What's My Line? - Jacques Cousteau; William Bendix; Phil Rizutto [panel] (Sep 16, 1956)

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  • NOTE: Phil Rizutto, who is on the panel this week, was the mystery guest on the very first episode of "What's My Line?"
    MYSTERY GUEST: Jacques Cousteau [undersea explorer]; William Bendix [gilm and TV actor]
    PANEL: Arlene Francis, Phil Rizutto, Dorothy Kilgallen, Bennett Cerf

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  • @joycejean-baptiste4355
    @joycejean-baptiste4355 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Watching Jaques Cousteau was one of my favourite documentary programs as a kid growing up in the 1960's.

  • @kenyongray2615
    @kenyongray2615 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    William Bendix was always a favorite of mine whether in a war movie or playing Babe Ruth. It was also a thrill to see Jacques Cousteau before his face became famous all over the world. A great man.

    • @patrickryan1515
      @patrickryan1515 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thanks for mentioning Babe Ruth. I couldn't otherwise have gotten the connection to sports.

    • @dnhy7951
      @dnhy7951 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Bendix was a ham.

  • @Crusader1815
    @Crusader1815 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    I love how well-mannered everyone was on this show.

  • @donnacook8994
    @donnacook8994 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Loved seeing Jacques Cousteau stumping the panel. His discoveries are so important and wonderfully entertaining, and he spoke without disguising anything. Amazing man!!!

    • @dnhy7951
      @dnhy7951 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Not his fault but Cousteau had a brother who was just fine with the Nazis taking over France. He was sentenced to death after WW2 but it was commuted.

  • @Fatherofheroesandheroines
    @Fatherofheroesandheroines 5 ปีที่แล้ว +108

    amazing there was a time not everyone knew Jacque Costeau

    • @joeambrose3260
      @joeambrose3260 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Yeah,like today

    • @sue2611
      @sue2611 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      MATHHEW TOMPKINS -- I loved watching his show when I was a kid.

    • @rambleonfromhere8780
      @rambleonfromhere8780 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      OMG THAT WHAT I THOUGHT. HE WAS THRILLING. WATCHED HIM IN 60 S

  • @thediamonddog95
    @thediamonddog95 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I like that moment when Arlene speaks about diving during Cousteau segment. It's nice to hear her speaking more quietly than usual and to see that little moment of her we generaly don't. I mean, she always behaves very nice, it's just good to see her quiet side, if at least for few seconds. They are celebrities so they often speak loud, especialy since contestants have to hear them.
    Also, she always smiles with her eyes too. Wonderful woman.

    • @robertjean5782
      @robertjean5782 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Just wanted to inform everyone this theater was built for plays, hence the acoustics Also a very busy, noisy train station below😢

    • @robertjean5782
      @robertjean5782 หลายเดือนก่อน

      A gorgeous woman 😊

    • @dnhy7951
      @dnhy7951 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@robertjean5782 A train station?

  • @stephenperretti8847
    @stephenperretti8847 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I love this show.
    America's cultural elite at play.

    • @rogerlephoque3704
      @rogerlephoque3704 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That's a keen and accurate observation. Bravo.

  • @teriannebeauchamp254
    @teriannebeauchamp254 6 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    Some of the best moments of my school life came from Mr. Costeau. A real treat in school was when the class was rewarded by having one of his specials in class instead of the teacher lecturing

    • @briankreezan3042
      @briankreezan3042 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes those were some if my good times I had back then.

    • @tennissir1986
      @tennissir1986 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      We didn’t see them in class but the teacher would allow us to watch it at home that night in leu of homework. He even quizzed is the next day and I remember one of,the questions was about a commercial during the show.

    • @zapkvr
      @zapkvr 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tennissir1986 *lieu*

  • @southtexasprepper1837
    @southtexasprepper1837 4 ปีที่แล้ว +98

    It's a shame that they don't have shows like this anymore. Beats the crap they have TV today.

    • @RugNug
      @RugNug 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah. Duck Dynasty sucks.

    • @southtexasprepper1837
      @southtexasprepper1837 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@RugNug Honestly????? I can't comment either way on that show. I've heard of it, but never watched it.

    • @RugNug
      @RugNug 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@southtexasprepper1837 It's very popular among conservative bible thumpers. 😄

    • @southtexasprepper1837
      @southtexasprepper1837 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@RugNug That's "Christian Believers" to you. I wouldn't being making fun of people's beliefs. Especially since you're using the TH-cam name "RugNug." People could come up with a number names making fun of yours. Just saying.

    • @tryingtobefairandobjective3480
      @tryingtobefairandobjective3480 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@southtexasprepper1837 Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool - Voltaire.

