Peggy Lee was one of the greatest pop & jazz singers there ever was or ever will be. I have just about every album she made re-released on CD. Even "Pete Kelly's Blues".
So talented. She was all over the movie"Lady and The Tamp." Played the mother, Simess cats, wrote the music, etc. When the movie came out in home video she had to take Disney to court to get the money she was owed.
There are a lot of negative comments on the board about the first segment with the interpreter, but I actually found the segment rather interesting. A lot of the game play relies on the clear definition of concepts. Some of these were tough to translate from the Italian, like "agency" and "federal government." As a result, the game got bogged down, literally "lost in translation."
So Clifton Daniel is Harry Truman's son in law and would in 1964 become the managing editor of the New York Times , and he was conestant in WML on July 15 , '56 , thanks for clearing that up , wikipedia
I thought the interpreter was the most beautiful woman on the show, so the first segment was funny and charming. People seem to whistle and go mad for blonde hair, but the upturned nose and the short dark hair were very appealing.
"The Man I Love" is positive in a Billie Holiday kinda way, I guess. No, no, I remember this jazz singer for the hauntingly soulful "Is That All There Is?"
Police Commissioner Manes went back to Rome and probably talked for the rest of his life about being on American television. I enjoyed the first segment. It was very interesting. I can understand how some became impatient, as the show was typically more fast paced. Having something different occasionally spices things up. Thank you for posting all these programs! I'm happily addicted to this show and to researching all the panelists and guests I don't know. I'm learning all kinds of things about people my Mom knew from movies, TV and the theater.
In those days the American attention span was much longer. Patience was more prevalent. Now a goat's attention span is longer!😲The job of simultaneous translator is considered one of the most stressful with extremely high turnover. It is important work.
Peggy Lee. O my yes. I am surprised that Peggy so thoroughly bamboozled Dorothy Kilgallen, who was an expert on pop music among other things. ASIDE from the future -- on the last night Dorothy appeared on WML in November 1965, she asked the mystery guest [singer Joey Heatherton] if her real first name was "Norma." Joey replied no, but Dorothy had Peggy Lee in mind, whose real first name is Norma and who was in November 1965 appearing in New York.
22:20 Arlene is ready to guess that the MG is Peggy Lee and not Jaye P Morgan (after Bennett narrows it down to those two). During a conference, Dorothy prolongs it by suggesting that Arlene ask whether she ever recorded the song "Don't Smoke in Bed", a song Miss Lee recorded in 1948. Why ask the question? Once the possibility is narrowed down to two people, it takes no more time, and possibly less time to simply guess one or the other. And if Clifton Daniels wasn't familiar with the song (it only reached #22 on the charts), it would be no help to him at all. This is one case where Dorothy's method of questioning is too clever by half. Arlene follows Dorothy's lead but artfully rephrases the question to get a laugh.
Peggy Lee did the voice to the twin Siamese cats Si and Am in Disney's "Lady and the Tramp", hence her comment that she did not use a siamese voice. 23:55
She also wrote the song lyrics -- I believe she wrote the lyrics to all the songs in "Lady and the Tramp", not just those to the Siamese cats' song. She was born Norma Delores Egstrom and her father was a Swedish-American and her mother a Norwegian-American. Her original surname was almost certainly "Egström" in Sweden. Peggy Lee was a very talented lady. I wish I had been old enough during the days when she sang live in nightclubs wearing a long, formal dress, frequently strapless, with long gloves on -- I would have gone to see and her and hear her sing. As it is, I love watching video footage of her.
21:35 A stumped Arlene Francis makes a guess of Julie Wilson. I had never heard of her. She was big as nightclub singer and actress in the 1940's and 50's and then went into something of a retirement to raise her sons. She made a comeback as a cabaret singer in the 1980's when she was in her late 50's and in her 60's. But she was never much of a recording artist.
Never, repeat never write that last sentence down, simply "think it": by now, there are indeed already 9 Mary Contrary's.... There are people whose hobby it is to do exactly the opposite of what other people are expecting from them. Call it an anarchistic streak....
what was so funny about the police chief/commissioner saying he was connected to two of the agencies Dorthy mentioned but not the third? he made it sound like nobody wants to admit they work for THEM.
for everybody wondering why they never put out a second chair when they had two guests, you see the reason why in this episode. they couldn't get all three people in the frame, without it looking like they were crowded, and they were not far enough apart to only show one or two. I assume they had to do the second chair this time because it would not be proper to put a man and woman, who probably never met before this show, in physical contact with each other.
