What's My Line? - Charles Coburn (Aug 2, 1953) [UPGRADE!] 

She was so deadpan, she was almost catatonic. She sure kept everyone in the studio amused.

She was so taciturn and reserved (a product of her deep Southern upbringing, no doubt) you almost couldn't hear her. THIS to me is the definition of "charming." One of the sweetest young women I've ever seen or heard in any venue. If all women in the South had her personality and character, that would be the ONLY thing that would entice me to move to the South.

@@bluecamus5162 She reminded me of Steven Wright!

Yes, and she said that she was scared and still managed to pull that bar joke. Wunderbar!

Candy Sheridan was born Juanita Frech in Paris, Tennessee. She got the name Candy due to her looks. Was originally married to a Mr Lee. Married in Charleston, he worked in Charleston and Memphis until they moved to Galena, Alaska. She started work than as a weatherwoman with a GS-3 rating. Worked there until her husband was killed in a hunting accident, at which point she returned with her son to Tennessee. At the time of the show she was married to a Mr Sheridan, an aircraft communications specialist with the Civil Aeronautics Administration (precursor the FAA), and as stated in the show currently stationed at Nantucket now at a GS-5. Her duties included sending helium air balloons to 100,000 ft where in her words "Boom! They explode.", and drawing weather maps. --- paraphrasing from "The New Yorker" December 19, 1953 pp 21-22.

Adorable. More personality than many 'professionals" I think she takes her work and southern heritage with . I just move to the South and people down here still do. The PC police will be out protesting Weather MAN, but in those days man meant mankind and was respectful.

The US weatherman was great. I loved her accent. It was true that the designation "man" did apply to both sexes, yes, as in "mankind." Female flyers in the military are still called "airmen." Depending on the branch of service.

I love her! Very drôle.

@@shirleyrombough8173 Being old enough to have been alive to watch the originals and being a language major, I fear that the situation with "man" was a double-edged sword at the time. While it is true that the "nature of man" generally meant mankind because it was a social science, if not hard science construct, the names airman, mailman, fireman, etc., did not really. The armed services were not anticipating women warriors, so had not prepared to call people simply flyers or sailors, etc. Likewise, mail carriers and firefighters had not been considered because few outside of the feminist movement had anticipated women doing such jobs regularly. Paid work of certain types was for men and others for women. So, WML continues to utilize job descriptions such as male nurse or lady barber or lady butcher or lady cop or male secretary, when each of those lines of work was adequately described without the modifier noting the sex of the worker in front of it. The airman and similar designations in the military were retained, at least for a time, because it was too cumbersome and expensive to change all the tons of paperwork before knowing how the experiment with women in such posts would work out. My father was a supply officer in the Navy and an economics professor at a university, so knew of these things. He shared when questioned because they had not occurred to him as odd. I, personally, think the name of the job should describe the tasks being done while never strangulating the language. That became a bit of a problem for a period of time after these had aired with all sorts of lengthy descriptions that tagged either "man" or "woman" onto the end. It got silly. One who fishes is a fisher. Sufficient. It's even in the Bible. I suspect that meteorologists always had trouble with "weathermen" being assumed to be meteorologists when they were merely weather readers. I understood from one in my city that this designation was accidental because at the TV channels and radio stations they were all talking heads, whether hard news, sports, society gossip, weather, and they read the news in their area or predictions that came over the wires from those in the field they handled. So, when even folks at home began calling weather readers (before there were actual meteorologists in those jobs) merely weathermen it stuck because back in my friend's day they were all men. It was before the attractive busty blonde phase and the phases following it. So there's midshipman and there's sailor. One costs a lot of money to fix.

Instantly brings back the movie Gone with the wind!!😊

Of all the seasons, Candy Sheridan is my favorite challenger too.

If you look up her name there’s a small piece in The New Yorker about her. Somewhat sad as well.

Kate Luxor I thought Steven Allen was serious and deadpan, Sheridan girl has him beat !!!

Kate Luxor With all respect I have to chime in, Kate. I am also mentally ill as well as physically iIl. However I find that as badly as I want to stay home at times, my little part-time job helps my emotional outlook. I work as a seamstress in the back room of a retail store, but do interact gently with other staff. On the days I feel well, staff is there for interaction. On the days I don't feel well, staff stands back. Could such a job be of benefit to you? I don't ask you for an answer, just want to give you something to think about. Good luck to you!

Wow, where did they find her! One of my favorite WML contents!!! If she were on a show today it would be so non PC....which I find ironic as she's 100% natural.

I agree. She was so seriously delightful. I also love these shows and in a strange way, I sometimes think of them as friends who cheer me up with their timeless charm.

I agree! Smart as a whip and deadpan. Fantastic!

I was waiting for her to say 'why are they laughing?'

Adorable!

Lovely lady brought tears to my eyes. Lol

She didn't know she was.

Certainly was...she was quite the yam.

She had the strangest affect.

Steve Allen was so funny in such a charming kind of way. 😂❤

That panel had a very high combined IQ. They finally guessed the prison cell!

