MYSTERY GUEST: Joe DiMaggio (legendary Yankees center fielder, recently divorced from Marilyn Monroe) PANEL: Dorothy Kilgallen, Fred Allen, Arlene Francis, Bennett Cerf
Joe DiMaggio had such a reserved public persona, it is refreshing to see him laugh and so relaxed, says a lot about the atmosphere of the show and its ability to make everyone feel comfortable.
@M : I heard that same drivel about 50 years ago about how soccer would be the biggest sport in America. 50 years from now, I'll bet most Americans will still find it boring. It will always be a good place for soccer moms to take their kids.
@M and American quality is declining at the same time that soccer is improving. Soccer isn't an American game and it never will be. America is ceasing to be America. It's turning into a soy, 3rd World sink hole thanks to the communist counterrevolution in America since the late '60s. 🏈 and ⚾ are uniquely American and reflect the American psyche better than any other. One has been ruined by replacing white players with latins and replacing whites in football by blacks...and constantly f'g with the rules until everyone gets tired of it being turned into a girls game.
There’s a world of difference between Arlene and Dorothy, but I love watching the two of them. They seem like such good friends and Dorothy loves Arlene’s great wit and sense of humor...so do I!
Arlene had great fun with the palace guard! Since she rarely, if ever, gets to be in on the joke like we are. And then when she put her fur on her head! She's just the best!
This is from the day I was born 9/18/1955. I was born at home and this was my parents favorite tv show and with only two channels I was probably watching although have no recall.
I was born the next morning at 705A in Brooklyn and I was wondering if my folks were watching the show at the time. They would have seen the show LIVE with a rabbit ear antenna on the roof. See my comment above. Happy Birthday, by the way, on the 18th.
Joe seems to be very relaxed and enjoying himself in his Mystery Guest appearances, belying the reputation he had for being stiff, sometimes to the point of paralysis, in front of the camera! He was delightful.
I am too young to have seen him play live, but Joe DIMAGGIO was one of the best New York Yankees to ever play Major League Baseball. He is a legend in sports, and Mr. DIMAGGIO will never be forgotten. He was nicknamed Jolten Joe for a reason. He we a great hitter in baseball.
Love Joltin' Joe...always loved two lines about him...his Yankees teammates were mostly beer drinking party guys on the road, while DiMaggio mostly stayed behind in the hotel. In Ken Burns' 'Baseball' the narrator said, "he led the league in Room Service." lol. Elsewhere someone once remarked, "he's the only guy that would attempt to domesticate Marilyn Monroe."
I'm in the middle of reading a book about Joe and Marilyn and was surprised at how eloquent Joe was. He seemed a lovely man. He never got over Marilyn.❤
His grin when the contestant's line is revealed is inimitable, even when the whole panel has been stumped. It seems that he enjoys being fooled almost as much as he enjoys a correct guess. That smile was surely one of the reasons that Goodson and Todman kept employing him for so many years.
Up until his death Joe turned down multi-million dollar offers to tell tell-all, lurid stories about Marilyn Monroe. He knew to keep private what's private. Something lost in today's world.
Since millions of people were not yet born or too young to have seen DiMaggio play, and be in the newspapers every day, but were alive 30 years later when he made those often-played commercials for many years, it is not particularly amazing.
Johan Bengtsson "What do you mean where have I gone? Haven't I been doing the Mr. Coffee commercials for the last ten years?" Joe DiMaggio to Paul Simon.
“I'll go to my grave regretting and blaming myself for what happened to her,” DiMaggio is quoted as saying after her passing. DiMaggio organized to have roses delivered to Monroe's Los Angeles crypt three times a week for 20 years after her death.
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I found this episode especially interesting because I was wondering if my family was watching this LIVE that Sunday Evening when my Mom told my Dad to take her to St. Elizabeth Maternity Hospital in the Sunset Park/Bay Ridge area of Brooklyn NY where I was born the next morning at 705A. This was two weeks before the Brooklyn Dodgers finally beat the NY Yankees in the World Series. My Dad said I brought them luck.
