Makes me sad to read your comment, though true, for I lived through that time and miss the civility, manners, and dress that was common then. Every age has its problems, none are perfect, but to be a child and young teen in the 50’s was grand, though we didn’t know it. No one locked their doors, neighbors helped discipline area children, most every one attended church, people in general tried to do the right thing. There was no cursing in school and we loved and respected our teachers. Drugs came from a drug store. I rode my bike to town to see a movie and my parents did not have to worry about my safety or what I’d see on the screen. Television was sometimes silly but never vulgar. We began each school day with a Bible reading, usually a psalm, we’d repeat the Lord’s Prayer together, and then rise, put our right hand over our heart, and recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States of America. By that time we knew we were in a special place. Our school day would quietly begin. This was post WWII and our country was still united, with a general as our president.
Robert Mitchum is one of the greatest artists the American cinema has given us. God bless him. He should have received an Honorary Oscar and the AFI lifetime achievement award.
Great episode... Dorothy's reaction to the audience laughter is interesting during the diaper service part... you see the wheels turning in her mind...
ROBERT MITCHUM was one of the most under-rated YET most popular stars who ever worked in Hollywood. Inconceivable to think that he was NEVER even nominated for an Academy Award, not even for CAPE FEAR. He also happened to be my late mother's favorite male actor of her lifetime. May they both RIP.
I agree with Truman Capote except for one thing. Mitchum's only Oscar nomination was for GI movie about WWII and he got killed at the end. I am not sure of the title.
This quote from Wikipedia, helps give an insight into Mr. Mitchum's background, and personality. "As a child, Mitchum was known as a prankster, often involved in fistfights and mischief. In 1929 his mother sent the twelve-year-old Mitchum to live with her parents in Felton, Delaware; the boy was promptly expelled from middle school for scuffling with the principal. A year later he moved in with his older sister in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen. After being expelled from Haaren High School he left his sister and traveled throughout the country, hopping freight cars and taking a number of jobs, including ditch-digging for the Civilian Conservation Corps and professional boxing. He later stated that at age 14 in Savannah, Georgia, he was arrested for vagrancy and put in a local chain gang. By Mitchum's account, he escaped and returned to his family in Delaware. At the age of 16, while recovering from injuries that nearly cost him a leg, he met 14 year old Dorothy Spence, whom he would later marry. He soon went back on the road, eventually "riding the rails" to California."
Mitchum was obvious from his voice alone...despite the feigned accents. He has an unmistakable timbre to his voice. I think the panel 'carried ' him for a respectable distance
Fabulous What's My Line episode. The diaper segment had me laughing out loud. And Robert Mitchum is one of my favorites from that era. "Out of the Past" is a classic film noir, and also features a young Kirk Douglas.
This was one of the funniest ones I've seen yet. That diaper segment with Mr. Poole was wonderful.. I just discovered these old shows and they've been a comfort during these times
Saw Robert Mitchum on a talk show one. The moderator asked him the following: "What makes a good actor?". His answer: "Know your lines, know your marks, and show up on time"! They don't make them Bob anymore. God bless him.
I laughed so hard at the diaper segment and the audience’s reaction to it that I cried 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🥰‼️ Robert Mitchum was funny too. Didn’t know he knew so many accents.
John is having the most fun in this episode I think. Love Dorothy’s skilful questioning. She is a joy to watch. At a few times she seems not amused by the audience’s loud laughter though.
I really 💘 this show, I'm thankful that it had such a long run, lots of episodes to choose from. Almost forgot to mention I really like the audience reactions, they're so into it
In all the years I've been watching these reruns on 'the Tube'.. I have never seen this episode before. Wow... the diaper service segment was Priceless!
@@philippapay4352 You're quite welcome ! Refreshing to see a kind & friendly reply for a change here at TH-cam ! MANY thanks for your gracious words.... :-)
@@jubalcalif9100 Funny you should say that. Or sad. I get the nastiest replies when I am questioning something that I am clearly not certain of, if the reader understood English. People read it seems with their prejudices and emotions flying in high dudgeon and I would not want them on my jury.
@@philippapay4352 So well said and so well put, my friend ! Sadly, you are SO right ! THANKS again so VERY much for your kind & friendly words ! You've MADE my day & my week ! CHEERS !! :-)
I'm so hooked on this show. Arlene Francis is my idol. Didn't realize until I was in my 30's (1990) that my dad looked like a cross between Robert Mitchum and Dean Martin in our old family photos from the 50's.
