I'm always reminded of Marge Champion whenever I watch 'champion' skater, Jane Torvill. Both ladies being half of a team with a strong driving man. I do think that Marge and Jane look a lot alike. Both are lady-like, modest and darling!!!
The marriage of Mary Healy and Peter Lind Hayes was the only marriage for both of them. It lasted 58 years until Peter's death parted them. On the other hand, Marge Champion was married three times and Gower was married twice. Both were married once after their marriage of 26 years ended in divorce.
John was so tickled when Bennett asked if the product was made of silk he was jumping up and down. Then Fred Allen said something about DuPont, and I was sure he had it.
Mary Healy was a remarkably attractive lady. Sadly she passed away just a few weeks ago at the grand age of 96. Marge Champion is still with us at age 95!!!
I don't know how you caught that throwaway line (it's around 8:04). . . nice! I never knew that John used that signal, but it does make sense out of Bennett's otherwise inexplicable comment.
What's My Line? In *Bennett* *Cerf* *on* *What's* *My* *Line:* *An* *Oral* *History* here on TH-cam, Bennett told that John often pulled his ear as a warning to Hal Block that he was going to far with the double entendres.
Johan Bengtsson Bear in mind I left that comment a year ago. :) I've been a bit more immersed in the world of WML in the past year than I expected. . .
What's My Line?Have you, or anyone else, ever seen John pull on his ear? I'd love to see examples of where John's "line of sensibility" might lie. I've not seen it yet, and I assume it's because of my own inattentiveness or John's being off-camera when it happens, but there ought to be SOME instances the audience could see, especially during the Hal Block era. Maybe that's part of the lack, that most of the Hal Block shows are lost.
Marge Champion got her break in showbusiness by getting hired to be a model for Disney out of high school. She was the live action model for Snow White, the Blue Fairy in Pinocchio, and others. She recently died at the massive age of 101.
Has anyone else been noticing Fred Allen joking about the possibility of himself dying in a foreboding fashion? With less than a year left, this is the third or fourth time he made such a remark.
Looking at his eyes and face the puffiness there about, conveys some kind of health issue possibly. Probably from a health care person viewing his facial profile. You would not have to be associated with the health field per say. Mr. John Daly English portrayed in this commentary.
The panel often makes intuitive leaps. Sometimes they work and many times they don't. But if the panel was being tipped off, you have to explain those challengers when no one on the panel gets anywhere near the right answer.
They were already told it would NOT make anyone happy and that it was restraining. That's not a leap. Also this was not the first contestant involved with prison cells.
This game was kind of triggered. They received questions to ask on a paper before the show for that specific evening . Some questions were relevant , others not and it was up to panelists to ask them or not making a fool of them or not . Beside that , panelists were clever and they would go over all newspapers to find out what would be celebrated during the week - secretaries week, World day od the milk , anything like that , because there was often a link between the guest and events to come . Steve Allen was one of the most to received awkward questions that would make the audience laugh and a good show .Tv lives by ratings even then . But , he said , even though he knew he was asking silly questions, he would not know the line of the guests.
He was from Kentucky, Kentucky State Penitentiary had been around since 1889. Maximum security, maybe she was basing her questions on the state he's from.
There's a grim connection between John Daly and the Japanese challenger Mr Kobayashi; Mr Daly was the first journalist to report the attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941. He did so on radio news. Fourteen years later in 1955, they are all smiles and good humour - how life moves on!
I note that silk stockings, after the advent of nylon, virtually disappeared. They were too expensive in comparison, and sheer hosiery was too easily damaged for most people to want silk stockings any longer given what they cost. Women were annoyed when they got a "run" in their nylons, but, at least, they could be replaced fairly inexpensively when that happened. As to the very funny "connection with the girdle family", most women in 1955 wore a girdle with garter clips on the bottom hem to clip onto the tops of their nylons to hold them up. I mention this in case certain viewers might be too young to realize that women's nylon hosiery in 1955 came in pairs -- pantyhose showed up on the market in the latter 1960's and quickly became the hosiery of choice because they didn't require wearing a girdle to hold them up and girdles were uncomfortable and restrictive. I was in high school when panty hose came out and I remember many female schoolmates who expressed their delight in not having to wear girdles anymore thanks to pantyhose.
