What's My Line? excerpts - May 7, 1970 

I used to watch this up in my bedroom every night when I was a teenager.

thanx for posting. I did not remember from Fates's book that Elaine actually had been a mystery guest. And thanks to Wally and Arlene the post-game interview is fantastic. "Company" was just about the best of Sondheim's early plays. Elaine was a force of nature who lived to almost 90 -- despite the problems with alcohol and tobacco [which she kicked for years].

1970 was the year that Sandy Dennis starred in a CBS sitcom called "Funny Face." It was on the way to being a hit, and then Sandy got struck down by an illness that left her blind in one eye.

Would love to see this episode in it's entirety

Obviously, this was before Mr. Alda's most well-known role.

Elaine had stage fright issues, which may account for why she [unusual for the 1970s but not the 50s] lit up a cigarette in her sequence

Gil Fates mentioned in his book that he was proud getting certain people on TV-syndicated WML when they were rather owlish. He mentioned in particular Alan Alda. This is two years before writer-producer Larry Gelbart had the blinding flash of genius to cast him in his new sitcom-drama "M*A*S*H".

Sandy Duncan and Maureen McCormick are voice twins. anyway, love Stritch and her smoking on TV

how times have changed. thankfully we have gotten to the point where ANYONE lighting up in a public venue as a matter of course is considered arrogant and disrespectful to the vast majority who don't smoke.