The Misses Hart/Finlayson were certainly two of the loveliest contestants to grace WML while Mr. Poole added much good fun. And who could ask for a better mystery guest than Robert Mitchum? All in all, great episode along with some witty questions and comments from a lively panel that was really on for this one!.
My fav !!!! what you see is what you got, he said ''Anyone can act'' he did it for the money, they said ''but Mr. Mitchum you were so good in such and such'' he replied'' they paid me more''. lol he din't care what anyone thought.
For ~20 years, I was in the same profession as the last challenger, but many years after this episode aired. By the time I started in the profession, Bache & Company had been acquired by Prudential two years earlier.
i always love dorothy's reaction to the crowd busting up. 10:13. 11:50, that look she gives arlene who's grinning from ear to ear... dorothy skillfully extracts his profession.
@@jennybrown75 I know, 5 years later, but who cares! "Skillful extraction" from Dorothy! (The Clever Dentist)...she was SO smart! I'm watching this episode for the third or 4th? Time! 🤣
Wonder if Arch Poole ever knew he was responsible for one of THE most hysterical WML ever. He also seemed like such a great nice guy. Would love to hear from some of his family. I thought several years ago I read he had passed away years ago. May he RIP
So true, Mr. Poole should be remembered for his contribution to the enjoyment of millions of people over several decades. His was one of the best segments of WML that I've seen (and I've watched every episode, pre-syndication).
Would a diaper protect a wee one! I lost it! Everyone in the audience lost it. I love puns... and Mr Cerf being a publisher wraps himself in it at all ages! Diapers ! Dorothy asking innocently "Would the product be solid rather than liquid!" Guffaw!
If you watch his face change, you might conclude that Bennett here suffers the punsters "fate worse than death" by making a statement he did not realize was a pun until somebody else, in this case Arlene, reacted to it and the greatest laugh in WML history followed.
I agree -- maybe it was too "out-of-character," too different from his usual macho or scary parts. I was 10 or 11 when I first saw it, and loved it then. I should get a DVD of it. I managed to catch I on TV sometime in the past two or three years.
That was a topnotch movie -- it pretty much had just two people in the cast -- Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum and was a study of the two characters they played. I think at the very end there are some incidental characters. Directed by the excellent John Huston. It's a very unusual movie, too -- I can't think of another one that presented the dialogue and the relationship between two people the way this film did. (Now can anyone name the other film in which Deborah Kerr played a nun, ten years before "Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison"?)
The relationship has a name: chaste love. More than agape (friendship), because the attraction is palpable, as is the awareness that they can't, they mustn't, act on their feelings. Now I'm going to cheat and look up the other movie in which she played a nun!
Assuming that there was some sort of "green room" where the challengers waited before coming on for their segment, Arch Poole may have considered himself one of the luckiest male challengers to appear on WML.
We had that marvelous Calypso album with Bob Mitchum when I was a kid. I always thought he was just so appealing in a cute little song called Beauty Is Only Skin Deep. Worth a listen!
Robert Mitchum was in "Night of the Hunter". Directed by Charles Laughton. (his first director) ? Shelley Winters, and Lillian Gish. That was weird. 1955. ;-)
I only found this show a couple weeks ago and it's been an absolute treat, I've been binge watching episodes and have become a big fan. One thing I've noticed is that there's a member of the studio audience who has this unique guffaw/cackle type laugh. This individual, for some reason, appears to have sat in the audience for nearly every episode I've watched and included his particular laugh into each one. I find his laugh positively hilarious and it really adds to the experience of watching the show. Given that he appears so frequently, I was hoping anyone out there might have information about his identity, as I've started to be driven crazy by not knowing who this man is, or why he's always in the audience(not that I wish he weren't, I just really want to know). I know for a fact that I've heard this man's laugh over many episodes of this program, which has added to my desire to uncover his identity. Because of his frequency and sometimes echo of his laugh, I've started to wonder if he perhaps was a producer or some similar executive that would have been present that often, not a simple viewer in the audience. Below I've included time stamps which contain this unique laugh I desperately request help identifying within this video 4:43 to 4:44 (After White Mink joke, as crowd laughter dies down) 10:41 to 10:43 (Prominently heard between waves of crowd laughter) 11:10 to 11:12 (Laugh at end of crowd laughter, so prominent it even makes Mr. Daly laugh and look at the audience) 12:59 to 13:02 (Heard under Mr.Daly explantation, only one laughing at Daly's joke about Arlene's answer) 15:47 to 15:50 20:36 to 20:38 20:46 - 20:49 please, anyone
I think I used my Depends while laughing at the diaper segment. Just about the funniest bit of WML I've ever seen, and I've seen all of them (on this TH-cam channel) up to this date. Thank you for blessing us with these videos!!
