I always loved Sal Mineo he was a gorgeous young man, with dark good looks, so handsome .... It was so sad when he was killed, such a great loss to the world...
"Fellow who gets the girl in the end." Nice one, Dorothy. Even allowing for the fact that the show took place in a somewhat more innocent era and that the WML panel and host were generally decorous, I thought I heard some raucous laughter in the audience and Sal Mineo was certainly amused by it.
Not only was that the means by which he was murdered, but during this time his nickname was "The Switchblade Kid" due to his role in the 1956 movie "Crime in the Streets".
I saw "The Karate Kid" a few days ago and I can't believe I just noticed, the resemblance between young Ralph Macchio and the late Sal Mineo is so uncanny you'd believe the two were related.
Sal Mineo was beautiful. He lived less than 20 years from when this program was made. He was murdered in 1976 at the young age of 37 years. may he continue to rest in peace.
It seems to me that WML had a lot of bullfighters and coaches for expectant parents. The panel actually seems to have gotten skilled at identifying them.
+mark mcgee no comparison. Kilgallen and Kovacs had already lived long full and prosperous lives but Sal had barely begun his life and career and most tragically was murdered. Murdered only because of his sexual orientation.
@@globalman Mineo's killer didn't even know who he killed until later. The theory that was related to Mineo's sexual orientation (he was bisexual, btw) has never been proven.
Funny that Sal and John agreed that he wasn't a "tall, dark and handsome" leading man. Geez, who was handsomer in Hollywood at that time? They should have said he's two out of three, since he wasn't tall.
As a joke Ernie guesses that the MG is Madame Schumann-Heink. 20:31 Ernestine Schumann-Heink (1861-1936) was a german opera singer. She sang the part of Klytämnestra at the premiere of Richard Strauss's opera *Elektra* in 1909, performed with Gustav Mahler and sang Wagner for many years at the Bayreuth Festivals. She moved to the USA in 1905 and from 1925 to 1935 she sang "Silent Night" every Christmas over the radio.
And there's a famous story about her: she was trying to walk through the orchestra to get to the podium to sing her concert, but couldn't squeeze through the violinists' chairs. Someone whispered to her, "Go sidewise, Madame Schumann-Heink," to which she replied, "Mein Gott, I have no sideways!"
Ernestine did a lot of radio work. Few recordings of 1920s radio survive, but she is involved in one of the more famous of them. She was the singing star of the Cascade Tunnel Dedication Broadcast in January 1929. She sang two classical numbers and "The Star Spangled Banner" intercut amid engineering descriptions, speeches, and jazz music numbers. She was not at her prime, but she was enthusiastic.
Johan Bengtsson There is another famous story about Schumann-Heink: Richard Strauss was at a rehearsal for one of his operas, and he told the orchestra, "Louder, louder, we can still hear Madame Schumann-Heink!"
It's amazing the amount of legendary 'talent' on this show - and the amount one learns when 'googling' info on guests - Betty Ford seemed more like a model than a Bullfighter - and I was right! Anyone can become anything - if they put their mind to it... Too bad television isn't as informative and entertaining as it used to be... Thank you, 'What's My Line?' :)
I really like Ernie Kovacs in the panel. He was charming, witty AND asked good (and funny) questions. He held his cigar behind the back of Arlene so the smoke wouldn't bother. He told Martin that was the reason and nothing else. :) 9:25
@@donaldmanthei1224 Did he not realize how badly he and the cigar smelled? Not to mention the health drawbacks. I think on later appearances by him on WML he only carried the cigar unlit.
When the lady ( not Arlene) said to Sal " meaning the man usually gets the Women in the end" to Sal....that was too funny, the audience got it right away, she got it a few seconds later, her reaction 😀😁😂
Sal Mineo's uncle lives in Tacoma. Al Mineo. (Probably gone.) Washed his windows for over 20 years... and he showed me many pics with him and Sal. Al also had a recording studio in backyard. Used it many times in the 90s and 10s !