After Joltin' Joe and Marilyn Monroe divorced, Joe still carried a torch for her. At Marilyn's funeral in 1962, Joe was visibly grief-stricken. Joe outlived Marilyn by a good many years.
By the way, I like Fred Allen's glasses, now that I've watched a few episodes since he started wearing them. I think they do work for him the way he hoped. (I think this pair actually has lenses in the frames, too.)
I have read/heard some less-than-flattering comments regarding Mr. DiMaggio over the years. Although no one questions his skill as a baseball player, he was thought by many to be rather standoffish, no doubt a result of what I've heard was his being extremely defensive of his private life. I understand that he didn't trust people as a rule, and that often made him come across as cold.
Their was many times over the years that a contestant didn't know how the score worked. Remember majority of folks couldn't afford a TV, or lived in areas without reception.😊
As much as I would have loved to have seen Marilyn do this, I just could never picture Marilyn as a mystery guest, as much as I love her. She was just too out of this world and almost superhuman in a weird way, like Brando, James Dean, etc.
She would have been terrified of live television, too-- I always figured this was the reason she never showed up on WML. They sure talked about her showing up-- and even guessed that she was the mystery guest-- enough times!
I can only think of two instances in which Marilyn appeared on television (aside from an early commercial she did for gasoline and later one for, I think, Coke); she appeared as a guest on Jack Benny's show (and never looked more beautiful!) and also on Edward R. Murrow's show (on which she was weirdly, disappointingly subdued). Milton Greene, the photographer who ran her production company, set up the Murrow appearance but otherwise turned down TV offers. Marilyn was a movie star, he would say. If people want to see her, they'll have to go to the movies. Still, as others here have said, it's a pity she was never a mystery guest on WML. Can you imagine the applause and whistles?
The pennant race discussed in this episode came down to the Indians and the Yankees. At the conclusion of this game day (9/18/55), the Yankees defeated the Red Sox and the Indians lost to Detroit, giving NY a two-game lead over Cleveland with a week left in the season.
The Indians, defending AL champs, had the lead going into this weekend. They were swept by the Tigers while the Yankees swept the Red Sox. Once they grabbed a hold of the lead, the Yankees wouldn't let it go for the rest of the season.
I wore a shako covered with fake fur when with my band uniform when I was in high school, and I note that the dictionary defines "shako" as "a large, military hat made of fur. But the one I wore, which was large enough, was about 1/4 the size of those worn by the Queen's Guards. Their shakos aren't just large -- they're enormous!
I'm sorry for this, but it's the result of wrongful copyright claims that the channel is being attacked with by Fremantle, despite the indisputably public domain (non-copyrighted) status of the entire series, something they've been doing on and off to this channel for almost 4 years now. I'm in the process of fighting the claims, and when the claims are rescinded, the videos will be made public again. I hate having to do this, but I'm fighting against a giant international media conglomerate here, and there are very few options available, because RU-vid has slanted everything against independent channels like this one. I can only ask your patience until I'm able to resolve this. Thanks!
@@WhatsMyLine An example of the chilling effect of overly broad legislation interfering with free speech. There should be penalties for false copyright claims which are at least as severe as penalties for infringement and in a world without paid lobbyists and congressional campaign contributions, there would be Thank you for fighting for us.
MISS FRANCIS !!!!!!!!!! Oh, my : first words out of her mouth and she mentions Monroe !!!!!! Arlene still finds her mouth with her foot regardless of her blindfold.
