What's My Line? - Louis Armstrong (Mar 14, 1954) 

Dorothy really showed her brilliance this episode. It's too bad she passed the way she did. 😢

This program truly is priceless. It brings to light all of the professions lost to the industrialization of our society.

I was sitting here wondering how the heck is Louis Armstrong going to disguise his voice. Even his "ummhmm"'s gave him away.

So fun for Mr. Armstrong to sing a few bars for us! A generous guest to give a musical treat like that.

I cannot think of anyone not loving Louis Armstrong.

I love how Louis voice is so recognizable that even if ur blindfolded, you'd easily be able to tell who he is so he just has to grunt ^_^

Louis Armstrong is one of the greatest performers of the last century

What's My Line was so classy. So well done. Just fun.

Loved Louis trying to disguise his voice!!!

This week's mystery guest, in case a younger viewer might not know, embodied a whole step from one kind of music to another in the 20th century. Arguably modern music wouldn't be what it is without him.

Turns out Audry Conti was scouted by a Manhattan movie studio after her appearance on WML and was signed to be an actress. Did a couple of movies the most famous of which were _The Joker is Wild_ and _The Naked and the Dead._ Still living, apparently, and as of this writing is 89 years old.

"Well, I'll get higher next time!" Bless him, he pulled that right off on them!

If this aired on March 14, 1954 then Dorothy Kilgallen was just 5 days away from giving birth.

The great Louis Armstrong. I love listening to his song "What a Wonderful World." Wish could say that about our world today.

Mr Armstrong, what a voice and he played the trumpet to perfection. A true musician.

Just finished watching Louis Armstrong: Black and Blues - fabulous documentary -brought me here.

Love the dresses the women wore in the 50's

I have always been impressed with John Daly as an intelligent, suave and compassionate moderator, but what impressed me the most is that, he being from South Africa, was truly courteous, and sincerely appreciative of all his Black Celebrity guests throughout the years. He always showed great respect for their accomplishments and talents.

I wish I could travel back in time, hug Mr. Armstrong and say "Thank you" Because he seems so damn huggable =p

Oh my, Miss Conte is absolutely gorgeous. This is the first show I've seen where the panel went 2 for 2 from the start. It musta been impossible for Louis Armstrong to disguise his voice even with mm hmm answers for yes

Louise Armstrong. WML got lucky twice. It may be a commercial plug, but here he sang a few lines about his Basin Street engagement. And in his 1964 mystery guest appearance, WML inadvertently got from Louis the singing TV premiere of his song "Hello Dolly!" I suspect if he had brought his trumpet, we would have gotten some notes there as well.

I've watched nearly 100 of these WML episodes, and I think this is one of the best so far. Maybe they were just superb actors, but they all look like they are having a such a great time. Fun to watch. Thank you so much for sharing these!

Thank you for posting these wonderful videos. You introduced me to "What's My Line?" and now it's a favorite. I never know how intelligent, fun and witty TV was in the 1950s and early 60s.

Satchmo was such a wonderful and kind-hearted man. Truly needed now more than ever!!!

What a legend. I just watched a clip with nat King cole. Very nice to see these people alive.

the first contestant was really lovely.

Armstrong was on What's My Line again, almost exactly 10 years later, on March 22, 1964! The video is on RU-vid.

Thank you so much for all your work putting these together and getting them online. I am going through them chronologically I have to watch at least 2 a day,they are wonderful!! Thank you for these - they make me happy.

This is the first time we see the new opening program visuals with the three jack-in-the-boxes title credit.

...and STILL no one can say oh yeah like Satchmo!

I love your posts. Thank you!

Moments of genuine hilarity!

If you want another dose of Satchmo, exactly 10 years later, see show on March, 22 1964!!

I looked up the first contestant, Audrey Conti. She was only 21 when she appeared on this show, and she went on to make some B sci fi movies in the '50s but nothing more.

Man! Louis Armstrong and then that Diaper Inspector guy. Two gorgeous big boys. Woof!

