It's that time of year to listen to Burl Ives narrate "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer." Had to watch this first. A true talent who will forever be remembered.
Yes! That is a classic! Burle Ives also recorded The Ugly Bug Ball...which was turned into a cartoon. My children LOVED LOVED it but it was a total ear worm to parents andvto this day when I hear his name, the sing returns to haunt me :-)
Burl Ives was that rarest of rare birds on Broadway a complete NATURAL as Big Daddy Pollock in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. So good it is hard to imagine anyone else in the role.
Undoubtedly Arlene was joking when she says something about John not having rehearsed with one of the challengers. John was quick to let the viewers know that he didn't rehearse with the challengers before the show. (7:01)
We saw Mr. Ives twice at Oregon State University along with Peter, Paul and Mary. He was a very talented singer and I still enjoy hearing him Holly, Jolly Christmas on the radio.
Interesting that they described the last challenger's occupation as "painting white lines". The preferred color for road marking lines has changed over the years more than once. The first color for center lines in the U.S. was white starting in 1911. Oregon was the first state where yellow was used (1917). For a time, yellow became quite popular in some areas. By Nov. 1954, 47 of the (then) 48 states had adopted white as the standard color. In 1958, white was adopted as the standard for the new Interstate Highway System. But by 1971, yellow was mandated as the color for dividing opposite traffic lanes (most of the changeover accomplished by 1973 and the rest by 1975 - although I know of a back road in NJ that had a white center line for many years after that). White continues to be used for separating lines of traffic going in the same direction and at the edge of the road. It has become known as the white-yellow system.
this will sound rather insane, but after 100's of hours of watching Ms Francis I can safely and confidently say, I love and adore her nearly as much as I do my former wife...she is simply perfect in every way.
I also think she is incredibly charming and a really good looking woman with mischievous friendly eyes... So... we fully understand your feelings towards her!... :-))
@@elisabethlinz4256 ..."mischievous, friendly eyes." A perfectly wonderful description! If I had to pick a single TV show to watch on a desert island, I think this would be it!
There were still old-fashioned bowling alleys around in 1955 that hadn't been upgraded to automatic pinsetting and ball-return equipment, though there were plenty of bowling alleys that had been fully automated by then, and all bowling alleys being newly built by then were automated from the outset. The first automated pinsetting equipment went into use in 1946, I believe. So the profession of "pinsetter" was a dying one by 1955, much as "elevator operator" was. We had three bowling alleys in my home suburb of L.A., two new ones that were fully automatic from the outset, and the older one had to upgrade to compete with the two newer bowling alleys because people preferred the automatic equipment.
I have no doubt, corner moose, that you should tip the pinsetter as well as paying the fee to the bowling alley to use the lane. I'll bet they paid minimum wage and tips helped out a lot. (My suburb was Downey, by the way.) We moved there in 1954 when I was two years old.
I remember Ontario quite well -- I went on a winery tour near there once and another time, in second grade, my father's employee had a company picnic at some sort of facility that had a swimming pool and a clubhouse -- it might have been a country club. Also, it's where they used to divert all the incoming commercial flights when fog closed LAX, since Ontario was considerably inland and not subject to fog the way LAX was from time to time.
I'm glad that John Daly acknowledged that there was unfair influence by the audience (or actually Cerf). I always hate it when the audience of out of turn panelists burst out and ruin it
+Dick Wilson I don't. I like it when they do because otherwise, they'd be toast. The audience laughing is most helpful for the panel. I've often wondered how I would guess what the line is without the audience laughter to provide more insight than John's crazy "well it could be this, but we don't want to confuse you, but it doesn't have to be this, but blah blah blah." He throws them more off track that way than anything.
I was glad too. The audience started applauding as soon as Bennett advised Arlene (whose turn it was) to include elephants in her list of wild animals (she was naming wild animals primarily in the large cat family).
+Edwin Rivera A lovely variation of a chignon, I would say. It should be noted that WML did not have anyone available for the panelists in terms of makeup, wardrobe or hair styling.
Arlene reminds me of a grandmother type, even in this. However, being born in the late 70s, and having grandmothers who would have been around this age in the 50s, this makes sense.
Regarding the missing episode, Ty Cobb lived in the SF Bay area during much of his retirement. He would have been in NY for the Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremonies on 7/25/55 (the Hall of Fame website lists him as one of attendees in the year that Joe DiMaggio, Gabby Hartnett, Ted Lyons, Dazzy Vance, Home Run Baker and Ray Schalk were inducted. When he was healthy enough to do so, he attended the annual ceremonies in Cooperstown quite often. In the first Hall of Fame vote in 1936, five players were named as the initial class. Cobb received the most votes, 222 out of 226 ballots, ahead of Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson. It's good that WML included baseball from time to time. And yet there's still something missing ...
ToddSF 94109 He put on smaller framed style glasses on previous show but changed to thicker frames which look much better, after a viewer mentioned he should wear them to cover bags under his eyes. Took the advice .
I just read his obituary, which someone posted on here. He was also an outstanding tenor (who kept up voice lessons to keep in form) who travelled around the world!
Burl Ives has a odd object attached to his right pants leg about mid thigh, which I'd guess could be some type of tape used to keep the curtains together that got stuck on him or not.
Regarding the elephant-trainer, I think you all are reading a whole hell of a lot out of his appearance on this show in light of what you know happened *after* his appearance on this show. Give the guy a break, and read my comment bellow, if you please! (I mean the comment regarding him--not the little old lady who appeared first!)
Johan Bengtsson And what would you say to a comment added this week to one of the videos saying nothing but "This was my Grandmother's birthday!" The golden rule has little place on the internet. ;)
The pin setter lady was a real hoot, this must have been just before the automation became standard practice. Burl Ives was super 😎, I once heard that at a show he bashed a heckler in the head with his guitar 😂
Regrettably, the What’s My Line episode featuring Ty Cobb as Mystery Guest is missing. It is just as regrettable that the show continued to ignore the Dodgers. But even if the episode is lost, the Dodgers were still in action on July 31 and during the week leading up to it. With no episode to post to, the recap will be in chronological order rather than starting with the day of the episode and then recapping the rest of the week. There were no games played on Monday, July 25. Attention was focused on the Hall of Fame induction ceremonies as well as the Hall of Fame exhibition game (between the Red Sox and Braves that year) in Cooperstown. The Dodgers started their western swing in Cincinnati on Tuesday and started out well. They knocked out starter Rudy Minarcin in the third after scoring a run in the first on Duke Snider’s sacrifice fly, a run in the second on Don Zimmer’s double and two in the third on a walk to Snider and consecutive singles by Roy Campanella, Gil Hodges and Jim Gilliam. At that point, three Redleg relievers shut out the Dodgers over the last 6 1/3 innings, keeping Cincy in the game. And they chipped away at the Dodger lead with runs in the fourth (a single by first baseman Ted Kluszewski and a double by right fielder Wally Post) and the fifth (a leadoff double by shortstop Roy McMillan and two fly outs). But that’s all Don Newcombe would surrender en route to his 17th win. Wednesday’s contest went into extra innings. Cincy struck first with a two run homer by catcher Smoky Burgess in the third inning off Carl Erskine. The Dodgers finally got to Joe Black in the sixth on a leadoff homer by Don Hoak, a single by Pee Wee Reese and a homer by Snider. The Redlegs were held scoreless until the ninth. Center fielder Gus Bell led off with a single. Two walks and a strikeout later, Matt Batts was sent up to the bat for the pitcher. The Dodgers countered by taking out Johnny Podres and bringing in Clem Labine. On a grounder to Reese, the Dodgers got the force at second but couldn’t complete the double play as Bell scored the tying run. In the tenth with one out, Post singled, Bell singled and runners ended up on second and third on Carl Furillo’s error. After left fielder Bob Thurman was walked intentionally, third baseman Milt Smith strode to the plate. He had played in his first major league game six days earlier, handed the starting job when Bobby Adams was dealt to the White Sox. He was hitting .107 when he stepped to the plate and only managed to hit .196 for the season. But this time he came through with a single to center and the game was over. The rubber game was on the Dodger side of the ledger