What's My Line? - Arnold Stang; Betty White [panel] (Jun 19, 1955) 

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Arnold Stang was one of the very best Mystery Challengers ever. Years later he would immortalize the animated tv show "Top Cat" as the voice of that character. I would have loved to have met him because he was one of the smartest people in show biz. I am sure he had stories to tell.

And yet 59 years later, Betty White is still alive and more relevant than she's ever been. I don't think anybody in that room would have predicted that.

I cannot BELIEVE that bennett and dorothy didnt immediately pounce on the idea of maternity clothes after fred’s line of questioning.

Betty was a looker!

Watching a marathon of Betty White... RIP

Nice to see my childhood friend "TC" as mystery guest (I get to call him that because it's with dignity!)

Loved Arnold Stang so much. What a great talent with a wonderful sense of humor!

The applause that greets Arnold Stang at 16:37 has to be one of the biggest outbursts EVER on this show! (he was Milton Berle's sidekick on TV at the time). Also, his comeback to Fred Allen about Walter Slezak (17:46) really cracks me up (it's a clever reference to the discussion of "indigenous" with guest #1). Interesting to see the number of people (below) who are not familiar with Arnold. That's why these videos are so cool--they really help preserve the legacy of so many great performers from the past. LR

Arnold Stang had a long and fabulous career. He was offered more work than he could possibly handle. Though what could be described as a character personality, he actually possessed quite a range as an actor. He was (obviously) very intelligent and know as being very professional.

Wow.. Betty white was a looker back in those days! this was the first time i ever saw her from back in the day!

The most tip top, Top Cat was my favorite nighttime cartoon. Arnold Stang voiced TC, but the character was based on Sgt. Bilko created by another MG, Phil Silvers. Also loved Maurice Gosfield (Garfield?) as Benny the Ball.

I just started watching this show tonight. Betty White really never changes her looks much, does she? (and to think, she just celebrated her 98th Birthday)

Steve Allen on Arnold Stang...his last name is the past tense of "Sting," unless you are from Texas - "That's gonna stang, boy."

"Lets not say stiff, lets say moving awkwardly" One of the best things i've heard lol

Fred Allen is brilliant in walking that fine line of squeezing in some spot-on guesses while being a truly entertaining panelist.

Betty White has appeared on television since 1949.

And to think that Betty White had a hard time getting a job in show business because she wasn't "photogenic" enough! Really?!

Wow! Jeff Allen said, "When pay television comes, I'm gong to get you unscrambled." And he said it in 1955!

When Fred Allen mentions it's Father's Day during the second game (Models Maternity Clothes) the audience respond with roars of laughter and applause. 11:22

Wow, I've never seen Betty White look so young!

This episode has to go down in history as the funniest one ever from start to finish!!!🎉😂😂❤ Laugh my cluckin tail feathers off!!

Arnold Stang was hilarious as the MG. "I ain't even indigenous to Mr. Slezak". lmao

Arnold Stang was the voice of my favorite cartoon character, Top Cat

7:40 Dorothy acting out the "little feet/paws" motion was adorable!

this is always so enjoyable. sometimes the questions are hilarious and the panelists are always entertaining. Dorothy, Arlene, and John are always charming and gracious. and, of course, John Daly is marvelous. he’s dapper, charming, and he laughs so easily and cheerfully. they all find humor even in their own mistakes and are very intelligent. what a show!! :)

betty white always had that twinkle in her eyes. what a beautiful person she was. and on the same show with the funny arnold stang.

I remember as a child watching "Top Cat" one of my all time favorite cartoon. My parents and I enjoyed it so much. I love Mr. Stango, his voice is a "character" unique in every way. He was born to be an entertainer and voice character. Superb!♥

Bennett Cerf *often* says "You look like someone who..." and yet he's always, always wrong. Even more striking is that he always sounds so surprised to find that he's wrong! It's pretty amazing, really.

Betty White. . you're gorgeous.. as always..

Betty was 33 years old and i'm howling like a wolf looking at her in this video right now !!! -------- VA-VA-VOOOOOOMMMMM !!!!

Top Cat, like many Hanna-Barbera cartoons, recreated an adult sitcom for the benefit of children. Just as The Flintstones was a cartoon Honeymooners, Top Cat was Sgt. Bilko (The Phil Silvers Show) with cartoon alley cats.

Betty White was a knockout!

Fred Allen's confused face after mentioning Father's day. 😆

And Betty White is as big as she has ever been, including a couple of years ago becoming the oldest host in "Saturday Night Live's" 39-year history.

John Daly always has sooo much fun.

I got to know about Arnold Stang from watching "The man with the golden arm", a great movie starring Frank Sinatra. Arnold played Frank's sidekick, an interesting quirky character.