+Steve Stalzle That was without a doubt the funniest WML segment I've ever scene. The whole interplay between the audience and the panel building up to Bennet's epic question was amazing.
The panel went round and round on whether they could wear the product of the diaper service guy. The guy himself looked like he was about to lose it at any moment. Then Bennett brought the house down with one of the silliest puns in the show's history (wee ones?). Then the panel thought that Robert Mitchum was Elvis. Excellent episode.
I've been watching them from the first episode and it strikes me that there's this bizarre fascination and obsession with "cleanliness" and "beautifying" the home. It just sounds so uptight.
“The wee ones…” followed by Arlene’s facetious laugh… and bennett’s sudden realization of the double meaning… comedy gold! And 56 years later it’s still hilarious! If they all only knew.❤
June Finlayson, MIss Australia 1956, also went on to work as a TV presenter both in Australia and England. She marriedand had four children. Sadly, June passed away in 1979 at only 44 years of age,
I'm surprised John didn't go further with Miss Australia and have the panel guess what specific area she covered for the newspaper. We also see an example of Bennett slipping in a naughty pun and feigning innocence.
After 7 years I would think a panelist would realize that when John says 2 down 8 to go the answer to their question was no, regardless of whether they actually heard the answer from the mystery guest.
This one goes under the "best of" WML from beginning to end. I'd say in the top 5 best! The "wee ones" was already mentioned, but it was interesting to see Dottie Mae take the roll of "panel comedienne" during the diaper service segment in the tradition of Hal Block and the two Allen's, with the same double takes at the audience, every time they guffawed at her line of serious questioning! Wonderful. And it's even funnier because she's NOT a comedienne! I'm not sure why she passed to Bennett. I thought that was rather odd, but generous. She's not one to pass too often. I know she's often accused of hogging screen time, but I don't think that's true. I think she's very anal retentive and wants to be very thorough in her questioning. Plus she wants to win. In my opinion, she's not a screen hog - at least not deliberately. I think she shows that here.
Since the audience was quite entertained by the questions, I think Dorothy either let Bennett get some laughs or she wanted to see what his mind was thinking.
@@LM-bn1wt "wee" sometimes means "little" (it's a borrowing from Scots dialect), so Bennett's phrase "wee ones" was intended to mean "small children". But in informal "baby talk" slang between parents and infants, "wee" or "wee-wee" can be a euphemism for "to urinate"; so in the context of diapers the double meaning amused the audience, and once Bennett heard Arlene laugh at it he soon realized it could be taken two ways too.
Was wondering if anyone enjoyed Robert Mitchum in later years, in the made for television miniseries Winds of War and War and Remembrance. All of it good, but like him more in the first series.
I remember seeing him on SNL. He did a great sketch as a private eye. He would utter the internal dialogue aloud and the other characters could hear it.
Sadly that clip is not on youtube anymore though I did find the complete snl episode online (after a vigourous search). Another noteworthy clip in that episode is a film by Mitchum's daughter featuring him and his co-star from "Out of the Past" Jane Greer called "Out of Gas".
I've said it before, that "are you appearing in a picture about to play in nearby theaters" question should never have been allowed, it's like cheating :)
Robert Mitchum was fantastic and did some pretty creepy roles (i.e. Night of the Hunter, Cape Fear, etc.) however, his creepiest role was as the dad in the made-for-tv movie "Killer in the Family"! It would make you think twice before going camping.
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Robert Mitchum was one of the original "bad boys" of Hollywood. Loved him.
Yes along with Steve McQueen!
@@InjuriousPersonalities Think People like Errol Flynn, John Barrymore might out date him
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My DAD looked alot like him
@@ronaldcrenfro4637 My Uncle Eddie also looked a lot like Mitchum.
This diaper service episode is one of my all-time favorites. It never gets old!!
"The Wee Ones" gave me a chuckle today
@@satori03Same here! And, the way Bennett laughs when he realizes what he’s just said!! PRICELESS!!
