What's My Line? - Randolph Churchill; Kim Novak; Desi Arnaz [panel] (Feb 5, 1956)

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  • MYSTERY GUEST: Randolph Churchil [son of Winston]l; Kim Novak [film actress, best remembered for her leading roles in "Picnic" (1955) and "Vertigo" (1958)]
    PANEL: Arlene Francis, Desi Arnaz, Dorothy Kilgallen, Fred Allen
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  • @sherivanduren7589
    @sherivanduren7589 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    This is the best show ever made. I wish they would bring it back. Just pure fun. People back then were so graceful and elegant.

    • @matthewbbenton
      @matthewbbenton 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I don’t think you’d want the show back today. Can you imagine how trashy it would be?

  • @joncheskin
    @joncheskin 6 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    Randolph Churchill looked like he was having a great time. I bet his father would have done the same.

    • @satori03
      @satori03 หลายเดือนก่อน

      looks so much like Winston

  • @taylortimeless
    @taylortimeless 6 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Kim is so adorable

  • @timschmidt3784
    @timschmidt3784 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    My parents lived in Salina, Kansas when Picnic was filmed and the movie is still one of my dad's favorites to this day.

  • @samray3297
    @samray3297 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    These 2 ladies on the Panel are impressive!

    • @watchman1178
      @watchman1178 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      America actually had a pretty good educational system back in the day.

  • @rickcharles5064
    @rickcharles5064 10 ปีที่แล้ว +138

    Have an uncle that looked like Desi. He was always being "spotted" as him. Was with him once about 10 years ago and a woman came running up calling him Desi and wanting his autograph. Without skipping a beat at 89 years old, he replied, "Ma'am, I've been dead since 1986."
    She didn't "get" it.
    Thought I was going to die laughing!

    • @WhatsMyLine
      @WhatsMyLine  10 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      that's very funny. :) (i use emoticons grudgingly, but refuse to write lol.)

    • @lemorab1
      @lemorab1 9 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Thank you so much for this anecdote, and another thank you to whoever posted this! I had a huge crush on Desi Arnaz and grew up with "I Love Lucy." All my male cats have been named Desi, after Mr. Arnaz. I love seeing him here.

    • @rickcharles5064
      @rickcharles5064 9 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      ***** Also have a cousin-in-law that is a dead-ringer for Paul Newman. Whenever we have a family get-together at a restaurant one or both get asked for autographs. The Desi one tries to explain that he died in 86 and the Paul one just signs the autographs or takes the picture. Says it's easier than convincing them Paul died in 06.
      I always wonder at what point they notice the autographs aren't Desi & Paul.
      The Paul one told mehe had 1 woman chase him down in the parking lot to DEMAND he write the real name. He told her, "Honey, that is my real name." She threw a hissy-fit until he finally broke down and signed what she wanted.

    • @loissimmons6558
      @loissimmons6558 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      +rick charles
      Hah! Wait till she tries to sell her "Paul Newman" autograph on E-bay!
      I like your uncle's style. There's no way to improve on his retort.

    • @danielfronc4304
      @danielfronc4304 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      rick charles Hilarious anecdote!

  • @michelleregis6181
    @michelleregis6181 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Kim was class, she was beautifulll, reserved and admired by millions , really i coudnt compliment her enough.

    • @cameronduff884
      @cameronduff884 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      She did such a great job in VERTIGO, I hated to see her jump.

    • @drumbum3.142
      @drumbum3.142 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Uhh.. ... Why the Past Tense?. Is What i wanna Know.
      Unless I'm missing a facet of news that just now occured, as of March 8th, 2022; Madam Novak IS Very (VERY) Much Alive And With Us at the Age of Eighty-Nine Years Young (!)

  • @loissimmons6558
    @loissimmons6558 6 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    Kim Novak was 8 days shy of her 23rd birthday when she made this appearance on WML. It is quite a tribute to her that she had already achieved leading lady status. Most actresses with her age and appearance would still be described as an ingenue. In the same year that "Picnic" was made she also had a movie with an uncredited role as a harem girl. (According to one source, she made only $100 a week for her work in "Picnic".) She had a very fast climb to the top. At that age, she had the looks to play young and innocent and the poise to play more mature than her years.

    • @johnnyaingel5753
      @johnnyaingel5753 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      TRUTH every word i agree with you

    • @padijeff5675
      @padijeff5675 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      She was in Vertigo, one best films ever!🙂

    • @kjellhansen1387
      @kjellhansen1387 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      KIM NOVAK IS VERY PRETTY,NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT
      AND A VERY NICE AND LOVELY LADY TOO
      AND SHE HAS MANY GREAT TALENTS FANTASTISK

    • @slaytonp
      @slaytonp 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I wonder how many girls born around the time of PICNIC were named Kim? My husband was so struck by her that he named our daughter after her, and I know our Kim went to school with a few more Kims around her age. There were also a lot of Kimberlys, but I believe those had a different source from Kim Novak. In those days, it was a brand new name.

