They knew, at least Francis knew. If you really look at her face after the first answer, you can see it in her expression. I think most knew, maybe not Hackett, but you don't want to guess too quickly, or it just seems futile.
Wow...she was gorgeous. First woman to ever run a TV studio...she was the executive who gave both Mission Impossible and Star Trek their starts! Comedian, actor, dancer, model, business woman...she could do it all.
She did everything and was wonderful. These young people of today are just horrible and don't care about her or what she stood for or how great television was either!!!!!
Ron nelson....young people today do not like to watch shows that are in black and white , they are to busy with their phones , video games , taking drugs , ect. , . We do not have very many movie stars, or celebrities that are like the ones that we had back in the 4os , 50s , and 60s . Back in the good old days , we could identify our favorite stars just by their voices. They gave us many hours of clean entertainment , and enjoyment . Now days , there are not to many that we know just by their voices . Our heros , and stars that we loved had private lives that we knew nothing of , and we didn't care , because we loved to watch them .we all have our faults and hidden sins and wrongdoings , so we should not judge them nor hate them for what they did in their private lives.we should just enjoy and cherish the joy and happiness that they gave us. We too have made a lot of mistakes , in our lives have we not..
She also helped rod Stewart and gave the twilight zone a backdoor pilot. She was a huge influence on television hard to overestimate her importance in comedy and television production.
+Vahan Nisanian Yeap, she was a marvelous persona. By the way, Lucy set the record of appearances, I guess. Even Jayne Mansfield couldn't match her popularity among the members of the show establishment. Anyway, she well deserved the attention. Cheers !
+James Vaughan She was well produced this time. Even though the dress and the gloves might seem a bit too much for today standards for Lucille Ball that's nothing. She was usually not so sober when it comes to fashion, she often wore a considerable amount of jewelry and was more daring than most women but in here she was very sober and traditional even the haircut was more simplistic than her 1950's usual self. I'm not an expert but I think her fashion choice enhanced her natural features and she's always been naturally beautiful.
For me Lucille Ball was definitely in the top 10 of the most beautiful women ever in Hollywood and Desi and Gary were two of the luckiest guys on the planet for being married to this goddess.
I love how Buddy Hackett really thinks about the questions he asks and pays attention to the others answers where some guests don't seem to follow along too well
@@johnnytd1128 Its almost a cringy as when the creep Hal Block tried desperately to kill Bette Davis after her appearance. There was a visible struggle...
How hard she tried to please her audience ,beautiful speaker graceful ,poised ,dignified ,and she remained so right down to her last appearance on the Oscar show
Lucy not only LOOKED great here, but came off very well indeed, with self-effacing humor plus her involvement with, and advocacy for Easter Seals! Classy lady!
That voice Lucy was doing was exactly the same voice she did on the outro to her radio show "My Favorite Husband," complete with the Woody Woodpecker laugh.
I simply adore all the sparkling and glittering that comes from things like Arlene's necklace, the crystals on the women's dresses, how it's almost blinding to the camera. I'm a woman, and we tend to like sparkling things anyway! But it's so beautiful!
The second contestant made artificial snow for skiing. Buddy asked if the product was manufactured and got a "sometimes". He replied "Sometimes it's manufactured and sometimes it's natural. Could be rain!" He didn't know how close he was with that answer and the audience went wild! Then Martin Gabel got on the right track with some help from Dorothy. Good teamwork.
Lucy was about 54 here and stunning. I saw pictures of her when she younger, perhaps in her 20s and a model. She was very beautiful. I don't think a lot of people realize just how pretty she was because they only ever hone in on her comedic abilities. Her outfit here was also gorgeous.
I grew up watching reruns of I Love Lucy bund never thought of her as beautiful. Probably because of the role she played. Seeing her now I agree she was very beautiful.
I love Lucy's hair styled like that it's more sleek and modern than those poodle looking curls they always seemed to keep her in. She should've worn her hair like that more often.
“Who has never abused the freedom of the press” and that’s why her death seems so interesting. She was an amazing journalist and never let her emotions get in the way. She told it like it is and she was incredibly intelligent, which is why she was so great on this show.