They all have beautiful handwriting

Fred Allen had a good face for radio.

I just had a realization of how long ago 1955 was -- I turned three years old that year. I just took notice of the promo card for American Airlines, shown at the end of the program, and noticed that a 4-engine airliner with propellers is pictured. Jetliners didn't really become feasible until 1958 when Boeing introduced the 707 and Douglas introduced the DC-8. I suspect what was pictured was a Douglas DC-7.

Betty is like one of six people who appeared in TV game shows in the 1950s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and 2000s. One of the others is June Lockhart.

Betty White been around for long time, different time, a different way life!

Looks like Betty is just going to keep going. Here it is 2016 and shes going to be a panelist on the new To Tell the Truth this summer on abc.

Just a couple weeks after this appearance, Betty White landed a regular spot as a panelist on a summer replacement game show for Goodson-Todman called "Make The Connection." It was hosted for the first few weeks by the future ABC sports legend, Jim McKay when he got replaced by Gene Rayburn (his first hosting job for Goodson).

I first became acquainted with Arnold Stang when he was a panelist on "Your First Impression." Other panelists included Emily Faulkner, Betty White, and Dennis James. I think the host was Bill Leyden of It Could Be You fame. Stang was introduced as "the funniest man in the business," which my father concurred. The premise was a contestant had a connection with one of a choice of celebrities, (such as Billie Burke's daughter, Ben Blue's son) and the panelists gave the contestants sentences to complete. Oddly enough, IMDB only mentions four episodes, and makes no mention whatever of Arnold Stang or Emily Faulkner, but I'm sure I remember the show lasting longer than that, and I KNOW Arnold Stang was a panelist! So there, IMDB.

I love Betty White she's one of my favorite actress of all time.

I could watch Arnold Stang all day long!

Host to Betty White: “That was a leading question and is not germane”. Betty White to host: “It was MENT that way”!!🤣

Whether or not she's recounting a story from St. Olaf, it's always a treat to hear Betty White. She really has the sweetest, most tenderest voice.

only knowing Betty White in her later years, i was born in 1959, it is a shock to hear her voice coming from a young woman.

Betty White on panel! Yay! Thanks for uploading!

You can imagine the heart rate of everyone in the audience as they anticipated the entrance of who the mystery guest would be!

"Thank you Mr. Gunn for making guns..." There's something you won't hear on any game show today I bet.

i like how everyone is saying Betty White WAS a looker... what do you mean, she STILL is a looker. ;-) hehe

RIP Betty White, aged 99 Dec 31st, 2021

bette white was sooo beautiful...and sweet....

Arnold Stang certainly was a small man -- all of 5'3" tall, which is apparent when he shakes hands with the panel at the end of his appearance in this episode. Bennett Cerf at 6'1" tall towers over him and Fred Allen, however all he was, looks huge in comparison to Stang. I note that part of Arnold Stang's comedic qualities included his playing a pipsqueak of a man that nonetheless had a loud voice and something of a big mouth -- so he'd portray a personality that was the opposite of what he appeared to be at first glance in a way that provoked laughter. There was a 1964-65 half-hour sitcom called _Broadside_ about women in the U.S. Navy during World War II -- they were WAVES who ran the motor pool on an island in the South Pacific. Arnold Stang played a character called "Stanley Stubbs" and that's my first and only experience of him as an actor and comedian, other than this appearance on WML. He was, however, very noticeable and memorable in that TV role and quite funny as I recall. _Broadside_ ran for a single season and got canceled.

In 2018 Bette White is still alive .

Wow ! Betty White is a doll!

He was really famous then and now almost forgotten except for the voice on Top Cat

Love this show so much

Betty White's dimples makes Shirley Temple's look like nothin'.

I remember Arnold Stang fighting Jonathan Winters in the movie : It's a MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD

I don't remember when it started but in the beginning of WML when the contestants did the Walk (of Shame) before the panel, only sometimes did they shake hands. Now it has become a custom for every contestant to do that.

Love Fred’s pout during the maternity dresses guest.

The ultra rare complete panel shut out on this one. Got close but took too long on the first two guests by dragging out their questions. Arnold Stang got them with that accent. And missed the bonus guest rush too.

19:00 Fred should have gotten a "yes" for "You're not Art Carney?"

Betty is having a HUGE reunion with her panelist up in Heaven

Back then you couldn’t tell the celebrities from the contestants. They all dressed well and well groomed.

Love me some Arnold Stang

Man, Betty was a cutie...!