  • @sydneycarton9973
    @sydneycarton9973 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    by the mid 70's Jacques Cousteau was a household name, his specials were must see TV. Aye Calypso!

  • @kennethbutler1343
    @kennethbutler1343 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Today everyone over 50 would recognize a picture of Costeau...back then he was only famous by name. Reminds me of when Col. Sanders was on: no masks!

  • @dovbarleib3256
    @dovbarleib3256 7 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    I recognized Jacques Cousteau immediately, but that was after his television specials about the Calypso's research.

  • @sansacro007
    @sansacro007 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This show is such unadorned pure pleasure. it makes me laugh like nothing today can because the humor is so simple, rooted in the ordinary yet unexpected.connections of daily life.

    • @robertjean5782
      @robertjean5782 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Exactly agree totally 💯 percent 😊

  • @Matt02341
    @Matt02341 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Having grown up in upstate ny, we had wpix (ch 11) broadcast Yankee games. Phil Rizzuto was the best. I was amazed to see this young man come on stage. Arlene he DID have an amazing broadcasting career. So good in fact that he was an indelible part of Pop culture due to his “speaking part “ in Meatloaf “Paradise by the dashboard lights “

  • @mickybearden9641
    @mickybearden9641 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    10 yrs later I'd read Jacque Cousteau's Book "The Silent World" and immediately became a Fan for Life! I was 9 yrs old when I read the Book

  • @Lord_Baphomet_
    @Lord_Baphomet_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    I’ve been obsessed with Jacque Cousteau my entire life. He was the first person to explore shipwrecks and bring up lost treasures. He was the person that discovered how the nautilus swims and that dolphins communicate through sonar. He was also the inspiration behind Wes Anderson’s film: “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou”

    • @sparky1331
      @sparky1331 ปีที่แล้ว

      My Favorite Too !

    • @georgewachsmuth9201
      @georgewachsmuth9201 ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s amazing how much more famous he became over the years. Only a few years after this, in the 60s when I was a child….he would have been instantly recognizable.

  • @johannarocho3040
    @johannarocho3040 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Those dresses were elegant!

  • @roberttrepagnier9149
    @roberttrepagnier9149 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Costeau warned the world about protecting the oceans back in the 60s and 70s. Words that have come true.

    • @peternagy-im4be
      @peternagy-im4be 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not really. Not at all actually.

  • @Dolphin-cb9sq
    @Dolphin-cb9sq 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    So refreshing to watch this show. Pure joy.

  • @donaldleroy6502
    @donaldleroy6502 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I'm still so " young " that the first I ever heard of Phil Rizzuto he was a spokesman for the money store back in the 70s. As for William Bendix I always liked him in everything I've seen him do

  • @SantaBarbaraBiking
    @SantaBarbaraBiking 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    He protects his sea life with his enlightening documentaries.

    • @briankreezan3042
      @briankreezan3042 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes he did and makes me think just how closer this world be to being dead as it will be some day.

  • @k.g.1259
    @k.g.1259 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    It's just shocking (now) to think that they didn't know Jacques Cousteau?!?! ... and I can't remember EVER seeing him without his "trademark" red hat !?!? 😮👍
    **As a kid in the 70's he was my #1 adventurer/hero; & the reason I got my PADI/SCUBA license as a teenager: two years before even getting my drivers license ! ! 👍❤

    • @DeeDee-lz8zx
      @DeeDee-lz8zx 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He didn't have a tv show then

    • @patrickchambers5999
      @patrickchambers5999 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      At that time his name was well known but not his face. That's why he signed in as X.

    • @robertjean5782
      @robertjean5782 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He was just getting started, not a household name 😮

  • @ToddSF
    @ToddSF 8 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I note that when I first read of Jacques Cousteau in "National Geographic" in the 1960's, and checked out a book of his from my local library, he was known as "Jacques-Yves Cousteau" -- one of those hyphenated French first names. For some reason, though, in the 1970's, when they started showing documentaries on U.S. television featuring Cousteau and his associates, they started calling him "Jacques Cousteau". Why they did that, I don't know. At least here, they still used his actual first name, Jacques-Yves. 15 or 20 years later, they'd have had to use the blindfolds, I note. I'll wager that in 1956, not many people knew the profession "oceanographer".

    • @joeambrose3260
      @joeambrose3260 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks for the bedtime story. It worked great!

    • @slaytonp
      @slaytonp 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Matt Eagle It's so seldom necessary to do so.

