During the Covid era I have been watching alot of WML .....thank you so much for the postings! But over the numerous shows and show years, one thing I have really noticed are the hair styles of Arlene Francis, Dorothy Kilgallen and other Guest Panel Ladies. Of all the shows I have watched I think the hair styles both Arlene and Dorothy on this show were showcasing were the nicest yet! The "short cut" really suited Dorothy! The more I find out about Dorothy Kilgallen the more intriguing! mea sententia sine firmis 🦂🙏🍻
Imagine a time when you could introduce Johnny Carson as a "young man"... really reminds me of how long ago these shows were, although these videos preserve the people in the prime of their lives. Also Bennett being shocked by a $6 pan--imagine what he'd think of today's prices!
+Reluctant Dragon -- I got invited to the preview of the San Francisco Bloomingdale's when it was finally built some years ago and I invited my co-worker Janet who sat next to me. We were looking around the store and got to the housewares department. Janet admired this set of stainless steel cookware, saying, "Oh, these pots and pans are really nice, look at how well the lids fit!" I found the price tag for the seven pots and pans plus some lids -- and I said, "Well, Janet, those lids ought to fit nicely -- this set costs $1,995.95!" Probably a stockpot, a 10" skillet, a 12" straight sided saute pan, three saucepans and a stainless "Dutch oven" style two-handled pot and five lids. The aluminum core encapsulated between two layers of stainless steel went all the way up the sides. It was pretty, but it actually made me very happy with my set of stainless steel pots where an encapsulated aluminum core for even heating simply covers the bottom of the pan and the entire set cost me $149.95 from an eBay seller who got it at Sam's Club. I'm still happy with that set at what I paid for it. I also have a nonstick T-Fal aluminum pan I use for pancakes and crepes and the like that nowadays cost me something like $15. Still affordable compared to $6 in 1961. No one knew what nonstick pans were all about back then, but I wouldn't even try to make crepes or omelettes in any other kind of pan. Ditto for fried or scrambled eggs.
The French Count is with (or may own) T-Fal!!! I have many of these pots and pans and have owned them for years! I didn’t realize just how far back,the brand was known and made!! Very cool!
Ted Baxter on Mary Tyler Moore doing his joke " Anna Maria Alberghetti in a taxi ,honey" then singing it to the song tune ill be there in a taxi honey....
If you follow thse weekly shows since 1959 you can see a real change in Dorothy's features (which are mch more puffy) and her behavior, which is more scattered.
Mr. Scannell was apparently amazing, in that he had been a blacksmith, IN NEW YORK CITY, since 1927. (I now find there's still at least one near Central Park, as of a 2014 blog post. I suppose it makes sense, but it's still disconcerting.) Originally from Ireland. Born 1880, died at some point not soon after this.
Wow, iif he was born in 1880, he must have been 80 or 81 years old when this show aired, in April of 1961. And apparently still at work shoeing police horses. A very vigorous gentleman indeed.
+juliansinger I'm not sure why you would find a blacksmith located near Central Park to be somewhat disconcerting. My guess is that you are not talking about the "Anvil Chorus" being included on the bill at Lincoln Center but rather the horse-drawn Hansom Cabs that are for hire to ride through Central Park. It may interest you to know that there is still a need for the NYPD to have horses shod as there are still mounted police in Manhattan. The horses are stabled in Mercedes House (yes, there is a nearby Mercedes-Benz dealership) located between 53rd and 54th Streets east of 11th Avenue. I happened to walk past it a couple of years ago as I was perambulating to the Manhattan Cruise Terminal at Pier 90 to meet a friend coming in from England. In other words, they shoe horses, don't they? ny.curbed.com/2017/6/1/15721774/nypd-mounted-unit-stables-mercedes-house
I'd like to know why she changed her hair do from the previous 2 shows. Her hair never looked BETTER! Why oh WHY would she not have kept that hairstyle
I feel beyond sorry for Dorothy Kilgallen if it's true she was getting heavily into substance abuse during these years. I guess it's always been a curse for some, and certainly under the right (or wrong) set of circumstances, but in her defense, she was still one sharp cookie, even if impaired. And I for one give her credit for going on with the show, no matter what personal demons she wrestled with. God rest her soul.
@@brainsareus And HOW was she murdered, ya doof? A nice red herring theory but 7t doesn't play. She died of a drug and alcohol overdose. Fully made up. Nothing disturbed. No sign.of violence.
The panel knew which stars were in NYC for Broadway shows/appearances/performances and usually attended parties with them days before the show. Made it easy to guess.
