What's My Line? - Carol Channing & Ginger Rogers; Lucille Ball; M Douglas [panel] (Jul 25, 1965) 

I happened to be on the same flight as Ms. Channing around 2016 from Seattle to Boston. They Announced her name with her permission I assume, and a few people clapped, but I was so giddy in the back of the plane. She was the white queen in the 1980s Alice in Wonderland and that was my first time seeing her, as a child. Later when we landed, I saw her being pushed by an assistant in a wheelchair, and I got up the gumption to go over and thank her and tell her her impact. She was so gracious and grabbed my hand, smiled so sweetly, and said with that signature, voice “oh, thank you, dear!”What an absolute legend.

RIP Carol Channing January 31, 1921 - January 15, 2019 She brought so much pleasure to so many people.

The more I see of Carol Channing the more I love her. I don't mind her talking all the time, she has a natural "joie de vivre" that makes me very happy. :)

Lucy's voice is so recognizable.

Lucille Ball was gorgeous...

I had the privilege in the 80's of meeting Miss Channing. I worked at an answering service and she needed help with something off premises with ok of my boss. Great fun and funny. I miss her every now and again when I'm in the neighborhood.

There were some great women on the show tonight- Lucy, Arlene,Dorothy, Ginger, and Carol. Amazing talent. Love them all. I was born in the 70s , so they were a bit before my time. I love WML. I’m so glad there are people who take the time to create RU-vid channels like these so we of the younger generations get to see these wonderful performers. I watch these with my kids , who also enjoy them. I hope they will appreciate these entertainers too. Thank you so much for uploading these.

They always guess Lucy cuz we all know the sound of her voice even when she tries to disguise her voice.

Lucy walks like a supermodel, tall, poised and elegant. She was so so so beautiful, an extremely angelic face.

Stunning Lucille Ball, by the this time in 1965, she was the most powerful woman in Hollywood and one of the most powerful women in the United States, Co-founder of DESILU STUDIOS which employed 800 people.

I STILL love Lucy....

Amazing women - Carol, Ginger and Lucille. Lucy acknowledges the upper deck of the audience. I've never seen a guest to that. So very comfortable on any stage - smooth.

Carol Channing & Ginger Rogers were friends with Lucille Ball. In fact, I wouldn't doubt that all three of them mingled with each other, just hours before the show went on the air that night.

Ginger Rogers saved Lucy's career. Ginger, who was a real big star, told RKO not to release Lucy because Lucy was part of an acting study group under Ginger's mother.

I saw Carol Channing in Hello Dolly one night and Pearl Bailey the next night- both were great. Cab calloway was too outstanding to believe!

i miss Lucy....and Bea Arthur. i remember watching both on TV with my grandmother. Everytime i think of Gramma i remember Lucy and Bea.Evrytime i see Lucy or Bea i think of Gramma. Three wonderful women.

Imagine to look as beautiful and young as Ginger Rogers looks here - she was 54!!

Lucy's vocal disguise bears close resemblance to the 1964 "Lucy Show" Nightmare episode where she gets turned into a witch. It also bears close resemblance to the voice she used in 1952 in I Love Lucy "The Operetta." One of the 15 most funny things Lucy ever did in TV, the operetta in question had a chorus line of heavyweight New York matrons masquerading as Ruritarian peasant virgins. When the performance breaks down, Lucy get to use that voice to say stuff like "Go away, this is not your cue" and "Well, go take a STAB at it!"

Lucy looked so gorgeous with this hairstyle here. She wore it only a couple of times on her 1960s "Lucy Show" program she was appearing in at the time of this installment. I think it would've given her character a whole new dimension and look especially in its last half of color seasons. :)

Three powerhouses in one night! Carol, Ginger and Lucy!

I love how Lucy walks up to John to shake hands. Not really "feminine" or daintily like Carol and Ginger, but so authoritative and commanding like she's meeting RKO executives. I love it. Ahead of her time in so many ways.

Dorothy: Well either you are or you aren’t Ginger Rogers. She had a point, notwithstanding Carol was also the mystery guest.

Over the span of 47 years, Arlene Francis appeared in 23 original plays on Broadway (as well as 3 revivals), beginning with the 13-performance flop "La Gringa" (by Tom Cushing) in February of 1928, and ending with the 1-performance huge flop "Don't Call Back" (by Russell O'Neil) on Tuesday, 18 March 1975. In fact, of those 23 original plays in which Arlene Francis was in the cast (most of them as a featured player or a star), only FOUR can be said to have had a long enough run to be called a Broadway "success," those being: Clare Boothe's "The Women" (Ethel Barrymore Theatre; 26 December 1936 through July of 1938; 657 performances), in which Arlene played Princess Tamara and Helene; Joseph Fields's "The Doughgirls" (Lyceum Theatre; 30 December 1942 through 29 July 1944; 671 performances), in which Arlene played Natalia Chodorov; Vincent Lawrence's "The Overtons" (Booth Theatre, 6 February 1945 through 10 March 1945; Forrest Theatre, 12 March 1945 through 23 June 1945; National Theatre, 25 June 1945 through 7 July 1945; 175 total performances), in which Arlene played Cora Overton; and Harry Kurnitz's "Once More, With Feeling" (National Theatre; 21 October 1958 through 6 June 1959; 263 performances), in which Arlene played Dolly Fabian. (Two of the three revivals in which Arlene Francis was in the case were successes, too - though the late 1966 revival of Kaufman and Hart's "Dinner at Eight" (in which Arlene would play Carlotta Vance) was apparently a limited run (only 127 performances in a little under 4 months), and Arlene played Aunt Alicia for only the last two weeks of the 1973-74 revival of "Gigi" (replacing Agnes Moorehead).)

lucille was very beautiful that night, the dress and her hairstyle make her look beautiful.

