She was like that in reality she did a lot of great things for and causes especially when it had to do with the prison system trying to help non-violent prisoners to get a second chance she was brilliant she lived into her mid-90s I think. John Charles Daly live here in Rockland Maryland for many many years
And she's genuinely funny, she has a kind of quick wit that almost stands up to a juggernaut like Steve Allen. We don't have funny women anymore we have snarky vulgar shock oriented comics.
@@TheBigMclargehuge she was she was brilliant I'll be honest I've never seen such bunch of doll people as I do today. But none of them are very articulate or interesting
Fred McMurray was not initially cast in the Lemmon film "The Apartment" (1960). Paul Douglas was originally scheduled to play the part of the boss Sheldrake but died of a massive heart attack on 9/11/59, shortly before filming. Fred was recast in the role. The presentation of this episode was several months earlier on March 8. 1959.
And Lemmon would star with MacMurray in Wilder's very next film, The Apartment. Nobody knew that yet and Paul Douglas was originally meant to play Sheldrake.
Jack Lemmon's first film was for George Cukor. Jack was mugging and used his usual bag of actor tricks and Cukor kept telling him to tone it down. Scene after scene reshot with the same advice from Cukor. Finally the exasperated Jack said "If I tone it down anymore, I won't even be acting." Cukor told him "AHA! Now you understand!".
Wholesome 1950's? I suggest you watch the film "LA Confidencial". As close to the real time as you can get. Drugs, prostitution, wife beatings, greed, lynchings, you name it. How Reaganesque and "wholesome"!!
For the eight years that Fred MacMurray did My Three Sons, he brown-bagged his lunch every day, never spending money in the commissary. And the same lunch every day,2 hard-boiled eggs, and an apple, sometimes a cookie. A very frugal man, who left a considerable estate.
The innovative contract he negotiated for “My Three Sons” enabled him to be on the set only for four weeks per season, during which only his lines in all the episodes were filmed. His “stand in” was a cleaning tool that matched his 6’ 3” height-so the rest of the cast said their lines to the apparatus they called “Fred MacMop.”
What happened. The invasion of the counter culture in America with the Communist left taking over our institutions of higher learning,the Hippie vomit,the Drug feast of young America, the taking out of Prayer and the mention of God in our Schools and Public places. The High cost of low living and this evil march toward Globalism. That is the Cancer that brought down America and it is coming to full fruition now. Cherish these great old shows cause it is gone forever.
if they tried to do this show today- are you a man? racist! bigot! how dare you say there are only two genders. show canceled. are you married? sexist! cancel the show are you marred to a curvaceous blonde? fat shaming, cancel the show. big game hunter. firearms, cancel the show. members of the armed forces. baby burner, cancel the show. police officer. racist, cancel the show.
they were claiming Ms. Kirkendoll was a 'nurse' and that they just had to find her niche, but then when they explained it, John said, she started as a nurse and then worked her way up to an anesthetist. oddly enough, the position today is actually called 'nurse anesthetist' and is not to be confused with an anesthesiologist, who is an M.D. who administers anesthesia, whereas the nurse anesthetist is not a physician; but she is SOOOOOOOOOO much more than a nurse. i haven't worked at a hospital for many years now, but back when i did in the 70s-90s, nurse anesthetists made something like $70 an hour lol, and that was just their starting wage. they are WAAAYYY more than a nurse.
I’ve watched a lot of these episodes (watched when a kid too) and I noticed that Dorothy is especially good at this game. She seems to ask the right questions a lot to be able to figure out what a person’s line is. I just love watching her. This episode was particularly funny 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🥰‼️
So fitting that Lemmon guessed Fred MacMurray, his co-star in the wonderful “The Apartment.” Also nice was the impromptu cameo by MacMurray’s wife, June Haver!
Brooke Hanley -- "Double Indemnity" is a topnotch film and both Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray were excellent, playing roles that were unlike anything they'd done before. Billy Wilder had a very hard time finding actors who were willing to play the parts and had to convince Stanwyck and MacMurray to do it. They were both glad they did, though, because they got rave reviews and it opened doors for both of them -- they proved they were capable actors who could do more than light comedies. Raymond Chandler rewrote the screenplay and that's one reason "Double Indemnity" was such a success. Billy Wilder's direction, set concepts and location filming was another reason -- it's one of the best examples of the film noir genre ever. Wilder said, years later, that he had no idea he was helping to create a genre. It's a great film and Fred MacMurray was simply excellent in it.
