Dolly is the real deal. I saw her at her one-night-only show at Radio City Music Hall a few years ago. Literally everybody who was anybody was there: Jane Fonda, Isaac Mizrahi, Rupaul, Loretta Lynn, Anna Wintour, et al. She has fans of all stripes everywhere.
Dolly is so intelligent and sweet. She looks absolutely gorgeous here. I wish she'd left her face alone. Why mess with perfection. Everybody loves Dolly. How could you not
Dolly handled Merv’s vulgar questions well. But nothing beats the way Dolly put that condescending Barbara Walters in her place during an interview! lol
Thank you. Being a lifelong Dolly fan, it was great to see this for the first time. I've never seen Dolly so uncomfortable with an interviewer. The chemistry wasn't there - and she knew it. She held her own though. That's how professional she was and still is. She knew what she had to do, and what she'd have to encounter to get her brand out there. Too bad she had to endure a guy like this.
Agree in every way. She’s colder than pure gold. This was a terrible fit, whereas Carson was better able to get away with the boob jokes bc he obviously loved her.
@@scottlevine7646 Yes, and during Dolly's very first interview with Carson, he seemed to sense how nervous she was (you could see it on-camera), and he made a specific point of making her feel comfortable and welcomed, so that the interview would go smoothy. (That's why he was always regarded as the very best at what he did, and why Dolly always spoke so fondly of him through the years.) Merv, on the other hand, just comes off as smarmy and creepy. A few years later, I think Dolly would have found a classy, gracious way to throw his tackiness right back at him, but here, she still seems a bit overwhelmed by the splashy "showbiz" atmosphere, as it was all new to her, and she was more focused on that. Even Gloria Swanson seemed to be getting a bit annoyed with Merv.
LEE REMICK is another RARE BREED. SHE IS BEAUTIFUL.CLASSY,INTELLIGENT,GREAT ACTRESS, LIKE HER VERY MUCH. LOVED THE OMAN WITH ANOTHER GREAT GREGORY PECK.
What a treasure trove of early New York-Hollywood movie history Gloria Swanson provides...while making it perfectly clear that she approached Kennedy for business backing but had a tough time eluding his personal advances. What a book.
She was amazing in so much, especially as a piano teacher in that film with Amy Irving and that curly haired one-note actor who somehow got famous.....Richard Dreyfuss.
Dolly is so sweet and classy here and even decades later in her '70s now she is still a class act helping so many others what an absolute treasure! And OMG Gloria Swanson - born 1899 so she was at least 80 here and looking fabulous, one of the most celebrated actresses of the silent film era and reinvented herself in 1950's movie "Sunset Boulevard" - she was an icon before icons were even invented! To be watching this in 1980 was fantastic!
Dolly's skin looks so pretty 😍, she's so funny, she replied I couldn't leave them home. She went on to reply none of your business. She's such a beautiful class act.
Indubitably ! She mentioned in her 1980 autobiography ("Swanson on Swanson) that a doctor turned her onto a healthier way of eating way back in the 50s (plenty of fruits & vegetables, little or no refined flour or refined sugar, etc). She practiced healthy eating & fitness for the rest of her life. And it showed !
She also had plenty of healthy facelifts starting in the 1920s when she was Joe Kennedy’s kept actress. One before “Sunset Boulevard.” Please don’t take this as criticism because I do not judge; and I think you should be able to do whatever you want within the law to make yourself about yourself. After all, happy people make a happier world.
I was no big fan of the late Merv Griffin. But would watch his show if he had a guest that interested me. My big thrill from this episode is watching that late great Lee Remick. So beautiful & so talented ! She left us much too soon. She was in the original Broadway run of the thriller "Wait Until Dark" (Audrey Hepburn did the role in the 1967 film version). And she did a wonderful job in the 1964 Broadway musical "Anyone Can Whistle". Her version of the title tune can be heard here at TH-cam. Absolutely exquisite ! Thank you VERY much for sharing with us ! CHEERS !! :-)
. Normally it can be annoying hearing a previous guest making noise or interjecting comments while the host is interviewing another guest, but for whatever reason, I LOVE hearing Dolly's endearing laugh coming from off-camera throughout Lee Remick and Gloria Swanson's appearances !! :-) .
