightful. Definitely a favorite challenger.

    • @sbalman
      @sbalman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Of all the seasons, Candy Sheridan is my favorite challenger too.

    • @HoundTor
      @HoundTor ปีที่แล้ว +2

      If you look up her name there’s a small piece in The New Yorker about her. Somewhat sad as well.

  • @CoxJoxSox
    @CoxJoxSox 5 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Oh they don't have actors like Charles Coburn anymore - what a joy!

    • @NJack-uu8ej
      @NJack-uu8ej 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Probably a good thing. According to Wikipedia, "Coburn was a member of the White Citizens' Councils, a white supremacist group which opposed racial integration."

    • @pedmst
      @pedmst 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Agree. He and Jack Benny my favorites.

  • @joncheskin
    @joncheskin 6 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    The lady weatherman was hilarious--perfect deadpan.

    • @sandwichman100
      @sandwichman100 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I was waiting for her to say 'why are they laughing?'

    • @sachiperez
      @sachiperez 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Adorable!

    • @alansorensen5903
      @alansorensen5903 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Lovely lady brought tears to my eyes. Lol

    • @clearfield2009
      @clearfield2009 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      She didn't know she was.

  • @lottalady73
    @lottalady73 6 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    Mrs. Sheridan (the meteorologist) was so personable and funny! Definitely adding her to my faves list!

    • @acyutanandadas1326
      @acyutanandadas1326 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Adorable. More personality than many 'professionals" I think she takes her work and southern heritage with . I just move to the South and people down here still do. The PC police will be out protesting Weather MAN, but in those days man meant mankind and was respectful.

    • @shirleyrombough8173
      @shirleyrombough8173 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      The US weatherman was great. I loved her accent. It was true that the designation "man" did apply to both sexes, yes, as in "mankind." Female flyers in the military are still called "airmen." Depending on the branch of service.

    • @anselmgolden8286
      @anselmgolden8286 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I love her! Very drôle.

    • @philippapay4352
      @philippapay4352 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@shirleyrombough8173 Being old enough to have been alive to watch the originals and being a language major, I fear that the situation with "man" was a double-edged sword at the time. While it is true that the "nature of man" generally meant mankind because it was a social science, if not hard science construct, the names airman, mailman, fireman, etc., did not really. The armed services were not anticipating women warriors, so had not prepared to call people simply flyers or sailors, etc. Likewise, mail carriers and firefighters had not been considered because few outside of the feminist movement had anticipated women doing such jobs regularly. Paid work of certain types was for men and others for women. So, WML continues to utilize job descriptions such as male nurse or lady barber or lady butcher or lady cop or male secretary, when each of those lines of work was adequately described without the modifier noting the sex of the worker in front of it. The airman and similar designations in the military were retained, at least for a time, because it was too cumbersome and expensive to change all the tons of paperwork before knowing how the experiment with women in such posts would work out. My father was a supply officer in the Navy and an economics professor at a university, so knew of these things. He shared when questioned because they had not occurred to him as odd. I, personally, think the name of the job should describe the tasks being done while never strangulating the language. That became a bit of a problem for a period of time after these had aired with all sorts of lengthy descriptions that tagged either "man" or "woman" onto the end. It got silly. One who fishes is a fisher. Sufficient. It's even in the Bible. I suspect that meteorologists always had trouble with "weathermen" being assumed to be meteorologists when they were merely weather readers. I understood from one in my city that this designation was accidental because at the TV channels and radio stations they were all talking heads, whether hard news, sports, society gossip, weather, and they read the news in their area or predictions that came over the wires from those in the field they handled. So, when even folks at home began calling weather readers (before there were actual meteorologists in those jobs) merely weathermen it stuck because back in my friend's day they were all men. It was before the attractive busty blonde phase and the phases following it. So there's midshipman and there's sailor. One costs a lot of money to fix.

    • @robertholman8730
      @robertholman8730 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Instantly brings back the movie Gone with the wind!!😊

  • @lewiscarey1593
    @lewiscarey1593 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Mrs. Sheridan, if you are alive, YOU Were precious!!!!! 💅💅💅

  • @earthvessel9010
    @earthvessel9010 5 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    Candy Sheridan was the best & most intriguing character i've seen on WML!

