No matter how great the guest, JCD never appears overawed and is always calm and in control of every situation. He served as a frontline journalist himself and is never rattled. Really a remarkable man in his own right.
The movie Milton Berle was in ("Let's Make Love") had a cast that included Yves Montand (the great French actor), Marilyn Monroe, Tony Randall, Frankie Vaughan, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Milton Berle and Joe Besser, and the New York Times decided that Milton Berle stole the show. That's a tremendous compliment.
Berle was also in 'Its A Mad , Mad , Mad , Mad World' .. Perhaps the greatest Ensemble Cast of Legendary Comedians and actors ever assembled for one film🤩😍🤩 that became a Comedy Masterpiece .. Berle was terrific in this film ( good in the MM film too.. trivia : MM and Berle had a 'fling' w/ each other ..😌🧐🙄 ), as were all the rest of the actors in this classic laugh riot of a film..😄😅😂🤣🤣🤣🏆 all here is just my humble opinion.. One of my favorites. ..😄❤️
I'm old. I remember in 4th grade back around 1958, we had a class in courtesy. Among the lessons, how to introduce people. It is correct always for the men to stand and extend their hand. The ladies remain seated. A man does not extend his hand to a lady unless she first extends her hand. When a person of significant age or stature is being introduced, the ladies should stand to show respect. I love watching the attitudes and mores demonstrated here! They're almost always totally correct. It's refreshing, but you have to remember some of the GENDER attitudes are embarrassingly 1950s. But it is what it is, and we're here now.😊
Among my earliest clear memories was watching Carl Sandburg at JFK''s inauguration. It was planned that he would read one of his poems but it was a windy day...so windy that his papers were blowing around so much that they were nearly blown from his hands and he couldn't read from them. Luckily, he was able to recite the poem from memory. I did not realize, at the time, the towering reputation he has as a poet.
My I politely point out that while your memory of events is mostly correct, it was the great Robert Frost, and not Carl Sandburg, who famously recited one of his poems ("The Gift Outright") at John F. Kennedy's inauguration? This, of course, takes nothing away from Mr. Sandburg who was his own shining star. Mr. Frost was 86 years old in January 1961, and had planned to read a new poem he wrote for the occasion ("Dedication") but the bright sun and breeze (against the surrounding snow) made it impossible for him to get past the first few lines. He made light of the situation and read "The Gift Outright" from memory.
Quite interesting that the non-celebrity guest this evening was named Donna. While this show was occurring, Hurricane Donna was roaring up the east coast. I remember it vividly because I was in 3rd grade at the time. The following day, Hurricane Donna hit NYC and Long Island. We went to school that morning, but they sent us home in the middle of the day. The sun was still out when we walked home one long block plus part of another to get home. The storm hit later that day and it was the first hurricane I remember. I was alive in 1954 (going on two years old) when NYC was hit by a pair of major hurricanes: Carol in late August and Hazel in mid October. I was too young to remember either of them, but the story of how Hazel blew the skylight off the roof of our house was a family story for decades.
Mr Sandburg was born in the town in which I live, Galesburg, Illinois . We have a Jr. College, a statue with a goat and numerous other things named after him!
It wasn't until this show with Berle that I realized how he was the Master and Jerry Lewis the student of that kind of comedy. Jerry's very good, but Berle is the Master. Now I know.
@@shirleyrombough8173 It has been reported that of all entertainers, Berle made the most appearances at charity benefits and rarely did he promote that he did this.
@@shirleyrombough8173 I've heard mixed opinions about him, but I think they were mixed IF you were working on his show, which makes sense. He's the boss, and he is going to make sure, like the reputation of a perfectionist as I bet you with lot of great famous comedians, he was going to create the best show he could possibly do. With that, I heard that he gave a rough time to ppl that did not praise him when they met him. I guess that's being human in an environment where people are constantly praising you, and you allow the "legend" to overshadow the person a bit. But yeah. Seems like a swell guy.
At 11:24, Dorothy Kilgallen begins a long drawn out combination of a question and verbal joust with John Daly that includes Dorothy making sure that John does NOT take her _breadth_ away!
Thank You so very much once again for posting another great episode of What's My Line in Black & White with Carl Sandburg & Milton Berle as the mystery guests. I LOVE IT.
Great! You know your stuff, you must have Big Shoulders. But seriously I am mildly in awe of some of the guests that pop up on this show, I recently found Eleanor Roosevelt as a contestant.
tiffsaver , unfortunately, we don't have famous people who have anything like the brilliance and star quality of the people who were even minor celebrities in the 50s and 60s.
