the fabulous bette davis. there definitely will never be another bette davis. she was a great loss and alot of people miss her and i'm one of them. rip
The audience went wild when she came in and she let them know she liked it. She’s so beautiful. She’s so fun. She makes everything she appears in special. Love her laugh. Love you Bette Davis! ❤️
I'm 36 yrs old I started watching "What's my Line" Mybe three yrs ago in I've been hook every since I have a real love for history period so old Hollywood, shows, etc, that's my passion , so too see past stars public figures, inventors, people who have the way for the current I pay so so so so so so so much homage lol too them it really means alot to me so my essential beginning abt honor in respect for the past god Bless in thank you for putting "What's my line" Thank you for the download in once again thanks for the history ☝🏿💯 ........
All About Eve is one of my favorite movies of all time and I've seen it literally dozens of times and I would recognize the timber of Bette Davis's voice instantly, even as she's trying to disguise it.
Arlene Francis is fabulous. Refined, cosmopolitan, a rather naughty wit and a wonderful laugh. I'm always anxious for it to be her turn to question the guests.
Semi-off topic: Yesterday afternoon, I was at the Hollywood Walk of Fame (I live an hour away from Hollywood, CA). I saw Dorothy Kilgallen's star (she has one for television), and Arlene Francis' star for radio (she also has one for television). Other WML personalities that have stars there consist of Bennett Cerf (television), Fred Allen (one for television, and one for radio), Steve Allen (one for television and one for radio), and host John Daly (television).
how funny! i actually was at Dorothy's star the other night. (Posted a pic on my tumblr lornamarie.tumblr.com/post/88064008277/walking-down-hollywood-looking-at-the-stars ) The poor thing needs repair. I must've just missed Arlene's, and I was actually on the lookout for hers! Go figure, it was after a late dinner and I literally found out I looked up as I walked right passed hers. I feel like I saw every other panelist and guest panelist for Goodson and Todman shows, but missed Arlene haha
And I LIKE Art Linkletter as a guest panelist - a lot. Very personable, good game player, and good verbal repartee with John Daly and with the contestants and the other panelists on this episode.
Making a pun out of porpoise (i.e. "on purpose") is an easy one, strictly for beginners. I throw those back and look for the tougher or more obscure pubs. In fact, none of my puns are all wet.
Bette Davis and Joan Crawford are two quite dissimilar highly talented performers - but each of the two has a magnetic and warm smile in her own right. And each one of them shows that smile quite well in her Mystery Guest segment on WML? this year..... I think that the show that Bette Davis was taping (which she refers to in the post-identification "chat"), which contributed to her croak, was an episode of "The Andy Williams Show," a one-hour variety show series which Andy hosted (and, of course, sang on) on NBC that season. The show aired on Sunday, 20 December 1964. (IMDB's description of the show: "For Andy's Christmas show, Bette Davis comes aboard to tout her new movie, and even sing a "Baby Jane" number! Debbie Reynolds joins him in the audience sing along portion, an early Osmonds appearance, and Andy, Bette and the Christy Minstrels combine for some folk songs and a square dance finale.") The two Best Actress Oscars which Bette Davis won were, indeed, long in the past by 1962. They were for her performances in "Dangerous" (1935) and "Jezebel" (1938). She might have won another for her performance in "All About Eve" in 1950, but I think that that was a year in which all five nominees for that Oscar contributed extraordinary performances which were equally deserving of the Oscar. (The other four nominees that year were Gloria Swanson for "Sunset Boulevard," Anne Baxter for "All About Eve," Eleanor Parker for "Caged," and the winner, Judy Holliday for "Born Yesterday.") This is the third of Bette Davis's 5 appearances as Mystery Guest on WML? The next time that she appeared on WML?, on Sunday, 29 March 1964, must have been a "package deal" with Goodson-Todman Productions, because she appeared as a celebrity guest on "I've Got A Secret" the following evening (Monday, 30 March 1964). That was a busy year in the movies for Miss Davis, with the making and release of "Dead Ringer," "Where Love Has Gone," and "Hush.....Hush, Sweet Charlotte."
What I find equally charming with respect to the panelists, the moderator and guests on this show, are the ongoing positive comments that people leave below the various episodes of "What's My Line" videos, as is the case here. They are always so respectful, so kind and so generous, which speaks well for the community of people who love this show.
This was the first WML after the national Election Day of 1962. On this day opposite "What's My Line?", ABC aired "Howard K. Smith's News and Comment" episode titled, "The Political Obituary of Richard M. Nixon". This was a few days after Nixon's press conference where he informed the media that they wouldn't have "Nixon to kick around anymore ...". Smith included Alger Hiss on the program and it drew considerable public complaint to have a convicted felon attacking a former Vice President. The program eventually was canceled as sponsors began to be difficult to find as a result. There are some who believe that the resulting public sympathy was the beginning of Nixon's political comeback, furthered by his extensive campaign support for other GOP candidates in the years prior to 1968.
Just a couple of weeks after the release of Whatever Happened To Baby Jane. Bette definitely deserved that Oscar, Joan made a horrible mistake sabotaging that win, it would have gotten them so much more notariety.