+Whats My Line How much Italian did JCD actually know? Seems like he didn't need the translator on the show. Those "conferences" were very lengthy. Did you see how long they were?
I have loved popular vocal music for as long as I can remember. I especially love anything I can sing along with. Peggy Lee was someone that I didn't truly appreciate until I was an adult with some life experience behind me. Most musicologists opine that her signature song was yet to come when she appeared on WML for this episode. That song would be "Fever", Originally recorded by Little Willie John in 1956, Lee added two verses of her own composition and slowed down the tempo to a sultry, sexy sizzle. (It is 41 seconds longer.) See how sultry she is with just her voice and a few subtle moves (plus the lyrics). th-cam.com/video/EYxoAJ3Boyc/w-d-xo.html
Lois Simmons - Thanks so much. I do not think I ever knew she had added verses onto the existing song. The trio you referenced here was a fabulous performance.
Very cool. Ty for this, hadn't seen it before. I really enjoy Peggy Lee. Great combo. I like that the drummer essentially played the bongos on his drum kit. Miss Lee, sounding and looking very elegant.
The poor men are all sweaty and look so very uncomfortable. They're always mopping their heads and foreheads off. I'm wondering how the women seemed to stay so fresh and didn't get drippy on their faces, heads or even their clothing. I feel bad for these folks, in the summer in bright lights with no air conditioning. This must've been so distressing.
As a Southerner, I might say that men sweat, ladies sparkle. 😉 AND I might add that air conditioning was extremely scarce in those days, so most of us didn't miss what we didn't have.
No language had ever sounded more beautiful than those words spoken by the Italian interpreter! She would easily have won a ‘Most beautiful language of the World’ competition!
Earlier in the questioning, Bennett asks if the MG ever had an eponymous TV show of her own. The answer was no ("nein"). Later he narrows down the possibilities to Peggy Lee or Jaye P Morgan. But Miss Morgan had a show of her own ("The Jaye P Morgan Show") in 1956. Perhaps the show wasn't around long enough on NBC for Bennett to have noticed. Maybe it was the heat in the studio, but the panel didn't seem to be as sharp for this episode. Or maybe they became mind-numbed by the first segment.
Thanx for posting. Never seen this before. [ 0:30 } Definitely getting ready for the new animated opening. [ 1:05 ] Clifton Daniel. Writer. Husband of Harry's singer-socialite-writer daughter Margaret Truman. Not the only time that Bennett appeared in white jacket. And not the only time that an Italian appeared with a translator. Actress Anna Magnani did that back in 1954.
I first listened to this episode in the car and I fell in love with Marie's voice. I have always loved accents and foreign languages even I cannot speak them. I found the first part of this show very interesting and it added an aspect we did not usually see in the rest of the show due to the translating. In all the years I have seen the reruns I have never seen this one or any like it. I am surprised they did not have this one in a while. Absolutely wonderful.
Gil Fates wrote in his book that a typical WML game took 7 minutes. Here at 12 minutes when Dorothy nailed it, this may be the longest game in Sunday Night WML. Typically if the panel was off track, Daly would cut it short at 7 minutes. Here it is stuck with a mechanically slow game. A nightmare for live TV director Franklin Heller, I bet. An interesting experiment which they did not repeat on Sunday night.
I recall the use of an interpreter at least once previously with an MG (Sylvia Mangano?) and it seemed to work okay. But with a performer, there wouldn't be as many technical terms to deal with regarding a job classification. This segment seemed to get bogged down with disagreements about which level of government the challenger worked for and whether he worked for a law enforcement agency (with the emphasis on the definition of an agency).
I suspect that Clifton Daniel didn't have much experience in front of a camera or any audience for that matter. He was a print journalist. And while Bennett Cerf wasn't normally a performer, per se, he regularly was touring as a public speaker before live audiences. Bennett clearly enjoyed it while Clifton was as nervous as a cat in a room full of grandmothers in rocking chairs.
David Harris- Yes; she’s very annoying “Did you once take a shrimp off Truman Capotes plate, pass it to Barbara Stanwyck and then throw it in Lucille Balls’ swimming pool while Dean Martin sang with Peggy Lee?”
Two chairs for 2 guests; about time! (& even w/ her chair not placed right next to the commissioner's, they fit into the cameraman's image of John & the 2 guests w/ ease)
MNow someone is just have to "clue me in" as to Clifton Daniel was . I assume he was an actor but am not sure. So someone please shore up my info. gap on him.
Mr. Daniel was a journalist, with the NY Times for much of his career. He married Margaret Truman in 1956. They had four children together and their marriage lasted until he died in Feb. 2000.