Loved him in Heaven knows Mr. Alison.
These are great. From a time so far removed from ours it might as well be another planet.
Barry Poupard • But wasn’t it grand!
@@gomphrena-beautifulflower-8043 Yep!!
Makes me sad to read your comment, though true, for I lived through that time and miss the civility, manners, and dress that was common then. Every age has its problems, none are perfect, but to be a child and young teen in the 50’s was grand, though we didn’t know it. No one locked their doors, neighbors helped discipline area children, most every one attended church, people in general tried to do the right thing. There was no cursing in school and we loved and respected our teachers. Drugs came from a drug store. I rode my bike to town to see a movie and my parents did not have to worry about my safety or what I’d see on the screen. Television was sometimes silly but never vulgar. We began each school day with a Bible reading, usually a psalm, we’d repeat the Lord’s Prayer together, and then rise, put our right hand over our heart, and recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States of America. By that time we knew we were in a special place. Our school day would quietly begin. This was post WWII and our country was still united, with a general as our president.
You could say that!!
What a shame society has degraded itself to an abysmal level. I was born in these years. People were so nice, refined, and polite.
Robert Mitchum is one of the greatest artists the American cinema has given us. God bless him. He should have received an Honorary Oscar and the AFI lifetime achievement award.
One of my favorite person to watch is John's expressions when he is trying to hold back so much of the humorous moments. Precious.
Great episode... Dorothy's reaction to the audience laughter is interesting during the diaper service part... you see the wheels turning in her mind...
Absolutely had me on the floor 😂.
Dorothy was a investigative reporter for years 😊
Mr. Poole was an absolute delight, and he seemed to really be enjoying himself. Classic episode!
One of my favorite episodes of WML ❤ simply premium quality entertainment!
ROBERT MITCHUM was one of the most under-rated YET most popular stars who ever worked in Hollywood. Inconceivable to think that he was NEVER even nominated for an Academy Award, not even for CAPE FEAR. He also happened to be my late mother's favorite male actor of her lifetime. May they both RIP.
The ones who refused to play the politics did not win. Same exactly today only worse.
I agree with Truman Capote except for one thing. Mitchum's only Oscar nomination was for GI movie about WWII and he got killed at the end. I am not sure of the title.
In the end, the awards are meaningless. Robert Mitchum was a man's man and the women loved him.
This quote from Wikipedia, helps give an insight into Mr. Mitchum's background, and personality.
"As a child, Mitchum was known as a prankster, often involved in fistfights and mischief. In 1929 his mother sent the twelve-year-old Mitchum to live with her parents in Felton, Delaware; the boy was promptly expelled from middle school for scuffling with the principal. A year later he moved in with his older sister in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen. After being expelled from Haaren High School he left his sister and traveled throughout the country, hopping freight cars and taking a number of jobs, including ditch-digging for the Civilian Conservation Corps and professional boxing. He later stated that at age 14 in Savannah, Georgia, he was arrested for vagrancy and put in a local chain gang. By Mitchum's account, he escaped and returned to his family in Delaware. At the age of 16, while recovering from injuries that nearly cost him a leg, he met 14 year old Dorothy Spence, whom he would later marry. He soon went back on the road, eventually "riding the rails" to California."
I don’t believe he was underrated . Great actor
Dorothy"s facial expressions are priceless.
Mitchum was obvious from his voice alone...despite the feigned accents. He has an unmistakable timbre to his voice. I think the panel 'carried ' him for a respectable distance
Fabulous What's My Line episode. The diaper segment had me laughing out loud. And Robert Mitchum is one of my favorites from that era.
"Out of the Past" is a classic film noir, and also features a young Kirk Douglas.
I only heard the last part, Mr. Pool runs a diaper business...Lol
This was one of the funniest ones I've seen yet. That diaper segment with Mr. Poole was wonderful.. I just discovered these old shows and they've been a comfort during these times
Boy didn't Dorothy give the audience those dagger eyes. Such a wonderful show. Especially through the hard times.
Saw Robert Mitchum on a talk show one. The moderator asked him the following: "What makes a good actor?". His answer: "Know your lines, know your marks, and show up on time"! They don't make them Bob anymore. God bless him.
Amen to that !
My, I loved Robert Mitchum. Still love him. Watch all his re-runs. He's a natural badboy.
J - Sean penn looks & acts like Mitchum
@@madambutterfly7513 ugh no, no nonono.