By the time this program aired, Betty Bloomer had been married to Gerald Ford for about 9 years. He won his first term as a Congressman from Michigan shortly after they were married. But at this time in her husband's career, Betty Ford would not have been a household name on a national level. Bette Ford, the bullfighter, was famous enough to require her to sign in as Miss X. I don't think that Betty Ford would have needed to disguise her name.
Kind of bizarre that all three main actors ( Rebel Without a Cause) all had a tragic end. Sal M. was killed, J Dean died in a car crash and N Wood apparently drowned falling off the family’s yacht . All were screen legends .
@@tatum2739 People are more open now , but I really believe people have lost something . Not to say that there isn't good people now . They were very strong people with moral absolutes . I remember feeling very safe and secure because of them when I was young .
@@randallmacphee7260 My Aunt Eva used to give me and my cousin Ronald 20 cents each to catch a bus alone to Danville, Va to watch a movie and we were 4 and 5 yrs old at the time. An innocent time. I echo what Randy posted about Johan.
When I was six and my brother was eight there were free movies on saturday nights in the small town I was raised in and my parents would drop us off there . We camped out in the local woods and we could freely wonder all over the community . Many of my friends stayed alone at the age of seven or eight when their mothers were working . When a child is over protected , restricted , regulated , and confined , they dont develop emotionally and if it doesnt happen during their formative years , it doesnt happen at all . Also , there were fire arms in every house and I was aware of how dangerous they were at a very young age and I could safely handle a firearm if I had to . Many adults out there today are totally dysfunctional because of how they were raised .
My comment below does not show how much my family enjoys seeing these people from back in the day, but I'm really glad so many of us have evolved to where we are on the side of animal rights and think that celebrating the slaughter of animals is way out of line.
Just in case anyone might think Mineo's hobby of playing the drums might be incidental to what he did, I see he later played the lead role in 'The Gene Krupa Story'!!
I'm from Pittsburgh,and if someone told me that there was a gorgeous lady bullfighter from McKeesport,I'd think that they were full of it. And apparently,I'd be wrong.
Jeff Vaughn - Is it a necklace or a brooch? It looks like a brooch to me. No chain that I can see and it does not appear to be hanging freely at all. It is a big larger. It may be a loaner while her necklace was in for a lube.
Sal was murdered exactly 47 years ago from the day I wrote this post. The mugger / murderer served only 12 years in prison. Heck of an actor, Sal was nominated for an Academy Award at the age of 17!
That phrase was a commonly used one for the hero who ended up with the love interest at the end of the film. It got such a laugh because Sal Mineo was so young and, with the exception of "Dino", a film that did not garner much widespread audience appeal, he had played only young boys and youths in military schools, reformatories, or ethnic secondary roles. The notable exception was his role in "Rebel Without a Cause" where he definitely did not play the romantic lead.
00:35 The caricature of John Daly got the huge forehead spot on! Do people NOT read some of the previous comments? How many remarks do we need about Sal Mineo dying young?🤣
I love Sal Mineo!I seen him in Somebody up there likes me starring Paul Newman.I also seen Sal in Rebel without a cause,the James Dean movie which took James to stardom.
Sal Mineo Was a very good actor and he was in the great movie rebel without a cause but he was also in a movie about the great drummer Geene Krupa And he did play the drums in the movie and that was a very good movie to very good actor altogether
Totally addicted to WML before Dorothy died. I've started addressing people "is it bigger than a bread box" And " am I right in thinking that you do not, scratch your bum in the morning"...
Sal mineo was a good-looking guyI only see one movie rebel without a cause I like him in that movie but I did seen TV shows like Hawaii Five-O like you said he was a nice looking guy it is so tragic that he was murdered he was a good actor
Sal was a nice looking fellow and it's nice to see a Mystery Guest that while, not four- legged, represents an ethnicity not usual to the television audience.
Sounds like some men in the audience were also giving Sal the woof-whistle... No wonder considering Mineo set off quite the homoerotic charge in several of his films.
I disagree. It is very sweet to think of how a little girl is taken by a teenage boy. But it would be disturbing if a grown woman considered a teenager „a leading man“.
