A superb actor. He had an amazing career in Hollywood. He appeared and starred in so many great films that it’s virtually impossible to pick out his finest role. My own particular favourite film which had Edward G in a starring role is ‘Double Indemity’ where he played Barton Keyes, the insurance claims manager. He was simply wonderful. He stole scene after scene by the strength of his screen presence and by the terrific way he delivered his lines. We’ll never see his like again on screen.
He certainly did, never forgetting his roots in Romania. His very last role - one of his greatest performances - was as the sagacious old Jew in Soylent Green, a movie set in NYC in the mid-21st century when global society has broken down and anarchy "rules" due to over-population and the folly of man.
@@rogerlephoque3704 2020 was a significant year for Soylent Green, he was wonderful, sadly, he was very ill with Cancer, and died soon after completion of the film.
Arlene standing to give the great man a hug and a kiss. Classy lady, that Arlene. Mr. Robinson may not have been a giant physically, but he sure was gigantic in the film industry. Amazing actor, and an amazing man. ' Double Indemnity '; 'Key Largo '; are two of my favourites, and his roles couldn't have been more different.
Once in NYC..Edward G. wanted to meet a real gangster..Cause he alway played one...So a friend took him to a restaurant in NYC..The men were in 3 piece suits..Edward G. said to his friend.."They are gangsters"..He friend said, yea, there all lawyers..True story..
@@fje6902 nearly deaf....he could not hear heston and had to rely on physical clues to know when to speak....plus his eyesight was going....his dialog was written on small cards..placed around him...something many actors used..
23:32 "Well, I'll tell you, I'm not here for Bonds for Nasser." Great comment, Mr. Robinson! I loved it. (Gamel Abdel Nasser was at that time the military dictator/"President" of Egypt.)
Yes, I think both my late mother and I found that one to be among our own favorites. Perhaps due to our being Finnish-Americans, there was an appeal to seeing Mr. Robinson (quite believably) portray the father of a family of Nordic heritage - not to mention, imo, it's a very well-crafted film.
I think Mr. Cerf recognized Mr. Robinson from the first query - he grinned and seemed to monitor himself : good sportsmanship. Mr. Robinson just remarked, " There's no limit to this talent of mine " !! Thank you, Bennett, for your discretion.
I would guess it wasn't sportsmanship but him just wanting to have Edward G. on stage a while longer. To be fair to your point though, I didn't hear him mutter 'I know he is' or anything which was surprising. The answer to his question 'are you an American?' definitely through him off. He was born in Romania but Edward G. obviously put onus on US citizenship or something.
I disagree. Bennett always likes to be the one who gets the MG. There normally would be no reason for him to delay the identification if he knew who it was.
If to be believed, the Wikipedia entry for WML states that Cerf frequently knew who most of the celebrity guests were going to be and stated his wife, Phyllis, was told for some reason.
Can never forget him as the Insurance sleuth in Double Indemnity - I fell in love with the character he created. His real name is Emanuel Goldenberg and he is proud of being Jewish and raising bonds for the state of Israel.
The first guest, Carolyn Leigh wrote the lyric for: "The Best is Yet to Come", "Witchcraft" and "I Walk a Little Faster" among great other songs; one of the best! Thank YOU!
Frank Sinatra's family chose Carolyn Cunningham Leigh's title song lyric--THE BEST IS YET TO COME--to be the words to remember and honor Francis Albert Sinatra on his gravestone.
Thank you, so much! I'd ever heard it before. I love finding great songs that I somehow missed. Your sharing that with me is very appreciated.@@waldolydecker8118
Steve Lawrence and his talented wife Eydie Gorme were married over 55 yrs. It will be 10 yrs. in Aug. that she died. Steve is still with us and has dementia. Hope he still can remember Eydie.
A great actor and a real mensch who wasn’t afraid to let the public know that he was Jewish ~ and that he supported the nascent State of Israel. ❤ I love what he said about Gamal Abdul Nasser!
When Steve introduced Dorothy saying that she was read coast to coast but not in NY, he was referring to The 1962-63 New York City Newspaper Strike which ran from December 8, 1962 until March 31, 1963, lasting for a total of 114 days. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962%E2%80%9363_New_York_City_newspaper_strike
I suspected it must have been due to another NY newspaper strike, and that suspicion seemed to be confirmed when Edward G. Robinson said he wasn't able to read any listings of his films in the NY newspapers. Thanks for verifying these suspicions, Joe Postove. I seem to remember hearing references to a previous NY newspaper strike in some of the earlier episodes from the 50s, and I have my own memories of a later strike in the 70s.
Some years earlier, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia endeared himself to the children of NYC when he read them the "funnies" during a newspaper strike. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DBEKfEs81_I.html
Damn the acoustics & sound system on so many of these early shows. So much valuable time spent saying 'what did they say?'. However, John Daly always seem to hear everything perfectly! Hmmm......
