I love how back in these days, those in show business knew the New York scene so well that you had to be specific down to the very *_street_* when talking about what type of performer you were.
Three cheers for Buddy Hackett! Great mystery guest, and a very good guest panelist, too, later on, very likable. Funny as a guest panelist without being disruptive, and he really made a good effort to play the game, too. In five years, he'd have a supporting role in the film version of "The Music Man" playing Marcellus Washburn. He sang and danced the song "Shipoopi" in that movie. When it comes to movies, that's the one I'll always remember when it comes to Buddy Hackett. I also remember seeing him on game shows when I was a kid -- "The Hollywood Squares", for example, where comedians were ideal for populating the squares.
Popularity of this show may be in part due to the presence of the camera operators as contestants. I'm not sure what makes that so appealing, but I've watched this one several times to see that segment. Note that this is the occasion when both Arlene and John complain about the "unflattering closeups" of the panel. The close framing was a hallmark of director Franklin Heller and his camera crews, and it contributed significantly to WML's visual appeal. It is *very remarkable* that both Dorothy and Arlene stood up when shaking hands with the cameramen. Ordinarily the women stood only for members of the clergy or for living legends like Eleanor Roosevelt or Frank Lloyd Wright.
I thought about that last thing too but I wonder if it is a vestige of of a sort of nobles noblesse oblige, where they show more reverence than usual to acknowledge that they're are essential to the show while masking the thinly veiled hierarchy between them. Except in this case they do have more power than peasants .
This is the only time I have really liked him, and it’s because he was finally able to show off his true talent a little. As a panelist he was just annoying - he clearly needed a lot more stage than being a panelist allowed.
Arlene’s hair was very nice on this episode. I missed John Daly giving his usual long double talk explanations usually resulting in a no....relatively short here. 😂 Loved Buddy Hacket!
John Daly sure has that golden voice. I guess, apart from his very intelligent disposition of his role, his voice is what "gets the gold". Amazing, really. One of a kind.
Dorothy would've ran screaming from the room, if she had. She is at her peak here, but she's already having minor difficulties, note how she puts the dig in at John about giving away the number of contestants, she wouldn't have done that earlier.
I thought Eamonn Andrews was quite charming in this episode, much more so than any of his previous appearances. I *knew* he had it in him - he's an Irishman after all :-)
So sad to thgink that these great people for thev most part have passed away. Mr Eamonn Andrews so young and full of life yet he passed away in the late 80's of heart failure. So classy,well read and articulate. America sure has dumbed down the past 50 years. I don't think the show could have the same caliber of guest today.
Absolutely not! Not even close! Today, television caters to the lowest common denominator... Half of the vocabulary used on this show would be unknown to a high school graduate today! But that is perfectly acceptable today. Every child recieves an "A" and a diploma whether earned or not. We don't want to hurt anyone's feelings... in turn we have raised at least two generations of mental morons! Try having a verbal conversation with someone under 30... most sound like blithering idiots when it comes to the spoken language!
@@stevefonda6238 You should try some of the more intellectual shows like University Challenge, Mastermind, Eggheads etc., or their American equivalents. The folk on these shows still can’t compete with the cast of WML for style and grace, but they certainly offer intellectual challenges.
It's cute that you think a handful of people represent an entire nation. Hint: There were more uneducated (aka "dumb") hicks, relative to the population, in the 50s than there is today. It's like hearing some professional stage actor like Charles Dance speak, and then assume everyone in England is a highly educated intellectual just because he speaks well. There are no Chavs, there are no Cockneys, there are no fat, uneducated slobs. Nope, because you heard Charles Dance speak. Talk about someone being dumb...
I hadn't heard the term "drunkometer" before, but it was one of the old-style, original breathalyzer (invented in 1931) that involved having the testee blow up a balloon to provide a breath sample for testing with the device. Nowadays, of course, we use the more generic term "breathalyzer" which includes any device that analyzes the breath to determine blood alcohol content.
Seeing Eamonn Andrews on the panel makes me think that it would have been interesting to see the tables turned and John Daly finding out what it would be like as a panelist. But it wasn't meant to be, I guess.
Speaking of Buddy Hackett, if you want to hear a truly infectious laugh, go to any clip of Paul Lynde from Hollywood Squares in action and if Buddy Hackett is in the game with Lynde, you'll hear Hackett's laugh loud and clear. It's uproarious!
