What's My Line? - Eva Marie Saint; PANEL: Martin Gabel, Suzy Knickerbocker (Dec 25, 1966) 

I just LOVED how incredibly proud and excited and so very happy to see her son. Now that's a mother's pride and joy right there. That was lovely to see!

Ms. Saint's voice is INSTANTLY recognizable. Goosebumps. One of the smartest and sultriest ever.

The segment with Suzy's son Roger is one of my favorites on WML. The sheer joy on Suzy's face and in her eyes was just priceless.

Just saw Eva Marie Saint in the 91th Academy Award's ceremony, she said she's older than the Oscar. But she still looks stunning as in here.

"Oh, my son! Oh, my son!" 6:43 and 8:56 One of the most emotional moments of WML.

Suzy's son went on to be an Assistant Secretary of the Navy, receiving a unanimous vote in the Senate for confirmation. His father was a highly Decorated Navy Ace in WW2, and became a Rear Admiral.

Suzy must have been so proud of her son in the Navy... brought a little tear to my eye.

Sadly for John Daly and the entire What's My Line panel, this was their second Christmas without Dorothy Kilgallen. May she rest in peace. Amen.

I sooo miss the elegant tasteful styles of the 50s and 60s

Happily, Ms. Saint is still with us at 95.

Eva Marie Saint...a very beautiful woman indeed!

Confession time, I never thought Eva Marie Saint was not that attractive. Confession time. I was way wrong. She has a very subtle extremely gorgeous look to her. Talented is a given. Thanks for the video.

I thought that Mrs. Knickerbocker was going to run over to give her son a hug and kiss. She shed a few happy tears looks like. I'm surprised she didn't recognize his voice.

How cool that Suzy's son was a member of the Annapolis class of 1963. One of his classmates is a friend of mine. He too was in nuclear subs; his next-to-last tour was as commander of the ballistic missile sub USS Stonewall Jackson. Must ask Jim if he knows about this episode.

I love, love, love how proud and happy Suzy is, how excited to recognize her son's appearance. What a loving Mum. That was adorable!

Hard to believe Eva Marie Saint is almost 97 years old.

I GROW UP IN THE UK AND AS A TEEN I LOVED KILTS AND STILL HAVE ALL MY KILTS TILL THIS DAY , ONE OF THEM I HAND MADE MYSELF THAT WAS 60 YEARS AGO AND THEY STILL LOOK LIKE NEW,

Not often that a great film beauty seems even more attractive, if that's possible, on the small screen. But indeed Ms. Saint does radiate love,lyness unequalled here.

I loved how excited she was when she realized it was her son! I would have been the same way, a great Christmas Present!!! 🎄🎁☃️

Probably the best of all the children of panelist as contestant segments IMO just because of Suzy's emotional reaction, not to mention how she looks much too young to have a son that old!

I was delighted to see Suzy's reaction to her son's reveal as the first challenger. I'm as big a sucker for a heart tug story as the next person, maybe bigger than most. But one thing puzzles me. When I heard Roger start to talk, it didn't sound like his voice was disguised that much. I was eagerly anticipating the masks coming off to hear his natural voice. It didn't sound all that different. I've seen blindfolded panelists pick up on the slightest nuance from the disguised voice of a Mystery Guest and correctly guess the identity. I was sure that as a mother, she would hear her son's voice somewhere in the disguise. But she didn't.

As beautiful as Eva Marie Saint is - her voice is stunning

Eva Marie Saint is gorgeous!

the last Christmas show of what's my line

It's a lovely thing that Ms. Knickerbocker was able to see her son on Christmas. Particularly since he was serving his country while in the Navy.

Eva Marie Saint will be 91 this July 4, and is still very much active, and still very much beautiful. Recently, she was in the film "Winter's Tale" in 2014.

north by nothwest..she is amazing

The segment, with Suzy's son, is one of my new favourites.

This show is from half centuries ago and yet still so entertaining up this day. Wish a remake of the show is produced.

"Suzy Knickerbocker" lived to be 98, Eva Marie Saint is 98 today

Eva Marie Saint, and Françoise Hardy (French Actress and Singer) were the two most beautiful girls in the film "Grand Prix" (1966). Thumbs up if you agree with me.

So crazy of John to think that movies would be one day on TV!

Factoid (from Wikipedia) - the Bevin Brothers Company (last guest) is still in business (2019) and manufactured the cowbell used in the SNL skit "we need more cowbell", among many other notable bells. Rather interesting, actually.

It is not just her son...it was her son she hardly ever got to see...