@listerone Well said and well put ! Veteran stage & screen Paul Douglas had been signed to play Mr Sheldrake in "The Apartment" but sadly passed away from a massive heart attack. Director Billy Wilder had enjoyed working with Fred back in '44 in "Double Indemnity" and asked him to take on the role. And of course Fred gave an xlnt performance !! I watched "The Caine Mutiny" from 1954 last night on TCM and Fred played a real stinker in that one too !
@@gina1433mhrj: If you compare his earlier appearance on WML, you can see that his hairline was receding. The ones he wore in “My Three Sons” were fairly obvious because they were made of synthetic hair. He never wore toupees other than on television and in films, however. When fishing or hunting, or in his neighborhood in Brentwood, he wore seasonal hats (straw fedoras mostly) or baseball caps when he was playing golf.
I’m so addicted to this program!!! I’d have loved to meet the panelists, they were all so charming, intelligent, witty & refined; & Mr Daley was marvelous. So refreshing to see how things were, but sad to see how most tv shows today in my opinion, have declined
I met Fred MacMurray while I was living in Dayton, Ohio in the 1980’s. He was in town for a charity golf tournament. What a charming man! A true gentleman. So polite.
Gentleman? A quaint relic of a more saner, sober era. One in which a gentleman was what most men would want to aspire. Now it's drug dealers, corruot politicians, scamming CEOs or a serial killer who kills serial killers. People who don't know better, assume the father figure played by Robert Young in "Father Knows Best," was just a mental construct or artificial figment of a creative writer. But even that has a basis in reality, like stereotypes. Robert Young or Hugh Beaumont, was what society held up to what fathers should be, and that is a gentleman. The folks that criticize these shows are the very same idiots who gushed and fauned over the Huxtables, in the Bill Cosby Show. How many black families are like that? Or even have a father for that matter. Zero is more likely.
These people had recently come away from WW2 and Korea with a sense of empowerment, and America was at the apex of it's culture, wealth, and influence. It would go downhill from here, but for this moment, these people did not need to take the world seriously. Life was good.
yeah, i've always loved his 'average man' look, typically the man you can count on, who could be your best buddy and that every one of us could relate to, simple, decent and oddly charming
I think that Jack Lemmon was much improved as a panelist compared to his previous appearance. That is atypical. When it comes to being on the WML panel, usually once inept, always inept.
As I do when I take off my hat, you make a good point ! Actually, veteran actor Paul Douglas had been signed to play Mr Sheldrake in "The Apartment" but died suddenly of a massive heart attack in Sept of '59 before filming began. Director/Screenwriter Billy Wilder had enjoyed working with Fred back in '44 on "Double Indemnity" and asked him to take on the role. And of course Fred was xlnt as philandering executive Jeff Sheldrake.
He was liked by every co-star in Hollywood, and prior to that as a tenor saxophonist and vocalist with the Gus Arnheim and George Olsen bands in the early-1930s. He was also a “regular” in the radio recordings of the World Broadcasting System under co-founder Gus Haenschen during that same period.
Fred MacMurray and Jack Lemon were both in the movie "The Apartment". The movie came out in June, 1960 so they probably filmed the movie in 1959 (the same year as this episode of WML). Maybe that's why Jack had Fred on his mind.
I was thinking about that. Fred McMurray doesn't know that he's soon going to have a situation comedy on TV. This is 1959, and neither Jack Lemmon, who's just finished working with Billy Wilder, nor Fred McMurray,.who had also worked for Billy Wilder, knew they were soon going to make a great movie together, with Billy Wilder, which I believe came out in 1960. That's cutting it so close! Yet, with all the negotiations, the preparation, the filming, and the post-production and promotion, before it can even be released, neither one knows a thing about it. Or they sure act like they don't.
@@lindajohnson4204 Who knows. Maybe this episode inspired Wilder (or someone else) to cast Fred McMurray. After all McMurray was playing against type in "The Apartment".
Both Fred MacMurray and Jack Lemmon will forever be linked to their mutual friend Billy Wilder. Billy wrote and directed the noir classic Double Indemnity which starred Fred MacMurray. And after this WML, Billy, Jack, and Fred would go on together to make another film classic, The Apartment.
Before a year had passed both Lemmon and MacMurray would costar in Billy Wilder's acclaimed 1960 film The Apartment. MacMurray went from a saxophonist in Ozzie Nelson's band to his breakout performance in Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity through comedies and the successful TV series My Three Sons.