My grandmother used to speak just like Bette Davie, Katherine Hepburn and Tallulah Bankhead...In fact she worked in a high-end art shoppe on a street facing the Boston Common near the theaters and other fine, expensive stores. My grandmother was tall and beautiful she was often mistaken for Katherine Hepburn by customers that thought she was a fellow shopper and were convinced when my Nan spoke like Kathrine or Tallulah. She did meet all three of these women over the years and Katherine even came specifically to meet her due to often hearing she had a doppelganger working at the store...Katherine and Tallulah actually became friends with her when they were young as they would meet up whenever in Boston either by working a show or passing through.
11:50 > 12:10: The second contestant is so tall that the camera operator gives the TV audience a glimpse of the decorated lintel sign above the portal. So far as anyone can remember, from the few snapshots remaining of it, it had "What's My Line?" printed on it in the same font used in the credits and featured two cartoon worker characters. The syndicated version of that sign always appeared at the beginning of the programs; but not on Sunday night. Hard to say why.
The first time I played this video I was busy doing other things and mostly listening without looking at the screen too much. I did take a quick look when I heard Arlene refer to the second contestant as "tiny." I could see, even from his seated position, that this did not look like a tiny person, but I was still surprised when I watched the whole show again more attentively to see just how big he was! I'm surprised that Arlene didn't get a huge laugh from the audience for using that facetiously reverse description of him.
According to what I've found online, as of March 2018, Dell Winders is alive, but in poor health and poor financial condition. His daughter (Maria) started a Gofundme page to help him because his wife of 30 years passed away in 2017 and her family wanted to retake possession of the property where they lived. There is a picture of him during his WML appearance on this particular Gofundme page. At one point, Dell (under the name "Omnitron") manufactured electronic devices that purported to find treasure at long distances. There is a lot of online controversy about Dell and whether or not his devices worked as advertised. He has friends within the treasure hunting community (one of whom started a separate Gofundme page for him in 2015) and others who claimed he was a fraud. I have no way of knowing which of these divergent opinions is valid. What would appear to be true is that Dell Winders was one of the more colorful characters to have been a challenger on WML. Now, he's a mostly forgotten old man.
After Bennett receives a "No" on whether the first guess works in entertainment, and Dorothy receives a yes that she works in "radio or television," Bennett can be heard to say out of turn, "That is entertainment." Obviously John knows more than Bennett about the guest's line. Rather than accept that John is right and he is wrong, Bennett is egotistical, argumentative, and hypercompetitive. It is just a game -- unless the panelist is exactly correct, at some point he or she will get a "no" and the turn will be over. Accept the loss graciously, Bennett. It reflects badly on the panelists -- Bennett and Dorothy the most -- who argue with John when they lack the information to know why they were wrong.
I wonder if it has to do with them being in the more writing/journalistic side than the others, who are usually more in the talking game, like Arlene, the consummate panelist and host.
Even if Dorothy mentioned "hicks from the sticks" and offended Patsy Cline. Which I think is unfortunate. I still adore Dorothy Kilgallen in way and wish her life was not cut short like it was and such a mystery about it. I enjoyed the whole show including Betty Davis's problem with speaking and though not her fault, she handled it very well.
Not since Wally Cox have I seen a panelist slow and befuddle the proceedings as much as Art Linkletter does. His particular charm completely eludes me.
Dianna Marie Ii's been pretty well known all along that she was a tough cookie. Anyone who's heard of Davis would know as much. To be fair though, from what I gather it was simply that she didn't tolerate being exploited, nor any BS....which was rife in Hollywood then. When you're possibly the greatest Hollywood female screen actor of all time you're entitled to a better deal!!
I'll never forget when Bette Davis was a mystery guest in the 1950s and Hal Block tried to kiss her on the way out. Not only did she do everything she could to avoid him, but I thought it was disgusting of Block to be so forward. I'm wondering if it ticked Davis off, explaining her long absence from the show from that point on.
More likely, it was her stormy marriage to Gary Merrill during that decade. She was off the screen (big and little) completely in 1953 and 1954, after having made "Phone Call from a Stranger" (appearing in a prominent role in the last story line of what was clearly Gary Merrill's film to carry) and "The Star" in 1952. In 1955, she returned to TV as a presenter (of the Best Actor Oscar) at the Academy Awards and to the movies in "The Virgin Queen." Thereafter, it was some TV performances on drama anthologies and some movies (the best of which, I think, is "Storm Center") for the rest of the 1950s. Her next appearance as Mystery Guest on WML? was on 28 August 1960 - a little less than 2 months after her divorce from Merrill was finalized.
I was reading John Daly's Wikipedia page... it mentioned there was a 25th anniversary special for WML in 1975, which Daly co-hosted. Couldn't find any clips of it here. Anyone seen it?
What's My Line? It was once here on TH-cam, and I actually saw it. The 25th anniversary special was the last time anyone ever saw John Daly on television.
What's My Line? Indeed, sir, as Jeeves would say. Quite so, as Sherlock Holmes would say. Like Vahan Nisanian, I, too, watched the full program at one time right here on this very site.