@madambutterfly7513 Yes, and the dish ran away from the spoon too.
All these mystery guests oozed class and talent
How right you are ! These wonderful vintage programs proved that shows could entertain without the use of profanity & vulgarity !
I'd scream with glee if I saw Robert Mitchum too!
DougJrFan93 So masculine too bad few men look like that anymore. It is a fading species.
I laughed so hard at the diaper segment and the audience’s reaction to it that I cried 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🥰‼️ Robert Mitchum was funny too. Didn’t know he knew so many accents.
He was a very talented (and underappreciated) actor- smarter than most knew.
@Cerph. He had a photographic memory. He also didn't put up with any Hollywood bull.
There’s something very special about these early film stars like Robert Mitchum which todays stars just do not have.
John is having the most fun in this episode I think. Love Dorothy’s skilful questioning. She is a joy to watch. At a few times she seems not amused by the audience’s loud laughter though.
She was uniquely asking questions, that prompted laughter from the audience. And not knowing why, this upset her.
@@Cerph She took her job very seriously. I love that about her ;-)
Its happened a few times over the years. She doesn't like not knowing what the laughter is for.
I'm not sure if she's not being amused by the laughter, or just switching on her skills as an investigator.
She wasn't angry in any way. Just confounded.😅
Men who could wear a tuxedo as if were a t-shirt and sweatpants and ladies who wore gowns as effortlessly! Wow!
Robert Mitchum is what they call a mans man.
Loved him singing Little old wine drinker me.
I really 💘 this show, I'm thankful that it had such a long run, lots of episodes to choose from. Almost forgot to mention I really like the audience reactions, they're so into it
In all the years I've been watching these reruns on 'the Tube'.. I have never seen this episode before. Wow... the diaper service segment was Priceless!
Wow power actor one of the best of all
It is pretty amazing that they got most of the biggest stars in Hollywood to appear on this show.
And payed them scale. Many celebs asked that their winnings be donated t a charity.
But alas, no Marilyn Monroe.
The stars attended the show to plug their movie etc😊
Oh I love 💕 this show! So many talented guests from my younger years! Thank you for airing these🥰
Love love love Robert Mitchum.
The audience truly enjoyed this episode! The wee ones! So did they all.
Robert Mitchum Simply the best!! most talented man, actor, producer, singer, musician, poet etc etc
Donella Mackenzie also served time for marijuana possession
Nadia Zahroon • Gasp! Did he really?!
@@gomphrena-beautifulflower-8043 Double Gasp!
this entire diaper segment is golden ;)
Reminds me of my childhood. We were so poor my mom had to put my brother & I in the same diaper. It was the only way she could make ends meet !
@@jubalcalif9100 Bennett Cerf et al from this show would have loved your play on words "make ends meet" as much as I do. Thanks for the wordplay.
@@philippapay4352 You're quite welcome ! Refreshing to see a kind & friendly reply for a change here at TH-cam ! MANY thanks for your gracious words.... :-)
@@jubalcalif9100 Funny you should say that. Or sad. I get the nastiest replies when I am questioning something that I am clearly not certain of, if the reader understood English. People read it seems with their prejudices and emotions flying in high dudgeon and I would not want them on my jury.
@@philippapay4352 So well said and so well put, my friend ! Sadly, you are SO right ! THANKS again so VERY much for your kind & friendly words ! You've MADE my day & my week ! CHEERS !! :-)
That was Hilarious 🤣🤣🤣
Mr. Poole made my tummy hurt i laughed so much...
I love WML ❣️❣️❣️💜💜💜
Love Mitch!
I do so admire both Miss Australia's accent and her manner of speach.
She's 100% English. Manufactured probably.
@@peternagy-im4bethat's how educated Aussies talked in those days
I'm so hooked on this show. Arlene Francis is my idol. Didn't realize until I was in my 30's (1990) that my dad looked like a cross between Robert Mitchum and Dean Martin in our old family photos from the 50's.
Look up the show with Frank Gifford, she's drooling over him
Compliments, Carol!
Your father certainly was desired by many women...!
One of the great ones.
Goodness at his peak Gorgeous
The Misses Hart/Finlayson were certainly two of the loveliest contestants to grace WML while Mr. Poole added much good fun. And who could ask for a better mystery guest than Robert Mitchum? All in all, great episode along with some witty questions and comments from a lively panel that was really on for this one!.
