What's My Line? - Dennis Day (Jan 23, 1955) 

Such class. Mr, Mrs or Miss. Sir or Mam. Men standing when a lady approaches. Good handwriting. We need more of this today.

Dennis Day was so talented. Glad I had a chance to meet him in the early 1960's.

Dennis Day did a wonderful job, changing his voice every time. Really loved him on the Jack Benny Program. Loved seeing him here!😊

Ive become beguilded by Fred Allen. Can see why he was so beloved.

Just got to love Fred Allen, he was hilarious.

Such an honorable and delightful gentleman to watch, mister Dennis Day here. Genuine warmth flowing between him and Dorothy Kilgallen for a moment there. A privilege having this experience I dare say. Burned right into my memorybank.

Laughed all the way through it. These shows are gems--this one gold.

I just had so much fun watching this episode! Mr. Dennis Day was fantastic at the different voices and trying to get Dorothy of his tail! I'm still smiling!!! ❤️

Dennis Day was fantastic at voices... did not know that about him...remember him mostly from his beautiful singing voice

Arlene and Dorothy always looked so elegant.

I enjoyed Mlle. Germain -- nice personality, good sense of humor, fully fluent in English even if it is her second language. She went right along with everything -- even at the beginning with the wild guesses -- no problem with "She's is a hockey player!", raising her fist in a humorous sign of being victorious in hockey. Probably helped that she understood that such humor is part of what makes WML so entertaining and I'm guessing as a panelist on the francophone Canadian version of WML she probably says funny things along the same lines fairly often.

I had a feeling Dennis Day could do different voices and he didn't disappoint. Very good 👍

Nicole Germain (born Marcelle Landreau; November 29, 1917 - February 11, 1994) was a Canadian actress from radio, TV and film in the 1940s and 1950s. She later became a jornalist.. In 1974, she was named a member of the Order of Canada.

All these people are no longer with us...but I like to think they'd get a kick out of knowing the show is still being watched 70 years later.

Knew a woman who lived in Bailey's Harbor, Wisconsin back in the mid 70's. She had a Zenith 21 inch TV with a outdoor rotary antenna ,she picked up stations in Canada, Chicago all over the place,the Canadian version was a hoot. She learned to speak French from Quebec TV stations.

One of the most enjoyable WML shows ever!

Let's see ... we've had Dennis Day, Doris Day, Larraine Day, John Daly and Dan Dailey. Like sands through the hourglass, these are the days of WML ...

Dorothy had to have known Dennis Day right away. I recognized his old man voice right away!

Wow, 1955 has been hysterical so far

Nicole Germain had definite charisma. The panel was getting a little nervous that one of them might be getting a pink slip.

Greatly addictive during the Twilight Zone we are living thru

One of the best WML shows ever!

Nice to see Dennis Day!

Wow-Denis Day was great with accents!

Dennis Day is Awesome!!!

I enjoyed the Canadian WML panellist. And Fred Allen was funny!

The first challenger must have also been an exceptionally skilled panelist. Her questions were always Germain.

Dennis was terrific!

Dennis Day had 10 kids....Wow!

RE: The discussion of Jack Benny during the mystery guest sequence. Of course, the producers did not know they were working on a time limit here. However, it is sad that they did not get Benny on as a mystery guest during Fred Allen's tenure. The feud between them was an utter gimmick: they were good friends from way back.

Not only did Jack Benny employ Dennis Day for decades, Mel Blanc was also a frequent contributor to Benny's radio and TV shows. It certainly stretched the casting possibilities with a relative small cast. There were no female counterparts in his cast over the years, however.

Dennis Day impersonated both Rochester and Mel Blanc who was doing his own voice impersonation with Jack Benny in the Si, Sy, Sue skits.

That "Dennis Day" is so gracious, so sweet and charming, so self-effacing, etc., etc,..as so many people on WML are, being of course from back in the day, that he might as well be a visitor from another planet, so little likely are you to find so admirable a person anywhere today...

This was by far the best panel. Steve Allen rounded it out.

Dennis Day was great fun 🥇

It was just genuinely sweet the way Dorothy revealed it was Dennis.

“A bissel is a sweeper”. Arlene was always so on the ball.

Dennis is just the best.

It might be from watching so much of this show but Nicole Germain gave some small hints with the way she was answering questions. And then she calls for a conference before John could say the words!

It is likely that the worms that contestant Alice Crisafulli raises are common earthworms. If so, then they are animals: "Oligochaeta is a subclass of animals in the phylum Annelida, which is made up of many types of aquatic and terrestrial worms, including all of the various earthworms." These would be classic "night crawlers" or "red wigglers" if they are to be used for fishing.

John calls that building a theater on many episodes... I know because I just binge watched about 200 episodes.

