What's My Line? - Arlene Dahl (Apr 25, 1954) 

Arlene Dahl died today. November 29, 2021. Age 96. Rest in peace, honey.

Steve was absolutely hilarious during the bubble bath segment! He always asks questions that elicit the most absurdly funny mental imagery, haha

At 1:35, Bennett introduces John Daly as the late star of the Front Page, so I looked it up on IMDb...turns out he played Walter Burns in 18 episodes of the Front Page TV series in 1949-50! Who knew? :)

I love Steve Allen. He was so clever and deadpan.

Arlene Dahl was beautiful in her appearance with a figure that could do justice to a dress like that. And the dress reminds me of an old joke, probably dating back to Vaudeville and Burlesque days: An older man is conversing with an attractive, fine-figured young woman wearing a strapless gown. At some point he asks her what holds the dress up. "Your age and my reputation," she replies.

It's so cool to see the great cursive penmanship that they have when signing in, too bad they don't teach that any longer. BIG MISTAKE!!!

There’s one thing I didn’t like about earlier episodes, no chit chat with the mystery guest.

Happy to report that Arlene Dahl is still alive as of this post!

Awww they should have said yes to foamy head and YES it is a soap of some kind ...

"YOU ARE VERY TAN, DO YOU WORK INDOORS ?" . . . Very funny.

I call foul on the bubble bath. It is indeed a soap product, and I don't buy Mr. Daly's explanation concerning the foamy head. Like Mr. Allen, I, too, have a foamy head.

Watching in order in June 2020 and this is the first episode where someone still alive is the mystery guest.

Arlene Dahl is, of course, a Norwegian-American from Minneapolis, Minnesota, still alive at the age of 91 as of today (25 Oct. 2016). Minneapolis, I note, is found in the _southern_ half of Minnesota.

Rest in peace, Arlene.

Regarding Dorothy's question to the last challenger, it doesn't seem to make sense unless you think about patterns on the show's previous episodes. The staff often chose guests whose physical appearance in some way threw a curve ball at the panel: muscular men who sold baby clothes, petite women who did manual labor, fashionably dressed women who drove a truck; that sort of thing. It's difficult to tell in b&w, but my guess is that the challenger was so tan, Dorothy suspected that it was misleading. But sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Another thing to watch for is when a challenger gives less than the usual information about their hometown. It probably means that there is some clue embedded in the home town that would that might help the panel guess the profession faster. In this case, the last challenger gives his location as Long Island rather than Patchogue for reasons that eventually become obvious.

Arlene looks beautiful in this.

Googled Arlene Dahl on 21 January 2019. Her actual birth year is 1925 (August). She is still alive at 93 years old. Wish we could see her red hair! "Red heads" are firecrackers -- I know because I am one! 😉

Everyone needs how to read & write in cursive. Just because people are determined to doom the practice does not mean a person will never have to write it or read it in a lifetime.

Watch Arlene Dahl in "Journey to the Centre of the Earth", she's well hot for that time

As of 6-5-20 Arlene Dahl is STILL ALIVE! She'll be 95 in August.

Arlene Carol Dahl (August 11, 1925) (age 94) and one of her son's Lorenzo Fernando Lamas

Small conference. John is terribly glad. Lol. 😇 Dorothy got it

Arlene Dahl still alive aged nearly 93 as of August 2018

wow, John seems to be acting so strangely between 23:00 and 24:00! i saw someone else theorize that he's just looking attentively at the clock, but i've never seen him behave this way in all the episodes i've watched. it's almost like he just heard somebody died!

Bennett is so funny! 😅

“You’re very tanned, do you work indoors?”

I am so glad they ended panel reviews in 1956. Next thing you know, Dorothy would have frisked guests, handed their wallets or handbags to Arlene, and disrobed them so Steve could read their clothing labels!

14:58 Haha Steve put his glasses on over the blindfold

Watching these in chronological order for 2021. As I type this not counting the one with Dorothy's kids as bonus mystery guests this is the first one in chronological order where the mystery guest is still alive. Her beauty actually harmed her Hollywood career because it got her typecast even though she was a capable actress

Steve Allen says goodnight to his three sons, so sweet of him! 24:52

"Jack London" was one of the best contestants they ever had on this show--although, as others have commented, I suspect it was a stage-name.

Look at John watching the clock from 23:19 ...

Bennett and his "wee ones"....

Lays Claim to Oneofthe PRETTIEST OnScreen Kisses EVER, with a Mr James Mason.🎨🎨🎨 (Journey to the Center of the Earth)

Arlene Dahl is a living doll!

Arlene Dahl is a smart lady. Determined to get it right when they questioned her lol.

They should dispense with the free guesses because the panel doesn't really take them seriously.