Sal Mineo was one of the new wave of young modern cool rock n roll era stars. Made these old school socialite types age very quickly into fossils of a dying era
I'm working my way through all of the episodes in chronological order. Do they ever sort this out so that poor last contestant gets sufficient time and isn't rushed off after 60 seconds? I'm so distracted watching John constantly looking up at a clock or timer or something. I feel bad for that last person, going to all that trouble to appear and barely getting any air time.
Sal Mineo was not really aware of his attraction to men at this time (and nobody else would have been aware of it either). For a few years he was engaged to his "Exodus" co-star, Jill Hayworth.
Sorry to be pedantic but that's not a double entendre. Got me confused for a moment wondering what the double entendre was! In any case, I don't think anyway in 1957 would be laughing about a misjudgement of gender preference! The laughter is purely on surface level and Dorothy's expression is more of a 'sorry!' in the direction of Sal. :)
@@TyrSkyFatherOfTheGods We're talking about the 1950s, though. The panelist meant getting the girl at the end of the film. From today's perspective (and the knowledge of Mineo's bisexuality), now people are seeing something that was not intended. I doubt most people in the 1950s would have given it a second thought.
I have always loved this show. I was very very young when it appeared on TV in the late 1950s early 60s. The one unfortunate aspect of the show is when they have comedians as guest panelists. Guys like Ernie Kovacs, Fred Allen, Groucho Marx, even Buddy Hackett used their time on the panel as if it were a one-man comic act, and not the show that. WML was meant to be.. During this show you can hear a few snide mumbled remarks from Martin Gabel about Ernie taking up so much time with his goofy behavior. ALDSO, I am sure Martin Gabel was less than thrilled that Ernie had his right arm wrapped around Arlene Frances for most of the SHOW. THE ONE COMIC who did not use his appearance on this show as a chance to do a comedy act was Steve Allen. He was able to come up with fast and funny one-liners effortlessly. Ernie Kovacs really was a comic genius. But his appearances on WML we're less than Funny. THE female bullfighter got the better of Ernie in the back and forth about Matadors tossing the hat to the crowd.
I learned about this Bette Ford after seeing her in a positively scandalous guest part on LA Law in the Eighties. I guess she was about 60, or a bit older, at the time, and still hot as a fire! Looking her up, I learned that she had been a bullfighter several years after age 18. (Actually, I think she had stopped bullfighting by the time of this show, when she was about age 30. But, she was the first ever female bullfighter to appear in Mexico's biggest arena.) She was also the co-creator of the show Gunsmoke! Checking on her now (April, 2022), I see that she is still living, at age 94 (a year older than the death age of the other...First Lady...Betty Ford.) In Wikipedia she is listed as still active, though the last credit is from 2011. See if you can find her LA Law episodes from 1986-7. You won't be sorry.
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"were you born outside of the country?" Sal Mineo whispers, "Yes,The Bronx !"....LOL.
Sal Mineo was not only a very attractive young man, but an amazing actor too. He was taken from this world too soon.
So was Ernie Kovacs, it would appear.
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True!
Sal Mineo was a gorgeous dude!
Looks average to me. Good actor though.
U never saw Errol Flynn?
He sure was very handsome.
Sal Mineo looks a lot like young Paul Newman to me.
Sal was so much fun! I enjoyed him very much. It breaks my heart that his life came to such a tragic end, he was so handsome & talented! ❤️
I always loved Sal Mineo he was a gorgeous young man, with dark good looks, so handsome ....
It was so sad when he was killed, such a great loss to the world...
How was he killed?
He was mugged
Jaime Perez how sad!
@@carolv8450 He was stabbed to death by a "pizza delivery guy".
Komfy Koala / so sad. Did they catch the guy?
He was still practically a child here. Gorgeous young man.
I like Sal Mineo and I think it was awful the way he died
These panelists are so suave and dignified, referring to a teenage boy as "MISTER Mineo", lol. Miss Francis said, "You're aging us, Mr. Mineo!"
Seeing his gorgeous face and smile, I want to cry from the terrible tragedy of a lost life.
Steven, what a nice post. I am also very emotional.