The "drunk tester"... "Is there any product involved ?" Yes, there is. He tests drunks ! Am sure it involved a test. But... :-) This was many years ago (1957)... No breathalyzers yet.
I love how Mr Daly ‘clarifies’ things, “We want to be fair so we will agree that (whatever) could, and most likely does, occur during the normal course of (guest’s) service but that does not preclude that their interaction may not include such activities.” Uhhhhh….what? Sometimes I have to pause the video to figure out what he said.
The nuclear test Mr. Gabel mentions at 1:55 or so was probably Hood, in the Plumbbob series, on July 5th (as opposed to the one on July 1.) If so, it was about five times more powerful than Hiroshima's bomb. (And the largest atmospheric test conducted within the continental US.) Array of testing photos: www.theatlantic.com/photo/2011/05/when-we-tested-nuclear-bombs/100061/ Stand-up watch: Everyone does! (For the camera-men. Clearly, it's a bit ironic, but friendly.) A picture of a Drunkometer -- with an unidentified gent from Tallahassee: farm6.static.flickr.com/5484/10960793985_73091aa986.jpg I am almost positive that Dorothy asks Mr. Beebe, at 22:58 or so, 'Do you read to him?', ie, the gorilla. Aww.
One interesting thing, the panelists did not recognize the camera men's voices, who made no effort to disguise their voices, indicating that the panelists had never talked to them in 8 years.
Among the many great things about Buddy Hackett is that he only married one woman and was an honest husband, compared with just about everyone else in show business then.
I just stumbled across your playlist of other channels' videos relating to WML (a couple days ago actually), and I remembered that I had been watching the footage that Bbarfo uploaded of the Frank Sinatra boat trip that Arlene makes mention of in her introduction! (at 1:20) Here's the video link: th-cam.com/video/8mZSvI0F4l4/w-d-xo.html
Wow, over 12,000 views which is much higher than the norm, yet only 3 comments on the video. Looks like there was high interest for some reason, but not too many found anything too interesting about it.
Yeah, I'm not sure why this video has such a significantly higher number of views than usual, but the lack of comments is less surprising. The 1950s shows all have less comments on them because there were fewer people watching the videos early on in the postings. But again, odd that this one has so many views, without a mystery guest that would explain it (e.g., Louis Armstrong, Judy Garland, Groucho, the celebrities who draw in non-regular WML viewers)
The Backup No slam on Buddy Hackett, but I doubt it's got anything much to do with him-- he was on WML quite a number of times. Always a delight to hear from young fans of the show!
To me, at least some of the panelists had to know almost right from the beginning who "the mystery guest" was, but 'they were going along 'till the end of the show' making believe they didn't who he was. As soon as Buddy Hackett started speaking in sentences, they (some of them) could not have missed that unique-sounding voice (which he was not completely disguising) of the well-known comedian.
@@secondstring No one. She died of an accidental overdose of barbituates and alcohol. The Manhattan DA recently reopened an investigation in light of newly published claims and declined to prosecute. Case closed.
I have been consistently distracted by that stain on Arlene's mask, over her left eye. It looks like maybe it's chalk or makeup and it's smeared over the black. I just want to take a damp cloth to that and clean it right off!!
Not entirely sure, but I think her mask is velvet, and pearls, of course. It looks like the pile of the velvet has been roughed, and that is what we are seeing.
![What's My Line? - New opening! - Tony Franciosa & Shelley Winters; M. Gabel [panel] (Jul 14, 1957)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/5Q9TuaVnjd0/mqdefault.jpg)
![What's My Line? - New opening! - Tony Franciosa & Shelley Winters; M. Gabel [panel] (Jul 14, 1957)](/img/tr.png)
![What's My Line? - Anne Jeffreys & Robert Sterling; Phil Rizutto [panel] (Jul 28, 1957)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/MwPYL5ywh_Y/mqdefault.jpg)
![What's My Line? - Don Murray & Hope Lange; Martin Gabel [panel] (Mar 30, 1958)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/9F69-eIlc30/mqdefault.jpg)
![What's My Line? - Erle Stanley Gardner; George Sanders; Jim Backus [panel] (Sep 15, 1957)](/img/n.gif)
The women panelists were consistently insightful, delightful and entertaining.
I love how back in these days, those in show business knew the New York scene so well that you had to be specific down to the very *_street_* when talking about what type of performer you were.