  • @thomasmirtin2428
    @thomasmirtin2428 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    amazing there was a time not everyone knew Jacque Costeau

    • @robertjean5782
      @robertjean5782 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He wasn't known in America at this time😊

  • @ludenasan1
    @ludenasan1 8 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    HAVING SEEN MANY OF MR. COUSTEAU'S SPECIALS, I AM AMAZED BY HIS MODESTY ON THIS SHOW. SADLY ONE OF HIS SONS WAS KILLED IN ONE OF HIS SPECIALS. THEY
    HANDLED IT VERY WELL.

    • @ToddSF
      @ToddSF 8 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Philippe Cousteau, the son of Jacques-Yve Cousteau, died in 1979 at age 38 while at the controls of a seaplane owned by the Cousteau Society. I don't think it had anything to do with any TV special featuring Jacques-Yves Cousteau, his ship the "Calypso", or any of the research conducted by the Cousteaux. The plane was in Lisbon, Portugal when the accident occurred. The plane was making a high-speed taxi run on the Tagus River to check for possible leakage after a landing when the plane nosed over, killing Philippe Cousteau.

  • @bethdibartolomeo2042
    @bethdibartolomeo2042 8 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Funny that coincidentally at 8:00-8:02 the sound squiggles and makes Bennett sound like he's underwater.

  • @leesher1845
    @leesher1845 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Very exciting to see Jaques Cousteau! He didn’t seem to be well known back then though. The poor guy didn’t even know how to exit; that was before the producers realized that it made sense to have all the contestants shake the panelists’ hands.

  • @tsangarisjohn
    @tsangarisjohn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    We need more Jacque Costeaus in the world.

  • @displayfireworks1
    @displayfireworks1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Jacques is 46 years old in this episode

  • @laurahoward5426
    @laurahoward5426 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    One of the best questions ever, laugh out loud ...on or off or in or out....by Phil Rizutto😂🤣😂

  • @johnsiebelink8790
    @johnsiebelink8790 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Jacques Cousteau was the subject of a big fifth grade project I had to do!

  • @aliasmarg8ta127
    @aliasmarg8ta127 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I would have loved to meet Monsieur Cousteau

  • @MrScubanaut62
    @MrScubanaut62 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Jacques Cousteau for as long as I can remember inspired me to explore under the sea, I had no idea of the realm of possible as a young boy watching the Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau I think that started in 1968 when I was just a young lad. Years later I learned to scuba dive and actually became an instructor as well. I had the great pleasure of meeting one of his sons Jean Michel Cousteau in Boston at an annual Boston Sea Rovers Symposium. Such an amazing family of scientists and explorers!

  • @MrYfrank14
    @MrYfrank14 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    funny. i was born in 1959.
    i remember Jacques Cousteau with a heavy accent and hard to understand.

    • @joeambrose3260
      @joeambrose3260 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      What a wonderful childhood u had

    • @scotnick59
      @scotnick59 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well, he was "very" French

  • @loissimmons6558
    @loissimmons6558 7 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    It was noted that William Bendix had a connection to sports because he played Babe Ruth in a movie. As a youth, Bendix served as a batboy for the Yankees and was fired because he went out and got food for the Babe during a game.

    • @blackie75
      @blackie75 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Also that he was the founder of the Bendix automotive brakes company.

    • @dchawk81
      @dchawk81 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@blackie75 No he wasn't.

    • @robertfiller8634
      @robertfiller8634 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I never knew that - Lois, you are a veritable fount of trivial information!

    • @peternagy-im4be
      @peternagy-im4be ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dchawk81 yeah he sure was

  • @zapkvr
    @zapkvr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I first read about Cousteau in elementary school. I must have been about 10 years old. Of course I remember the documentaries and the beautiful song Calypso by John Denver. A true citizen of the world.

    • @robertjean5782
      @robertjean5782 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The many memories this show brings are astounding 😊

  • @preppysocks209
    @preppysocks209 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Here Phil Rizutto is on the panel but in 1950, he was the first Mystery Guest.

  • @TacomaPaul
    @TacomaPaul 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Jacques Cousteau was underneath the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
    And discovered the largest Octopi in the World under that bridge.
    Which has many whirlpools. Dangerous.
    Many large squids, too.

  • @Rhubba
    @Rhubba 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    "All around us, ze oceans are teeming with life....so we moored the Calypso and threw Phillipe over the side to deal with an octopus"

    • @robertfiller8634
      @robertfiller8634 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Very well done and very funny Rhubba!

    • @billd.6847
      @billd.6847 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That sounds like something Marlin Perkins would do to Jim.

    • @dnhy7951
      @dnhy7951 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@billd.6847 Who is Marlin Perkins?

