the respect and dignity these people have and give to others is one of the most remarkable traits of this show to me (more than the game itself) ... it's sad that any behavior resembling this is frowned upon today, I wish good manners as a culture could come back but find it hard to believe at the rate we are going
Superstar , icon , Woman of the ages ! The fantastic Phyllis Diller..She was sensational... rest in peace beautiful lady you were special in so many ways !
When I was little I loved her routines on tv talk shows.and I liked her interviews, sometimes done with her husband Warde Donovan. What I specially loved was the sitcom she did with Reggie Gardner " The Pruitts of Southampton" I can still sing the whole theme song.
@richard jenkins There were many, many female comedians before her but wasn't she virtually the first female stand-up comic? Especially one who was not also a singer like Fannie Brice.
I saw her on a show once years ago. Hair done up, dressed to the nines with her back to the camera. After she got finished playing the classical piece on a Grand Piano, she swung around and laughed at the camera. Very talented indeed.
I would watch Phyllis Diller just to hear her laugh. You couldn't hear Phyllis Diller laugh without cracking up yourself. She had the best laugh in the world!
I went to a night club just to see Phyllis. Small place. And wow!!! She had all of us on the floor laughing!! I had a side ache, and couldn't catch my breath!!!!!
People here have correctly noted Phyllis' talent, courage and trailblazing status. But one thing I particularly admire about her was her genuine self-deprecation. So many celebrities when interviewed talk only about how great they are and superficial issues. I once saw Phyllis describe an early USO tour that she took with Bob Hope. In addition to performing on stage for servicemen, the trip included visiting wounded soldiers in an Army hospital. Hope and Diller went into the hospital and Phyllis saw a young soldier who had had half his face blown off. She was horrified and her facial expression showed it. Afterward, when they left the hospital, Hope told Phyllis off. "We go into these hospitals to take these soldiers' minds off their problems for a little while. The last thing we ever want to do is to remind them of their problems. Don't you ever do that again!" Phyllis said she never forgot that. I think her telling a story on national TV about herself and making someone feel bad and learning from the experience and becoming a better person reflected very well on her. I don't think too many other celebrities would tell a story about themselves that put them in a bad light, being correctly criticized for not acting appropriately and learning from their mistake.
She should have been prepared a bit in advance. Mistake? Well being human isn't a mistake in as far as being compassionate but not really prepared/ aware of what one might encounter. Agree that most celebs wouldn't be as forthright and vulnerable. She was a treasure nonetheless.
Funny, that just 4 years prior to this show, Phyllis was an unknown contestant on Groucho's "You Bet Your Life". By 1963, her career skyrocketed right to the very top! What a great era of elegance and class this was!
Groucho had an exceptional gift for recognizing comic talent in addition to possessing an extraordinary comic mind of his own. And he'd try to feature comics on his show that weren't particularly well known. Here's a clip of Groucho with Lord Buckley. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CNhstToY9kk.html
What ? Bottled,water been used in the USA for ever.. Poland Springs is an old name. Spring water was used everywhere in bottles. Not 6 oz bottles but large water chiller sizes.
Spring waters.. tonic waters & other such soft drinks... including Perrier I believe...were big amongst posher people on the Victorian continent...mainly because of scary water...and fashion...I guess...
wasn't "bought out". It was sold to R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Comapny in 1966. They merged with Nabisco in 1985. It was sold to Yeo Hiap Seng of Singapore in 1989. Hunt purchased it in 95 and phased it out........ (what does not make sense, The article states that it was sold by RJR in 85 to YHS. It is also said RJR sold it in 86 To ConAgra. Parent of Hunt-Wesson. But YHS sold it to ConAgra in 95 after loosing market share) ...... you figure out the puzzle.
Ps. The amazing Phillis Diller passed away only a year after Jeno Paulucci (last guest). He was aged 93 (2011), while Diller was 95 (2012). *Pretty cool to now know that these two successful guests, of only a year apart in age, would be the last ones standing, so to speak.* Both reaching the American Dream with hard work, determination, goodness within, and family/children that loved them dearly. Legends in their chosen careers. :)
I love this. Diller and Paulucci were both a big part of my childhood. I watched Diller on TV at every opportunity. Sometimes I had Jeno's Pizza Rolls on a plate in my lap while watching Diller! My mom and I still eat Chun King Chow Mein for supper!
