Gary, Thank you from the bottom of my heart! I have spent many, many days 1 watching WML 2 Googling names I have never heard of 3 ... and the names of people I remembered too little of. 4 Listening to this great man (Frankie Laine) sing 5 reading all the great comments from so many interesting and intelligent commenters. 6 and the best part - - - I see I have many from the playlist yet to go. Again, thank you!
I agree with you. I have already watched all the shows, and intend to watch them again. I am also watching the syndicated version, which succeeded this show. Outside of Arlene, who stayed in, the panelists were not as good. But they still had some great mystery guests.
I Explicitly do NOT Posit This in a Nefarious way when I say NEVER in my Entire LIFE Has a Head of hair Looked *SO* Similar to Jane Powell,?.!!! o.O o.O O.o
Martin Gable was great as guest panelist as he was sharply inteeligent man but Joe Bishop, Tony Randoll, Steve Allen, Robert Q. Lewis were too good as guest panelists as they were intelligent but funny too
@@rtflone : I trememdously respect him for that, most husbands just could not appreciate to remain in the shadow of his wife as Martin did. He was famous by his own accord, but in this game he mostly introduced as "the husband of Arlene"by Dorothy and he didn't mind. Others would prefer to be called "Arlene as Martin's wife".
Joey Bishop is so funny on WML. I've seen him on the Dean Martin roasts and as a stand-in for Johnny Carson on the Tonight show, but I never really thought that he was that funny on those programs. He is really great here. He is hilarious and also can ask a lot of really good questions.
I was never a "Rat Pack" fan but love Joey Bishop on this show-wish he was a regular panelist.He was always very funny-dry wit-but never acerbic like some panelists they had.
He went haunting for real on Oct 27 2016. He was 98 and always young. In 2008, age 90, he appeared on radio for a Halloween show, becoming one the few, if not the only, person on radio who was older than the medium of radio itself.
The Automatic Voting Machine in question was first patented in 1900. The machine appears to have been a family affair, as Mr. Stone's father (Frank A.) also sold/was a proponent of them. Frank P. had moved to the Shoup Voting Machine Company as of 1963, and was a Vice President for them. (I find this interesting (in a limited kind of way) since the two were competitors.) Was married to someone named Emily Dykeman (good Dutch name, that), and died in 1972. (Was 45 here.)
I realize this is a nearly 60-year hindsight, but for the voting booth segment John should have distinguished between the words 'protection' and 'privacy'.
voting machines are designed to protect the integrity of the results -- only the fabric is designed for protection and Daly seemed insistent that only the metal portion was the product
@James Broms Read up on Dorothy-she was a brilliant and well respected columnist-and possibly murdered-still in question-she also was probably the best panelist at guess ing "their line"
@@YaelleG Dorothy asked: "Can you hurt yourself or someone else.... like dropping it out of a window". In June the same year while Gabels were away, their maid put a dumbbell on the window to keep it opened. The dumbbell fell and killed a man.
If this show were on contemporary TV, and I were actually watching these as live shows every Sunday night, instead of in 50+years-old recordings, Mr. John Daly would get an irate letter from me saying, "For the dozenth time, Mr. Daly, WORMS ARE NOT REPTILES!!!!!" (Actually, I would probably write a very nice letter, telling him and the whole panel how much I enjoyed the show, and then I would refer him to detailed information about the classification of both worms and reptiles and remind him that he had already researched and been sent similar information several years earlier. I did actually yell something like the exclamation above at the screen after his completely incorrect response to the question Dorothy asked at about 15:28, though! Also, all reptiles are vertebrates, regardless of what Dorothy thinks or pretends to think!)
Today any HS student would NEVER call a worm a reptile. In the 1950's or earlier, they apparently didn't teach animal biology. John is very well educated but struggled with what a worm is. Even I know it's an annelid. And Dorothy, all reptiles are vertebrates. All I can say is 'YIKES'.
I see a lot of positive comments about Joey Bishop here, mentioning how funny he was. I find it interesting to see that some people do find him quite funny. For a long time I've tried to understand why he was considered to be a comedian, because I've seen him on several different TV shows, and I never heard him say anything that I found funny. But to each his own. I'm sure that there are some comedians whom I find hilarious, but who aren't funny at all to others.