You are viewing history incorrectly-how many people of color do you see on this show for example. There is no perfect time-period of ‘civility’, all ages have issues!
@@lijohnyoutube101 You are wrong! For it's day, this show was way ahead of its time. They had many guest on who weren't white. All of them treated with a high level of respect.
I am 62 yrs. Old, grew up watching, “My Three Sons”, which I thoroughly enjoyed, also enjoyed his films but his appearance on,”The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour”,“Lucy Hunts Uranium”(1958), Season 1, episode 3, was STUPENDOUS!
He was a wonderfully gifted actor ! Known as a really nice fella ! And thanks to savvy investments (mostly real estate) he became one of the richest men in show biz !
I remember hearing how he told his wife he wouldn't play bad guys anymore after a fan hit him with her purse. She took her kids to see The Apartment and told him that The Apartment was "...no Disney movie". Great movie and I love his movies as well as My Three Sons.
I guess Arlene Francis is a pretty good critic! “Some Like it Hot” is now considered by many critics to be the Greatest Comedy of all time. It wasn’t released to the public for three weeks from this air date. Talk about being ahead of the curve! (The next week, as you know, she raved about the Beatles)
Paul the Audacious Bradford - Truly Some Like It Hot is the very best comedy ever. The last line is as iconic as "Here's Looking at You Kid." I just watched it on my bloody phone.
Bennet Cerf was such a gentleman. Advising the charm school administrator that none of the ladies on the panel were in need of his services. What a charmer.
Robert Reinhart was one of the leading QB's in college football in 1956. He had more pass completions and more passing yardage that year than future NFL Hall of Famer Len Dawson and than Paul Hornung who won the Heisman trophy that year. Pretty impressive.
@@JJJBRICE He was drafted by the Browns along with future-HOFer Jim Brown and three other quarterbacks in 1957. I would guess he saw the writing on the wall and decided to go for more playing time with Toronto in the Canadian Football League. I read he eventually made his way to the AFL playing for the Oakland Raiders, but I can find no record of him playing pro ball in the AFL or NFL. Football, being seasonal, probably didn't pay the bills in those days; a charm school was likely a nice steady gig.
Fred MacMurray did "The Shaggy Dog" movie in 1959 with Tim Considine and Annette Funicello, among others. Additionally-Fred and Tim went on to act on the long-running comedy "My Three Sons".
Both wonderful in that movie. Fred was such a versatile actor from My Three Sons to The Apartment and Double Indemnity; he really had a wide range in his acting abilities.
Brooke Hanley When Billy Wilder asked Fred MacMurray to do "Double Indemnity," he turned him down, saying the role required real acting and that he couldn't do it. He was also reluctant to do weekly television, but it was in his "My Three Sons" contract that all his scenes for the entire season would be shot in one month--which is why the "sons'" haircuts change from scene to scene in single episodes.
John Yang Billy must have had faith in Fred because MacMurray ended up being perfect in that role and his acting was flawless in that movie IMO. He got quite an applause when he appears here on Whats My Line! He was great in The Apartment too.
John Yang Fred wasn't the first choice. Paul Douglas was slated to perform the role of Scheldrake. Douglas abruptly abruptly died of a heart attack shortly before shooting began.
This was total class and wit. Horrible what TV and culture has become. MacMurray was a very underrated film actor, and, from this, obviously a funny guy.
I love such a blast from the past. I remember the show well, being born in 1954, and the quality of entertainment back then, even though we were limited to 3 networks, if you were lucky to be able to tune them all in. There was great humor, great musical stars of all varieties,(not just limited to Rock and all of it's progenies), and news reporters who were not labelled as being fake or liberal. There were even some honest Republicans back then.
Some Like it Hot was one of the best movies I've ever seen. T he closing line, when Daphne reveals he was a man to Osgood, who replied, "Well, nobody's perfect," was the best line in any movie. Does anyone agree?
OK, I rewound the part where Arlene bursts out laughing @14:36 like 10 times. She kills me;) On a related note, thank you SO much for uploading these; I'm addicted to them now! My mom and I watch them on our Apple TV haha. You don't happen to have any of the 1964-67 full episodes, do you? It's just so nice to have them all compiled into playlists the way you do:D
+goldenthroat86 He looks like a serial killer! But he is at least over 6 feet tall. The men of this period on TV seemed to be often under 6 ft. tall and even shorter than 5'10". Wow.