Love P.D.!!! I just did a search for P.D. stand-up. Fifty minutes of side-splitting jokes. I had to pause after every 10 minutes to get composed again. I love her self-deprecating humor. The best jokes...her finger massaging girdle with arthritis and when she tells the joke about applying moisturizer and after the punch line does a curtsy.
Last contestant ceated Chun King Chinese prepared foods and sold it for 63 milliondollars. He made the hugely popular Jeno's Pizza Rolls and his greatest regret was that he had sold them to Pillsbury. He realized that Jeno's Pizza Rolls would be around forever and they have been. He diied with hundred of millions and a brief appearance on What's My Line.
why is don love so invested in making everyone believe that it was common place to have bottles of water for sale back then? It was a business model, and new. it worked. I drink bottled water.
Personal portable water wouldn't have been common. They were talking about where the water was bad. Guess the thought of it for normal everyday purposes was incomprehensible then.
I watched Diller's TV sitcom and I remember her 1970's TV ads of "Salvo" detergent in the form of a round disk, about the size of a hockey puck.One per laundry, they dissolved in the water like Alka Seltzer, as the water was filling the washer.My mom used it sometimes.Diller's stand up comedy was so funny.I always wondered why she called her husband 'Fang'.She was funny on Hollywood Squares game show, too.
The character of "Fang," the husband that Diller frequently mentioned in her act, sprang from an ad-lib at a Purple Onion show. She kept him in the act, realizing "I was on to something because this idiot that I portray on stage has to have a husband, and he's got to be even more idiotic than I. --- From "Fresh Air Remembers Comedian Phillis Diller, 1986 interview with Terry Gross, NPR."
Did you notice how Bennett Cerf picked up Mrs. Dillers' coat and helped her on with it? People used to have manners and be considerate of others. Things weren't perfect back in the day by any means but some things WERE better.
I was a young child at the time this show aired. I never liked sodas, and when I went to the movies and bought a snack (later in the decade) I wanted water to drink with it, but the only way to get it was to pay full price for an empty cup and fill it at a water fountain! So I was very happy when small bottles of water becamea available years later.
When Phyllis Diller came in with her coat on, I always have wondered if she was the "showed up with a minute to spare" mystery guest that John Daly talks about in the last CBS broadcast.
@Mary Tschida - John Daly actually gave a good explanation of it on the segment when he said that water pollution had caught up with some regions. There were some chichi bottled waters for individual consumption. This was Great Bear Spring Water that has been around forever in the huge bottles that one turns upside down onto the dispenser in a home or office and facilitated the notorious "water cooler" gossip in business offices. Berman and Francis were only in offices as visitors to their agents, etc., while Kilgallen and Cerf were rarely in offices because most of their work was done away from the actual office. I think that explains why they did not think of bottled water readily. I live in a major city of the northeast megalopolis and we have quite decent quality and tasting water here. But many in the period of this show had so many chemicals to kill the vile stuff in the water that it was undrinkable in some places. This is the decade after all that spawned Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring," the filmic work of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, and Ralph Nader's "Unsafe At Any Speed." People were beginning to see the dangers of how we use things around us and what we make to use. On the whole I am with you and do not understand why one would buy water where there is perfectly acceptable tap water to drink that you pay for in your water bill. You will recall the bottle of Vichy water famously tossed into the wire trash basket by Capt. Louis Renault played by Claude Rains at the end of "Casablanca." Evian is pretty old and a couple of other French, Swiss bottled waters are ages old now. Perrier has been around forever and a day. So, it was around back then. There were other regional firms selling the large office, household bottles, too.
@@marytschida5756 I'm retired and have lived in 9 states in my life. Prior to "city"water" bottled water was quite common. Restaurants served it(mid scale and up) Poland Springs dates from the 1800s,Saratoga Springs,Enon Springs...list is quite extensive. Prior to 1960 spring water was quite common in offices ,shops ,businesses. Do you remember the cone shaped paper cups? The advent of chlorinated municipal water slowed the spring water industry somewhat. Read the history of water. Many deadly diseases were transmitted by dirty water supplies. We modern folks tend to think a glass of clear water has always been the norm.. far from it.
