What's My Line? - Liza Minnelli; Paul Anka [panel] (May 16, 1965) 

I am addicted to this show. I need WML rehab.

everyone is so gracious and well mannered. Wish we see more people like that.

Nobody was a better jazz dancer than Liza. Then, there’s that voice. She definitely inherited her mother’s talent.

I grew up watching these shows and it is so fantastic to be able to watch them again it's like seeing them for the for the first time.

I too am addicted to wml. Such politeness is very refreshing.

Gosh Liza was soooo adorable here. I see a lot of Judy's mannerisms and the way she spoke here. Two legends!

That was brilliant to see a young fresh Liza Minnelli

I love Paul Anka. What great music he’s given us.!

Arlene being an absolute sweetheart and saying sorry she guessed it so fast to the first guest 💖💖 Arlene really was so intelligent and kind, she is one of my absolute favorite people ever 💖💖 ((Also the second guest is from the same small town in Iowa as Radar from MASH and that gave me such a kick 😹😹))

I want to thank you for posting these episodes . This has helped me through more than the pandemic. The panel and John have become like friends and kept me going. Happily, I'm on the other side of the tunnel. Thanks again

Oh Bennet Cerf, let Liza shine in the glory of being a Mystery Guest without labouring the point of her being Garland's daughter. Good for her, she brought in her father to balance things out. Liza was always in her mother's professional shadow (constantly being compared with her) as a fellow entertainer, and it must have been hard to shine on her own merit always being alluded to as “the daughter of..”.

It takes something to win the Tony Award as Best Actress in a Musical in a show that was a flop and ran only 87 performances. (Thx, wiki.) She must have wowed 'em.

Too bad the panel expected Liza and guessed right away. Otherwise her accent was quite good and non-revealing.

Liza Minnelli was a very bubbly vivacious young lady back then.

Liza was simply stunning! ❤️

Just imagine all that Paul Anka has experienced. He was quite young here in rubbing elbows with the rest of the panel, and most recently was a contested on Masked singer now at the age of 79 in 2020, more than 55 years later.

Omg Arlene pulled the skate board out with one round of questions. She was good

I don't think there is another parent child situation in Hollywood where the talent is this AMAZING. The Coles obviously, Cissy and Whitney but Liza is so wonderful

Liza has had people cheer her name from a very young age and for over 50 years, and she is still an incredibly decent, likable, kind person. Amazing that a huge celebrity can be so UN-celebrity-like. Love you Liza.

It's great seeing mystery guests before they peaked in their careers, which obviously applies to Liza Minnelli. "Cabaret" and "Liza with a Z" (both from 1972) showed off a talent that the panel and audience of "What's My Line?" would have never seen coming in 1965.

Recently I have been watching Paul Anka play "Password" on the early versions that were recorded in b&w. His intelligence is very impressive. He has a very logical mind, very good at deductive reasoning and building upon the previous answers. On WML, a panelist's skill is measured by more than how many solves did they achieve. It's also about how much did they advance the process in narrowing the focus and getting the panel closer to a correct answer. For example, Paul's question to the last challenger as to whether she was associated with that year's World's Fair got a "no" answer, but it was a logical first question to ask anyone from a foreign country. It immediately eliminated a lot of avenues that the panel might have gone down in questioning. Therefore, it was a good question.

ARLENE got the first one right away. She called it, skating board. Good job.

Liza sounds SOOO much like her mom when she was young!

Just saw Paul Anka at Mohegan Sun...at 77yo, he was fantastic... adorable here, but a mature Paul is pretty wonderful, too!

I was 12/13 in 1965. When skateboards came out we would take our metal skates, the kind with the key that you attached to your shoes, pull them apart and screw them to the bottom of a piece of plywood. Voila, a skateboard!! Ah, the days when kids were innovative and active, and were able to play safely outside all over town.

Dorothy was the best panelist. She knew how to ask the right questions. Too bad she would not be around much longer after this show.

Love this show. Always have.

Paul Anka was only 23 years old here (he turned 24 on July 30). I gather he was one of the youngest Guest Panelist on WML. His name has now and had then a constant humorous touch in Sweden - 'anka' is the Swedish word for 'duck' as in 'Donald Duck'. :)

Those teenaged eyerolls by the first guest are adorably hilarious.

we were so young then....ah..Liza..Love you

A very happy exchange between Dorothy, Bennett and Liza et al after about the 18 minute mark. Sadly, within 6 years Dorothy, Judy Garland and Bennett will all be gone.

When Liza says "I don't know what she was doing but I was terrified." She sounded just like her mother in the Wizard of Oz.