Ginger Rogers and Lucille Ball were in the same movie, Stage Door in 1937. They are also distant cousins.

Carol Channing has always been a favorite of mine, because she is such an original. She is always optimistic and engaging, with boundless energy. She is going strong at the age of 97, with energy to spare. Keep it going on, Carol. You rock.

And, yet again, Lucille Ball in a stunning sartorial ensemble! Love the slit skirt!

Mike Douglas was a great daytime talk show host

Love This Show

“Eddie the fabulous fudge packer. “LOL

She can never fool the panel cause she was so famous, much loved

Lucy was the most powerful female producer/performer on TV: powerful enough to break Fates's rule of one appearance as mystery guest per year. She used her appearance primarily to inform her audience that "the Lucy Show" time slot was changing in 1965-66 season. The show was changing in 2 major ways -- Vivian Vance was leaving the cast; and the whole concept was moving from Danfield New York to West Hollywood.

Man if only she was still around so Ryan Stiles can do more impressions of her.. she was a beauty

Lucy was 54 here. One forgets how beautiful she was because she was always clowning around.

Ginger and Lucy were friends since way back.in RKO days. In 1934-35. Lucy was in Roberta, Top Hat and Follow the Fleet long before Stage Door with Ginger. Lucy was coached by Gingers mom LeLa

As of December 3, 2018 Carol Channing is still going strong at 97!

Lucy's response at 19:00 cracks me up!

The mystery guests were unusually successful in disguising their voices in this episode. In the first mystery guest segment, Carol Channing and Ginger Rogers sounded so similar that the panel members couldn't tell that there was more than one mystery guest until Dorothy Kilgallen could not get a straight answer to the question, "Are you Ginger Rogers". In the second mystery guest segment, Lucille Ball was so good at using a variety of voices that Bennett Cerf asked, "Is there more than one mystery guest."

13:47 I realize Dorothy thought it might be a casket. Still, a chilling question from her that comes less than 4 months before her death.

Lucille Ball was one of the greatest entertainers of all time Period!!!!!

Miss Lucy can't really disguise that voice.

I love these shows, as I'm familiar with most of the special guests, and they're so entertaining. They put a smile on my face, and there are a good few laughs as a bonus. In fact, I have more laughs during this series than I do from modern comedy- most of which fails to even raise a smile. Though I wouldn't want to go back to those times there are aspects that I miss. What a pity there's nothing like this nowadays.

I can now put fudge on my veggies list!

I really like this host and Miss Arlene 💕💕💕

Whoa. Great wild guess from Dorothy. This would also be the last time Dorothy and Carol Channing would see each other, face-to-face.

Lucy's signature is DIVINE.

Carol Channing lived to be 97 years old, almost 98.

When I saw Michael Douglas, I though whoa! But Mike is good!

i think I'm in love with Ginger

I'm sure that there will be more mentions of "Mrs. Dally Has A Lover" in the next couple of months, but anyway..... Eventually, "Mrs. Dally" (as it was titled by the time the play made its way to Broadway), by William Hanley, would open at the John Golden Theatre on Wednesday, 22 September 1965, after a week's worth of previews on Broadway. It ran for only 53 performances before closing 5-and-a-half weeks later, on Saturday, 6 November 1965. Arlene Francis played Evalyn; Robert Forster played Frankie; and Ralph Meeker played Sam. "Mrs. Dally" was produced by Martin Gabel. The production was staged by Joseph Anthony, with sets and lighting designed by David Hays and costumes designed by Ann Roth. (The play must have been written a couple of years previous, because playwright William Hanley was awarded the 1963 Vernon Rice Award by "Drama Desk" for his authorship of the play.)

This was the year that Ginger appeared in the wonderful Leslie Anne Warren version of Cinderella.

Lucy the Queen of everything......Loved her...

I can’t believe they didn’t get Lucy on the first word. They were so full 😅n life not like me where Lucy plays 24/7 365 in my house.

c 13:40 >> the audience found Dorothy's coffin allusion funny. Today, given what we know, it is now down-right eery.

Ha haaa I don't think I would've bought a ticket to see Hello Dolly after hearing their singing voices here. :)

The older I get the more I realize what a knockout Miss Channing was.

That's the voice she used when she said Risky Riskardo on I Love Lucy

I hate it when people assume Dorothy was drunk or what ever, I loved her and wish people would remember she was human and she may have grandchildren who watch and read this

I also wouldn't doubt that Lucy was a last-minute replacement. Remember, there was a policy regarding mystery guest appearances. Lucy appeared more times as MG, than anyone else on WML. And it's good to see that all six of them exist.