from the get go as they scored four in the first inning and led 7-0 after three. Reese homered in the first, followed by singles by Snider and Hodges and some sloppy play by the Redlegs. That put the Dodgers up 4-0. When Roger Craig, a notoriously weak hitting pitcher, led off the second with a single, Art Fowler was sent to the showers and Gerry Staley came in. Hoak bunted Craig to second. After Reese was retired, Snider was walked intentionally. Campanella spoiled the strategy with a run-scoring single and another Redlegs error made the score 6-0. Zimmer’s homer in the third added another run. The Dodgers scored at least one run against all five pitchers they faced as they beat Cincinnati 10-2. Craig went the distance for the win. From there it was on to St. Louis. It was their best weekend and the culmination of their best week in quite a while. Friday’s game saw the Cardinals jump in front with their first two batters when third baseman Ken Boyer singled, stole second and scored on a single by second baseman Red Schoendienst. The Cards kept chipping away at Karl Spooner with runs in the third and the sixth. Boyer got things started again in the third with a bunt single, followed by a walk to Schoendienst and an RBI single by first baseman Stan Musial. Center fielder Bill Virdon’s towering homer added the third run. The Dodgers finally solved Larry Jackson with two outs in the seventh. After Hodges led off with a single, Jackson retired Gilliam and Furillo. But Zimmer kept the inning alive with a single and Newcombe, batting for Spooner, drove Hodges in with a double. Hoak’s 3-run homer put the Dodgers in front. The Cardinals retied the game against Russ Meyer in their half of the inning. 36-year old Harry Walker had replaced Eddie Stanky as manager of the Cardinals on May 28. He hadn’t played in the majors since a brief appearance in 1951, but he had been a player-manager in the minors in 1952-54 and he proved he could still hit. He activated himself as a player in July for this situation: to pinch hit in a key spot (he was 4 for 9 as in that role in 1955). And he came through with a single. Then he took himself out for a pinch runner who moved to second on pinch hitter Solly Hemus’s sacrifice bunt. Then Boyer came through with his third hit of the game, a double, to drive home the run. The Dodgers answered the call once again in the eighth. And again it came with two outs. Gilliam worked out a walk and Furillo drove him home with a double. Labine held the Cards in check for the last two innings and the Dodgers had come away with the one-run victory, 5-4. The next two games would prove to be much easier. Saturday’s game actually started out as a pitcher’s duel between Podres and Tom Poholsky. Leading off the sixth, Zimmer’s home run snapped the scoreless tie. Three batters later, Poholsky would be lifted from the game, even though the Dodgers didn’t get a ball out of the infield. After Podres grounded out, Hoak beat out an infield hit and Reese walked. Paul La Palme entered the game and struck out Snider, but then Campanella singled home Hoak. Mel Wright was waved in to pitch and Hodges drove in Reese with a single. With runners on first and second, Wright should have been out of the inning on Gilliam’s grounder to short. But Alex Grammas threw the ball into the stands and the fourth and final run of the inning crossed the plate. Podres struggled in the sixth as he gave up three singles and a walk. But a timely double play ball allowed him to escape without allowing a run. He stranded the bases loaded when right fielder Rip Repulski flied out. So when he surrendered a two out double in the seventh to catcher Nelson Burbrink and he walked Grammas, Manager Walt Alston didn’t tempt fate twice. He waved in Don Bessent. When pinch hitter Wally Moon took a called third strike, the shutout was preserved. And Bessent would preserve the shutout the rest of the way for his first save. The Dodgers tacked on two more runs in the ninth for a 6-0 win. It was also the first victory for Podres since June 14. With an injury-plagued second half of the season, June 14 was also his last complete game of the season … until games 3 and 7 of the World Series. The last day of July was the high water mark of Newcombe’s season. He went the distance to raise his record to 18-1 and the Dodgers gave him plenty of run support. He struggled with arm problems the last two months and lost his next three decisions before finishing with a 20-5 record, still an excellent winning percentage. His mound opponent, All-Star rookie Luis Arroyo, failed to retire a batter in the second as he gave up a double to Hodges, a single by Jackie Robinson and another double by Furillo to give the Dodgers a 1-0 lead. Floyd Wooldridge came in and Zimmer’s fly out made it 2-0. Campanella’s homer in the third extended the lead. Newcombe faltered in the fourth when Schoendienst and Musial hit back to back homers onto the roof at old Busch Stadium. But from then on it was all Dodgers as Newk gave up only one hit in the last five innings and his teammates pounded out 8 more runs for an 11-2 win. Campy went 4 for 5 with 3 RBI’s and Hodges added another double and single in five trips to pace the attack. Robinson added a 2-run double in his first start since July 14. Finishing the month on a high note, the Dodgers continued to lead the Braves by 13½. Trying not to look too far ahead, their biggest question mark was who would they face in the World Series: the defending AL champ Indians, the Yankees who they had met in five World Series in the past 15 years or the first place White Sox who led those two teams by one slim game? And the Red Sox were only 3 back and the Tigers were not out of the question at 7½ back with a record of 55-47. There were a lot of teams to scout: an enviable position to be in.
A little creepy Fred's mentioning Arlene and air conditioning given that 5 years in the future an air condition played a major part of her liability history.
@@TrainsFerriesFeet While Arlene and Martin were on vacation, work was being done on their apartment, including the windows, because of repairs to the air conditioning. The Gabels' employees placed a dumbbell or two in the window sill to hold up the window. As the employees moved the dumbbell, it fell from the Gabels' 8th story apartment to the sidewalk below, where a couple had just finished a birthday lunch at the restaurant at the ground level. The dumbbell hit the husband and killed him. The Gabels' liability insurer paid most of a sizable judgment. The building owner's liability insurer paid the rest. Liability rested on the doctrine of respondeat superior, in which the torts of the employee committed in furtherance of the interest of the employer are charged to the employer, in addition to any of the Gabels' own and the building owner's negligence.
Can someone explain to me the reasoning behind the way the panelist's names are displayed? I have noticed the women all have their first and last name displayed but the men, including the host, are more formal as Mister.
Both Arlene and Dorothy were married. In the convention of the time, they would have been “Mrs. (husband’s last name).” For example, Arlene would have been called “Mrs. Martin Gabel” or, less formally, “Mrs. Arlene Gabel.” Both women maintained their own names for professional purposes. It might seem fairer to have the men of the panel also use their professional names, but again, this show used the formality of titles when possible. Notice that panelists usually addressed contestants with their titles. That also explains why JCD always asked female contestants whether they should be addressed as “Miss” or “Mrs.”.
OH, she LITERALLY sets up the pins? I thought she ran the machine to set them up. When it said she set up pins at a Bowling Alley, I thought since I don't have a job, that's something I could do
Very, very sadly, Arlene was mugged in 1988, two years after her husband had died. The mugger stole the beloved diamond heart necklace that Martin had given to her. She was 81 years old at the time. Wish I had been there. The delightful and brave gentleman responsible would have required the services of a paramedic once I had caught up with him.
@@anselm4360 Paramedic would be third choice. Second, trauma surgeon, and, of course, mortician as first choice, this list not being unique to an assault on beloved Arlene, but any mugger targeting the elderly or infirm.
I guess no one on the panel ever went to a bowling alley and had to change their street shoes for bowling shoes. Aren't shoes an article of clothing? LOL
Fred KEEPS being rude... and this time it wasn't even towards the guest, it was toward John (I don't like Fred, but I'll admit, I'm glad SOMEONE finally said to John, "Why do you let her answer then)?" I like John, but I DO find he speaks for the contestants way to much.
Krista Brewer Fred is what I'd call passive-aggressive. When he is slightly undermined by anyone, he hits back with sarcasm or something sly dressed up as dry wit but really it's to keep on top. I've heard him say all sorts of things now which undermine the other person. He even undermined his own wife when she came on as a mystery guest!: So if his loved one gets patronised what hope does anyone else have? I'm all for edgy comedy and egotistical performers, don't get me wrong and of course all comedic panellists have more of an ego than the others but Fred's 'wit' is ill-judged, ill-suited and very thinly disguising a mean streak. I notice too that all of the others....John, Dorothy, Arlene, Bennett....have an awareness of how they should behave, how they should look, how they should hold themselves on TV. Fred appears to just turn up. No style, no intelligence, no feel. Ugly personality, ugly voice, ugly face. I bet he stinks too. I wish he'd push off!!