I'm dieing here in 2019 when she asked ms McGee " is it one of those new skating boards?"😂😂

Skateboard started then, amazing! And noboby could imagine how successful it would be and for how long!

Liza would shortly win the Tony Award for "Flora, The Red Menace."

It’s fun and interesting to me to watch this show that was recorded live when I was only 6 weeks old. :) And I learned that skateboards were a new thing back then! I had thought they existed way before this because one of my earliest memories as a 3 year old was of my teenage brother riding on his skateboard, and when I was 4 years old, I remember him using his skateboard often. 😀

Paul Anka was unbelievably handsome here!

Good to see an adorable, young Liza Minnelli when she was first starting out.

WHAT A TALENTED PERSON WHO WORKED HARD TO TAKE THEM EVEN FURTHER .

The skateboard wheels then were fixed, so that turning and doing all the stunts done today were much more difficult in 1965.

Wow this girl was a pioneer in skateboarding 🛹

Some of the young performers who made it onto WML as MG's or guest panelists had relatively brief moments in the light of stardom. This episode features two young stars who had staying power through their multiple talents. What a joy it is to see them here, early in their careers.

The "panel" was very often spot-on when they correctly identified a "mystery guest" in quick fashion. For the most part, it was a matter of knowing "whom" was in town at any given moment. Bennett Cerf was especially good with this portion of the show, because he (as Random House publisher) HAD to know about every celebrity in New York at any given point in time. It was a huge part of what he did - and Mr. Cerf was quite successful with this popular portion of the show. He fully did his homework - and it quite well showed.

Wow, back when skateboards were new.

The skateboards must have been a new thing. I move to Calif. in 1964 and put my foot on my neighbor's skateboard and went flat on my back. Never got back on one again. And I also lived in Covina for 25 years. I met Paul Anka 15 years after this show in Las Vegas, he had a new nightclub and I met him there. Memorial weekend in 1978. This show brings back a lot of memories.

Liza says at one point that Soupy Sales is terrific when Bennett complains that he expected Liza last week and got Soupy instead. She and Soupy Sales appeared in the same episode of her mother's variety program in 1963.

Loved Liza in the movie Arthur. She's amazingly talented and beautiful, just like her mother Judy. 🥰👏

If you would design the perfect face Miss Liza had it. What a beauty.

Paul Anka, what a handsome man. Jason Bateman is married to one if his daughters.

Miss McGee was lovely. I had a skateboard around 1965 when my Dad took roller skates and attached them to the bottom of a piece of wood. That was my skateboard. No pads or helmets back in those days. We also rode our bikes with no helmets or pads either. Those were the days for better or worse. Thanks for the video.

Liza look so gorgeous here.....

This is my favourite show. I watch it with my mom

Let me tell you something, Dorothy Kilgallen was really good at this, but Arlene Francis was second to none. She was, without internet, very, very well read and informed...

love miss killgallen

My fave remembrance of Minneli was in the movie 'Arthur' as her character consoles her sobbing dad, (the actor who went on to become the beloved Jerry Seinfeld's dad in 'Seinfeld'.), after she briefly broke up with the billionaire. 😁 Tee Hee!

Judy and Liza. 2 great actresses and singers :-)

The Girls Skateboarding Championship of 1965 was held in Anaheim, California, 1 week after this program aired. You can watch some of it on RU-vid. It was covered by ABC.

I recognized the name of the town Mr. Hull lived in because later a very famous person also came from Ottumwah. I recognized it immediately because it was often mentioned as Radar's hometown.

honestly glad they got it right away and we got a cute little interview

That Liza glow! Always beautiful!

About the celebrity guessing... Dorothy's column was called 'Voice Of Broadway'. She knew how to narrow things down quickly. And yes, the others all had the pulse of entertainment down pat... It was what they all did.

Thank you so much for posting these WML. I guess you don't read our messages today given you were posting and uploading weekly a few years ago, so the interaction must've been fun. It's lovely to see these days online again. Thank you for sharing. Gosh Liza was so beautiful and gushing. She sounds so much like Judy when she was younger. They even talk the same!

I actually got my first skateboard 2 or 3 years before this show aired. It had metal wheels. My older brother liked it so much he went out and bought himself a nicer one with better wheels.

Liza was so fresh, charming and charismatic. Love Arlene. Great show. The panel always looked elegant

Liza Minnelli was so cute when she was young. Resembles her mother, but a spitting image of her father really. Too bad they guessed her so fast.