@@loissimmons6558 Clifton Daniel was NY Times editor; Arlene refers to Margaret and refers to the new born and yet unnamed son Clifton Truman Daniel, who grew up to publish several interesting books etc. on his grandfather HST, including the A-bomb and Hiroshima & Nagasaki.
She played the Siamese cats, the mother (owner) and that singing female dog and helped wright most of the songs in the movie but, and I’m very sorry to tell you, she did not voice the cocker spaniel.
Peggy Lee signs in as "Peggy Lee Martin". She was married at the time to actor Dewey Martin, the third of her four marriages. Sadly, like all of her marriages it did not last long. They married in 1956 and divorced in 1958. With her second marriage (to actor Brad Dexter), they were married and divorced in 1953. Her fourth and final marriage (to musician Jack Del Rio) took place in 1964 and they divorced the following year. Her longest lasting marriage was her first, to guitarist Dave Barbour. They were wed in 1943 and divorced in 1951. They met while both were with Benny Goodman's band and their love match violated Goodman's rule about any of the musicians "fraternizing with the girl singer." Ironically, Peggy wanted to give up her career to be a housewife and mother (they had one child, the only child she ever had). But Barbour joined the chorus of those who felt she had too much talent to give up her career. She reluctantly started to record again, but it was still part-time until she had a huge hit with "Mañana" (a song she and Barbour wrote together, and which she mentions as her biggest hit to John Daly after the game play was over). It was impossible for her to have a part-time career after that.
Brad Dexter is always the 7th member of the Magnificent Seven who no one can remember. A few others of the 7 were MGs including Arlene's costar from One, Two, Three, Horst Buchholz.
What a wonderful, elegant show. Fun, and so sauve. No naught words, just pure class..thank you. Am 71, we only had a rented tv in 1960s, but didn't caught this one then. Take care and enjoy. Happy 😊
Actually the protein in egg is very good for one's hair. I suspect that people in those days and earlier were well aware of that. Even now, one can find websites extolling the virtues of it (but warning about needing to mitigate the odor). Helene Curtis appears to have taken a very basic approach to naming their product, perhaps a throwback to simpler times. And the exec who suggested "Pomade d'Ova" was left in the dust. Or perhaps someone at the meeting threw out the exasperated remark, "Whaddya want, egg in your beer?" And they took it from there.
Aside from letting us hear John speaking Italian, this is not a night to remember fondly. Full translations made the first segment too slow, even for those of us who know a little of the language. And we were told he was a police chief rather than a commissioner, so it was frustrating to hear answers that sounded wrong to us in the light of what we were given.
I agree with what you said, but I have to admit that watching John Daly try to convince the chief of police of Rome that he had a job with the police force was amusing. I realize that the problem is caused by having several different kinds of police, but it was still funny.
Peggy Lee was a great singer. I own some of her recordings which I enjoy listening to very oftenly. When she said that "Mañana" (Which I think is a 'stupid' song) was her biggest-selling record, she was probably referring to up-to the time this program was recorded, because she certainly made throughout her long career a lot of much more better and meaningful songs than "Mañana". On the other hand, she made her participation in this program very interesting and entertaining.
The men generally had a basic black blindfold or mask held on by some sort of elastic band (except that Robert Q. Lewis eventually had eyeglasses drawn on his). But Dorothy and Arlene changed theirs from time to time. Arlene for a number of years had one with eyelashes on it and then had one with her initials (A over her right eye and F over her left). Later, she went to a mask that she could put on like eyeglasses. Dorothy's for quite a while were tied on with a ribbon. But she didn't always have this mask to the best of my recollection.
Dorothy, Dorothy :) "Gracia" is Spanish, "Grazie" is Italian :) And Peggy Lee is not helping either: jawrrrrrrohl ??? There is no "r" in Jawohl. Bei mir bist du nicht schön this way.... Income tax people and Marriage Councelers seem to have been very frequent visitors of WML. Were there never fire brigade people, butchers, top bakers, inn keepers etc. ? Also, 95 % of the mystery guests had to reply "yes" if asked if they were "in the entertainment business".... Almost no writers, painters (yes yes Mr. Dali, I know you were there), sculptors, award winning journalists etc. On the positive side, fortunately enough, none of them was "smaller than a breadbox" :)
There were certain repeat professions. Bullfighters, big game hunters, lady barbers, teachers of classes to expectant mothers. But there was an episode where the guests were a butcher, a baker, and a candle stick maker. And they once had a fire fighter who had been called to a fire at Dorothy's house (she did not recognize him). Mystery guests were normally in the entertainment business, that is true. Celebrities then as now were mostly in that field or in sports. An occasional politician or artist/architect.