    • @stephb4308
      @stephb4308 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      sl

  • @radio63
    @radio63 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Fred Allen was one of the greatest wits of 20th century America. He had a wide following with his radio programs of the 1930s and 40s. His appearances on WML are particularly delightful. Those of you complaining about him not being funny or talking too much definitely don’t have an appreciation for the excellent wit he had or the humor of that era.

    • @delmofritz3964
      @delmofritz3964 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Whoever is complaining has no sense of humour. Freddy was great!

  • @krissalouvae7513
    @krissalouvae7513 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    It's not easy to be funny in a language that isn't your first language. Desi Arnaz is really good on here, very quit-witted and genuinely funny. 👍

    • @FreihEitner
      @FreihEitner ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I think people often overlook how good Desi Arnaz was simply because of how towering Lucy was as a comic actor, but you're so right that being funny in a secondary language has got to be very tough.

    • @margerykirner5604
      @margerykirner5604 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@FreihEitnerDesi Arnaz spoke perfect English. He was not thinking in Spanish, and translating it to English. Arnaz was a very able and meticulously competent man. He spoke and understood English and was fluent in the language.

    • @melianna999
      @melianna999 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Tell me about it.😂😂

  • @mikejschin
    @mikejschin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Randolph Churchill is identified as a correspondent for the "Ike-Eden meetings". Ike was, of course, US president Dwight Eisenhower, and Anthony Eden was Prime Minister of Great Britain. They were meeting due a political crisis related to the Suez Canal. Later in the year, the crisis led to military conflict and eventually to the resignation of Eden as PM. Details can be found in the Wikipedia entry "Suez Crisis".

  • @Kmac005
    @Kmac005 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Desi's interaction with Randolph Churchill starting around the 7:50 mark is one of the more delightful bits in all of WML. Desi's self depreciating humor combined with his questions that get a "yes", while still having no idea who Churchill is quite funny. His relief at getting a "no" tops it all.

    • @lemorab1
      @lemorab1 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I can't imagine another situation where Desi Arnaz would interact with Randolph Churchill. You just wouldn't expect their paths to cross. This is a gem.

  • @mikejschin
    @mikejschin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    At 23:15, Desi refers to a show in which William Holden ends up with a pie in the face. That was one of the funniest episodes of "I Love Lucy".

  • @harrysharp3838
    @harrysharp3838 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    ..."you did it with Lucy?!...hilarious from Desi and quite risque for 1956.

    • @lemorab1
      @lemorab1 ปีที่แล้ว

      I just went back and watched it again, I completely missed that the first time! That is hilarious! This is the main reason I love WML. Where else would you see an interaction between Randolph Churchill and Desi Arnaz on 1950's television!? Desi was 41 years old at the time this was filmed and also a heavy drinker and smoker. It didn't show on him (yet) the way it did on Randolph, only 3 years older than Desi.

  • @allenjones3130
    @allenjones3130 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Desi Arnaz was a very talented fella!

  • @GJP1169
    @GJP1169 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I enjoy reading the comments as much as watching the show .

  • @Beson-SE
    @Beson-SE 9 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Wonderful reaction from Desi when realized that the second contestant is the helicopter pilot who will fly him and Lucy to Jamestown, NY tomorrow. 18:04

  • @johnnyaingel5753
    @johnnyaingel5753 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    LOVE her even as young boy and i still do and i loved picnic the part where holden and her dance as she comes down the stairs WOW fire works for me with my 2 favorite stars

  • @04charisma05
    @04charisma05 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Ms. Novak was a bit shy, I could tell she hasn’t changed since then. She still possesses grace, humility. I’ve yet to watch Picnic that is on my list.

    • @peteralbert1485
      @peteralbert1485 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Her dance scene with William Holden from that movie (on TH-cam) is mesmerizing

    • @bobdownes162
      @bobdownes162 ปีที่แล้ว

      Shy ?
      Surely the word you are searching for is Coy ?!

    • @Bink316
      @Bink316 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The music & the dancing scene with William Holden is out of this world!!

  • @bthvnyt
    @bthvnyt 8 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    Kim Novak what a lovely charming young lady here :)

    • @nikhilsukumar23
      @nikhilsukumar23 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Yes mysterious and a little like Marilyn Monroe and has same name too I heard.