What’s My Line had a former baseball player as the mystery guest on 9/18/1955. Of course, it was a former Yankee. There’s no surprise there. It’s understandable that WML would grab Joe DiMaggio since he wouldn’t have been available very often. But at some point, there needed to be equal time. The panelists continue to mention the Dodgers, but they still aren’t invited on the show as a celebrity guest. As the Dodgers continued to prepare for the World Series and whoever their opponent would be after a travel day on Monday, they had a three game series in St. Louis to finish up their final western swing of the season. The Cardinals swept them, extending the Dodger losing streak to five games. It was their longest losing streak of the season, but of little consequence since they had already clinched the pennant. On Tuesday, Willard Schmidt went the distance to beat the Dodgers 8-2. The Cardinals led the whole way. Karl Spooner had a disappointing follow up to his stellar efforts during the pennant clinching game. He gave up four of the eight runs and was knocked out in the fourth inning. On Wednesday, Tom Poholsky held the Dodgers to three measly singles as he outdueled Carl Erskine, 3-0. Thursday’s game was the most competitive of the series. The Dodgers scored in the top of the third on a triple by Don Hoak and a single by Pee Wee Reese off Ben Flowers. The Cards answered back in the bottom of the inning with two outs on back to back home runs by power hitting outfielders Stan Musial and Rip Repulski off Sandy Koufax. Flowers ran out of gas in the eighth, failing to retire a batter. A walk to Reese, a single by Duke Snider and a single by Carl Furillo tied the score. Larry Jackson was called upon in relief. He got out of that jam by getting Rube Walker to bounce into a double play. He held the Dodgers hitless for four innings before giving up a leadoff double to Don Zimmer in the twelfth. An error and an intentional walk loaded the bases with two outs. Jackson escaped the trouble when Furillo’s line drive was caught by Ken Boyer at third base to end the inning. Chuck Templeton was brought into the game in the bottom of the inning. He walked Musial and was relieved by Ed Roebuck. After Repulski singled, outfielder Joe Frazier bunted the runners to second and third. Catcher Nelson Burbrink hit a grounder to third base and Musial was trapped between third and home. Repulski made it to third. The Dodgers then played the percentages by intentionally walking first baseman Wally Moon to face shortstop Alex Grammas. The move backfired when Grammas singled to end the game. Following the extra inning night game, a loss of an hour heading east and with an active 5-game losing streak, the Dodgers returned home to play a weekend series against the Giants. What looked to be a crucial series between arch-rivals and the top two finishers in the NL in 1954 when the schedule was published, was now at most a series for some bragging rights within the city. At best, the Giants would require a sweep to gain a split of the 22 games between the two teams. As it turned out, the Dodgers won on Friday to break their losing streak and again on Sunday. On Friday, neither team was able to score more than one run in an inning, as the Dodgers kept forging ahead and the Giants kept coming back to tie. A pair of solo homers by Gil Hodges off Ramon Monzant, the second of them in the fourth, gave the Dodgers a 3-1 lead. In the seventh, the Giants tied the score again when the first two batters reached on an error and a walk. Don Bessent relieved Billy Loes and after retiring right fielder Don Mueller on a fly out, gave up a run scoring single to center fielder Willie Mays. But Bessent escaped further damage by retiring the next two batters. In the seventh, Hodges got things going again with a leadoff single. After Robinson bunted him to second and Zimmer flied out, George Shuba batted for Bessent and singled home Hodges with the final run of the 4-3 win. Clem Labine came in to retire all six batters he faced and the mini losing streak was over. On Saturday afternoon, during a sloppy game all around, the Dodgers made four errors that led to four unearned runs and lost 8-5. The Dodgers led 4-3 after 3 innings but the Giants tied it in the fourth, took the lead in the fifth and won it going away. Sunday’s game would be the last one managed by Leo Durocher for the New York Giants against the Brooklyn Dodgers. One season after leading the Giants to be World Champs, he was out the door and spent the next few years failing to make it in show business. By the time he returned to the major leagues as manager of the Chicago Cubs in 1966, the Dodgers were in their ninth year in L.A. In between, Durocher had coached for the Dodgers on the west coast from 1961-64. When Durocher managed against his old first lieutenant, Chuck Dressen, from 1951-1953, Dodger-Giant games were often strategic battles of