What's My Line? - Jeff Chandler (Oct 3, 1954) 

Helen Craig is my mother!!! Such an experience seeing my mom years before I was born. My daughter found this for me when I was telling my girls and grandkids about my family history.

I remember when Jeff Chandler died in May 1961. I was going on 15 then and was a movie buff at a young age plus I lived near Hollywood too.

Here, Jeff Chandler was 35 years old. He died rather tragically in 1961 at age 42. He injured his back while playing recreational baseball with extras from a movie being filmed in the Philippines. At a hospital in Culver City, California, he underwent surgery on his lower back to repair a herniated disc. They damaged an artery in the process, which required additional surgery (7-1/2 hours total) and a transfusion of 55 pints of blood. Then came a subsequent operation 10 days later which required 20 pints of blood. At some point, he picked up a blood infection and had complications from pneumonia which resulted in his death. His children sued for malpractice. It was, in my view, a sad and untimely end to the life of a talented actor.

The look on John's face after Bennett's intro is absolutely priceless! 🤣🤣

Jeff Chandler was a funny guest, many different voices. :)

Jeff chandler was such a good looking man and a great actor

The highly enjoyable Jeff Chandler portion begins at 16:02. Who knew he was so adept at comedic impressions!

What a beautiful guy Chandler was - lost too soon.

He was gorgeous and a bloody good singer, have a CD of his songs. Good impressionist too.😍😉

Seeing the great Jeff Chandler takes me back to my childhood. He was a great favourite of mine. He was a fine looking man. There was something magisterial about him. Some of his impressions were top draw. Sadly,he died very young during an operation.

Grand mother. mother and yours truly are enamoured with Jeff Chandler- A superb specimen of manliness who commanded the screen.

Jeff Chandler....The Clooney of his day. :)

Jeff Chandler was such a handsome man. And I never knew he could do impressions so well!

What a good looking man Jeffrey Chandler was!!! Va-Va-Voom 😍‼️

Kilgallen is incredible.

Jeff Chandler is pretty good with voices. He does a good Jimmy Stewart.

Another episode where I have never heard of the special guest but liked them very much from the appearance on this show.

What a fine looking man!

At 22:14, John said, “Looks like Lewis just got himself a weenie, as Dorothy calls it.” (18th usage) The 7th and 8th “interesting answers” occurred in this episode: Dorothy free guessed baseball umpire for the baseball scout, and Arlene free guessed horse trainer for the bronco buster. First episode with no walks of shame and the first when 2 guests needed the rules explained.

I liked this actor as a boy wonderful man god bless you jeff

I hadn't heard of Jeff Chandler and he was great doing different voices.

Jeff Chandler was so handsome. He died so young!

Martin Gabel's new Broadway production "The Recling Figure" was written and directed by Abe Burrows. It played on Broadway for 168 performances. Martin Gabel played "Jonas Astorg" and future "60 Minutes" newsman Mike Wallace (in his only appearance in a Broadway production) played the role of "Samuel Ellis."

I liked watching Jeff Chandler in westerns. He was a very good actor.

I was surprised that it took the panel so long to guess the mystery guest. I recall an earlier episode where one of the female panelists was trying to guess the name of a female actress. When trying to ascertain what type of actress she was, one of the questions was whether she would be more likely to be the female lead opposite an actor like Jeff Chandler. So apparently at least one of them considered Jeff the prototype for a certain type of lead actor in a certain type of movie. I also find it interesting how the panelists in the early 1950's, and it seems far more often Dorothy and Arlene, classify someone as a leading man: "are you the one who gets the girl in the picture?" We were still 14 years from Virginia Slims!

This is the first episode where Daly addresses not doing the walk of shame anymore. He says we used to have you go in front of the panel but we are not going to do that now.

Wow! Someone actually DID NOT know how SCORE is kept when John asked him. One other I remember not knowing was Walter Cronkite.

