She was secretary-treasurer Colorado Democratic Sustaining Fund, 1959-1960; Democratic precinct committeewomen, Platteville; vice chairman Weld County Democratic Committee, Colorado Democratic Committee, 1948-1961, so I guess she had connections too.
Arlene looks marvelous here ( as always). I love her style. Dorothy looks great too. Both of those women were so classy and intelligent. I love that they each had their own style. I also love watching not only to be entertained but to see what the ladies will be wearing.
Her daughter, Blanche Baker, is, to me, proof that, in the performing arts, the apple more often that not falls quite far from the tree. She's not even close to the actress that her mother was back in the day.....
Rarely will you see the ladies on the panel stand to shake someone's hand. Mrs. Miller, the Superintendent of the U.S. Mint obviously was important enough to warrant such respect
+Galileocan g Has more to do with her age. The only time I've seen the women on the panel stand for a guest is when it 's an older woman, or a member of the clergy.
The first time I saw Carroll Baker was when she starred with Arnold Schwarzenegger in "Kindergarten Cop". She was the Mother of the main villain (played by Richard Tyson) in that film.
Some mystery guests want to be identified; others want to bamboozle the panel. [ 18:43 ] Obvious she is delighted to be recognized. And a kisser, too, in a great gown. What's not to love about Carroll?
Mathew Fullerton Whose comment? Whoever's it was....it was meant to be funny and most probably was. You have to lighten up to enjoy these things. The panellists and Daly pull each other's legs all the time. Meanwhile the pun on 'corn' by the person here was a pretty good one.....and this is coming from a Bennett Cerf fan!!
I always thought Bennett was a Ham and Cheese kinda guy, and would think that he would have been more onto *CULTURE.* 😆 Great marketing gig for yogurt guy.
Carol Baker was great in How the West Was Won and as Arnie's antagonist's mom in Kindergarten Cop! Crap, Bennett Cerf nailed it and I forgot all about The Carpet Baggers which is weird considering George Peppard is one of my very favorite actors.
She did a good job of disguising it for a while, though - until she let more than a bit of her natural tone slip in answering Tony Randall the second time around.
Her eyes are also absolutely piercing when you meet her. I was able to get her to autograph her autobiography after an interview at a showing of”Baby Doll” about ten years ago. As she was signing the book, I mentioned she had sent me an autograph with a nice note years before which I treasured, and she looked up with a baby-blue gaze that was distracting. I could see why she stood out from others in her field- add in her talent, and a fruitful career as a glamorous star was a given.
Carroll Baker was a beautiful woman! Her makeup was perfect and her hair was very pretty. I can see why so many men found her so attractive. No, I'm not a Lesbian. I just like to comment when a woman does her makeup just the right way. Too many actresses overdo their makeup, especially their eye makeup and their eyebrows.
The woman in charge of the Denver US Mint that produces coin money was asked if it was true small coins were in short supply. Who would have predicted an American future where money, coins as well as paper, would be in less use replaced by credit cards? Not much use for pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters anymore. In 1964, a cup of coffee cost 10 cents as did an ice cream cone. Those days long over.
The Mint, the President, and others lied to the American people in 1964 about the reasons for shortages of coins. 1964 was the last year in which the US Mint produced small coins that were 90% silver. People were hoarding the coins because due to inflation that the government did not want to admit existed, the silver in the coin was worth more than the face value of the coin. The Mint produced 40% silver coins beginning in 1965 and the percentage was reduced to miniscule amounts by 1970. People born in the 1960s can remember during our childhoods seeing many coins from 1965 but none from earlier years except pennies.
I use cash quite often even though I have a debit card. I wouldn't say that cash isn't used much anymore. No way! A lot of people use cash quite often.
Lost in all the discussion about the lady Denver mint superintendent and the coin shortage is the fact that the very next year, silver coins would no longer be 100% silver; they would have copper interiors. I remember in school, we passed around our "New" quarters & dimes with much interest. Little did we know.........
At the end, yet another example of how tactless Bennett could be. Oh, shut up. On the other hand, it is interesting in the fourth game to see the president of what would become within a decade maybe the biggest yogurt company in America. Whoever came up with the idea of putting fruit in yogurt and placing it in individual containers was some kind of genius. The sack lunch was never the same.
+soulierinvestments Yes, Bennett seems to make tactless comments on occasion and consistently mispronounces words so sometimes you wonder just how smart he is. I know he's a successful publisher, but we all know people that just happened to be in the right place at the right time and are successful in spite of themselves. Sometimes I think there's a chance Bennett could fit into that category.
It's been 52 years since this broadcast and I still know people who won't get near yogurt. In 1964, the popular culture (pardon the pun) back then saw yogurt as obscure and not part of a normal diet. Thankfully, we have evolved to benefit from it in a majority of households. :-)
Carroll Baker (2022) Born: May 28, 1931 (age 91 years). Baker was mainly based in Palm Springs, California, throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. As of 2016, she resides in New York City.