perpieta -- Yes, I remember girls who wore tights under their skirts when I was in elementary school. It is strange that it took so long for someone to think of making something exactly like tights where the legs and feet were made like nylon stockings, out of sheer material. As to garter belts, when I was discussing this subject with one of my high school classmates a couple of years ago and she said she couldn't believe she wore a girdle for as long as she did just to hold her nylon hose up with its garter clips, I asked about garter belts (called suspender belts in the U.K.). She'd never heard of them and didn't know anyone who wore them in the latter 1960's. Indeed, my mother had girdles with those garter clips on them which I used to see in the laundry all the time -- and never a garter belt. I'm thinking garter belts had gone out of fashion by then. What I know is, once panty hose came out, all my female high school classmates started wearing them, and so did my sister and my mother. I remember my mother as having said, "Pantyhose beat the daylights out of individual hose with garters." And, suddenly, various brands of panty hose were featured in TV commercials. By the way, I think they call pantyhose "tights" in the U.K. An American woman might say, "I got a run in my pantyhose," but a British woman would say, "I got a ladder in my tights."
+ToddSF 94109 In our day nylon is commonplace. And it became commonplace very quickly in 1940 when the first nylon stockings were sold. 64 million stockings were sold that first year. But suddenly it became rare again as the fabric was diverted for wartime use to make items such as tents and parachutes. My mom, who is very handy with fine work, made pin money repairing the runs in stockings for other women (somewhere in the neighborhood of 5-10¢ per run - you could get a lot for a nickel in those days: the Sunday newspaper or a ride on the NYC subway, for example). Alas, I don't have my mother's small motor skill dexterity.
+ToddSF 94109 Silk stockings were history for a somewhat different reason: their construction required a seam which ran up the back of the leg. After nylons became available silk stockings were over!
Last and this show: Bennett has "touched up" his hair dye. Mary Healy was lovely! Vacation obviously agreed with Arlene: she was beautiful -- and her hair was lighter again (perhaps from the sun? 😉).
True but miss Laraine Day was a smart lady and a good panelist, not great, but pretty good than Wally Cox (sorry if I misspell the name of the young man who couldn't even form a question at all).
Gary mentioned on an earlier episode that one of Fred Allen's popular bits was to spoof husband and wife radio shows. In the 60's, Mary Healy and Peter Lind Hayes had a show like that on WOR-AM in NYC. They set up a studio in their home in New Rochelle to do the show there rather than schlep into the city.
When it's stretched out on the body it gives that impression, but if you go to a store and see how it is sold in either a plastic egg or flattened around cardboard, you can see that even the largest sizes take up very little room. It's the person inside that's bigger, not the hosiery itself.
Where the hell did Arlene come up with the prison guess out of thin air? I'm going to have to play this game without seeing the jobs, because I have no idea how she came up with that, and wonder if I would come up with anything similar.
Arlene was very smart lady. But I think Bennett's question helped her to guess correctly. They were saying about making portable cell so I don't see that her comment came out of blue.
Miss Gornall was not the motivating force behind the reducing show; that was Margaret Firth. But Gornall was a good collaborator. This was for KDKA in Pittsburgh. Article & picture: www.newspapers.com/clip/13003793/margaret-some-history-of-its-fun-to/ www.newspapers.com/clip/13003734/margaret-with-her-crew-1955/ Miss Gornall went on to marry someone named Whited, divorced him, and married a gent named Feigenbaum in 1977 in Virginia. I'm pretty sure she died in England, but I'm not sure when or why. (Also, I like Mary Healy, here. She's not obtrusive, but she helps the program (and the investigations) along.)
The dimension of social history, captured through changing occupations and attitudes to them, is one reason why WML remains engrossing. (The etiquette and fashions is another). Your truffling for background- what Paul Harvey called 'the rest of the story'- enhances the show's interest. Many thanks.
Did anybody else notice that the guy the builds prison cells when he was on Arlene and Fred answered it but John missed it or ignored it? Just wondering.
At 8:07, Bennett says "John's going to start pulling his ear." I learned that in Mr. Daly's biography he said that was the only thing that could even remotely be called a "cheat" on WML. If the panel was veering unknowingly too close to a racy double entrendre, he would pull his ear to the panel.