That's one beautiful bullfighter! I love watching these shows! Takes me back to my childhood.....happy times indeed! 🥰👏👍
Stunning
Stabbed to death in his garage on Holloway Dr. in LA summer of 1976..Huge loss
Very sad, senseless! I read he was a very nice guy! And soooo handsome! What a waste to just take a life, without care? Boggles my mind! Rip Sal!
Sal had such a sparkle in his eyes. A talented young man and such a tragic ending.
Indeed. And he was killed by the usual suspect.
@@AnBarbarossa ....that being?
@@robertknight2556 The usual suspect in a violent crime is a person who belongs to a group that is typically responsible for violent crimes
All 3 leading actors of Rebel Without a Cause died tragically and young
@Mark Richardson ... I think he means Sal, Natalie Wood, and of course James Dean
Yeah, James Dean died in a car crash, Sal was stabbed to death and Natalie drowned in a very suspicious manner when her husband was with her.
although not a leading actor in "Rebel", Nick Adams also died young and tragically.
Man, that was the prettiest bullfighter Ive ever seen ! Pretty, with a very nice smile and a great attitude. Makes for a beautiful combination.
thrilled to see Sal Minio. he was magnificent looking.
He certainly was! RIP Sal, you handsome and funny gentle man!
Ernie Kovacs and Sal Mineo were both taken too soon. May both be resting in peace.
It's truly iropnic that both Sal Mineo and Ernie Kovacs BOTH died violently. Mineo stabbed to death and Kovacs died in a car crash in 1962.
Steve Burrus So sad
😢😢
Sorry, not to nitpick, but it's actually just coincidence...no irony involved there.
Very tragic.
@@WelshKnight1066: Correct. There IS a difference between irony and coincidence.
"Fellow who gets the girl in the end." Nice one, Dorothy. Even allowing for the fact that the show took place in a somewhat more innocent era and that the WML panel and host were generally decorous, I thought I heard some raucous laughter in the audience and Sal Mineo was certainly amused by it.
Ernie's question to Sal Mineo about a "knife" was more than a little eerie ...
Yes, you're right. Never thought of it...
that is creepy.
Predictive programming
Not only was that the means by which he was murdered, but during this time his nickname was "The Switchblade Kid" due to his role in the 1956 movie "Crime in the Streets".
And John at the end saying, "we stuck 'em" caught my attention. Tragic.
In spite of his youth Sal Mineo dared to use a funny voice (John looked really surprised when he heard it 15:51) and he seemed to enjoy the show.
He was doing Edward G Robinson. It completely perplexed the panel.
Miss X was a lovely woman. You could see that she was quite athletic from the way she carried herself. Thanks for the video. Thanks for the video.
Rest in peace Sal Mineo, he died in such a horrific way.
so did Ernie Kovacs
@@allentoyokawa9068 how did they die?
I think Sal was stabbed to death.
Eric died in 62 as well from a car crash.
I saw "The Karate Kid" a few days ago and I can't believe I just noticed, the resemblance between young Ralph Macchio and the late Sal Mineo is so uncanny you'd believe the two were related.
Watch the Outsiders next, Macchio plays a sensitive gang member on it, his performance in that movie reminds me a lot of Mineo
@@fernandomaron87 I've always thought so, too. I'll bet that was in Francis Coppola's mind as well.
I'll always love Sal.
15:53 lmao the face on John's face when Sal answers yeah... That's what I love about John , he's so funny all the time haha
Sal Mineo was beautiful. He lived less than 20 years from when this program was made. He was murdered in 1976 at the young age of 37 years. may he continue to rest in peace.
When I was a teenager girls thought I looked like Sal Mineo boy, did that helped to get me a girlfriend.
It seems to me that WML had a lot of bullfighters and coaches for expectant parents. The panel actually seems to have gotten skilled at identifying them.
"... the fellow gets the girl in the end" is a great line from Dorothy in relation to Sal
Sal Mineo's parents would have made good non-celebrity guests. They made coffins for a living.
@Mark Richardson Is it something you get into?
If there was ever an epitome of handsome, divinity, beauty, talent, and tragedy it was Sal Mineo.
Erin Ioannucci so tragedies happened to Dorothy and Ernie too!