Dennis Day, Excellent mimic too. His sister-in-law is Ann Blyth. On radio he wouldn't have to hire any actors, he would do all the voices, which someone had a show like that years ago.

Mel Blanc did most of the "voices" on Jack Benny.... including Si, Si, and Sy.

First game -- one Christmas Eve, if memory serves, a member of the Puerto Rico WML panel sat in on the New York panel for a while, so the second game was not completely unusual in its 5 members.

Fortunately a lot of the Jack Benny radio Program got recorded and preserved in OTRadio web sites. Day's singing voice and his impersonations are extraordinary, especially as preserved in the Benny aircheques 1939 to 1944, before he took leave to serve in the U S Navy. In 1965, he recorded "White Christmas" later retitled "Christmas is for the Family" that had two Jack Benny cameos in it. One of the best Christmas music albums I ever heard.

1955 was the year Dennis Day's association with The Jack Benny Radio Program ended, with the cancellation of the program on CBS Radio. Day continued his association with The Jack Benny TV Program in varying regularity to the finale of the Benny program in 1965 and the end of the Benny specials in 1973. Day's radio program was "A Day in the Life of Dennis Day" (NBC 1946-1951). Fortunately a lot of it was recorded and preserved in OTRadio web sites. Great music and funny, too.

Bennett to John: goodnight larva boy! Bennett could make a pun out of anything.

Great episode of WML. Top 10.

How many countries had a version of WML? Goodson-Toddman must have really cleaned up in this business!

On radio Dennis was on The Jack Benny Show but had his own show with Mary Jane Croft.

Fred was amazing even when no one got it...but I did! When he shakes hands with the first contestant he says "you haven't got a muff for the other hand...isn't that a sham"!

It would be a good idea , I think , if the WML videos would be numbered 1-2-3- etc... so we could watch them all without missing one from the beginning of them to the last one episodes. Thank you .

This first panelist is probably someone who would be known by sight in a more television-focused era. (Like, post-70s.) Also, I believe Mrs. Crisafulli died in 2000. (But I'm not at all positive.)

Good throw off by John to ask the Canadian WML panelist if she knew the scoring system.

I loved that crack Fred made about the legendary concert and radio singer Jessica Dragonette!

Ironically, Theda Bara was still alive when the show aired although she passed away in April of '55.

I think Dorothy's questioning of Dennis Day may be an example of her milking camera time, which irked Arlene and Bennett.

A worm is an invertebrate Animalia

I figured that Fred Allen would've been the one to get it.

Wow, Mrs. Germaine was incredibly gorgeous.

The worm has turned money cards on many WML shows, yet strangely, no bookworm pun from publisher Cerf. #SinofOmission

+John Carper (Responding to your question posted on the prior version.) The mystery guest was Dennis Day. His relationship to Kenny Baker was that he replaced Baker as the tenor vocalist on Jack Benny's radio show in 1939.

Bennett your jokes are still funny '70 years later..

I was 3 days old when this aired!

Who from The Jack Benny Show was on WML? I know there was Eddie Anderson and here's Dennis Day. Who else?