My fav !!!! what you see is what you got, he said ''Anyone can act'' he did it for the money, they said ''but Mr. Mitchum you were so good in such and such'' he replied'' they paid me more''. lol
he din't care what anyone thought.
Can't take your eyes off that incredible face, every nuance delicious. Wish he could have lived FOREVER.
ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE ACTOR AS WELL AS WWLL AS STAR!
For ~20 years, I was in the same profession as the last challenger, but many years after this episode aired. By the time I started in the profession, Bache & Company had been acquired by Prudential two years earlier.
i always love dorothy's reaction to the crowd busting up. 10:13. 11:50, that look she gives arlene who's grinning from ear to ear... dorothy skillfully extracts his profession.
+tomitstube That is the PERFECT description of Dorothy's line - skillful extraction!
@@jennybrown75 I know, 5 years later, but who cares! "Skillful extraction" from Dorothy! (The Clever Dentist)...she was SO smart! I'm watching this episode for the third or 4th? Time! 🤣
Dorothy Kilgallen is an American Hero!
A tragic heroine...
Dorothy was eliminated by your friendly government
@@harlow743utube documentary The suspicious death of Dorothy kilgallen 😢
Wonder if Arch Poole ever knew he was responsible for one of THE most hysterical WML ever. He also seemed like such a great nice guy. Would love to hear from some of his family. I thought several years ago I read he had passed away years ago. May he RIP
So true, Mr. Poole should be remembered for his contribution to the enjoyment of millions of people over several decades. His was one of the best segments of WML that I've seen (and I've watched every episode, pre-syndication).
This show relaxes me.
Relived me of my covid depression 😊
Would a diaper protect a wee one! I lost it! Everyone in the audience lost it. I love puns... and Mr Cerf being a publisher wraps himself in it at all ages! Diapers ! Dorothy asking innocently "Would the product be solid rather than liquid!" Guffaw!
If you watch his face change, you might conclude that Bennett here suffers the punsters "fate worse than death" by making a statement he did not realize was a pun until somebody else, in this case Arlene, reacted to it and the greatest laugh in WML history followed.
Most hysterically true funny of all the episodes. Now watching it for the third time !
Dorothy walked right into that one.
"Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison" is one of my favorite pictures.
Mine, too!
It should have gotten Mitchum the Oscar he deserved but never won.
I agree -- maybe it was too "out-of-character," too different from his usual macho or scary parts. I was 10 or 11 when I first saw it, and loved it then. I should get a DVD of it. I managed to catch I on TV sometime in the past two or three years.
That was a topnotch movie -- it pretty much had just two people in the cast -- Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum and was a study of the two characters they played. I think at the very end there are some incidental characters. Directed by the excellent John Huston. It's a very unusual movie, too -- I can't think of another one that presented the dialogue and the relationship between two people the way this film did. (Now can anyone name the other film in which Deborah Kerr played a nun, ten years before "Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison"?)
The relationship has a name: chaste love. More than agape (friendship), because the attraction is palpable, as is the awareness that they can't, they mustn't, act on their feelings. Now I'm going to cheat and look up the other movie in which she played a nun!
Blindfolds on in place panel...enter Robert Mitchum!! (Heaven knows, Mr Alison!)
Thanks for posting, great. 16.39
"Heaven Knows, Mr. Alison" was one of my mother's favorite movies.
Bob Mitchum. The Boss
It’s the most well-spoken people in America.
LOL all the girls/women screaming when Robert Mitchum appeared.
But to be honest, I would scream, too.
Great show.
free spirited, cool, such sensitive hands, love that man
Just adore ...Robert Mitchum!!
I remember this show. I’m enjoying the reruns.
Something that protects the wee ones! What a funny pun!
And I suspect Bennett didn't realize he was making it. Note his face before and after Arlene's chuckle.
Assuming that there was some sort of "green room" where the challengers waited before coming on for their segment, Arch Poole may have considered himself one of the luckiest male challengers to appear on WML.
We had that marvelous Calypso album with Bob Mitchum when I was a kid. I always thought he was just so appealing in a cute little song called Beauty Is Only Skin Deep. Worth a listen!
Robert Mitchum was in "Night of the Hunter".
Directed by Charles Laughton. (his first director) ?
Shelley Winters, and Lillian Gish.