Three cheers for Buddy Hackett! Great mystery guest, and a very good guest panelist, too, later on, very likable. Funny as a guest panelist without being disruptive, and he really made a good effort to play the game, too. In five years, he'd have a supporting role in the film version of "The Music Man" playing Marcellus Washburn. He sang and danced the song "Shipoopi" in that movie. When it comes to movies, that's the one I'll always remember when it comes to Buddy Hackett. I also remember seeing him on game shows when I was a kid -- "The Hollywood Squares", for example, where comedians were ideal for populating the squares.
Now I'm going to have to watch, 'The Music Man' again. 😊
He was also in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. The scenes with him, Mickey Rooney, and Jim Backus playing off each other were classic.
Here here,I like Buddy Hackett 🤗😊🥰
The fact that Dorothy asked are there more than one of you shows just how talented Buddy Hackett was. A great segment.
Thank God there was only one. Hackett was an embarrassing bore.
Popularity of this show may be in part due to the presence of the camera operators as contestants. I'm not sure what makes that so appealing, but I've watched this one several times to see that segment. Note that this is the occasion when both Arlene and John complain about the "unflattering closeups" of the panel. The close framing was a hallmark of director Franklin Heller and his camera crews, and it contributed significantly to WML's visual appeal.
It is *very remarkable* that both Dorothy and Arlene stood up when shaking hands with the cameramen. Ordinarily the women stood only for members of the clergy or for living legends like Eleanor Roosevelt or Frank Lloyd Wright.
I thought about that last thing too but I wonder if it is a vestige of of a sort of nobles noblesse oblige, where they show more reverence than usual to acknowledge that they're are essential to the show while masking the thinly veiled hierarchy between them. Except in this case they do have more power than peasants .
@@FOLIPE Yep -- or maybe just hoping to get fewer closeups! :-)
I love Buddy Hackett. He is an amusing and competent panelist.
Have you ever watched him on the original password? Or the hollywood squares?
Just found the talented Buddy Hackett through this episode. Thank you for uploading. I cannot wait to see more What's My Line
This is the only time I have really liked him, and it’s because he was finally able to show off his true talent a little. As a panelist he was just annoying - he clearly needed a lot more stage than being a panelist allowed.
Arlene’s hair was very nice on this episode. I missed John Daly giving his usual long double talk explanations usually resulting in a no....relatively short here. 😂 Loved Buddy Hacket!
Agree agree and agree
I ADORE Buddy Hackett!
Me too. ❤😊
John Daly sure has that golden voice. I guess, apart from his very intelligent disposition of his role, his voice is what "gets the gold". Amazing, really. One of a kind.
Hes the best yep
"Have you your Drunkometer with you? None of US has ever SEEN one!" I heart Arlene.
Dorothy would've ran screaming from the room, if she had. She is at her peak here, but she's already having minor difficulties, note how she puts the dig in at John about giving away the number of contestants, she wouldn't have done that earlier.
Rare view when you see the cameramen walking to their cameras. 8:15
I thought Eamonn Andrews was quite charming in this episode, much more so than any of his previous appearances. I *knew* he had it in him - he's an Irishman after all :-)
So sad to thgink that these great people for thev most part have passed away. Mr Eamonn Andrews so young and full of life yet he passed away in the late 80's of heart failure. So classy,well read and articulate. America sure has dumbed down the past 50 years. I don't think the show could have the same caliber of guest today.
Absolutely not! Not even close! Today, television caters to the lowest common denominator... Half of the vocabulary used on this show would be unknown to a high school graduate today! But that is perfectly acceptable today. Every child recieves an "A" and a diploma whether earned or not. We don't want to hurt anyone's feelings... in turn we have raised at least two generations of mental morons! Try having a verbal conversation with someone under 30... most sound like blithering idiots when it comes to the spoken language!
@@stevefonda6238 You should try some of the more intellectual shows like University Challenge, Mastermind, Eggheads etc., or their American equivalents. The folk on these shows still can’t compete with the cast of WML for style and grace, but they certainly offer intellectual challenges.
It's cute that you think a handful of people represent an entire nation. Hint: There were more uneducated (aka "dumb") hicks, relative to the population, in the 50s than there is today.
It's like hearing some professional stage actor like Charles Dance speak, and then assume everyone in England is a highly educated intellectual just because he speaks well. There are no Chavs, there are no Cockneys, there are no fat, uneducated slobs. Nope, because you heard Charles Dance speak.