    • @kjellhansen1387
      @kjellhansen1387 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Kim NOVAK ARE one OF the PRETTIEST AND finest actress AND ARTIST i have seen

    • @princeharming8963
      @princeharming8963 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      A stunning woman, no doubt. Completely wrecked herself with plastic surgery.

    • @jonathanlane4496
      @jonathanlane4496 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      OMG, she was gorgeous!

    • @delmofritz3964
      @delmofritz3964 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      She looks incredible here. Even more appealing than in the movies I think because she's herself.

  • @brunoantony3218
    @brunoantony3218 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Nobody knew that night that in 2 years Ms. Novak would star in the best movie ever made, Vertigo.

    • @jerrylee8261
      @jerrylee8261 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Can't stand Stewart so skipped that movie a few weeks ago. It's funny to dislike someone you've never met. Feel the same about Heflin and Quinn.

    • @brunoantony3218
      @brunoantony3218 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@jerrylee8261 I never met you and I don’t like you so I understand.

    • @jerrylee8261
      @jerrylee8261 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@brunoantony3218 😢As you can see, I am wounded to the core How childish. Are you 8 yrs old? BTW the feeling is mutual.

    • @melianna999
      @melianna999 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Excellent movie with James Stewart. His act of being completely unhappy in love, in despair totally shocked me.
      Wouldn't think he can do it. Big and tough hero.

  • @Marcel_Audubon
    @Marcel_Audubon ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Kim Novak, a real beauty of the era

  • @michaelnivens6267
    @michaelnivens6267 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    A total knockout and a superb actress - Vertigo,Picnic, The Man With The Golden Arm , The Great Bank Robbery ....

    • @alansorensen5903
      @alansorensen5903 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      And Bell, Book and Candle. Bewitching performance.

    • @sthompson4049
      @sthompson4049 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@alansorensen5903 Her best movie,up there with Picnic. Ernie Kovacs, Elsa Lanchester, Jack 🍋,and Piewack

    • @lemorab1
      @lemorab1 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's Pyewacket @@sthompson4049

  • @dizzyology7514
    @dizzyology7514 8 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    Although he wasn't terribly good at the game, Desi Arnaz was an excellent guest panelist. He provided a number of quick comebacks, and picked up on the audience laughter over possibly using the services of the helicopter pilot and made the most of it. Skills that remind one of Steve Allen. It's too bad he didn't appear on the panel more often. He did appear as a Mystery Guest, once with and once without Lucy.

  • @annakaminski4406
    @annakaminski4406 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Such a pleasure to watch these episodes.

  • @scarsdale22
    @scarsdale22 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I adore Ms Novak

  • @satori03
    @satori03 8 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    i adore these videos..i did not watch this as a child so it is an everchanging treat for me

  • @MyLady120
    @MyLady120 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Kim Novak is amazing. I love Her movie Picnic. I Love all Her movies. ❤

    • @Bink316
      @Bink316 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I loved Bell Book & Candle too but the dance scene with William Holden in Picnic is out of this world

    • @anneroy4560
      @anneroy4560 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Bink316 That dance scene in Picnic is so ... what? erotic? enticing? fabulous scene ...

  • @TBBMusicBlog
    @TBBMusicBlog 10 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Desi pretty funny in this episode.

    • @jaengen
      @jaengen ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Desi was naturally funny unlike Lucy who was not funny at all unless she had a script.

    • @LANCSKID
      @LANCSKID 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      For all of that hair cack alone.

  • @epaddon
    @epaddon 10 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Notice at the end how John marks the 6th anniversary of the show by mentioning a congratulatory telegram from "our old colleague, Mr. Block." This was the first reference to Block since his firing three years before and evidently he had gotten over it. Nine years later on the 15th anniversary show in 1965, Daly would close by mentioning that Block had called to offer congratulations as well.

  • @lynnsouth5174
    @lynnsouth5174 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Great night. From start to finish.

  • @trock6577
    @trock6577 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Kim is still alive at 90. What a beautiful woman

  • @albertmontoya6413
    @albertmontoya6413 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Kim Novak stunning

  • @Rhonda9199
    @Rhonda9199 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I was born in 63 so don't remember watching this show but I love it now! Thank you so much for these uploads!

  • @Rstlnep2
    @Rstlnep2 9 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    I thank you for your hours and hours of work!

    • @WhatsMyLine
      @WhatsMyLine  9 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      David Evans You're very welcome. Thank you for taking my prior comments seriously. I'm just a person who does this as a hobby, as best I can, spread pretty thin.