Although it's not entirely clear, Eve Marie Saint starred in the motion picture "Grand Prix," released on December 21, 1966, just a few days before this WML show aired. So, given those circumstances, it was easy for Suzy to identify Eve as the mystery guest. Eve Marie Saint, incidentally, as of this writing, is age 96. And she's still beautiful.

Roger's dad was Navy. Suzy must have been very young when she had Roger Jr! She looks so young in this episode.

Just like local beers were disappearing from the NYC scene starting around this time, so were newspapers. For years, Dorothy Kilgallen was referred to as a columnist for the New York Journal-American newspaper. So was Suzy Knickerbocker. But not on this episode. Suzy is introduced as a columnist for the ill-fated World Journal Tribune. Hurt by the competitive NYC newspaper market and a series of strikes, the WJT was a result of a merger of three newspapers that themselves had been formed by earlier mergers. Seven newspapers had now become one. The Journal-American was the result of a merger of two Hearst newspapers. The New York American had originally been named The New York Journal. It was a morning newspaper. Then Hearst came out with The New York Evening Journal. The two merged in 1937 in broadsheet format and had several afternoon and evening additions. In general it aimed for the blue collar market and lost out to the tabloid New York Daily News. "World" in the title of the new newspaper came from the New York World-Telegram & Sun. the result of the merger of three separate newspapers over the years, although one was a spin off of another paper that eventually became part of the World Journal Telegram. The New York Evening Telegram started out in 1867 as the evening edition companion to the New York Herald. It was sold to the Scripps Howard newspaper syndicate in 1927. Four years later, Scripps Howard bought the New York World from the heirs of Joseph Pulitzer and merged the two papers although it was mostly the New York Telegram writers who retained their jobs. (2000 employees of the World lost there's.) As a result it trended to the right over the years although the Telegram prior to the sale to Scripps Howard and the World under Pulitzer tended to be liberal leaning. For years The World was a national mouthpiece for the Democratic Party and a pioneer practitioner of yellow journalism (fake news is not new), often competing with The Journal American for which paper could be most yellow (coming from opposite sides of the political spectrum). Interesting that the prizes for quality writing and journalism are named for Pulitzer. The World-Telegram was a broadsheet paper that acquired the tabloid New York Sun in 1950. It was also a conservative leaning paper aimed at the masses. It was one of the first newspapers to make a profit. Previously most newspapers lost money and considered their journalistic work a public service. They sustained themselves doing printing work for private customers in the days long before plain paper copiers and printers. But by 1950, the paper was on its last legs. It is probably best known for answering a question by a young reader named Virginia as to whether there is a Santa Claus (a fitting mention on a 12/25/66 episode). The resulting paper retained the broadsheet format. The third paper in the mix was probably the most prestigious and continued to print an international edition long after the merger of the New York newspapers. The New York Herald Tribune was printed in broadsheet format and was the primary competitor to the New York Times. It was generally moderate, identified with the liberal/eastern wing of the Republican Party, Protestantism, big business and internationalism. The Tribune (founded by Horace Greeley) acquired The Herald in 1924 and by World War II was challenging the New York Times in prestige and profit. But despite a highly regarded staff of writers, the paper faltered and a major strike crippled it. The original plan was for the staff of the former Herald Tribune to publish the morning edition of the new World Journal Tribune with the remnants of the staffs of the other two papers to produce the evening edition. But the attempted merger in April 1966 led to another major strike of 140 days as the unions wouldn't agree to the concessions that management felt were needed to make the new newspaper work. The Herald Tribune closed its doors for good in August so the resulting paper that finally started in September only boasted an evening edition. The project lost momentum with the strike. Instead of gaining the readers of the previous three papers, they generally found new sources for their news by September. The new newspaper was gone before the last episode of WML. Its final edition was in May 1967. Instead of a portion of employees being laid off, all the union workers lost their jobs. Instead of some losses, the owners of the new newspaper had a near total lost, although they had some assets to sell. As a result, the New York City media market that had 15 newspapers in 1900 was left with three major daily papers in 1967 (although with the population flight to the suburbs, Newsday on Long Island, the Newark Star-Ledger and The Record in New Jersey and the Gannett papers in Rockland-Westchester were growing in importance). The Daily News received most of the features from the failed newspapers (comic strips and columnists). Suzy's column moved to that paper until the Daily News and the New York Post pretty much flipped the script as far as their writing staffs and features were concerned after Rupert Murdoch bought the Post in 1976.