    • @waldolydecker8118
      @waldolydecker8118 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Certainly was...she was quite the yam.

    • @leannsherman6723
      @leannsherman6723 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      She had the strangest affect.

    • @leannsherman6723
      @leannsherman6723 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Steve Allen was so funny in such a charming kind of way. 😂❤

    • @leannsherman6723
      @leannsherman6723 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That panel had a very high combined IQ. They finally guessed the prison cell!

    • @robertholman8730
      @robertholman8730 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@leannsherman6723The audience helped them 😅

  • @519djw6
    @519djw6 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    *Mrs. Sheridan is just the sweetest thing to come down the pike in the whole history of this show!*

    • @whoami1939
      @whoami1939 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I SENCS A SADNESS IABOUT HER

    • @robertholman8730
      @robertholman8730 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Solomn 😊

  • @ladyyuna2000
    @ladyyuna2000 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    She was a weatherwoman in Nantucket, who has been with the U.S. Weather Bureau since 1947. One night the writer found himself sharing a table with Candy, Tim Costello & Burl Ives. Candy's first husband Mr. Lee was a weatherman & she worked with him in weather bureaus in Charleston, Memphis, and then Alaska. After Mr. Lee was killed in an accident, she married Mr. Sheridan, an air craft-communications specialist. She & her husband are stationed in Nantucket, where Candy's work involves sending up radar-controlled balloons to find out what's cooking at heights like 100,000 feet and drawing weather maps. She said they fill balloons with helium, send them up, and keep in touch with them by radar until they explode. Candy said there were several other women in the Weather Bureau

  • @donnacook8994
    @donnacook8994 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Mrs. Sheridan first appeared to be quite nervous, but then settled in quite nicely. I enjoyed her accent, as I'm originally from Tennessee too. She was quite lovely! John is hilarious when he says "We've had an executive meeting". He was always intelligent and helpful to the guests. BTW, I can't stop watching these WML shows. So entertaining! Thank you so much!!!🥰👏👏🥰

  • @kateluxor2986
    @kateluxor2986 8 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    I loved Mrs. Sheridan. She was so funny and deadpan which only made that segment funnier! I love the twang in her voice- just so cool. I think that has to be my favorite segment, so far. But I still have a long way to go! :) Arlene looked so beautiful, with the darker hair and her sparkling personality! She's my favorite, I have to say. Great episode! Thank you for all the hard work and time you put into this channel, Gary. As a mentally ill young woman unable to work and living with my parents, life is so hard some days. But this show just always brightens my days. I get such joy from WML. I'm forever grateful I found this channel. Keep up the fantastic work! :)

    • @joet840
      @joet840 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Kate Luxor I thought Steven Allen was serious and deadpan, Sheridan girl has him beat !!!

    • @ladya1953
      @ladya1953 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Kate Luxor With all respect I have to chime in, Kate. I am also mentally ill as well as physically iIl. However I find that as badly as I want to stay home at times, my little part-time job helps my emotional outlook. I work as a seamstress in the back room of a retail store, but do interact gently with other staff. On the days I feel well, staff is there for interaction. On the days I don't feel well, staff stands back. Could such a job be of benefit to you? I don't ask you for an answer, just want to give you something to think about. Good luck to you!

    • @kennethbutler1343
      @kennethbutler1343 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Wow, where did they find her! One of my favorite WML contents!!! If she were on a show today it would be so non PC....which I find ironic as she's 100% natural.

    • @knottreel
      @knottreel 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I agree. She was so seriously delightful. I also love these shows and in a strange way, I sometimes think of them as friends who cheer me up with their timeless charm.

    • @anselmgolden8286
      @anselmgolden8286 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I agree! Smart as a whip and deadpan. Fantastic!

  • @waldolydecker8118
    @waldolydecker8118 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Steve Allen to Mystery Guest: 19:20 "Have you been in the public eye for say, longer than 15 years?" Delayed response. Allen: "And now its 16." lol The guy was simply the best.