I think the interpreter took her job too seriously; she translated all words instead of asking short questions. That made this part of the show too slow and stringy. But nevertheless a nice idea to invite guests from all over the world. And this was the first time I heard about the famous "Blank Blank Show" :)
I thought she did a good job. I understand Italian and it seemed to me that she represented the questions failthfully, which is important in this case to keep the answers on track.
This episode I didn't enjoy, mostly because of the first guest needing an interpreter. Obviously, that wasn't his fault, but an already slow-paced game became very tedious during that portion of it. After that, it was enjoyable as usual.
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Peggy Lee was a delightful and a multi talented singer. She had a unique voice that could charm the birds off a tree!
You give me FEVER
Peggy Lee was one of the greatest pop & jazz singers there ever was or ever will be. I have just about every album she made re-released on CD. Even "Pete Kelly's Blues".
I was listening to an old Bob Hope radio program and he made a "stopette" joke.
thanks to this channel, I knew what stopette was and got the joke.
So talented. She was all over the movie"Lady and The Tamp." Played the mother, Simess cats, wrote the music, etc. When the movie came out in home video she had to take Disney to court to get the money she was owed.
The wonderful and unforgettable Peggy Lee.
By today’s tv standards the first guest makes for “bad television” (back and forth translations) but I enjoyed it much. I was glued.
todays tv standards. lol what standards ? that segment was more interesting than anything on hate nite tv.
@@SG-ug9xj true ‘dat
I’m head over heels over Arlene Francis I simply adore her
You need a really powerful Necromancer , m8 :o)
Amazing woman. I love her.
Haha me too, and I’m a straight woman lol Shes so classy and gorgeous, I love her! 💖💖💖
Same here
Me too :)
There are a lot of negative comments on the board about the first segment with the interpreter, but I actually found the segment rather interesting. A lot of the game play relies on the clear definition of concepts. Some of these were tough to translate from the Italian, like "agency" and "federal government." As a result, the game got bogged down, literally "lost in translation."
This first round did go long but it was fun
So Clifton Daniel is Harry Truman's son in law and would in 1964 become the managing editor of the New York Times , and he was conestant in WML on July 15 , '56 , thanks for clearing that up , wikipedia
I thought the interpreter was the most beautiful woman on the show, so the first segment was funny and charming. People seem to whistle and go mad for blonde hair, but the upturned nose and the short dark hair were very appealing.
She was incredible in all aspects.
"The Man I Love" is positive in a Billie Holiday kinda way, I guess. No, no, I remember this jazz singer for the hauntingly soulful "Is That All There Is?"
Police Commissioner Manes went back to Rome and probably talked for the rest of his life about being on American television.
I enjoyed the first segment. It was very interesting. I can understand how some became impatient, as the show was typically more fast paced. Having something different occasionally spices things up.
Thank you for posting all these programs! I'm happily addicted to this show and to researching all the panelists and guests I don't know. I'm learning all kinds of things about people my Mom knew from movies, TV and the theater.
In those days the American attention span was much longer. Patience was more prevalent. Now a goat's attention span is longer!😲The job of simultaneous translator is considered one of the most stressful with extremely high turnover. It is important work.
Peggy Lee...Sooo beautiful!
eoselan7 she reminds very much of Sylvia Plath.
@@nadiazahroon6573-- But Ms. Lee was as joyful, and abundantly creative a soul, as poor Ms. Plath was a tortured and despairing one.
I can't wait to see Michelle Williams play her in the upcoming bio-pic.
Peggy Lees one of the All Time Greats! ♥
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Peggy Lee is my favourite female singer and in my opinion the best in the world.
I have 17 of her CD’s
They found another chair!
Peggy Lee. O my yes. I am surprised that Peggy so thoroughly bamboozled Dorothy Kilgallen, who was an expert on pop music among other things.
ASIDE from the future -- on the last night Dorothy appeared on WML in November 1965, she asked the mystery guest [singer Joey Heatherton] if her real first name was "Norma." Joey replied no, but Dorothy had Peggy Lee in mind, whose real first name is Norma and who was in November 1965 appearing in New York.
i thought she was referring to Marilyn Monroe.
nowvoyagerNE Marilyn had been dead for three years by 1965. I'm pretty sure Dorothy knew that!
Chris Nickens didn't notice a date
Chris N August 5, 1962 she departed us but my first reflex was to think of Marilyn Monroe too!