On August 7, the date of this What’s My Line episode, the Dodgers played the Cubs at Wrigley Field. There was no game the day before, most likely a rainout as it was too early for the exhibition football season to have started in those days. Instead of a doubleheader on Sunday, the Cubs played the Dodgers again on Monday. The Dodgers were a good draw. Why lose a chance for an extra gate? They drew over 39,000 for Sunday’s single game and over 18,000 for Monday’s game, not bad for a weekday afternoon game and a home team that now had a losing record. The Cubs played well against the Dodgers this series, something they could have used a few months earlier when they were in second place. Although the Dodgers staged a late comeback, they fell one run short. The Cubs took the lead with two runs in the third on a two out walk to right fielder Jim King, a double by shortstop Ernie Banks and an error by Gil Hodges that allowed him to go to third, followed by a single by third baseman Randy Jackson. Next inning, the Cubs staged another two out rally that chased starter Billy Loes. With one out, center fielder Eddie Miksis got things started against his old team with a single. Loes struck out catcher Harry Chiti, but pitcher Bob Rush kept things alive with another single. An infield hit by first baseman Dee Fondy loaded the bases. Second baseman Gene Baker hit the fourth single of the inning to bring home the Cubs third run of the game. Don Bessent then came in and got King to ground out to end the inning. A double by Fondy and a single by Baker in the sixth off Roger Craig added to the Cubs lead. Then the Dodgers battled back in the seventh. Pee Wee Reese and Duke Snider led off with singles to put runners on the corners. After Snider stole second, Roy Campanella walked. Hodges drove home two with a double and Carl Furillo followed with a sacrifice fly. But Miksis was able to hold Hodges at second base and Rush was able to escape further damage. The Dodgers threatened again in the last two innings. In the eighth, Don Newcombe batted for Craig and singled. Bill Tremel relieved Rush and got Don Hoak to hit into a double play and struck out Reese. In the ninth, it was Tremel who ran into trouble. With one out he walked Campanella and with two outs Furillo doubled. However, Campanella held third. With the tying and winning runs in scoring position, Hal Jeffcoat was brought in. He is listed as walking Jackie Robinson intentionally, but it would be unusual to bring in a pitcher just to issue an intentional walk, so I suspect he fell behind in the count when pitching carefully and the Cubs chose to walk him and try their luck with having Warren Hacker face Don Zimmer. Hacker won the battle by striking out Zimmer and the Cubs hung on for the 4-3 win.
The week started better for the Dodgers as they took 3 out of 4 from their closest challenger, the Milwaukee Braves. On Monday, August 1, Loes was the starting pitcher for the Dodgers in this game as well. And he fell behind this time, too, with the Dodger bats cool in the early going. They were also kept off the board when left fielder Hank Aaron threw out Hoak at the plate in the 1st inning. The Braves drew first blood in the 4th when center fielder Billy Bruton led off with a single, shortstop Johnny Logan bunted him to second, third baseman Eddie Mathews singled home Bruton and Aaron beat out an infield hit. The day before, first baseman Joe Adcock had his hand broken when he was hit by a pitch from Jim Hearn of the Giants. George Crowe’s powerful bat replaced him at first. He stroked an RBI single for the Braves second run. A Mathews home run in the 6th added another run. Lew Burdette had the Dodgers shut out through six. But in the 7th, Robinson led off with a single and Jim Gilliam ran for him. Furillo and Zimmer followed with singles to end the shutout and put runners on the corners. Newcombe batted for Loes and his infield single brought Furillo home. Carl Erskine ran for Newk. Hoak bunted and when the Braves attempt at a force play was too late, bases were loaded. Reese walked to force in the tying run and when Burdette argued too vigorously, he was tossed by home plate umpire Lon Warneke. It was the best thing that happened to the Braves all inning. Chet Nichols came in and struck out Snider. Then Ernie Johnson relieved and got Campanella to hit into a double play. The teams were still deadlocked after nine. But the Dodgers broke through against Johnson in the 10th. Gilliam led off with a walk and Furillo followed with a single. Zimmer bunted them to second and third. George Shuba batted for Karl Spooner and was walked intentionally. Hoak hit a grounder to Logan and Gilliam scored the go ahead run while Furillo was forced at third. Bessent came in and nailed down the Dodgers’ victory. The Braves evened the score the next day. A Mathews home run off Craig in the 1st gave them a quick 1-0 lead but their sloppy fielding helped the Dodgers tie it in the 2nd. The Dodgers took the lead in the 5th on a leadoff single by Reese and a homer by Snider. When Campanella followed with a single, that was it for Bob Buhl who was usually tough against the Dodgers. Dave Jolly came in and held the Dodgers in check. Craig was in command through seven. In the 8th, things fell apart. Bruton led off with a double. With one out, Mathews went downtown again to tie the score. After Aaron reached on an error by Hoak and right fielder Andy Pafko singled, Clem Labine relieved Craig. After he walked catcher Del Crandall, he should have been out of the inning. But an error by Zimmer allowed two runs to score and put the Braves back on top. In the top of the 9th, Phil Paine completed his fourth inning of one-hit shutout relief to get the win. The final two games of the series were slugfests as 36 runs crossed the plate all told. On Wednesday, 8 of the 9 Dodger runs scored on homers as Hodges and Zimmer each hit a pair of four baggers. Hodges got his team off to a flying start with a 1st inning grand slam home run off Ray Crone. He added a two run shot in the 5th. Both of Zimmer’s homers came with the bases empty. Zimmer’s first home run came in the 4th. But Russ Meyer didn’t survive the bottom of the inning. After a one out single and then a walk and a run scoring single with two outs, he was yanked in favor of Bessent. Another single made it 5-2 before Bessent got out of the inning. He then held the Braves in check until the bottom of the 8th when a home run by Crandall made the score 9-3. The Braves rallied against Bessent in the 9th. With one out, Bruton doubled, left fielder Bobby Thomson walked and Aaron doubled in a run. Crowe singled in two more. Suddenly the Braves cut the Dodger lead to 3. Into the fray came Labine, and he got Pafko on a weak grounder and Crandall on a fly out to win the game. On Thursday afternoon, it was a case of “last man standing” to decide this game. And for most of the game, it looked like the Braves would get a split in the series. The Braves started Lew Burdette on short rest. The Dodgers put Don Newcombe and his 18-1 record on the line to oppose Burdette. They gave up a combined nine runs. Newk was knocked out of the game in the 5th and Burdette was unable to retire either of the batters he faced in the 6th. The bullpens didn’t fare much better. Each team used four pitchers and each pitcher gave up at least one run. The Dodgers broke the ice in the 2nd with doubles by Campanella and Furillo the key blows. The Braves tied it in the bottom of the inning on a two-run homer by Thompson and then scored two more with the help of a pair of Dodger errors. When Burdette was lifted from the game, the Braves led 5-4. The Dodgers took the lead in the top of the 7th on Zimmer’s two run homer off Paine. But for the second time in the game, when the Dodgers scored two, the Braves answered back with four. Pafko, manning the hot corner in this game, capped the scoring with a 3-run blast off Erskine. With the Braves were three outs away from victory, they ran into late lightning. Furillo led off with a homer against Johnson. Zimmer struck out, but Robinson batted for Erskine and singled. Frank Kellert batted for Hoak and beat out an infield hit. Reese’s single pulled the Dodgers within one run. Nichols came in and got the second out of the inning, a fly ball by Snider. But Campanella followed with a three-run homer to put the Dodgers on top once again. Labine came in to preserve the victory. With one out, he walked Logan and Aaron brought him home with a double. But Labine retired Crowe and Pafko on ground outs to finally bring the 11-10 victory to a close. All that was missing was the keg of beer at third base. This time, the Dodgers headed south on U.S. 41 to Chicago. Friday’s game was a typical high-scoring Wrigley Field affair. As the saying goes, the wind must have been blowing out. The Dodgers would outhit them, 16-13, and hit four homers (including two by Snider to move one ahead of Banks for the majors home run lead, Ernie also hitting one that day) to three by the Cubs. The only problem was they didn’t outscore them. The lead changed hands seven times in the first six innings. Reese and Snider hit back to back homers in the 1st and the Cubs answered with a 2-run homer by Banks in their half of the inning. Reese’s double keyed another two run inning for the Dodgers in the third. The Cubs starting pitcher, Hacker, helped his own cause in the bottom of the inning with a leadoff double, and Baker’s double one out later brought him home. In the 4th, it looked like the Cubs broke the game open. With one out, left fielder Hank Sauer singled and Miksis followed with a homer to put the Cubs back in the lead. When Chiti singled, that was it for Dodger starter Johnny Podres. Ed Roebuck came in and didn’t help matters when one out later, Fondy torched him for the second 2-run homer of the inning. But no lead is safe at Wrigley. In the 5th, a two run homer by Snider and a solo homer by Hodges tied the game once again and sent Hacker to the showers in favor of Jeffcoat. Then the teams traded single runs for an inning and a half. Sauer’s double drove home a run in the Cubs’ 5th. Reese’s sacrifice fly tied things up 8-8 in the 6th. But at this point, Jeffcoat got stingy, while the Dodgers opened the door for the Cubs. An error by Hoak to lead off the Cubs half of the sixth led to the Cubs retaking the lead in their half, and that proved to be the winning run. After the Cubs added an insurance run in the eighth, the Dodgers mounted one more rally with two outs in the ninth on back to back singles by Hodges and Gilliam. But Jeffcoat retired Furillo on a fly ball and the Cubs had one in the win column. On Saturday, while the Dodgers sat, the Braves were blanked by the Pirates’ Bob Friend at home, 2-0. That was the high water mark of the season for the Dodgers, a 16 game lead over the second place Braves.