There's an urban myth about alligators living in city sewers after small pet creatures were flushed down the toilet when they got too big. This episode confirms that alligators were bred as pets, so perhaps the myth is based on a true case. When working in Ankara, Turkey, I knew a woman who had a pet terrapin which she had to get rid of. She released it into a pond in a park, which follows the same idea in a gentler way. Terrapins (and caged birds) were a common pet at the time in the 1990s for people who lived in apartments with no garden.

~ 16:36 ~ Chunky was better before Nestle took over. Better ingredients, more ingredients, larger size. I saw Wally Cox in an episode of Twilight Zone, and he made me think of Arnold Stang, and here I am. Happy New Year, 2018! Cheers, DAVEDJ ~

After a travel day, the Dodgers played 3 games in Cincinnati (losing 2) and 3 in St. Louis (winning 2). The split of the 6 games for the week left them 11 games ahead of the 2nd place Cubs. It might have been a better week if not for the loss of two extra-inning games, one a real heartbreaker. On this day in St. Louis, a towering home run by Sandy Amoros in the 4th broke a 1-1 tie. Then the Dodgers opened the 5th inning with 3 straight singles by Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snider and Roy Campanella. Reese scored on Campanella’s hit, but when Bill Virdon, normally an excellent defensive center fielder, misplayed the ball, it turned Campy’s single into a Little League home run. Suddenly the Dodgers led 5-1. But the Cards came right back with three in their half of the 5th, knocking starting pitcher Carl Erskine out of the game. Still smarting from the bullpen blowing a game the day before, this time Karl Spooner was able to preserve the lead. A bases-loaded, two run single by Reese in the 8th sealed the 7-4 win. On Tuesday, the Dodgers invaded Cincinnati. After pushing across a run in the 1st, Jackie Robinson doubled with two out and no one on in the 2nd. A walk to Carl Furillo, and run scoring singles by Johnny Podres and Jim Gilliam knocked out starting pitcher Johnny Klippstein in favor of Steve Ridzik. Reese drove in another run with a single and then Snider capped the six-run inning with a three-run homer. That was more than enough for Podres who tossed his second straight shutout. The final score was 9-0. During Tuesday’s game, the umpiring crew started the game one man short of its full complement of four. When home plate umpire Jocko Conlan had to come out of the game in the 6th inning, the umpires had to finish the game with just two. Carl Erskine struggled the next day, giving up 5 runs in 5 innings. The Redlegs scored in 3 different innings and center fielder Gus Bell was in the middle of every rally with a home run, double and single. On the mound, rookie starting pitcher Rudy Minarcin took a shutout into the 9th. But a two run homer by Gilliam with none out put the Dodgers on the board. Minarcin hung tough at that point and went the distance for a 5-2 win. There was a major trade that day, June 15, and it lead to the second retirement from baseball of one of the core group of players that would be tagged by Roger Kahn as “The Boys of Summer”. In December 1947, the Dodgers acquired pitcher Preacher Roe and infielder Billy Cox as part of a trade with Pittsburgh. Seven years and five days later, Roe and Cox were traded together again, this time by the Dodgers to the Orioles. Roe retired. But Cox, facing the prospect of very little playing time in Brooklyn and with Baltimore closer to his home in Pennsylvania, accepted the trade to the struggling team. With Cox hitting .211 and the Orioles wanting to concentrate on giving their corps of young third basemen plenty of playing time, they decided that Cox was dispensable. They sent him and former Yankee outfielder Gene Woodling in a trade to Cleveland for outfielders Wally Westlake and Dave Pope. Even though the Indians were in the thick of the AL pennant race, Cox refused to report. Apparently Cleveland was too far from his home to suit him. The Orioles compensated the Indians with $15,000 and the Indians still got the better of the trade as Woodling did well in Cleveland while Pope slumped and Westlake was finished as a player. During the rubber game of the 3 game series in Cincinnati, the lead changed hands four times in the first 7 innings. In the top of the 4th, the Dodgers first three runners reached safely: a single by Campanella, a double by Gil Hodges and a two run single by Jackie Robinson. But Robinson was cut down by Smoky Burgess trying to steal and Joe Nuxhall escaped further damage from a subsequent walk and single. The Redlegs immediately answered back in their half of the inning on a single by big first sacker Ted Kluszewski, a double by right fielder Wally Post that brought home Ted, and after Bell struck out, a walk to Burgess and a run scoring single by third baseman Bobby Adams that drove home Post. That was it for starting pitcher Clem Labine. Ed Roebuck came in, walking shortstop Roy McMillan. When 38 year old rookie Bob Thurman batted for Nuxhall and forced McMillan at second, Hodges to Reese, the slow-footed Burgess scored the go-ahead run when the Dodgers couldn’t complete the double play. A power-hitting star hitter in both the Negro Leagues and winter ball in the Caribbean, Thurman’s entry to the majors was delayed by a combination of time to be discovered, service in World War II, time with the Kansas City Monarchs and time spent in the organizations of the Yankees and Cubs when their signing of black players was for show: they had no intention of integrating at the major league level yet. Integration came to Cincinnati in 1954 and when they were able to pick up Thurman for $2000 from the Cubs, they jumped at the chance. However, they thought he was 33 years old and would turn 34 in May. Along the way, Thurman set back his age more often than a crooked used car dealer finagles an odometer. The Redlegs increased their lead the following inning on a double by left fielder Ray Jablonski and single by Bell. But the Dodgers came back to tie the game on a triple by Reese, a walk to Snider and a two run double by Campanella off of Art Fowler. And the score remained knotted until two out in the bottom of the 10th. Kluszewski, who got Cincy on board with a 1st inning home run, won the game with his second four bagger of the game. The Dodgers went to St. Louis and once again won the first game of the series and lost the second. The first game was no contest. After Don Newcombe surrendered a 2nd inning homer to Ken Boyer who was playing shortstop that day, it was all Dodgers. They scored 4 runs apiece off of starter Sam Jones, and relievers Brooks Lawrence and Mel Wright. Newk’s two run homer got things started in the top of the 4th as he also went 3 for 5 on the day. Snider blasted a pair of home runs and drove in 3 runs, while Campanella contributed 4 singles in 5 trips and Reese had another triple and a single in 4 at bats before his 36 year old legs got a rest. Saturday’s game saw a pitchers’ duel between Podres and Larry Jackson. Both teams notched a run with two outs in the 6th: the Dodgers on a towering home run by Snider; the Cards on a double by third baseman Solly Hemus and single by second baseman Red Schoendienst. In the 10th, the Dodgers got to Jackson. Hodges led off with a single. Furillo tried to bunt Hodges over, but first baseman Stan Musial was able to get a force out at second. Newcombe batted for Don Hoak and singled and then Don Zimmer was sent in to run for Newk. Manager Walt Alston let Podres bat and he walked to load the bases. Gilliam’s double brought in two runs to take the lead. Paul LaPalme was brought in to relieve the beleaguered rookie. After he walked Reese intentionally, he struck out Snider. But then he walked Campanella to force in another run. Finally he struck out Amoros to end the inning. Podres went out for his tenth inning of work to protect the three run lead. But he also ran out of gas. Right fielder Pete Whisenant led off with a double. When catcher Bill Sarni lined out to Amoros in left, Whisenant went to third. After Boyer walked, Gilliam went from hero to goat by committing an error, scoring Whisenant. Boyer moved to second and center fielder Wally Moon was safe at first. Randy Elliott batted for LaPalme and singled home Boyer. The Cards trailed by one. Bob Stephenson was sent in to run for Elliott while Labine was called on to rescue Podres. Instead of a lifesaver, Labine threw an anchor. He gave up a single to Hemus to tie the game and a single to Schoendienst to complete a rare collapse by the Dodgers. While Podres was tagged with the loss, there were also goat horns for Labine and Gilliam. But the Dodgers still enjoyed a comfortable lead over the rest of the National League.