Actually Jeff Chandler did do a comedy--it was called "The Toy Tiger" but it was after this show. His wife divorced Jeff because he worked too hard, never had time for her. But she sure soaked him in the divorce--that's why he was nebulous here about his marriage status. His real name was Ira Grossel (he was Jewish) and his nickname was "Big Gray". He died from an injury on "Merrill's Mauraders when the doctors botched the operation. But he left behind some great films.

Enjoyed the trivia on Willie Mays; he was one heck of a great baseball player!

I had never heard of Jeff Chandler, so I looked him up. It seems his life turned out to be rather tragic.

Jeff Chandler has always reminded me of the Race Bannon character from Jonny Quest.

Jeff continued to play Mr. Boyington on the radio version of Our Miss Brooks throughout the run even after becoming a big movie star just because he loved the cast and crew. Of course, he wasn't able to participate in the tv version.

I find it interesting how the first gentleman, Mr. Montague, is from San Francisco, and is a baseball scout for the NY Giants. The Giants would be in San Francisco three years later.

Jeff was so Handsome!

Bennett Cerf always seems to guess the mystery guest just at the end. Amazing.

Jeff Chandler was a fine actor and very handsome. Another gone way to soon.

I always loved Jeff chandler and when i met my dad, who left when I was a few years old, I realized he looked just like him

I noticed several people commenting on how Arlene and John pronounce "rodeo." It was originally a Spanish word that was adopted into the English language. They way they pronounce it on WML is basically how it would be said in Spanish, so technically it's not wrong, even though most of us are more familiar with the Anglicized pronunciation.

Mr Jeff Chandler was a good Actor.R.I.P.

I love Bennett's smile

Jeff Chandler had me in tears sounding like a dolt.

Arlene had guessed correctly when she said training horses. Bronco Busting is just the expression that cowboys used for horse training. It is the same thing.

The marriage question for the Mystery Guest was awkward because he got divorced a few months earlier.

The cartoon character Race Bannon from Johny Quest was modeled after Jeff Chandler.

He was a fine radio actor and played Mr Boynton on OUR MISS BROOKS with Eve Arden. In a dream sequence Jeff Chandler kissed Eve Arden in front of the live studio audience and you could hear the audience SCREAM ! "Come here Connie !" then the SCREAMS . He became popular enough that they wanted him in the movies, so Robert Rockwell took over on the TV version. The whole radio cast went to TV except for Chandler.

Sadly Jeff died so young

It must be bittersweet for Jeff Chandler's daughters, should they ever see this video, to hear their father speak to them from the grave. (probably more bitter than sweet.)

One of a kind Gentle Giant: Jeff left us way too soon

In the discussion of Hollywood major studios beginning about 19:55, Arlene refers to "Metro" while Bennett calls it "MGM." I thought that might have been because Bennett was on MGM's board of directors, but as far as I can tell that didn't happen till the later 1950s.

*Silver Fox!*

Arlene calls John “Old Boy”. 🤣

Back then nobody was doing impersonations to any degree. Great show.

this would appear to be the first episode that the contestants don't have to take a walk in front of the panelists before the questioning starts.

The scout who discovered Mays...nice sports historical tidbit.

DREAMBOAT .........JEFF , WHATTA HUNK.............

That’s right, Chandler died young.

Jeff chandler has an unfortunate death: malpractice.

In this episode CD is singlehandedly eliminating the so called walk of shame in front of the panel.

After watching dozens of episodes, this is the first time I notice John made an error in scoring .. (the baseball scout).

Wow this was broad cast 1 day before I was born my B🎂Day is October 4, 1954 as I got older I begin to watch Jeff Chandler's movies one of my favorites is Foxfire also I enjoy Rory Calhoun's one my favorites starring Rory is The Red Sundown February 18, 2020

I wish one of the movie channels on Dish would show his movies.

I believe Robert q Lewis to be one of the best guest panelists.

I want a voice transplant, Sexiest male voice of all time, Where would I be today if I had that voice.

jEFF cHANDLER WAS 6'4". tALL DUDE.