Knowing what we know today about how elephants are and were trained, that was a horrible profession. Just search for "elephant abuse circus" if you don't believe it.
I thought people took off their shoes to put on bowling shoes (that could be rented from the facility if not owned), But it wasn’t mentioned later so maybe they didn’t require it back then?
Bennett constantly drives me crazy when John makes it very clear that TIME IS SHORT and we need to hurry up, and he asked 5 questions asking in different ways if this was his summer job. He consistently wastes time when he does this, he does it all the time, and you can even hear John rushing through the score cards to get the panel moving along, while his eyes dart back and forth at the clock. But why do they keep wasting time and trying to crack jokes?
I was surprised no one mentioned that. I thought maybe they didn’t have to change their shoes back then? I love they way this sweet little lady acted rather shocked at some of the questions!
7:54 - I just blew some smoke towards the screen, and Arlene starts to cough ... I said "sorry" aloud before I knew it, and I'm feeling like a rude time-traveller now.
![What's My Line? - Johnny Mathis; Martin Gabel [panel]; Richard Boone [panel] (Feb 22, 1959)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/vA7TbRn4LkU/mqdefault.jpg)
It's that time of year to listen to Burl Ives narrate "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer."
Had to watch this first. A true talent who will forever be remembered.
Yes! That is a classic! Burle Ives also recorded The Ugly Bug Ball...which was turned into a cartoon. My children LOVED LOVED it but it was a total ear worm to parents andvto this day when I hear his name, the sing returns to haunt me :-)
It wasn't until 1964 that the "Rudolph" special first aired on television.
Or sing: "Have a Holly Jolly Christmas".
Unique definitely 😊
Burl Ives had a voice like no other. ❤️
He Shure did.
Burl Ives was that rarest of rare birds on Broadway a complete NATURAL as Big Daddy Pollock in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. So good it is hard to imagine anyone else in the role.
He was also impressive in The Big Country.
Lovely man and it's so sweet the way Arlene praises his superb abilities.
Undoubtedly Arlene was joking when she says something about John not having rehearsed with one of the challengers. John was quick to let the viewers know that he didn't rehearse with the challengers before the show. (7:01)
They had to make sure there were no impropriety in the show
We saw Mr. Ives twice at Oregon State University along with Peter, Paul and Mary. He was a very talented singer and I still enjoy hearing him Holly, Jolly Christmas on the radio.
Interesting that they described the last challenger's occupation as "painting white lines". The preferred color for road marking lines has changed over the years more than once. The first color for center lines in the U.S. was white starting in 1911. Oregon was the first state where yellow was used (1917). For a time, yellow became quite popular in some areas.
By Nov. 1954, 47 of the (then) 48 states had adopted white as the standard color. In 1958, white was adopted as the standard for the new Interstate Highway System. But by 1971, yellow was mandated as the color for dividing opposite traffic lanes (most of the changeover accomplished by 1973 and the rest by 1975 - although I know of a back road in NJ that had a white center line for many years after that). White continues to be used for separating lines of traffic going in the same direction and at the edge of the road. It has become known as the white-yellow system.
Lois, you're a pip! would love to play Trivial Pursuit with you.. as long as I was on your team!
Interesting. Of course in the 1980s, 'white lines', had an all together, different connotation.
this will sound rather insane, but after 100's of hours of watching Ms Francis I can safely and confidently say, I love and adore her nearly as much as I do my former wife...she is simply perfect in every way.
I also think she is incredibly charming and a really good looking woman with mischievous friendly eyes...
So... we fully understand your feelings towards her!... :-))
@@elisabethlinz4256 ..."mischievous, friendly eyes." A perfectly wonderful description!
If I had to pick a single TV show to watch on a desert island, I think this would be it!
@@chriskozik2573
Thank you, Chris... :-))
@@chriskozik2573 I agree...pandemic has felt like my own personal island and this has been my company
A new biography on Arlene entitled All Three Channels by Jennifer Bitman (2023) is worth reading.
This is a brief period when they still have 'the walk of shame' but have eliminated the idiotic guesses. Thank God when ALL of this bore was gone.
I just love this show, it's fascinating eaven though it's almost 70yrs ago. 😊
I noticed in almost every episode, Fred Allen continued to ask a question that couldn't be answered with a YES or NO.
There were still old-fashioned bowling alleys around in 1955 that hadn't been upgraded to automatic pinsetting and ball-return equipment, though there were plenty of bowling alleys that had been fully automated by then, and all bowling alleys being newly built by then were automated from the outset. The first automated pinsetting equipment went into use in 1946, I believe. So the profession of "pinsetter" was a dying one by 1955, much as "elevator operator" was. We had three bowling alleys in my home suburb of L.A., two new ones that were fully automatic from the outset, and the older one had to upgrade to compete with the two newer bowling alleys because people preferred the automatic equipment.
ToddSF 94109 My dad told me you were expected to tip the pinsetter. This, too was in the suburbs near L. A.
I have no doubt, corner moose, that you should tip the pinsetter as well as paying the fee to the bowling alley to use the lane. I'll bet they paid minimum wage and tips helped out a lot. (My suburb was Downey, by the way.) We moved there in 1954 when I was two years old.
ToddSF 94109
Born in about the same year, Ontario.
I remember Ontario quite well -- I went on a winery tour near there once and another time, in second grade, my father's employee had a company picnic at some sort of facility that had a swimming pool and a clubhouse -- it might have been a country club. Also, it's where they used to divert all the incoming commercial flights when fog closed LAX, since Ontario was considerably inland and not subject to fog the way LAX was from time to time.
My father set pins in the 1930s. It was one of those jobs that teens usually did on nights, weekends and the summer.
I'm glad that John Daly acknowledged that there was unfair influence by the audience (or actually Cerf). I always hate it when the audience of out of turn panelists burst out and ruin it
+Dick Wilson I don't. I like it when they do because otherwise, they'd be toast. The audience laughing is most helpful for the panel. I've often wondered how I would guess what the line is without the audience laughter to provide more insight than John's crazy "well it could be this, but we don't want to confuse you, but it doesn't have to be this, but blah blah blah." He throws them more off track that way than anything.
+gcjerryusc
Applause, applause - life is our cause ...