Buddy Hackett was a guest panelist on WML for two of Lucille Ball's six WML appearances. He was panelist (in beard) when "Bob Ball and Lucy Hope" appeared in 1963. Tonight, talk about coincidence, Hackett in his only question asked Lucy the same question Steve Allen asked Lucy in his only question the night Lucy showed up in Martian vocal disguise in 1954. Both their questions got roughly the same sort of comic response. I think both were going for laughs.
In the John Daly ten best mystery guest post game interview list, two of his interviews with Lucy should turn up. They would be -- hands down -- 1 January 1961 and 7 March 1965. Lucy is very charming tonight and quite amusing with her stories from meeting Presidents Eisenhower and Johnson.
This is the main reason why I wish CBS and WML had gone color earlier than they did. I am glad we have at least this kinescope of Lucille Ball's March appearance, but this is Lucy's most stunningly beautiful WML appearance, and she should have been recorded in color. WML kept mystery guests to one appearance per year, but it was not hard and fast as a rule. Lucy appeared twice on WML in 1965. Stay tuned.
As soulierinvestments pointed out on more than one occasion, there was a policy regarding Mystery Guest appearances. He or she could not appear on "What's My Line?" as a Mystery Guest more than one time in a calendar year. However, there were four exceptions (perhaps as a last-minute replacement): 1) 1959: Paul Newman was MG on January 25 and November 8. 2) 1961: Carol Burnett was MG May 7 and December 17. 3) 1964: Steve Allen was MG on March 8 and October 4. 4) 1965: Lucille Ball was MG on March 7 and July 25.
Carol Burnett in a 365 day period in 1961-1962 appeared a record three times. The weather on 17 December 1961 was hideous, and I bet your are right that she was a last minute replacement for someone who got stuck somewhere.
Lucy was about 54 years old when this aired. I am the same age today. I am madly in love with Lucy. She was an absolute knockout! She was not just good-looking, but smart, talented and funny.
Bless sweet Lucy...her work from promoting Easter Seals benefits my friends and family as those with special needs go to a very joyous Easter Seals summer camp!
Some actresses are just too famous to disguise their voice well enough . They almost always knew right away . Lucy was amazing and should never be forgotten !
That was the exact voice she did when she did commercials for Jell-O at the end of her radio show "My Favorite Husband," she even used the Woody Woodpecker laugh.
It’s great to see Lucille Ball again on this show. She appeared with Desi Arnaz back in the 1950s, but then divorced him in 1960, for cheating on her so much. That said, her career continued to flourish, as we can see here.
These shows from the mid 60s make me sad because no one knew it, but all the proper glamour and proper, charming ways of speaking were soon to be on their way out, courtesy of the social stuff going on that would soon take over society! I missed all this wonderfulness because I was born the year this was broadcasted. However, through WML and other shows of the time, I can go back and revel in these moments!
What a great show this was all around, from the panelist and assorted guest to the mystery guests! Not to mention John Dalys unique way of clarification to some of the questions put forth hither too! I love the shows when the guest answers yes, but then he says were going to make it a no! lol
Of course, Lucille is correct - she is not a natural redhead. During the heat of the McCarthy era, Desi Arnaz told an audience, "The only thing red about Lucy is her hair -- and even THAT'S not real!!" Lucy herself teased that her hair color WAS real and came from a REAL bottle of Clairol!
Me too. What a splendid woman: a naughty but not vulgar sense of humor, warmth and support to the mystery guests; a smashing beauty. One can half pretend that these wonderful people are still alive.
There are some viewers who found Hackett annoying, and not a suitable panelist. But I disagree. I actually like Hackett more so now then when I was younger. Here he proves a contrast to the more refined and intellectual persons on the panel. Like a palette cleanser. The duality works because Hackett also plays the game comparatively well.
@@luissantiago8446 some of the people on the panel looked at him as crude and not part of " High society". Cerf was one of those snobs. Buddy was cool in my book. He didn't need their approval and didn't care what people like Cerf thought.
I always love when things shine so bright in black and white that they turn black. Lucy’s outfit here reminds me of those great videos of jazz concerts I would watch on PBS.
I used to show this mystery guest sequence to my college composition courses to illustrate the concept of qualifiers. She developed a funny theme in this appearance that involves qualifiers. [ "Not mostly, no." LOL ]
soulierinvestments You've mentioned showing quite a few different WML clips to your college classes -- sounds like a fun class! Did you show all the clips in the same year? You must have turned lots of students into "What's My Line?" fans!