I've been watching tons of WML episodes over the past week or so, and have enjoyed them immensely! I have slight recollections of the show as a young child (more so of TTTT w/Garry Moore). Thank you very much for bringing these great shows back to life!
she was under tremendous stress for she had uncovered the same cabal/ cult we know of today. They murdered her to prevent publish of her book, and destroyed it.
Antimale??? She was a caring person, and that pertained to everyone that deserved care. I don't see the slightest ounce of disrespect from her here to any three of these men.
One episode about pancakes, this one Chinese food, no wonder I get the midnight munchies, but it's worth it, cause watching these episodes before bed is very relaxing and helps me sleep better.
Watching this exactly 60 years after this aired, I was 1 year old just short of my 2nd Birthday the following month, March 25th. which means now, next month March 25th, I'll be 62. I really enjoy watching these. 😁
Phyllis Diller was always a lot of fun, even when she wasn't hilarious (which she was most of the time). Call me weird, but I never thought she was all that bad looking (certainly she was no Carol Burnett) and she played up her anti-Zsa Zsa look to great success.
I agree. I'd say she didn't have that 'special Hollywood touch' that other stars had. Many of them were beautiful already, but Hollywood turned that beauty into stunning.
Aw, I agree too. She always seem awfully sweet. I always loved and looked up to women like Carol and Phyllis because they didn't become successful because of the their looks.
On the June 23, 1957 episode of WML, the three principal owners of La Choy at the time from Ohio, all with Irish surnames, stumped the panel with their line. But they weren't the founders of La Choy. It was founded in the early 1920's by two graduates of University of Michigan (one who emigrated from Korea, the other an American named Smith).
stlmopoet Really? Do you think she got the idea from Dorothy? (18:39) And who did Dorothy think she was, then? (*Edit:* I just listened again and could hear her say she was thinking of Carol Channing.) Another sign of the way times have changed: Shelley Berman was thoroughly confused when Dorothy got a "yes" from Phyllis Diller regarding her question of whether she was "an actor or performer." Thinking the yes is to "actor," he asks incredulously, "that's a *man* talking there?" (17:19) Back then, men were actors and women were actresses. These days, the word actress is seemingly being phased out, in favor of the word "actor" for both men and women.
***** Yeah, I guess you're right. They still deliver those big cooler bottles to offices and such, but not as many homes anymore, I suppose. I remember that the waiting room in the doctor's office I went to as a child had a big water cooler like that with paper cups that were shaped like ice cream cones. I used to love drinking that water from those cups. And nowadays the same water delivery companies also deliver bottled water in various-sized containers, including gallon jugs, 24-packs of smaller bottles, etc.
I signed RU-vid an episode regarding Dorothy. It talked about how she may have been murdered. It's quite interesting. He pretty much just gives the facts and you make your own opinion.
Wow, this smart panel was stumped by the first challenger! This must be because the product was considered unusual back in 1963 and nowhere near as pervasive as it is today.
Bottled water was a real high tone treat up, I'd say, until 30 years ago. Today, any fellow can slug it down like nickel beer. Back in 1963 it was considered somewhat chichi.
Dorothy says to the last contestant "I'm not very big in supermarkets". MY GOD...Can you imaging Dorothy feeling the fruits and hoisting up a six pack? And then wheeling her cart home on Fifth Avenue? Oh, dear!
Shelley Berman is absolutely adorable, why is Dorothy so skinny? Mr Rockefeller is a cutie too. And im actually surprised water of all things puzzled them so. I love how they advertise for everyone who comes on the show regardless of what they do for a living. And that pool instructor is so serious! I havent seen any guests that serious. I also think its cool the last guy owns a company theyre all familiar with and you can hear Arlene compliment his company's commercials. Its hard to make out exactly what Shelley is saying but hes complimenting the company as well. +What's My Line? 15:51 Im surprised you didnt put that into the bloopers
all were familiar with Chun King back then. By 1962 Chuin King accounted for half of all U.S. sales of prepared Chinese Food. Revenu of $30 milliojn dollars. In 1966 it was sold to J Reynolds Tobacco Compay for $63 million.
Phyllis Diller. Wow. First appearance. Her next appearance in 1964 was beyond funny. What a great chivalric moment when Bennett helps her on with that fur.
So fun to watch 'Bottled Water' because of pollutants just starting to be an issue seem such a foreign concept to the panel and audience. My how times change.