One might suspect that the producers gave Arlene Francis a gambit for the second contestant, because her questioning certainly came "out of nowhere," so to speak. But, in fairness, there had also been a man who built jail cells as a contestant on WHAT'S MY LINE? a couple of years before (in 1953) - so maybe Arlene remembered something from that episode.....
I don't think so-- Arlene's questioning didn't feel out of nowhere to me because it had already been asked if the product would make someone happy and the answer was no, which, if you think about it, *really* limits things (basically, something having to do with law enforcement or garbage!) According to the producer, the gambits were only used with whoever was the comic member of the panel at the time, which in this case would have meant Fred Allen. The intent behind gambits was to create a *funny* line of garden path questioning, never, ever, ever to give real clues to the contestants' line. It would have ruined the segments if the panelists had any real inside information, which is why they always voluntarily disqualified themselves in those rare instances.
ABSOLUTELY... I've watched so many of these that I now ALSO WONDER about Arlene's SUDDEN SWITCH to prisons - OUT OF NOWHERE!, look at Daly's face as she is asking her questions. It is rather strange if you ask me.
Marge Champion is still with us, but Mary Healy died in 2015. www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-mary-healy-20150206-story.html ETA: Oh, and everyone but Arlene stood up for the Champions. (But really, I think Miss Healy just wanted to talk to Marge.)
I note that Marge Champion is now 96 years of age and will be 97 in September 2016. I note that the women on the panel almost always observed the convention of remaining seated while shaking hands, which conformed to the rules of etiquette. Arlene only stood of the contestant was an ordained member of the clergy, and Dorothy Kilgallen only stood if an ordained member of the clergy was Roman Catholic.
I've watched so many hundreds of these and I feel that Bennett Cerf's complaints regarding the TRICKERY of John Daly's responses is either part of the confrontational banter which they developed or that Mr. Cerf is an idiot. 🤣
On this date, the Dodgers split a doubleheader in Cincinnati. In the opener, the Dodgers broke open a tight game with 5 runs in the eighth on a bases-loaded double by Sandy Amoros that cleared the sacks and a home run by Gil Hodges. Don Newcombe retired the last six batters he faced after the outburst for a complete game 7-1 that raised his record to 5-0. In the nightcap, the Redlegs (as they were known at this time, surmised but never officially announced that it had to do with the strong anti-communist sentiment in the U.S.) pounded the Dodgers, 11-4. It was the season debut for Karl Spooner who had broken in spectacularly in September 1954 with shutouts in both games he pitched and 27 strikeouts. Shoulder miseries delayed his appearance on the mound in 1955, but Dodger fans believed that once he was healthy, he would pick up where he left off. While he had his bright spots in 1955, this wasn't one of them and his shoulder continued to get worse and worse each year. He gave up a run in the first and was knocked out of the box when Cincy added three more runs in the third. During the week of May 9, after their torrid start, the Dodgers posted a respectable but more pedestrian 4-3 record. After their sweep of the Phillies on Mother's Day, they headed to the friendly confines of Wrigley Field. After a travel day, the Dodgers extended their latest winning streak to 11 games and a record of 22-2. The Dodgers won 3-0 as Don Newcombe pitched a brilliant one-hit shutout and faced the minimum 27 batters in the process. Gene Baker's single in the 4th inning was the only blemish on Newk's record. Baker was erased trying to steal second. All streaks must end and the Dodgers streak ended the next day, Wednesday, May 11. The Cubs outslugged the Dodgers 10-8 as Russ Meyer surrendered five runs in the first inning to erase a 2-0 Dodger lead and he was removed for a pinch hitter in the second inning. Four of those first inning runs came on an Ernie Banks grand slam home run. After the day game (no lights at Wrigley Field in 1955) the Dodgers rolled up U.S. Highway 41 (thinking of the late Gregg Allman) to Milwaukee County Stadium. And on Thursday, the Dodgers had a losing streak for the first time in 1955, albeit a two game streak. Gene Conley and Carl Erskine reprised the pitching duel they staged the previous week in Brooklyn. This time each team managed one run through 11 innings. Hank Aaron led off the second inning with a home run, his 7th of the year and 19th of his career. Many more would follow. Amoros returned the favor in the fourth. But then Walter Alston flipped the script. He batted for Erskine