  • @AaronHahnStudios
    @AaronHahnStudios 4 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    Candy Sheridan - the MOST Adorable contestant ever. One could listen to her talk all day.

    • @steelcantuna
      @steelcantuna 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Move to the back woods of Kentucky. There are still some cutey pies running around.

    • @AaronHahnStudios
      @AaronHahnStudios 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@steelcantuna Well.. it's a long way from West Australia... but what the heck! I'm on my way! X-D

    • @user-mm7nd6bk6n
      @user-mm7nd6bk6n ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I agree .

    • @dariawells7438
      @dariawells7438 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      She's annoying as heck.

  • @aprilove2005
    @aprilove2005 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    No one has really commented on Charles Coburn who was an incredible character actor. He enhanced every movie he was in. I would watch anything that he was starring in. My favorite is The Devil and Miss Jones with Jean Arthur(also one of the best).

    • @pedmst
      @pedmst 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He is my favorite!!! Loved them and Joel McCrae in The More the Merrier. Best comedy ever!😊😂❤

  • @ImVee10
    @ImVee10 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Charles Coburn should have yelled, “DAMN THE TORPEDOES! FULL SPEED AHEAD!” 🏆

    • @pedmst
      @pedmst 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      That movie is my favorite comedy. The More the Merrier.

  • @loissimmons6558
    @loissimmons6558 7 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    Sho' 'nuff, I found Mrs. Candi Sheridan absolutely delightful. While she admitted to being very nervous (as I can imagine many of the challengers were), she had an amazing capacity to be very forthright at the same time as being very soft spoken. And yet despite the softness of her voice, the panel seemed to hear all her answers clearly. That wasn't always the case with non-celebrity challengers. Watching her, I would describe her as a woman in the positive sense of the phrase that "butter wouldn't melt in her mouth."
    Although they spelled her first name "Candy", Mrs. Sheridan was the subject of _The New Yorker_ magazine column "Talk of the Town" by John McCarten in the Dec. 19, 1953 issue. Apparently because Nantucket was a cozy place where the rich and famous often vacationed, she occasionally had the opportunity to hobnob with such folks. I can't link to the entire article because I would have to subscribe to their website for $1 a month to retrieve it, but this excerpt was interesting to me:
    Talk. Interview with Candy Sheridan, a weatherwoman in Nantucket, who has been with the U.S. Weather Bureau since 1947. One night the writer found himself sharing a table with Candy, Tim Costello & Burl Ives. Candy's first husband Mr. Lee, was a weatherman & she worked with him in weather bureaus in Charleston, Memphis and then Alaska. After Mr. Lee was killed in an accident, she married Mr. Sheridan, an air craft-communications specialist. She & her husband are stationed in Nantucket, where Candy's work involves sending up radar-controlled balloons to find out what's cooking at heights like 100,000 feet, and drawing weather maps. She said they fill balloons with helium, send them up and keep in touch with them by radar until they explode. Candy said there were several other women in the Weather Bureau ...

    • @elizabethmorgan2621
      @elizabethmorgan2621 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Lois, thanks for the additional information about Mrs. Sheridan. I'm originally from the South, and Southerners love to have fun with "Yankees", appearing to be talking "slow as molasses and being rather dumb". One of my aunts was from Ohio, and was derogatory about Southerners. We had so much fun "pulling her leg", and then Wham!! We let her know we were teasing.

    • @acyutanandadas1326
      @acyutanandadas1326 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@elizabethmorgan2621 I moved from a life in NYC to the South 8 years ago and people are still proud polite and genuinely genuine. I remember the first time I said ya'll and nobody was insulted !!!! The New York line is "We tink youse from da south jus' sound Stooopid."

    • @AaronHahnStudios
      @AaronHahnStudios 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      2:36 I do believe she spelt her name with a Y. No big deal, just saying.

    • @Tahgtahv
      @Tahgtahv 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@AaronHahnStudios Yep, people called her that due to her looks. Her birth name was Juanita.

  • @steelcantuna
    @steelcantuna 6 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    This is my favorite episode so far because of the the southern bell. I am from Texas & have actually met a few girls like her over the years. One from a small town had an accent so thick sometimes I could not understand her. I think maybe she thought I was going deaf because I had to ask her to repeat herself so many times.

