He surely was but his played character of Norman Bates of Hitchcock directed "Psycho" overpowered his shy, normal, intelligent and classy mannerisms. Sadly most people remembered him as Norman Bates, not as Tony Perkins.
He never thought of himself as a star because he had nothing to do with glamour. I personally think he's one of the most amazing actors I've ever seen in my whole life. He seems so kind , funny and nice and shy as well. Perkins was a good person and a wonderful man. A real man entangled in his " private trap".. his life. Even though he answers all the questions , his eyes always seem to be somewhere else. I've loved him since the very first time I saw him and his smile is filled with both sweetness and sadness.
He was bisexual, and in today's world he could have been more open about it. However, he loved his wife and children (he was not forced to get married, he made the decision that he wanted to be a husband and father) and his wife Berry Berenson (tragically killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks) took care of him to the very end.
Muirmaiden Please respect the memory of Berry Berenson-Perkins and thousands of others who died on 9/11. Do not discuss their private sex lives or the private sex lives of their spouses. Those who died on that terrible day can not speak for themselves.
@wholeNwon In that video interview, Tony Perkins does not discuss his personal life. He does not mention his wife. He does not reveal her name. Good for him. People should be interested in his career.
saw him on PBS once and he played the piano and sang. Utterly chraming. Also, if you ever get a chance you have to see him in SNL ( back in the 70s.) He did a skit that had me crying I was laughing so hard. " The Norman Bates school of Hotel/Motel management. " Brilliant guy. And his son is a great director ( Osgood.)
I am not old enough to remember this Tony Perkins. The one that I do remember was dark and aloof. It was wonderful seeing this very handsome Tony with the best smile!
Tony Perkins was a doll baby..... tormented and anguished in his private life, forced to keep everything hidden during a time when homosexual relationships were taboo...... It breaks my heart , I don't know that he ever found true happiness during his time here on Earth..... he was known to be a little shady in his 20's, but then again....we've all done things we aren't proud of.. There's something sweet and endearing about him.... He's one of my favorites. - Good post!
+Courtney Cook indeed..... I've been watching his films lately.... There's a fragility about him, a frailty.... It's very endearing, i hope he's at peace.
@gcjerryusc You are a total ass. Everyone thinks they're going to be in their 20's forever. Big surprise, but age catches up to everyone, and our bodies change as we get older. Comments like yours are disgusting and an embarrassment. LIFE happens. Dude, you need to grow up.
Anthony Perkins here, came across as very unassuming.He really was a great actor, he could do a superb stammer and look very nervous then be a killer the next moment.
+mattbernabe And Judy Norton Taylor as Mary Ellen on The Waltons. MAry Tyler Moore did not have that problem and she seemed to nail her roles so well on MTM show AND Dick Van Dyke as Laura. Maybe because her look seemed to change over the years, but I never saw Laura Petrie in Mary Richards ever.
I always chalked up the nervous facial ticks of Norman Bates to good acting but it seems like Anthony Perkins just naturally had those facial mannerisms
@@accomplice55 Don't mind this comment. If you check out all the other comments from this person on this video you will see they go out of their way to disagree with everyone.
A Hungarian trying to explain something to a Swede (with accents flying everywhere) was a moment of delight. And I liked the second challenger. A great-grandmother, and sixteen years with the Air Force, reaching the rank of Master Sergeant. That's not common.
I just researched Tony Perkins on Google and realized that his wife had died in 9/11! He had already died in 1992 at age 60 and she died at age 53 in the terrorist attack in New York. Berry Berenson RIP
While Eva is my favorite of the sisters, I generally like Zsa Zsa as well. Her performance as a panelist is an exception. But whether you loved her or hated her, whether you think she's a dummy or a comic genius, for most of her life in the U.S. she achieved her idea of success. As she said, she was a terrific housekeeper: every time she married a man, she ended up keeping his house.
O that is nasty, she may have loved being married, but the beautiful funny lady didnt understand what Marriage meant. (its a Life commitment (in front of God) and not a house acquiring process)
Perkins is about, in a few months, to do "Psycho" with Hitchcock, in which he gives what may be the greatest acting performance I've ever seen. It's insane that he didn't win an Academy Award for it, although he did win the Best Actor Award from the International Board of Motion Picture Reviewers.
Zsa Zsa appeared in 57 movies and spoke 5 languages. Her appearances on talk shows was legendary because she was so funny and fascinating to viewers worldwide.
The picture Perkins had made in Australia was Stanley Kramer’s “On The Beach,” one of the terrifying nuclear apocalypse pictures that seemed so plausible at the time. I saw it when I was far too young and had bad dreams for weeks. It was excellent, actually, with Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, and Fred Astaire, but the DVD sits on my shelf unwatched: After sixty-one years I’m still afraid to look at it. Though Perkins’s character in “On The Beach” was that of a sympathetic young husband and father, “Psycho” was not the only picture in which Mr. Perkins scared people.
LOVE this show. So elegant. So intelligent & clever - The panel AND the guests, no matter who they were. TV at its best. Thanks so much for posting these!!!!
Nice to hear a 'movie star' answer Serf's question like that. I would think the same if I was a 'movie star'. He's a hard working actor and they won't often match the myth of how they're talked about in the 'variety pages' as they say.