in the top of the 12th. Rube Walker struck out as the Dodgers went down in order. Ed Roebuck is waved into the ballgame and he faced only one batter. Del Crandall sent everyone home with 4-bagger. On Friday, the Dodgers righted the ship as Billy Loes went the distance for a 6-2 win and series split with the Braves. Then it was on to Cincinnati for a Saturday afternoon game and a Sunday doubleheader. The Dodgers took the series with an easy win before splitting the doubleheader as described above. Saturday's game was scoreless for the first three innings. Then the Dodgers offense started rolling. They were leading 5-0 when they broke it open in the 7th. The Reds brought Bob Hooper into pitch, the same guy that Don Mueller of the Giants victimized on an intentional walk on May 1. Hooper walked the leadoff batter, Roy Campanella. Then Amoros and Hodges bunted for base hits. The Dodgers dropped down three bunts for base hits in front of Redlegs third baseman Chuck Harmon that day. Carl Furillo sent one over the fence at Crosley Field for a grand slam home run. Eventually seven runs crossed the plate in the seventh, two more on Duke Snider's home run. All seven runs were charged to Hooper. It was his major league farewell performance. The following day, the same as the day this episode aired, another player played his last major league game. His major league career was nondescript but he eventually became the answer to a trivia question. That day in Washington's Griffith Stadium, 28 year old Jesse Levan pinch hit with a runner on first and no one out. He grounded out to the right side of the infield, moving the runner to second base. He spent the next four years in the minor leagues where he was a star power hitter and his defensive shortcomings weren't so noticeable. Then in July 1959, a meeting was called in Nashville where Levan's team was scheduled to play a road game. Based on the testimony given by Levan and other players at that meeting, Levan became the last baseball player to be banned for life for trying to fix games. (Pete Rose was banned for betting on them, but he was not accused of trying to fix them.)
@@cjb8010 Lois Simmons and her breathtaking encyclopedic knowledge! (I was a precocious 6 year-old in 1955 and already following the box scores in the sports section of the morning newspaper, the Montreal Gazette. Her detailed summaries bring back wonderful memories of players, both stars and those ordinary ones who are mostly forgotten in the mists of time.)
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At the time WWII ended only 10 years prior. It is nice someone from Japan is warmly welcomed.
I think Mary Healy's beauty was so underrated. To me, she was one of the most beautiful actresses ever. ⚘⚘⚘⚘
underrated? that tired underrated comment is overrated
My dad was in Rotary for years. It is nice to see it mentioned so long ago. Plus the fact that it was world wide
I'm always reminded of Marge Champion whenever I watch 'champion' skater, Jane Torvill. Both ladies being half of a team with a strong driving man. I do think that Marge and Jane look a lot alike. Both are lady-like, modest and darling!!!
The marriage of Mary Healy and Peter Lind Hayes was the only marriage for both of them. It lasted 58 years until Peter's death parted them.
On the other hand, Marge Champion was married three times and Gower was married twice. Both were married once after their marriage of 26 years ended in divorce.
John was so tickled when Bennett asked if the product was made of silk he was jumping up and down. Then Fred Allen said something about DuPont, and I was sure he had it.
Reminds me of that line from Dickens "Christmas Carol" about being "as giddy as a schoolboy."
Mary Healy was a remarkably attractive lady. Sadly she passed away just a few weeks ago at the grand age of 96. Marge Champion is still with us at age 95!!!
I was just about to say that! 😄
@@bubblinbrownsugar616 She will be 100 a week from the time I write this.
As of today, 6 March 2020, Marge Champion is still with us, at 100 years young.
Marge Champion just died yesterday or the day before at age 101. Today is October 23, 2020.
I love Bennett's reference to John pulling hos ear - something he did when he felt that certain double entendres were going a bit too far! :D
I don't know how you caught that throwaway line (it's around 8:04). . . nice! I never knew that John used that signal, but it does make sense out of Bennett's otherwise inexplicable comment.
What's My Line? In *Bennett* *Cerf* *on* *What's* *My* *Line:* *An* *Oral* *History* here on TH-cam, Bennett told that John often pulled his ear as a warning to Hal Block that he was going to far with the double entendres.
Johan Bengtsson Bear in mind I left that comment a year ago. :) I've been a bit more immersed in the world of WML in the past year than I expected. . .