+mark mcgee no comparison. Kilgallen and Kovacs had already lived long full and prosperous lives but Sal had barely begun his life and career and most tragically was murdered. Murdered only because of his sexual orientation.
It's true that Sal was murdered at age 37. Kovacs wasn't that much older when he died... he was killed in a car accident at age 42.
@@globalman Mineo's killer didn't even know who he killed until later. The theory that was related to Mineo's sexual orientation (he was bisexual, btw) has never been proven.
Early Bird.
DIVINITY ? Are you real? DIVINITY?
Funny that Sal and John agreed that he wasn't a "tall, dark and handsome" leading man. Geez, who was handsomer in Hollywood at that time? They should have said he's two out of three, since he wasn't tall.
It's because Sal was rather short. He has the 'dark' and 'handsome' parts down. That's why he and John both raised their hands in a height gesture.
Gregory peck
@@ItoshimiThe hand gesture was Sal showing he was short.
~Ito~ (糸) but the panel could not see a hand gesture so a verbal reply of two out of three would have been more helpful.
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Lost in all this admittedly deserving Sal Mineo hoopla is the fact that Arlene Francis was SMOKING in this episode! Nailed two (2) professions.
As a joke Ernie guesses that the MG is Madame Schumann-Heink. 20:31 Ernestine Schumann-Heink (1861-1936) was a german opera singer. She sang the part of Klytämnestra at the premiere of Richard Strauss's opera *Elektra* in 1909, performed with Gustav Mahler and sang Wagner for many years at the Bayreuth Festivals. She moved to the USA in 1905 and from 1925 to 1935 she sang "Silent Night" every Christmas over the radio.
+Johan Bengtsson Bennett suggested her in Peggy Cass's mystery guest spot too.
And there's a famous story about her: she was trying to walk through the orchestra to get to the podium to sing her concert, but couldn't squeeze through the violinists' chairs. Someone whispered to her, "Go sidewise, Madame Schumann-Heink," to which she replied, "Mein Gott, I have no sideways!"
Ernestine did a lot of radio work. Few recordings of 1920s radio survive, but she is involved in one of the more famous of them. She was the singing star of the Cascade Tunnel Dedication Broadcast in January 1929. She sang two classical numbers and "The Star Spangled Banner" intercut amid engineering descriptions, speeches, and jazz music numbers. She was not at her prime, but she was enthusiastic.
Johan Bengtsson There is another famous story about Schumann-Heink: Richard Strauss was at a rehearsal for one of his operas, and he told the orchestra, "Louder, louder, we can still hear Madame Schumann-Heink!"
True. That was ''Elektra'' too. She hated the music and her role.
It's amazing the amount of legendary 'talent' on this show - and the amount one learns when 'googling' info on guests - Betty Ford seemed more like a model than a Bullfighter - and I was right! Anyone can become anything - if they put their mind to it... Too bad television isn't as informative and entertaining as it used to be... Thank you, 'What's My Line?' :)
The bullfighter was named Betty Ford. I wonder if Jerry knew what she did while out of town.
AND she is still alive at the age of 93 as of 10/15/2020!
Still alive in late September 2024. She’s 97!
Ernie Kovacs was a really pleasent man.
Ernie Kovacs died in a
Terrible car crash.
How tragic
And waste of life and talent
I really like Ernie Kovacs in the panel. He was charming, witty AND asked good (and funny) questions. He held his cigar behind the back of Arlene so the smoke wouldn't bother. He told Martin that was the reason and nothing else. :) 9:25
+brian anderson especially as cigars have a disgusting stink that only a minority find ok.
Didnt hide his beer 😉
He was very rude for smoking that cigar. Do you think that by holding it behind her back really made any difference. He was totally selfobcessed.
@Donald Manthei I agree. Could not have been comfortable for Arlene either
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Did he not realize how badly he and the cigar smelled? Not to mention the health drawbacks. I think on later appearances by him on WML he only carried the cigar unlit.
Sal Mineo was so adorable, it was ashamed how he died.
My pleasure.