I used to get Rhonda Fleming and Arlene Dahl mixed up years ago.

Arlene Dahl was beautiful! I think she had a son who is an actor and is very good looking, but I can't think of his name...

A ferry boat may not carry cargo, but it DOES carry cars...

Arlene Dahl was gorgeous!

THEY JUST DON'T GROW EM LIKE ARLENE DAHL ANYMORE...WOW....

Ms Dahl is still alive born in 1928 was married multiple times

Arlene Dahl is still alive in 2021.

The first contestant looks like Thomas S. Monson when he was a younger man!

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I'm guessing that Jack London was a stage-name and the 'costume' that he wore was a black tail-coat rather like a magician. He didn't answer that question because he was hurried on his way. This is the only episode in which John Daly seemed to panic - near the end he looks upwards and looks miserable. A moment later he over-accentuates his words as if he has new false teeth. At one point too the camera lurched to the right. It's a fun episode but I think something was going wrong off-stage and Mr Daly had to hold it all together..

Arlene Dahl is STILL ALIVE! She turned 95 on 8/11/2020 and is still with us as of 10/3/2020!

Bubble bath IS a soap - should have gotten a “yes”

Arlene Dahl 6 years before she went To The Centre of the Earth wth James Mason & Pat Boone...both of whom appeared on WsML?

Rhonda Fleming must have been watching this particular program because she in her appearance the next year on WML mentions Bennett Cerf of her guessing her name and Miss Dahls reaction to that ! Also in both Miss Dahls and Miss Flemings appearances WML they are mentioned as co stars in pictures with John Payne . In 1956 all three actors co starred in SLIGHTLY SCARLET.

Rest in peace!

24:47 This is a .gif waiting to happen.

Steve: "Do you perform what could be called a 'white collar job'?"... he never asked anyone that before, 110% a gambit question he was given beforehand..

RIP Arlene Dahl

What was that ending?! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂❤

Interesting that the panelists are allowed to addend or add to their questions in order to get a yes answer. The producers can make whatever rules they wish for the game, but it is odd that panelists are allowed to game their questions in such a manner. Considering an answer is worth only $5, it seems strange the show would risk being considered rigged in some way for panelists being able to alter their questions (TV game shows came under scrutiny for being less than straightforward in the 1950s).

Arlene Dahl - what a cutie

You're very tanned, do you work indoors ??? Dorothy apparantly was quite smitten and didn't make much sense anymore... Oucchhhh :)

There is still and will forever more - something incredibly sexy about steve Allen. It's ridiculous, the man has moved on - no longer alive - but he gets to me every show. Stop.

Arlene Dahl beat it out of there.. 😵

She and Rhonda Fleming were probably mixed up all the time. They even played sisters in a film. I love them both!

$50 in 1954 is $531.30 today.

Rats! I wish they had spent a minute or two chatting with the pickpocket!

Arlene is still alive (2021).

The audiences must've been smaller these earlier seasons. The applause when the mystery guests enter just don't seem very strong as they do later on. Watch the other Arlene Dahl episode and her reception was a whole lot stronger.

I like Arlene with darker hair

Wow

Yes, it does have a foamy head on it!

The 10th time a panelist wore glasses over his mask. The 25th time Steve said “good night, boys.” Arlene Dahl is the 4th MG still alive in 2021. (Margaret O’Brien in a lost episode and Dorothy’s children, Jill & Dickie Kollmar)

4:15, why are they laughing, perhaps because it is not the kind of service we really want

Arlene Dahl and Rhonda Fleming were almost interchangeable.

If the contestant does not have a product then he performs a service, right? Is there anything else?

PROFESSIONAL PICKPOCKET SELLS BUBBLE BATH FERRY BOAT CAPTAIN

If he's a pickpocket, of COURSE he uses his feet. Why in the WORLD did John say no to that? What's he gonna do, crawl around from person to person?

Dorothy has to check out his muscles??? OMG. ☹️

The captain of the ferry boat said that there was nothing about his physicality that connected to his job and that is BS. Tell me he wasn't hired at least in part because of his rugged good looks. Come on!

Bubble bath isn’t soap?

Doesn't really seem like anyone cares what anybody else is saying.

Thank goodness they got rid of that ridiculous and undignified parading in front of the panel and then exiting behind John Charles Daly.

Dorothy must have been drinking that night. The first guy she wanted to feel his right arm for muscles when he just said he uses his left hand for everything AND she didn't check his suit for where it was made. Wish he had pick-pocketed someone there. Mrs. Gill scared the crap out of me. Arlene Dahl is still with us! 88 years old (10/2013) Very sweet lady

Can I feel your right muscle? creepy

francis can shut her mouth- she is very rude