Skateboarding had been around for several years, but the 60's and 70's was when it started to catch on, and by the 1980's, the popularity of skateboarding reached to heights like never before, especially in Los Angeles, the skateboarding capital of America. And now you have pro-skateboarders; Tony Hawk being the most famous.

I guess it was one of the shows running gags to have John Daly and Bennett throw mostly good-natured barbs at eachother.

This is crazy how they're all amazed at this "new board" that came out; referring to the skateboard. lol

Wow! 😀 Liza Minnelli is only 19 years old here! Now in 2024 she is 78 years old 💞

liza had just turned 19. fascinating guest with the skate board career, the "fad" apparently died down fairly quickly after it started, now of course a major multi-billion dollar industry. the lady skate boarder patti mcgee was just 19 herself. and amazing how arlene nailed down her craft all by herself. dorothy would sadly be dead in less than 6 months.

3:28: 10 years after Marty McFly invented the skateboard.

And in later years Liza would live in the same apartment building as Paul Anka LA.

Early skateboards were really dangerous. They had steel wheels. Not sure when they started using polyurethane (or something similar), which was much more forgiving.

How interesting- after 20+ years working in management in Atlantic City's Casinos, My all time favorite and all time most despised celebs on the same show!! Liza is just a delight, someone who I could easily be best friends with; and 'Tall Paul'?? You wouldn't believe it even if I could tell you...unbelievable! :-(

I always watch for Bennett's "pouty face" when he gets a "NO."

Until several months ago, I had no idea that Liza Minnelli, the famous daughter of Judy Garland was a Mystery Guest on this show. But as they always say "You learn something new every day". And of course, her famous Mother, Judy Garland, was a Mystery Guest two years later.

'Radar' O'Reilly was from Ottumwa, Iowa!!!

I was in this theater in 2009. It was called CBS Studio 52 back in 1965. Today it's called called Studio 54 where plays are still performed to this day.

Sad to see that Judy Garland and Vincent Minnelli had divorced by this time, but Liza made a point of mentioning him. That said, Liza married four times, but at least she outlived her mother.

Random fact....Katharine Hepburn rode skateboards...

Liza looked flawlessly beautiful.

National Museum of American History (Smithsonian) "Life magazine featuring first professional women skateboarder, Patti McGee ... In 1964, Patti became the first female to win the National Skateboard Championships and achieved another first in 1965 as she became the first female pro skateboarder. Patti went on to appear on the television show “What’s My Line” and “The Tonight Show” with Johnny Carson after being featured on the cover of Life magazine in May of 1965. She was also the only woman to be featured on a skateboard magazine cover when she appeared on the May 1965 issue of Skateboarder Magazine. Patti was a worldwide ambassador for the skateboarding world in the 1960s and continues in that role today with her induction into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame, the first female to hold that honor."

Paul anka bellisimo a los veintitres años!!

I was led to believe it was Judy! But do love Liza, very different talent

As Gary said, it is not a video glitch. Apparently, it is missing, because it was lost during the rushed assembling of "What's My Line at 25".

Love Liza and Judy and Lorna and Joey...but Vincent Minnelli was such a film artist to me..love everything he ever did and he also worked as art directer at Radio City Music Hall way back when.....In my will it says if I can sit up in bed and watch a judy Movie I'm to be kept alive....hugs

They knew it was Liza from the audience reaction when she came out.

In an alternate universe, Liza Minnelli and Paul Anka met tonight, fell in love, got married and became a Steve and Eydie-type act.

Arlene asks "is there any difficulty in your job, beyond the difficulty we all find in our work" so fast and got a NO...that even John missed it! And she goes on to another question. We should note this when it happens. I'll put up a chart at the drugstore downtown, ok?

Lovely how Arlene Francis is wearing gloves!!

It would be fascinating to know what happened in Paul Anka's introduction that was so funny that WML at 25 considered using it -- and lost it.

Dorothy Kilgallen was very smart,ultrasmart.

The first and last contestants are my favorite non-mystery guest challengers in this episode.

I had no idea in the world they were that old!

Bennett Cerf was a terrible snob. Good for Liza for saying Soupy Sales was wonderful.

'Loved this!

15:25 -- The late eighties and early nineties program Square One TV had a bit in Mathnet where George Frankly came this close to being crushed in a stationary crusher while investigating a GTA ring.

19:01 ... Judy Garland: Died June 22, 1969 (aged 47)

Dorothy only had about six months to live..what a shame!!

Liza was one of the youngest female mystery guests ever -- 18. [two male mystery guests appeared when they were 11 / 12] Paul Anka is one of the youngest guest panelists -- 24ish.