    • @stephenfanelli5281
      @stephenfanelli5281 9 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      What's My Line? I am very appreciative of these videos. I love the show, and have been watching them in the evenings for years and years. Never get tired of them. Thank you.

    • @alansorensen5903
      @alansorensen5903 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@WhatsMyLine A hobby? Thanks for the lovely, loving gift of time and energy. Volunteer of the decade to you, for sure.

  • @ReezeGoingSenseless
    @ReezeGoingSenseless 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Can you imagine what folks will watch in another 63 years? Amazing.

    • @dcasper8514
      @dcasper8514 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Cartoons with flying dragons. Wait... That's happening now..

    • @igkoigko9950
      @igkoigko9950 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Already the video gaming industry grosses more than movies and VR and AR are common. In 63 years people won’t be “watching “ there will be direct brain stimulation and the “viewer” will interface with the game or show. When our grandchildren are our age they will be doing these things while being flown in autonomous electric fuel cell planes and doing other things I can’t even imagine

    • @LANCSKID
      @LANCSKID 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes, edifying programmes with Jerry Springer.

  • @johannarhymer1093
    @johannarhymer1093 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Wow got to see the son of Winston Churchill

  • @FigaroHey
    @FigaroHey 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Fred Allen: the original 'radio face.'

  • @robertcollins7025
    @robertcollins7025 10 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Dorothy Kilgallen"s Dress is stunning.

    • @jslasher666
      @jslasher666 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Whereas she isn't.

    • @ladypamela2
      @ladypamela2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@jslasher666 what a cruel and unkind remark to make. Miss Dorothy was a brilliant reporter highly esteemed in the literary world. She was by no means an entertainer or actress. And even if she was that was still a very uncalled for remark.

    • @melianna999
      @melianna999 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@jslasher666 Educate yourself. Do not believe in gossips.

  • @JulieStJohn-jb4cy
    @JulieStJohn-jb4cy ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Fun and funny episode! Many thanks to whomever is providing these very entertaining videos. I’m an addict.

  • @karenmallonee3867
    @karenmallonee3867 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    What a fun time this was! Just love this show!!! ❤️

  • @amberola1b
    @amberola1b 6 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    To me Randolph Churchill resembles the late actor Charles Durning alot

    • @enormerschwanz
      @enormerschwanz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Kinda, yeah

    • @dcasper8514
      @dcasper8514 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      More like Lionel Barrymore to me.

  • @steve.schatz
    @steve.schatz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Loved Fred Allen. Dry wit. Hard to believe in less than 6 weeks after this filming, he would be dead. His humor is missed.

    • @steve.schatz
      @steve.schatz ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@trock6577 A different era. No public profanity. Cultural guardrails. No screaming or shouting. The innuendos are never in your face, twice removed. Challenging, sometimes making you think "what's he getting at". You would have appreciated living through it and would in hindsight cherish it.

    • @harriettedaisy2233
      @harriettedaisy2233 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@steve.schatz I’ve never cared for Fred Allen either, and I remember the times. It also doesn’t mean I don’t get his jokes.

    • @trock6577
      @trock6577 ปีที่แล้ว

      Don’t find Fred Allen at all funny.

    • @waldolydecker8118
      @waldolydecker8118 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I first came across Fred Allen years ago in the 1935 Dick Powell film, "Thanks a Million." His wit and delivery was impressive in that film. In his visits here, he could be trying, so understand why he wouldn't appeal to many.

    • @orgonkothewildlyuntamed6301
      @orgonkothewildlyuntamed6301 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Fred was a nice guy by all accounts but had way more bad jokes than good, didnt have nice things to say about overweight people & wasted a lot of time especially this episode(so much so John had to remove the usual walk/by & free guess)

  • @drumbum3.142
    @drumbum3.142 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    One day late, however and nonetheless a *VERY,* Happy and Healthy Birthday to Madam Kim Novak here, who is Ninety Years Young.,!🎈🧸🧸☺️😊☺️☺️☺️🧸🧸🧸

  • @Beson-SE
    @Beson-SE 9 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    To have Winston Churchill as the Mystery Guest on WML, that would have been something to view and review for ever!! It would have been their finest hour. :)

    • @dcasper8514
      @dcasper8514 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Johan...Quoting someone else ???

    • @Cosmo-Kramer
      @Cosmo-Kramer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Actually, the show was just half an hour.

  • @SnowWalker1
    @SnowWalker1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    Holy crow, does Randolph ever resemble his father.

    • @leesher1845
      @leesher1845 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I know! It’s like a carbon copy.

    • @dennisholst4322
      @dennisholst4322 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Some of the greatness of our God

    • @LANCSKID
      @LANCSKID 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Pretty close, but no cigar.