. Yes, "unknown", but only for those not around, or for those of us who were, but paid no attention at all to tv commercials in the 60's and 70's : th-cam.com/video/Dq1iyP6iv4Y/w-d-xo.html .
@@sdne1959 I remember those commercials and I suppose that is fame of some kind. But I hadn't thought about them in decades. I think the question posed is why someone of her talent did not become a more notable leading performer.
Interesting that Stan Freberg and David Merrick are both mentioned in relation to Miss Alberghetti. In his autobiography, Freberg devotes page after page to how Merrick practically drove him nuts in attempting to bring Freberg to Broadway (it never happened; poor Stan got an ulcer over the whole debacle).
I wonder what ever happened to Anna Maria Alberghetti. Wikipedia lists a lot of work she did up to about 1965, and after that, nothing. She is apparently still alive- at least, Google didn’t turn up an obituary. She would be about 81 now. Ms. Alberghetti had very versatile talents, performing opera, musical theater, and straight acting in movies. Not many people can do all that.
I chiefly remember Anna for her beautiful renditions of Christmas carols by Alfred S. Burt that she recorded in 1965 for the Columbia Special Products/Goodyear album "The Great Songs of Christmas, Album 5".
@@alfredroberthogan5426 "Knock knock!" "Who's there?" "Anna Maria Alberghetti." "Anna Maria Alberghetti who?" (To the tune of Darktown Strutters' Ball): "Anna Maria Alberghetti in a taxi, honey . . . . "
Funny... Astoria is a neighborhood in Queens N Y, which is on Long Island; today, no one would think of Astoria, as part of long island as a primary geographic reference. it would be Astoria Queens, which is; and, was then, a borough of NYC.
Once again, Bennett Cerf (who has a son at Hahvud) cheats with the Mystery Guest. No way he could know who it was based on those few questions/answers.
When Bennett Cerf seemed so surprised by the six to seven dollars it cost (in 1961 dollars) to purchase one of the pots or pans, appearing to be a bit expensive, as he intoned, my initial thought was, well, I just bought a package of paper towels for $17.99! And then I thought further as to why he would be complaining about such an expense, especially when he was living in a beautiful 6,000 sq.ft. home on 8+ acres of well-manicured landscaping--with a swimming pool, near Mount Kisco, New York. Then I looked up the value of what $6.50 in 1961 is worth (now) in 2024: it's about $63. So I actually became a little concerned, as well, with respect to the rather high cost of that cookware.
I've asked this question before--but that was on someone else's download, before I knew about the excellent quality of this WML channel: Whatever happened to Joan Patti? (Someone did quite a bit of research on this question, but came up dry.) Do any WML aficionados have a clue about what became of/has become of this beautiful and brainy woman?)
She shows up in a few University of Miami publications (and for those of us who like data trails, she did graduate); she also shows up as an official teaching fellow at the University of Michigan, as of 1959. And then she disappears, so I think I agree with the commenters on the old TH-cam clip; either she went overseas, or got married, or, likely, both.
This doesn't answer the question of what became of Joan Patti. But prior to her appearance on WML and around the time she graduated HS in 1955, is this a prequel of her attempt to make it in show business? www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/586/Joan+Patti/index.html She also has some credits on IMDB, but WML is not one of them. However, she looks like the same young woman. www.imdb.com/name/nm1153298/
Knock-knock / Who's there? / Anna Maria Alberghetti / Anna Maria Alberghetti who? / (sung) "Anna Maria Alberghetti in a taxi, honey...better be ready, 'bout half past eight....."
+Ken Edwards Sounds like a pretty crepe-y thing to do and they wore thin after a week! PS - I prefer crepes to regular pancakes. When my mother (Hungarian) made them, she called them palacsinta. Rolled and stuffed with a mixture of strained cottage cheese, golden raisins and some sort of sweetener, then topped with powdered sugar and peach or apricot preserves - my mouth is watering just thinking about it. In Chinese cooking they are called moo shu or Mandarin Pancakes. In Jewish cuisine, it is a blintz.
Astoria is in Queens. Queens has been a borough of New York City since 1898. It irks me when people (many guests on this show) claim that their Queens neighborhood is "on Long Island". Geophysically true, but culturally and legally wrong!
While it is true that Dorothy Kilgallen does not look like her usual sophisticated self in this episode, don't forget that she was a full time reporter. She may have been covering a hot news story and got to the studio late, leaving her no time to get fixed up.
Does anybody know who the announcer was who came on AFTER the intro of the show...the one who introduced Dorothy Killgallen? He also came on at the very end of the show. I know that he was CBS Network announcer. He had such an excellent voice. I remember his voice from The Ed Sullivan Show around the same time as this WML show?