It should be pointed out that this Jeno DID make pizza rolls before he entered the Chinese Food Business called Jeno's Pizza Rolls! So he DID make a pizza product first in concert with his Italian heritage.
From his Wikipedia entry ........... In the book "The Very, Very Rich, and how they got that way"[3] Paulucci was quoted as stating his motivation that, while he loved Chinese food, he found it too bland and thought it would benefit from a little Italian spicing. After making a batch and canning it, he took some samples to a supermarket executive to convince him to try it out, and to persuade him to stock it. On opening the can, Paulucci found, to his horror, that the top of the can's contents included a whole, cooked grasshopper. Fortunately, the can had been opened in such a way that the lid was facing the executive, so that only Paulucci could see the contents. Thinking quickly, Paulucci told the executive, "This looks so good, I'm going to taste it myself". He then took one of two spoons that were lying on the table, reached into the can, quickly dug out a heaping spoonful (which included the grasshopper) and ate it. (According to Paulucci, "It didn't taste bad." Roasted or deep-fried grasshoppers are a popular street snack in Mexico City.) He then offered the can to the executive, who sampled a separate spoonful, liked it, and placed a large order.
Wow, now that shows that times have changed. The question was asked if a woman might wear something other than a street dress while "teaching billiards" to (what appears to be female) adults and children, and she said No. Who today in Oregon would teach billiards in a skirt or a dress?
In the first 18 live broadcasts and taping sessions of 1963, Dorothy Kilgallen attend 8 and missed 10. Berman appeared on the panel fairly regularly in 1960 - 61. This is the first time that Berman appeared on the panel since his memorable laughing fit during the appearance of the Rocking Chair manufacturer contestant in mid 1961.
+soulierinvestments I just watched this one again for the first time in a long time. I'd forgotten how alarmingly thin Dorothy had gotten during this period!
@@princeharming8963 The Manhattan DA reopened the investigation recently into Dorothy's death by considering new evidence that has appeared in books. After review and investigation, they declined to bring any charges. Case closed.
Here's a little pedantry to make your day move a bit slower: up until the mid-19th century, Shirley was almost exclusively a male name. One of the Bronte sisters (forgotten which one) published a novel with a female character called "Shirley" around that time and its popularity caused many people to give the name to daughters. It remained a name that was considered suitable for either males or females (like Leslie -- which seems to have been a part of the 'Shirley' joke in 'Airplane' -- or Evelyn) for a long time afterwards. Now, of course, it's almost exclusively female, but in the early 1960's it wouldn't have sounded so odd, and Daly's mistake wouldn't have seemed quite so strange.
The last guy, Jeno, quickly built a multi-million dollar empire with Chun-King after borrowing $2500 to start the business. *Four years after this broadcast he sold Chun King for $64 million in 1967 (a massive amount in that year).* He later founded Jeno's for pizza, and he invented "pizza rolls" (selling to Pillsbury) then started Luigino's Michelina brand Italian frozen foods. All that after simply starting as a grocery salesperson with an American dream...to market chop suey & other ethic foods. His devoted parents immigrated from a village in Italy where he gave back financially. In fact, he was a big philanthropist, giving much to charities and those in need. *He was married to his wife, Lois, for 64 years and died brokenhearted just 4 days AFTER she died.* Pres. Ford honored Jeno Paulucci and referred to him as a symbol of "the Magic of America", as his parents were poor, Italian immigrants to start. THAT is how *capitalism creates the American dream for so many.* Why do so many young people today (mostly American nationals) want to destroy their amazing opportunity and become socialist? Perhaps comfy lives and ignorance are primarily to blame...with a hint of progressive BS flung at them via well-produced entertainment and media sound bites. I'm a social liberal (marry who you want, eat/drink/smoke what you want, "do yer own thang!", etc.), but would never imagine giving up my ability to achieve the American dream and suffer horribly like poor Venezuelans do now. Their young adults think we are foolish to even think about making the same mistake: Don't just take my word for it. *See their devastation story here if you want: www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-06-06/socialism-is-devastating-venezuela-and-americans-dont-seem-to-notice
It was so elegant the way Mr. Daly said "Mrs. McCabe is certainly the expert here, but the average person may think -a billiard- ball could be smaller than a tennis ball." Most people nowadays would have simply contradicted their guest.