  • @upfromthefields
    @upfromthefields 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I LOVE the weather lady. She was great!

  • @gj4578
    @gj4578 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I Googled Charles Coburn and found out that he was James Coburn's grandfather. Learn something new every day.

  • @TheNWPerry
    @TheNWPerry 7 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Been following the series since its inception and really enjoyed Mrs Sheridan, despite Mr Daly butchering her surname at the start. She really gave the show a boost and is one of the better contestants I've seen so far. For a 64 year old tape this is really well done. thank You.

  • @jimbones155
    @jimbones155 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Great to see all these wonderful pioneers of TV. Sad to see TV fade away.

    • @dangerkeith3000
      @dangerkeith3000 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Coburn was a white supremacist. If that's on TV today, I wouldn't like it.

  • @ct6410
    @ct6410 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    For anyone wondering, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes WAS in color. However, Mr. Coburn had done TWO films that year and the other, Trouble Along the Way, was black and white. Since he was not asked for specifics, he was able to choose one and say "no," even though the panel was obviously thinking of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. That's why the whispered conference and why John said it, "suddenly got more interesting."

  • @thomasappelby1202
    @thomasappelby1202 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Candy Sheridan is my favorite WML guest. She's so adorable and sweet and she completely fool the whole panel.

  • @sleepylagoon1310
    @sleepylagoon1310 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Delightful, Charming, Adorable, and Captivating !!!! My parents would flip out if they could see these wonderful episodes! Endless thanks, dear Mr. Vaughn. You are my hero ♥♥♥.

  • @preppysocks209
    @preppysocks209 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Coburn appeared with Marilyn Monroe in two movies, most famously in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," the movie that made her a superstar the year of Coburn's appearance here. But the year before, Monroe had a small part in "Monkey Business," where Coburn tells her, "Find someone to type this."

  • @jocelynsenado
    @jocelynsenado 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Arlene's laughter! Goodness. She was such a delight. ❣️

  • @algoritmosalfredohipicasig7116
    @algoritmosalfredohipicasig7116 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Funny "Deadpan Candy" just became one of my favorite challengers.

  • @vickimanager
    @vickimanager 8 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Another marvelous episode. Arlene sparkling as always, just with darker hair. Thanks for the upgraded video!

  • @WhatsMyLine
    @WhatsMyLine  8 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    It's week two of the WML "Summer of Upgrades"!
    Every Sunday this summer, I'll be posting significant upgrades of episodes already posted here on this channel. Tonight's video replaces a prior version that didn't include the original commercials. Future videos may add the original commercials, upgrade the video quality, or fill in missing portions of incomplete episodes.
    If you're not already a member of our Facebook group, now is a great time to join! Every Sunday evening (10:30pm NYC time, naturally) a bunch of us watch an episode at the same time so we can chat about it as we watch. We've been doing this all year, and it's always a blast-- the time ***flies*** by. If you're interested, please check out the group and join in the live chat tonight! And if you are interested in joining in, you'll probably want to delay watching this episode till the chat starts tonight! (There's more information in the group.)
    Link to the WML Facebook group: facebook.com/groups/728471287199862/
    Please click here to subscribe to the WML channel if you haven't already-- you'll find the complete CBS series already posted, and you'll be able to follow along the discussions on the weekday "rerun" videos: th-cam.com/channels/hPE75Fvvl1HmdAsO7Nzb8w.html

    • @ToddSF
      @ToddSF 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You could use your mouse to slide the cursor below the picture over to the right to bypass commercials or anything else you don't want to see. If you do it carefully, you can see still images as you slide the cursor and know where you are.

    • @kathyyoung1774
      @kathyyoung1774 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you once again.