What's My Line?Have you, or anyone else, ever seen John pull on his ear? I'd love to see examples of where John's "line of sensibility" might lie. I've not seen it yet, and I assume it's because of my own inattentiveness or John's being off-camera when it happens, but there ought to be SOME instances the audience could see, especially during the Hal Block era. Maybe that's part of the lack, that most of the Hal Block shows are lost.
Marcus Larinen Like Carol Bernett once did
Marge Champion got her break in showbusiness by getting hired to be a model for Disney out of high school. She was the live action model for Snow White, the Blue Fairy in Pinocchio, and others. She recently died at the massive age of 101.
Has anyone else been noticing Fred Allen joking about the possibility of himself dying in a foreboding fashion? With less than a year left, this is the third or fourth time he made such a remark.
Yes I noticed that.
Sometimes we know……. Cause you just don’t feel good.
Fred must have known that he was soon to leave the stage.
Looking at his eyes and face the puffiness there about, conveys some kind of health issue possibly. Probably from a health care person viewing his facial profile. You would not have to be associated with the health field per say. Mr. John Daly English portrayed in this commentary.
Seems he knew like a lot of people know. In tune with himself
Arlene in seat 1 for the first time..
It's hard to believe but I just looked it up, and as of November 22, 2013 both Mary Healy and Marge Champion are both still living (in their 90s)!!!
As of 2020 Marge Champion is now 100 but Mary Healy passed in 2015
@@markru2 She died in October at 101. :(
Mary Healy's earrings match Arlene's heart necklace.
May be they were twining 😀
Arlene once again appears to be psychic! With no other clue she mentions prison!
+Crispin Cain Gee wiz I was just thinking the same thing! Really..how could have guessed that so easily unless she somehow knew that ahead of time.
The panel often makes intuitive leaps. Sometimes they work and many times they don't. But if the panel was being tipped off, you have to explain those challengers when no one on the panel gets anywhere near the right answer.
They were already told it would NOT make anyone happy and that it was restraining. That's not a leap. Also this was not the first contestant involved with prison cells.
This game was kind of triggered. They received questions to ask on a paper before the show for that specific evening . Some questions were relevant , others not and it was up to panelists to ask them or not making a fool of them or not . Beside that , panelists were clever and they would go over all newspapers to find out what would be celebrated during the week - secretaries week, World day od the milk , anything like that , because there was often a link between the guest and events to come .
Steve Allen was one of the most to received awkward questions that would make the audience laugh and a good show .Tv lives by ratings even then . But , he said , even though he knew he was asking silly questions, he would not know the line of the guests.
He was from Kentucky, Kentucky State Penitentiary had been around since 1889. Maximum security, maybe she was basing her questions on the state he's from.
There's a grim connection between John Daly and the Japanese challenger Mr Kobayashi; Mr Daly was the first journalist to report the attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941. He did so on radio news. Fourteen years later in 1955, they are all smiles and good humour - how life moves on!
I think JCD also may have been the announcer of FDR's passing
@@robmastro8620 That's true.
Great show. See all of them with the Lord!
The girdle family!!! Oh my goodness. That is hilarious!!
It's a quite large family 😂- miss Arlene Francis
I note that silk stockings, after the advent of nylon, virtually disappeared. They were too expensive in comparison, and sheer hosiery was too easily damaged for most people to want silk stockings any longer given what they cost. Women were annoyed when they got a "run" in their nylons, but, at least, they could be replaced fairly inexpensively when that happened. As to the very funny "connection with the girdle family", most women in 1955 wore a girdle with garter clips on the bottom hem to clip onto the tops of their nylons to hold them up. I mention this in case certain viewers might be too young to realize that women's nylon hosiery in 1955 came in pairs -- pantyhose showed up on the market in the latter 1960's and quickly became the hosiery of choice because they didn't require wearing a girdle to hold them up and girdles were uncomfortable and restrictive. I was in high school when panty hose came out and I remember many female schoolmates who expressed their delight in not having to wear girdles anymore thanks to pantyhose.