I bet if a group of us were together in a room, blindfolded and played this game there'd be a lot of 'sorry, what did he say?' going on. It's just what people do sometimes.
Edward G. Robinson was loads of fun (as is watching one episode a night...it's almost like playing our own game here) but I thought the panel blew it a bit. The voice, despite his attempt at levity was recognizable from the first. I think so anyway.
I think Steve Lawrence had figured it out by the time he asked his "tough guy" question, but up until then I think the panel was really stumped. I thought Dorothy had it when I saw her smile after Robinson's first answer, but then her follow-up questions seemed to indicate that she was on the wrong track. Arlene knew she recognized the voice, but it was so cleverly disguised through Robinson's comic responses in that lilting Irish brogue that she couldn't place it for a long time. It was fun watching and hearing Edward G. Robinson speak in a manner so different from the gangsterish tone for which he is usually remembered.
Wasn't he included among the greats by Orson Welles? I thought that he may have said that when he was also lauding James Cagney in one or more interviews that he participated in, that I've also been binge-watching lately.
I never saw a mystery guest speak so much, and so freely, without adding some strange aspect to their voice, and get away with it, like Robinson did. it actually worked to confuse the panel even more than the typical "disguised" voice.
"A Boy Ten Feet Tall" (original title: "Sammy Going South"), starring Edward G. Robinson, Fergus McClelland, and Constance Cummings, and directed by Alexander Mackendrick, would open in London on Sunday, 21 April 1963. However, the film did not open in the U.S. until Wednesday, 12 May 1965, when it opened in New York. Perhaps the following two items from the film's "Trivia" section on IMDB will provide some context: "The British Board of Film Censors asked for certain scenes between Sammy and the Syrian peddler to be either cut or toned down. The producers were after a "U" certificate for the film and so had to comply. In the original full length version, the Syrian, who comes across Sammy laying on a sand dune in the middle of the Egyptian desert, is sexually attracted to Sammy and was shown lusting after him and trying to have his way with him. However, two small parts of the supposedly cut scenes did make it to the final release print. In one, the Syrian is kneeling before the standing Sammy and feeling the boy's right leg, while quite plainly and excitedly ogling the front of Sammy's khaki bush shorts, before grabbing hold of Sammy's right wrist and trying to drag the boy down onto the sand with him, while Sammy tries to wriggle free from his grasp. Originally released at 129 minutes (all but five seconds) the film, after its initial release in 1963, was, for some unknown reason, trimmed of ten minutes of footage and the original full length release version is now believed lost." "When the movie was released in the United States in 1965 (two years after its British release) its American distributors, Paramount, cut so much out of the film to enable it to fit on a double-bill, that the original score by Tristram Cary had to be removed and replaced with a new one by Les Baxter. Paramount also changed the title to "A Boy Ten Feet Tall."" As is also alluded to on IMDB, there were other troubles during the filming. Edward G. Robinson had actually suffered a stroke during the shooting of scenes in Africa, but John Daly wasn't going to mention that on the air. And Constance Cummings was injured in a car accident during production. All told, a "star-crossed" production.....
Eddie G, of course, played Cocky Wainwright, the diamond smuggler / white hunter. Zia Mohyeddin played the Syrian peddler who fancied young Sammy (Fergus McClelland).
Enjoyed your comment ! I saw "Sammy" on late night local TV way back in the mid-70s. Though the title was "A Boy Ten Feet Tall". Was surprised to hear Eddie G's character use the phrase "son of a bitch" when describing his father. I'm no prude but I'm just surprised it got past the TV censors ! And yes, the Syrian in the desert obviously has a fancy for young Sammy because he puts a cloth over the lower part of Sammy's face as he talks about how much Sammy looks like a woman with the cloth there. I clearly remember that ! Pretty strong stuff for a 60s movie !
Did anyone notice that John forgot to flip a card when Steve Lawrence got his first no on the Japanese barber chair man? WML owes him 5 bucks PLUS interest!
That's not quite what happened here. Steve had made a joke at the opening of the segment that he recognized the contestant, the gag based on the fact that he already had to disqualify himself in the first round. John thought he was serious, and skipped him entirely the first round. Steve asked a question, yes, but it had a joking-vibe to it, so John basically just ignored it and went on to Dorothy. You'll see in the second time around John almost skips past Steve again until Dorothy clarified that he was only joking about recognizing this contestant.
Joe Postove Not that I can remember, though I haven't seen most the shows from 63 and on for many years now, if I ever did. I enjoy the show a lot more watching along with you folks, so I'm not much ahead of the posting schedule at the moment..