Comments left on prior version of this video: Jeff Vaughn 1 year ago Once I noticed that giant crease in Dennis Day's forehead I couldn't look at anything else. What's My Line? 1 year ago This wasn't so much of an issue on radio. Jeff Vaughn 1 year ago +What's My Line? Haha! So I guess he had a face made for radio? What's My Line? 1 year ago In a very real way, actually, yes-- since the character he played for JAck Benny and on his own series was that of a naive, dumb kid. He didn't look the part by 1950-- he was too old. By the end of the Benny series in 1965, it was almost laughable. It's a testament to his talent that the character still worked at all, because seeing a middle aged man pretend to be, essentially, a teenager, was quite jarring. Likewise, Don Wilson wasn't anywhere as overweight as he was supposed to be during the TV years, and it made the fat jokes feel, to me, even cheaper than they were on radio (possibly my least favorite aspect of the Benny radio/TV series, which I'm a gigantic fan of, are the fat jokes about Don Wilson.) ZoneFighter1 1 year ago Notice he didn't say "the panel has to dig" on the worm woman. MattTheSaiyan 4 months ago (edited) Do any kinescopes exist of the Canadian version of "What's My Line"? (yes, I realise I've asked this question before). soulierinvestments 1 year ago five panelists sat on this panel one night when a panelist of WML Puerto Rico appeared. . Bambi Harris 1 year ago do you happen to know which episode? i thought that was very sporting of them and fun What's My Line? 1 year ago +Bambi Harris What's My Line? - Peter Lind Hayes & Mary Healy (Dec 25, 1955) Bambi Harris 1 year ago +What's My Line? Thank you for taking the time to find that for me :-) What's My Line? 1 year ago +Bambi Harris My pleasure! mh K 6 months ago Worms are invertebrates. If John Daly would have looked on his cell phone and touch the big "W" and typed in worm, he would have found the answer. ToddSF 94109 4 months ago +mh K -- Invertebrates is a huge category of animals that includes anything that doesn't have a backbone. An insect is as much an invertebrate as an earthworm. Jellyfish, lobsters, oysters, snails are more examples of invertebrate. In fact, any given animal is either a vertebrate (mammals, fish, reptiles, amphibians and birds) or an Invertebrate (everything else). There are many different phyla of worms, too. An earthworm is an annelid as opposed to an insect -- annelids are the phylum that includes "segmented worms". ToddSF 94109 4 months ago The first contestant is the only one I've seen so far to bring a muff with her as part of her ensemble. Jill Gordon 5 months ago "Goodnight, you man who doesn't know what a worm is." I think John needed a biology book What's My Line? 5 months ago John was remarkably bad at biology, yes-- though this is the only time he really got called out in a major way for one his many, many, MANY errors on biological terms! ToddSF 94109 4 months ago (edited) +Jill Gordon -- If John had stopped talking and hadn't interjected that line about a worm being in the "larva" family at the very end of the show, I'd have defended him because, until then, he hadn't said anything wrong. Ye gods, though, the larva family? The man was truly ignorant when it came to biology. To borrow a phrase from Dorothy Parker, when it came to biology, John Daly's ignorance was a veritable Empire State Building of ignorance. If nothing else, you had to admire it for its size. Of course, many know that an earthworm is an annelid (ringed or segmented worm) rather than an insect, and that a larva is one of the stages of insect life that precedes, for many insects, its final, six-legged adult stage. I also have to criticize Arlene who suggested a worm might be in the snake family. Ye gods, Miss Francis! Rich Maz 1 month ago +Jill Gordon let he who has never made an error involving a life form cast the 1st stone..............the panelists are equally as guilty for not questioning it & I have seen other segments where type of life forms questioned were actually incorrect--in this case John was wrong Johan Bengtsson 9 months ago The Canadian version of WML was called "Chacun son métier" and ran from 1954 to 1959. Dick Wilson 4 months ago Great episode John Carper 10 months ago Larva? John disappoints. For those playing along at home, earthworms are annelids. Was that last guy Kenny Baker? joed596 6 months ago good episode Jeffrey Slott 1 year ago Obviously, Ms. Francis got the answer about the first contestant from the audience. It's bad enough when the obnoxiously macho male jerks in the audience start their childish whistling whenever an attractive female contestant comes on. It's too bad that there couldn't have been more of a separation between the audience and the panel, or perhaps a warning given to the rabble beforehand that anyone caught shouting out the answer would be thrown out of the theater. Or just doing away with an audience altogether ;) What's My Line? 1 year ago What's My Line without the audience really wouldn't be the same. There's an energy that comes from having the live audience that would have been lost. Honestly, I think If even one segment in 100 was actually spoiled by the audience, I'd be surprised. Jeffrey Slott 1 year ago +What's My Line? Based on what? The more episodes I see on this channel, the less convinced I am that the panelists do not have some kind of "help". Bennett Cerf especially gets down to the real nitty gritty too many times and too quickly, especially when it comes to "guessing" the identities of the "mystery guests". Perhaps the audience does add something sometimes, but for me their "participation" takes all the fun out of watching the game. Which is a shame because otherwise I would enjoy these episodes a lot more. What's My Line? 1 year ago +Jeffrey Slott The show is what the show is. Adam Robinson 7 months ago Really? This show would've been fairly dull without the audience. If What's My Line were made today they'd have to continue with a live audience. There's no secret that laughs bring on more laughs. ToddSF 94109 4 months ago +Jeffrey Slott -- Bennett Cerf was remarkably well informed as to which celebrities were in town when the shows were on. So was Dorothy Kilgallen, who wrote a daily newspaper column, "The Toast of Broadway", and, like Bennett, she was quite aware of who was in town or appearing in nightclubs or hotel venues or who was currently starring in Broadway plays and musicals or who had a movie recently released or about to be released. Arlene was good at those things, too. In fact, it was their job as panelists to be aware of who was doing what entertainment-wise in New York, and who was visiting. As to the audience, if all the whistling for an attractive mystery guest sometimes led the panel to conclude the guess was a woman, they had to confirm it with a question and sometimes certain male celebrities got whistles, too, resulting in a "No" if the panel asked if the guest were a woman. Besides, if the whistling did indicate a woman mystery guest, that eliminated about 50% of the possibilities. If the show were done without an audience, it would be quite dull. I note that every other game show ever made to this very day has a live audience present, even "Jeopardy!". I have to wonder, if you're not enjoying these classic episodes of WML, why do you continue to watch them? ToddSF 94109 4 months ago +Adam Robinson -- I agree. They'd have a live audience if they were doing WML nowadays. All current game shows on the tube have a live studio audience -- they'd would definitely be dull if they were conducted with no audience reaction. In fact, I can't think of a single TV game show I've ever seen in my nearly 63 years of existence that hasn't had a studio audience. George Alexander 1 year ago I just read Mr. Day died of ALS. Horrific disease. God bless him. Uncl Dolan 1 year ago invertebrate john! TanRu Nomad 1 year ago References to Jessica Dragonette and Theda Bara, two names you don't hear often! Rikard Peterson 1 year ago The first guest was very charming - it was no surprise to find that she had the kind of job that she had! BlueShoeLover 1 year ago 2:45 - 2:55 Bennet doesn't look very impressed. Mark DeNio 1 year ago Funny that Arlene got this panelist (the first guest) since she got the host 4 years later. jmccracken1963 1 year ago I wonder if Alice Crisafulli is in any way related to long-time Chicago Symphony Orchestra trombonist Frank Crisafulli; perhaps she's his sister or his cousin or even his wife. Just curious..... MadWeiner 1 year ago Dennis Day was funny on Jack Benny. 1984jennaj 1 year ago dorothy looks lovely here! Anna Ferrara 1 year ago Day's range of voices was amazing. What's My Line? 1 year ago Yes! He sometimes got to show off his talent for impressions on the Jack Benny radio show. He did a great Ronald Coleman, and Winston Churchill, a lot of others I'm blanking on at the moment. bigred997 1 year ago it was so good to see john get his come uppance when he asked the first guest if she was married. that really should not be "germaine". What's My Line? 1 year ago Yes, good catch-- it was refreshingly modern of the first contestant to question John on why he was asking if she was married ("Does it make a lot of difference very much?"). I think he gave a terrible, rambling answer-- much simpler, and less convoluted, would have been to simply say that they asked about a female contestant's marital status so they would know whether to refer to her as Miss or Mrs.!