  • @donttalkcrap
    @donttalkcrap 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Cousteau was only 46 at the time. :( He looked so much older than Daly. He could have passed as his father.

    • @peternagy-im4be
      @peternagy-im4be ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Much like Randolph Churchill. Heavy smoking plays a part also hard liquor.

  • @domenicozagari2443
    @domenicozagari2443 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Cousteau copied from the Italian military to go underwater, they sunk 2 battle ships.

  • @Mmdmade
    @Mmdmade 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Is it something a man can give a girl? Lol

  • @JakeSpeed1000
    @JakeSpeed1000 5 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    I miss people like Arlene Francis who handle themselves so elegantly. Times have changed and not necessarily for the better.

    • @lewisc215
      @lewisc215 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      there's always suicide

    • @zapkvr
      @zapkvr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Truly she is all class

    • @zapkvr
      @zapkvr 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lewisc215 yes. Or Nico. Oh wait. Shes dead. She still sounds the same

    • @benoitpellet1657
      @benoitpellet1657 หลายเดือนก่อน

      She really had it all - gorgeous, witty, classy, erudite, sexy…the kind of woman every man would want to spend his life with.

    • @dnhy7951
      @dnhy7951 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@lewisc215 What a charming thing to say-NOT!

  • @georgefeist8190
    @georgefeist8190 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    ONE OF MY FAVE SHOWS...WAS THE LIFE OF RILEY....SUCH A FUNNY SHOW....(JACKIE GLEASON WAS RILEY BEFORE WILLIAM

    • @dcasper8514
      @dcasper8514 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I didn't know that..

    • @dennman6
      @dennman6 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Jackie Gleason was Riley on TV in 1949 before William Bendix did the television version of his longtime radio show, which had been on since the 1940s. But Bendix was the original Riley with the great Paula Winslow as his wife Peg.

  • @billolsen4360
    @billolsen4360 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Bendix, all those tough guy roles he did in the 40's and then made it on TV as a comedian in Life of Riley.

    • @jubalcalif9100
      @jubalcalif9100 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      As I do when I take off my hat, you make a good point ! What a talented fellow...equally good in both dramatic and comedic roles ! One of may all time fave stars of yesteryear ! :-)

    • @sandybruce9092
      @sandybruce9092 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      William Bendix also did “Life of Riley” on radio before his TV show. I now enjoy the radio show on SXM! And I did watch the TV show in reruns in the latter part of the 50s!

  • @pasion4piano
    @pasion4piano 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Would it be possible that it was after this very popular American show that National Geographic Society decided to « educate « the commun Americans people to some international interest,,,, which I’ve kept some old N G magazines copies of my parents to look into at when started the first Calypso pics and documentaries,,,

    • @inkyguy
      @inkyguy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      His American television series didn’t begin being broadcast until 1968.

  • @hopicard
    @hopicard 10 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    "Is it something a man could give a girl" :)) - the false teeth were funny! And I like the episodes when they don't even try to put a forth challenger in time but finish with the celebrity instead.

  • @robertfiller8634
    @robertfiller8634 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    JJ Cousteau ushered off without shaking hands with the panel - that is just crazy!

    • @inkyguy
      @inkyguy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Jacques-Yves Cousteau.

  • @kathyyoung1774
    @kathyyoung1774 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    This series is from the 1950’s, back when humor was still permissible and people could take a joke and nobody was terminally sensitive and offended by everything. Please keep that in mind before you complain about anything they say. Thank you.

    • @inkyguy
      @inkyguy 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      And yet it was all regulated by the network’s Standards and Practices and network censors removed anything offensive. There is, in fact, a lot more free speech on television than in the 1950s, so much so that you can observe people constantly carping about how vulgar programming has become.

    • @robertjean5782
      @robertjean5782 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@inkyguyThis show was live and couldn't be censored😊

  • @ChrisHansonCanada
    @ChrisHansonCanada ปีที่แล้ว +2

    William Bendix is one of those forgotten stars of the past. Ask anyone under 60 who he was and you would get a puzzled expression from the majority of them.

    • @robertjean5782
      @robertjean5782 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And that can be said about 90% of them😊

    • @dnhy7951
      @dnhy7951 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Not much of an actor in my not so humble opinion.

  • @galileocan
    @galileocan 10 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I think John made a mistake during the Mystery Guest round when Arlene asked if the guest had appeared in motion pictures as well as television. Mr. Bendix answered affirmative, but John still flipped a card

    • @Vitte4
      @Vitte4 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      John makes the opposite mistake often: He doesn't flip a card when he should. This is the only case I've witnessed (I'm sure there are others) when he flips the card though he shouldn't.