I would sometimes show Sunday night clips and sometimes syndicated clips. And interestingly enough, student comments sometimes indicated they liked the first show better. And remember, syndicated WML was supposedly developed for a younger demographic. I varied clips depending on situations and what moved me.
That is Marv Albert's future wife art 21:51. This came to light in Aug. 2020, when Kenny Albert texted the talent on an NBCSN telecast to say that she had been on "What's My Line?" with Lucille Ball. A little internet research led to this find.
Lucy looked really good here. She was using (What was known as) a 'flying-lift', to keep her youthful appearance, w/out surgery. For whatever reason, Lucy wouldn't go 'under the knife', and by this point, she was ...'mature' - she started her career at the end of silents, beginning of sound-era, and that was 30-ish years, prior to this). When she did I Love Lucy, she was very smart; hired the best lighting, and cameramen - who'd previously done studio work, so they KNEW how to light, and film her. But, if you ever see pictures - esp. By the time they did the 1hr-long Lucy-Desi show, her face was showing it. I forgot the specifics (the names of who taught her this), but, what the 'flying-lift' was, they - the makeup artist would attach tiny little eyelets at her hairline, with invisible stage tape, and then would take heavy-duty (i.e., strong) thread, and run it through the eyelets, and pull it all BACK, and tie it up. Then, they'd slap a wig on her - covering the threads, and eyelets, and voilá; a 'flying-lift'. It looked terrific, as the resolution of TV's wasn't anywhere close to today (but, since I Love Lucy was filmed, it can be 'up-converted', and her lines become more visible) but, as time wore on - one thing about skin on the face, is, it looses its elasticity - so, when it's pulled one way, then, it slowly moves back, and in certain shots/lighting (I didn't look here), Ms Balls skin has that slow, 'melting' back into it's normal position appearance.
If you notice throughout Lucille Ball's various TV series from 1951 to 1974, only the very earliest episodes did you ever have tight close ups of Lucy's face. Especially on The Lucy Show (1962-68) and Here's Lucy (1968-74) all you get are medium shots (like from the waist up) and long shots (like head to toe).
Hmm. I wonder if they still do that today. ( Shut up Shirley. You don't want this). When you stretch this already vulnerable facial skin either with face lifts or this flying lift you are worsening the problem. Whatever foundation or structure your skin had, the stretching out of the skin with these lifts keeps loosening the skin so that you have to keep getting more and more of these lifts. Better not to start, seems to me.
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Lucille Ball, what a stunningly beautiful, classy, elegant woman.
Signature just "Lucy"...
She must have had long legs to make love with.
Surprised they didn't get Lucy right away. You can't mistake that voice.
Marla Singer
I agree. The second she gave her first answer, I thought it was a dead give-away!
They knew, at least Francis knew. If you really look at her face after the first answer, you can see it in her expression. I think most knew, maybe not Hackett, but you don't want to guess too quickly, or it just seems futile.
They were all elegant people.
Dorothy knew too.
Wow...she was gorgeous. First woman to ever run a TV studio...she was the executive who gave both Mission Impossible and Star Trek their starts! Comedian, actor, dancer, model, business woman...she could do it all.
She did everything and was wonderful. These young people of today are just horrible and don't care about her or what she stood for or how great television was either!!!!!
Ron nelson....young people today do not like to watch shows that are in black and white , they are to busy with their phones , video games , taking drugs , ect. , . We do not have very many movie stars, or celebrities that are like the ones that we had back in the 4os , 50s , and 60s . Back in the good old days , we could identify our favorite stars just by their voices. They gave us many hours of clean entertainment , and enjoyment . Now days , there are not to many that we know just by their voices . Our heros , and stars that we loved had private lives that we knew nothing of , and we didn't care , because we loved to watch them .we all have our faults and hidden sins and wrongdoings , so we should not judge them nor hate them for what they did in their private lives.we should just enjoy and cherish the joy and happiness that they gave us. We too have made a lot of mistakes , in our lives have we not..
She also helped rod Stewart and gave the twilight zone a backdoor pilot. She was a huge influence on television hard to overestimate her importance in comedy and television production.
What did she help Rod Stewart with😅
That's Rod SERLING.