I have always liked Art Linkletter, and after his comment during his last panel appearance about never guessing anyone, I was rooting for him to guess one of the contestants this time. Unless you count his in-unison chanting of Bette Davis's name with the rest of the panel, I guess he hadn't broken his unlucky streak yet. One more episode to go with him as a panelist to get that chance (I still want to be surprised) plus two more appearances on WML as a mystery guest, according to IMDb. I enjoy his panel appearances, despite his habit of phrasing many of his questions to contestants in the form of statements, which I find mildly annoying. He had quite an impressive opening line of questions with the first contestant though -- lasting close to 3 minutes. Of course, that was partially due to John's long-winded clarifications of the contestant's answers. I think Art ended up with the upper hand on that, though -- great exchanges with John, especially when he asks for a translation of John's overly verbose explanation of what Miss Paulsen meant by "both," to which John succinctly replies, "that means yes and no." Now why couldn't he have just said that the first time?!! ;) And again later in that same questioning period when he refuses to get caught in John's trap with the "geographical limits of Norway" question. It's funny that John told the panel that they had done very well at the end of the show. Although they guessed Bette Davis very quickly, they totally struck out on the other two contestants!
John is always polite. I cannot recall a single instance where he blasted the panel's overall performance. Even when they miss the two here, he is charitable in informing them that the occupations were difficult to determine.
The show was was taping earlier was The Tonight Show with Jack Paar, which aired later. Here she is on that show, in that dress and she leaves early because she has to come do What's My Line. th-cam.com/video/-xDBkkWDIIk/w-d-xo.html
Jack Paar had given up the Tonight Show by this time. Johnny Carson had taken over the previous month. By this time Paar was doing a prime-time show on NBC.
Bette Davis was one of those people who was the "take me as I am" type of person. I think that may have been some of what caused the friction with Joan Crawford. Crawford was decidedly much more apt to put on airs.
Oooh, major snub to Dorothy by Betty. She's normally not into mushy kissing, but loved Arlene to pieces. Dorothy stood up & expected a kiss too. Not from Miss Bette. Dorothy probably was scathing inside, another example of Arlene being the better loved celebrity.
no snub...Arlene and Bette work in the same industry and probably know each other where as Dorothy has probably had very little contact with Bette. No different than bringing a friend to a family gathering who may not have met everyone and you get the hugs etc while the friend gets a handshake ...hugging and /or kissing the friend would be way tooo awkward and inappropriate
Sorry, but it's seething, not scathing. Commentary is scathing, and Dorothy may have, over the years, produced some pretty scathing commentary about Bette. Or something about the new movie. It was immediately noticeable that Dorothy stood and Arlene didn't. What we will never know is when Dorothy decided she would stand. Was it when it was revealed that the mystery guest was Hollywood royalty or after she saw that Arlene didn't stand?
Hmmm....talk about giddy schoolboy flirting! The panel tells John twice to get on with the game while he's talking to the Norwegian lady. He finally makes an excuse that his wife's family is from there; wonder if it was to save getting in trouble with the woman who was probably sitting home with their newborn watching him flirt on national television. LOL
Oh that New England "Upper (Crust) Society" way of speaking... It can drive me nuts sometimes to hear some of the way the words are pronounced. From John Daly comes "su-vice of some kind..." / "He's a poo-pus trainer..." Ahhhh!!! ~ Now, I am a respectful of regional dialects, as I believe they contain within their make-up a kind of history of the people; as they are shaped by, or they evolve from, I'm supposing, one's environment and experiences, in part. It's an interesting and wonderfully involved Study. (Oh..., but where are those "r's" when you need them?!)
Pete Farrugia She didn't spend as much time with her as she did with the others, but it didn't look like she totally snubbed her either. I noticed that Dorothy actually stood up to shake Bette's hand. It's always worth remarking on when the women stand up to greet anyone on this show, and this case it was only Dorothy -- Arlene remained seated and received a warm greeting from Bette Davis. I wonder if perhaps Dorothy had published some potentially inflammatory bits about Miss Davis in her column and wanted to make sure she at least showed proper respect for her when they met here?
I was doing a gig where the host apartment was the entire floor of a building on Broadway in San Francisco. The host's daughter was dating an aide to the Norwegian consulate, so I said, "In honor of our guest, I'd like to sing a Norwegian song." I procedex to sing 🎶 "I once had a girl, or should I say, she on e had me. "She showed me her room. Isn't it good, Norwegian Wood."
@poetcomic1 - Art Linkletter was conservative to the point of being reactionary. He was judgmental and misrepresented his daughter Diane's suicide by saying she was on a bad LSD trip when she threw herself from her kitchen window. There were no drugs found in her system by the coroner. He went on a campaign against drugs thereafter, but never suggested any depression from being the child of a celebrity who was never home or a wealthy person who was best at career pursuits. All human lives are more nuanced than we know from what affords them notoriety. But, not unlike Tom Cruise in our day, I always found Linkletter's niceness real, yet merely a facade with perhaps nothing behind it at all. He always gave me the creeps and I was duly repulsed.
I thought Linkletter came across as a rather obnoxious, self-satisfied person in this WML episode. I remember watching his shows when I was a kid and not liking him in those settings, either. He emitted a narcissistic, patronizing vibe that was quite off-putting, even to a little kid like me.