    • @robertjean5782
      @robertjean5782 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@Vitte4It's both after watching 340 videos doesn't pay attention 😅

  • @ChrisHansonCanada
    @ChrisHansonCanada ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Phil Rizutto: SWOON! I love it when Bennett's attempts at humor fall flat, making him look like a boring old fart: 13:15

  • @JLionelWaller
    @JLionelWaller 9 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    William Bendix's use of different voices was probably the most successful use of different voices. I think this was the first, and maybe only, time that they wondered if there was more than one mystery guest, when there was only one guest.

    • @DeathBringer769
      @DeathBringer769 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +John Waller Nah I've seen it happen before at least one other time where someone was doing a voice and they wondered/asked if there was more than one person there, and there wasn't.

    • @joeambrose3260
      @joeambrose3260 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Losers

    • @CellGames2006
      @CellGames2006 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@DeathBringer769 That was Jules Montenier, the sponsor in February '56 and they couldn't get him either.

    • @robertjean5782
      @robertjean5782 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Many have fooled the panel 0ver the 750 videos😅

  • @vickiarons8685
    @vickiarons8685 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Jacques Cousteau was my hero as a child

  • @davidmacleod9313
    @davidmacleod9313 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    If Jacques was alive today and saw the condition of his beloved oceans he would die all over again. We should be ashamed.

  • @mjanavel
    @mjanavel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Holy cow! Rizutto is young here.

  • @dranet47
    @dranet47 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    When one of the "non" celebrities is more famous than the celebrity!

    • @zapkvr
      @zapkvr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Interesting observation. People these days are famous for near to nothing.

    • @adrianathans8910
      @adrianathans8910 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@zapkvr seems it was the case back then too.

  • @ivanhorvat4635
    @ivanhorvat4635 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Mr. Aqualung !? Sorry about the spelling ! LOVED HIS SERIES !!!!!!!!

  • @perpieta
    @perpieta 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Great show, thanks again.
    Minor correction: Scooter's surname is spelled "Rizzuto."

  • @malikashiqui
    @malikashiqui 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    "Squishing in" a final contestant is NOT unfair to the contestant, as suggested below. If the person is not from New York or nearby, it might be the only chance to appear on the show, and have lifetime bragging rights. long distance travel was much more expensive in 1956. Plus John typically flips all the cards. $50 in 1956 is like $435 today.

    • @juliansinger
      @juliansinger 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +malikashiqui Now that I'm going back and watching (and in a few rare cases re-watching) all of these in order, and know more about the show, I do get your point, particularly the one about people coming to NY from far away. Also the one about $50.
      So from a long-distance, and money, point of view, I agree.
      From the point of view of what I enjoy about the show, though, I just like it better when the panelists get a good chance to figure out what's going on, and the guest gets a chance to properly hoodwink 'em. Abbreviated segments are, well. Abbreviated. That's all.

    • @philippapay4352
      @philippapay4352 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @malikashiqui - They would not have been able to stay in NYC from out of town at any distance until the next week's show was done, so you are right. They did get $1,000 from the producers to get to and fro and stay at a hotel. I do not recall if they got a non-AFTRA fee for appearing, but it would not have been much. So it did make sense to fit them into the show after the MG slot.

    • @robertjean5782
      @robertjean5782 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@juliansingerThe contestant didn't mind $50 was a weeks pay 😊

    • @robertjean5782
      @robertjean5782 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@philippapay4352No one received $1,000 😅

  • @NYVoice
    @NYVoice 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Bendix was a hoot. I've been enjoying the Life Of Riley reruns the last few days. I also saw his last appearance, a 20 second cameo (though he was billed 4th) in a cheap western called Young Fury. He looked so thin, less hair. If he didn't speak, you'd never know it was him.

  • @charlottest.jacques4292
    @charlottest.jacques4292 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    When you have my last name; our home knew Jacques Cousteau.

    • @dnhy7951
      @dnhy7951 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Did he come around to borrow some milk?

  • @thebluerobin
    @thebluerobin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Poor William Bendix such a great actor who died so young.

    • @dnhy7951
      @dnhy7951 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      He was a ham.

  • @davidharris6581
    @davidharris6581 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Bill Bendix deserved an Oscar for Lifeboat.

    • @jubalcalif9100
      @jubalcalif9100 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I have a notion to second that emotion ! A truly magnificent performance !