When the lady ( not Arlene) said to Sal " meaning the man usually gets the Women in the end" to Sal....that was too funny, the audience got it right away, she got it a few seconds later, her reaction 😀😁😂
Yes, very funny. And this was in 1957 when such things weren't talked about.
Sal Mineo's uncle lives in Tacoma. Al Mineo. (Probably gone.)
Washed his windows for over 20 years... and he showed me many pics with him and Sal.
Al also had a recording studio in backyard. Used it many times in the 90s and 10s !
Sal Mineo was born January 1939, so he is 18 here.
As he said, "I'm only 18".
He said he was 18.
By the time this program aired, Betty Bloomer had been married to Gerald Ford for about 9 years. He won his first term as a Congressman from Michigan shortly after they were married. But at this time in her husband's career, Betty Ford would not have been a household name on a national level. Bette Ford, the bullfighter, was famous enough to require her to sign in as Miss X. I don't think that Betty Ford would have needed to disguise her name.
Sal Mineo, "Que Bello". RIP
Kind of bizarre that all three main actors ( Rebel Without a Cause) all had a tragic end. Sal M. was killed, J Dean died in a car crash and N Wood apparently drowned falling off the family’s yacht . All were screen legends .
They all have an expression of kindness , goodness in their eyes that I am not seeing in these times .
People were better at saving face back then. Doesn’t mean they were any less cruel. People are just more up front today
@@tatum2739 People are more open now , but I really believe people have lost something . Not to say that there isn't good people now . They were very strong people with moral absolutes . I remember feeling very safe and secure because of them when I was young .
@@randallmacphee7260 My Aunt Eva used to give me and my cousin Ronald 20 cents each to catch a bus alone to Danville, Va to watch a movie and we were 4 and 5 yrs old at the time. An innocent time.
I echo what Randy posted about Johan.
When I was six and my brother was eight there were free movies on saturday nights in the small town I was raised in and my parents would drop us off there . We camped out in the local woods and we could freely wonder all over the community . Many of my friends stayed alone at the age of seven or eight when their mothers were working . When a child is over protected , restricted , regulated , and confined , they dont develop emotionally and if it doesnt happen during their formative years , it doesnt happen at all . Also , there were fire arms in every house and I was aware of how dangerous they were at a very young age and I could safely handle a firearm if I had to . Many adults out there today are totally dysfunctional because of how they were raised .
That's the heavy drugs that Drs handed out like candy, 'pep' pills, sleeping pills, diet pills...
My comment below does not show how much my family enjoys seeing these people from back in the day, but I'm really glad so many of us have evolved to where we are on the side of animal rights and think that celebrating the slaughter of animals is way out of line.
So sad the way that he died....He was more handsome as he got older....
They are all so charming and civilized!
Gorgeous Sal Mineo!
I love your channel! I’m 51 so this was way before my time, but if I could have picked an era to live in, it would be the 50’s
What a waste of a great final contestant running out of time as usual
They should try this show again. On Sunday nights at 10:30. Could have great celebrity guests.
WHAT A GOOD LOOKING BULLFIGHTER. I THOUGHT THERE WOULD BE MORE WHISTLES.
Just in case anyone might think Mineo's hobby of playing the drums might be incidental to what he did, I see he later played the lead role in 'The Gene Krupa Story'!!
He should've won an academy award for his great acting in that movie.
@@robertsamson4610I totally agree
I'm from Pittsburgh,and if someone told me that there was a gorgeous lady bullfighter from McKeesport,I'd think that they were full of it. And apparently,I'd be wrong.
Arlene is wearing a different heart shaped necklace in this show.
Jeff Vaughn She also has a heart shaped ring on her right hand.
Jeff Vaughn - Is it a necklace or a brooch? It looks like a brooch to me. No chain that I can see and it does not appear to be hanging freely at all. It is a big larger. It may be a loaner while her necklace was in for a lube.
I must say that the lady contestants on this particular episode were quite lovely!
Why did this have to happen
To Sal Mineo! I feel sad about.
Sal was murdered exactly 47 years ago from the day I wrote this post. The mugger / murderer served only 12 years in prison. Heck of an actor, Sal was nominated for an Academy Award at the age of 17!