Mrs. Kilgallen gets a lot of the contestants lines right.

Lois Armstrong was a great performer!The last contestant was a funny episode.

I love Louis Armstrong! I think the shows producers should have allowed celebrities with very distinctive-hard-to-conceal voices a way to answer without speaking: knock yes for once, knock two for no!

We had exactly the same type of show here German-spoken too, called «Heiteres Beruferaten» and the people who had to guess were also «celebrities»

If I was a panelist on Whats My Line today, I wouldn't know half of the "celebrities." Back then, we knew them all!

And Dorothy identified the second game! Wow You go girl! Gil Fates identified this occupation as the single most outlandish in the history of Sunday night WML.

Dorothy Kilgallen is so smart.

Thanks for sharing this. "Miss Head of Milwaukee" is hilarious.

Love me some Louie!

Love this

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My right ear loved this video

Louis Armstrong... class

1:15 >> very early reference to the landmark program on NBC: Arlene Francis as the first female host of a network information program for women -- Sylvester Weaver's legendary creation "Home." (NBC 1954 - 1957) I hope some of it got kinescoped and preserved.

Miss HEAD of Milwaukee! 😁

Debut of the boxes, and the first real stability for this show's title sequence.

Nao sabia da existência deste programa mas estou apaixoopor ele porque durou 17 anos com muitas personalidades gamosas

Louis Armstrong did not get the wild applause from the audience that he would get in subsequent appearances, especially in 1964 when "Hello Dolly" was the rage. Was he much less known in 1954?

I will bet they could not resist giving Steve Allen a gambit on the second game. However, that gambit probably cued Dorothy for that incredible solution..

This was just a few days before Dorothy had her third child! What a wonderful world 😘 I wish they had shown the arrival of the panelists then. Would have liked to see Dorothys maternal dress. I wonder if there ever was a guest who was heavily pregnant?

Louis singing "Mack the Knife". Ah!

Pabst Blue Ribbon. That's hilarious. :)

I swear the regular panelists got SO GOOD at the art of detection they should have spun Bennett and Arlene off into their own private eye show. The got the whale guy, lickity spilt! Dorothy would have been perfect but of course by the time the show went off she was dead. I wonder if anyone has ever pitched a fictionalized Dorothy Kilgallen in a "Murder She Wrote" type project.

Audrey Conti was signed by a talent scout shortly after appearing on this show. Sadly she didn't get much work.

My parents took me to see Winnie the Whale way back when. Must have been in 56 or 57, in San Jose, CA, I think.

Mr. Jazz himself.

One of the best trumpet players of the 20th century Sachtmo

It must have been sometime during or after 1954 when the producers of "What's My Line" decided to change the way the guests exited the show by having each guest at the end of his or her appearance during the show greet the panel and exit stage left rather than the original practice of exiting stage right behind John Charles Daly (under the original practice, the guests greeted the panel before the start of questioning by the panel).

Beautiful you know Louie Armstrong can attract anyone

Louis Armstrong should have double bluffed them. Had he done his voice straight and just answered, they would have thought it was someone else twisting their voice.

I think this is one of very few times (around 4:39) where John concedes that plants are (or in this case, were) actual living things, compared to the many times when he doesn't even acknowledge the fact! And this didn't even concern plants directly!

You couldn't even tell that Dorothy was pregnant. And she was very pregnant. She had her son within days of this taping. I think she only missed one episode and was back the next week. But you couldn't tell she was even pregnant. She didn't appear to gain much weight at all.

Oh….for a time machine..😢😢

Louis Armstrong and John Wayne, Nat King Cole, and Satchmo were all extremely easy to recognize.

For somebody that can't pronounce the word "brewery" it's amazing the number of times that Bennett says the word "bwewy".

15:00 cracks me up every time. Oh, and "I only wish you could've gotten higher!" as daily nods his head towards Satchmo. "I'll get higher next time!" We all know what they mean...