    • @preppysocks209
      @preppysocks209 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hitchock movies never won Oscars. I believe the only Hitchcock movie ever to win an Oscar for anything was the song "Que, Sera, Sera" from Hitchcock's remake of his own "The Man Who Knew Too Much"

    • @preppysocks209
      @preppysocks209 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Corno di Bassetto thanks for pointing that out

    • @preppysocks209
      @preppysocks209 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Corno di Bassetto Hitchcock never won a competitive Best Director Oscar and we can't think of a single actor who was even nominated for an Oscar in any of his movies, much less won one, notwithstanding the original comment in this thread about an actor who should have won an Oscar in any of his films (and I can think of numerous other actors under his direction who were better candidates). William Wyler is considered a great director in part because he won three Best Director Oscars and in part because more actors under his direction were nominated for and won Oscars than for any other director. Hitchcock was also an excellent director but the Academy never gave his pictures their due compared to others.

    • @joeambrose3260
      @joeambrose3260 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@preppysocks209 That's wack

  • @gugurupurasudaikirai7620
    @gugurupurasudaikirai7620 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Maybe it's just me but William Bendix bears somewhat of a resemblance to Jay Leno in this one. More so than his previous appearance as a mystery guest. He completely stumped them this time. They almost missed him the last time as well. He was funny in this one

  • @ChrisHansonCanada
    @ChrisHansonCanada 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    JACQUES COUSTEAU
    REPAIRS FALSE TEETH

    • @robertjean5782
      @robertjean5782 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      William Bendix😊

  • @karenmallonee3867
    @karenmallonee3867 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I love Dorothy's beautiful dress! ❤️

    • @robertjean5782
      @robertjean5782 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      And Arlenes dress😊

  • @soulierinvestments
    @soulierinvestments 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    First game. one of the most prestigious in WML history. Second game -- one of the most funny in that period. And the almost gambits of Bennett and Arlene are spontaneous. The delightful wits of live television

  • @loissimmons6558
    @loissimmons6558 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    At the end of the program, Arlene mentions Rizzuto's broadcasting. The Yankees had not hired him yet. The Giants had added him to their broadcasting team for the last few weeks of the 1956 season.

    • @robertfiller8634
      @robertfiller8634 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Once again, Lois, your knowledge of incidental details is astounding!

    • @loissimmons6558
      @loissimmons6558 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@robertfiller8634 I could have added that he got the job with the Giants because one of their announcers, Frankie Frisch (member of the Baseball Hall of Fame aka "The Fordham Flash") had suffered a heart attack. He was well-received by New York fans. But the Giants didn't have plans to keep Phil for the 1957 season.
      When word got out that Rizzuto had submitted an audition tape to the Baltimore Orioles, the Yankees beer sponsor, Ballantine, insisted that the Yankees hire the long-time fan favorite. General Manager George Weiss felt he had no choice but to oblige, even though he already had three announcers under contract, and that was a full booth back then, as the announcers were expected to cover both radio and TV.
      There was no way that Weiss was going to fire Mel Allen or Red Barber to make room for Rizzuto. His only choice was to fire Jim Woods, a very good broadcaster in his own right. (Weiss was later quoted as saying it was the first time he fired someone for no reason; i.e. no fault of their own.)
      Ironically the Giants then hired Woods, but didn't bring him west with Russ Hodges after the 1957 season because they wanted at least one SF area announcer as part of the broadcast team. Woods went over to Pittsburgh and joined Bob Prince in the Pirates broadcast booth. As a kid, I would listen to the Dodger games on the radio late at night. but I had to use the other team's broadcasts. I always preferred Woods to Prince.

    • @robertfiller8634
      @robertfiller8634 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@loissimmons6558 Wow, you said a mouthful! (And I am once again impressed.)

    • @inkyguy
      @inkyguy 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Phil Rizzuto spent his entire 13-year baseball career with the New York Yankees (1941-1956). This was at the end of his last season with the Yankees.

    • @dnhy7951
      @dnhy7951 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I don't know how often that jock was on WML but on this viewing, he added nothing to the panel.The male equivalent of a 'dumb blonde.'

  • @kentherockinmanschannel
    @kentherockinmanschannel 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Happy birthday William Bendix, born on this day in 1906.

  • @tokyoteetotaller
    @tokyoteetotaller 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thank you so much for these uploads. Great entertainment!

    • @robertjean5782
      @robertjean5782 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Everyone can Thank him by subscribing and check the status box😊

  • @vickimilo5185
    @vickimilo5185 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Does it ever strike anyone that as long as this show was on they never mastered getting the contestant off thecstage

    • @adrianathans8910
      @adrianathans8910 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      haha, that's so funny.

    • @robertjean5782
      @robertjean5782 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It run by the seat of their pants😅

  • @thangvuong9196
    @thangvuong9196 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    M.Jaques Cousteau was a foremost marine biologist.

    • @dnhy7951
      @dnhy7951 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Paris is the capital of France.Your turn....