@@kepckatherinec805 I really disliked Linkletter's shows and there were so many of them between 1950 and 1970. Every time I watched Linkletter, I had the feeling I was watching precious Larry Mathews (sorry Mr. Mathews) as Ritchie on the Dick Van Dyke Show, having grown into an adult, but still telegraphing how funny he thought his next line was going to be before he delivered it or grinning over it afterwards. I felt the same way about Arthur Godfrey's view of how terribly sincere he was. What saved Linkletter was that he never had a Julius LaRosa moment. If you don't know Ruth Wallis" novelty song "Dear Mr. Godfrey" about the incident, it is easily found on TH-cam. You also get a feel for Godfrey's personality in the Stan Freberg spoof of his on-air interaction with his announcer Tony Marvin (not to be confused with Tony Martin.) I think Bob and Ray did an even more scathing spoof of him than Freberg, but similar to Freberg's "That's right, Ahthah." Having just listened to Freberg again, I remember a different sketch in which the person imitating Godfrey sounded more like Godfrey than Freberg did. I thought it was Bob and Ray playing Godfrey and Marvin, but I could be wrong. But Freberg is fine for those who want to get a feeling for Arthur Godfrey. Linkletter became powerful in the industry and extremely rich by pretending, so obviously, to be just another guy like you and me, when he wasn't. It was like Jack Bailey pretending to really care about the women on Queen for a Day, when most of the show was taken up, not with his sob story interviews with the women contestants trying to win prizes they desperately needed (as demeaning as those interviews were) but with describing other products that the women definitely didn't need and didn't have the money to pay the taxes on if they won them, but did pay the production costs for the show. I suppose most of the extra items thrown into the winning package so they could be advertised on the air were refused or, if the winning contestant wasn't aware enough of the tax bill that was coming to do that, became a financial millstone around their necks, as they frantically tried to sell some of them to pay the taxes. All three men, Linkletter, Godfrey and Bailey, came across to me like fakes, and even as a kid, I watched their shows with a kind of ghastly fascination when nothing else was on except soap operas. (There always seemed to be some half hour block in the summer with no game shows, no cartoons, no Three Stooges but during which I still wanted to watch TV instead of doing something useful.) Millions upon millions of Americans bought the products they personally promoted, however, because they trusted them implicitly.
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Wow - Dorothy stood for Betty Davis. She hardly stand for anybody. I love how Betty Davis bowed to the audience as I knew she would.
Bette and Dottie- both class acts.
There will NEVER be anyone like Bette Davis. They broke the mold.
Bette Davis was ALWAYS gracious to her audience!!!
I loved how she acknowledged their appreciation for her talent and smiled and bowed to them
I SO thought the same thing!
the fabulous bette davis. there definitely will never be another bette davis. she was a great loss and alot of people miss her and i'm one of them. rip
*a lot
The audience went wild when she came in and she let them know she liked it. She’s so beautiful. She’s so fun. She makes everything she appears in special. Love her laugh. Love you Bette Davis! ❤️
I'm 36 yrs old I started watching "What's my Line" Mybe three yrs ago in I've been hook every since I have a real love for history period so old Hollywood, shows, etc, that's my passion , so too see past stars public figures, inventors, people who have the way for the current I pay so so so so so so so much homage lol too them it really means alot to me so my essential beginning abt honor in respect for the past god Bless in thank you for putting "What's my line" Thank you for the download in once again thanks for the history ☝🏿💯 ........
Bette Davis has the presence of a true, true star. I really enjoy her appearances on the show.
All About Eve is one of my favorite movies of all time and I've seen it literally dozens of times and I would recognize the timber of Bette Davis's voice instantly, even as she's trying to disguise it.
Arlene Francis is fabulous. Refined, cosmopolitan, a rather naughty wit and a wonderful laugh. I'm always anxious for it to be her turn to question the guests.
She is fabulous.
Beautifully put.
Me too!!
Bette Davis was a STAR of the highest order. No wonder AFI ranked her second on the all-time greatest actress list.
I rank her number 1
PatrickDowling529: You mentioned Bette Davis as #2 on AFI list in a post , who does AFI vote as ,#1 actress?
@@davidbowden796 Katharine Hepburn, although I believe along with many other people that Bette Davis should have been #1.
What’s My Line is addictive ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I've loved watching Bette Davis movies all my life, especially All About Eve. Have watched it many times. Bette Davis was the ultimate star.
Bette deserved the Oscar for Baby Jane.
For The Little Foxes too
I had the hots for her in Jezebel … ooh!
Even more so for Sweet Charlotte.
I love this show. I watch everyday. Bette Davis is my favorite
*every day
The Oscar should have been for Bette. She was marvelous, a talent never to be seen again.
Literally the greatest actress to ever walk this planet.
Bette Davis is the best actress that ever was and ever will be.No other can compare and these today can just forget it. They're nowhere near as good.
There never was and never will be another Bette Davis!! NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bette, you will always be my hero.
Right on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When Bette Davis smiled on the way out, she took 30 years off her age.
Semi-off topic: Yesterday afternoon, I was at the Hollywood Walk of Fame (I live an hour away from Hollywood, CA). I saw Dorothy Kilgallen's star (she has one for television), and Arlene Francis' star for radio (she also has one for television).
Other WML personalities that have stars there consist of Bennett Cerf (television), Fred Allen (one for television, and one for radio), Steve Allen (one for television and one for radio), and host John Daly (television).
No Arlene Francis? That's not right.
Joe Postove You missed the part where I said "I saw Arlene Francis' star for radio."
I sure did! Thanks for catching me on that!
