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
Watching Jaques Cousteau was one of my favourite documentary programs as a kid growing up in the 1960's.
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.
Thanks for mentioning Babe Ruth. I couldn't otherwise have gotten the connection to sports.
Bendix was a ham.
I love how well-mannered everyone was on this show.
Loved seeing Jacques Cousteau stumping the panel. His discoveries are so important and wonderfully entertaining, and he spoke without disguising anything. Amazing man!!!
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.
amazing there was a time not everyone knew Jacque Costeau
Yeah,like today
MATHHEW TOMPKINS -- I loved watching his show when I was a kid.
OMG THAT WHAT I THOUGHT. HE WAS THRILLING. WATCHED HIM IN 60 S
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.
Just wanted to inform everyone this theater was built for plays, hence the acoustics Also a very busy, noisy train station below😢
A gorgeous woman 😊
@@robertjean5782 A train station?
I love this show.
America's cultural elite at play.
That's a keen and accurate observation. Bravo.
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
Yes those were some if my good times I had back then.
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.
@@tennissir1986 *lieu*
It's a shame that they don't have shows like this anymore. Beats the crap they have TV today.
Yeah. Duck Dynasty sucks.
@@RugNug Honestly????? I can't comment either way on that show. I've heard of it, but never watched it.
@@southtexasprepper1837 It's very popular among conservative bible thumpers. 😄
@@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.
@@southtexasprepper1837 Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool - Voltaire.
by the mid 70's Jacques Cousteau was a household name, his specials were must see TV. Aye Calypso!
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!
I recognized Jacques Cousteau immediately, but that was after his television specials about the Calypso's research.
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.
Exactly agree totally 💯 percent 😊
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 “
U don't say
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
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”
My Favorite Too !
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.
Those dresses were elegant!
Costeau warned the world about protecting the oceans back in the 60s and 70s. Words that have come true.
Not really. Not at all actually.
So refreshing to watch this show. Pure joy.
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
He protects his sea life with his enlightening documentaries.
Yes he did and makes me think just how closer this world be to being dead as it will be some day.
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 ! ! 👍❤
He didn't have a tv show then
At that time his name was well known but not his face. That's why he signed in as X.
He was just getting started, not a household name 😮
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".
Thanks for the bedtime story. It worked great!
@Matt Eagle It's so seldom necessary to do so.
amazing there was a time not everyone knew Jacque Costeau
He wasn't known in America at this time😊
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.
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.
Funny that coincidentally at 8:00-8:02 the sound squiggles and makes Bennett sound like he's underwater.
Haha that's true!
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.
We need more Jacque Costeaus in the world.
Jacques is 46 years old in this episode
One of the best questions ever, laugh out loud ...on or off or in or out....by Phil Rizutto😂🤣😂
Jacques Cousteau was the subject of a big fifth grade project I had to do!
Sounds fishy to me
I would have loved to meet Monsieur Cousteau
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!
funny. i was born in 1959.
i remember Jacques Cousteau with a heavy accent and hard to understand.
What a wonderful childhood u had
Well, he was "very" French
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.
Also that he was the founder of the Bendix automotive brakes company.
@@blackie75 No he wasn't.
I never knew that - Lois, you are a veritable fount of trivial information!
@@dchawk81 yeah he sure was
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.
The many memories this show brings are astounding 😊
Here Phil Rizutto is on the panel but in 1950, he was the first Mystery Guest.
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.
"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"
Very well done and very funny Rhubba!
That sounds like something Marlin Perkins would do to Jim.
@@billd.6847 Who is Marlin Perkins?
Cousteau was only 46 at the time. :( He looked so much older than Daly. He could have passed as his father.
Much like Randolph Churchill. Heavy smoking plays a part also hard liquor.
Cousteau copied from the Italian military to go underwater, they sunk 2 battle ships.
Is it something a man can give a girl? Lol
I miss people like Arlene Francis who handle themselves so elegantly. Times have changed and not necessarily for the better.
there's always suicide
Truly she is all class
@@lewisc215 yes. Or Nico. Oh wait. Shes dead. She still sounds the same
She really had it all - gorgeous, witty, classy, erudite, sexy…the kind of woman every man would want to spend his life with.
@lewisc215 What a charming thing to say-NOT!
ONE OF MY FAVE SHOWS...WAS THE LIFE OF RILEY....SUCH A FUNNY SHOW....(JACKIE GLEASON WAS RILEY BEFORE WILLIAM
I didn't know that..
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.
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.
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 ! :-)
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!
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,,,
His American television series didn’t begin being broadcast until 1968.
"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.
that¡s the way it should be
Wasn't enough time😢
JJ Cousteau ushered off without shaking hands with the panel - that is just crazy!
Jacques-Yves Cousteau.
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.
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.
@@inkyguyThis show was live and couldn't be censored😊
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.