  • @saifonlawrence2044
    @saifonlawrence2044 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Bendix as Babe Ruth was monumental....silliest sports movie ever made

  • @DoctorInsomnia-qw7us
    @DoctorInsomnia-qw7us ปีที่แล้ว

    Holy cow 🐄 it's the scooter 🛵 in a tux 🐧 on what's my line ______!!

  • @CarlDuke
    @CarlDuke 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    First time I can remember Daly's hair being even slightly out of place.

    • @robertjean5782
      @robertjean5782 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He wore a toupee for many years😊

  • @quirkyquips9915
    @quirkyquips9915 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    William Bendix and Michael Rappaport looks like they could be related.

  • @dorothycordova1678
    @dorothycordova1678 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Cousteau is so famous now that he'd never have been in the general game.

  • @erichanson426
    @erichanson426 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    If learned anything from this episode, it is that John does not have false teeth😀

    • @babyfir77
      @babyfir77 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And they're found in the average household!!! (False Teeth)

    • @robertjean5782
      @robertjean5782 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Daly has a toupee 😊

  • @gabe-po9yi
    @gabe-po9yi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    TIL that false teeth are in the average American home and can be given as gifts from men to women...

  • @blackie75
    @blackie75 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Coustaeu was born in 1910, how the hell is he only 46 years old here? He looks to be in his late 60s at least......

    • @peternagy-im4be
      @peternagy-im4be 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      People looked older back in them olden days.

  • @jillgordon1003
    @jillgordon1003 9 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    @10:52
    Oh Dorothy, you aren't stupid

    • @oswaldomilano3848
      @oswaldomilano3848 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      she is brilliant

    • @robertjean5782
      @robertjean5782 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@oswaldomilano3848Dorothy was a investigative reporter for years 😊

    • @robertjean5782
      @robertjean5782 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Just a word off the cuff😊

  • @lewisc215
    @lewisc215 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A real talent.

  • @richardr8753
    @richardr8753 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Jacques Cousteau and the Calypso! Can’t believe they didn’t recognise him.

    • @inkyguy
      @inkyguy 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      He hadn’t been on television yet.

    • @robertjean5782
      @robertjean5782 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​​@@inkyguyNot well known 😊

  • @GeneHettel
    @GeneHettel ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Cousteau before he became well known!

  • @kasperjoonatan6014
    @kasperjoonatan6014 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Dorothy is radiant, suits me sir, radiant I tell you 💛

  • @DodderingOldMan
    @DodderingOldMan 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I'm not American, and not gonna lie, the only place I've ever heard of Phil Rizutto was in that episode of Seinfeld where he's on George's key ring :P
    Holy cow!

    • @murcer88
      @murcer88 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      never heard of Phil Rizzuto......

    • @preppysocks209
      @preppysocks209 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@murcer88 go on the Baseball Hall of Fame website and watch his induction. It is one of the most unintentionally funny things you will ever see.

  • @dancingtrout6719
    @dancingtrout6719 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Father of Oceanography is Fontaine Mathew Maury.. He's Buried Between two Presidents is in the Hall of 50 Greatest Americans.

  • @beadyeyedbrat
    @beadyeyedbrat 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Phil Rizzuto was a great shortstop and a good guy, but WML was not his thing.

    • @robertjean5782
      @robertjean5782 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He was a fill in😊

  • @visionlandmusic
    @visionlandmusic ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow they actually didn't know who Jacques Cousteau is! lol.

    • @robertjean5782
      @robertjean5782 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He hadn't started his career yet 😊

  • @davidarcudi230
    @davidarcudi230 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Scooter!

  • @jamesjoyce9207
    @jamesjoyce9207 9 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Dorothy is looking quite pretty tonight

    • @Merrida100
      @Merrida100 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Dorothy always looks so pretty and elegant. She's so put together.

    • @davidarcudi230
      @davidarcudi230 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Always

    • @robertjean5782
      @robertjean5782 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Merrida100Arlene beats her,gorgeous woman 😊

    • @dnhy7951
      @dnhy7951 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@robertjean5782 Darn tootin' !!!

  • @laurahoward5426
    @laurahoward5426 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Jacques Cousteau already looks old😲

  • @laurahoward5426
    @laurahoward5426 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This episode really shows that odd hair piece(?) on John Daly....

    • @robertjean5782
      @robertjean5782 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Toupee had for many years 😊

  • @morganrussell6783
    @morganrussell6783 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I 💖 underwater films 💖💯

    • @robertjean5782
      @robertjean5782 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Remember sea hunt with Loyd nelson.😊

  • @RoderickEtheria
    @RoderickEtheria 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wait, Bennett said William Bendix couldn't be Jackie Gleason. That should have been a "Yes, he could not Jackie Gleason".