  • @Beson-SE
    @Beson-SE 9 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Randolph Churchill was named after his grandfather, lord Randolph Churchill. His father was of course Winston Churchill and his son was also named Winston.

  • @gaskellr44
    @gaskellr44 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Randolph Churchill was only 44 yrs old in this, they looked a lot older in those days.

    • @peternagy-im4be
      @peternagy-im4be ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Heavy smoking and drinking

    • @melianna999
      @melianna999 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@peternagy-im4be Yes. And different diet.

  • @joycejean-baptiste4355
    @joycejean-baptiste4355 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Even though English wasn't Mr. Desi's primary language, he did very well despite I think.

  • @lordtom1997
    @lordtom1997 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Love Kim Novak wonderful star who refused to be a copy of someone else and made it with her own personality

  • @Bloomfield246
    @Bloomfield246 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Kim Novak was dreamy in her younger years.

    • @Charles1053
      @Charles1053 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      still lovely 2018

  • @timothydouglas7949
    @timothydouglas7949 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    One of my favorite movies is Vertigo with her and Jimmy Stewart!

    • @preppysocks209
      @preppysocks209 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I prefer Rear Window and North by Northwest by far. And it did poorly at the box office. However, you are in good company, as some recent polls of film critics have voted "Vertigo" as the best American film ever made.

    • @dcasper8514
      @dcasper8514 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Preppy Socks...Are those democratic critic polls ?

    • @esmeephillips5888
      @esmeephillips5888 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@preppysocks209 Best film from anywhere, according to the Sight & Sound poll, the oldest and broadest among industryites which has been held every decade since 1952.
      Ridiculous to single one film out, but the result comes from tallying the ten best according to each respondent. 'Vertigo' has certainly come up in their estimation. Not many years ago 'Psycho' would have outrated it, and Hitchcock was still regarded more as a master manipulator of audiences than a great artist. French critics boosted him.

  • @Rstlnep2
    @Rstlnep2 9 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    You have done a very great job with this project. That is why I keep watching.

  • @Rstlnep2
    @Rstlnep2 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thanks for all the videos of these wonderful shows.

  • @fanboy2015
    @fanboy2015 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Great episode.

  • @paolociarpaglini1303
    @paolociarpaglini1303 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What a innate grace by the wonderful Kim, totally spontaneous, gentle smailing. A true legend, in and out of the screen ❤️..

  • @angelacarleton9575
    @angelacarleton9575 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Kim Novak is so lovely and different from most blondes at that time. She had this innocents and sexyiness that was appealing. She was terrific in Picnic but also in Vertigo.

  • @JuanFernandez-jr2wz
    @JuanFernandez-jr2wz 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I always like Kim Novak. She has mistery and feminity as well as a especial kind of talent portraying characters of a certain complexity like in "Vertigo".

  • @soulierinvestments
    @soulierinvestments 8 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Fred's reference to meeting Randolph Churchill in London 3 or 4 years before with Tallulah refers to a special broadcast in London of NBC Radio's huge Sunday night variety program "The Big Show" ["big" used in the slang of the time for 'great']. Tallulah Bankhead was the hostess of the program; Fred appeared often enough to be considered almost a co-star host. "The Big Show" broadcasted in London as I recall in 1952.

  • @chocolatecitygemini3832
    @chocolatecitygemini3832 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Loved Kim Novak in Vertigo and Bell Book & Candle!!
    🗣What a Hollywood Beauty back in the day.
    🗣♊️👤Rising

  • @joycejean-baptiste4355
    @joycejean-baptiste4355 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Funny, Mr. Fred Allen called Mr. Daly 'super sly. ' Lol!

  • @miltonmoore7687
    @miltonmoore7687 7 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    For some reason
    all the Hollywood
    film beauty icons
    I have seen on this
    show look more
    ravishing to me than
    they did in the films
    that brought them
    fame...Novak; Arlene
    Dahl; Linda Darnell;
    Maureen O'Hara, etc.

    • @gailjarvis2592
      @gailjarvis2592 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      You're right! I don't think it's just black and white: can't be. I guess it was the way the set was lit, how the light emphasized their lovely bone structures. Kim looks sculpted from ivory. Her natural posturings are so sweet and touching. A very, very young Kim Novak. So natural. An underestimated actress. - Oh, "Bell, Book and Candle!"

    • @dcasper8514
      @dcasper8514 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Everyone gets a white makeup applied to their face, to help emphasize their features under 1950's stage lighting.

  • @margerykirner5604
    @margerykirner5604 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Desi came to this country at the age of 16 He had a very good grasp of the English language. He was a very literate man, and well educated. He was also very naturally witty, as well as charming, and his manners were impecable..