22:20 Arlene is ready to guess that the MG is Peggy Lee and not Jaye P Morgan (after Bennett narrows it down to those two). During a conference, Dorothy prolongs it by suggesting that Arlene ask whether she ever recorded the song "Don't Smoke in Bed", a song Miss Lee recorded in 1948. Why ask the question? Once the possibility is narrowed down to two people, it takes no more time, and possibly less time to simply guess one or the other. And if Clifton Daniels wasn't familiar with the song (it only reached #22 on the charts), it would be no help to him at all. This is one case where Dorothy's method of questioning is too clever by half.
Arlene follows Dorothy's lead but artfully rephrases the question to get a laugh.
I’ve listened to her singing so much I’d recognize that voice blindfolded right away
Even with the German accent? I believe if she'd have used her usual speaking voice, Dorothy for certain, would've guessed her.
Peggy Lee did the voice to the twin Siamese cats Si and Am in Disney's "Lady and the Tramp", hence her comment that she did not use a siamese voice. 23:55
She also wrote the song lyrics -- I believe she wrote the lyrics to all the songs in "Lady and the Tramp", not just those to the Siamese cats' song. She was born Norma Delores Egstrom and her father was a Swedish-American and her mother a Norwegian-American. Her original surname was almost certainly "Egström" in Sweden. Peggy Lee was a very talented lady. I wish I had been old enough during the days when she sang live in nightclubs wearing a long, formal dress, frequently strapless, with long gloves on -- I would have gone to see and her and hear her sing. As it is, I love watching video footage of her.
She sang "He's A Tramp."
Today that would be "Thai"...'Siamese' was acceptable in 1957 but today it's a slur...like 'redskin'...
The North Dakotans' favorite daughter
@@baskervillebee6097 i know this comment is a year old but she did in fact both voice the siamese cats and peg for the song "he's a tramp"
21:35 A stumped Arlene Francis makes a guess of Julie Wilson. I had never heard of her. She was big as nightclub singer and actress in the 1940's and 50's and then went into something of a retirement to raise her sons. She made a comeback as a cabaret singer in the 1980's when she was in her late 50's and in her 60's. But she was never much of a recording artist.
Ah, pretty Peggy Lee! No one could finesse a song in the beautiful way she did - I love it that there is not a single down vote here as I type this.
Never, repeat never write that last sentence down, simply "think it": by now, there are indeed already 9 Mary Contrary's.... There are people whose hobby it is to do exactly the opposite of what other people are expecting from them. Call it an anarchistic streak....
@@Retroscoop Those people need to get a better hobby. Miss Lee is magnificent!
@@Retroscoop -- Call it stupidity...
what was so funny about the police chief/commissioner saying he was connected to two of the agencies Dorthy mentioned but not the third?
he made it sound like nobody wants to admit they work for THEM.
3:58 who doesn't understand Arlene's charm
for everybody wondering why they never put out a second chair when they had two guests, you see the reason why in this episode.
they couldn't get all three people in the frame, without it looking like they were crowded, and they were not far enough apart to only show one or two.
I assume they had to do the second chair this time because it would not be proper to put a man and woman, who probably never met before this show, in physical contact with each other.
Additionally, seeing that extra chair sticking out from behind the desk was a little unsightly on camera
+Whats My Line How much Italian did JCD actually know? Seems like he didn't need the translator on the show. Those "conferences" were very lengthy. Did you see how long they were?
I have loved popular vocal music for as long as I can remember. I especially love anything I can sing along with. Peggy Lee was someone that I didn't truly appreciate until I was an adult with some life experience behind me.
Most musicologists opine that her signature song was yet to come when she appeared on WML for this episode. That song would be "Fever", Originally recorded by Little Willie John in 1956, Lee added two verses of her own composition and slowed down the tempo to a sultry, sexy sizzle. (It is 41 seconds longer.)
See how sultry she is with just her voice and a few subtle moves (plus the lyrics).
th-cam.com/video/EYxoAJ3Boyc/w-d-xo.html
Lois Simmons - Thanks so much. I do not think I ever knew she had added verses onto the existing song. The trio you referenced here was a fabulous performance.
Very cool. Ty for this, hadn't seen it before. I really enjoy Peggy Lee. Great combo. I like that the drummer essentially played the bongos on his drum kit. Miss Lee, sounding and looking very elegant.
Boy, John really raced through the marriage counselor segment, no doubt to make up for some of time lost to such a lengthy first segment.
The poor men are all sweaty and look so very uncomfortable. They're always mopping their heads and foreheads off. I'm wondering how the women seemed to stay so fresh and didn't get drippy on their faces, heads or even their clothing. I feel bad for these folks, in the summer in bright lights with no air conditioning. This must've been so distressing.