I would have given anything to have a nice tall cup of matcha tea with Gloria Swanson and talk about the silent film days. Something tells me she would be a fantastic storyteller
He is such an utter sleaze bomb. Poor Dolly. She must have been so happy when this intervlew was over. He constantly interrupts her and is only gearing up for the next sleazy question. But Dolly is always delightful.
While Dolly Parton has the biggest sense of humor about her anatomy out of anybody I do feel Merv Griffin overdid it a bit to the point where she was a little uncomfortable. The accordion comment was uncalled for and I think she was uncomfortable but our girl handled it with class and integrity!
DOLLY PARTON is a rare breed. BEAUTIFUL,HONEST,CLASSY,INTELLIGENT,TOUGH,LOVABLE. SHE BELONGS WITH THE M.MONROE, MAMIE VAN DOREN, J.MANSFIELD, MAE WEST ERA.
I love Dolly she wos so honest in that interview i know many people made fun of her back than but like she said she like to look like that, and its nothing wrong with that, be yourself. She always back than in old interviews and in new i take her as a worm honest person, she handle his stupied questions very well. And sorry she was and is talented there is no doubght. Ok some films that she did wasnt super but she show good acting in them even if he doesnt have school. Everybody has dreams, and I am glad that her dreams came true. I am 38 and i love her i was small kid when i first sawe her in Steal Magnolias, there was no internet back then so i cut some things from press and OMG Jolien my grandpa singing me this song when i was little. I have so many totally different interest and Dolly her music is one of them i really respect her.
Legend … Merv disrespected Dolly but very respectful to Lee Remick - yea, country association to vulgar, underestimating Dolly’s business successes, talent, Feminine strength and intellect! The audience seemed to value her anyway
I agree with Dolly, it was crazy that she should sit there after her interview was over, big mistake Merv. She CLEARLY wanted to leave. That is why she asked after Lee left (plus it gave the impression of "more importance" of the other guest (being allowed to leave). Again, big mistake Merv, you should have let Dolly leave.
She learned this a long time ago. To handle idiots. Terrible being a woman back then, but she had that look and put it out there so.... But still a special soul.
. In my opinion, the GLORIOUS Lee Remick was one of the most beautiful actresses of ALL TIME, in addition to being an accomplished actress! Sadly though, she would be diagnosed with kidney cancer less than 10 years after this appearance (1989), and die on July 2, 1991, at only 55 years of age.... As a side note, if you want to see some of the most STUNNING blue eyes of all time, Image search the following: "Lee Remick eyes" .
Remick reported not too much feminism in England. I think that might have changed after Greenham Common, when English women gathered for days, maybe weeks, to protest an American arms base.
I really wish when he asked Dolly (about her breast size) why some women have it and some don't she'd have said "I dunno, Perv, why do some men have "it" and some don't?" What an asinine question (on multiple levels) even for the 80s.
Mike Douglas is so cringe-worthy with Dolly Parton. He is practically sitting on top of her the whole time. Dolly is obviously very put off by him but she's gracious and covers it. He is unbearable.
I was 10 when this aired. I watched these shows all the time. He talked about Dolly's "gifts" for about five minutes. Way inappropriate. She handled it like the pro she always has been.
I saw Merv in person once. Total cold fish that completely ignored the audience except when on camera. When off camera, zero audience communication…..just smoking. Never even said hello to the studio audience. Total fraud. Dolly is totally real. Love seeing her here!
@@jubalcalif9100 ….and as you came into the show to be part of the studio audience, they would look at you to gauge how young and attractive you were. Young and attractive people were seated in the front. Older people were put in the back. I was just a kid, but even at the time it seemed so unfair. My parents were young and attractive, so we sat in the front. The main guest was David Soul, who had just been arrested for domestic violence, and ironically enough, the final guest was a woman who shot and killed her husband for beating her. We missed seeing Lucille Ball by one episode. Sigh.
