Did anyone else notice that Joey Bishop never smiled when shaking hands with the guests after their segment was over? Also, Arlene's son once appeared on the show as a mystery guest, More importantly, during her ailing last years, he was with her and saw that she got everything she could ever have wanted or needed. He was admired throughout the industry for that.
Same here! Unlike most comedian panelists who tend to goof off instead of actually trying to play the game, Joey exhibits a good balance between witty wisecracks and clever problem-solving! Another guest panelist I really enjoyed was the ventriloquist Paul Winchell.
By this time, J Edgar Hoover had warned Lawford's brother in law, JFK. to stay away from Sinatra. Thus. this must have Bern a strange encounter between Joey and Peter.
(And) SomeTimes.. ...the Success Rate therein - is a bit suspicious and suspect.. . ... Especially when.. .....while this time WITH, Blindbolds; sometimes she - strangely didn't recognize some VERY, *MASSIVELY* Recognizable names.. .
Peter produced the film Johnny Cool (1963) starring Elizabeth Montgomery and it was released in October 1963, the month before his brother-in-law, JFK, was assassinated.
The National Cultural Center that John mentioned in connection with the service bands never existed under that name. In a kind of Back to the Future moment, after JFK was assassinated, that building opened as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
He said the money would go t.o.w.a.r.d. the establishment of one. Never alleged that it already existed. Just maybe, enough money could not be raised or Congress deemed it unnecessary.
My opinion: No doubt it was a great loss. But even if Dorothy Kilgallen hadn't died, I do not think it would have been any different. By 1967, Primetime Panel game shows in general were on the way out, and "What's My Line" was the last to go.
soulierinvestments I would never consider and I've never heard of these modern reality shows being considered by anyone to even be in the tradition of panel shows. The emphasis is all on the performers, and the panelists aren't playing any sort of a game, just judging a contest. I also don't think Dorothy's passing had anything to do with WML being cancelled-- it stayed on the air for two more years, after all, and was the last remaining show of its type in prime time. But I do think, and I've commented elsewhere, that the show lost a bit of its magic without Dorothy on the panel. She was a much needed irritant on a panel filled with folks who were otherwise there to be charming and entertaining.
@@WhatsMyLine there are a lot of very smart celebrity panel shows in the UK 🇬🇧. Also most late night talk shows in the US are smart, and have many well dressed and well mannered guests, with lively banter. Some guests are smarter than others. But on the whole, it’s all very well done.
A recent story (September 2018) on the former Mets batboy who is retired in Boca Raton (FL). Among interesting tidbits is that he was a ballboy with the Yankees first and was a teammate of Ed Kranepool at James Monroe HS in the Bronx. He was still with the Mets organization in 1969 and has a World Championship ring to show for it. And he does mention his appearance on WML. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NYVfnCKZHp8.html
Lawford did a few interesting pictures at MGM -- I like Good News and Easter Parade. He might have become major at MGM if he had applied himself to both art and studio politics.
Brooke Hanley I don't think he was taken seriously by the Hollywood establishment until his marriage to Jean Kennedy, the president's sister. When they divorced, I think his career took a nosedive. As far as his talent and looks, in my opinion he was handsome and talented. But he won't be remembered for that.
Yes, the Mets did, indeed, beat the Cincinnati Reds in the 2nd game of that Sunday doubleheader at the Polo Grounds, 13-12. After blowing not 1, but 2 big leads in the game, they rallied for 2 runs in the bottom of the 8th to win, in a game which took 3 hours and 42 minutes to play. Tracy Stallard cemented the save by striking out Pete "Gamblin' Rose" Rose for the final out. (The Reds won the first game of the doubleheader, 3-0; Bob Purkey threw a complete-game shutout.) At the end of that doubleheader, the Mets' record stood at 14-17. The future must have looked quite promising then for Mets fans on that day. Then they went on a two-week road trip, on which they lost 2 out of 3 to the Houston Colt .45s, lost 2 out of 3 to the San Francisco Giants, lost 4 straight to the Los Angeles Dodgers, and lost 3 out of 4 to the St. Louis Cardinals. By the time of Gil Hodges' Mystery Guest appearance in 2 weeks, things were not looking quite so promising for Mets fans.......
The winning run in the 13-12 game was driven in by the legendary Clarence "Choo Choo" Coleman, one of only 9 RBI's he had that year in 277 plate appearances. He was also a terrible fielder and about his only skill was that he was a fast runner for a catcher. But somehow he hung around for parts of four major league seasons, three of them with the hapless Mets who struggled through their early years finding a capable catcher, even after choosing a catcher as their first pick in the expansion draft that stocked the team (Hobie Landrith, a washed up backup player). Among the catchers who were tried and found wanting by the Mets in those early years were Chris Cannizzaro, Sammy Taylor, Harry Chiti (the player the Mets traded for himself), Joe Pignatano, Joe Ginsberg, Jesse Gonder, Norm Sherry, Hawk Taylor, Greg Goosen (the player they drafted ahead of Reggie Jackson), Jimmie Schafer, and John Stephenson. That's 13 different catchers in four seasons. Finally when they acquired Jerry Grote from Houston after the 1965 season, they had the catcher that would still be with them as their #1 when they won the World Series in 1969.
Peter Lawford 1963. Brother in law of a man who suddenly becomes president of the United States. The Kennedys were grandiose enough to believe that after John served two terms, Robert would then serve two terms, and then Edward would serve two terms, so there he sits thinking he is set for the foreseeable future. And then . . . . death and life and death and life happens.
He didn't suddenly become president. He served his country bravely in the military as well as a senator. Were the Bushes grandiose for having father and son serving as president? And the Adams father and son? I don't think so.
In the days before videotape, if What's My Line wanted to stockpile a few shows for vacation, would they ever film the game directly. Or was it absolutely 52 weeks a year, except for the occasional pre-emption?
So are there any WML's extant that are filmed (movie style with multiple cameras, not a tv show with the director calling the shots live in the booth)?
Joe Postove If there were, they were done for test purposes. My guess is the answer is no. Interesting enough, I've Got a Secret was filmed with color cameras for a movie, the name of which I cannot remember, but it starred Doris Day.
Mr. John Daley: It is pronounced "serrrrrvice!" "Not seveese!" Ahhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!! ~ (I know..., it is an example of an expressed regional dialect. But, come on, John, you are well-educated and, therefore, you should say the "correct" phonetic pronunciation!)
+Joe Postove - It is only recently that the Coast Guard would be in a the class of a member of the "Armed Forces." Before that, they were subordinate to the U.S. Department of Transportation. Next, the National Guard is supplementary to the Army and Air Force and subordinate to the Governor of a particular state. There is not Navy or Marine National Guard.
+Joe Postove The Coast Guard does have a band, founded in 1925 and based in New London, Connecticut. National Guard units are under control of the respective states; thus, there is no national-level band, though each state's Army National Guard and Air National Guard does have its own band.
+Jill Gordon Some stage hand put out the wrong one at his place (or the one for a male mystery guest was missing and this was all they had). You can see Joey looking at it quizzically when John Daly asks them to put on the blindfolds before the first segment and Joey even comments on it that it is the wrong one.
@@shirleyrombough8173 While, every bit as Subjective as Your opening sentence there; some of the.. expediency.. for which she would at (many) times arrive at the correct .. occupation and/or mystery guest.. Are Quite Suspicious at times.. ... though hopefully Completely Incorrect
Ever notice how all the Rat-Packers appear together either on the panel and MG alternating back and forth, some may not have been true Rat-Packers but all hung out with one another, most knew who it was and had a chance to ham it up after unmasking.
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