Joe Postove No problem. We all make mistakes.
how funny! i actually was at Dorothy's star the other night. (Posted a pic on my tumblr lornamarie.tumblr.com/post/88064008277/walking-down-hollywood-looking-at-the-stars ) The poor thing needs repair. I must've just missed Arlene's, and I was actually on the lookout for hers! Go figure, it was after a late dinner and I literally found out I looked up as I walked right passed hers. I feel like I saw every other panelist and guest panelist for Goodson and Todman shows, but missed Arlene haha
dorothy and arlene were precious that night!
I 💘 this show
Miss Francis’ gown is gorgeous and she is beautiful in it.
BETTE DAVIS - the greatest of them all ♥♥♥♥
And I LIKE Art Linkletter as a guest panelist - a lot. Very personable, good game player, and good verbal repartee with John Daly and with the contestants and the other panelists on this episode.
jmccracken1963 Yep he's spot on.
What a fantastic entertainer and beautiful and talented lady of All Time!!!!!
I have always adored John Daly 😏
Arlene is adorable.
I simply adore John Daly!
He could do with dialling down the verbosity.
The mystery guest really does have Bette Davis eyes.
the look on John's face 16:20 at another bad pun by Bennett is classic
Making a pun out of porpoise (i.e. "on purpose") is an easy one, strictly for beginners. I throw those back and look for the tougher or more obscure pubs. In fact, none of my puns are all wet.
I totally agree, that is a priceless look
Bette Davis and Joan Crawford are two quite dissimilar highly talented performers - but each of the two has a magnetic and warm smile in her own right. And each one of them shows that smile quite well in her Mystery Guest segment on WML? this year.....
I think that the show that Bette Davis was taping (which she refers to in the post-identification "chat"), which contributed to her croak, was an episode of "The Andy Williams Show," a one-hour variety show series which Andy hosted (and, of course, sang on) on NBC that season. The show aired on Sunday, 20 December 1964. (IMDB's description of the show: "For Andy's Christmas show, Bette Davis comes aboard to tout her new movie, and even sing a "Baby Jane" number! Debbie Reynolds joins him in the audience sing along portion, an early Osmonds appearance, and Andy, Bette and the Christy Minstrels combine for some folk songs and a square dance finale.")
The two Best Actress Oscars which Bette Davis won were, indeed, long in the past by 1962. They were for her performances in "Dangerous" (1935) and "Jezebel" (1938). She might have won another for her performance in "All About Eve" in 1950, but I think that that was a year in which all five nominees for that Oscar contributed extraordinary performances which were equally deserving of the Oscar. (The other four nominees that year were Gloria Swanson for "Sunset Boulevard," Anne Baxter for "All About Eve," Eleanor Parker for "Caged," and the winner, Judy Holliday for "Born Yesterday.")
This is the third of Bette Davis's 5 appearances as Mystery Guest on WML? The next time that she appeared on WML?, on Sunday, 29 March 1964, must have been a "package deal" with Goodson-Todman Productions, because she appeared as a celebrity guest on "I've Got A Secret" the following evening (Monday, 30 March 1964). That was a busy year in the movies for Miss Davis, with the making and release of "Dead Ringer," "Where Love Has Gone," and "Hush.....Hush, Sweet Charlotte."
Yes, John, let's get on with the game please 🙂
She's at her best here..... so lovely......
In 2020, there were 7.3 million undiagnosed cases of diabetes 😬 had to look it up after hearing John’s announcement about getting tested in 1962
it was beautiful tonight!
What I find equally charming with respect to the panelists, the moderator and guests on this show, are the ongoing positive comments that people leave below the various episodes of "What's My Line" videos, as is the case here. They are always so respectful, so kind and so generous, which speaks well for the community of people who love this show.
This was the first WML after the national Election Day of 1962. On this day opposite "What's My Line?", ABC aired "Howard K. Smith's News and Comment" episode titled, "The Political Obituary of Richard M. Nixon". This was a few days after Nixon's press conference where he informed the media that they wouldn't have "Nixon to kick around anymore ...". Smith included Alger Hiss on the program and it drew considerable public complaint to have a convicted felon attacking a former Vice President. The program eventually was canceled as sponsors began to be difficult to find as a result. There are some who believe that the resulting public sympathy was the beginning of Nixon's political comeback, furthered by his extensive campaign support for other GOP candidates in the years prior to 1968.
Just a couple of weeks after the release of Whatever Happened To Baby Jane. Bette definitely deserved that Oscar, Joan made a horrible mistake sabotaging that win, it would have gotten them so much more notariety.
Miss Davis was a class act!
Queen Bette ❤❤❤❤
Shoutout to Bette and anyone else like me that can’t disguise their voice 😂.
Finally! An episode I haven't seen before. It's been about 5 years since the last one!
Thanks very much.
Brings back memories.
Bette looked great here. I watched Now Voyager again last night. One of my favorite BD films.
Una superestrella en todos los sentidos. Bette Davis increíble mujer. La mas grande estrella de Hollywood y el mundo.
Rest In Peace Bette Davis. Sincere overdue condolences to the family for your loss. 😔💐
Bette's false lashes look fabulous
Bette Davis is my 6th cousin. :)
Dorothy had the cutest giggle.
Now, there's a man with a porpoise.
My grandmother used to speak just like Bette Davie, Katherine Hepburn and Tallulah Bankhead...In fact she worked in a high-end art shoppe on a street facing the Boston Common near the theaters and other fine, expensive stores. My grandmother was tall and beautiful she was often mistaken for Katherine Hepburn by customers that thought she was a fellow shopper and were convinced when my Nan spoke like Kathrine or Tallulah. She did meet all three of these women over the years and Katherine even came specifically to meet her due to often hearing she had a doppelganger working at the store...Katherine and Tallulah actually became friends with her when they were young as they would meet up whenever in Boston either by working a show or passing through.