High-end pots and pans, CAN also, be ornamental; in fact, for some people, they are exclusively ornamental. Perhaps, at that time, that was not "a thing".
That was SO not like Bennett Cerf to do that (ID her so early). Usually, even if he knew, he would ask general questions and not "guess" to give the famous person more "t.v. time", or even disqualify himself. Maybe he learned to do this later
Having a dilettante's interest in matters philosophical, I was anxious to learn which branch of the science the university professor specialised in. I regret that they weren't able to discuss this.
I can’t get my head around the fact that it was apparently acceptable, and maybe even expected, to whistle at young women in the 1950s and 60s, but these old “What’s My Line”? episodes certainly seem to show that it was.
Gary Cooper Personally, I don't understand why so many find being whistled at offensive, and I'm highly educated and very conservative. I've found in my long life that the fastest way to really get a womzn mad at you in a social situation is to not recognize her formally or to ignore her. If the roles were reversed I'd find it a boast to my ego to be whistled at.
Daniel Fronc I think being whistled at is more a comment on your curves and your sexiness than the way you look "overall", I'm a big fan of Tex Avery cartoons but I'm not sure it quite works in real life... so basically, a woman who doesn't get any wolf whistles will know that she's not pretty at all.
@@danielfronc4304 and on the other hand, It makes immaculate sense to me through your commentary, which self-parodically smacks of 1950s views of women itself, as to how you would even go so far as to imagine it would be a compliment to women to whistle at them as one does with some well-behaving house pet. Yours is apparently a papier mache understanding of history built from TV viewing, that's why your sense of assured projection completely eludes you.
It was always a complement. Some women who didn't get the whistles made people think it was a bad thing. Now no one gets the whistles so that those who don't get whistles won't feel bad for not getting them.
Is it me, or does Anna Maria Alberghetti look so much like Anne Bancroft (future WML? mystery guest), right down to the face? Of course, let's not forget that Anne Bancroft was Italian-American. That might be why I see the similarities in face.
I still see T-fal products on the shelves. That is the name under which the company's products are marketed in the U.S. The actual name of the company is Tefal which is now a subsidiary of Groupe SEB in France. Tefal is a portmanteau of Teflon and Aluminum. What Natalie Portman's toe has to do with it, I'll never know. (And that's a much better original joke than what Ted Baxter could come up, not that the character of Ted Baxter is much competition in the brains department.)
As someone born in 1964 I mourn the loss of the civility and gentile nature of the interactions between people in a video such as this. Yes, behind the scenes there may have been scandal or some other issue, but people referring to each other as Mr., Mrs., and respecting each other based on not only the gender of the other but each person treating the other as someone worthy of respect as a person. Our children have lost an amazing opportunity in not having such representations of respect in everyday life.
you're right but it's not all black and white, for instance, you have a beautiful woman and none of the panelist can imagine that she teaches something intellectual, and it happens quite frequently they judge a woman by her looks and start asking if 'she's wearing less' in her work, if a man can enjoy her services (with a naughty glee in the eye)... I didn't mind them at first, product of their time but then the immediate assumptions that a pretty lady does something that relies on her physical attributes got too repetitive...
It’s very possible - certain pots - like stew pots, etc. can be out directly in the table with something underneath to,protect the table from heat. It would be much easier to serve from this than trying to decide just how much to put on a plate for anyone! People can serve themselves! Although for a more formal dinner, food could be transferred to a nice casserole-type container.
I NEVER had a teacher that looked like her! My attendance would have been better. Maria was beautiful too. She should have been on Golden Girls. Why aren't the wolf whistlers paying attention? I really think it's rude to not give the whistles to some. A little degrading not to.
![What's My Line? - Carol Burnett; Cyril Ritchard [panel] (May 7, 1961)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/z86vIJjqH3c/mqdefault.jpg)
![What's My Line? - Carol Burnett; Cyril Ritchard [panel] (May 7, 1961)](/img/tr.png)
![What's My Line? - Anna Maria Alberghetti; Victor Borge [panel] (Nov 23, 1958)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/2Kt133c1w-Q/mqdefault.jpg)
![What's My Line? - Bill Cullen; Steve Allen & Jayne Meadows [panel] (Jul 9, 1961)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/JV8_Eb9NxS0/mqdefault.jpg)
![What's My Line? - Mahalia Jackson; Governor Quinn & Betsy Palmer [panel] (Jan 22, 1961)](/img/n.gif)
I enjoy watching these but grieve the civility and manners we have lost.