Merv really was sexist which is odd since he was gay. The things he asked Dolly! I know it was a different time. I'm older so I remember but he really pushed it.
. " *Rita Moreno......You're the only actress who's won an Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Grammy.....* " (32:10) NOT TRUE !! Helen Hayes was also an E.G.O.T. recipient (having completed hers in 1977, upon winning a Grammy for a spoken word recording) at the time of this 1980 Pepsodent commercial (Richard Rodgers was also an E.G.O.T. winner at that time, but he, of course, was not an actor)! .
This whole boardroom meeting started because it was then and I couldn't figure out how to get that dress off, you want to see what happen after that over the last 40yrs!?
I just know the herrum always wants that wig and dress don't ask me why or anything, you just always where that wig in those paintings, I just figured that it's cause you put their "movie" on the Merv Griffin show.... oO Lucifer
Merv Griffin was the most obnoxious talk show host ever. He asks questions that he should never ask, he talks over his guests after he asks a question and calls elderly women he isn't familiar with by their first name.
That dress causes more trouble, I don't understand why to anything, so I just watch tv whim senile wondering why there's no food in the fridge with her labels on it....
The host is constantly interrupting the guests in vintage interviews it seems like… some worse than others. This guy is pretty bad. It’s so frustrating on behalf of the guests
She handles interviews so well even when she's uncomfortable like in this. Class act Dolly love you!
Dolly is the real deal. I saw her at her one-night-only show at Radio City Music Hall a few years ago. Literally everybody who was anybody was there: Jane Fonda, Isaac Mizrahi, Rupaul, Loretta Lynn, Anna Wintour, et al. She has fans of all stripes everywhere.
Dolly handled his rather probing vulgar questions perfectly.
It seems so awful to watch now. But this was 42 years ago!
She always does!
Dolly is so intelligent and sweet. She looks absolutely gorgeous here. I wish she'd left her face alone. Why mess with perfection. Everybody loves Dolly. How could you not
Dolly handled Merv’s vulgar questions well. But nothing beats the way Dolly put that condescending Barbara Walters in her place during an interview! lol
Thank you. Being a lifelong Dolly fan, it was great to see this for the first time. I've never seen Dolly so uncomfortable with an interviewer. The chemistry wasn't there - and she knew it. She held her own though. That's how professional she was and still is. She knew what she had to do, and what she'd have to encounter to get her brand out there. Too bad she had to endure a guy like this.
Agree in every way. She’s colder than pure gold. This was a terrible fit, whereas Carson was better able to get away with the boob jokes bc he obviously loved her.
@@scottlevine7646 Yes, and during Dolly's very first interview with Carson, he seemed to sense how nervous she was (you could see it on-camera), and he made a specific point of making her feel comfortable and welcomed, so that the interview would go smoothy. (That's why he was always regarded as the very best at what he did, and why Dolly always spoke so fondly of him through the years.) Merv, on the other hand, just comes off as smarmy and creepy. A few years later, I think Dolly would have found a classy, gracious way to throw his tackiness right back at him, but here, she still seems a bit overwhelmed by the splashy "showbiz" atmosphere, as it was all new to her, and she was more focused on that. Even Gloria Swanson seemed to be getting a bit annoyed with Merv.
The commercials put us in another time and place.
These commercials are so calm and beautiful. Nobody is yelling.
@@Patrick3183 agreed. I'm still mad about the first commercial. All that food for $2.65 now it would $20.00 for 2 pieces of chicken, what a shame.
Ahh yes sweet propaganda
SO ❤BEAUTIFUL QUEEN OF COUNTRY MUSICI LOVE YOURINTERVIEW
I can listen to them for days don’t you ?
LEE REMICK is another RARE BREED. SHE IS BEAUTIFUL.CLASSY,INTELLIGENT,GREAT ACTRESS, LIKE HER VERY MUCH. LOVED THE OMAN WITH ANOTHER GREAT GREGORY PECK.
*omen
I loved her....so sad when she passed....
Gloria was a class act and Dolly is an angel!
Dolly could be bald and wear a burlap dress and still be a doll! She is sooo cute!