wits that led to multiple pitching changes and pinch hitters: long, drawn out games. Managing against Walt Alston in a mostly meaningless game, the game took only two hours and twenty minutes. Starting pitcher Ruben Gomez wasn’t taken out until the Dodgers three-run seventh when they would retake the lead for good. He would be charged with all seven Dodger runs that they scored. Durocher only used pinch hitters to bat for pitchers and in the ninth inning against the Dodgers bullpen. The Dodgers were trailing 5-4 going into the bottom of the seventh when Shuba batted for Bessent and doubled. Sandy Amoros ran for him. Jim Gilliam singled to tie the game, going to second on the throw to the plate. Reese singled home the go ahead run and chased Gomez out of the game. Windy McCall’s wild pitch allowed Reese to advance to second before he struck out Snider. Monzant then relieved, but Campanella’s double added the insurance run in the 7-5 victory. Labine ran into trouble in the ninth but stranded runners at second and third to get the save while Bessent was credited with his eighth victory against no defeats. Willie Mays did hit another homer. He had homered in all three games of the series, part of a streak in which he homered in six straight games and seven of eight. That streak gave him 50 home runs on the season. His late surge would make him major league home run king for the year. But otherwise, Dodger pitchers cooled him off by retiring him in his other four at bats. His infield popup ended the game. Uptown in the Bronx, the Yankees completed a three game sweep of the Red Sox while the Indians got swept at home by the Tigers. In second place coming into the weekend, the Yankees now led by two games. And while they had seven games remaining, the Indians only had five in which they could catch up: two in Chicago (at this point the White Sox, who were five games back, would need a miracle to win the pennant) and three in Detroit. The Yankees would also finish the season on the road with three games against the lowly Senators (managed by Dressen) and four games against the Red Sox. Sensing the Yankees’ momentum and knowing their habit of winning, the Dodgers and their fans were expecting that at the end of the final week of the season, they would be facing the Yankees in the World Series for the sixth time in fifteen years. The Indians had folded like cheap patio furniture.
@@mikewhitney8615 Koufax was a rookie in 1955 and had not yet mastered his trade. He was a good, but not great, pitcher for his first few years. In his final 5 seasons he had become an incredibly dominant pitcher: 111 wins and 34 losses, 1.95 ERA, 1444 strikeouts in 1377 innings pitched. For every 9 innings, he had 9.4 strikeouts while allowing only 2.1 walks and 0.6 home runs.
We have discussed this before, Lois, but viewers should be aware that Jackie Robinson was a MG in 1950, one of the early lost episodes, and so was Roy Campanella. That makes two were Dodgers at the time (recognizing that they moved West less than halfway through the show's run). There were people associated with the Mets in later years who were MGs as well, and there were NY Giants MGs during the years they played at the Polo Grounds. But the Yankees won 8 World Series in the 18 baseball seasons that WML was in NY, and they stayed in NY the whole time of course. So equal time is not justified.
@@preppysocks209 Understood. I am only talking about equal time during the years when the Dodgers were in Brooklyn during the shows run, and especially the fact that there were absolutely no Dodger players during the championship season of 1955. Then in 1956 during the World Series, who do they finally bring on from the Dodgers? Sal Maglie, who had only come over to the Dodgers in May and was one of the most hated members of the Giants for many years. Where was Pee Wee Reese, or Gil Hodges, or Carl Erskine or Don Newcombe (who won 27 games that year) and as far as I know, had never been on WML? (Hodges eventually got on when the Senators acquired him from the Mets and he became their manager.) They were all star players in their own right and long-time Dodgers who had never played for another major league team.
Steven Chappell I think that those uniforms are mostly ceremonial, worn when ‘guarding’ Buckingham Palace and for public parades like the Edinburgh Tattoo etc. Obviously when the Guards are on active duty they wear more standard, practical uniforms.
I am a cousin of Joe. He was so upset at her showing her undies to everyone that he reacted poorly. He was from a strict Italian Catholic Family. He only hit her once as far as I know and regretted it the rest of his life. He was a good man. Franci Lucero
@@jakevendrotti1496 I hear ya of course it’s never OK to hit a woman even once. I told my husband if he ever put his hands on me once that I’d be gone. At least I warned him. He never has and we’ve been married 44 years.