  • @MojaveDaemonWitch
    @MojaveDaemonWitch ปีที่แล้ว +4

    🌹💙 Candy Sheridan is such an adorable person in so many ways; I hope wherever she is, she is just fine. Thank you Candy for brightening my day. 💕

    • @robertholman8730
      @robertholman8730 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      She's passed many years ago😢

  • @davidsanderson5918
    @davidsanderson5918 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Candy Sheridan. In addition to what has been said, I would've been curious to see her in colour particularly for her make-up which is quite different for the time, almost gothic. What an extraordinary challenger she was. Played it perfectly, they would never have guessed her profession even if the prize money went up to $100.. I would've loved to have been on there myself (I'm a piano teacher) and played it slow like she did.
    Would've loved to see her stay utterly deadpan in response to what Hal Block might have had to say! Ha ha,

  • @jmoss491
    @jmoss491 6 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Love Mrs. Sheridan!

  • @SWRadioConcepts
    @SWRadioConcepts 8 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I love this show. Excellent television.

  • @freemangriffin4953
    @freemangriffin4953 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Mrs. Sheridan is a GREAT contestant! So much fun!

  • @magnificentfailure2390
    @magnificentfailure2390 8 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Excellent upgrade. We, your humble audience, stand in awe of your skills. :D

  • @kataysmith9581
    @kataysmith9581 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Love Coburn's acting.

  • @jmccracken1963
    @jmccracken1963 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This upgrade is a HUGE improvement on the previously-posted copy of this episode - and this episode is well worth the time spent doing so (particularly, but not exclusively, Mrs. Sheridan). Thank you very much for sharing it with us!

  • @kathyyoung1774
    @kathyyoung1774 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    The best panel.

  • @MrJoeybabe25
    @MrJoeybabe25 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Love that suthin' accent on the first (very cute) contestant! I grew up in southern Virginia and we never talked like that!

    • @robertholman8730
      @robertholman8730 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This was 70 years ago 😊

  • @neilmidkiff
    @neilmidkiff 8 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Thanks so much for this better version! I know that what you had before was the best available at the time, but the nicest thing that could be said about it was that it was tantalizing. Keep up the good work!

  • @dutchtea8354
    @dutchtea8354 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    At 19:12, Steve asked, “Are you larger than a breadbox?” (15th usage)
    8:23 The best line from this episode.

  • @michaelkuypers9798
    @michaelkuypers9798 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This one aired the evening of my parents' first wedding anniversary.

  • @preppysocks209
    @preppysocks209 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Ronald Reagan's Hollywood autobiography, "Where's the Rest of Me?" derives its title from a line Reagan said in his mostly highly-regarded acting performance in "King's Row." After suffering an accident, a doctor for misguided moral reasons and due to the interest of Reagan's character in his daughter, amputates both of the character's legs. Charles Coburn played the sadistic doctor.

  • @savethetpc6406
    @savethetpc6406 8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Great episode, and one which I don't really remember, which makes it almost like a new episode for me! :) Thanks for the upgrade.

  • @MrSceneNine
    @MrSceneNine 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I sometimes forget I'm watching a show from the 50's, so when I go to look up the mystery guest, I'm always shocked by the birth dates every time. Charles Coburn was born in 1877. That's a mindbogglingly long time ago for a 27 year old to think about.
    That may be the furthest back for a Mystery Guest so far...

    • @steelcantuna
      @steelcantuna 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Not to brag but... most people REALLY DO think I'm in my mid forties. I'm really 61 with no natural gray hair. My Grandmother was born in 1888 & remembers crossing form east Texas to west Texas in 1900 (when she was 12) to "the new farm" in a covered wagon. There's a guy only 22 years old told me not long ago, "it really wasn't all that long ago, was it?????

    • @dangerkeith3000
      @dangerkeith3000 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Coburn was a certified white supremacist. If that's on TV today, I wouldn't like it.

    • @frereM
      @frereM 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      He may have been the earliest birth date among mystery guests on WML. "I've Got a Secret" has an episode featuring a 90-something man who was in Ford's Theatre the night Lincoln was assassinated.

    • @preppysocks209
      @preppysocks209 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@frereM No, Frank Lloyd Wright was born ten years earlier.

    • @janepatterson6779
      @janepatterson6779 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@dangerkeith3000
      And you know this because...

  • @vickisawyer7405
    @vickisawyer7405 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    such clean, funny comedy! I love these shows!!

  • @erenunal
    @erenunal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Dorothy’s cute channeling her inner Betty Boop!