Thanks again for posting these. After a long day at a public desk, I can relax with the gentle nature and manner of "What's My Line." And charming, lovely Arlene Francis also helps!
I don’t know if he received an Academy Award nomination for Psycho. If not he should have. I saw the film when it first came out. The creepiest movie I had seen up to that point in time. And Perkins nailed his role.
I was never a "fan" of Zsa Zsa Gabor--as opposed to her sister Eva--however I thought she was utterly charming here. She had a certain pixilated quality to her that I assume was part calculated and part natural. Aside from that, I wonder how much of her tenuous grasp of English was put on, and how much of it was real. By the way, she died today at the age of 99.
519DJW Zsa Zsa Gabor did not actually “live” to be 99. She died before she died. In the 1970s, when her health seemed excellent, nobody knew her age / year of birth. She often talked about people not knowing that.
@S R When I say Zsa Zsa Gabor died before she died, I’m referring to her medical condition that is documented by the photo you see when you click below. www.google.com/amp/s/www.intouchweekly.com/posts/zsa-zsa-gabor-is-nearing-death-report-47581/amp/
I love this guy,I love everything about him.Great talent but not reconized.He was better than many actors.He had a confusing life but he needed only of affection.Tony forever.
@@kelloggs5473: It means he fought his homosexuality and even took part in "conversion therapy" that involved electroshock treatments. It's a shame that he had to deny who he really was.
Rather unfortunate that Dorothy was absent, and missed her chance to ask her favorite MG question: "Have you ever lost your address book from an airplane over Greece?"
I laughed so hard at Debbie Reynolds pretending to be a Gabor, a few episodes ago, because she got it so spot on. Are we SURE that's really Zsa Zsa in this episode and not Debbie done up as Zsa Zsa? Hehehehehe.
sj Debbie is funnier as Zsa Zsa than Zsa Zsa is, in my opinion. Of course, Debbie credited Eva with coaching her in the part, and I've always found Eva funnier and more attractive than Zsa Zsa.
@gcjerryusc So true, first Eddie Fisher (1955-1959), then Harry Karl (1960-1973) and Richard Hamlett (1984-1996) Happy viewing from Las Vegas, NV November 1, 2018
Tony Perkins had a really tough early life. Wikipedia says his father died when Tony was 5 yrs old and his mother sexually abused him. He was also an only child. A lot to deal with.
For people born way after this time it's hard to understand Anthony Perkins had a long successful career before Psycho. That's how he is associated today. Also not widely known at this time, except perhaps a few Hollywood powerbrokers, Tab Hunter 'slept' at his house a few times. Don't know if it was around the date of this show specifically, just the general time frame.
Zsa Zsa is the answer to a producer's prayer -- great fun without being hindered by any intellectual pursuits. LOLOF Interesting to watch Bennett and Martin buzzing around Zsa Zsa lie so many bees at the honey pot when she can't get her blindfold on.
I've always thought Zsa Zsa isn't the brightest light in the marquee and her performance on the panel in this episode didn't change my mind one bit. I wonder if they asked her back.
Zsa Zsa was on three times as the MG (one time after this episode), but thankfully this was her only appearance as a panelist. I give her credit for admitting she didn't know how to play the game and that's about all.
Everyone thinks Zsa Zsa is so hilarious. I just don’t see it. If she’s really this airheaded, that’s kind of sad. If it’s only an act, that makes it even worse.
She couldnt be too dumb, she got world famous for accomplishing absolutely nothing. Phoney yes, but no more than Dorothy, thats why shes sitting in her chair.
To describe Tony Perkins as the recorder of hit records is a bit of a stretch. Even with his looks and his movie career, the best any of his records did on the charts was #24. I started listening to top 40 radio (WABC, WMCA and WINS) shortly before the British invasion hit the U.S. At that time, there was at most 10 years of accumulated hit music that appealed to the Baby Boomer generation which would be a source of "Solid Gold" to play on those stations. I am fairly certain I never heard his records played on any of those stations or any of the other stations in the NYC market that tried their hand at rock music for a time (WNBC, WCBS-FM, WOR-FM, WWDJ, etc.).
yes and the fight took place the day after he married the first guest. But Patterson won it back from Johansson the following year and retained in the rubber match the year after that.
I kept wondering when I watched this if she was playing this up for the camera, or she truly was this dumb. :) Very, very entertaining, to be sure, but one wonders if she's capable of turning on a light switch without assistance after seeing this appearance.
I think it was mostly part of her persona. She acted dumb to be humorous; people thought she'd be dumb because of her looks and blonde hair. She was not dumb. Marilyn Monroe was not dumb, neither was Jayne Mansfield, Jean Harlow, Lana Turner, Betty Grable, Rita Hayworth, Jane Russell, or any other actress known especially for her beauty of face and figure. But to answer your unofficial question, no Zsa Zsa Gabor was no dummy.
Love how the majority of the comments are in praise of Tony. I bet he never would've guessed that people would still be admiring him over 30 years after his death.
Ingemar Johansson was the mystery guest on February 1, 1959. Floyd Patterson was the mystery guest on December 16, 1956 and February 7, 1965. Johansson beat Patterson in the fight on June 26 (not June 25, as was stated in this episode by Martin and John) 1959, taking the title of world heavyweight champion away from him. Patterson regained the heavyweight title in a fight with Johansson in 1960, and Patterson beat Johansson again in 1961.
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