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perpieta -- Yes, I remember girls who wore tights under their skirts when I was in elementary school. It is strange that it took so long for someone to think of making something exactly like tights where the legs and feet were made like nylon stockings, out of sheer material. As to garter belts, when I was discussing this subject with one of my high school classmates a couple of years ago and she said she couldn't believe she wore a girdle for as long as she did just to hold her nylon hose up with its garter clips, I asked about garter belts (called suspender belts in the U.K.). She'd never heard of them and didn't know anyone who wore them in the latter 1960's. Indeed, my mother had girdles with those garter clips on them which I used to see in the laundry all the time -- and never a garter belt. I'm thinking garter belts had gone out of fashion by then. What I know is, once panty hose came out, all my female high school classmates started wearing them, and so did my sister and my mother. I remember my mother as having said, "Pantyhose beat the daylights out of individual hose with garters." And, suddenly, various brands of panty hose were featured in TV commercials. By the way, I think they call pantyhose "tights" in the U.K. An American woman might say, "I got a run in my pantyhose," but a British woman would say, "I got a ladder in my tights."
+ToddSF 94109
In our day nylon is commonplace. And it became commonplace very quickly in 1940 when the first nylon stockings were sold. 64 million stockings were sold that first year. But suddenly it became rare again as the fabric was diverted for wartime use to make items such as tents and parachutes. My mom, who is very handy with fine work, made pin money repairing the runs in stockings for other women (somewhere in the neighborhood of 5-10¢ per run - you could get a lot for a nickel in those days: the Sunday newspaper or a ride on the NYC subway, for example). Alas, I don't have my mother's small motor skill dexterity.
+ToddSF 94109 Silk stockings were history for a somewhat different reason: their construction required a seam which ran up the back of the leg. After nylons became available silk stockings were over!
Gower seemed like a really cool gent.
Marge Champion is still alive and spry at age 98!
Fred Allen is so funny 😅😂🤣
That first segment was hilarious 😂
Last and this show: Bennett has "touched up" his hair dye.
Mary Healy was lovely!
Vacation obviously agreed with Arlene: she was beautiful -- and her hair was lighter again (perhaps from the sun? 😉).
SO weird to see Arlene in Dorothy's spot. I like Mary Healy. Much more likeable than the last guest panelist (Ms. Day)
Always tells us every one you can snif, please !
True but miss Laraine Day was a smart lady and a good panelist, not great, but pretty good than Wally Cox (sorry if I misspell the name of the young man who couldn't even form a question at all).
Margaret Champion pass’s recently she lived to be 101 years old.
Gary mentioned on an earlier episode that one of Fred Allen's popular bits was to spoof husband and wife radio shows. In the 60's, Mary Healy and Peter Lind Hayes had a show like that on WOR-AM in NYC. They set up a studio in their home in New Rochelle to do the show there rather than schlep into the city.
They should have said that the hoiesry might sometimes be bigger than bread box.
When it's stretched out on the body it gives that impression, but if you go to a store and see how it is sold in either a plastic egg or flattened around cardboard, you can see that even the largest sizes take up very little room. It's the person inside that's bigger, not the hosiery itself.
No kidding!
You woulda thought the girdle had a family of apparel
Where the hell did Arlene come up with the prison guess out of thin air? I'm going to have to play this game without seeing the jobs, because I have no idea how she came up with that, and wonder if I would come up with anything similar.
Dorothy did that once too. I commented, How in the WORLD did she get that lol
Arlene was very smart lady. But I think Bennett's question helped her to guess correctly. They were saying about making portable cell so I don't see that her comment came out of blue.
Arlene was quick to pick up on clues. Early on they found out that the product wouldn’t make the person any happier.
@@kristabrewer9363Dorothy was a investigative reporter for years 😊
Marge is so beautiful
That last contestant looks like a Hollywood star herself.
She was stunningly attractive!
Miss Gornall was not the motivating force behind the reducing show; that was Margaret Firth. But Gornall was a good collaborator. This was for KDKA in Pittsburgh.
Article & picture: www.newspapers.com/clip/13003793/margaret-some-history-of-its-fun-to/ www.newspapers.com/clip/13003734/margaret-with-her-crew-1955/
Miss Gornall went on to marry someone named Whited, divorced him, and married a gent named Feigenbaum in 1977 in Virginia. I'm pretty sure she died in England, but I'm not sure when or why.
(Also, I like Mary Healy, here. She's not obtrusive, but she helps the program (and the investigations) along.)
The dimension of social history, captured through changing occupations and attitudes to them, is one reason why WML remains engrossing. (The etiquette and fashions is another). Your truffling for background- what Paul Harvey called 'the rest of the story'- enhances the show's interest. Many thanks.