  • @KJ-xc6qs
    @KJ-xc6qs 6 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Loved the movie "Picnic"; Bill Holden was hot back then and their on-screen chemistry was remarkable. Kim's cockney accent here sounds like the same she used playing Mildred in the remake of "Of Human Bondage" (1964). The original (1936) starring Bette Davis was superior.

    • @anneroy4560
      @anneroy4560 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      difficult to best Miss Davis ...

  • @paolociarpaglini9492
    @paolociarpaglini9492 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Her voice was very particoular and easy to guess .. pure velvet and such seductive. I talk about one of the beauty woman ever lived , Kim Novak of course (love you darly).

  • @InjuredRobot.
    @InjuredRobot. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Desi was hitting on Arlene and she knew it - pay attention to her parting remark to him if you think I'm wrong.

  • @michaelnivens6267
    @michaelnivens6267 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Arlene Is back !

    • @LANCSKID
      @LANCSKID 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      In the ‘hot’ seat.

  • @JanetM-ro6xc
    @JanetM-ro6xc 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    He reminds me of little Prince George. That Churchill -Spencer gene pool is unmistakable.

  • @robertsprouse9282
    @robertsprouse9282 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Helicopter man is from the Dallas/Arlington/Plano/Ft.Worth Metroplex..=
    Richland Hills or N.Richland Hills..although in 1956, only DFW wasn't a spot in the road. Boy, has that changed..

  • @sandrageorge3488
    @sandrageorge3488 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Kim Novak the infamous lavender sheet lady 🙂

  • @michaelnivens6267
    @michaelnivens6267 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    wtg , Fred on getting Randolph

  • @tigergreg8
    @tigergreg8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Interesting how she used both hands to shake with the gentlemen on the panel. Generally, when both hands are used to hand shake, it's a sign of great respect for the individual, and a sign of a good individual who's doing the hand shake.

  • @TomBarrister
    @TomBarrister 10 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This was the first WML episode posted on the internet, on another website over ten years ago.
    This episode aired about eight weeks before Fred Allen's death. Allen had a knack for cracking up John Daly.
    Floyd Carlson was one of the original test pilots for the first Bell Helicopter in 1946.

  • @mikecore22
    @mikecore22 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    The Dorothy question at 22:58 is truly cringeworthy... "You're a blond now, but a redhead in the picture... what happened?"
    Despite the snarkiness of the question, Kim answers it with grace and dignity, to her credit.

    • @johnrowell6725
      @johnrowell6725 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      And such an odd question, too. Dorothy knows that film actors are always changing their appearances in films to suit the role, wearing wigs, etc. A poor choice of words from DK.

    • @jaengen
      @jaengen ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It was beyond rude and Kim handled the old bat like a pro.

    • @lemorab1
      @lemorab1 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jaengen This doesn't excuse Dorothy's rudeness, but this may have had something to do with her feud with Sinatra. He liked Kim, starred in two films with her, and had it in for Dorothy.

  • @Cracktaculus
    @Cracktaculus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    If anyone has ever seen the film in Kim's later Hollywood years where she could only find b film rolls which weren't many, Satan's triangle. That film kind of sums up for me her personal experience in Hollywood as an incredible natural beauty with limited talent who didn't navigate very well. She was so charming and beautiful

    • @yourmother2739
      @yourmother2739 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Her talent was NOT limited.

  • @SwarthySkinnedOne
    @SwarthySkinnedOne 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Kim is such a classic and classy DOLL!!!
    Anyhow, I'm a bit surprised no one has come up with a spoof of this show, preferably Woody Allen style, in which the mystery guest are such historical notables as Julius Caesar, Andrew Jackson, King Nebuchadnezzar, Moa, Napoleon, Kubla Khan, Jessi James, Catherine the Great, St. Francis of Assisi, Sir Isaak Newton, an infamous brutal Roman General, etc. etc.
    Huh huh, keep the panelist the same, or very similar in personality to ones on here, but have them politely ask questions such as "Are you a bully and a tyrant who likes to start wars?" "Ever wrote a childrens book involving a rabbit named Peter?" "Do you deal in the slave trade built up by conquered Nations?" "You specialize in bloodshed and torture?" You a harsh merciless ruler who reigns with an iron fist and burdens his subjects with heavy taxes" "Were you the chap who came up with the idea that the world is round, not flat l, and took a chance to prove it with three boats in 1492, with Queen Isabella's blessing?" "You ever robbed banks and trains and got hung?" "You the one who invented the iron maiden and the thumb screw?" "Hmmm a Roman General? how many people have you crucified, no, have you played a key role in the Gallic Wars?" "Umm you hold a high position in Egypt, are a priestess in the temple of Isis, and slept with Mark Antony?" "Are you an actor by any chance who took a pot shot at Lincoln....and almost missed because of political ideological differences?" "Ever got hit on the head by a falling apple while relaxing under a tree and suddenly got struck with an inspiration having to with something related tooooo, errrr, hmmm, oh! gravity?" etc, etc.
    And then when they couldn't figure it out they take off their masks and "Ohhhh shit! it's, we should have known, it's Pontious Pilot!!...the gov of Judea who crucified Christ!" followed by applause and cheers of the audience.