"The fellow who gets the girl in the end." One of the great things about WML were the unintentional double entendres.A classic WML moment!
That phrase was a commonly used one for the hero who ended up with the love interest at the end of the film. It got such a laugh because Sal Mineo was so young and, with the exception of "Dino", a film that did not garner much widespread audience appeal, he had played only young boys and youths in military schools, reformatories, or ethnic secondary roles. The notable exception was his role in "Rebel Without a Cause" where he definitely did not play the romantic lead.
That's definitely not why it got a laugh@@debeydick1566
00:35 The caricature of John Daly got the huge forehead spot on! Do people NOT read some of the previous comments? How many remarks do we need about Sal Mineo dying young?🤣
I love Sal Mineo!I seen him in Somebody up there likes me starring Paul Newman.I also seen Sal in Rebel without a cause,the James Dean movie which took James to stardom.
To complete the circle, James Dean was scheduled to play the lead in "Somebody Up There Likes Me." Newman was cast after Dean's death.
ZoneFighter1, see him in "Rebel Without a Cause," and also "The Gene Krupa Story" (with the drums).
And "The longest day," "Giant," and "Exodus," among others.
@@jplaw2508 Cheyenne Autumn. He played an Indian.
Best mystery guest ever!
Ouuugu
John loved his conferences.
Ernie's book, Zoomar, is a good read. It is a sort of Mad Men set in the world of 50's TV, with a lot of the same forces at work in the plot line.
My Gosh, im a straight man and I think I would date him..lol Handsome Dude.
If you think so, maybe you're not as straight as you think
John is sure getting pretty free about giving away the whole prize of $50 whether earned or not.
The show always gave the full $50 to the contestants. The scoring was just a gimmick.
Arlene was paid $1000 an episode, when the median weekly pay was $60
@@markschildberg1667 I was joking and think the prize money amounts were silly.
Sal Mineo Was a very good actor and he was in the great movie rebel without a cause but he was also in a movie about the great drummer Geene Krupa And he did play the drums in the movie and that was a very good movie to very good actor altogether
Yes indeed. Such a good actor! Oscar nominated again five years after "Rebel", for Otto Preminger's "Exodus"('60).
Bullfighting was considered a “service.” 😣😞
🙄 as compared to a product.
This man was a doll!
What a lovely looking young man Sal was. So sad that he was killed. I believe Rod Stewart's "Georgie" was based on him, is that correct?
I think so!
Totally addicted to WML before Dorothy died. I've started addressing people "is it bigger than a bread box" And " am I right in thinking that you do not, scratch your bum in the morning"...
I never heard the second one, only the one about the bread box from the hilarious and wonderful Steve Allen.
I've seen all episodes till this date and I swear this is the 6th bull fighter, 3 of them female
Very talented young .an whose life was cut short
Sal mineo was a good-looking guyI only see one movie rebel without a cause I like him in that movie but I did seen TV shows like Hawaii Five-O like you said he was a nice looking guy it is so tragic that he was murdered he was a good actor
Sal Mineo
I can't see anyone in the comments mentioning the sirens in the back? How close was this studio to the street?
Sal was a nice looking fellow and it's nice to see a Mystery Guest that while, not four- legged, represents an ethnicity not usual to
the television audience.
Except for the hombre who "LOVED LUCY"!
They had plenty of MGs of Italian descent.
This is the second show I've seen with Ernie Kovacs on the panel, that quadriped question was most unexpected AND hilarious
Ernie passed away tragically in a car accident at a young age , Sal Mineo was way too young when he died.
@@DEB781 thank you for the info, it seems like a few talented people have met their demise in the same way, ✌
@@donaldleroy6502 Sal Mineo was murdered.
LOL @ 13:37 when John's speaking, with closed caption it says "one down & nine to go Miss Frenchy".
Closed Captioning cracks me up! Sometimes what's written is far more entertaining than what's spoken.
When I was a kid, my sister had a poster of him on the wall in her room. I always remember that.
Man back then stars are better then today's
And better looking, that's for sure!
Sounds like some men in the audience were also giving Sal the woof-whistle... No wonder considering Mineo set off quite the homoerotic charge in several of his films.