Old Bennett smiles real big when he gets kissed by the ladies 😁

When Channing appeared on the 21 February broadcast and nearly upended the whole show, she wore - in Bennett’s immortal words - the damndest outfit ever seen on WML to that point. Here she is wearing the d@^ outfit or some close variation of it.

Dorothy has been quite brilliant throughout this season, this episode is no exception, but her speech is getting notably slow again. So sad.

Bet they had fun in the Green Room that night

Ginger does not look 54 here! Neither does Lucy for that matter.

You can tell that's Lucy 🤣

She command it.

Much has been said about the less than satisfying portrayal of Mame that Lucy brought to the screen. Seeing these three women together, it occurs to me how much better suited Lucy would have been to "Hello Dolly!" and has me regretting that she didn't play that role instead.

And so we come to the end of live episodes of WML for the 1964-1965 season. Next, we'll be seeing the six episodes that they had been banking since February 1965: August 01, 1965/February 28, 1965: DK, Tony Randall, AF, BC (Mystery Guest: Jill St. John) August 08, 1965/March 21, 1965: AF, Martin Gabel, Carol Channing, BC (Mystery Guest: Olivia de Havilland) August 15, 1965/April 11, 1965: AF, Tony Randall, Anita Gillette, BC (Mystery Guest: Allan Sherman) August 22, 1965/May 23, 1965: AF, Alan King, DK, BC (Mystery Guest: Steve Lawrence) August 29, 1965/June 13, 1965: AF, SA, DK, BC (Mystery Guest: Betty Grable) September 05, 1965/May 02, 1965: DK, Robert Q. Lewis, AF, BC (Mystery Guest #1: Miss Vonda Kay Van Dyke) (Mystery Guest #2: Allen Ludden & Betty White)

I don’t understand how they didn’t get Lucy, especially after that “schertainly”

The sauna guy looks just like somebody who is tantalizingly familiar.

I love Dorothy

I just don't enjoy any episodes after Dorothy died. I think the show only lasted 2 more years, until 67

Miss Thailand won that '65 Miss Universe contest. Finland and USA were the runners up

Now it's my turn to nitpick an answer! They answered "no" to the question if a sauna can be found on water. While it's not the most common placement of one, I don't find it strange to see one built on a raft in a sea. But I guess saunas are more common here than over in the US, and the no answer was probably correct for the time and place.

The caption explaining what a sauna bath is wrote that it's a Finnish dry heat device. I thought that the whole point was the humid heat coming from pouring water over hot stones, so dry is the last thing the heat would be. The panel members seemed to confirm this by guessing 'steam bath' before 'sauna'. What do I know - I only tried a sauna once.

I know the rule for calendar year appearances by MG sometimes resulted in someone having two quite close together. I think Lucy was on recently (or was that during our most recent retrospective)? What was the closest together that one MG had a spot?

Sadly, Lucy wasn't able to disguise her voice well enough. Miss her in this crazy world.

Fudge is a vegetable? I wish. 😂

Ginger and Carol "put RKO studios out of business" with their awful movie, The First Traveling Saleslady. Then Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz bought up the the former RKO studios for Desilu. Funny coincidence all three ladies appeared on this one episode.

$1200 in 1965 is $10,242 in 2017 dollars.

I'm a girl, and I admit Ginger Rogers was hot AF even in her 60s

Carol Channing looks prety here.

The funny thing about the Sing Sing prison football team pun is that Sing Sing actually once HAD a football team that played semipro teams. Check out the story in THE NATIONAL FORGOTTEN LEAGUE, by Dan Daly.

Within 3 months of this airing, Kilgallen would be dead. I remember, yet I was only in the 5th grade.

Lucy was on twice in 1965? I wonder why.

There goes Arlene yet again, asking guests to perform live.

SO pretty. She did the witches voice back from the I Love Lucy days

18:06 did Lucy just throw her voice?!?! 😮

The fudge maker looks quite a bit like young Peter Gabel.

I LOVE LUCILLE!

Mike Douglas' top ten single came out around this time, I believe.

Mike Douglas was on the air with his own show before Johnny Carson, in 1961. But I don't know if he was syndicated at that time. Anyone know about this? Was he in Cleveland, then Philly and then Los Angeles? I'm thinking Dayton too, but maybe I'm getting him mixed up with Phil Donohue.

Again Lucy's hair looks really nice on this show. It's a little more smooth and sleek compared to those tight dated looking curls they always seemed to keep her in. Regardless of the hair Lucy was always a very beautiful woman!

18:04 is funny 😂

Lucy couldn"t stump the panel if her life depended on it!

Hasn't Carol Channing worn that sailor suit before? My God! Wearing the same thing twice! Ginger Rogers had just turned 54 there, and I thought she looked good.

We had manners then. 😢🌹

After Ginger replaced Carol in Hello Dolly, did Miss Channing go on tour with the show? That is kind of how it works isn't it?

Wait wait, how on earth is fudge a vegetable?

Fudge is a vegetable?