As a Southerner, I might say that men sweat, ladies sparkle. 😉
AND I might add that air conditioning was extremely scarce in those days, so most of us didn't miss what we didn't have.
Miss Francis and Miss Kilgallen used Stopette liberally and faithfully, whereas the gentlemen did not.
If I say I am happy to see this, will you think I am pushing you? :) I DO know it is a lot of work and I appreciate it. :)
I've taken your comments only positively, dance4joy7, and I appreciate them. :)
What's My Line? if you don't mind, for a young man you are very knowledgeable,
and I thank you again for giving us this show.
peggy lee how wonderful
Clifton Daniel, in certain shots, looks like a consumptive version of Tom-Felton-As-Draco-Malfoy. Or possibly Jason Isaacs as Draco's father.
juliansinger Brilliant comment
I thought he looked like a clueless Charlie Chaplin.
When he entered, I thought it was Boo Radley from "To Kill a Mockingbird".
The Italian Police guest was quite uninspiring.
Clifton Daniel looks as I imagine James Dean might have looked if he had lived for an extra 20 years.
No language had ever sounded more beautiful than those words spoken by the Italian interpreter!
She would easily have won a ‘Most beautiful language of the World’ competition!
I thought Clifton Danial was a good panelist, was he only on this one time?
Since I have learned about the New York Times, I see him as despicable. Research what the Times did in WW2.
Dorothy, as always, was impeccably brilliant with the questioning of the Roma's police chief.
Earlier in the questioning, Bennett asks if the MG ever had an eponymous TV show of her own. The answer was no ("nein"). Later he narrows down the possibilities to Peggy Lee or Jaye P Morgan. But Miss Morgan had a show of her own ("The Jaye P Morgan Show") in 1956. Perhaps the show wasn't around long enough on NBC for Bennett to have noticed. Maybe it was the heat in the studio, but the panel didn't seem to be as sharp for this episode. Or maybe they became mind-numbed by the first segment.
The wonderful Michelle Williams is going to play Peggy Lee in the upcoming biopic. Maybe she will finally get her overdue Oscar. It's called 'Fever'.
Mr. O'Connell is too good looking to be a marraige counselor
Thanx for posting. Never seen this before.
[ 0:30 } Definitely getting ready for the new animated opening.
[ 1:05 ] Clifton Daniel. Writer. Husband of Harry's singer-socialite-writer daughter Margaret Truman.
Not the only time that Bennett appeared in white jacket. And not the only time that an Italian appeared with a translator. Actress Anna Magnani did that back in 1954.
Read this after I posted the reply to your other post re: the use of a translator.
What an adorable Jawohl...
She is very glamorous,and charming ,Arlene Francis!
A good italian boy??? WTF?????
She gives me fever
I first listened to this episode in the car and I fell in love with Marie's voice. I have always loved accents and foreign languages even I cannot speak them. I found the first part of this show very interesting and it added an aspect we did not usually see in the rest of the show due to the translating. In all the years I have seen the reruns I have never seen this one or any like it. I am surprised they did not have this one in a while. Absolutely wonderful.
Gil Fates wrote in his book that a typical WML game took 7 minutes. Here at 12 minutes when Dorothy nailed it, this may be the longest game in Sunday Night WML. Typically if the panel was off track, Daly would cut it short at 7 minutes. Here it is stuck with a mechanically slow game. A nightmare for live TV director Franklin Heller, I bet. An interesting experiment which they did not repeat on Sunday night.
I recall the use of an interpreter at least once previously with an MG (Sylvia Mangano?) and it seemed to work okay. But with a performer, there wouldn't be as many technical terms to deal with regarding a job classification. This segment seemed to get bogged down with disagreements about which level of government the challenger worked for and whether he worked for a law enforcement agency (with the emphasis on the definition of an agency).
"The Best is yet to Come" Peggy Lee..
Im laughung loud when Peggy Lee said "Jawohl" with an r ! Its yes in my Language...german!
20:37 Watt??? 😂😂
Maybe it was just appearances on TV but Clifton Daniel's personality seemed very stiff and humorless.
He was the husband of frequent guest panelist Margaret Truman
He may just have been sleep-deprived: he and Margaret had a newborn son, just eleven days old, their first child Clifton Truman Daniel.
I suspect that Clifton Daniel didn't have much experience in front of a camera or any audience for that matter. He was a print journalist. And while Bennett Cerf wasn't normally a performer, per se, he regularly was touring as a public speaker before live audiences. Bennett clearly enjoyed it while Clifton was as nervous as a cat in a room full of grandmothers in rocking chairs.