The coin shortage conversation is interesting because the year this aired (64) was the last year that the the USA made regular coins out of mostly silver… I wonder if that was generally known by the public at the time of this recording and if that was a big factor in the shortage 🤔
Baby Doll all Grown Up. Carroll Baker during her Levine period. The year before, she was one of the reasons to see "How the West was Won," where her character eventually winds up owning a farm on the banks of the Ohio River. Stunning picture with a great score and monumental scenery behind the action, but very hard to see in its original format. "The Carpetbaggers" producer Joseph E Levine was involved in quite a few good movies -- "The Graduate" and "The Lion in Winter" come to mind. He also made a lot of glorious shlock -- "Santa Claus vs The Martians" and the imported "Godzilla" for example.. As I recall The Carpetbaggers was not about reconstruction.
soulierinvestments Levine was involved with "Santa Claus Vs The Martians"? I had no idea. I've seen that many times with the MST3k treatment. I have tremendous respect for the cinematic stamina of anyone who could sit through it any other way.
What's My Line? Levine was also the man who brought Godzilla to America when he bought the distribution rights to the first movie and then redid it for the American market with the new scenes with Raymond Burr intercut with the Japanese original.
Let's just say that THE CARPETBAGGERS was to Howard Hughes as CITIZEN KANE was to William Randolph Hearst. I've seen it, and I like it very much, and Carroll Baker's performance in it is very, very good.
Dorothy is still in her high-waist empire gown period, which probably lead to my mother speculating in 1964 she was pregnant. Not at 50 she wasn't, Mom. Pretty dress in Dorothy's best late period.
Years later, Carroll Baker would gain a loyal cult following from fans of European B-Movies, when she starred in a ton of Italian films for nearly a decade. They were mostly of the Giallo and Horror genres. For the unaware "Giallo Films" are what the Italians call "Mystery Films".
The woman Superintendent of the Denver U.S. Mint didn't have a "product". She provided a "service" to a government department responsible for creating the currency.
For the life of me, I can't figure how Bennett got to the Mint straight away. It didn't seem like there was anything in previous answers to lead him there. Was Denver particularly noted for minting coins in 1964?
Bennett seemed to specialize in knowing about a prominent industry or institution in just about every city. There are only a few mint facilities around the country and I think Denver's is pretty well known. But I agree it was a particularly shrewd, or lucky, guess!
+The Gadget Panda It does seem a leap, especially since Mrs. Miller says she's from Platteville, which Bennett may or may not have known is about 25 miles from Denver proper. Still, Denver was and is known for its mint. Currently Denver and Philadelphia are the only two US mint facilities producing coins for general circulation; any coin with a "D" next to the date was born in Denver. (San Francisco and West Point also have mints, but these are currently only used for proof sets and commemoratives and such.)
Knowing the mint facilities might have just been something Bennett picked up, I’ve known it since 8th grade when we studied the Bureau of Printing and Engraving, along with the mint. I think the roundabout response on sports and games led Bennett to think of gambling and thus money
I love your remark!!!! I can't eat yogurt because it causes excruciating pain in my stomach because I have scoliosis. I get so sick and tired of so many people praising yogurt and saying what a good food it is. They think that they're so smart, but they aren't. Experts several years ago said that prebiotics are much healthier than probiotics are. In fact, these experts said that people should stop consuming so many probiotics because they are doing damage to the body. That's good that you hate yogurt.
Speaking of bulls, it's too bad that they never had an AI technician. That would have been hilarious - especially if the contestant was asked if they milked the animal.
One of the things I wish they would have not done on this show was to tell the panel whether it was a service or a product. They should have figured that out on their own with their questions.
Take a look at some episodes from the 1950s. The ladies stood for Ethel Barrymore - and they most definitely stood for Eleanor Roosevelt. And those are just the two that pop into my mind most readily; both Dorothy and Arlene had stood for ladies before. (Dorothy also stood when Bishop Sheen was Mystery Guest - and when they had a nun on (in full habit) whose line was as "barber").
In further thinking about that, they might have stood because of what she'd accomplished.. or even more likely, her donation to the JFK library. His passing was still quite recent and must have stirred quite a bit of emotion.
Jerry Richard Jr. - No, the women on the panel tended to stand to greet those of exceptional accomplishment, like a Frank Lloyd Wright or Eleanor Roosevelt. My guess is that it related to her achievement in a time when women did not hold those positions. There were older men and women for whom they did not stand. They had huge respect for genuine service in a profession or military/religious that was not so much for personal gain. Mrs. Miller had a long record of public service and accomplishment for the common good, which would have been among the things considered, of course, in her getting the position she held.
Domesticated just means raised and kept for profit or for some sort of human use. Steers, bulls, cows as well as hogs and sheep are often wild but kept in farms.
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