Relax, Jack; many an evil, lay concealed behind a facade of social etiquette and "civility".
Chris, my thoughts exactly!
Me too. 😞
Ironically, it's this generation's fault in this video that we are where we are today
I wouldn't go back to the prejudice of the day.
Anna Maria was a joy to watch! She was stunningly beautiful ❤️ and appeared to thoroughly enjoy herself!
I bought T-Fal pots & pans in 1993, blue exteriors with an interesting lid venting system. I still use them today, & they are in excellent shape.
Mine were and still are red!!! And they are still great pots and pans!
Check them out … Tefal to T-Fal, uh?
I love every one of these episodes!
My parents used to love listening to Anna Maria Alberghetti. They had several of her record albums. I haven't heard her name in at least fifty years.
Check out the Mary Tyler Moore show where they sing about her. Hysterical.
@@wilfred508 Yes, that's my favorite knock-knock joke. But today, the original song is forgotten, so the joke doesn't work.
Something like ; Anna Maria Alberghetti in a Taxi Honey.......
It's been awhile since I've seen that episode.😂
I love Dorothy's hair! Looks adorable!
Yes she does !!!
During the Covid era I have been watching alot of WML .....thank you so much for the postings!
But over the numerous shows and show years, one thing I have really noticed are the hair styles of Arlene Francis, Dorothy Kilgallen and other Guest Panel Ladies.
Of all the shows I have watched I think the hair styles both Arlene and Dorothy on this show were showcasing were the nicest yet!
The "short cut" really suited Dorothy!
The more I find out about Dorothy Kilgallen the more intriguing!
mea sententia sine firmis 🦂🙏🍻
Imagine a time when you could introduce Johnny Carson as a "young man"... really reminds me of how long ago these shows were, although these videos preserve the people in the prime of their lives. Also Bennett being shocked by a $6 pan--imagine what he'd think of today's prices!
I used an inflation calculator. $6.00 in 1961 would be equal to $47.42 in 2014.
+Reluctant Dragon -- I got invited to the preview of the San Francisco Bloomingdale's when it was finally built some years ago and I invited my co-worker Janet who sat next to me. We were looking around the store and got to the housewares department. Janet admired this set of stainless steel cookware, saying, "Oh, these pots and pans are really nice, look at how well the lids fit!" I found the price tag for the seven pots and pans plus some lids -- and I said, "Well, Janet, those lids ought to fit nicely -- this set costs $1,995.95!" Probably a stockpot, a 10" skillet, a 12" straight sided saute pan, three saucepans and a stainless "Dutch oven" style two-handled pot and five lids. The aluminum core encapsulated between two layers of stainless steel went all the way up the sides. It was pretty, but it actually made me very happy with my set of stainless steel pots where an encapsulated aluminum core for even heating simply covers the bottom of the pan and the entire set cost me $149.95 from an eBay seller who got it at Sam's Club. I'm still happy with that set at what I paid for it. I also have a nonstick T-Fal aluminum pan I use for pancakes and crepes and the like that nowadays cost me something like $15. Still affordable compared to $6 in 1961. No one knew what nonstick pans were all about back then, but I wouldn't even try to make crepes or omelettes in any other kind of pan. Ditto for fried or scrambled eggs.
63$ in 2024...@@dgoldg
So cool to see Anna Maria Alberghetti back in the day before becoming the GOOD SEASONS salad dressing pitchwoman. Thanks for posting!! :) :)
How well mannered and well dressed people were years ago. We have definitely gone downhill.
be careful...
Some gnarly people, can, and do, hide behind a facade of good etiquette.
The French Count is with (or may own) T-Fal!!! I have many of these pots and pans and have owned them for years! I didn’t realize just how far back,the brand was known and made!! Very cool!
Ted Baxter on Mary Tyler Moore doing his joke " Anna Maria Alberghetti in a taxi ,honey" then singing it to the song tune ill be there in a taxi honey....
The tune was "Darktown Strutters' Ball."
Interesting to note that $6.00 in 1961 is the equivalent to about $56.00 in 2022!
She's amazing.
Who?
Anna Maria Alberghetti is still alive at 87 years old as of 2023.
Nice to hear Ralph Paul announcing this one. He's one of my favorites.
If you follow thse weekly shows since 1959 you can see a real change in Dorothy's features (which are mch more puffy) and her behavior, which is more scattered.
Heeeeeeere's Johnny!!