I would say the most boring person ever to appear as a panelist .
+paacer Then you haven't seen Wally Cox yet!
Dorothy always has to try to act like she is smarter than everyone by sharing some obscure silly fact about the guest.
David Harris- Yes; she’s very annoying “Did you once take a shrimp off Truman Capotes plate, pass it to Barbara Stanwyck and then throw it in Lucille Balls’ swimming pool while Dean Martin sang with Peggy Lee?”
With mystery guest Norma Deloris Egstrom.
Charming Italian translator
Clifton Daniel was creepy
I guess she did not record the (non positive) love song "Is that all there is" at this point....❓
That one is from the 1960s.
Not for 12 more years.
Clifton Daniel looks a bit like a member of Ed Wood rep company, Criswell.
Yes!!!!!!
I thought so too.
Peggy Lee was also known as "Miss Peggy Lee" and was the inspiration for the Muppet's 'Miss Piggy'.
😍That's hiarious. She's may favorite Muppet character. The chef is a close second.
Margaret Truman's husband
The panel strangly reluctant to guess Peggy Lee .
POLICE COMMISSIONER OF ROME, ITALY
MARRIAGE COUNSELOR
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@@scottpardee6303😂 ...😮 What??
@@St63420when you watch more of these you will see snarky comments. I hope people will avoid making them.
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Two chairs for 2 guests; about time! (& even w/ her chair not placed right next to the commissioner's, they fit into the cameraman's image of John & the 2 guests w/ ease)
MNow someone is just have to "clue me in" as to Clifton Daniel was . I assume he was an actor but am not sure. So someone please shore up my info. gap on him.
Mr. Daniel was a journalist, with the NY Times for much of his career. He married Margaret Truman in 1956. They had four children together and their marriage lasted until he died in Feb. 2000.
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Clifton Daniel was NY Times editor; Arlene refers to Margaret and refers to the new born and yet unnamed son Clifton Truman Daniel, who grew up to publish several interesting books etc. on his grandfather HST, including the A-bomb and Hiroshima & Nagasaki.
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Face-Bra.........................
A true legend!
Miss Peggy Lee was remarkably pretty without makeup.
I closed my eyes and heard a cocker spaniel speaking! 😂
She played the Siamese cats, the mother (owner) and that singing female dog and helped wright most of the songs in the movie but, and I’m very sorry to tell you, she did not voice the cocker spaniel.
Peggy Lee signs in as "Peggy Lee Martin". She was married at the time to actor Dewey Martin, the third of her four marriages. Sadly, like all of her marriages it did not last long. They married in 1956 and divorced in 1958. With her second marriage (to actor Brad Dexter), they were married and divorced in 1953. Her fourth and final marriage (to musician Jack Del Rio) took place in 1964 and they divorced the following year.
Her longest lasting marriage was her first, to guitarist Dave Barbour. They were wed in 1943 and divorced in 1951. They met while both were with Benny Goodman's band and their love match violated Goodman's rule about any of the musicians "fraternizing with the girl singer." Ironically, Peggy wanted to give up her career to be a housewife and mother (they had one child, the only child she ever had). But Barbour joined the chorus of those who felt she had too much talent to give up her career. She reluctantly started to record again, but it was still part-time until she had a huge hit with "Mañana" (a song she and Barbour wrote together, and which she mentions as her biggest hit to John Daly after the game play was over). It was impossible for her to have a part-time career after that.
How about her guitar/actor husband, they wrote songs (Dave Barbour)
Brad Dexter is always the 7th member of the Magnificent Seven who no one can remember. A few others of the 7 were MGs including Arlene's costar from One, Two, Three, Horst Buchholz.
What a wonderful, elegant show. Fun, and so sauve. No naught words, just pure class..thank you. Am 71, we only had a rented tv in 1960s, but didn't caught this one then. Take care and enjoy. Happy 😊
Vell, Jawohl 😀
I agree - she is adorable
Back when female singers had class and style.
Who is the advertising genius who thought of 'Shampoo plus Egg'?
Actually the protein in egg is very good for one's hair. I suspect that people in those days and earlier were well aware of that. Even now, one can find websites extolling the virtues of it (but warning about needing to mitigate the odor).
Helene Curtis appears to have taken a very basic approach to naming their product, perhaps a throwback to simpler times. And the exec who suggested "Pomade d'Ova" was left in the dust.
Or perhaps someone at the meeting threw out the exasperated remark, "Whaddya want, egg in your beer?" And they took it from there.