Talk about someone being dumb...
Agreed wholeheartedly... unfortunately :(
Absolutely agree totally 😊
I hadn't heard the term "drunkometer" before, but it was one of the old-style, original breathalyzer (invented in 1931) that involved having the testee blow up a balloon to provide a breath sample for testing with the device. Nowadays, of course, we use the more generic term "breathalyzer" which includes any device that analyzes the breath to determine blood alcohol content.
Seeing Eamonn Andrews on the panel makes me think that it would have been interesting to see the tables turned and John Daly finding out what it would be like as a panelist. But it wasn't meant to be, I guess.
The cameramen were the first of their kind on live tv. They deserved the standing of panelist 😊
Speaking of Buddy Hackett, if you want to hear a truly infectious laugh, go to any clip of Paul Lynde from Hollywood Squares in action and if Buddy Hackett is in the game with Lynde, you'll hear Hackett's laugh loud and clear. It's uproarious!
I miss the old commercials that were part of WML
Me too. 🥺🥺
I absolutely agree totally 😊
They needed to bring in three extra camera operators that night.
Arlene and her husband both using their heads to perfection- Arlene with her beautiful hi-lights and her husband with clever deduction!
"And what a ship!". Indeed she was...
OMG, I’m only now realizing that Buddy Hackett voices Scuttle from The Little Mermaid! 🤦🏻♂️
The "drunk tester"... "Is there any product involved ?"
Yes, there is. He tests drunks ! Am sure it involved a test. But... :-)
This was many years ago (1957)... No breathalyzers yet.
A balloon was used😊
Notice how polite & "dignified" they all were.
We have lost a lot of that.
I love how Mr Daly ‘clarifies’ things,
“We want to be fair so we will agree that (whatever) could, and most likely does, occur during the normal course of (guest’s) service but that does not preclude that their interaction may not include such activities.”
Uhhhhh….what? Sometimes I have to pause the video to figure out what he said.
So funny to learn that a breathalyzer was formerly known as a drunkometer!
Buddy is so funny!
Arlene is soooooo sharp!
I like Buddy Hacket. 😊❤
A very funny man.
The last episode with this particular intro theme music. I do like the new music betther though!
The nuclear test Mr. Gabel mentions at 1:55 or so was probably Hood, in the Plumbbob series, on July 5th (as opposed to the one on July 1.) If so, it was about five times more powerful than Hiroshima's bomb. (And the largest atmospheric test conducted within the continental US.)
Array of testing photos: www.theatlantic.com/photo/2011/05/when-we-tested-nuclear-bombs/100061/
Stand-up watch: Everyone does! (For the camera-men. Clearly, it's a bit ironic, but friendly.)
A picture of a Drunkometer -- with an unidentified gent from Tallahassee: farm6.static.flickr.com/5484/10960793985_73091aa986.jpg
I am almost positive that Dorothy asks Mr. Beebe, at 22:58 or so, 'Do you read to him?', ie, the gorilla. Aww.
The Drunk-o-meter man was so somber and reserved, I would've guessed him as police or military right off the bat and I'm amazed the panel did not.
One interesting thing, the panelists did not recognize the camera men's voices, who made no effort to disguise their voices, indicating that the panelists had never talked to them in 8 years.
Yay Martin!
Unlike Eamonn Andrews, John Daly is the Chuck Norris of panel moderators! Once a panel moderator, always a panel moderator, and never a panelist!
ABC #1 news reporter😊
Was it the first time Buddy Hackett appeared on WML ? It seams to me the panel should have recognized him right away.
Can't miss that voice!
Buddy fooled them by using at least six very different voices, all of which sounded like Buddy Hackett doing voices. 😂
Drunkometer 😂😂😂
Would the panel not have noticed, that all three of the camera men were replaced that night by someone else . ..Just a thought
we have to assume the cameramen were replaced after the masks were on.
Among the many great things about Buddy Hackett is that he only married one woman and was an honest husband, compared with just about everyone else in show business then.
Rest In Peace scuttle
I bet it would be interesting for a while to play with a baby gorilla for eight hours a day, but I think I would get tired of it in the long haul.
Buddy, it seems, had more than his fair share of detractors, I always thought he was very 😎.