Mr. Scannell was apparently amazing, in that he had been a blacksmith, IN NEW YORK CITY, since 1927. (I now find there's still at least one near Central Park, as of a 2014 blog post. I suppose it makes sense, but it's still disconcerting.) Originally from Ireland. Born 1880, died at some point not soon after this.
Wow, iif he was born in 1880, he must have been 80 or 81 years old when this show aired, in April of 1961. And apparently still at work shoeing police horses. A very vigorous gentleman indeed.
+juliansinger
I'm not sure why you would find a blacksmith located near Central Park to be somewhat disconcerting. My guess is that you are not talking about the "Anvil Chorus" being included on the bill at Lincoln Center but rather the horse-drawn Hansom Cabs that are for hire to ride through Central Park.
It may interest you to know that there is still a need for the NYPD to have horses shod as there are still mounted police in Manhattan. The horses are stabled in Mercedes House (yes, there is a nearby Mercedes-Benz dealership) located between 53rd and 54th Streets east of 11th Avenue. I happened to walk past it a couple of years ago as I was perambulating to the Manhattan Cruise Terminal at Pier 90 to meet a friend coming in from England.
In other words, they shoe horses, don't they?
ny.curbed.com/2017/6/1/15721774/nypd-mounted-unit-stables-mercedes-house
Dorothy look like she just rolled out of bed but she looks charming and adorable at the same time.
I recently saw a picture of Dorothy's granddaughter who is now in her early 20's. She resembles her grandmother very much.
I'd like to know why she changed her hair do from the previous 2 shows. Her hair never looked BETTER! Why oh WHY would she not have kept that hairstyle
It's the Amelia Earhart Aviation breezy do. Just shake it out.
@@kristabrewer9363 I'm no authority but her "hair" on the previous 2 shows was likely a wig..
No she doesn’t, she looks rough.
I feel beyond sorry for Dorothy Kilgallen if it's true she was getting heavily into substance abuse during these years. I guess it's always been a curse for some, and certainly under the right (or wrong) set of circumstances, but in her defense, she was still one sharp cookie, even if impaired. And I for one give her credit for going on with the show, no matter what personal demons she wrestled with. God rest her soul.
Mayb a rough childhood?
She was murdered for knowing too much about JFK, ya doof.
@@brainsareus And HOW was she murdered, ya doof? A nice red herring theory but 7t doesn't play. She died of a drug and alcohol overdose. Fully made up. Nothing disturbed. No sign.of violence.
She wasn't and she looks GREAT !!
Read Mark Shaw's book "The Reporter who Knew too Much"
T-fal is still a going pots and pans concern. Good stuff.
I've been using their toaster oven for about eight years now. Best $140.00 investment I ever made.
In my country it is Tefal, if it's the same company?
Carcinogenic, I'm afraid.
Anna Maria did commercials in 70s and 80s for Good Seasons salad dressing. She is 86 years old now
Dorothy looks 100% adorable...so cute
HEY! It's Ana Maria Alberghetti! The Good Seasons lady!
The "can I rule out" questions always seemed a bit cheeky way of getting free questions.
The "can I rule out" questions go beyond gamesmanship. They take unfair advantage. Unsportsmanlike
Absolutely. Should not be allowed.
The panel knew which stars were in NYC for Broadway shows/appearances/performances and usually attended parties with them days before the show. Made it easy to guess.
Knock Knock!Who's there?Ana Maria Alberghetti! Mary Tyler Moore show classic
Haha I was thinking the exact same thing but couldn't place the show. Thank u
Born May 15, 1936 in Pesaro, Marche, in central Italy, she starred on Broadway and won a Tony Award in 1962 as Best Actress (Musical) for
Shocked at the thought of a pot costing $6. How times have changed!
About $68.95 in 2022 dollars
Anna Maria Alberghetti is one of the three Italian beauties back then, along with Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida.
They were indeed a trifecta of Italian beauty. I would add Virna Lisi to the list, but then it would no longer be a trifecta.
"Gina Lolla-brick-ada," on an episode of The Flintstones!!!!!! YABBA DABBA DOO!!!!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤😂😂😂😂😂😂
Johnny Carson was so funny even back then.
Was he? I must have missed that.
If Bennett only knew how much book prices have inflated, more than pots and pans.
Carson’s incredible wit was on display a year before he took over the Tonight Show.
What a wit! Or should that be twit?
Considering her looks, ability to sing and act, it's criminal Anna Maria Alberghetti never became more famous and is virtually unknown today.
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Yes, "unknown", but only for those not around, or for those of us who were, but paid no attention at all to tv commercials in the 60's and 70's :
th-cam.com/video/Dq1iyP6iv4Y/w-d-xo.html
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@@sdne1959 I remember those commercials and I suppose that is fame of some kind. But I hadn't thought about them in decades. I think the question posed is why someone of her talent did not become a more notable leading performer.