That's because he was deliberately meant to confuse the genders...and did.
This was the 1950s likely they were women whistling
Sal the voice he used was ilarious. I knew the panel would never guess who he was.
Kovacs died young in a car accident and Mineo died also young in a robbery. Sad.
Dorothy: "I can only tell Sal that my little daughter considers him a leading man". BUT I DON'T!!
That's what's called a backhanded compliment!
I disagree. It is very sweet to think of how a little girl is taken by a teenage boy. But it would be disturbing if a grown woman considered a teenager „a leading man“.
She was 44 in 1957. He stated that he was 18. It would have been very disturbing.
Sal Mineo was one of the new wave of young modern cool rock n roll era stars. Made these old school socialite types age very quickly into fossils of a dying era
I'm working my way through all of the episodes in chronological order. Do they ever sort this out so that poor last contestant gets sufficient time and isn't rushed off after 60 seconds? I'm so distracted watching John constantly looking up at a clock or timer or something. I feel bad for that last person, going to all that trouble to appear and barely getting any air time.
Would’ve been interesting to see James Dean on this :(
One man in the audience wolf-whistling at Sal Mineo.
Sal was the best part of Rebel Without A Cause.
Or rather actually not
The look on Dorothy's face at 17:57, when she clues in to her inadvertent double entendre, is priceless.
Sal Mineo was not really aware of his attraction to men at this time (and nobody else would have been aware of it either). For a few years he was engaged to his "Exodus" co-star, Jill Hayworth.
Sorry to be pedantic but that's not a double entendre. Got me confused for a moment wondering what the double entendre was!
In any case, I don't think anyway in 1957 would be laughing about a misjudgement of gender preference! The laughter is purely on surface level and Dorothy's expression is more of a 'sorry!' in the direction of Sal. :)
@@Muirmaiden The double entendre is about anal sex, which of course is an equal opportunity pastime.
@@davidsanderson5918 Hence "inadvertent." The audience picked up on it.
@@TyrSkyFatherOfTheGods We're talking about the 1950s, though. The panelist meant getting the girl at the end of the film. From today's perspective (and the knowledge of Mineo's bisexuality), now people are seeing something that was not intended. I doubt most people in the 1950s would have given it a second thought.
I have always loved this show. I was very very young when it appeared on TV in the late 1950s early 60s. The one unfortunate aspect of the show is when they have comedians as guest panelists. Guys like Ernie Kovacs, Fred Allen, Groucho Marx, even Buddy Hackett used their time on the panel as if it were a one-man comic act, and not the show that. WML was meant to be.. During this show you can hear a few snide mumbled remarks from Martin Gabel about Ernie taking up so much time with his goofy behavior. ALDSO, I am sure Martin Gabel was less than thrilled that Ernie had his right arm wrapped around Arlene Frances for most of the SHOW. THE ONE COMIC who did not use his appearance on this show as a chance to do a comedy act was Steve Allen. He was able to come up with fast and funny one-liners effortlessly. Ernie Kovacs really was a comic genius. But his appearances on WML we're less than Funny. THE female bullfighter got the better of Ernie in the back and forth about Matadors tossing the hat to the crowd.
Mr Mineo is certainly dark and handsome 😘
Thanks for gracing the screen and sorry for your untimely demise.
Awesome sal mineo i liked him as a boy
Sal Mineo seemed very kindly and down to earth.
I learned about this Bette Ford after seeing her in a positively scandalous guest part on LA Law in the Eighties. I guess she was about 60, or a bit older, at the time, and still hot as a fire! Looking her up, I learned that she had been a bullfighter several years after age 18. (Actually, I think she had stopped bullfighting by the time of this show, when she was about age 30. But, she was the first ever female bullfighter to appear in Mexico's biggest arena.) She was also the co-creator of the show Gunsmoke! Checking on her now (April, 2022), I see that she is still living, at age 94 (a year older than the death age of the other...First Lady...Betty Ford.) In Wikipedia she is listed as still active, though the last credit is from 2011. See if you can find her LA Law episodes from 1986-7. You won't be sorry.