Better crossed the stage with great flourish! ❤
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"No? Even if they've done something naughty?"
I don't know why I find that so funny but I do XD
p
I think that Dorothy may have been thinking of either school teacher or police officer at that point.
Mimmi Paulsen is my hero 😊 John pronounced Haugesand quite well, but not Mimmi nor Paulsen ..
*One of the very few of Bennet's puns that actually was funny.*
11:50 > 12:10: The second contestant is so tall that the camera operator gives the TV audience a glimpse of the decorated lintel sign above the portal. So far as anyone can remember, from the few snapshots remaining of it, it had "What's My Line?" printed on it in the same font used in the credits and featured two cartoon worker characters. The syndicated version of that sign always appeared at the beginning of the programs; but not on Sunday night. Hard to say why.
The first time I played this video I was busy doing other things and mostly listening without looking at the screen too much. I did take a quick look when I heard Arlene refer to the second contestant as "tiny." I could see, even from his seated position, that this did not look like a tiny person, but I was still surprised when I watched the whole show again more attentively to see just how big he was! I'm surprised that Arlene didn't get a huge laugh from the audience for using that facetiously reverse description of him.
According to what I've found online, as of March 2018, Dell Winders is alive, but in poor health and poor financial condition. His daughter (Maria) started a Gofundme page to help him because his wife of 30 years passed away in 2017 and her family wanted to retake possession of the property where they lived. There is a picture of him during his WML appearance on this particular Gofundme page.
At one point, Dell (under the name "Omnitron") manufactured electronic devices that purported to find treasure at long distances. There is a lot of online controversy about Dell and whether or not his devices worked as advertised. He has friends within the treasure hunting community (one of whom started a separate Gofundme page for him in 2015) and others who claimed he was a fraud.
I have no way of knowing which of these divergent opinions is valid. What would appear to be true is that Dell Winders was one of the more colorful characters to have been a challenger on WML. Now, he's a mostly forgotten old man.
" I have no way of knowing which of these divergent opinions is valid." Damn... and the answer would have been so enlightening. Yeah, right.
After Bennett receives a "No" on whether the first guess works in entertainment, and Dorothy receives a yes that she works in "radio or television," Bennett can be heard to say out of turn, "That is entertainment." Obviously John knows more than Bennett about the guest's line. Rather than accept that John is right and he is wrong, Bennett is egotistical, argumentative, and hypercompetitive. It is just a game -- unless the panelist is exactly correct, at some point he or she will get a "no" and the turn will be over. Accept the loss graciously, Bennett. It reflects badly on the panelists -- Bennett and Dorothy the most -- who argue with John when they lack the information to know why they were wrong.
I wonder if it has to do with them being in the more writing/journalistic side than the others, who are usually more in the talking game, like Arlene, the consummate panelist and host.
Even if Dorothy mentioned "hicks from the sticks" and offended Patsy Cline. Which I think is unfortunate. I still adore Dorothy Kilgallen in way and wish her life was not cut short like it was and such a mystery about it. I enjoyed the whole show including Betty Davis's problem with speaking and though not her fault, she handled it very well.
+thetiler STICKS NIX HICK PIX - one of the most famous headlines ever.
15:08 J : you're speaking of physical contact ?
A : you tell me what other kind there is and i'm not interested
What A Woman !
Bette Davis resembles Jeanne Moreau a little in this appearance.
Not since Wally Cox have I seen a panelist slow and befuddle the proceedings as much as Art Linkletter does. His particular charm completely eludes me.
All these wonderful people and they're all dead. YIKES!
you're next !
@@washoe4827: That was dark, and it literally made me LOL! 😆
Bette Davis was a wonderful actress, but they say she was very hard to work with.
Dianna Marie Ii's been pretty well known all along that she was a tough cookie. Anyone who's heard of Davis would know as much. To be fair though, from what I gather it was simply that she didn't tolerate being exploited, nor any BS....which was rife in Hollywood then. When you're possibly the greatest Hollywood female screen actor of all time you're entitled to a better deal!!
You said it right👍
Joan Crawford, her costar, was also a tough cookie, and could be very mean.
Tight blouse for Dorothy K.! Was this show taped or was "live" cut out of the Kinescope? November wasn't usually a period to run taped shows was it?
This episode was live. We won't be seeing another pre-taped episode until the December 23, 1962 one.
Throat issues has nothing to do with her two plus packs of cigs a day. Grand actress.
Who cares how much she smoked. She wss still the greatest actress during her entire career
12:13 Porpoise Trainer - Formula 1 needs him right now!
Porpai?! Hilarious!
This is 56 years ago
Please post proof pronto
I'll never forget when Bette Davis was a mystery guest in the 1950s and Hal Block tried to kiss her on the way out. Not only did she do everything she could to avoid him, but I thought it was disgusting of Block to be so forward. I'm wondering if it ticked Davis off, explaining her long absence from the show from that point on.