Couldn't Agree More.
I don't know if it's true, but my mother told me once that Ms. Alberghetti went on a talk show once drunk and it ruined her career.
Often you need a lot of luck or good connections. talent and ability doesn't always go far enough.
Interesting that Stan Freberg and David Merrick are both mentioned in relation to Miss Alberghetti. In his autobiography, Freberg devotes page after page to how Merrick practically drove him nuts in attempting to bring Freberg to Broadway (it never happened; poor Stan got an ulcer over the whole debacle).
I wonder what ever happened to Anna Maria Alberghetti. Wikipedia lists a lot of work she did up to about 1965, and after that, nothing. She is apparently still alive- at least, Google didn’t turn up an obituary. She would be about 81 now.
Ms. Alberghetti had very versatile talents, performing opera, musical theater, and straight acting in movies. Not many people can do all that.
See her all the time. She's happy and living in Century City with her very rich husband.
Her name was sung in the conclusion of an episode of CBS-TV's MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW.
I chiefly remember Anna for her beautiful renditions of Christmas carols by Alfred S. Burt that she recorded in 1965 for the Columbia Special Products/Goodyear album "The Great Songs of Christmas, Album 5".
@@alfredroberthogan5426 "Knock knock!" "Who's there?" "Anna Maria Alberghetti." "Anna Maria Alberghetti who?" (To the tune of Darktown Strutters' Ball): "Anna Maria Alberghetti in a taxi, honey . . . . "
@@vincentdaly78 My favorite knock-knock joke!
Mr. Cerf raised his eyebrows at the thought of a $6 or $7 pot. Boy, have times changed!
That would be nearly $70 today. Seems like a lot for one pot.
Stan freberg’s party! That sounded fun 😁
Miss Patti had to be pretty smart going for her doctorate at age 23 and teaching since age 20. She looked pretty good too. Thanks for the video.
It’s a good thing she had her good looks, because she couldn’t answer even a single question without first looking at John for help. Not one!
Funny...
Astoria is a neighborhood in Queens N Y, which is on Long Island; today, no one would think of Astoria, as part of long island as a primary geographic reference. it would be Astoria Queens, which is; and, was then, a borough of NYC.
Wow the inventor of T-fal !!
Bennett should have introduced Mr. Daly by saying....HERE'S JOHNNY!
Once again, Bennett Cerf (who has a son at Hahvud) cheats with the Mystery Guest. No way he could know who it was based on those few questions/answers.
Interesting how even among well-educated, well-informed people, philosophy was not a subject that crossed their minds.
When Bennett Cerf seemed so surprised by the six to seven dollars it cost (in 1961 dollars) to purchase one of the pots or pans, appearing to be a bit expensive, as he intoned, my initial thought was, well, I just bought a package of paper towels for $17.99! And then I thought further as to why he would be complaining about such an expense, especially when he was living in a beautiful 6,000 sq.ft. home on 8+ acres of well-manicured landscaping--with a swimming pool, near Mount Kisco, New York. Then I looked up the value of what $6.50 in 1961 is worth (now) in 2024: it's about $63. So I actually became a little concerned, as well, with respect to the rather high cost of that cookware.
I've had those for years, the pots anyway, I had no idea they were from France.
I've asked this question before--but that was on someone else's download, before I knew about the excellent quality of this WML channel: Whatever happened to Joan Patti? (Someone did quite a bit of research on this question, but came up dry.) Do any WML aficionados have a clue about what became of/has become of this beautiful and brainy woman?)
She shows up in a few University of Miami publications (and for those of us who like data trails, she did graduate); she also shows up as an official teaching fellow at the University of Michigan, as of 1959. And then she disappears, so I think I agree with the commenters on the old TH-cam clip; either she went overseas, or got married, or, likely, both.
This doesn't answer the question of what became of Joan Patti. But prior to her appearance on WML and around the time she graduated HS in 1955, is this a prequel of her attempt to make it in show business?
www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/586/Joan+Patti/index.html
She also has some credits on IMDB, but WML is not one of them. However, she looks like the same young woman.
www.imdb.com/name/nm1153298/
@@loissimmons6558 I don't think that's the same person, looking at the picture.
....🎶"Anna Maria Alberghetti"🎶in a taxi honey 😊
That sounds like Ralph Paul the Colgate / Ed Sullivan announcer doing the opening introductions .
That philosophy teacher was only 23 years old? People looked a lot older back then.