That was weird. 1955. ;-)
I only found this show a couple weeks ago and it's been an absolute treat, I've been binge watching episodes and have become a big fan. One thing I've noticed is that there's a member of the studio audience who has this unique guffaw/cackle type laugh. This individual, for some reason, appears to have sat in the audience for nearly every episode I've watched and included his particular laugh into each one. I find his laugh positively hilarious and it really adds to the experience of watching the show. Given that he appears so frequently, I was hoping anyone out there might have information about his identity, as I've started to be driven crazy by not knowing who this man is, or why he's always in the audience(not that I wish he weren't, I just really want to know). I know for a fact that I've heard this man's laugh over many episodes of this program, which has added to my desire to uncover his identity. Because of his frequency and sometimes echo of his laugh, I've started to wonder if he perhaps was a producer or some similar executive that would have been present that often, not a simple viewer in the audience. Below I've included time stamps which contain this unique laugh I desperately request help identifying within this video
4:43 to 4:44 (After White Mink joke, as crowd laughter dies down)
10:41 to 10:43 (Prominently heard between waves of crowd laughter)
11:10 to 11:12 (Laugh at end of crowd laughter, so prominent it even makes Mr. Daly laugh and look at the audience)
12:59 to 13:02 (Heard under Mr.Daly explantation, only one laughing at Daly's joke about Arlene's answer)
15:47 to 15:50
20:36 to 20:38
20:46 - 20:49
please, anyone
That man was my friend Jim Obrian he attended majority of shows.😂
Archie Poole passed away in 2002. He was the founder of West End Diaper Service in Cleveland Ohio
He was a great guest.
WML,
Thank you so much for posting this. Best WML episode ever!
Robert Mitchum did sing on a horse in Night of The Hunter..
And in Rachel and the stranger
He recorded a song called "Thunder Road"
And perhaps he sang the title song of the film "The River of No Returns" where he co-starred with Marilyn Monroe
I think I used my Depends while laughing at the diaper segment. Just about the funniest bit of WML I've ever seen, and I've seen all of them (on this TH-cam channel) up to this date.
Thank you for blessing us with these videos!!
Cheers for posting this!
I agree 100 per cent !!
This was just an amazing episode, I couldn't stop laughing!
"The Enemy Below" was a great Mitchum film. Star Trek episode "Balance of Terror" was based on it. One of the best Trek episodes.
' The Enemy Below ' also starred Curt Jurgens opposite Mitchum. Great film. Directed by Dick Powell, I believe.
Perhaps one of the biggest laughs in WML? History occurs during this episode.
+Steve Stalzle The "wee ones."
+Steve Stalzle That was without a doubt the funniest WML segment I've ever scene. The whole interplay between the audience and the panel building up to Bennet's epic question was amazing.
They asked Yul Brynner "do you have blonde curly hair ?"
@@hetmanjz As usual Arlene got it going again
The panel went round and round on whether they could wear the product of the diaper service guy. The guy himself looked like he was about to lose it at any moment. Then Bennett brought the house down with one of the silliest puns in the show's history (wee ones?). Then the panel thought that Robert Mitchum was Elvis. Excellent episode.
I don't think Bennett realized he was making a pun when he said "wee ones." Watch the way his face changes after Arlene chuckles.
@@timcunningham722Wee ones were the babies no pun meant 😅
Robert Mitchum was a rarity in Hollywood in that a marijuana arrest didn't destroy his career. It only made him more popular.
I've been watching them from the first episode and it strikes me that there's this bizarre fascination and obsession with "cleanliness" and "beautifying" the home. It just sounds so uptight.
It was a different era where shame was more common. We could use a little bit more of it nowadays
@@larrymoss5441Exactly 😊
Miss Australia 1956, June Finlayson. 1935 -1979 RIP
She sounds like an English snob.
What happened to her?
Mitchum at his most beautiful
See him in "Out Of The Past" about 10 years earlier, 1947.
Loved Robert Mitchum in “Night of the Hunter”. Fantastic actor & film!
That might be the hardest the panel all laughed on this show! What a hilarious moment Bennet created 😂.
The “wee ones” was great. 15:10.
The diaper segment is the funniest thing ever!!!!!
Martin Gabel appeared on WML 112 times.
LOVED THIS HE WAS A GREAT UNDERRATED ACTOR
“The wee ones…” followed by Arlene’s facetious laugh… and bennett’s sudden realization of the double meaning… comedy gold! And 56 years later it’s still hilarious! If they all only knew.❤
What a treat. (R.M).