Was this the only time-temporarily-tgere were 5 panellists 🎩

I liked Nicole Germain. Very charming. Wish they had brought her on as a guest panelist for an episode. Would have been fun. I kept getting a vibe tho that Fred Allen didn't like her. He seemed kind of grumpy when she joined the panel for the game.

Dorothy always weasels extra questions!

worm is a wide variety of "animal". john was right.

Actually, it's Johannes Charles Daly.

Worms are not amphibious. John was not as educated as he wanted us to believe.

Worms are NOT insects. :)

Celebrities like the first contestant who are very lively and flamboyant kind of give too much of a clue to start out the panel. I mean they will already know she is in the arts. Jeepers.

A worm is an invertebrate

Dennis Day looks like Mr Daly s younger brother

Alice Crisafulli 1914 - 2000

Alice Chrisafulli was beautiful..

Interesting...this is the third or fourth episode Dorothy has worn that same dress.

John rather actively misled the panel on several occasions here -- something he didn't usually do.

At 16:40, John Charles Daly equates bacteria with "non-filterable viruses." This phrase dates back to the experiments of Dmitri Ivanovsky in 1892 and Martinus Beijerinck in 1898. At the time, all infectious agents were called "viruses", but Ivanovsky and Beijerinck showed that some of these agents could pass through a porcelain filter, the "filterable viruses", and some could not, the "non-filterable viruses." The term "filterable viruses" includes what we now call simply "viruses", while the term "non-filterable viruses" includes what we now call "bacteria", which are too big to pass through such a filter.

This aired the day I was born.

2:17 woah even back then she was challenging norms

Is anybody else just want to tell John to Google it

Worms are not insects..they're invertebrate annelids, or segmented backboneless creatures with no exoskeletons. Some do have spines, but not in the mammalian sense..more akin to dendritic "switchboards" communicating neuron receiving 'messages', but not entwined with any backbones. Mammalian spines tend to be neuron senders and receivers, entwined into bony vertebrates.

It’s a shame we never had any clips of the français langue version of WML.😥

charm and wit - missing nowadays...

Bennett sounds like he has a cold.

She looks like Betty White

You mean there's another "What's My Line' game show?

I think I saw a Dateline program where Dennis Day was murdered.

When people showed some manners and class. Today?

Fred Allen was hot that time.

one of the reasons i found dorothy annoying is on display in this episode where she knew it was dennis day and kept on dragging it out.

Knobs...lol

I think worms are in th vermiform family.

I wonder what Mrs. Germaine said to Bennett when she did the walk in front of the panel. He seemed struck. For some reason, I think that Arlene was furious with Dorothy’s dragging at the end with the questioning of the mystery guest.

Dennis Day died of Lou Gehrig's disease

I love how these people are pronouncing words incorrectly just to make them sound fancy.

Whenever I hear Dennis Day now, I only think of this: "The Lord is good to me, and so I thank the Lord for giving me the things I need: the sun and rain and an appleseed. Yes, He's been good to me!"