Eva Marie Saint has been married to TV director Jeffrey Hayden for 65 years. There is a fascinating 2 1/2 hour interview with Mr. Hayden at the Emmy Legends website.

Men often wore light blue shirts during the days of black and white television. This helped to minimize the flare caused by the bright lights and the image orthicon camera pick up tubes. This episode was broadcast in color so white shirts were worn. The new Plumbicon camera pick up tubes also required less light and didn't cause as much flaring.

November 1, 2021, Eva Marie Saint is still with us at 97 years of age!

Eva Marie Saint. 8 years have passed since the last time she was a Mystery Guest. The last time she was a Mystery Guest, she was there to announce that she would start filming Alfred Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" with Cary Grant.

At this point they really seemed to be pushing Suzy to take over from Dorothy. Suzy mentions her husband but she was divorced by then for nearly 20 years (Roger W. Mehle) Suzy lived to be 98 years old.June 10, 1918 - November 11, 2016

When Bennett asked the kilt maker if there was anything dangerous about the product, it made me say to myself what Bennett might have said "Well, you could get kilt!"

Wow! Christmas day 1966. I was 18 at the time

Can I appreciate John Daly asking the question do you really think they’ll be a time when they put those movies on TV? Uh yeah.

Happy 100th Birthday Wishes and Greetings Madam. 🧸🫶🎭🫶🧸

John, I just live that Suzy Nuckerbocker

Suzy must have gotten started early. She looked fairly young to have a 20+ year old son in the service. If he graduated from USNA in '63, in late 65 he would have been around 24.

Schneiderman, the kilt maker, is one of the few I've ever heard of, who really lived up to his name. "Schneider" means "Taylor".

Suzy (Aileen Mehle) sure does not look like she's 48 years old in this show! She looks great! One of the best "Welcome Home" videos that are common place (and fantastic) today of service members surprising family members.

As to kilts, I remember being in the men's department many years ago at Nordstrom in Palo Alto. They had an entire formal dress outfit in the Scottish style with a kilt, knee-length hose, special shoes, a formal dress coat, a dress shirt and tie, and accouterments such as a sporran, which you could have custom made in the tartan of your choice for $1,500. One of those formal outfits with a kilt can be properly worn to any function requiring black or white tie. I don't know where he rented them, but a son of friends of mine got married wearing one of those formal outfits with a kilt and all the groomsmen wore kilts as well, due to the Scottish ancestry of the groom. In fact, there are organizations in this country that have an Irish or Scottish flair that march in parades wearing uniforms that have kilts, and even organizations featuring bagpipers that wear them in the U.S. So a kiltmaker in Canada or the U.S. doesn't surprise me -- somebody has to make all those kilts.

One of my favourite episodes, thank you for posting.

Arlene looks so beautiful here as always. Love Eva Marie Saint.

Loved her in "On the Waterfront" 1954. Just maybe her best role and she won an Academy Award. Loved her stunning natural beauty in that film. Good film.

There was a better-known Sam Sniderman in Toronto who owned Canada's biggest record store. What were the odds that there were two of them up there?

RE: Roger Mehle. The second-to-last WML contestants involving panelists's children. The production staff did this gimmick before in 1954 with Dorothy's two oldest children and in 1964 with Peter Gabel. Mahle's father became an admiral.

The last WML Christmas episode goes out with a bang. Over the years the staff came up with some memorable Christmas episodes from Santa Claus as a mystery guest to a Salvation Army Band performing to the spouses showing up as mystery guests. You would not suppose that a parasite would be funny, but mistletoe got a lot of yocks over the years.

Taped on December 18, 1966.

Ms. Saint is even lovelier out of character than in, if that"s possible

Arlene had her sandwich board. Suzy had "the Marines." I suspect that the make up artist had to adjust Suzy's makeup during the commercial break.

Interesting no mention of Christmas. Eva Marie Saint. Still living 97. Beautiful woman

As of Oct 7th Eva Marie Saint is 99 yrs old. I too was in the US Navy from 1966 to 1969 but not on a ship.

More beautiful the older she got--dazzling!

6:05 -- Arlene got her money's worth with that mask she wore to Capote's Black and White Ball.

As of 2022 Eva Marie Saint is 97 years old.

As stated by yours truly, Eva Marie Saint is left-handed, though the way she signed in looked a bit less unusual than Joey Heatherton a year ago. Peter Fonda, when he was MG in June, also signed in more normally.