Of Lucille Ball's six appearances on this show as a Mystery Guest, she looked her most beautiful here.
And yet she was about four years younger than the ever youthful and lovely Arlene.
*****
I'm not sure whether or not I've seen all five of her other appearances, but she certainly looked both elegant and stunning in this one!
+Vahan Nisanian Yeap, she was a marvelous persona. By the way, Lucy set the record of appearances, I guess. Even Jayne Mansfield couldn't match her popularity among the members of the show establishment. Anyway, she well deserved the attention. Cheers !
Witold Banasik I think that Jayne Mansfield was on twice.
Joe Postove
Well, I'm sure she was a mystery celebrity four times, actually; in 1956, 1957, 1964, and 1966. Smashing shows, I must tell you !
Such a wonderful show. Lucille Ball looked stunning. Wow!
Lucy looked really beautiful here.
Very much so.
+James Vaughan
She was well produced this time. Even though the dress and the gloves might seem a bit too much for today standards for Lucille Ball that's nothing. She was usually not so sober when it comes to fashion, she often wore a considerable amount of jewelry and was more daring than most women but in here she was very sober and traditional even the haircut was more simplistic than her 1950's usual self. I'm not an expert but I think her fashion choice enhanced her natural features and she's always been naturally beautiful.
The most beautiful woman of the 1960s!!!!!
Buddy Hackett asks great questions and make insightful connections quickly. Bravo!
But he's creepy as hell. Thank God that last lady didn't fall for his creepy embrace 😂😂
He's joking. Chillout@@edmundpower1250
Repeating "mostly no" to answer "are you male?" was genius
Whoda thought in 2024, this isn't even an absurd answer anymore!
It's hysterical watching John Daly crack up with each of Miss Ball's responses.
Absolute Queen of comedy for all time.
Lucille Ball and the entire panel guests were marvelous !!!!!
I love Lucy's facial expression at 17:25 after being asked if she was a "male." That was just so funny. Hahahaha!!!!!!!😆🤣😂
Her comic timing was impeccable.
I wish this was in colour so I could see Lucy's dress...
I think both Arlene and Dorothy are stunning.
And Stunned at the end as well.
Dorothy, unfortunately, had 8 months to live ... before the JFK "silencers" went into action (!!)
For me Lucille Ball was definitely in the top 10 of the most beautiful women ever in Hollywood and Desi and Gary were two of the luckiest guys on the planet for being married to this goddess.
I love how Buddy Hackett really thinks about the questions he asks and pays attention to the others answers where some guests don't seem to follow along too well
I love how he open his arms, and she game him a handshake.
@@johnnytd1128 Its almost a cringy as when the creep Hal Block tried desperately to kill Bette Davis after her appearance. There was a visible struggle...
Yeah, he thinks fast too.
@@billiebuffalo I assume you meant "kiss". 😂
@@johnnytd1128 That was super awkward!
How hard she tried to please her audience ,beautiful speaker graceful ,poised ,dignified ,and she remained so right down to her last appearance on the Oscar show
Lucy was gracious and bowed to the audience.
Lucy not only LOOKED great here, but came off very well indeed, with self-effacing humor plus her involvement with, and advocacy for Easter Seals! Classy lady!
That voice Lucy was doing was exactly the same voice she did on the outro to her radio show "My Favorite Husband," complete with the Woody Woodpecker laugh.
I wasn’t aware, thanks for sharing.
Buddy Hackett (born Leonard Hacker) sounded goofy because of his childhood Bell’s palsy, but he was actually quite smart.
I STILL love Lucy......you got some splainin to do.
I simply adore all the sparkling and glittering that comes from things like Arlene's necklace, the crystals on the women's dresses, how it's almost blinding to the camera. I'm a woman, and we tend to like sparkling things anyway! But it's so beautiful!
I like how Lucille Ball bowed to the audience. Not many of the celebrities did that.
Nice score for guessing the Pizza guy, Buddy Hackett!
No big deal. His name gave it away.
The second contestant made artificial snow for skiing. Buddy asked if the product was manufactured and got a "sometimes". He replied "Sometimes it's manufactured and sometimes it's natural. Could be rain!" He didn't know how close he was with that answer and the audience went wild! Then Martin Gabel got on the right track with some help from Dorothy. Good teamwork.