  • @neilmidkiff
    @neilmidkiff 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Steve gets literary at 16:15 -- "Does it have anything to do with the law, or punishment, and crime, and Dostoevsky?" The name of the author of Crime and Punishment is a bit hard to hear at the end of the sentence, but it's there. Who but Steve Allen would have finished the question that way?

  • @leannsherman6723
    @leannsherman6723 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Charles Coburn did indeed seem very charming. That was riotously funny and racy what John Charles Daly said about a “four dimensional picture.” 😂

  • @agalgonzalez
    @agalgonzalez ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Candy Sheridan is hilarious and Charles Coburn is classy and fascinating!

  • @Bigbadwhitecracker
    @Bigbadwhitecracker 8 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - a 4D picture! LMHO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    The Nantucket Weather Girl from the deep south moves to my personal top 10 favourite segments! Delightful and good lookin'!

    • @joet840
      @joet840 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      M. M. They called her weatherman on the screen when she's a woman. Male dominating times in the 50's.

    • @litigioussociety4249
      @litigioussociety4249 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Joseph T. In the 50s, the preferred term of reference for women in jobs with the suffix -man was lady followed by the occupation, such as lady fireman or lady policeman. Man for those jobs essentially meant person, and the non-gender alternatives were not commonly used, such as police officer or firefighter.

    • @joet840
      @joet840 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Litigious Society Thanks for the clarification,I had forgotten.

  • @davidsanderson5918
    @davidsanderson5918 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Ha ha Allen's reference to Dostoevsky was a little too esoteric. Dorothy had a little 'hyuck hyuck' at it though.

  • @AntiqueMenswear
    @AntiqueMenswear 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    70 years on and panel shows are still all the rage.

  • @lonewulf44
    @lonewulf44 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love Coburn ... everyone should see The Devil and Miss Jones , The More the Merrier ... my favorites.

  • @edmondscott7444
    @edmondscott7444 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Marvellous tv programme.

  • @Dios67
    @Dios67 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Candy is very "relaxed".

    • @pedmst
      @pedmst 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      So relaxed I think maybe had taken a tranquilizer b4 hand.

  • @Baskerville22
    @Baskerville22 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    John Daly's barber had a previous occupation as a samurai...

    • @pedmst
      @pedmst 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ROFLOL😂😂😂

  • @sleb99
    @sleb99 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This is a delightful one! I laughed out loud many times! Footcuff? Funny! Four dimensions? Mr. C being racy? A total surprise! The sweet Southern girl, far sharper than some realized, was a delight in how she deftly handled the panel’s questions. And Miss Arlene’s sharp mind getting the cell! Love the panel, but I worried that some of Dorothy’s laughter may have been condescension toward the weather “Man .”

  • @loissimmons6558
    @loissimmons6558 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    A new opening debuted with this episode, including some "special effects" with the sponsor's product introducing the name of the program and the panelists blindfolds featured: the ones worn by Miss Francis with the eyelashes drawn on most prominent of all.
    Can a more sophisticated method of doing the closing credits be far behind?

    • @erichanson426
      @erichanson426 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thank you, I thought those were masks, but not sure, now I am

  • @algoritmosalfredohipicasig7116
    @algoritmosalfredohipicasig7116 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Dorothy wasn't intentionally funny, but here she played incidental straight man for Steve Allen, who came up with some of the best throwaway lines, "I have an odd look, but she didn't give it to me."

  • @janet8418
    @janet8418 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wonderful actor. He was my 5th cousin.

    • @pedmst
      @pedmst 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Plz tell us more about delightful and talented Mr. Coburn, he and Jack Benny my favorite comedians and he also great in dramas.

  • @audreydaleski1067
    @audreydaleski1067 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    A loving riot in The More the Merrier.

  • @MrYfrank14
    @MrYfrank14 6 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    first contestant should have went on the road with a comedy act.
    dead pan with the southern accent. very funny.

    • @ladya1953
      @ladya1953 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      MrYfrank14 I love how she really turns on that accent.

    • @johnniepriest1086
      @johnniepriest1086 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I had to laugh when she, with that wide-eyed innocent look, said the most awful things happen when you marry a Yankee.