Good Cagney impression

Why is this one so speeded up? I love Jeff Chandler.

Jeff Chandler would have a long affair with Esther Williams in the late Fifties. The following week's MG was Fernando Lamas, who became her third husband. Esther herself was arguably the show's best MG.

Jeff Chandler sure passed away in an unfortunate way. A severed artery during back surgery. And only 42 years old.

No Time for Sargeants

So sad...they are all gone....

yum yum

Jeff Chandler was hirsute--in the extreme. To say that his body was carpeted would be an understatement. The studio forced him to keep his bodily hair shaved at all times while working and he was constantly suffering from horrible itching.

Swimming legend Esther Williams has Jeff Chandler in her as-told-to bio in a big way. It's too naughty to say here, so I recommend reading it. What a handsome man.

Another one of those actors of a certain era who were more of a star off sceen than on, if you get my drift, sad Jeff died so young, a real pleasure to see him on film at least!!!!--------x

I met Willy Mays in 1970

My birthday!...albeit 25 years earlier haha

I've never heard of Jeff Chandler. Probably I'm a bit young to remember him.

Jeff Chandler reminds me of Rod Serling.

He was fantastic in merrill marraders.. died far too soon

If being a cross dresser is the worst thing Jeff Chandler ever did, I don't see a problem.

2 contestants on this show that aren't fully aware of how the scoring works for the show which basically revolves around the rules of the game. I've seen this a handful of times over the run of the series and it always baffles me how this can possibly happen. I know it's 1954 and things are different, but even if you didn't own a TV set or you'd never seen this show before, you'd think if you knew you were going to be in front of a national TV audience you'd at least learn a little something about it before you made the appearance. You'd think you'd either make it a point to watch the show at least once before being on or be asking friends how the show works. They had to have some knowledge of the show just to be a contestant as they weren't randomly selected from a phone book so you'd think if you knew enough to want to be on the show you'd either know or learn something about how the show worked. And then if you didn't take that initiative you'd think a producer or someone affiliated with the show would at least explain a little about it prior to the show. I'd love to ask these people why they didn't take the initiative to learn the basics of the show that they were going to appear on.

BEST SWIMMER TO CO STAR WITH ESTHER WILLIAMS

There was an umpire in the 70s and 80s named Ed Montague.

Not Cricket, old boy? How delicious.

I wonder if Mr. Montague had anything to do with the NY Giants becoming the SF Giants.

Re the baseball scout, there was an umpire in the major leagues name of Ed Montague around this time. I wonder if it was the guy on this episode that changed from being a scout?

Chandler also did a great Gollum voice!

Refreshing to hear Craig actually said correctly and not "Creg"

Omg , Jeff Chandler and Gian Maria Volonte are lost twins!

Lock over the forehead type boys

John Daly is confusing Shakespeare with royalty when he remarks upon the first contestant's name.

So, does anyone know the word that Robert Q Lewis guessed for the first contestant? I tried to look it up but must be getting the spelling wrong.

Who chose Arlene's hat? Of all the different outfits she's worn on the show to date, this one could have been skipped.

I am off to discover Elvis Aaron Presley working at Crown Electric in Memphis.

Oops... Looks like no feelings were hurt but Mr Cerf weren't really careful with his words when asking a recent diivorcee if he's married...

They had had like 6 guesses on Montague's job and they failed...

BASEBALL SCOUT FOR NEW YORK YANKEES BRONCO BUSTER

My goodness, Jeff Chandler was only 36 years old in this episode...he looks like he's in his 50s.

I think Bennett and John had more than a friend ship going on. Cerf was not one my favorite panelist. Hal Block was much funnier than Cerf .

It was a known fact that Jeff Chandler was seriously involved with Esther Williams and they were supposed to get married. However, she discovered he had women's clothing in his apartment (of a large size--especially shoes) and realized he was, at least, a cross-dresser. Esther said sayanora!