Agreed. I hate it too. And often, Mr. Daly gives them clues, through his amusing chatter. 😕
Why did they have a live audience? They've done this so many times, they HAVE to know by now)
I was glad too. The audience started applauding as soon as Bennett advised Arlene (whose turn it was) to include elephants in her list of wild animals (she was naming wild animals primarily in the large cat family).
Miss Arlene always looks beautiful but I have to say... hair pulled back on the sides, she is stunning.
and in good humor considering the theft that had just happened.
+Edwin Rivera
A lovely variation of a chignon, I would say. It should be noted that WML did not have anyone available for the panelists in terms of makeup, wardrobe or hair styling.
Marc Sinclaire was Dorothy's hairdresser and also did her makeup.
Besides being attractive, it seems as if it would be more comfortable on a hot night to have the hair pulled away from the face.
Arlene reminds me of a grandmother type, even in this. However, being born in the late 70s, and having grandmothers who would have been around this age in the 50s, this makes sense.
Regarding the missing episode, Ty Cobb lived in the SF Bay area during much of his retirement. He would have been in NY for the Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremonies on 7/25/55 (the Hall of Fame website lists him as one of attendees in the year that Joe DiMaggio, Gabby Hartnett, Ted Lyons, Dazzy Vance, Home Run Baker and Ray Schalk were inducted. When he was healthy enough to do so, he attended the annual ceremonies in Cooperstown quite often.
In the first Hall of Fame vote in 1936, five players were named as the initial class. Cobb received the most votes, 222 out of 226 ballots, ahead of Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson.
It's good that WML included baseball from time to time. And yet there's still something missing ...
I was so disappointed Ty was not available to watch on this show - greatest baseball player of all time ,next to the Babe - Jmho
Arlene!! Wow, she looks GREAT tonight.
Gorgeous woman ❤😊
A funny question from Fred to John, but it is the contestant who delivers the punchline. That's timing! 15:15
That was great passive aggressive
@@bazazpa As befitting a car thief who was arrested the next day.
That was classic!
Burl had some of the nicest hit songs in the early 60s.
Burl Ives was the greatest folk singer of all time. RIP Sam Snowman/Big Daddy.
He certainly way. Even Carl Sandburg said so. And an awesome actor.
15:32 - love that Fred gets his comeuppance by the guest.
One of the great lines by a contestant, ever.
Burl Ives was great as "Big Daddy" in Cat on a hot tin roof.
And as Sam the Snowman in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer as well!! ⛄
Ron n. Ives deserved a best supporting oscar for his great acting in cat on a hot tin roof,
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Yes he was...
Back in the day when people were courteous and gracious and so were the stars.
Arlene always gorgeous.
My stepdad was a bowling pin setter as a teenager in the 60s
The first guest was the cutest!!!
I like Arlene's hair pulled up occasionally. And Dorothy with the Betty Boop look 🙂
I like Fred Allen's glasses -- they suit him, actually.
ToddSF 94109 He put on smaller framed style glasses on previous show but changed to thicker frames which look much better, after a viewer mentioned he should wear them to cover bags under his eyes. Took the advice .
He's doing his best to keep Robert Q 'hornrimmed glasses extraordinaire' Lewis off the show!! :)
The person who gave him the advice that they would hide the bags under his eyes, was right.
Cat On a Hot Tin Roof was one of my mother's favourite movies . Big daddy, Berl Ives has a striped beard here. He had his own style.
Todd....would have been great if one of the panelists had guessed his profession as car-thief after his walk of shame!
I could recognize Burl Ives voice blindfolded anyday
Burl lived in Seattle for a while... and he wrote "In a Cardboard Box out on Puget Sound".
I think that it was very generous of Mr. Daly to give the elephant trainer the money. 😀
It was a hot and humid day in New York City, 91°F at 5 pm, and still 74° at 10 pm with 91% humidity.
Mark Richardson Old weather reports are available if you know where to look for them
@Mark Richardson One of the online databases that I can access through a local library lets me view the New York Times back issues.
the last guy's line literally was lines.
... and the first challenger's line was lanes. If only the second challenger trained lions instead of elephants.
I lived Miss Iden, the bowling lady, who knew exactly what the answer should be lol. Didnt let John tell her what to say😁😆
Colin Bloor turned out to be one of the world’s leading cardiovascular experts. He died in 2010.
Wow, that's amazing!
I just read his obituary, which someone posted on here. He was also an outstanding tenor (who kept up voice lessons to keep in form) who travelled around the world!
A Renaissance Man
just before 18:50 you can see something click in bennetts brain. i think he recognized Burl Ives' voice just then.
That first contestant was a hoot.
RIP Burl Ives (1909-1995; died from oral cancer as a result from smoking)
I recall his voice as Sam the Snowman.
Have a hooy jolly Christmas 🎄⛄
Holly jolly😊
Burl Ives has a odd object attached to his right pants leg about mid thigh, which I'd guess could be some type of tape used to keep the curtains together that got stuck on him or not.
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer!
The woman who set up bowling pins was right . What she did was not amusing. It was the game that was amusing.
Regarding the elephant-trainer, I think you all are reading a whole hell of a lot out of his appearance on this show in light of what you know happened *after* his appearance on this show. Give the guy a break, and read my comment bellow, if you please! (I mean the comment regarding him--not the little old lady who appeared first!)
I remembering John commenting several times about how hot it is. Can you imagine not having central air. Those were the days, my friend.
I don't have to imagine it, I lived through those times. Fans didn't help at all!😢
@@robertjean5782 you are absolutely right. I’m 74 and I remember it well.
It's so annoying when the audience gives it away
They're so into the game 😊
What's my Line Up hahaha
Saw Burl Ives the broadway play Cat on the Hot Tin Roof.
Dynamic performance
Miss Iden answers in a cute way haha
At last Fred Allen asks John the question I have asked myself so many times. 5:16
Excellent, Fred!!! (thanks for always providing the time codes when you reference moments in the videos, Johan-- so helpful!)
What's My Line? You're most welcome! It's an old habit of mine, never take for granted that everyone knows what you're talking about.
Johan Bengtsson Most people do take it for granted. :)
What's My Line? I follow The Golden Rule,"One should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself." :
Johan Bengtsson And what would you say to a comment added this week to one of the videos saying nothing but "This was my Grandmother's birthday!" The golden rule has little place on the internet. ;)
The pin setter lady was a real hoot, this must have been just before the automation became standard practice. Burl Ives was super 😎, I once heard that at a show he bashed a heckler in the head with his guitar 😂
SETS PINS IN BOWLING ALLEY
TRAINS ELEPHANTS
PAINTS WHITE LINES ON HIGHWAYS
Duckpin setter? They don't have jobs like that anymore now that they have automated pin stters.
Sad isn’t it.
Sam the Snowman
Regrettably, the What’s My Line episode featuring Ty Cobb as Mystery Guest is missing. It is just as regrettable that the show continued to ignore the Dodgers. But even if the episode is lost, the Dodgers were still in action on July 31 and during the week leading up to it. With no episode to post to, the recap will be in chronological order rather than starting with the day of the episode and then recapping the rest of the week.
There were no games played on Monday, July 25. Attention was focused on the Hall of Fame induction ceremonies as well as the Hall of Fame exhibition game (between the Red Sox and Braves that year) in Cooperstown.
The Dodgers started their western swing in Cincinnati on Tuesday and started out well. They knocked out starter Rudy Minarcin in the third after scoring a run in the first on Duke Snider’s sacrifice fly, a run in the second on Don Zimmer’s double and two in the third on a walk to Snider and consecutive singles by Roy Campanella, Gil Hodges and Jim Gilliam.
At that point, three Redleg relievers shut out the Dodgers over the last 6 1/3 innings, keeping Cincy in the game. And they chipped away at the Dodger lead with runs in the fourth (a single by first baseman Ted Kluszewski and a double by right fielder Wally Post) and the fifth (a leadoff double by shortstop Roy McMillan and two fly outs). But that’s all Don Newcombe would surrender en route to his 17th win.
Wednesday’s contest went into extra innings. Cincy struck first with a two run homer by catcher Smoky Burgess in the third inning off Carl Erskine. The Dodgers finally got to Joe Black in the sixth on a leadoff homer by Don Hoak, a single by Pee Wee Reese and a homer by Snider.
