He read some of Dorothy's rather disgusting stories? What does that make him? At her death, the final words that he said was gentle nice and sweet. But here she's garbage. I liked Bennet but he's a back stabber.
The convent and the record company took all her money so this was her last attempt at recovering her loses which didn't happen so the singing nun and her lifetime long friend committed suicide by taking barbiturates and alcohol together on march 29th 1985 😢
I’m from Central America , Panama even as children back in the mid 60’s we didn’t understand all the lyrics but madres happy to sing 🎶 parts of it .. we I still remember .. Dominique Nique … Thanks por posting this sweet melody
“She had different set of ideas than we did on Senator McCarthy and other key issues… we just didn’t think alike.” Back when you can disagree with people on politics and remain civil and adult about it! Such a mature approach to different ideals among friends that many these days can learn from.
Eric Stuart No Cerf doesn't fit the description of a clod. He may have been a bit stiff, some people may have found him obsequious or he may ha e been a bit square. But he was not stupid. If anything he was incredibly bright and intelligent. Hal was a pleb.
@@davidsanderson5918 yes , Block didnt quite fit in with Bennett Cerf , Arlene or Dorothy. It was a shame as Block was hard working , he wrote for Bob Hope , Abbott & Costello and many others. Block tried needed the WML job so he tried too hard to be funny and it didn't work
Yes, the nuns gave her a hard time. It’s even in the movie! The priests backed her because the church anticipated her making lots of money. She did. She donated the royalties because she took a vow of poverty. But nuns have to donate money they make anyway. I have heard many stories like hers. She left the convent and lived with her lesbian lover. They were pursued for huge amounts of back taxes. The money went to her and she donated it all. But they saw it as her income. You figure a dozen years of penalties in a socialist country!!! She and her lover made a pact and committed suicide. She couldn’t take the pressures any more.
Bennett Cerf is fascinating to listen to, and he along with Dorothy Kilgallen, Arlene Francis and John Daley were such a great combination together. I don't think John Daley gets the credit he is due. Daley was such a good audience for all things said by the panel. Such a delightful show-it was such a different era!
WOW.. Why so bitter, Bennett Cerf? Did he actually say, "Dorothy Kilgallen... I had read her rather disgusting column." Speaking of 'disgusting' Mr. Cerf!! What a diabolical and despicable comment to make about a colleague and, more importantly, a woman who had been murdered! (Perhaps 'Assassinated' is a more accurate word, as she had inside information as to the identity of the real assassins of President John F. Kennedy) I have always liked and admired Mr. Cerf, but this was WAY BELOW THE BELT! I know they didn't like her, as she was ever the Reporter, but to sink this low! I never thought he was like that! In-any-case, Bad Form Mr. Cerf!
By this time in his life, Mr. Cerf - and the other surviving panelists from the original WML run - were very bitter about the way Dorothy Kilgallen comported herself on the show's stage and behind the scenes. They were not fond of how Dorothy would try to monopolize as much screen time as she could at the expense of everyone else; they abhorred her endless schmoozing of celebrities; and they despised the way she would eavesdrop on conversations in the green room and take discussions assumed to be in confidence and later publish them in her column. You have to understand the social context of the time to realize how all of that behavior was frowned upon generally. It wasn't that she was a reporter - her peers universally admired her doggedness and skill in that area - it was that she exploited her relationships without regard to either courtesy or propriety. You mention "bad form" - Dorothy Kilgallen's "bad form" was what soured her relationships to her fellow panelists.
Tony, totally agree with you. We’ve been watching the show for a few years, and my husband and I both agreed, we were very annoyed with Dorothy and her monopolizing time with her automatic yes questions. I looked for some of her columns, and thought they were gabby, tacky, and too annoying. Also listened to threading show, I don’t know how she was able to hold on to these various jobs as long as she did. Then read the radio show was canceled when Dick did it drunk. Wonder how long she would have lasted had she lived?
Jeff di Giusto Wow calm down!!! He referred to one disgusting column she wrote, that's all. He also described her as "very nice" and how he hit it off with her very well. No big deal.
@@tonyjohns7310 The so-called comics monopolized the camera to a far greater degree than Dorothy ever did. Quite often, Dorothy was merely trying to help John use up the remaining time on the show after he warned her, “3 minutes left.” Bennett was no gentleman by publicly criticizing Dorothy after her death. Just because Bennett had an opinion, it wasn’t necessarily the truth.
Christy Widener What he means is that advertisements were so awash with deodorants, dental hygiene products, odour eaters, cleaning oroducts that an outside to the US could be excused for thinking 'wow these people must really stink.'
Thanks for the interview and the illuminating pictures to go along with it! One tiny quibble with two of the illustrations in the last minute: when Bennett says "dress tie" he means a black bow tie, as worn with a dinner jacket (tuxedo), not the long tie as shown here.