  • @Sourcoolness
    @Sourcoolness 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Well there you go, Mr. Gellar did look like Jacques Cousteau!

  • @darleenhumphrey7461
    @darleenhumphrey7461 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Causteo was a war hrro

    • @inkyguy
      @inkyguy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      _Il s’appelle Jacques-Yves Cousteau._

  • @amb1962
    @amb1962 9 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    "is it something you can put in or on and take off or out?"
    Typical Baseball player's question - it covers all the bases. :)

    • @loissimmons6558
      @loissimmons6558 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Something Rizzuto rarely did with one swing. He hit only 38 home runs in 12+ major league seasons, covering 5816 at bats: 0.65%. In contrast, Ted Williams (a contemporary ballplayer who championed Rizzuto for the Hall of Fame) homered in 6.76% of his at bats.

    • @robertfiller8634
      @robertfiller8634 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@loissimmons6558 At 5' 6", Rizzuto was shorter than either Arlene or Dorothy! (as you can see during the introductions). He was a fabulous shortstop, had a very respectable .273 lifetime BA with 149 SB and was a great singles hitter and bunter. He wasn't on the team to hit home runs.

    • @loissimmons6558
      @loissimmons6558 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@robertfiller8634 Remember that the ladies would have been wearing heels.
      For the record, IMDB lists Arlene at 5'5½" and Dorothy Kilgallen at 5'6½". So in stocking feet, they were all around the same height, at least whatever is listed online.
      And I wasn't denigrating Scooter's ability when I mentioned his lack of home runs. It was merely a follow up to the original post in the thread mentioning "covers all bases". Of course as a Dodger fan (only hours after their latest championship), I will still take Pee Wee Reese over Rizzuto. He could do everything that Rizzuto could, but with more power ("Pee Wee" referred to his marble playing days, not his size) and with a much stronger throwing arm. Plus he had a longer career in the majors.

    • @robertfiller8634
      @robertfiller8634 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@loissimmons6558 I agree with you about Pee Wee's prowess though I didn't know about the marbles being the source of his sobriquet. Reese was a strong supporter and good friend of Jackie Robinson and first befriended him in the latter's MLB rookie season in 1947.

    • @loissimmons6558
      @loissimmons6558 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@robertfiller8634 Harold Reese was nicknamed "Pee Wee" as a kid because he was a marbles champion and used a pee wee marble as his shooter.
      Reese told the story that he heard about the Dodgers signing Robinson at the end of 1945 as he was returning from the Pacific after serving his tour of duty in the Navy during WWII. He admits that his initial reaction was negative, in part because of Jackie's color but largely because it was announced that Jackie was a shortstop (the position he played with the Kansas City Monarchs). Reese went on to say that when he arrived in port in San Francisco, he went out and got drunk the worst ever in his life because he was upset.
      But when he sobered, he decided that if Robinson was good enough to beat him out of a job, that was the only thing that mattered. And it turned out that when the Dodgers sent Robinson to Montreal in 1946. they moved him to second base because he didn't really have a major league shortstop's arm (although he had the range), and because they had a young budding star already at that position in Reese.
      So when a handful of southern players on the Dodgers circulated a petition during spring training in 1947 that Robinson not be promoted to Brooklyn, they expected Reese, being from Kentucky, to sign it. He shocked them by telling them he wanted no part of it. This was a long time before he showed his support out on the field in front of hostile fans when they were on the road.

  • @gerberjoanne266
    @gerberjoanne266 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    With regard to Jacques Cousteau, the panel got off to a bad start when Cousteau answered "yes" to the question "Do you do investigations?" In French, the word "investigation" also refers to research. That was something the panel didn't know, so they were immediately blown off course, so to speak.

    • @zoepaulastrassfield2664
      @zoepaulastrassfield2664 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I’m surprised that after they got “investigations” and he said he wasn’t a detective, they didn’t ask if he was a scientist. We do talk about “scientific investigations” in English quite a bit.

    • @gerberjoanne266
      @gerberjoanne266 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@zoepaulastrassfield2664 I don't think we talk about "scientific investigations" quite a bit. The only term I've heard is "research." Maybe in British English?

    • @rogerlephoque3704
      @rogerlephoque3704 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@gerberjoanne266 British English! What other English is there?

    • @gerberjoanne266
      @gerberjoanne266 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@rogerlephoque3704 Hah!

    • @rogerlephoque3704
      @rogerlephoque3704 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@gerberjoanne266 Vive la difference! Salut.