We learned at the end of Mr Fujisawa's barber chair segment that as of Dec 1962 the US enjoyed an $800M trade surplus with Japan. I don't have the stats, but I'm willing to bet 1962 was the last time that happened..
We didn't "learn" anything, because John's numbers were not independently confirmed as actually being accurate. John was going on memory and could just as easily been in error one way or the other or off in his numbers. With a topic like international trade balances, you "learn" after confirmation with the data; this show is not that confirming venue. We all love John, but he understandably made several errors in 15 years or so of doing the show.
2:49 Carol Cunningham = lyricist *Carolyn Leigh* [The Best Is Yet to Come ~ Young at Heart ~ When in Rome ~ Witchcraft ~ Tall Hope ~ It Amazes Me ~ I Walk a Little Faster ~ I've Got Your Number ~ You Fascinate Me So ~ Doop-Doo-De-Doop (A Doodlin' Song) ~ Pass Me By ~ Little Me ~ Hey, Look Me Over! ~ Here's to Us ~ How the Time Goes By ~ Real Live Girl ~ One Day We Dance ~ On Second Thought ~ Give a Little Whistle ~ Firefly ~ Don't Ask a Lady ~ Dancing on My Tippy, Tippy Toes ~ Corduroy Road ~ You've Come Home ~ What Takes My Fancy ~ The Rules of the Road ~ I'm Waiting Just for You ~ (How Little It Matters) How Little We Know ~ The Day That the Circus Left Town ~ The Pleasure's About to Be Mine ~ I'm Flying ~ I've Gotta Crow ~ I Won't Grow Up ~ Stay with Me ~ Tender Shepherd] 1 - 26: Cy Coleman (music) 31 - 35: Moose Charlap (music; "Peter Pan") 27: Henry Glover, Lucky Millinder (music) 28: Phil Springer (music) 29: Harold Spina (music) 30: Elmer Bernstein (music) Her songs have been interpreted by Blossom Dearie, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Mary Martin, Lucille Ball, Eartha Kitt, Tony Bennett, Patti Page, Nancy Andrews, Jesse Belvin, to name but ten.
After watching several "WML?" episodes on RU-vid, I notice that some male celebrities --- Edward G. Robinson (here), Gary Cooper, Wm. Holden, etc. --- don't try very hard to win the game. They don't disguise their voices very well, especially since a simple whisper would be VERY effective in deceiving the panel. Add to this the fact that the panel frequently hobnobbed with many of these celebrities (both male and female) in social circles or in the course of their journalistic efforts and it's no surprise that they deduce the Mystery Guest's identity so quickly. But it IS exasperating.
I totally agree ! I hate it when the mystery guest doesn't bother to disguise their voice ! Frustrating to the max ! Though I am a big fan of the late great Eddie G !
I AM DUMBFOUNDED THAT THE ENTIRE PANEL DIDN'T INSTANTANEOUSLY RECOGNIZE HIS VOICE. I ACTUALLY THOUGHT THEY HAD FROM THE WAY THEY REACTED A FEW SECONDS AFTER HIS FIRST WORDS WERE SPOKEN; IT WAS A DEAD GIVEAWAY. HE MADE NO REAL ATTEMPT TO DISGUISE HIS ICONIC VOICE OTHER THAN SPEAKING IN A LIGHT-HEARTED, FRIVOLOUS WAY. AND HE KEPT EXTENDING HIS RESPONSES AS IF HE WERE TRYING TO HELP THEM IDENTIFY HIM.🙈😬🙉🥺
Arlene Francis never looked better than she did here. Glory of GOD, she is fine in this episode! That dress, her hair, those shoulders, those lips, those eyes, those nose......
Mary C That's right. The question was most likely in reference to her not wearing it here but the answer 'when did she stop?' also applies to many years later as you say!
With the strapless gown AND earrings, she might have felt the necklace would be too much. Also, the bare neck makes her look younger alongside those bare shoulders.
+D ODay I searched google and couldn't find results for Takata barber chair ... it's apparently Takara - plenty of results for Takara. They're collectibles now and worth a mint.
I’ve watched a hundred of these. I finally have to say it. I love Bennett, but man he’s invariably got a low, prejudiced, or otherwise obnoxious comment. Ugh.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Leigh American lyricist. Young at Heart...The song was written and published in 1953, with Leigh contributing the lyrics to what was originally a Richards instrumental called "Moonbeam". aka Carolyn Cunningham 2:58
Bennett was a pompous bore. He was rude to people every single time anything remotely political came up. He wasn't funny, he talked through his nose with that nasally whine. He interrupted all the time but got testy if he was interrupted. He talked over John constantly. He would yell "John... John..." so he could get attention for some stupid pun that popped into his pea brain. I can't watch this any more. Sad, I really enjoy Arlene, Dorothy and John.
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