Interview with Mrs Foster's daughter: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-utf_Jie7Ot8.html Cedar HIll, Texas, where Mrs Foster had her worm business, was the Dallas County seat. In 1856, a tornado destroyed the town and the seat moved to Dallas. In 1960, there were 1,800 people living there. Now there are nearly 50,000.
Arlene's necklace. How did she stay upright? Dorothy's wig. What was that? mid-life crisis? Francesco Paolo LoVecchio really is Frankie Laine's birth certificate moniker.
+soulierinvestments It might have been an experiment. It might have been a bad hair day. It might have simply been something many of us women go through where we simply want a change for any number of reasons.
Arlene's large necklaces were mostly costume jewelry, so they probably didn't weigh what you might think they do. The stones wouldn't be as heavy, and whatever metal was used was probably lighter than it appears. I don't know why Dorothy is wearing a wig that doesn't fit her properly, but she was likely suffering from a really bad haircut.
@@loissimmons6558 Of course, but none of those reasons can excuse how utterly atrocious it looks. I mean, her natural hair leaking from the back ? I'm surprised she had the nerve to go on stage looking like that, let alone national television. Geez.
So the Oakhaven Worm Farm was actually a subsidiary activity; they raised worms underneath the rabbit hutches that a family (Robert & Lolynda (or Jolynda) Williams) had at their (apparently rather historic) house, to supplement his income as a reporter. (Presumably the rabbit poop provided fertile turf for the worms.) I dunno how long Mrs. Foster worked for them, nor how long the business survived (until the mid-70s, looks like), but Mrs. Foster died in 1997. She and her husband had 5 kids. (And I enjoyed her mildly enjoying Daly.) And now, a picture of shirtless worm farmers: cedarhilltx.com/DocumentCenter/View/7358
Here's a short video interview with Mrs Foster's daughter about how she got picked for WML. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-utf_Jie7Ot8.html
After the last contestant, John Daly says that tonight is Halloween, but it is being celebrated tomorrow night. This show was filmed on 10/30 so I'm trying to figure out how that is Halloween.
This episode contains one of the more memorable clips in Gary's WML Biology Video. Ever seen so many smart people who don't know the basics of classify life on Earth?
By now because of past experience, you would think the staff would include some basic information in John's packet on the classification of any animal forms that were involved in that challenger's line.
I am 66 and I can tell you that people older than me did not learn that type of thing until they hit biology in high school. I’m saying that my grandma (born in 1896) knew all kinds of snakes but probably didn’t know the word reptile.
Strange, isn't it? Notice how Bennett makes a point of touching her wig when he enters. Otherwise, if I recall correctly, there's no notice taken of Dorothy's temporary new look here at all.
And her hair had looked so good the week before! For the record, What's My Line? , Bennett does mention it (much to John's and Dorothy's embarrassment, I'm sure -- watch John's reaction) in the "good nights" at the end of the show (25:16). Bennett also looked genuinely surprised when he first saw her during the introductions. Could it be that they had not seen each other backstage?
I always feel a bit uncomfortable when random scenes in the various WML episodes focus solely (but only momentarily) on the notable(?) repartees between John Daly and Bennett Cerf. I know that because of this (collective) ongoing banter, it developed into a kind of a "historical banter of teasing" between the two; however, I felt it was done--or carried out--at the expense of the other three panelists, as they would have been left out of these sort of "inside jokes."
Again they missed a seasonal thing. Weren't they at all excited about the elections? There was going to be a new president, and they had the tv debates for the first time even. Someone in the panel should have suspected there could be something in connection with the election.
The first guest Mr Stone had the brains of a rocking horse. Completely lost and utterly clueless about his own product. You have any o wonder about these people and what became of them.
The smile on Bennett Cerf’s face when he asked his first question regarding the celebrity is evidence enough that he had been tipped off. This happened far to many times and frankly defeated the whole exercise. It was disappointing for the celebrity as well as for the TV audience.
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