I'm crying at Pete Sa making pizza 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Howbout Buddy caressing miss Caress with his arms to try to get a hug but got a handshake instead
Lucy was about 54 here and stunning. I saw pictures of her when she younger, perhaps in her 20s and a model. She was very beautiful. I don't think a lot of people realize just how pretty she was because they only ever hone in on her comedic abilities. Her outfit here was also gorgeous.
Buddy cracks me up trying (and failing) to get a hug from the passport agent.
Creepingly trying to steal a close body embrace you mean. She knew how to deal with guys like that 😂
I grew up watching reruns of I Love Lucy bund never thought of her as beautiful. Probably because of the role she played. Seeing her now I agree she was very beautiful.
I love Lucy's hair styled like that it's more sleek and modern than those poodle looking curls they always seemed to keep her in. She should've worn her hair like that more often.
Lucy is so beautiful and elegant. She's gone through a lot of familiar changes, physically, throughout the years but she's still Lucy.
Paul V. Gentile She's too "mumsy" for me.
“Who has never abused the freedom of the press” and that’s why her death seems so interesting. She was an amazing journalist and never let her emotions get in the way. She told it like it is and she was incredibly intelligent, which is why she was so great on this show.
I love Buddy for saying this!!
Lol. I knew the first guest's line as soon as he signed in. 🤣
Thank you Lucy for all that you did! Easter Seals! I still get them every year!
Lucy looks gorgeous as always, tall and stunning
I love that buddy hackett always played the dumb guy but he was closest every time. Great actor.
Lucy’s from my hometown. Love her 👏🏻🌟🥰‼️
Buddy Hackett was a guest panelist on WML for two of Lucille Ball's six WML appearances. He was panelist (in beard) when "Bob Ball and Lucy Hope" appeared in 1963. Tonight, talk about coincidence, Hackett in his only question asked Lucy the same question Steve Allen asked Lucy in his only question the night Lucy showed up in Martian vocal disguise in 1954. Both their questions got roughly the same sort of comic response. I think both were going for laughs.
In the John Daly ten best mystery guest post game interview list, two of his interviews with Lucy should turn up. They would be -- hands down -- 1 January 1961 and 7 March 1965. Lucy is very charming tonight and quite amusing with her stories from meeting Presidents Eisenhower and Johnson.
Lucy!!!! She looks gorgeous in here. I would've known that it was her since she answered the first question.
This is the main reason why I wish CBS and WML had gone color earlier than they did. I am glad we have at least this kinescope of Lucille Ball's March appearance, but this is Lucy's most stunningly beautiful WML appearance, and she should have been recorded in color. WML kept mystery guests to one appearance per year, but it was not hard and fast as a rule. Lucy appeared twice on WML in 1965. Stay tuned.
They all have such nice handwriting.
"its not supposed to!" As a longtime skier - thats one of the funniest answers (by a non-MG) that I've ever heard on this show.
And on ABC "Judgment at Nuremburg, " interrupted by special bulletins from Selma, Alabama
All contestants have funny or unusual names: Pete Sa, Scott Tutt and Benita Caress.
Johan Bengtsson yeah they seem to have had themes for most shows. Twins, wrestlers, people doing something strange for their gender.
I am Portuguese and it is a Portuguese surname, the correct way to write it is Sá.
Lucille Ball was extremely talented. A legend. She was also a beautiful woman. Thanks for the video.
yes, she was so pretty and throughout her entire life. such presence!
As soulierinvestments pointed out on more than one occasion, there was a policy regarding Mystery Guest appearances. He or she could not appear on "What's My Line?" as a Mystery Guest more than one time in a calendar year. However, there were four exceptions (perhaps as a last-minute replacement):
1) 1959: Paul Newman was MG on January 25 and November 8.
2) 1961: Carol Burnett was MG May 7 and December 17.
3) 1964: Steve Allen was MG on March 8 and October 4.
4) 1965: Lucille Ball was MG on March 7 and July 25.
Carol Burnett in a 365 day period in 1961-1962 appeared a record three times. The weather on 17 December 1961 was hideous, and I bet your are right that she was a last minute replacement for someone who got stuck somewhere.
Buddy’s character didn’t seem very smart, but he was smart as a whip.