Lee's German accent was pretty ridiculous! And why was Clifton Daniel so awkward and quiet?
Aside from letting us hear John speaking Italian, this is not a night to remember fondly. Full translations made the first segment too slow, even for those of us who know a little of the language. And we were told he was a police chief rather than a commissioner, so it was frustrating to hear answers that sounded wrong to us in the light of what we were given.
I agree with what you said, but I have to admit that watching John Daly try to convince the chief of police of Rome that he had a job with the police force was amusing. I realize that the problem is caused by having several different kinds of police, but it was still funny.
I felt it slowed the game too much, also. Made it kinda boring. Hope they don't do it again.
I enjoyed it because the Italian translator was nice to listen to and look at.
Pure class, all the way around.
I was 30 days old. 😂....😮.
This was before “Fever”
Not a fan, however Peggy Lee was rather charming.
I've never seen the panel more strangely clueless, that Clifton le is really a baffoon...
One of the most naturally beautiful women ever. Greta Garbo, Dorothy Dandridge and Peggy
Wow, two chairs
So many of the guests panelists , should never have been this is but one of them.
Gosh it's obvious that despite her name the interpreter is far from being a native Italian speaker. She was not at all fluent in the language.
i love her
Peggy Lee was a great singer. I own some of her recordings which I enjoy listening to very oftenly. When she said that "Mañana" (Which I think is a 'stupid' song) was her biggest-selling record, she was probably referring to up-to the time this program was recorded, because she certainly made throughout her long career a lot of much more better and meaningful songs than "Mañana". On the other hand, she made her participation in this program very interesting and entertaining.
why does Dorothy wear a different eye cover than the others?
The men generally had a basic black blindfold or mask held on by some sort of elastic band (except that Robert Q. Lewis eventually had eyeglasses drawn on his). But Dorothy and Arlene changed theirs from time to time. Arlene for a number of years had one with eyelashes on it and then had one with her initials (A over her right eye and F over her left). Later, she went to a mask that she could put on like eyeglasses. Dorothy's for quite a while were tied on with a ribbon. But she didn't always have this mask to the best of my recollection.
@@loissimmons6558 She once had one designed by, I think, Lilly Dache, but only wore it once.
Loved her so much as a boy god bless
Peggy Lee was never a boy.
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First time I ever saw a translator on WML
Two days before I was born, this aired.
Dorothy, Dorothy :) "Gracia" is Spanish, "Grazie" is Italian :) And Peggy Lee is not helping either: jawrrrrrrohl ??? There is no "r" in Jawohl. Bei mir bist du nicht schön this way....
Income tax people and Marriage Councelers seem to have been very frequent visitors of WML. Were there never fire brigade people, butchers, top bakers, inn keepers etc. ? Also, 95 % of the mystery guests had to reply "yes" if asked if they were "in the entertainment business".... Almost no writers, painters (yes yes Mr. Dali, I know you were there), sculptors, award winning journalists etc. On the positive side, fortunately enough, none of them was "smaller than a breadbox" :)
There were certain repeat professions. Bullfighters, big game hunters, lady barbers, teachers of classes to expectant mothers. But there was an episode where the guests were a butcher, a baker, and a candle stick maker. And they once had a fire fighter who had been called to a fire at Dorothy's house (she did not recognize him). Mystery guests were normally in the entertainment business, that is true. Celebrities then as now were mostly in that field or in sports. An occasional politician or artist/architect.
Peggy lee❤
Shampoo... plus egg
I liked that Italian guy
Excellent panel!
Peggy Lee was so beautiful, talented and humble! 💃
Interesting, but having someone on who doesn't speak English slows down the show.
I think the interpreter took her job too seriously; she translated all words instead of asking short questions. That made this part of the show too slow and stringy. But nevertheless a nice idea to invite guests from all over the world.
And this was the first time I heard about the famous "Blank Blank Show" :)
You're not wrong, but an interpreter's job is to translate literally, not to give her version of what was said.
I thought she did a good job. I understand Italian and it seemed to me that she represented the questions failthfully, which is important in this case to keep the answers on track.
I thought it was a terrific segment, not that I'd want that every week but once or twice a year would be interesting.
Cliftons guessing of Peggy Lee should be disqualified due to "tipping" by a professional entertainer (arlene)
This episode I didn't enjoy, mostly because of the first guest needing an interpreter. Obviously, that wasn't his fault, but an already slow-paced game became very tedious during that portion of it. After that, it was enjoyable as usual.
I don't like Mr. Daly's conferences. They look creepy.
I've always had that same feeling about Daly's conferences...