Did anybody else notice that the guy the builds prison cells when he was on Arlene and Fred answered it but John missed it or ignored it? Just wondering.
At 8:07, Bennett says "John's going to start pulling his ear."
I learned that in Mr. Daly's biography he said that was the only thing that could even remotely be called a "cheat" on WML. If the panel was veering unknowingly too close to a racy double entrendre, he would pull his ear to the panel.
Marge Champion died in 2020. She was 101.
I wonder why John never took Bennett aside and explain to him that his third name was Patrick, not Francis.
John corrected Bennett on one of the shows. I remember seeing it but don't remember the specific show.
Well, dang. I really thought Mr. Schwin would be a candy store owner, and all the neighborhood kids called him “Pop”. Prison cells....sheesh!
Kobayashi-san was a very pleasant gentleman here.
One might suspect that the producers gave Arlene Francis a gambit for the second contestant, because her questioning certainly came "out of nowhere," so to speak. But, in fairness, there had also been a man who built jail cells as a contestant on WHAT'S MY LINE? a couple of years before (in 1953) - so maybe Arlene remembered something from that episode.....
I don't think so-- Arlene's questioning didn't feel out of nowhere to me because it had already been asked if the product would make someone happy and the answer was no, which, if you think about it, *really* limits things (basically, something having to do with law enforcement or garbage!)
According to the producer, the gambits were only used with whoever was the comic member of the panel at the time, which in this case would have meant Fred Allen. The intent behind gambits was to create a *funny* line of garden path questioning, never, ever, ever to give real clues to the contestants' line. It would have ruined the segments if the panelists had any real inside information, which is why they always voluntarily disqualified themselves in those rare instances.
RIP Marge
I’m surprised they didn’t they ask if the 2nd contestant had something to do with Schwinn bikes🤣
Kobayashi Maru
Sometimes you wonder from time to time the panels are given clues or answers. I mean how did Arlene out of nowhere talk about prisons...
ABSOLUTELY... I've watched so many of these that I now ALSO WONDER about Arlene's SUDDEN SWITCH to prisons - OUT OF NOWHERE!, look at Daly's face as she is asking her questions. It is rather strange if you ask me.
Arlene is very intelligent and very much listens to the audience and they're vocal sounds, comments.😊
Marge Champion is still with us, but Mary Healy died in 2015.
www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-mary-healy-20150206-story.html
ETA: Oh, and everyone but Arlene stood up for the Champions. (But really, I think Miss Healy just wanted to talk to Marge.)
I note that Marge Champion is now 96 years of age and will be 97 in September 2016. I note that the women on the panel almost always observed the convention of remaining seated while shaking hands, which conformed to the rules of etiquette. Arlene only stood of the contestant was an ordained member of the clergy, and Dorothy Kilgallen only stood if an ordained member of the clergy was Roman Catholic.
I've also seen both ladies stand when a contestant was older.........I'm sure as a sign of respect.
I think I understand now why Daly seems a little off sometimes. I'll have to reserve my thinking though for how he seems after 1960.
John divorced his wife, 1960 married a much younger woman 😊
Marge and Mary kinda Lo.ok Alike !
😍😊☺️😊☺️☺️🧸🧸
I've watched so many hundreds of these and I feel that Bennett Cerf's complaints regarding the TRICKERY of John Daly's responses is either part of the confrontational banter which they developed or that Mr. Cerf is an idiot. 🤣
That Japanese gentleman was so sweet.
Mary Healy is a good player and very beautiful, but seems a little introverted for the panel. Maybe she was nervous?
Who knows may be but she was smart lady to be panelist
On this date, the Dodgers split a doubleheader in Cincinnati. In the opener, the Dodgers broke open a tight game with 5 runs in the eighth on a bases-loaded double by Sandy Amoros that cleared the sacks and a home run by Gil Hodges. Don Newcombe retired the last six batters he faced after the outburst for a complete game 7-1 that raised his record to 5-0.
In the nightcap, the Redlegs (as they were known at this time, surmised but never officially announced that it had to do with the strong anti-communist sentiment in the U.S.) pounded the Dodgers, 11-4. It was the season debut for Karl Spooner who had broken in spectacularly in September 1954 with shutouts in both games he pitched and 27 strikeouts. Shoulder miseries delayed his appearance on the mound in 1955, but Dodger fans believed that once he was healthy, he would pick up where he left off. While he had his bright spots in 1955, this wasn't one of them and his shoulder continued to get worse and worse each year. He gave up a run in the first and was knocked out of the box when Cincy added three more runs in the third.