​@@leannsherman6723The audience helped them 😅

Probably a good thing. According to Wikipedia, "Coburn was a member of the White Citizens' Councils, a white supremacist group which opposed racial integration."

Agree. He and Jack Benny my favorites.

Move to the back woods of Kentucky. There are still some cutey pies running around.

@@steelcantuna Well.. it's a long way from West Australia... but what the heck! I'm on my way! X-D

I agree .

She's annoying as heck.

Lois, thanks for the additional information about Mrs. Sheridan. I'm originally from the South, and Southerners love to have fun with "Yankees", appearing to be talking "slow as molasses and being rather dumb". One of my aunts was from Ohio, and was derogatory about Southerners. We had so much fun "pulling her leg", and then Wham!! We let her know we were teasing.

@@elizabethmorgan2621 I moved from a life in NYC to the South 8 years ago and people are still proud polite and genuinely genuine. I remember the first time I said ya'll and nobody was insulted !!!! The New York line is "We tink youse from da south jus' sound Stooopid."

2:36 I do believe she spelt her name with a Y. No big deal, just saying.

@@AaronHahnStudios Yep, people called her that due to her looks. Her birth name was Juanita.

I SENCS A SADNESS IABOUT HER

Solomn 😊

That movie is my favorite comedy. The More the Merrier.

Dorothy looked radiant too!

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Thank you once again.

M. M. They called her weatherman on the screen when she's a woman. Male dominating times in the 50's.

Joseph T. In the 50s, the preferred term of reference for women in jobs with the suffix -man was lady followed by the occupation, such as lady fireman or lady policeman. Man for those jobs essentially meant person, and the non-gender alternatives were not commonly used, such as police officer or firefighter.

Litigious Society Thanks for the clarification,I had forgotten.

Thank you, I thought those were masks, but not sure, now I am

He is my favorite!!! Loved them and Joel McCrae in The More the Merrier. Best comedy ever!😊😂❤

This was 70 years ago 😊

Coburn was a white supremacist. If that's on TV today, I wouldn't like it.

MrYfrank14 I love how she really turns on that accent.

I had to laugh when she, with that wide-eyed innocent look, said the most awful things happen when you marry a Yankee.

True southern women spoke like this, not an act!!😊

NOPE. No relation.

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Not to brag but... most people REALLY DO think I'm in my mid forties. I'm really 61 with no natural gray hair. My Grandmother was born in 1888 & remembers crossing form east Texas to west Texas in 1900 (when she was 12) to "the new farm" in a covered wagon. There's a guy only 22 years old told me not long ago, "it really wasn't all that long ago, was it?????

Coburn was a certified white supremacist. If that's on TV today, I wouldn't like it.

He may have been the earliest birth date among mystery guests on WML. "I've Got a Secret" has an episode featuring a 90-something man who was in Ford's Theatre the night Lincoln was assassinated.

@@frereM No, Frank Lloyd Wright was born ten years earlier.

@@dangerkeith3000 And you know this because...

She's passed many years ago😢

Glad they quit the guesses and the walk

Absolutely.

Yep it’s lame😊

ROFLOL😂😂😂

“women were more pleasant looking”? GTFOH incel

So relaxed I think maybe had taken a tranquilizer b4 hand.

Reminded me of Miss Schell in The Hanging Tree.

Plz tell us more about delightful and talented Mr. Coburn, he and Jack Benny my favorite comedians and he also great in dramas.

I was 1 yr. & 4 months old. Love, love, love these shows.

He was a white supremacist, he heard only what he wanted to hear.

You must not be in your 70's yet.

@@dangerkeith3000 and you are a one-track arse.

That was her natural look😊

Nope

FlavioGirl not relation at all. Both great and very different character actors.

A monocle was often something of an affectation. And there was some class distinction in monocles. The wealthy could afford to have them custom made and therefore would fit them well enough that under most circumstances they would not fall out. That wouldn't be as true for those who could not afford a custom made monocle. Even so, a common comedy device was to have a snobbish wealthy man be so shocked or surprised that his monocle would fall off and fall someplace interesting (someone's drink perhaps) and fall on the floor and break. Raising one's eyebrows too high is one of the ways a monocle is likely to fall out.

Lois Simmons Monocles for stuffy wealthy men were also ideal in pie fights on screen, in the 3 Stooges Genre, almost as great as those eyeglasses on sticks that the rich dowagers used.

They were all the rage for white supremacists such as Mr Coburn.

I wondered the same. Did people only have one bad eye that required a monocle? Then I read an article about a German man who wore his monocle on his good eye so as to force his bad eye to improve.

​@@dangerkeith3000White supremacist, No such thing 70 years ago 😅

The first color TVs were in 1953. The Cisco Kid was the first series to be filmed in color. Most shows were shot in black and white until well into the 1960s.

You lost the war - get over it

Everyone lost in that stupid war .. 😡

620,000 white soldiers fought and died to free the slaves. 😢Reparations paid in full

"A man is as young as he feels" was John's setup for his 16th Birthday joke.

Fred Allen, agree!!!

Who’s Frank Allen???