    • @robertholman8730
      @robertholman8730 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      True southern women spoke like this, not an act!!😊

  • @Nikohere
    @Nikohere 8 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Her voice is so pleasant enough back then during those times women were more pleasant looking and manners and all of that. They are today to but I like more back then old fahsion

    • @pattimaeda6097
      @pattimaeda6097 ปีที่แล้ว

      “women were more pleasant looking”? GTFOH incel

  • @MrJoeybabe25
    @MrJoeybabe25 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Boy...the walk of shame and the free guesses sure slowed down the show.

    • @onecake34244
      @onecake34244 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Glad they quit the guesses and the walk

    • @B-diggity
      @B-diggity 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Absolutely.

    • @pattimaeda6097
      @pattimaeda6097 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yep it’s lame😊

  • @loniedavis1167
    @loniedavis1167 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    THANK YOU !

  • @sandrageorge3488
    @sandrageorge3488 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Like Steve's laugh during the second guest questioning.

  • @davidmacleod9313
    @davidmacleod9313 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    These “free guesses” verge on insulting sometimes.

  • @jeffmay7358
    @jeffmay7358 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If the entire show was developed around the blond girl (weather person) from Nantucket Island and the mystery around her profession would have been quite entertaining. Very mysterious girl!

  • @user-gd6dx9ig8e
    @user-gd6dx9ig8e 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The women are always so polite, classy, courteous....everyone is really. Wish we still had that today. The shrews on the view could use some lessons 🙄

  • @adelebz7
    @adelebz7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Mr. French is very handsome.

  • @jeffreygrossi2800
    @jeffreygrossi2800 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Meterologist remind me of Carol Kane played on Taxi.....

    • @alansorensen5903
      @alansorensen5903 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Reminded me of Miss Schell in The Hanging Tree.

  • @randylovering24
    @randylovering24 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    What's my line is the original TV show in New York City

  • @anselmgolden8286
    @anselmgolden8286 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Pure joy! 🤗

  • @zekezacker9449
    @zekezacker9449 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The first contestant had a very good poker face...except for those occasions she did not.
    Arlene got credit for guessing the line, even though she indicated the man was involved with 'making or selling' the product - with other contestants, the panelist would have to also guess if the contestant made or sold the product.

    • @robertholman8730
      @robertholman8730 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That was her natural look😊

  • @dascientist5354
    @dascientist5354 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I was 2 months old :)

    • @lucindasommer720
      @lucindasommer720 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I was 1 yr. & 4 months old. Love, love, love these shows.

  • @wayneyadams
    @wayneyadams 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    4:19 The good old days when the language was not corrupted and she was known as a weatherman.

  • @gennettor8915
    @gennettor8915 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great show which ran for a great many years, still they never got the sound right; the panel and the guests could often not hear each other.

  • @YY4Me133
    @YY4Me133 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The first contestant bears a resemblance to Lucille Ball.

  • @cristianm7097
    @cristianm7097 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Amazing women of the 1940s and 1950s

  • @jsmariani4180
    @jsmariani4180 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It's a good thing the camera work improved over the years.

  • @audreydaleski1067
    @audreydaleski1067 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Charles!

  • @fredkruse9444
    @fredkruse9444 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Charles Coburn must have been hard of hearing. John had to repeat a number of questions for him.

    • @dangerkeith3000
      @dangerkeith3000 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      He was a white supremacist, he heard only what he wanted to hear.

    • @steelcantuna
      @steelcantuna 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      You must not be in your 70's yet.

    • @QuadMochaMatti
      @QuadMochaMatti 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@dangerkeith3000 and you are a one-track arse.

  • @geoffm9944
    @geoffm9944 ปีที่แล้ว

    I suspect once again Bennett Cerf was tipped off.