I WAS VERY HAPPILY SURPRISED BY THIS FIRST CHALLENGER WITH THE MENTION OF MY HOME TOWN FROM NJ( METUCHEN) THANK YOU FOR THIS EPISODE.
Lucy was about 54 years old when this aired. I am the same age today. I am madly in love with Lucy. She was an absolute knockout! She was not just good-looking, but smart, talented and funny.
Bless sweet Lucy...her work from promoting Easter Seals benefits my friends and family as those with special needs go to a very joyous Easter Seals summer camp!
Lucy - as smart, funny and beautiful as ever!
Some actresses are just too famous to disguise their voice well enough . They almost always knew right away . Lucy was amazing and should never be forgotten !
Oh my god this mans name was Pete Sa. Can’t believe it took them more than a minute to work it out.
That was the exact voice she did when she did commercials for Jell-O at the end of her radio show "My Favorite Husband," she even used the Woody Woodpecker laugh.
I love her talent for mimicking voices and accents.
Grow up
The day this episode aired, it was 'Bloody Sunday' in Selma, AL.
Thanks for making us aware of this historic period in time.
David Pinegar, then each time you tell a positive story about yourself, contextualize it with a little talk about that water on your backside.
@@cjb8010 Je ne comprends pas.
@@shirleyrombough8173 Il messaggio a cui stavo rispondendo è stato rimosso, quindi forse ora nessuno lo capisce.
The most beautiful female television actress and movie star of all time Period!!!!!
She was so beautiful, sweet, and for the cause, all around.
Sounds & acts just like Lucy! I think the panelists are being kind. They always get her!
She was the best always will be remember and loved
I can't believe i'm just realizing what 101 Dalmations was parodying with What's my Crime!
Lucy was SO gorgeous here. That dress!
Lucy's bit was a show in itself haha! Loved it!
Dorothy, Bennett and Arlene were extremely astute players.
@dancoll i agree
And actually so was Buddy Hackett.
Bennett wasn't ON this episode
@@gailsirois7175 I, and the other people who replied, we’re speaking in general terms.
But Buddy got the 1st, and came so close on #2, "rain"
Thank you so much for posting these.
It’s great to see Lucille Ball again on this show. She appeared with Desi Arnaz back in the 1950s, but then divorced him in 1960, for cheating on her so much. That said, her career continued to flourish, as we can see here.
These shows from the mid 60s make me sad because no one knew it, but all the proper glamour and proper, charming ways of speaking were soon to be on their way out, courtesy of the social stuff going on that would soon take over society! I missed all this wonderfulness because I was born the year this was broadcasted. However, through WML and other shows of the time, I can go back and revel in these moments!
I feel the same way.
Oh I wish i could see Lucy’s dress in color!
What a great show this was all around, from the panelist and assorted guest to the mystery guests! Not to mention John Dalys unique way of clarification to some of the questions put forth hither too! I love the shows when the guest answers yes, but then he says were going to make it a no! lol
Daly just ruined the post office girl's game. She could have won as they didn't have a clue...
Of course, Lucille is correct - she is not a natural redhead. During the heat of the McCarthy era, Desi Arnaz told an audience, "The only thing red about Lucy is her hair -- and even THAT'S not real!!"
Lucy herself teased that her hair color WAS real and came from a REAL bottle of Clairol!
American Comedy Royalty. Not pitching a show (unthinkable for her then) but chairman of the Easter Seal campaign.and at the height of her style.
I love Lucy!
This is from March 1965. Sad to think that Dorothy Kilgallen would pass in November of 1965.
Wish I had been able to have known Arlene Frances
Me too. What a splendid woman: a naughty but not vulgar sense of humor, warmth and support to the mystery guests; a smashing beauty. One can half pretend that these wonderful people are still alive.
It took me until Buddy said it to get “Pete Sa.” I wonder whatever happened to him.
Peetsa ... pizza
Lucille was a tough broad when she needed to be but she was very much loved in the 50s and 60s
What a lovely lady.
Lucy looks absolutely stunning here!
Buddy Hackett has more smarts than the supposed "intellectuals."
There are some viewers who found Hackett annoying, and not a suitable panelist. But I disagree. I actually like Hackett more so now then when I was younger. Here he proves a contrast to the more refined and intellectual persons on the panel. Like a palette cleanser. The duality works because Hackett also plays the game comparatively well.