They surely did smell it but at that time a number of famous men smoked them. George Burns and Groucho Marx did just to name a couple. About half of the citizens of the US smoked cigarettes as well.
@@neilphelan145 Indubitably ! And even crime boss Ma Barker was known to smoke cigars. But it would be highly unlikely for her to be a Mystery Guest, since she was gunned down by the police in Florida in 1935 at the age of 61.
***** Adam's death? Not really, he was having a lot of marital problems, was under a lot of stress and was taking too many prescription drugs. One night he took too many and in a bad combination, much like the way Heath Ledger died, sad and tragic to say the least, but not mysterious.
***** Yeah but by who and why? Rumors are rumors, but are there any real facts to hint at it? Maybe he was, but I'd like to see some proof before I'll believe that. BTW that issue aside, are there any good biographies written about him?
Andrew Tornadoboy I'm a Nick Adams fan too. Filmfax Oct./Jan. 2002 no. 87-88 has a well written biography of him and issue No.119 has interview with his daughter. Who also has a book out called The Rebel and The King. About her father and Elvis. Mysteries and Scandals had a good episode about him. But it hasn't been posted on you tube yet. I recall it interviewed his friend Robert Conrad. He claimed that it was an accidental overdose.
peggie castle fan Thanks, I'll have to check them out, especially the one by his daughter! Yeah Adams had a lot of charisma on screen, he was great in some of my favorite B-movie horror films like Die Monster Die and Godzilla VS Monster Zero, of course neither of those were works of genius but he made his characters memorable and likable. One can't help but wonder how his career would have gone if his personal demons hadn't gotten him, I think he had enough talent that he could have become a Hollywood icon had he lived.
Pianoman 70s style OH COME ON!! We KNOW!! That's why Daly left the ending off the punchline. One of the oldest rules of telling a joke....leave it hanging for the audience to fill in the rest.
I assume he means Kennedy with his presidential prediction, which of course turned out to be correct but I did not realize how close it was against Nixon.
Yeah, there were some shenanigans in Chicago that put JFK over the top. I can't imagine how history would be different if Nixon had won. I was devastated when JFK was murdered.
I have wondered why there were so few university people in WML. Many times Bennett and others suspected that, but no. Maybe in those days the scientists, professors, deans, lecturers, and other staff thought that tv entertainment was ridiculous and beneath them? Also, the panel many times missed the holidays. They didn't suspect anything christmassy in December or romance in Feb or fireworks in the beginning of July. Were those holidays not vastly celebrated in the US those days?
I heartily concur. He could be a very effective actor in the right kind of role. Sadly, he was only 36 when he passed away from a drug overdose in 1968.
Miss Schofield went to the University of Pittsburgh, and was going to be a teacher. She may've migrated to Franklin, Indiana and been a teacher there for 33 years (retiring in 1999), but I'm not sure it's her. (The timing would make sense, but I don't have solid feeling or evidence either way.)
I found the obituary of Russell Maxwell. He passed away on 7/19/16 at age 77 and was survived by his wife, Donna Lee (Schofield) Maxwell. The obituary appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and it would appear the couple stayed in the Pittsburgh area throughout their marriage. Mr. Maxwell, like the second challenger, attended the University of Pittsburgh. While his wife's age is not listed in the obituary (as is customary), Russell was 77 years old when he died which would have made him around 21 years old in 1960, so the age would be in synch with the Donna Schofield who appeared on WML. What makes it more difficult to search is that there was a baseball player for the Pittsburgh Pirates by the name of Dick Schofield from 1958-63 (including their World Championship year of 1960) and his wife's name was Donna.
@@wholeNwon There are a few books out today that discuss her role in trying to learn who actually did kill JFK. It is called, I believe, The Reporter who Knew too Much. I don't remember the author.
Carl Sandburg, if SNL were planning to do a comedy sketch around a poet stereotype, they'd use Sandburg as a model. With that idiosyncratic hairdo, so consciously affected, what other line of work could this man be in?!
His two volume Lincoln bio was panned by critics as "mythologizing" but its still great. His poetry is barely read anymore, he wrote too much, but a few things are ok. Love his hair, great looking old guy.
