MYSTERY GUEST: Carol Channing PANEL: Dorothy Kilgallen, Robert Q. Lewis, Arlene Francis, Bennett Cerf ---------------------------------------- New Facebook group for WML! / 728471287199862
What would all of these wonderful people think of our cell phones today??? Along with texting, etc.????? Love Dorothy's sweet little giggle!!! A great loss.
My late father rode an elevator with Carol Channing and her security escort once when she visited Alanta, GA. He considered it his "brush with greatness".
I can never see Carol Channing without thinking of Ryan Stiles' impressions of her on Whose Line Is It Anyway. Him doing Channing quoting Clint Eastwood's "Do you feel lucky? Well do you punk?" was comedy gold.
I still have a touch-tone phone, and no cell phone!! I went to the World's Fair when I was 12 or 13 and remember the picture phones. I talked with someone on the West Coast, and we could see each other. I'm glad that never caught on, and as you've probably guessed, I don't have Skype.
When this was videotaped, "Hello Dolly!" had just started its run. By the time CBS broadcast it in summer, it had settled into its long run. Channing did the show so many times, we think of it in terms of her; but when Merrick started casting his work in progress "Dolly: a damned exasperating woman" AKA "Call on Dolly" then finally titled a few weeks before opening "Hello Dolly!" , he thought in terms of Ethel Merman or Mary Martin and then later in terms of Carol Channing. AT this stage, she must think how did I ever live without it? Channing is now in her 90s.
I saw Carol Channing in the original production. As great as she was, she wasn't NEARLY as great as Pearl Bailey in the all-Black production. That was marvelous!
Yes, I tried it at the Fair in 1964. I was eight, so was old enough to have experience using rotary dial phones, and it was clearly a great step forward in convenience. As a budding musician, too, I remember how dissonant the pairs of tones sounded -- not like any intervals in our musical scale. Later, as an engineer, I understood why the system was designed that way; it was easier for the phone company equipment to pick out the individual tones if they didn't fit into a "chord" musically speaking. And decades of familiarity with the tones has made them sound much less weird than they did to me back then.
Yeah its true -- I am old enough to remember using the dial phones, either on the desk or on the wall. Some in colors, most black, all heavy equipment. In this period Western Electric made two huge developments in phones: touch tone buttons to signal the phone number and Trimline phones, which put the buttons in the receiver. The Trimline phone with the buttons. My favorite landline phone of all. Both mid 1960s innovations.
This was about the year my sister got a 'Princess' phone - she was 15 and loved it. The 'Trimline' first came out with a dial in the receiver and later buttons. Back in 1964 you could only get phones through the phone company - that changed in the '70s.
I have dial princess fone I use in my garage just to receive calls. Too cumbersome to dial! This was a fun mystery guest talking about the new technology. I would have guessed touchtone fones were 5 or so years later. They were very expensive to rent (yes, all fones were owned by the fone co and rented) for many years and most homes didn't have them until the late 70s. You had to pay extra for touch tone service. I remember my friends thinking we were rich in the 70s because we had a touch tone fone and a color TV in the den!
I am responding to an old thread, but I still have ( plugged in) a princess phone by the bed... still stylish and retro. Those things were built to last forever. Bought it from the phone company in 1982
I am sorry to read the criticism of Bennett Cerf. He was a great Panelist. He also gave a useful interview about the program that other commentators have attached to other videos of this show, which explained a lot of how panelists guessed contestants.
I think the criticism is well deserved. I heard Cerf's wife had knowledge of the contestants beforehand and would feed him the "lines" on occasion. It appears to be true the way he "luckily" guesses...my admiration for him as dimmed as he is essentially cheating.
I find that seems to happen fairly often. Then I get to thinking that maybe it's because I don't want the show to end? Nevertheless, I agree that it would have been interesting.
9:41 Dorothy "Does it make any sort of sound when it's working, or does whatever it does" It's a telephone, the dang thing rings when it's working, and John says it doesn't by giving Dorothy a NO! Sometimes that man is just stupid, and ticks me off! Love you John! 😁👍😎✌
That its abbreviation was the same as Mr didn't help...there was no need for a disguise for male marital status,a qv of Ms,therefore I kinda like it...was it used for older unmarried men too??🎩
One of the amusing things I've seen recently was a couple of teenage kids attempting to find out how a dial telephone worked. They were totally baffled.
Chris Barat Yes, as ***** pointed out in another post, below, this episode was actually taped in February. They sure did make a lot of jokes about the supposed summer heat, humidity and skin-burning sunshine. Obviously they knew at the time that this episode would be scheduled to air in August. I wonder if some people watching it on TV when it first aired believed it was live.
That is indeed a good question of the last product, is it cheap? Cheap to get yes, expensive on what you do with it, and that is why I would never be Daily, I would give away way too much info.
For being one of the more literate people of his time and so closely associated with the Random House Dictionary, he certainly fit many of his spoken words into The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations by Charles Harrington Elster.
The telephone manufacturer didn't know that one day, like Miss Kilgallen asked, this question would be in the affirmative, phones would be on the person, Lol!
In 1964 if Dorothy walked down 5th Avenue with a telephone she would be conspicuous. Now, in 2020 if you walk down 5th Avenue without a MASK...oh, boy! Call the cops!
I only started wearing a mask last week and that's only because it became mandatory, but I only wear them in the grocery store and the place I volunteer at. There is no WAY I'm gonna let the government control me by having me wear them when I'm out walking!
Miss Frances was right, you could sit on or lie on your phone in the not too distant future. Especially if it's in your pocket like some people carry it. Or if you fall asleep with it near you. Not a good idea but I see some people do. If they only knew.
8:00- If this was the mid to late 80's instead of 1964, Dorothy wouldn't be wrong. She might've gotten a qualified yes. By then, people did have phones on their person.
I was thinking that, too! Most people only had one fone (legally) in their home because you paid for each fone you had. Some people managed to get (steal?) extra fones and use them in other rooms. I remember stories long ago of fone repairmen telling me in the "old days" they'd recall going to houses and hearing bells 'jingle' while people ran to hide their fones once they realized who was at the door!
What's My Line? Gary, I don't know if you realize it, but the way you have posted the title of this video makes it look as if Carol Channing is a guest panelist. I'm guessing that this oversight has something to do with your aversion to mentioning the actual guest panelist. ;)
I saw Hello Dolly in London Eng. and wasn't impressed with it. Possibly the choice of Carol Channing made it popular in New York but none of the cast stood out in the London production.
Sarasota, Florida connected to a water sport. Not a difficult stretch, especially when the door had already been opened to his line having something to do with sports.
I think Mr. Cerf's general knowledge of U.S. geography has helped him guess correctly, or at least get the ball rolling, on many occasions. (But didn't help him with his French pronunciation).
Dorothy looks bombed out of her mind. She is clearly all giggly and laughing at the start and by the end, she is like 23:00 she is slurring her words almost