People dressed maturely and like adults, not like today
Johnny Carson.."Who do you Trust"..I remember watching..He also in the early 50's he use to have a TV Show called.." Carson's Cellar"...
dorothy don't be an idiot...you know why john answered the question for anna maria.
Knock-knock / Who's there? / Anna Maria Alberghetti / Anna Maria Alberghetti who? / (sung) "Anna Maria Alberghetti in a taxi, honey...better be ready, 'bout half past eight....."
Miss Patti is my kind of woman. I want to discuss Hegelian phenomenology with her … and existential angst. 👨🎓
TEACHERS PHILOSPHY AT UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
MAKES POTS AND PANS
SHOES HORSES FOR N.Y.C. POLICE DEPT. 🤪
My mother bought a Tfal frying pan after watching a demo at a dept. store in the early 70's. We spent a week making crepes with it.
+Ken Edwards
Sounds like a pretty crepe-y thing to do and they wore thin after a week!
PS - I prefer crepes to regular pancakes. When my mother (Hungarian) made them, she called them palacsinta. Rolled and stuffed with a mixture of strained cottage cheese, golden raisins and some sort of sweetener, then topped with powdered sugar and peach or apricot preserves - my mouth is watering just thinking about it.
In Chinese cooking they are called moo shu or Mandarin Pancakes. In Jewish cuisine, it is a blintz.
@@loissimmons6558 Lois! You're so "punny"! My mother filled her crepes with a cream cheese and strawberry mixture... yummy!!
She should have been in West Side Story as Maria ! She would have been perfect. --------------------WolfSky9, 71 y/o
I Kant get over her...
I felt compelled to do Ed McMahon's laugh when Johnny spoke.
Astoria is in Queens. Queens has been a borough of New York City since 1898. It irks me when people (many guests on this show) claim that their Queens neighborhood is "on Long Island". Geophysically true, but culturally and legally wrong!
I have some T-Fal in my house now. With it was still $6.00 for a pan.
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I with it wath too..... ;-)
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...and that you were earning about $3 an hour? :)
While it is true that Dorothy Kilgallen does not look like her usual sophisticated self in this episode, don't forget that she was a full time reporter. She may have been covering a hot news story and got to the studio late, leaving her no time to get fixed up.
I think she looks better than EVER
I’m a Le Creuset man myself, but then again, I am extremely wealthy.
We're all so happy for you. What's your line?
@@dbarker7794 Senior lecturer in Philosophy and running numbers.
Does anybody know who the announcer was who came on AFTER the intro of the show...the one who introduced Dorothy Killgallen? He also came on at the very end of the show. I know that he was CBS Network announcer. He had such an excellent voice. I remember his voice from The Ed Sullivan Show around the same time as this WML show?
I found out that the announcer was Ralph Paul. He was a magnificent announcer with a very elegant, resonant voice.
Lying in state. Best comment about John's language. 😂
I have a Tefal pan 😊
$7 a pot......awesomness!
Consider that $7 in 1961 would be the equivalent of about $100 in 2018 money.
High-end pots and pans, CAN also, be ornamental; in fact, for some people, they are exclusively ornamental.
Perhaps, at that time, that was not "a thing".
Anna Maria Alberghetti in a taxi honey.
Knock knock who's there ..
Dorothy looks like hell here.
Miss Patti is most impressive. I'm super jealous.
That was SO not like Bennett Cerf to do that (ID her so early). Usually, even if he knew, he would ask general questions and not "guess" to give the famous person more "t.v. time", or even disqualify himself. Maybe he learned to do this later
Having a dilettante's interest in matters philosophical, I was anxious to learn which branch of the science the university professor specialised in. I regret that they weren't able to discuss this.
I can’t get my head around the fact that it was apparently acceptable, and maybe even expected, to whistle at young women in the 1950s and 60s, but these old “What’s My Line”? episodes certainly seem to show that it was.
Gary Cooper Personally, I don't understand why so many find being whistled at offensive, and I'm highly educated and very conservative. I've found in my long life that the fastest way to really get a womzn mad at you in a social situation is to not recognize her formally or to ignore her. If the roles were reversed I'd find it a boast to my ego to be whistled at.
Daniel Fronc I think being whistled at is more a comment on your curves and your sexiness than the way you look "overall", I'm a big fan of Tex Avery cartoons but I'm not sure it quite works in real life... so basically, a woman who doesn't get any wolf whistles will know that she's not pretty at all.
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Uh........being male, Daniel, how could you ??