    • @jackkomisar458
      @jackkomisar458 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Woody Allen did make a spoof of this show, called "What's My Perversion?" in the 1972 film "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)". In 1959, Dick Van Dyke and Art Carney did a spoof of "What's My Line".

  • @melissa1224jax
    @melissa1224jax 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I grew up in Jamestown New York

  • @boognish999
    @boognish999 9 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    Is it just me or does Randolph Churchill look and sound much older than 44 years of age?

    • @fallspring1033
      @fallspring1033 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      He was only 44? Really??

    • @kevincramer9235
      @kevincramer9235 6 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      He was a hard-core alcoholic, and a mean, wife-beating drunk. About 10 years after this show he was hospitalized to have a "non-malignant" tumor removed from his lung. Evelyn Waugh said, "It was a typical triumph of modern science to find the one part of Randolph which was not malignant and to remove it."

    • @EBLLC
      @EBLLC 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Smoking will do that to you - age you faster than you want!

    • @madeleine9907
      @madeleine9907 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He looks mean...

    • @FigaroHey
      @FigaroHey 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@madeleine9907 It would take quite a character to grow up in the shadow of Winston Churchill (looking very like him, no less) and end up gracious, charming and issues-free. Not excusing bad behavior, just explaining that neither Winston nor his son necessarily had quality fathering.

  • @Bonobanos
    @Bonobanos 7 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Dorothy's spanish is so awful she's so cute, i love love her dress

    • @jslasher666
      @jslasher666 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not only was her Spanish awful.

  • @rogerpropes7129
    @rogerpropes7129 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Arlene zeroed in on helicopters suspiciously fast....

  • @michaelnivens6267
    @michaelnivens6267 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Dorothy rephrases a question and Daly lets her get away with It

  • @andreapena9390
    @andreapena9390 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Desi Arnaz was funny 😂😂😂

    • @lopa2828
      @lopa2828 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think he was funny inside unless he could not play Ricky Ricardo in "I Love Lucy" so effortlessly

    • @LANCSKID
      @LANCSKID 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well, his hair certainly was …

  • @MountainFisher
    @MountainFisher 6 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Kim Novak is one of the most beautiful women that have come out of Hollywood. She was ostracized for dating Sammy Davis Jr. SDJ was threatened for dating her.

    • @madeleine9907
      @madeleine9907 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      She dated a lot of "stars" I think

    • @moonglow1311
      @moonglow1311 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      The relationship she had with SDJ, pretty much ruined her career in Hollywood. Btw, she was great as the costar to William Holden in 'Picnic'!!

    • @sbalman
      @sbalman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@moonglow1311 She made MANY other movies!

    • @lemorab1
      @lemorab1 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@moonglow1311 Her biggest year, 1958, ("Vertigo" and "Bell, Book, and Candle") came a few years after her affair with Sammy ended. Davis was threatened by Harry Cohn, the Mob and quickly married a Black woman, Loray White, under duress. The Novak/Davis affair was mostly covered up by Columbia Studio. Novak's career momentum wasn't affected.

  • @redcan5254
    @redcan5254 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    21:44 Are You The Young Lady (??) ...
    Those words imply that Kim wasn't a Household Name yet ...
    She Debuted in an uncredited role in The French Line ... released February 8 1954 ...
    Her First Credited Role was in Pushover ... released July 30 1954 ...
    This WML Episode first aired February 5 1956 ...
    So, at this time, her name had only been around for about a year and a half ... even though Pushover was a Fairly Big movie ... I think (??) ...
    Picnic was released about the time of this Airing ... Vertigo was released May 9 1958 ... Certainly ... if not already ... her name was Household after that ...
    Vertigo gives her immortality ... She lives forever ... in a way ...
    September 8 2022 (0124 hrs)

  • @orgonkothewildlyuntamed6301
    @orgonkothewildlyuntamed6301 9 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    unlike the Lucille Ball show Desi never asked a guest to "splain"........