During the week of May 9, after their torrid start, the Dodgers posted a respectable but more pedestrian 4-3 record. After their sweep of the Phillies on Mother's Day, they headed to the friendly confines of Wrigley Field. After a travel day, the Dodgers extended their latest winning streak to 11 games and a record of 22-2. The Dodgers won 3-0 as Don Newcombe pitched a brilliant one-hit shutout and faced the minimum 27 batters in the process. Gene Baker's single in the 4th inning was the only blemish on Newk's record. Baker was erased trying to steal second.
All streaks must end and the Dodgers streak ended the next day, Wednesday, May 11. The Cubs outslugged the Dodgers 10-8 as Russ Meyer surrendered five runs in the first inning to erase a 2-0 Dodger lead and he was removed for a pinch hitter in the second inning. Four of those first inning runs came on an Ernie Banks grand slam home run.
After the day game (no lights at Wrigley Field in 1955) the Dodgers rolled up U.S. Highway 41 (thinking of the late Gregg Allman) to Milwaukee County Stadium. And on Thursday, the Dodgers had a losing streak for the first time in 1955, albeit a two game streak. Gene Conley and Carl Erskine reprised the pitching duel they staged the previous week in Brooklyn. This time each team managed one run through 11 innings. Hank Aaron led off the second inning with a home run, his 7th of the year and 19th of his career. Many more would follow. Amoros returned the favor in the fourth. But then Walter Alston flipped the script. He batted for Erskine in the top of the 12th. Rube Walker struck out as the Dodgers went down in order. Ed Roebuck is waved into the ballgame and he faced only one batter. Del Crandall sent everyone home with 4-bagger.
On Friday, the Dodgers righted the ship as Billy Loes went the distance for a 6-2 win and series split with the Braves. Then it was on to Cincinnati for a Saturday afternoon game and a Sunday doubleheader. The Dodgers took the series with an easy win before splitting the doubleheader as described above. Saturday's game was scoreless for the first three innings. Then the Dodgers offense started rolling. They were leading 5-0 when they broke it open in the 7th. The Reds brought Bob Hooper into pitch, the same guy that Don Mueller of the Giants victimized on an intentional walk on May 1. Hooper walked the leadoff batter, Roy Campanella. Then Amoros and Hodges bunted for base hits. The Dodgers dropped down three bunts for base hits in front of Redlegs third baseman Chuck Harmon that day. Carl Furillo sent one over the fence at Crosley Field for a grand slam home run. Eventually seven runs crossed the plate in the seventh, two more on Duke Snider's home run. All seven runs were charged to Hooper. It was his major league farewell performance.
The following day, the same as the day this episode aired, another player played his last major league game. His major league career was nondescript but he eventually became the answer to a trivia question. That day in Washington's Griffith Stadium, 28 year old Jesse Levan pinch hit with a runner on first and no one out. He grounded out to the right side of the infield, moving the runner to second base. He spent the next four years in the minor leagues where he was a star power hitter and his defensive shortcomings weren't so noticeable. Then in July 1959, a meeting was called in Nashville where Levan's team was scheduled to play a road game. Based on the testimony given by Levan and other players at that meeting, Levan became the last baseball player to be banned for life for trying to fix games. (Pete Rose was banned for betting on them, but he was not accused of trying to fix them.)
Lois Simmons, Go Giants!
@@cjb8010 Lois Simmons and her breathtaking encyclopedic knowledge!
(I was a precocious 6 year-old in 1955 and already following the box scores in the sports section of the morning newspaper, the Montreal Gazette. Her detailed summaries bring back wonderful memories of players, both stars and those ordinary ones who are mostly forgotten in the mists of time.)
Again with the boring baseball?
Marlene was hot!!
Don't see it. Fred Allan is not that funny,
He's a hoot. A riot.
Dry humor was popular 80 years ago considered top notch😊
"Mr. Kobayashi, how many American G.I.s did you kill?"
Cold
And Gower Champion once had an affair with young Shirley Temple, and Marge Champion lived on another 45 years, dying in 2020 at 101.