I just stumbled across your playlist of other channels' videos relating to WML (a couple days ago actually), and I remembered that I had been watching the footage that Bbarfo uploaded of the Frank Sinatra boat trip that Arlene makes mention of in her introduction! (at 1:20) Here's the video link: th-cam.com/video/8mZSvI0F4l4/w-d-xo.html
The last contestant reminds me a little bit of Steve Allen.
Wow, over 12,000 views which is much higher than the norm, yet only 3 comments on the video. Looks like there was high interest for some reason, but not too many found anything too interesting about it.
Yeah, I'm not sure why this video has such a significantly higher number of views than usual, but the lack of comments is less surprising. The 1950s shows all have less comments on them because there were fewer people watching the videos early on in the postings. But again, odd that this one has so many views, without a mystery guest that would explain it (e.g., Louis Armstrong, Judy Garland, Groucho, the celebrities who draw in non-regular WML viewers)
+What's My Line? I would hope it's because of Buddy Hackett, he is fantastic :)
Hello from a 26 year-old What's my Line? fan!
The Backup No slam on Buddy Hackett, but I doubt it's got anything much to do with him-- he was on WML quite a number of times.
Always a delight to hear from young fans of the show!
Or maybe they just werent compelled to comment.
I wanted to see Buddy!!
To me, at least some of the panelists had to know almost right from the beginning who "the mystery guest" was, but 'they were going along 'till the end of the show' making believe they didn't who he was. As soon as Buddy Hackett started speaking in sentences, they (some of them) could not have missed that unique-sounding voice (which he was not completely disguising) of the well-known comedian.
Yes, Cerf admitted they usually could guess the guests rather quickly but pretended to be clueless bc the show would end too quickly.
TV CAMERAMEN FOR "WHAT'S MY LINE?"
OPERATES DRUNKOMETER
BABYSITTER FOR GORILLA
Please keep any comments respectful. Some of us oldsters have short memories, so this keeps us from going back to see what the line is.
I still wonder who killed Dorothy...
Same people that killed the President.
@@secondstring No one. She died of an accidental overdose of barbituates and alcohol. The Manhattan DA recently reopened an investigation in light of newly published claims and declined to prosecute. Case closed.
@@preppysocks209 - You probably believe in the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy too.
@@preppysocks209 well if thats the official story it must be true!
@@slipper409: He has posted the same thing a couple dozen times. :)
Arlene Francis was the best panelist.
This episode has another favorite go-to topic. Testing people for alcoholism. Perhaps because panel members are sometimes drunk on the show?
Absolutely not😮
He should tell the elephant joke.
Hackett gets on my last nerve.
They took the baby gorilla away from its family?? That doesn't sound right.
Yeah. What kind of a monster would do that?
It was 62 years ago. And they still do that now. Zoos arent in the business of keeping families together.
to be fair, we dont know how they got the baby.
he could have been orphaned.
Buddy Hackett's charms are completely lost on me.
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Broad...way.
Thank you, Helen Lawson.
Is it just me or does Martin Gabel look like Bennett Cerf?
I'm fairly certain it's just you. There's no resemblance I can see beyond the fact that both men wear eyeglasses.
Joie Fulton it is definitely just you. He looks nothing like Bennett.
Joke - he does resemble him
I don't know: Do you look like Bennett Cerf?
I can see a bit of a physical resemblance,and they both have a smug,self-satisfied air about them.
I have been consistently distracted by that stain on Arlene's mask, over her left eye. It looks like maybe it's chalk or makeup and it's smeared over the black. I just want to take a damp cloth to that and clean it right off!!
Not entirely sure, but I think her mask is velvet, and pearls, of course. It looks like the pile of the velvet has been roughed, and that is what we are seeing.
Really!?
Send her a email 😂
It’s testing drucks for drick driving by the met police
London uk
😂
That challenger was called, stupid looking. These days he could have sued the network, instead of taking that joke.
I believe Martin said he was "astute" looking. He did not say he was "stupid" looking!
@@stevefonda6238 Same thing LOL...
Actually, he said the guy looked "studious," and therefore asked if he was an athlete, guessing the opposite of what one might think.
Dorothy looks slightly drunk ...
She almost turned over her glass of 'water' at 06:09
She had a mask on!
I think she was an alcoholic, wasn't she?
@@kulturekritik9665: I have never been able to find any verification of that rumor.
And she was painfully slow band very dramatic in her questions. .
I, for one, could never stand Buddy Hackett.
Send a email 😂
As usual, the hammy comedians can't stop talking when they should be monosyllabic.