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@@danielfronc4304 and on the other hand, It makes immaculate sense to me through your commentary, which self-parodically smacks of 1950s views of women itself, as to how you would even go so far as to imagine it would be a compliment to women to whistle at them as one does with some well-behaving house pet. Yours is apparently a papier mache understanding of history built from TV viewing, that's why your sense of assured projection completely eludes you.
It was always a complement. Some women who didn't get the whistles made people think it was a bad thing. Now no one gets the whistles so that those who don't get whistles won't feel bad for not getting them.
"When you talk, your words come out lying-in-state", I have to remember that, it's a hilarious thing to say.
This format would never work now due to the fact we do not really love the performer class and we are not interested in what other folks are doing.
tongue in cheek?
another point for Arlene's minxy humour :)
carson is gorgeous (thought slightly on the elf-ish side).
Is it me or does his ears seem to stick out more than other men? I always watched “Tonight” when he was on - came in at 10pm in Arizona!!!
Is it me, or does Anna Maria Alberghetti look so much like Anne Bancroft (future WML? mystery guest), right down to the face?
Of course, let's not forget that Anne Bancroft was Italian-American. That might be why I see the similarities in face.
+Vahan Nisanian I think she looks a lot like Marion Cotillard, but a little Bancroft too.
I thought the same exact thing.
Maria Mercouri looks just like Anne Bancroft too.
@@SomethingSomethingg Melina (Greek) Anne(Italian). “Una fatsa, una ratsa”
Today you wouldn't say Astoria is on Long Island. It's in Queens, New York.
She is 23 ? God... Women looked much more grown up back in the days
I think that Dorothy looks beautyfull..her hair also...
Me too !!!
I still see T-fal products on the shelves. That is the name under which the company's products are marketed in the U.S.
The actual name of the company is Tefal which is now a subsidiary of Groupe SEB in France. Tefal is a portmanteau of Teflon and Aluminum. What Natalie Portman's toe has to do with it, I'll never know. (And that's a much better original joke than what Ted Baxter could come up, not that the character of Ted Baxter is much competition in the brains department.)
Carnac the Magnificent was not doing so magnificent this evening.
T-fal....imagine that.
As someone born in 1964 I mourn the loss of the civility and gentile nature of the interactions between people in a video such as this. Yes, behind the scenes there may have been scandal or some other issue, but people referring to each other as Mr., Mrs., and respecting each other based on not only the gender of the other but each person treating the other as someone worthy of respect as a person. Our children have lost an amazing opportunity in not having such representations of respect in everyday life.
you're right but it's not all black and white, for instance, you have a beautiful woman and none of the panelist can imagine that she teaches something intellectual, and it happens quite frequently they judge a woman by her looks and start asking if 'she's wearing less' in her work, if a man can enjoy her services (with a naughty glee in the eye)... I didn't mind them at first, product of their time but then the immediate assumptions that a pretty lady does something that relies on her physical attributes got too repetitive...
Whatever was Dorothy thinking with that hair do?😂 (I'm a big fan btw)
Dorothy said Rumba, with a Spanish pronunciation... interesting
You’re not going to get Bennet Cerf to spend six or seven dollars for a pot.
DK looks like she just got out of bed.
I don’t know why but it irks me when the challenger always has to look to John’s advice before answering even a simple question, lol.
I doubt Dorothy knew that the guest... Maria was the ex girlfriend of the guy who I suspected killed Dorothy... Ron Pataky.
Yes...that is the story
Dorothy died from barbiturates and alcohol poisining,not murdered.
A dark haired Carson oh wow
They put pots on the dining table? 😂
It’s very possible - certain pots - like stew pots, etc. can be out directly in the table with something underneath to,protect the table from heat. It would be much easier to serve from this than trying to decide just how much to put on a plate for anyone! People can serve themselves! Although for a more formal dinner, food could be transferred to a nice casserole-type container.
Miss patty looks like Jacqueline Kennedy .....
Dorothy doesn't look well. Her eyes look very swollen.
I think she looks GREAT !!@
Good Lord, did Dorothy just roll out of bed?
She looks absolutely adorable
"Anna Maria Alberghetti in a taxi..."
Ha! Ted Baxter’s Knock Knock joke!
I NEVER had a teacher that looked like her! My attendance would have been better.
Maria was beautiful too. She should have been on Golden Girls.
Why aren't the wolf whistlers paying attention? I really think it's rude to not give the whistles to some. A little degrading not to.
+rick charles I can just imagine some poor woman expecting the whistles and getting none. It would throw a person off their game.
+Sidney DeLeonardo I know it's like a slap in the face, maybe with a gloved hand, but still.