Fred was considered a very nice man, and also the Cheapest Guy in Hollywood - he regularly "disappeared" into the Men's Room just before the check arrived, when eating out. I am stingy myself, so cannot fault Mr.MacMurray !
Arlene Francis certainly got it right about "Some Like It Hot" -- years later AFI rated it the funniest movie ever made. Fascinating to see Lemmon and MacMurrary cross paths a few months before Billy Wilder brought them together in "The Apartment." I doubt at this stage either one of them realized it -- for Wilder in the beginning wanted Paul Douglas for the Sheldrake role. Douglas would have been very good, but he died suddenly and the rest is history.
i always find it fascinating that subsequent to these panel and mystery guest meetings, they becomes colleagues. Take James Cagney and Arlene Francis, again for a Billy Wilder production.
Sometimes the one that is not "first choice" ends up being very good. Fred was not the first one asked to do" Double Indemnity" either and I cannot imagine anyone but him playing Walter Neff.
McMurray, Billy Wilder, and the script all came together on "Double Indemnity." And while Paul Douglas would have been great in Shelldrake's role in "The Apartment," McMurray certainly went to the heart of it. .
soulierinvestments Fred was a real Jerk in that to me,but "The Apartment" was one of the movies that made me fall in love with older movies when I was a teen in the early 00's......around 2004
This is fascinating. Within a year, Jack Lemmon and Fred MacMurray will star in "The Apartment". I wonder if they knew that when they came on the show, Lemmon being in "Some Like It Hot" and MacMurray being in the upcoming "The Shaggy Dog" at the time?
oldwestguy: There was a judge on as a contestant. Someone asked her if she passed the bar. Arlene said,"Haven't we all?" Someone else said, "Not often enough."
@@shirleyrombough8173 The banter between Daly, the panel, and the contestants was often the highlight of the show. Clever and cordial... to often missing in today's shows, which seem to value corny instead. I remember an episode that had a female judo instructor. At the end, when Arlene was confronting Daly about being mislead, Arlene said to Daly "You're just trying to throw us because SHE can." Lol.
I AM OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER FRED'S WIFE WHEN SHE STARED IN ALL THOSE MUSICALS...SO HAPPY SHE FOUND HAPPINESS WITH FRED AFTER SOME TRAGIC HAPPENINGS IN HER LIFE...
Jack Lemmon and Fred would soon star in The Apartment. Fred didn't mind playing bastards in Caine Mutiny and in The Apartment, he even enjoyed working at Disney. NO attitude at all. NICE GUY.
Nice guy, and notoriously stingy. On the set were almost always donuts and coffee for the cast and crew. The honor system used was if you took a donut you'd drop a dime in the cup. This fine man had a habit of taking half a donut, leaving the other half and paying a nickel.
You are so right ! They (Jack & Fred) would work together later that year - 1959 - on the Oscar-winning "The Apartment", which would be released in 1960. Actually, Hollywood veteran Paul Douglas had been cast in Fred's role as Jack's philandering boss, but after Mr Douglas' sudden death from a massive heart attack, Fred stepped in at the last minute, due to director/producer/co-writer Billy Wilder's urging. Back in the mid-40s, Billy & Fred had had great success with the film noir classic "Double Idemnity" & had enjoyed working together.
Kelloggs Sugar Pops, was in our pantry. My brother loved the cowboy with the gun on the box. Don't think that would fly today. . The sugary cereals took the place of home cooked oatmeal in time.
Actually, the voice Fred used here reminded me of the voice he affected years later in a MTS episode where thfamily traveled to Scotland cuz Steve had inherited a castle from a distant ancestor. In that episode, Fred played a dual role as Steve/? the character of his distant Scottish cousin. Sounded like the Scottish cousin to me…
Fred and Jack must have been just a few months away from filming THE APARTMENT, which was released in 1960, but they don't seem to have known that yet!
+Brooke Hanley I thought quite the contrary, at least after the first few questions. The start was very funny but the more he spoke, the more he give away. His voice sounds very familiar to me anyway, I've heard many old radio programs with Fred, he is one of my favorites.
+Sabine Beyer when you already know who it is you associate any similarities with the actual & disguised voice; had you been blindfolded you may not have(though you recall his radio voice that could possibly have made you an exception)
Naturally, if you can't see the Mystery Guest it is an different think. We, the seeing audience are in a better position. But it is most often funny to see, how they get the guest. That's one thing I like very much about WML
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