More likely, it was her stormy marriage to Gary Merrill during that decade. She was off the screen (big and little) completely in 1953 and 1954, after having made "Phone Call from a Stranger" (appearing in a prominent role in the last story line of what was clearly Gary Merrill's film to carry) and "The Star" in 1952. In 1955, she returned to TV as a presenter (of the Best Actor Oscar) at the Academy Awards and to the movies in "The Virgin Queen." Thereafter, it was some TV performances on drama anthologies and some movies (the best of which, I think, is "Storm Center") for the rest of the 1950s. Her next appearance as Mystery Guest on WML? was on 28 August 1960 - a little less than 2 months after her divorce from Merrill was finalized.
I was reading John Daly's Wikipedia page... it mentioned there was a 25th anniversary special for WML in 1975, which Daly co-hosted. Couldn't find any clips of it here. Anyone seen it?
Some hard core collectors have a copy of it. No one I've encountered who has a copy is at all responsive. :(
What's My Line? It was once here on TH-cam, and I actually saw it.
The 25th anniversary special was the last time anyone ever saw John Daly on television.
***** It is still on TH-cam, but it has been made private by the one who uploaded it.
romeman01 So it was public for a while and now isn't? That's so very helpful of whoever posted it.
What's My Line? Indeed, sir, as Jeeves would say. Quite so, as Sherlock Holmes would say. Like Vahan Nisanian, I, too, watched the full program at one time right here on this very site.
Dell Winders died in 2019. He became known as a treasure hunter.
And he left a very brief comment here before he died.
I have always liked Art Linkletter, and after his comment during his last panel appearance about never guessing anyone, I was rooting for him to guess one of the contestants this time. Unless you count his in-unison chanting of Bette Davis's name with the rest of the panel, I guess he hadn't broken his unlucky streak yet. One more episode to go with him as a panelist to get that chance (I still want to be surprised) plus two more appearances on WML as a mystery guest, according to IMDb. I enjoy his panel appearances, despite his habit of phrasing many of his questions to contestants in the form of statements, which I find mildly annoying. He had quite an impressive opening line of questions with the first contestant though -- lasting close to 3 minutes. Of course, that was partially due to John's long-winded clarifications of the contestant's answers. I think Art ended up with the upper hand on that, though -- great exchanges with John, especially when he asks for a translation of John's overly verbose explanation of what Miss Paulsen meant by "both," to which John succinctly replies, "that means yes and no." Now why couldn't he have just said that the first time?!! ;) And again later in that same questioning period when he refuses to get caught in John's trap with the "geographical limits of Norway" question.
It's funny that John told the panel that they had done very well at the end of the show. Although they guessed Bette Davis very quickly, they totally struck out on the other two contestants!
John is always polite. I cannot recall a single instance where he blasted the panel's overall performance. Even when they miss the two here, he is charitable in informing them that the occupations were difficult to determine.
The show was was taping earlier was The Tonight Show with Jack Paar, which aired later. Here she is on that show, in that dress and she leaves early because she has to come do What's My Line.
th-cam.com/video/-xDBkkWDIIk/w-d-xo.html
Jack Paar had given up the Tonight Show by this time. Johnny Carson had taken over the previous month. By this time Paar was doing a prime-time show on NBC.
I mean, if you click the link, you can see clearly it’s Jack Paar.
*_RADIO OPERATOR ON SHIP_*
*_PORPOISE TRAINER_*
18:32 Bette Davis
Bette Davis was one of those people who was the "take me as I am" type of person. I think that may have been some of what caused the friction with Joan Crawford. Crawford was decidedly much more apt to put on airs.
Free all Porpoises!!!!
Mr. Winders looks a bit like Mickey Mantle.
Oooh, major snub to Dorothy by Betty. She's normally not into mushy kissing, but loved Arlene to pieces. Dorothy stood up & expected a kiss too. Not from Miss Bette. Dorothy probably was scathing inside, another example of Arlene being the better loved celebrity.
no snub...Arlene and Bette work in the same industry and probably know each other where as Dorothy has probably had very little contact with Bette. No different than bringing a friend to a family gathering who may not have met everyone and you get the hugs etc while the friend gets a handshake ...hugging and /or kissing the friend would be way tooo awkward and inappropriate
Sorry, but it's seething, not scathing. Commentary is scathing, and Dorothy may have, over the years, produced some pretty scathing commentary about Bette. Or something about the new movie. It was immediately noticeable that Dorothy stood and Arlene didn't. What we will never know is when Dorothy decided she would stand. Was it when it was revealed that the mystery guest was Hollywood royalty or after she saw that Arlene didn't stand?
I was 9 days old.
Hey, Tracy was, too!
5'3" Bette Davis here was coughing from the flu.
Bette Davis thought she would get an Oscar for 'Bsby' & blamed Crawford for not.
Hmmm....talk about giddy schoolboy flirting! The panel tells John twice to get on with the game while he's talking to the Norwegian lady. He finally makes an excuse that his wife's family is from there; wonder if it was to save getting in trouble with the woman who was probably sitting home with their newborn watching him flirt on national television. LOL
Daly acted oddly whenever a male guest appeared taller than him.
Art Linkletter is SO CREEPY !!!
*Miss Paulsen seems to have a better grasp of the English language than Art Linletter!🙂*
The diabetes segment was somewhat apposite, uh?