The Redlegs were held scoreless until the ninth. Center fielder Gus Bell led off with a single. Two walks and a strikeout later, Matt Batts was sent up to the bat for the pitcher. The Dodgers countered by taking out Johnny Podres and bringing in Clem Labine. On a grounder to Reese, the Dodgers got the force at second but couldn’t complete the double play as Bell scored the tying run.
In the tenth with one out, Post singled, Bell singled and runners ended up on second and third on Carl Furillo’s error. After left fielder Bob Thurman was walked intentionally, third baseman Milt Smith strode to the plate. He had played in his first major league game six days earlier, handed the starting job when Bobby Adams was dealt to the White Sox. He was hitting .107 when he stepped to the plate and only managed to hit .196 for the season. But this time he came through with a single to center and the game was over.
The rubber game was on the Dodger side of the ledger from the get go as they scored four in the first inning and led 7-0 after three. Reese homered in the first, followed by singles by Snider and Hodges and some sloppy play by the Redlegs. That put the Dodgers up 4-0.
When Roger Craig, a notoriously weak hitting pitcher, led off the second with a single, Art Fowler was sent to the showers and Gerry Staley came in. Hoak bunted Craig to second. After Reese was retired, Snider was walked intentionally. Campanella spoiled the strategy with a run-scoring single and another Redlegs error made the score 6-0. Zimmer’s homer in the third added another run. The Dodgers scored at least one run against all five pitchers they faced as they beat Cincinnati 10-2. Craig went the distance for the win.
From there it was on to St. Louis. It was their best weekend and the culmination of their best week in quite a while. Friday’s game saw the Cardinals jump in front with their first two batters when third baseman Ken Boyer singled, stole second and scored on a single by second baseman Red Schoendienst. The Cards kept chipping away at Karl Spooner with runs in the third and the sixth. Boyer got things started again in the third with a bunt single, followed by a walk to Schoendienst and an RBI single by first baseman Stan Musial. Center fielder Bill Virdon’s towering homer added the third run.
The Dodgers finally solved Larry Jackson with two outs in the seventh. After Hodges led off with a single, Jackson retired Gilliam and Furillo. But Zimmer kept the inning alive with a single and Newcombe, batting for Spooner, drove Hodges in with a double. Hoak’s 3-run homer put the Dodgers in front.
The Cardinals retied the game against Russ Meyer in their half of the inning. 36-year old Harry Walker had replaced Eddie Stanky as manager of the Cardinals on May 28. He hadn’t played in the majors since a brief appearance in 1951, but he had been a player-manager in the minors in 1952-54 and he proved he could still hit. He activated himself as a player in July for this situation: to pinch hit in a key spot (he was 4 for 9 as in that role in 1955). And he came through with a single. Then he took himself out for a pinch runner who moved to second on pinch hitter Solly Hemus’s sacrifice bunt. Then Boyer came through with his third hit of the game, a double, to drive home the run.
The Dodgers answered the call once again in the eighth. And again it came with two outs. Gilliam worked out a walk and Furillo drove him home with a double. Labine held the Cards in check for the last two innings and the Dodgers had come away with the one-run victory, 5-4. The next two games would prove to be much easier.
Saturday’s game actually started out as a pitcher’s duel between Podres and Tom Poholsky. Leading off the sixth, Zimmer’s home run snapped the scoreless tie. Three batters later, Poholsky would be lifted from the game, even though the Dodgers didn’t get a ball out of the infield. After Podres grounded out, Hoak beat out an infield hit and Reese walked. Paul La Palme entered the game and struck out Snider, but then Campanella singled home Hoak. Mel Wright was waved in to pitch and Hodges drove in Reese with a single. With runners on first and second, Wright should have been out of the inning on Gilliam’s grounder to short. But Alex Grammas threw the ball into the stands and the fourth and final run of the inning crossed the plate.
Podres struggled in the sixth as he gave up three singles and a walk. But a timely double play ball allowed him to escape without allowing a run. He stranded the bases loaded when right fielder Rip Repulski flied out. So when he surrendered a two out double in the seventh to catcher Nelson Burbrink and he walked Grammas, Manager Walt Alston didn’t tempt fate twice. He waved in Don Bessent. When pinch hitter Wally Moon took a called third strike, the shutout was preserved. And Bessent would preserve the shutout the rest of the way for his first save. The Dodgers tacked on two more runs in the ninth for a 6-0 win.
It was also the first victory for Podres since June 14. With an injury-plagued second half of the season, June 14 was also his last complete game of the season … until games 3 and 7 of the World Series.
The last day of July was the high water mark of Newcombe’s season. He went the distance to raise his record to 18-1 and the Dodgers gave him plenty of run support. He struggled with arm problems the last two months and lost his next three decisions before finishing with a 20-5 record, still an excellent winning percentage.
His mound opponent, All-Star rookie Luis Arroyo, failed to retire a batter in the second as he gave up a double to Hodges, a single by Jackie Robinson and another double by Furillo to give the Dodgers a 1-0 lead. Floyd Wooldridge came in and Zimmer’s fly out made it 2-0. Campanella’s homer in the third extended the lead.
Newcombe faltered in the fourth when Schoendienst and Musial hit back to back homers onto the roof at old Busch Stadium. But from then on it was all Dodgers as Newk gave up only one hit in the last five innings and his teammates pounded out 8 more runs for an 11-2 win. Campy went 4 for 5 with 3 RBI’s and Hodges added another double and single in five trips to pace the attack. Robinson added a 2-run double in his first start since July 14.
Finishing the month on a high note, the Dodgers continued to lead the Braves by 13½. Trying not to look too far ahead, their biggest question mark was who would they face in the World Series: the defending AL champ Indians, the Yankees who they had met in five World Series in the past 15 years or the first place White Sox who led those two teams by one slim game? And the Red Sox were only 3 back and the Tigers were not out of the question at 7½ back with a record of 55-47. There were a lot of teams to scout: an enviable position to be in.
Some do Some don't!!! Still true.
Fred Allen asks John if he thinks Martin and Lewis will break up. They did, of course, break up, but how long after the date of this broadcast?
Lavender's Blue and Rudolph
Lavender for Ives isapropo
You can see someone peeking through the curtain from backstage at 10:09.
no.
but i see someone peaking through at 10:14 and 10:16.
it looks like he walks past at 10:09, then returns and peeks.
May have been Burl. U never know. 😉
He’s a 747 trainer 😊
Is the word "mammal" unfamiliar to the panelists?
Big Daddy!
The episode from July 31 is missing from this sequence. I want my money back.
9:32 But doesn't the people take off their own shoes at California's bowling Alley's, to put on rented bowling shoes?
We doesn't know. (LOL)
@@robertfiller8634 Excuse me. Let me correct that. Do not the people. Lol.😁
Shoes , aren't clothes 😊
Of course who I'm talking about is Burl Ives,
love too see some of these in color
Did people not rent bowling shoes in 1955?
A little creepy Fred's mentioning Arlene and air conditioning given that 5 years in the future an air condition played a major part of her liability history.
Do tell
@@TrainsFerriesFeet While Arlene and Martin were on vacation, work was being done on their apartment, including the windows, because of repairs to the air conditioning. The Gabels' employees placed a dumbbell or two in the window sill to hold up the window. As the employees moved the dumbbell, it fell from the Gabels' 8th story apartment to the sidewalk below, where a couple had just finished a birthday lunch at the restaurant at the ground level. The dumbbell hit the husband and killed him. The Gabels' liability insurer paid most of a sizable judgment. The building owner's liability insurer paid the rest. Liability rested on the doctrine of respondeat superior, in which the torts of the employee committed in furtherance of the interest of the employer are charged to the employer, in addition to any of the Gabels' own and the building owner's negligence.
@@preppysocks209 Thanks! I’d heard the incident referred to but with no details. I didn’t know she wasn’t actually there. What a tragedy, though.
why did the host say you could tell just by looking at her that she was a bowling pin lady.
An attempt at being droll.