What a treasure trove of early New York-Hollywood movie history Gloria Swanson provides...while making it perfectly clear that she approached Kennedy for business backing but had a tough time eluding his personal advances. What a book.
I'm always so impressed with Dolly's class and grace in every single question she is asked ❤️
This was worth it just to see Lee Remick( RIP).
absolutely one of my favorites....loved her.....
She was amazing in so much, especially as a piano teacher in that film with Amy Irving and that curly haired one-note actor who somehow got famous.....Richard Dreyfuss.
Dolly is so sweet and classy here and even decades later in her '70s now she is still a class act helping so many others what an absolute treasure! And OMG Gloria Swanson - born 1899 so she was at least 80 here and looking fabulous, one of the most celebrated actresses of the silent film era and reinvented herself in 1950's movie "Sunset Boulevard" - she was an icon before icons were even invented! To be watching this in 1980 was fantastic!
Dolly's skin looks so pretty 😍, she's so funny, she replied I couldn't leave them home. She went on to reply none of your business. She's such a beautiful class act.
Gloria Swanson looked fabulous, looked much younger than 81 here.
Indubitably ! She mentioned in her 1980 autobiography ("Swanson on Swanson) that a doctor turned her onto a healthier way of eating way back in the 50s (plenty of fruits & vegetables, little or no refined flour or refined sugar, etc). She practiced healthy eating & fitness for the rest of her life. And it showed !
She also had plenty of healthy facelifts starting in the 1920s when she was Joe Kennedy’s kept actress. One before “Sunset Boulevard.” Please don’t take this as criticism because I do not judge; and I think you should be able to do whatever you want within the law to make yourself about yourself. After all, happy people make a happier world.
Gloria Swanson was marvelous.
Lee Remick was just a goddess. She was so talented and wonderful but also very kind and honest. Love hearing her talk here 💕💕
I was no big fan of the late Merv Griffin. But would watch his show if he had a guest that interested me. My big thrill from this episode is watching that late great Lee Remick. So beautiful & so talented ! She left us much too soon. She was in the original Broadway run of the thriller "Wait Until Dark" (Audrey Hepburn did the role in the 1967 film version). And she did a wonderful job in the 1964 Broadway musical "Anyone Can Whistle". Her version of the title tune can be heard here at TH-cam. Absolutely exquisite ! Thank you VERY much for sharing with us ! CHEERS !! :-)
Lee Remick one of my favorites, very underrated actress. Beautiful too, reason I clicked on, love Dolly and Gloria also.
Dolly is so much fun to watch.
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Normally it can be annoying hearing a previous guest making noise or interjecting comments while the host is interviewing another guest, but for whatever reason, I LOVE hearing Dolly's endearing laugh coming from off-camera throughout Lee Remick and Gloria Swanson's appearances !! :-)
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Thank you for posting this. One of the very rare appearances by Lee Remick on talk shows.
Darling Dolly has such a pure and angelic quality about her.
Dolly is the epitome of DROP DEAD GORGEOUS!
I agree
Dec 11, 1980 -- Thank you for posting this!!
I would have given anything to have a nice tall cup of matcha tea with Gloria Swanson and talk about the silent film days. Something tells me she would be a fantastic storyteller
Dolly Parton is a true southern belle and such a lady. She deals honestly and fairly with interviewers. She is so true to herself.
Thank you for leaving the vintage commercials in I was 3 years old at this time , don’t remember these ones .
Dolly is just precious
He is such an utter sleaze bomb. Poor Dolly. She must have been so happy when this intervlew was over. He constantly interrupts her and is only gearing up for the next sleazy question. But Dolly is always delightful.
Agreed.
I don't like his interview questions.
Or suggestions
thank you for this great video this takes me back to a good time in my life I wish that I could go back
It’s 1980 look at what stupid questions were asked! She handled this with grace and strength!
What a wonderful program! Each of those women was a true legend… not to mention Merv!
I miss shows like this.
dolly and Gloria - rare women
What a line up!