  • @TheIrishrogue68
    @TheIrishrogue68 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Randolph is the oldest looking 44 year-old I’ve ever seen. As someone who smoked 80-100 cigarettes and drank up to two bottles of whiskey a day, it’s easy to see why. Although a gifted writer, he was a cantankerous, quick to anger curmudgeon who managed to alienate most of his family and friends over the course of his life.

    • @nadiazahroon6573
      @nadiazahroon6573 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My dad smoked like that.

    • @lllowkee6533
      @lllowkee6533 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      As most upper class Brits, he was raised by nanny’s and treated shameful by both parents , esp his mother. But he’s still responsible for his character.

    • @janetmarletto6667
      @janetmarletto6667 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      OMG! I agree! 44 is an age when most people are in their prime.
      He lit up immediately. Sad!

    • @bobdownes162
      @bobdownes162 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@lllowkee6533 When I was a boy, living in Plymouth, England - one day I had the occaision to pop into a shop near my home to purchase something or other for my mother. And, Lo & Behold, standing there was R. Churchill, bawling his eyes out.
      He had just heard that he had failed to be elected of a Political position for the City.
      That showed his character.

    • @debbielockhart7762
      @debbielockhart7762 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lots of people looked pretty old at that age back then.

  • @neilmidkiff
    @neilmidkiff 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The dialog starting at 5:42 about Randolph Churchill being "loosely" connected to politics comes to a peak with Fred's quip about another show for Desi, "I Love Loosely" (6:02). And whether Fred intended it, or knew the truth about Desi's philandering, that would turn out to be a major reason why Lucy divorced him in 1960.

    • @keithharvey7230
      @keithharvey7230 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Desi always looked a nasty piece of work.

  • @davewolfy2906
    @davewolfy2906 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "Look out below" - Gil Elvgren.

  • @krissalouvae7513
    @krissalouvae7513 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I don't know for sure, but I thought that maybe Dorothy Kilgallen's dress on this episode is a little...bold, for back then. But I know for sure that when she introduced Fred in Spanish, that was pretty cool that she did that. I've seen stories about her online (google her, I'm not going to mention it here) and I think from the episodes I've seen her on this show, she was everything they say she was...and that means she was awesome!! 👍

    • @LANCSKID
      @LANCSKID 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What about the thong mask?

    • @melianna999
      @melianna999 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Very intelligent woman. Removed from this world by evil people.

  • @PurpleHaze929
    @PurpleHaze929 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Fred Allen passed away one month after this episode.

    • @anneroy4560
      @anneroy4560 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      such a loss to the show ...

    • @peternagy-im4be
      @peternagy-im4be ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes we all know. Stop stating the obvious.

    • @PurpleHaze929
      @PurpleHaze929 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@peternagy-im4be Well pardon me Mr. Perfect. Bless your heart!!

    • @peternagy-im4be
      @peternagy-im4be ปีที่แล้ว

      Some people need to grow up.

    • @PurpleHaze929
      @PurpleHaze929 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@peternagy-im4be Yes you do.

  • @poetcomic1
    @poetcomic1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    All I can think of when I see Kim is Hitchcock's Madeleine.

  • @MrDuboce
    @MrDuboce 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    She was only 23 when she did this.

  • @slc2466
    @slc2466 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Kim Novak has such a wonderfully subdued, one-of-a-kind screen presence. I just did a tribute video to her on my channel, using clips from key Novak movie classics, if anyone would like to check it out.

  • @magnificentfailure2390
    @magnificentfailure2390 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Can't think of a comment yet, just don't want to forget to comment.

    • @WhatsMyLine
      @WhatsMyLine  8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thank you, Pat! :)

    • @loissimmons6558
      @loissimmons6558 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      +ImaginePuppies Breath
      That sounds like something Fred Allen would have said during his turn.

  • @2up3rm4n1
    @2up3rm4n1 ปีที่แล้ว

    Arnaz has always been one of the strongest characters of indifference to what he may or cannot understand.

  • @janetmarletto6667
    @janetmarletto6667 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Both Desi and Fred did a great job!😁

  • @randylovering24
    @randylovering24 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    thank you and on my left is the great Mister Fred Allen that's what Dorothy said

  • @elizabethramirezsierra3700
    @elizabethramirezsierra3700 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I Love Lucy star Desi Arnaz is a panel?

  • @richardr2555
    @richardr2555 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Things we learned in this episode. In 1956 helicopters were called whirly birds and the tobacco industry considered putting filters on cigarettes.

  • @paolociarpaglini1303
    @paolociarpaglini1303 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Kim was simply a delicious woman and beautiful of course. 💖