Oh that New England "Upper (Crust) Society" way of speaking... It can drive me nuts sometimes to hear some of the way the words are pronounced. From John Daly comes "su-vice of some kind..." /
"He's a poo-pus trainer..." Ahhhh!!! ~ Now, I am a respectful of regional dialects, as I believe they contain within their make-up a kind of history of the people; as they are shaped by, or they evolve from, I'm supposing, one's environment and experiences, in part. It's an interesting and wonderfully involved Study. (Oh..., but where are those "r's" when you need them?!)
Bette Davis didn't have much time for Dorothy...
Pete Farrugia
She didn't spend as much time with her as she did with the others, but it didn't look like she totally snubbed her either. I noticed that Dorothy actually stood up to shake Bette's hand. It's always worth remarking on when the women stand up to greet anyone on this show, and this case it was only Dorothy -- Arlene remained seated and received a warm greeting from Bette Davis. I wonder if perhaps Dorothy had published some potentially inflammatory bits about Miss Davis in her column and wanted to make sure she at least showed proper respect for her when they met here?
Pyt Farrugia Yeah, she gave Arlene a little kiss, but only had a quick hand shake for Dorothy.
+Pyt Farrugia It may simply be that she was personally acquainted with Arlene, and not Dorothy.
Possibly because Dororthy was good friends with Joan Crawford, which she was.
I am glad the "Wolf Whistling" and sexism is gone from US television...
What are you … a Jerry Springer devotee?
I was doing a gig where the host apartment was the entire floor of a building on Broadway in San Francisco. The host's daughter was dating an aide to the Norwegian consulate, so I said, "In honor of our guest, I'd like to sing a Norwegian song." I procedex to sing 🎶 "I once had a girl, or should I say, she on e had me.
"She showed me her room. Isn't it good, Norwegian Wood."
I couldn't STAND Art Linkleter and especially hated his useless long-winded questions.
@poetcomic1 - Art Linkletter was conservative to the point of being reactionary. He was judgmental and misrepresented his daughter Diane's suicide by saying she was on a bad LSD trip when she threw herself from her kitchen window. There were no drugs found in her system by the coroner. He went on a campaign against drugs thereafter, but never suggested any depression from being the child of a celebrity who was never home or a wealthy person who was best at career pursuits. All human lives are more nuanced than we know from what affords them notoriety. But, not unlike Tom Cruise in our day, I always found Linkletter's niceness real, yet merely a facade with perhaps nothing behind it at all. He always gave me the creeps and I was duly repulsed.
I thought Linkletter came across as a rather obnoxious, self-satisfied person in this WML episode. I remember watching his shows when I was a kid and not liking him in those settings, either. He emitted a narcissistic, patronizing vibe that was quite off-putting, even to a little kid like me.
@@kepckatherinec805 As a kid I also couldn't stand Jerry Lewis. I guess some kids can sense the phonies.
@@kepckatherinec805 I really disliked Linkletter's shows and there were so many of them between 1950 and 1970. Every time I watched Linkletter, I had the feeling I was watching precious Larry Mathews (sorry Mr. Mathews) as Ritchie on the Dick Van Dyke Show, having grown into an adult, but still telegraphing how funny he thought his next line was going to be before he delivered it or grinning over it afterwards. I felt the same way about Arthur Godfrey's view of how terribly sincere he was. What saved Linkletter was that he never had a Julius LaRosa moment. If you don't know Ruth Wallis" novelty song "Dear Mr. Godfrey" about the incident, it is easily found on TH-cam. You also get a feel for Godfrey's personality in the Stan Freberg spoof of his on-air interaction with his announcer Tony Marvin (not to be confused with Tony Martin.) I think Bob and Ray did an even more scathing spoof of him than Freberg, but similar to Freberg's "That's right, Ahthah." Having just listened to Freberg again, I remember a different sketch in which the person imitating Godfrey sounded more like Godfrey than Freberg did. I thought it was Bob and Ray playing Godfrey and Marvin, but I could be wrong. But Freberg is fine for those who want to get a feeling for Arthur Godfrey. Linkletter became powerful in the industry and extremely rich by pretending, so obviously, to be just another guy like you and me, when he wasn't. It was like Jack Bailey pretending to really care about the women on Queen for a Day, when most of the show was taken up, not with his sob story interviews with the women contestants trying to win prizes they desperately needed (as demeaning as those interviews were) but with describing other products that the women definitely didn't need and didn't have the money to pay the taxes on if they won them, but did pay the production costs for the show. I suppose most of the extra items thrown into the winning package so they could be advertised on the air were refused or, if the winning contestant wasn't aware enough of the tax bill that was coming to do that, became a financial millstone around their necks, as they frantically tried to sell some of them to pay the taxes. All three men, Linkletter, Godfrey and Bailey, came across to me like fakes, and even as a kid, I watched their shows with a kind of ghastly fascination when nothing else was on except soap operas. (There always seemed to be some half hour block in the summer with no game shows, no cartoons, no Three Stooges but during which I still wanted to watch TV instead of doing something useful.) Millions upon millions of Americans bought the products they personally promoted, however, because they trusted them implicitly.
He was a bore. Nuff said.
francis was an out of control loud mouth
Casual sexism was alive and well back then. John Daly literally drooling over the first guest. But of course, casual sexism still happens.
It was wrong then and it’s wrong now.
No, John Daly was asking her questions attentively. The only reason sexism is kept alive, is because you assume it is everywhere.
I was nine days old.
Happy birthday 🎉