Can someone explain to me the reasoning behind the way the panelist's names are displayed? I have noticed the women all have their first and last name displayed but the men, including the host, are more formal as Mister.
Both Arlene and Dorothy were married. In the convention of the time, they would have been “Mrs. (husband’s last name).” For example, Arlene would have been called “Mrs. Martin Gabel” or, less formally, “Mrs. Arlene Gabel.” Both women maintained their own names for professional purposes. It might seem fairer to have the men of the panel also use their professional names, but again, this show used the formality of titles when possible. Notice that panelists usually addressed contestants with their titles. That also explains why JCD always asked female contestants whether they should be addressed as “Miss” or “Mrs.”.
Simply, it was 1955. That's how it was done then.
I’d never noticed. Interesting. Thanks for the response.
The elephant man, AKA Car Thief, Was a whole lot order and 27
About taking your clothes off with the pin setter; they do (usually) take their shoes off and put on bowling shoes.
Big Daddy ! Mendacity!
I wish they still had human bowling pin setters. I get annoyed when the machine misses a pin.
OH, she LITERALLY sets up the pins? I thought she ran the machine to set them up. When it said she set up pins at a Bowling Alley, I thought since I don't have a job, that's something I could do
I hope Arlene gave the Diamond necklace to an important person in her life.. that necklace.. she wore it many times
Very, very sadly, Arlene was mugged in 1988, two years after her husband had died.
The mugger stole the beloved diamond heart necklace that Martin had given to her.
She was 81 years old at the time.
Wish I had been there. The delightful and brave gentleman responsible would have required the services of a paramedic once I had caught up with him.
@@anselm4360 he needs to rot in hell... that piece was so special to arlene
@@richardpoplis6777 Heartbreaking...
Hopefully, karma will teach him a lesson he will never forget.
@@anselm4360 Paramedic would be third choice. Second, trauma surgeon, and, of course, mortician as first choice, this list not being unique to an assault on beloved Arlene, but any mugger targeting the elderly or infirm.
I guess no one on the panel ever went to a bowling alley and had to change their street shoes for bowling shoes. Aren't shoes an article of clothing? LOL
Accessory
NO😊
Um... Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is from 1958... how could they have seen it in 1955?
It was a live stage play on Broadway, and later made into a movie.
It premiered on the Broadway stage earlier in 1955.
The Broadway play as opposed to the movie.
Fred KEEPS being rude... and this time it wasn't even towards the guest, it was toward John (I don't like Fred, but I'll admit, I'm glad SOMEONE finally said to John, "Why do you let her answer then)?" I like John, but I DO find he speaks for the contestants way to much.
Krista Brewer Fred is what I'd call passive-aggressive. When he is slightly undermined by anyone, he hits back with sarcasm or something sly dressed up as dry wit but really it's to keep on top. I've heard him say all sorts of things now which undermine the other person. He even undermined his own wife when she came on as a mystery guest!: So if his loved one gets patronised what hope does anyone else have?
I'm all for edgy comedy and egotistical performers, don't get me wrong and of course all comedic panellists have more of an ego than the others but Fred's 'wit' is ill-judged, ill-suited and very thinly disguising a mean streak. I notice too that all of the others....John, Dorothy, Arlene, Bennett....have an awareness of how they should behave, how they should look, how they should hold themselves on TV. Fred appears to just turn up. No style, no intelligence, no feel. Ugly personality, ugly voice, ugly face. I bet he stinks too. I wish he'd push off!!
@@davidsanderson5918 How do you really feel about Fred Allen? (Don't hold back - LOL)
17:05 camera error!! 😂
My favorite song with Burl Ives is "I Know An Old Lady". th-cam.com/video/zQHmZMf6zwo/w-d-xo.html
how about Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer? close 2nd?
I would thought Ives would have thought he would have used a voice unlike his own
Is that what you thought?
On August 7, the date of this What’s My Line episode, the Dodgers played the Cubs at Wrigley Field. There was no game the day before, most likely a rainout as it was too early for the exhibition football season to have started in those days. Instead of a doubleheader on Sunday, the Cubs played the Dodgers again on Monday. The Dodgers were a good draw. Why lose a chance for an extra gate? They drew over 39,000 for Sunday’s single game and over 18,000 for Monday’s game, not bad for a weekday afternoon game and a home team that now had a losing record.
The Cubs played well against the Dodgers this series, something they could have used a few months earlier when they were in second place. Although the Dodgers staged a late comeback, they fell one run short. The Cubs took the lead with two runs in the third on a two out walk to right fielder Jim King, a double by shortstop Ernie Banks and an error by Gil Hodges that allowed him to go to third, followed by a single by third baseman Randy Jackson.
Next inning, the Cubs staged another two out rally that chased starter Billy Loes. With one out, center fielder Eddie Miksis got things started against his old team with a single. Loes struck out catcher Harry Chiti, but pitcher Bob Rush kept things alive with another single. An infield hit by first baseman Dee Fondy loaded the bases. Second baseman Gene Baker hit the fourth single of the inning to bring home the Cubs third run of the game. Don Bessent then came in and got King to ground out to end the inning.
A double by Fondy and a single by Baker in the sixth off Roger Craig added to the Cubs lead. Then the Dodgers battled back in the seventh. Pee Wee Reese and Duke Snider led off with singles to put runners on the corners. After Snider stole second, Roy Campanella walked. Hodges drove home two with a double and Carl Furillo followed with a sacrifice fly. But Miksis was able to hold Hodges at second base and Rush was able to escape further damage.
The Dodgers threatened again in the last two innings. In the eighth, Don Newcombe batted for Craig and singled. Bill Tremel relieved Rush and got Don Hoak to hit into a double play and struck out Reese.
In the ninth, it was Tremel who ran into trouble. With one out he walked Campanella and with two outs Furillo doubled. However, Campanella held third. With the tying and winning runs in scoring position, Hal Jeffcoat was brought in. He is listed as walking Jackie Robinson intentionally, but it would be unusual to bring in a pitcher just to issue an intentional walk, so I suspect he fell behind in the count when pitching carefully and the Cubs chose to walk him and try their luck with having Warren Hacker face Don Zimmer. Hacker won the battle by striking out Zimmer and the Cubs hung on for the 4-3 win.
The week started better for the Dodgers as they took 3 out of 4 from their closest challenger, the Milwaukee Braves. On Monday, August 1, Loes was the starting pitcher for the Dodgers in this game as well. And he fell behind this time, too, with the Dodger bats cool in the early going. They were also kept off the board when left fielder Hank Aaron threw out Hoak at the plate in the 1st inning.
The Braves drew first blood in the 4th when center fielder Billy Bruton led off with a single, shortstop Johnny Logan bunted him to second, third baseman Eddie Mathews singled home Bruton and Aaron beat out an infield hit. The day before, first baseman Joe Adcock had his hand broken when he was hit by a pitch from Jim Hearn of the Giants. George Crowe’s powerful bat replaced him at first. He stroked an RBI single for the Braves second run. A Mathews home run in the 6th added another run.
Lew Burdette had the Dodgers shut out through six. But in the 7th, Robinson led off with a single and Jim Gilliam ran for him. Furillo and Zimmer followed with singles to end the shutout and put runners on the corners. Newcombe batted for Loes and his infield single brought Furillo home. Carl Erskine ran for Newk. Hoak bunted and when the Braves attempt at a force play was too late, bases were loaded. Reese walked to force in the tying run and when Burdette argued too vigorously, he was tossed by home plate umpire Lon Warneke. It was the best thing that happened to the Braves all inning. Chet Nichols came in and struck out Snider. Then Ernie Johnson relieved and got Campanella to hit into a double play.
The teams were still deadlocked after nine. But the Dodgers broke through against Johnson in the 10th. Gilliam led off with a walk and Furillo followed with a single. Zimmer bunted them to second and third. George Shuba batted for Karl Spooner and was walked intentionally. Hoak hit a grounder to Logan and Gilliam scored the go ahead run while Furillo was forced at third. Bessent came in and nailed down the Dodgers’ victory.
The Braves evened the score the next day. A Mathews home run off Craig in the 1st gave them a quick 1-0 lead but their sloppy fielding helped the Dodgers tie it in the 2nd.