"The Russians are Coming The Russians are Coming" did get nominated for the best film Oscar, but it got buried in a year with a lot of notable foreign entries. Carl Reiner and Alan Arkin as I recall were involved with Ms. Saint in a comedy about a Russian sub that grounded off the coast of Maine. Its director, Norman Jewison, did direct the film that won best film of 1967 and the film that should have won best film of 1971.

Does it have any moving parts in it? -- yes!

I can't recall where exactly this came from, but I heard that one thing Eva Marie Saint would love to do on her bucket list, is work with Woody Allen.

I wonder if Bennett being on the cover of "Time" will go the Fluffy distance?

Of all the dirty rotten tricks to pull on a panelist, that had to be the best! Suzy didn't even know his head was above water, and there he was, having to answer questions about not being a Marine. Brought tears to my eyes.

Too bad the bell seller didn't get more time. One night in 1963 when Arlene was not quite herself, she did one of her funniest performances with her questioning of an English bell maker that involved her making the sounds of various musical instruments.

They have the camera focused on Suzy, just like with Arlene, when Peter Gabel was on. What a great first segment that was! And get a load of that new camera angle, too, when Roger hugs his Mother! Suzy's son was born 21 days after the Pearl Harbor bombings, and is currently 73.

And Eva looks dynamite too. Her voice is easily recognizable. In 1958 she really disguised her voice well. No hint of the EVA voice.

Im not really fond of Suzy but that was a lovely segment with her son.

she's a nice caring lady I know!

Wanna see a gorgeous Eva Marie Saint, watch ‘On the Waterfront’

After a letter to Bennett from a viewer, John shows that he's wearing cuffs. I am sure that the men wore short-sleeved shirts sometimes owing to the heat in the studio... 2:50

Both Suzy and Arlene would have looked great in full kilts. Years before a kilt manufacturer appeared on the program waring kilts. I can't quite remember if that proved to be a clue to the panel.

Back when people in the entertainment industry had family members in the armed services.

I think the first segment should be on one of those military reunion video clips.

The USS Lewis and Clark was commissioned in 1964 so was Lt (jg) Mehle a "Plank-Owner" of the L&C? His mom looked fairly young in this video so she must have been a child-bride!

Kilts! I'd say that the buckle is a moving part because you can't fasten or unfasten it without moving the spindle which goes through a hole in the leather. There was a laugh over that question because a true Scot is not meant to wear underpants beneath the kilt, so the moving parts swing freely! Bennet Cerf is rather naive to ask why a kilt-maker works in Canada - many Scots emigrated and became more Scottish than the Scottish in order to preserve their culture. The only Canadian I knew in the past was called MacGregor.

I wonder if Roger is still living. His mom lived to 98. Good genes.

I thought for sure Suzy would pick up on her sons voice! Also the questions were leading to the guest being in the Navy. However watching her expressions she shows no sign that she even had a clue!

Those were the golden years

John: Three down and seven to go, Suzy Knockerbocker (!). :) 23:33

Martin Gabel looks a lot thinner than he does in older episodes.

Suzy had some high hair!! Born El Paso TX 06.10.1918 - 11.11.2016 98

They continued recording the sound after the show went off air. I was able to get hold of a tape: "So Mr West makes bells as big as 8 and 12 inches? I'll take the 12, John." "Arlene, I don't think you COULD take the 12." "I've had a child, John, I assure you I could." "You mean, of course, that young Peter has moved out and you now have the room for such a thing, a shiny bell." "Precisely, John. I have more than enough room to accommodate Mr West's product." "Well now, that's enough of that." "Oh, I'm not sure I could ever get enough of THAT, John." "Arlene... you're terrible."

She is still alive😊

“Scotch man?” Really Bennett Cerf?

Suzy Knickerbocker (Aileen Mehle) was a good-looking gal, and had an interesting life. Martin Gabel is looking rather thin & worn here

The voice is from "North by Northwest""

Did Mr. Daly say "Oh Man"? Lol!

Is that a bird's nest on her head?

At 8:40 John said he had a son in the Navy at a base and I have played it back a few times and I cannot understand the name of the base. He said his son was a lawyer It sounded like he said "Jakuska." Anyone know what base he was referring to?

At 8:38 (or so) John Daly mentions his son as a US Navy officer and that he is a base officer. John names the base but I am unable to understand which base. He said that he has a "Number Two Son" out at "..." and the closed captioning spelled it Cuzco. A Google search came up with some articles about Guantanamo Bay.

East Hampton, Connecticut is not on the sea. That is the one on Long Island.

Oh how mean that is to Susie Knickerbocker to have her son on there and she can’t like hug him and just go talk to him forever she has to wait. They should’ve had him on at the end