What's My Line? - Dave Garroway (Dec 13, 1953) 

+Dixie Alexander Are you just assuming that because of the date, or do you actually have a family story about it? I can just imagine your mother telling you about how she, on the night before your birth, had watched an episode of WML that featured a woman who taught a class for expectant mothers! :)

Yes, and her mother might have wished she'd taken the course from Barbara Wright at that point! Actually, for childbirth preparation, I took a Bradley method course in 1995, and had a natural home birth of my second child in which I actually had no pain! I was so pleasantly shocked! I encourage expectant mothers to look up Bradley method and find an instructor if the service is still available! It was so much better than Lamaze method! ...and just wanted to say that Barbara Wright looks so beautiful that she could likely compete with the loveliest female stars on the show! Plus, she seemed like such a happy, self-assured person! She probably helped many women to have the confidence needed for a successful natural birth. :)

You were born on my mother's seventh birthday then.

Pat Weaver, who did more than anyone to elevate early TV, but who had to hand his job over to David Sarmoff's son Robert. He said afterwards: 'I knew I was just warming up the seat for Bobby'.

Steve Allen was hilarious!

Were I your sex, I would be too. Being that I'm not, I'll mention that I've fallen for Dorothy.

Laura Collins: I, as well!

Me too.

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On the Lucy Show, when she had little Ricky on board she was said to be 'expecting' or 'enceinte'. What in nicer times was called a 'blessed event'. Lucy gave birth soon before this WML episode aired.

I think you spotted another rare example of an outright moderating error by John. Good catch!

+What's My Line? John Daly was enjoying himself entirely too much being with Dave Garroway. (And I enjoyed watching them!). As most of John's mistakes seem to occur under such circumstances, it's hard to fault him. I don't know that the observation is justified, as we've so little of Eamonn Andrews' moderating technique from which to judge, but it keeps recurring to me that Eamonn would have jumped on Bennett's construction.

Did you talk?

what word is that ?

And interestingly enough, about 9 years later, Arlene would open the movie, "The Thrill of it All" with a sentence using that very word she said she couldn't use during this broadcast. Things changed a lot in that time!

@@afterrockradio1328 "expectant" would have been an acceptable term, I think

@@LazyIRanch “Expectant” surely would have been acceptable since it was the word used in the written audience reveal. Take a moment to think about the stupidity and government usurpation of power to threaten to punish use of words like “pregnant!” Even if there weren’t a First Amendment, how can a fact of life - actually, THE fact of life - be concealed. I dislike the constant stream of F words in modern dialogue but I dislike censorship more.

It was 1953 afterall.

Respectfully Peggy, RU-vid and WML are tv regardless of whatever device is used. These shows are enjoyable and in a way historic.

Since Bennett thought he might have been a member of the panel at some time, I wonder if he thought it might have been Hal Block or Louis Untermeyer. I realize both are unlikely. due to the circumstances of their departure from the show but what Garroway is doing could be an imitation of Untermeyer.

It seems to me that Bennett and Dave look enough alike to be brothers. Dave is ~15 years younger.

Jim Beasley My pleasure, Jim-- glad you enjoy the series!

@@WhatsMyLine Hi Jim I live there slso

Steve Allen in a side comment was correct about the hat, although that was not her primary occupation at the time. She did also design various objects using feathers and other things found in the wild, often with an Indian design.

+Johan Bengtsson She was very attractive and appeared to enjoyed her work.

Arlene always, Dorothy never, looks attractive. I’m shocked that some viewers find Dorothy attractive in that no one resembling her can be found in roles typically associated with beauty. I think Dorothy looks especially bad in this episode

@@stevekru6518 I always found Dorothy to be strange looking with that large forehead. Everyone sees people with different eyes,perceptions and some comments about humans appearances sure proves that

+SaveThe TPC I wondered that as well. And my general understanding is that with the state of medical science such as it was at that time, relative to expectant mothers and maternity and fertility and the well-being of the expectant mother, that older women were often discouraged from becoming pregnant, taking into consideration of course the general health of the woman, the financial well-being of her family and the number of children previously brought into this world. (That was my attempt at creating an off the cuff John Daly type answer!) That having been said, it was purported by +Johan Bengtsson that Miss Kilgallen was pregnant at the time of this episode and she was 40 years old at the time. Considering the average life expectancy for a white female in 1953 was less than 70 years of age, I think the no answer would stand.

Regrettably, he committed suicide in 1982.

Do you know what the story is behind the "Goodnight, boys"?

@@kitcat9447 I think Steve was saying good night to his sons. Arlene then copied him.

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What's so creepy about Hermina Wurtz? She was my grandmother, God bless her soul. And boy was she a character, nothing phased her.

Christine Cousin - I guess the commenter just doesn’t like fur trapping. Your grandmother is lovely and gracious, how fun for your family to have this recording of her appearance from so many years ago! I like her charming smile, looks like she would be fun to know. :)

@@Pinklady529, Miss Christine, I saw nor heard ANYTHING “creepy” about your grandmother. I am sure that the judgmental commenter would have been “creeped out” by my ancestors, The First Nations, The Original Peoples(a.k.a. Native American Indians) for their hunting, trapping and skinning and tanning hides😊.

I imagine that Steve Allen had two sons that he was talking to; Arlene probably meant her husband (Martin Gabel) and their son.

Well, I don't know, but it probably was not Mark Goodson and Bill Toddman.. Ha ha.

@@CdnGeoff In fact, at that time Steve had three sons. He had a fourth after he married Jayne Meaows, which would be a year later

Women in their 40s can have children.

40 is young to me at my age 🙂

@@sandrageorge3488: Well, me too, actually! :)

Have to be

@@accomplice55 Just can you can doesn’t mean you should

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The fur itself wasn't but the animal that was being trapped was edible

With the questions and John's long, twisty "clarifications," I got confused, myself -- and I knew her line! Hahaha!!

And she doesn't deal in "liver wurtz" ...I love Arlene's wit 😂😂😂 there's a compilation of Arlene's best ; she puns as well as Bennet

@@merryx-mart9943 brilliant as bennet was i suspect that arlene had a higher IQ.

A feather in her hat😊

They weren't required to shake a female quest hand.

She’s beautiful! Looks very stately, and very appropriate for an honest and noble profession.

Don't be silly Lee.

Killer

The hat was considered fashionable at the time!😊

I agree, Betty. Disgusting.

People still trap to this day 😢😢😢

@@meredithdayton2222 you would know more about women's fashion than i ...was it disgusting in the 1950s-60s ? But I agree with you though , whether it's trapping wild animals or farming animals like foxes , minks etc for their fur Btw i love Arlene's interjection of " liver wurtz " re the product.

I know a lot of fur trappers up here in Canada. Some of the indigenous ones have been trapping for 10 generations or more. I always support them by wearing as much fur as possible. I also eat meat - beef, pork and chicken. That’s what animals are for - to provide us with food and clothing.

Shame on you. Today is a generation of humourless whinging and complaining. About everything.

Dave Garroway was one. Who's the other?

Dorothy Kilgallen

Anne Roy Ms.Kilgallen's death was " undetermined" per the pathologist's autopsy results.Two books,recently published by Mr.Mark Shaw,describes,researches this to a great extent.

Anne Roy No suicide, not murdered, undetermined.

Pretty sure she did not commit suicide. Pretty sure she was murdered.