And that can be said about 90% of them😊
Not much of an actor in my not so humble opinion.
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
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.
@@Vitte4It's both after watching 340 videos doesn't pay attention 😅
Phil Rizutto: SWOON! I love it when Bennett's attempts at humor fall flat, making him look like a boring old fart: 13:15
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.
+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.
Losers
@@DeathBringer769 That was Jules Montenier, the sponsor in February '56 and they couldn't get him either.
Many have fooled the panel 0ver the 750 videos😅
Jacques Cousteau was my hero as a child
If Jacques was alive today and saw the condition of his beloved oceans he would die all over again. We should be ashamed.
Holy cow! Rizutto is young here.
When one of the "non" celebrities is more famous than the celebrity!
Interesting observation. People these days are famous for near to nothing.
@@zapkvr seems it was the case back then too.
Mr. Aqualung !? Sorry about the spelling ! LOVED HIS SERIES !!!!!!!!
Great show, thanks again.
Minor correction: Scooter's surname is spelled "Rizzuto."
"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.
+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.
@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.
@@juliansingerThe contestant didn't mind $50 was a weeks pay 😊
@@philippapay4352No one received $1,000 😅
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.
When you have my last name; our home knew Jacques Cousteau.
Did he come around to borrow some milk?
Poor William Bendix such a great actor who died so young.
He was a ham.
Bill Bendix deserved an Oscar for Lifeboat.
I have a notion to second that emotion ! A truly magnificent performance !
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"
@Corno di Bassetto thanks for pointing that out
@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.
@@preppysocks209 That's wack
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
JACQUES COUSTEAU
REPAIRS FALSE TEETH
William Bendix😊
I love Dorothy's beautiful dress! ❤️
And Arlenes dress😊
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
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.
Once again, Lois, your knowledge of incidental details is astounding!
@@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.
@@loissimmons6558 Wow, you said a mouthful! (And I am once again impressed.)
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.
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.'
Happy birthday William Bendix, born on this day in 1906.
Where do we send a card?
Thank you so much for these uploads. Great entertainment!
Everyone can Thank him by subscribing and check the status box😊
Does it ever strike anyone that as long as this show was on they never mastered getting the contestant off thecstage
haha, that's so funny.
It run by the seat of their pants😅
M.Jaques Cousteau was a foremost marine biologist.
Paris is the capital of France.Your turn....
Bendix as Babe Ruth was monumental....silliest sports movie ever made
Holy cow 🐄 it's the scooter 🛵 in a tux 🐧 on what's my line ______!!
First time I can remember Daly's hair being even slightly out of place.
He wore a toupee for many years😊
William Bendix and Michael Rappaport looks like they could be related.
Cousteau is so famous now that he'd never have been in the general game.
If learned anything from this episode, it is that John does not have false teeth😀
And they're found in the average household!!! (False Teeth)
Daly has a toupee 😊
TIL that false teeth are in the average American home and can be given as gifts from men to women...
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......
People looked older back in them olden days.
@10:52
Oh Dorothy, you aren't stupid
she is brilliant
@@oswaldomilano3848Dorothy was a investigative reporter for years 😊
Just a word off the cuff😊
A real talent.
Jacques Cousteau and the Calypso! Can’t believe they didn’t recognise him.
He hadn’t been on television yet.
@@inkyguyNot well known 😊
Cousteau before he became well known!
Dorothy is radiant, suits me sir, radiant I tell you 💛
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!
never heard of Phil Rizzuto......
@@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.
Father of Oceanography is Fontaine Mathew Maury.. He's Buried Between two Presidents is in the Hall of 50 Greatest Americans.
Jesus Christ almighty.
Phil Rizzuto was a great shortstop and a good guy, but WML was not his thing.
He was a fill in😊
Wow they actually didn't know who Jacques Cousteau is! lol.
He hadn't started his career yet 😊
Scooter!
Holy cow!
Dorothy is looking quite pretty tonight
Dorothy always looks so pretty and elegant. She's so put together.
Always
@@Merrida100Arlene beats her,gorgeous woman 😊
@@robertjean5782 Darn tootin' !!!
Jacques Cousteau already looks old😲
This episode really shows that odd hair piece(?) on John Daly....
Toupee had for many years 😊
I 💖 underwater films 💖💯
Remember sea hunt with Loyd nelson.😊
Wait, Bennett said William Bendix couldn't be Jackie Gleason. That should have been a "Yes, he could not Jackie Gleason".
Well there you go, Mr. Gellar did look like Jacques Cousteau!
Causteo was a war hrro
_Il s’appelle Jacques-Yves Cousteau._
"is it something you can put in or on and take off or out?"
Typical Baseball player's question - it covers all the bases. :)
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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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.
@@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?
@@gerberjoanne266 British English! What other English is there?
@@rogerlephoque3704 Hah!
@@gerberjoanne266 Vive la difference! Salut.