This has got to be the most entertaining episode. Still love 'em all though.
June Finlayson, MIss Australia 1956, also went on to work as a TV presenter both in Australia and England. She marriedand had four children. Sadly, June passed away in 1979 at only 44 years of age,
Mitchum is good with accents and wasn't identified by the panel on a later appearance.
+James Dunn - that's the best performance with accents/voices I've seen on WML (great actor).
They only got him this time because they identified the movie in NY he was in.
tremendous leading man
He was no Rondo Hatton but he was indeed one gifted actor !
"Is it solid rather than liquid?" "Could you sit on it?" OMG - the tears are still rolling! My belly hurts - too funny!
I'm surprised John didn't go further with Miss Australia and have the panel guess what specific area she covered for the newspaper. We also see an example of Bennett slipping in a naughty pun and feigning innocence.
I agree with miss Australia. But Cerf wasn't making a pun. Wee ones were the babies 😊
Robert Mitchum did sing in the movie Rachael & the Stranger
After 7 years I would think a panelist would realize that when John says 2 down 8 to go the answer to their question was no, regardless of whether they actually heard the answer from the mystery guest.
countless times a panelist wouldnt hear the reply though i had no problem hearing it maybe they were whispering among themselves alot?
The audience was having a wonderful time with the diaper service man!
This one goes under the "best of" WML from beginning to end. I'd say in the top 5 best!
The "wee ones" was already mentioned, but it was interesting to see Dottie Mae take the roll of "panel comedienne" during the diaper service segment in the tradition of Hal Block and the two Allen's, with the same double takes at the audience, every time they guffawed at her line of serious questioning! Wonderful. And it's even funnier because she's NOT a comedienne!
I'm not sure why she passed to Bennett. I thought that was rather odd, but generous. She's not one to pass too often. I know she's often accused of hogging screen time, but I don't think that's true. I think she's very anal retentive and wants to be very thorough in her questioning. Plus she wants to win. In my opinion, she's not a screen hog - at least not deliberately. I think she shows that here.
Since the audience was quite entertained by the questions, I think Dorothy either let Bennett get some laughs or she wanted to see what his mind was thinking.
Agree, this was one of the best!!
I wondered why she passed, too. So glad she did because that wee ones line was so funny!
@@LM-bn1wt "wee" sometimes means "little" (it's a borrowing from Scots dialect), so Bennett's phrase "wee ones" was intended to mean "small children". But in informal "baby talk" slang between parents and infants, "wee" or "wee-wee" can be a euphemism for "to urinate"; so in the context of diapers the double meaning amused the audience, and once Bennett heard Arlene laugh at it he soon realized it could be taken two ways too.
Agree Dorothy did not need to pass. She could have solved it
Mitchum is lookin' especially goooood here. Ahh, darlin....**sigh**
beautiful posture...
eoselan7 - he walks like a panther, seductive, dangerous - lol
So cool that Daly advertised guests' companies
How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people? . . .
Probably beautiful.
The" wee ones" must be one of the biggest laughs in WML history.
Was wondering if anyone enjoyed Robert Mitchum in later years, in the made for television miniseries Winds of War and War and Remembrance. All of it good, but like him more in the first series.
I remember seeing him on SNL. He did a great sketch as a private eye. He would utter the internal dialogue aloud and the other characters could hear it.
I've not seen that. Will have to look it up. I've been enjoying some of the older interviews with him, and recently bought Ryan's Daughter on iTunes.
Sadly that clip is not on youtube anymore though I did find the complete snl episode online (after a vigourous search). Another noteworthy clip in that episode is a film by Mitchum's daughter featuring him and his co-star from "Out of the Past" Jane Greer called "Out of Gas".
Thanks. I'll have to check those out.
His performance in Enemy Below alone is Oscar and Grammy worthy..
I loved every movie he performed in. A true artist who did not BUY a star on the Hollywood walk of fame.
He was GORGEOUS 😜🤪
I've said it before, that "are you appearing in a picture about to play in nearby theaters" question should never have been allowed, it's like cheating :)
I concur - It Just Isn't fair and Mitchum basically says so
No it's acceptable, that was in the tv news and radio😊
Robert Mitchum was fantastic and did some pretty creepy roles (i.e. Night of the Hunter, Cape Fear, etc.) however, his creepiest role was as the dad in the made-for-tv movie "Killer in the Family"! It would make you think twice before going camping.