As of July 2020, first episode where a panel member is still alive.

19:10 “is it a useful product.. no that’s not right” 😂

Unforgettable answers and laughter the "leader of the gang" and always golden girl.🎯🐱🏠📺☀️ Stay safe everyone!

I had never heard of Arnold Stang. I'm going to Google him right now...lol

Watch all episodes with Betty White this week.

John Daly surely did have weird hair, but I love watching these old shows.

l like Mr. Stang’s portrayal of his characters.

If anyone looks like their name, it's Arnold Stang. Arnold Stang looks like an Arnold Stang.

An alligator would NOT be found in the average home! C'mon!

Betty White was gorgeous!

If my memory serves me correctly, Betty White said she did not have a maternal instinct bone in her body. She really was loved by fans.

AS - Quite memorable in "Man with the Golden Arm".

Betty is so beautiful!

As of 6-7-20 Betty White is alive and 98 years old!

Rose Nuyland as a young woman.

Mr. Allen is incorrect. There are rivers in Arizona.

the maternity model looks like Queen Elizabeth.

Did Bennett just say "G-String"??? 🙀🙀🙀😱😱😱

Betty white has passed away. This 2022 that I'm seeing this.

Top Cat

"In a one-room-house what would it be?" - Great!!!

Bette White is still alive

Betty was just the best!

Mrs Weinberg’s dress is stunning!

Arnold Stang is always so funny! i remember him and liked him a lot as a kid, but, but for the life of me, i can’t remember on what show. :)

Oh Betty