+What's My Line? I've become curious about something. There have been some comments, particularly in the early years, regarding the panel paying in case they lost. I had assumed this was a joke, and that Goodson Todman paid. But another comment was made relatively recently in the show's history about making the guest panelist pay, and I've been wondering: it can't actually be that the panel paid when they lost, could it? I know that all of them were rich people, but over the years they would have lost a huge amount of money. Could anyone possibly clarify as to who it was who paid when the panel lost?
You may have confused WML with another Goodson Todman game called The Name’s the Same. On that show panelists who did not identify the contestant’s famous name wrote a check to the contestant for $25. But this was a gimmick; it was G-T who paid the prizes. On WML, no panelists paid anything. All WML contestants received the full $50; the scoring was just a gimmick.
All he predicted was that the winner would have a luxurious head of hair. Eisenhower, the current president, was bald by then, so either candidate, Nixon and Kennedy, fit the prediction.
Well, maybe it wasn't that difficult to guess, but C. Sandburg's "prophecy" about which candidate who would win the election in November that year was right. John F. Kennedy became the 35th President of U.S.A. January 20th 1961.
SuperWinterborn I'm not 100% sure, but John Daly's relieved reaction and the laughter from the panel after Carl Sandburg stated his "prophecy" makes me think this wasn't really much of a prediction at all. I think the joke was that, compared to then-President Eisenhower, both candidates had "luxuriant heads of hair." However, I looked up some images of Nixon in 1960, and his hairline was definitely receding already, so maybe Mr. Sandburg was being doubly coy and less impartial than he seemed?
SaveThe TPC One thing is for sure; Sandburg were pointing at Kennedy as the winner, and he was for sure also a Democrat, like most of the intellectuals were, and still are. Of course it wasn't meant as a "prophesy", more like a statement of opinion and hope. Concerning Daly's relieved reaction; He wasn't too pleased, when some on the panel or a guest, tried to express political views, and was relieved, when all were laughing, as it had been a joke, which it wasn't, just told in a harmless tone. Bennett has often made remarks about the "working man's rights" etc, and Daly has always cut him off by starting a chat about something completely different. (I'm quite sure most of the panel were left-winged, but Daly? Well... Could be both, or wished to be non-political -- He would in any way, have made the perfect Diplomat) Anyway, in 1960 there was a close race between Kennedy and Nixon, and no one could be sure about the result the last weeks before the election.
Bennett Cerf: Nice work if you can get it. 4:25 17:40 One of the strangest patterns in all WML. Dorothy Kilgallen got it into her head that Casey Stengl is about to appear as a mystery guest, so she deviced an iron-clad only-Dorothy-knows question to identify him. Stengel apparently studied dentistry at one time. She asked EVERY mystery guest for weeks that d@^^ dentistry question until she must have provoked comment in the tabloid columns. This was only one of several signs that she went off the trolley in this period. In a few months -- January 1961 -- she was off the show for several taping sessions and live broadcast while hospitalized for substance abuse.
By a crazy coincidence, when Dorothy Kilgallen returned to the show after her stint in the hospital as the mystery guest on the February 5, 1961 episode, one of the civvie contestants really was a dentist.
Why would "Uncle Miltie" pretend like he wanted to slug Nick Adams for asking if he was Ernest Hemingway ? I don't understand why he would be offended by such a question. Baffling....
finds it ignorant, when audience members applaud, just, for the "on the right "track" guesses, thereby, interfering, with normal game-play. I trust the offenders were ejected, from the theatre/ theater.
Just my humble opinion ..Two people on this panel were murdered : Dorothy Kilgallen and Nick Adams .. both murdered for knowing too much 😔.😭😠.📯✝️☯️🛐🔎📖🔍
Don't you just love the bow in Dorothy's hair in this episode? I truly don't. I also think it wasn't a practical choice given the type of blindfold she had with those long satin ties that went right over the hair bow.
Carl Sandburg's star has fallen quite a bit over the years. His biography of Lincoln used to be considered a standard reference but now it is viewed more as fiction. Of course, author bias has ruined many a biography. It has been said that other than John Wilkes Booth, no one did more damage to Lincoln than Carl Sandburg.
Markxxx - I doubt that either was a junkie. Dorothy was killed because she, after years of dogged research, got too close to discovering who killed JFK. As for Bennett, I doubt he was a junkie; too many positive books and articles written about him.
+poetcomic1 It was face palm time during the second MG round when the panel had established that they were trying to guess a famous comedian and Adams guessed Sir Lawrence Olivier!
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