The Dodgers took the lead in the 5th on a leadoff single by Reese and a homer by Snider. When Campanella followed with a single, that was it for Bob Buhl who was usually tough against the Dodgers. Dave Jolly came in and held the Dodgers in check.
Craig was in command through seven. In the 8th, things fell apart. Bruton led off with a double. With one out, Mathews went downtown again to tie the score. After Aaron reached on an error by Hoak and right fielder Andy Pafko singled, Clem Labine relieved Craig. After he walked catcher Del Crandall, he should have been out of the inning. But an error by Zimmer allowed two runs to score and put the Braves back on top. In the top of the 9th, Phil Paine completed his fourth inning of one-hit shutout relief to get the win.
The final two games of the series were slugfests as 36 runs crossed the plate all told. On Wednesday, 8 of the 9 Dodger runs scored on homers as Hodges and Zimmer each hit a pair of four baggers. Hodges got his team off to a flying start with a 1st inning grand slam home run off Ray Crone. He added a two run shot in the 5th. Both of Zimmer’s homers came with the bases empty.
Zimmer’s first home run came in the 4th. But Russ Meyer didn’t survive the bottom of the inning. After a one out single and then a walk and a run scoring single with two outs, he was yanked in favor of Bessent. Another single made it 5-2 before Bessent got out of the inning. He then held the Braves in check until the bottom of the 8th when a home run by Crandall made the score 9-3.
The Braves rallied against Bessent in the 9th. With one out, Bruton doubled, left fielder Bobby Thomson walked and Aaron doubled in a run. Crowe singled in two more. Suddenly the Braves cut the Dodger lead to 3. Into the fray came Labine, and he got Pafko on a weak grounder and Crandall on a fly out to win the game.
On Thursday afternoon, it was a case of “last man standing” to decide this game. And for most of the game, it looked like the Braves would get a split in the series.
The Braves started Lew Burdette on short rest. The Dodgers put Don Newcombe and his 18-1 record on the line to oppose Burdette. They gave up a combined nine runs. Newk was knocked out of the game in the 5th and Burdette was unable to retire either of the batters he faced in the 6th. The bullpens didn’t fare much better. Each team used four pitchers and each pitcher gave up at least one run.
The Dodgers broke the ice in the 2nd with doubles by Campanella and Furillo the key blows. The Braves tied it in the bottom of the inning on a two-run homer by Thompson and then scored two more with the help of a pair of Dodger errors.
When Burdette was lifted from the game, the Braves led 5-4. The Dodgers took the lead in the top of the 7th on Zimmer’s two run homer off Paine. But for the second time in the game, when the Dodgers scored two, the Braves answered back with four. Pafko, manning the hot corner in this game, capped the scoring with a 3-run blast off Erskine.
With the Braves were three outs away from victory, they ran into late lightning. Furillo led off with a homer against Johnson. Zimmer struck out, but Robinson batted for Erskine and singled. Frank Kellert batted for Hoak and beat out an infield hit. Reese’s single pulled the Dodgers within one run. Nichols came in and got the second out of the inning, a fly ball by Snider. But Campanella followed with a three-run homer to put the Dodgers on top once again.
Labine came in to preserve the victory. With one out, he walked Logan and Aaron brought him home with a double. But Labine retired Crowe and Pafko on ground outs to finally bring the 11-10 victory to a close. All that was missing was the keg of beer at third base.
This time, the Dodgers headed south on U.S. 41 to Chicago. Friday’s game was a typical high-scoring Wrigley Field affair. As the saying goes, the wind must have been blowing out. The Dodgers would outhit them, 16-13, and hit four homers (including two by Snider to move one ahead of Banks for the majors home run lead, Ernie also hitting one that day) to three by the Cubs. The only problem was they didn’t outscore them.
The lead changed hands seven times in the first six innings. Reese and Snider hit back to back homers in the 1st and the Cubs answered with a 2-run homer by Banks in their half of the inning. Reese’s double keyed another two run inning for the Dodgers in the third. The Cubs starting pitcher, Hacker, helped his own cause in the bottom of the inning with a leadoff double, and Baker’s double one out later brought him home.
In the 4th, it looked like the Cubs broke the game open. With one out, left fielder Hank Sauer singled and Miksis followed with a homer to put the Cubs back in the lead. When Chiti singled, that was it for Dodger starter Johnny Podres. Ed Roebuck came in and didn’t help matters when one out later, Fondy torched him for the second 2-run homer of the inning.
But no lead is safe at Wrigley. In the 5th, a two run homer by Snider and a solo homer by Hodges tied the game once again and sent Hacker to the showers in favor of Jeffcoat.
Then the teams traded single runs for an inning and a half. Sauer’s double drove home a run in the Cubs’ 5th. Reese’s sacrifice fly tied things up 8-8 in the 6th.
But at this point, Jeffcoat got stingy, while the Dodgers opened the door for the Cubs. An error by Hoak to lead off the Cubs half of the sixth led to the Cubs retaking the lead in their half, and that proved to be the winning run.
After the Cubs added an insurance run in the eighth, the Dodgers mounted one more rally with two outs in the ninth on back to back singles by Hodges and Gilliam. But Jeffcoat retired Furillo on a fly ball and the Cubs had one in the win column.
On Saturday, while the Dodgers sat, the Braves were blanked by the Pirates’ Bob Friend at home, 2-0. That was the high water mark of the season for the Dodgers, a 16 game lead over the second place Braves.
Well there now, don't you just go on and on, like someone loaded you up with a fresh set of batteries.
Fred allen is so disgusting at times,,,the guest got him "back to me now?"
I was 75 when this aired.
That would make you 136 years old now.
What's My Line? lol
@@WhatsMyLine Perhaps the commenter actually meant they were 75 months old at the time of this broadcast. Or, 75 weeks, days, hours.....
I was a month old. :)
@@WhatsMyLine
You ever hear of immortals?
Back then you could buy a house with $50.
we been played! one life at a time! your family, my family. WAR after WAR. Killing us!
Knowing what we know today about how elephants are and were trained, that was a horrible profession. Just search for "elephant abuse circus" if you don't believe it.
Yes. Terrible.
What Is John's problem - who In the world takes off their clothes In a bowling alley
I thought people took off their shoes to put on bowling shoes (that could be rented from the facility if not owned), But it wasn’t mentioned later so maybe they didn’t require it back then?
If it was cold out, you wore a coat,gloves hat😊
Burl did a lousy Job of disguising his voice
His voice wasn't something he could change😊
Cchief Kurtz, being a snitch during the McCarthy era must have aged him.
My goodness, John Daly was a real pain in the neck.
Always.
Once again Bennet couldn’t keep his mouth shut. What an arrogant person.
Bennett constantly drives me crazy when John makes it very clear that TIME IS SHORT and we need to hurry up, and he asked 5 questions asking in different ways if this was his summer job. He consistently wastes time when he does this, he does it all the time, and you can even hear John rushing through the score cards to get the panel moving along, while his eyes dart back and forth at the clock. But why do they keep wasting time and trying to crack jokes?
the TEN stops this shit. you figure that out or die. biblically.
Dreadfully
such lovely people,...another time, another world...
eoselan7 oh yes it was ! If only .....
eoselan7 Arlene Francis was such a lady.
Sam The Snowman
I love the first lady; she is so cute!
I thought John was thinking of taking off the shoes, but maybe they didn't have specific bowling shoes back then.
Yes, I thought the same thing, too.
And special bowling shoes were required back then ...
I was surprised no one mentioned that. I thought maybe they didn’t have to change their shoes back then? I love they way this sweet little lady acted rather shocked at some of the questions!
7:54 - I just blew some smoke towards the screen, and Arlene starts to cough ... I said "sorry" aloud before I knew it, and I'm feeling like a rude time-traveller now.
i love the way fred allen says "John" all the time!...very funny.
Maybe that's where #JohnnyHorizon comes from !
He is hilarious. Reminds me of Gary Shandling.
@@alexanderh.5814 gary shandling?!...how so? you got me curious!....yeah i see it....kinda deadpan...but killer...