@@luissantiago8446 some of the people on the panel looked at him as crude and not part of " High society". Cerf was one of those snobs. Buddy was cool in my book. He didn't need their approval and didn't care what people like Cerf thought.
delightful!
I always love when things shine so bright in black and white that they turn black. Lucy’s outfit here reminds me of those great videos of jazz concerts I would watch on PBS.
This was aired on the day Bloody Sunday happened in Selma, Alabama.
Olivia de Havilland + Bette Davis= Truely wonderful Film Stars 🌟🌟No one else agree,three years on!? 😮
She was so beautiful.
Lucy always makes me smile!
Love Lucy's hair here.
Lucy looked so beautiful
I used to show this mystery guest sequence to my college composition courses to illustrate the concept of qualifiers. She developed a funny theme in this appearance that involves qualifiers. [ "Not mostly, no." LOL ]
soulierinvestments
You've mentioned showing quite a few different WML clips to your college classes -- sounds like a fun class! Did you show all the clips in the same year? You must have turned lots of students into "What's My Line?" fans!
I would sometimes show Sunday night clips and sometimes syndicated clips. And interestingly enough, student comments sometimes indicated they liked the first show better. And remember, syndicated WML was supposedly developed for a younger demographic. I varied clips depending on situations and what moved me.
soulierinvestments
So did you show a WML clip in every class session?
That is Marv Albert's future wife art 21:51. This came to light in Aug. 2020, when Kenny Albert texted the talent on an NBCSN telecast to say that she had been on "What's My Line?" with Lucille Ball. A little internet research led to this find.
Lucy looked really good here. She was using (What was known as) a 'flying-lift', to keep her youthful appearance, w/out surgery.
For whatever reason, Lucy wouldn't go 'under the knife', and by this point, she was ...'mature' - she started her career at the end of silents, beginning of sound-era, and that was 30-ish years, prior to this).
When she did I Love Lucy, she was very smart; hired the best lighting, and cameramen - who'd previously done studio work, so they KNEW how to light, and film her. But, if you ever see pictures - esp. By the time they did the 1hr-long Lucy-Desi show, her face was showing it.
I forgot the specifics (the names of who taught her this), but, what the 'flying-lift' was, they - the makeup artist would attach tiny little eyelets at her hairline, with invisible stage tape, and then would take heavy-duty (i.e., strong) thread, and run it through the eyelets, and pull it all BACK, and tie it up.
Then, they'd slap a wig on her - covering the threads, and eyelets, and voilá; a 'flying-lift'.
It looked terrific, as the resolution of TV's wasn't anywhere close to today (but, since I Love Lucy was filmed, it can be 'up-converted', and her lines become more visible) but, as time wore on - one thing about skin on the face, is, it looses its elasticity - so, when it's pulled one way, then, it slowly moves back, and in certain shots/lighting (I didn't look here), Ms Balls skin has that slow, 'melting' back into it's normal position appearance.
Legend has it that Marlene Dietrich used to wear this "flying lift", too.
If you notice throughout Lucille Ball's various TV series from 1951 to 1974, only the very earliest episodes did you ever have tight close ups of Lucy's face. Especially on The Lucy Show (1962-68) and Here's Lucy (1968-74) all you get are medium shots (like from the waist up) and long shots (like head to toe).
Hmm. I wonder if they still do that today. ( Shut up Shirley. You don't want this). When you stretch this already vulnerable facial skin either with face lifts or this flying lift you are worsening the problem. Whatever foundation or structure your skin had, the stretching out of the skin with these lifts keeps loosening the skin so that you have to keep getting more and more of these lifts. Better not to start, seems to me.
She was beautiful! Love Lucy!
I Love Lucy! ❤
The last lady refused Buddy Hackett's hug... Ouch! Lol.
HiYa Pal she was very clever moving his hand inward.
He wanted a creepy hug. For what!? She didn't know him! She was right to not allow it. He was being pervy
Exactly.
How very, very beautiful Lucy looked here.
Lucille was so gorgeous here 54 years old
I'm surprised that Buddy didn't ask the snow guy if he had anything to do with King Tut
Dorothy was giving Pete Sa the look after he shook her hand.
Lucy is so easy to like, so easy to love...Queen of Television forever