Dolly still is a wonderful human. I just love her.
love watching these old shows..uncut as they were back then..thanks for this
Thank you a great video...
Her Applejack is so sweet and uplifting, as is Dolly herself.
While Dolly Parton has the biggest sense of humor about her anatomy out of anybody I do feel Merv Griffin overdid it a bit to the point where she was a little uncomfortable. The accordion comment was uncalled for and I think she was uncomfortable but our girl handled it with class and integrity!
DOLLY PARTON is a rare breed. BEAUTIFUL,HONEST,CLASSY,INTELLIGENT,TOUGH,LOVABLE. SHE BELONGS WITH THE M.MONROE, MAMIE VAN DOREN, J.MANSFIELD, MAE WEST ERA.
Superstar!! Love her singing!
Over 40 yrs 9-5 wow.
Wow Dolly and Gloria. Over a century of entertainment combined.
How many rare videos are in your collection? I swear you have more rarities than anyone, and I really appreciate them,
Wow a three legend show!
Sheesh Dolly was STACKED
What luscious pair!!!!
She is pretty I love Dolly Parton
love the OLD dayz
I love Dolly she wos so honest in that interview i know many people made fun of her back than but like she said she like to look like that, and its nothing wrong with that, be yourself. She always back than in old interviews and in new i take her as a worm honest person, she handle his stupied questions very well. And sorry she was and is talented there is no doubght. Ok some films that she did wasnt super but she show good acting in them even if he doesnt have school. Everybody has dreams, and I am glad that her dreams came true. I am 38 and i love her i was small kid when i first sawe her in Steal Magnolias, there was no internet back then so i cut some things from press and OMG Jolien my grandpa singing me this song when i was little. I have so many totally different interest and Dolly her music is one of them i really respect her.
Legend … Merv disrespected Dolly but very respectful to Lee Remick - yea, country association to vulgar, underestimating Dolly’s business successes, talent, Feminine strength and intellect!
The audience seemed to value her anyway
Class act!
wonder where's the rest of this show, hope to watch it someday. thank you again for sharing this rare segment!
respect
Rooster 2 a Hen with one shot 😂😂😂😂
You go Dolly
My favorite part is when she hands him the banjo like it’s a twig and he almost drops it and gets a hernia.
Please show more videos like this one
Robert Young and Rita Moreno in commercials!
I agree with Dolly, it was crazy that she should sit there after her interview was over, big mistake Merv. She CLEARLY wanted to leave. That is why she asked after Lee left (plus it gave the impression of "more importance" of the other guest (being allowed to leave). Again, big mistake Merv, you should have let Dolly leave.
Gloria oh my 81! You're kidding me ŕight
She learned this a long time ago. To handle idiots. Terrible being a woman back then, but she had that look and put it out there so.... But still a special soul.
" ....... yah, I couldn't leave them home ....".🤣
She is handling his sexist questions and behavior like a real lady with a great sense of humor.
When you get me from the 70's or 80s, I have a really hard time knowing what year it is with what little there is of myself... oO Lucifer
It looks like it fits really and I mean really really really really really really really really well to me! The Devil
Love always Eric ;)
so weird he makes gloria stand up for like 10 minutes...
I take it we arent in paintings, I don't make sence I just lay here posing for that red carpet one...
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In my opinion, the GLORIOUS Lee Remick was one of the most beautiful actresses of ALL TIME, in addition to being an accomplished actress! Sadly though, she would be diagnosed with kidney cancer less than 10 years after this appearance (1989), and die on July 2, 1991, at only 55 years of age....
As a side note, if you want to see some of the most STUNNING blue eyes of all time, Image search the following: "Lee Remick eyes"
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Wow! I never knew what an inappropriate pervy jerk he was! Leave my Dolly alone!
Remick reported not too much feminism in England. I think that might have changed after Greenham Common, when English women gathered for days, maybe weeks, to protest an American arms base.
Merv is a LOUSY interviewer! He asks questions & interupts her.. He talks over her too😳😤😤
Why didn't anyone see this back then
I really wish when he asked Dolly (about her breast size) why some women have it and some don't she'd have said "I dunno, Perv, why do some men have "it" and some don't?" What an asinine question (on multiple levels) even for the 80s.