  • @marlenegreer5577
    @marlenegreer5577 ปีที่แล้ว

    I married a Yankee too .. I am a Louisiana lady and he’s from Upstate New York and we live in Texas

    • @pattimaeda6097
      @pattimaeda6097 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You lost the war - get over it

    • @marlenegreer5577
      @marlenegreer5577 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Everyone lost in that stupid war .. 😡

    • @robertholman8730
      @robertholman8730 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      620,000 white soldiers fought and died to free the slaves. 😢Reparations paid in full

  • @lottalady73
    @lottalady73 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    John congratulated the MG on his sixteenth birthday, but Coburn was actually seventy-six at the time of this show. I’m surprised John got that one wrong.

  • @jvcomedy
    @jvcomedy 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    You don't see many monocles these days. I never understood why anyone would wear one as it just seems eyeglasses would be easier. Even if you only needed vision help in one of the lens. A monocle just seems like continued effort.

    • @loissimmons6558
      @loissimmons6558 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      A monocle was often something of an affectation. And there was some class distinction in monocles. The wealthy could afford to have them custom made and therefore would fit them well enough that under most circumstances they would not fall out. That wouldn't be as true for those who could not afford a custom made monocle.
      Even so, a common comedy device was to have a snobbish wealthy man be so shocked or surprised that his monocle would fall off and fall someplace interesting (someone's drink perhaps) and fall on the floor and break. Raising one's eyebrows too high is one of the ways a monocle is likely to fall out.

    • @billolsen4360
      @billolsen4360 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lois Simmons Monocles for stuffy wealthy men were also ideal in pie fights on screen, in the 3 Stooges Genre, almost as great as those eyeglasses on sticks that the rich dowagers used.

    • @dangerkeith3000
      @dangerkeith3000 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      They were all the rage for white supremacists such as Mr Coburn.

    • @preppysocks209
      @preppysocks209 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I wondered the same. Did people only have one bad eye that required a monocle? Then I read an article about a German man who wore his monocle on his good eye so as to force his bad eye to improve.

    • @robertholman8730
      @robertholman8730 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@dangerkeith3000White supremacist, No such thing 70 years ago 😅

  • @bgdavenport
    @bgdavenport 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Candy Sheridan: www.newyorker.com/magazine/1953/12/19/an-isobar-unexpected Remember, at this time in the US, women were expected to be secretaries, nurses, teachers, and mothers. Remarkable woman!

  • @pedmst
    @pedmst 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    She seems more stoic than deadpan to me. . Wonder if she had been so nervous that she took a tranquilizer and is exhibiting the side effects.

  • @Griffinmc
    @Griffinmc ปีที่แล้ว

    Nobody got the “4-D” joke? 3-D was big in the fifties and what do Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell together famously have four of?

  • @06548113
    @06548113 ปีที่แล้ว

    At 18:33 Dorothy asks the mystery guest if he is in "the movies" - is this the first time they are called movies rather than "motion pictures" on the show?

  • @nickmad887
    @nickmad887 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    show more

  • @jayonnaj18
    @jayonnaj18 ปีที่แล้ว

    Was not John Daly born on the CONTINENT of Africa in southern Africa?!

  • @FlavioGirl
    @FlavioGirl 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    was charles coburn related to james coburn?

    • @benjamintzs
      @benjamintzs 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      FlavioGirl not relation at all. Both great and very different character actors.

  • @kristabrewer9363
    @kristabrewer9363 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    HAHAHAHA that weatherman was sure not funny lol (that MADE her funny lol)
    and also, since when did they have color tv in the 50's? If that were the case, why did Andy Griffith, the Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction start in color?

    • @ChrisHansonCanada
      @ChrisHansonCanada 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The first color TVs were in 1953. The Cisco Kid was the first series to be filmed in color. Most shows were shot in black and white until well into the 1960s.

  • @williamdunphy352
    @williamdunphy352 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Lee Vines is the announcer.

  • @smadaf
    @smadaf 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Until I realized that it was a monocle, I thought that that design on the chalkboard was a sperm cell.

  • @armyvet4081
    @armyvet4081 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    the panel were very rude to the young lady-- they had fun laughing at her- a bunch of rude millionaires

  • @beadyeyedbrat
    @beadyeyedbrat 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Isn't that wonderful?

  • @georgelewis2991
    @georgelewis2991 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Candy Sheridan Lived When Men And Women Were Men And Woman And Knew They Were Men And Women.