One of our greatest stars

Today's RU-vid Rerun for 1/20/16: Louis's first appearance on WML. It's always a delight to see Louis, but don't expect to hear him singing "Hello, Dolly" just yet-- that very special moment was from his second mystery guest appearance 10 years later. And you really don't want to miss the special announcement in the newly posted video here (a lost episode has been found!): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JCDmbcTJYgE.html ----------------------------- Join our Facebook group for WML-- great discussions, photos, etc, and great people! facebook.com/groups/728471287199862/ Please click here to subscribe to the WML channel if you haven't already-- you'll find the complete CBS series already posted, and you'll be able to follow along the discussions on the weekday "rerun" videos: ru-vid.com/show-UChPE75Fvvl1HmdAsO7Nzb8w

Armstrong was simply the freutest! Never without that hankie.

Love you

Just create a Mount Rushmore of American Music & put him on it. What a wonderful entertainer & man. Thank you for all the joy you've brought to people Mr Armstrong. The world would be a better place if there were more like you. God Bless you.

David Starkey's doppelganger!

New opening on this one..

Dorothy Kilgallen had her son Kerry on 19 of March 1954. Just 5 days after this episode.

I have often wonder'd why John has to explain the rules to every contestant before every game. One explanation per show would be enough. Now he says that viewers have been criticizing him for this but he is worried that there might be somebody who doesn't fully understand how the scoring works. After so many years you'd think that either the contestant would know how the rules were (I bet they all had seen the show on TV!) or that they should have been told before the show begun. I don't think they were on the show for the money anyhow.

I wonder if the panel started out seated because Dorothy was pregnant? the next show she's had a baby and she never even looked pregnant.

This was the first episode with the new jack-in-the-box intro. At 5:21, Dorothy asked, “Is it smaller than a breadbox? (39th usage). At 10:03, Steve asked, “Is it bigger than a breadbox” and then asked about 2 breadboxes (40th usage). Steve said “good night, boys” for the 19th time. 17:28 Enjoyed Louis’s short performance (a creative plug!). He then made a slight goof by exiting upstage right.

I saw that whale as a child. It was one of the most disappointing things ever. It looked like a 60 foot long crumpled paper bag.

That first lady seemed unhappy that they caught onto her line so quickly. She wanted that money, lol. The first two contestants are at a huge disadvantage compared to the last one. I know I'd rather go last and have a higher than normal chance of winning the $50. I think the celebrity portion is sometimes too easy because the newspapers always had who was in town at the time and Bennet and Dorothy seemed like they religiously read the papers. Obviously reading newspapers was common but I think those two took it to a whole new level. Their semi celebrity status probably also played a role in knowing who was in town.

Lol he had a huge crush on Audrey

In a racist era, I see no racism in the cordiality welcoming Mr. Armstrong

I was wondering if he inspected the diapers beforehand or afterwards.

5 days after, Dorothy would give birth to her youngest child, Kerry

Miss Conti is very beautiful, but boy what a funny hairdo.

Oh yay right audio channel only, left is silent. Might wanna fix that to be single-channel or to clone the right channel to the left.

Miss Head of Milwaukee! ? :)

17:06 - “I’ll get higher next time” and that wink. Hilarious! If the audience didn’t get the weed reference, the panel certainly did.

I always look at the number of views of each episode and for some reason this one has 3-4 times the number of views of the normal WML video. That happens on occasion and it always makes me wonder why that is. I could understand if it had a few hundred more or less, but when it's a few thousand I find it intriguing.

Only right side speaker audio in this one. It's coming through my ONKYO, so, I am 99% sure.

Wouldn't you love to know what Mr. Vozella whispered to Mr. Daly at 20:15 that caused him to crack up?!!

Dorothy did very well to get all the way to beer without a loss. I don’t know why they gave a qualified yes to it having been made from a growing thing.

😍

Cute lady, which brewery was that?

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Why is it whenever they get a young, cute, attractive female contestant they guess her right away >.