Merv was OK! During interview, nothing to see after I had looked at the comments
Mike Douglas is so cringe-worthy with Dolly Parton. He is practically sitting on top of her the whole time. Dolly is obviously very put off by him but she's gracious and covers it. He is unbearable.
It's Merv Griffin, Mike Douglss had more class. He shouldn't be labeled as Merv.
@@SueProv merv was gay and was attracted to teen boys. How is he perving on women
I was 10 when this aired. I watched these shows all the time. He talked about Dolly's "gifts" for about five minutes. Way inappropriate. She handled it like the pro she always has been.
I saw Merv in person once. Total cold fish that completely ignored the audience except when on camera. When off camera, zero audience communication…..just smoking. Never even said hello to the studio audience. Total fraud. Dolly is totally real. Love seeing her here!
How sad to hear Merv Griffin was such a douchebag in regards his studio audience. :-(
@Diana Curry I got those vibes too. He was sued for sexual harassment more than once.
@@jubalcalif9100 ….and as you came into the show to be part of the studio audience, they would look at you to gauge how young and attractive you were. Young and attractive people were seated in the front. Older people were put in the back. I was just a kid, but even at the time it seemed so unfair. My parents were young and attractive, so we sat in the front. The main guest was David Soul, who had just been arrested for domestic violence, and ironically enough, the final guest was a woman who shot and killed her husband for beating her. We missed seeing Lucille Ball by one episode. Sigh.
@@jubalcalif9100 Merv Griffin had parties with ONLY teenage boys as guests lemme put it that way …
Merv really was sexist which is odd since he was gay. The things he asked Dolly! I know it was a different time. I'm older so I remember but he really pushed it.
He was of course deep in the closet..he probably wanted to deflect from all the gossip about him..a losing battle
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" *Rita Moreno......You're the only actress who's won an Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Grammy.....* " (32:10)
NOT TRUE !! Helen Hayes was also an E.G.O.T. recipient (having completed hers in 1977, upon winning a Grammy for a spoken word recording) at the time of this 1980 Pepsodent commercial (Richard Rodgers was also an E.G.O.T. winner at that time, but he, of course, was not an actor)!
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I wonder why he wasn't perched over Lee Remick as he was over Dolly Parton. Weird.
Too bad Dolly has had all that work done on her face. Here she was so naturally beautiful.
His questions are so cringy.
🤔 Yes,l noticed that. He interrupts too.
Douglas is nauseating. Insufferable.
@@brendaannedufaur6244 *Merv Griffen
This whole boardroom meeting started because it was then and I couldn't figure out how to get that dress off, you want to see what happen after that over the last 40yrs!?
Ugh this is so awkward bless you dolly
So rude of Merv to ask her about her measurements. Super sexist.
Oh, ivory Goddess so devine.... oO Lucifer
What do those two have done to who else is on that carpet?
You see audience, sometimes were just in paintings..... oO well.....
KING DAVID WINDSOR RITTENHOUSE XII
Men were really awful back then. Luckily nobody remembers that dude, while the women are all legends and Dolly became a National Treasure.
He is sleezy
utube just in time by john bavas
Merv rhymes doesn’t it? Awful creep!!!
Dolly is a genius. Merv was trash.
Yadhak
I just know the herrum always wants that wig and dress don't ask me why or anything, you just always where that wig in those paintings, I just figured that it's cause you put their "movie" on the Merv Griffin show.... oO Lucifer
Isn't that the dress???? Lucifer oO
Merv Griffin was the most obnoxious talk show host ever. He asks questions that he should never ask, he talks over his guests after he asks a question and calls elderly women he isn't familiar with by their first name.
That dress causes more trouble, I don't understand why to anything, so I just watch tv whim senile wondering why there's no food in the fridge with her labels on it....
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The host is constantly interrupting the guests in vintage interviews it seems like… some worse than others. This guy is pretty bad. It’s so frustrating on behalf of the guests
Antidote war make a living
According to me taxed to death