Always love seeing Phyllis Newman, she's the only one still alive as of 3/19/17. It was good to see Richard Boone smiling for a change. He's usually very solemn.
According to a 1960 newspaper article, Nellie Bird was part of the Rotroff International All-Girl* Auto Thrill Show that was performing in Michigan. One of her stunts was for her car to jump 52 feet in the air (far above the 20 feet that Martin Gabel had suggested). The article gave her hometown as Providence (RI), not West Virginia. It stated that she previously had been a secretary for an aircraft corporation.
Videotaped on April 14, 1963. I like how this episode has Richard Boone as a mystery guest. Later, he appeared again on that same night's live taping, this time as a panelist.
Very interesting-- and it makes sense that Boone would have needed to be the mystery guest in the first show and guest panelist for the second. The panelists would have likely known he was the guest panelist for the live show. That might have meant the producers wouldn't have concealed his entrance backstage as they needed to in ordinary circumstances, because he was expected to be there for the second show as panelist. I wonder how many times they pulled this trick? I'd imagine not many, or it would start become a noticeable pattern for the regulars.
What's My Line? It clearly happened with George Hamilton in 1965. He was a Mystery Guest on the 6/20/65 show and then was a panelist on the show aired 7/18/65 wearing the same suit with straight necktie (which male panelists seldom wore) indicating he hadn't changed clothes.
epaddon I checked tv.com, and actually, both of those shows were live. The words "Live from New York" were jarringly edited out, from Johnny Olson's opening narration, as was typical of WML kinescopes from outside of the east coast with Olson as announcer.
From Wikipedia: Richard Boone related to Daniel Boone: Boone was born in Los Angeles, California, the middle child of Cecile (née Beckerman) and Kirk E. Boone, a corporate lawyer and 4th great-grandson of Squire Boone 1696-1765, a brother to frontiersman Daniel Boone. Richard Boone has a hell of a laugh!
@@debbigray1752 Pat Boone is NOT a direct descendant of Daniel and Rebecca (Bryan) Boone. However, he may be a relative of Daniel Boone through an earlier Boone ancestor - the records for the correct Boone line don't go back far enough.
@10:32 "yes, we all have to go sooner or later." I don't know why, but this makes me so sad. A woman in the prime of her life acknowledging the inevitability of death. And us watching this same woman who is no longer with us.
What you said is wrong in every possible way, if you ever have someone in your family, a son, a nephew or maybe just a friend who'd be under 5'7'' I suppose you'd have no problem calling him a dwarf?!
Sdk ElMaruecan I would guess you wouldn't find Billy Connolly's true story about dwarves funny then....where a lady of diminutive proportions had been rude to a child on a bus and someone else got up to have a quiet word with them. Their parting words shouted back to the dwarf as they got off were "and then when you get home I hope Snow White kicks your a**." :)
In terms of airing order, this is the last we will see of Phyllis Newman, who I am really enjoying, BTW. We won't be seeing her again until the 12/19/65 episode. In addition to Phyllis Newman and Suzy Knickerbocker, other women they considered replacing Dorothy with included Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown, and Pia Lindstrom, the first child of actress Ingrid Bergman.
Phyllis's lack of panel guest appearances over the next couple years could also be attributed to her being a regular on the daytime version of "To Tell The Truth" in this period. She was with that until 1965 when the nighttime panelists (Cass, Carlisle, Poston, Bean) also took over the daytime show panel spots.
Zardon M Phyllis had a featured role in the 1961 Broadway musical "Subways Are For Sleeping". Apparently one of the highlights was that she was stuck in a hotel room for an extended scene clad only in a towel!
epaddon Funny thing about that play. When they were advertising it in 1961, they had signs in subways promoting "Subways Are For Sleeping". Well, their not, and some were getting the wrong idea (this whole story may be apocryphal, I know it sounds like it, so I am open to correction, as always) and the placards were soon taken down from the NYC transit tubes.
Joe Postove That story may be apocryphal but what isn't about that show is how the producer, David Merrick, used it as the occasion to play the ultimate practical joke on the NY drama critics by finding seven men with the same names as all the newspaper critics, gave them free tickets and dinners so they could all give raves of the show that he put in a full page ad with their names prominent (but with their photos underneath to cover himself legally to show he wasn't saying these were the same men as the critics but the implication was clear).
Gary, would this situation be similar to the one I just described? On the 11/28/66 episode, Frank Sinatra was the mystery guest in game 1, and Mark Goodson sat in the panel. Sinatra then sat in Goodson's place for the rest of the episode, and during game 3, the mystery guest was his then-wife, Mia Farrow.
Honestly, you know this stuff a lot better than I do, Vahan! I only know what's on the screen in the shows I've watched, with some dim memories of what Gil Fates wrote about in his book and a couple of interviews with Bennett, that sort of thing. I always appreciate your program notes.
John's (perfectly innocent) comment re Miss Bird, "probably the most careful driver on a highway we've ever seen", still made me wince a bit coming so soon after Arlene's car accident.
Both here in the recorded broadcast and later in the live broadcast, Boone plugged an upcoming anthology program built around him by G-T. It needed all the plugging it could get. It did not exactly light up the TV firmament..
The Richard Boone Show was IMHO an excellent dramatic anthology series, which was highly praised by the critics. It’s true that it never gained a large following, as was the case with many excellent shows. C’est la vie
I noticed that too, but I keep hoping that it's because she has been having that hair-piece with the various bows and beads excised from her scalp. I love Dorothy, but her hair dresser, except for a short period of 1960 or 1961, needed be dismissed, if not arrested by the fashion police.
@@slaytonp Hilarious post, but in her defense, women doing their hair up was in fashion during this period. That's not to say I disagree with you though.
@@rmelin13231 I'm aware of the fashion of that period. I was 29 years old in 1963 and my mother was in the profession of fashion, still bossing me around in that area, or attempting to. I hid out behind the barn a lot. With Dorothy, I think it was the bow that I found so absurd on an adult woman, on top of the postiche that didn't quite match her hair color, even in black and white. I still suspect that particular hairdresser of nefarious designs against her. .
Has anyone had any trouble with the stream on his episode? It does not want to play for me. I went to other What's My Line shows, and had no problem. Hmmmmm.
CAn you be more specific? I'm not seeing any problem here. But these things do happen on RU-vid sometimes and usually resolve themselves after a few hours.
Thanks, Yeah, it will play a little, then hang up and then play...but I haven't been able to get past the introductions. It's already 3am here, so I think I'll let the internet have the night off and check it in the morning. I appreciate your concern!
Richard Boone died relatively young at the age of 63 on January 10th, 1981.He died in St. Augustine of pneumonia while suffering from throat cancer. His ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean off Hawaii.
Contestants ought to speak up when John is just plain wrong. But I understand. I would be intimidated too. Bennett asks if her service could be performed in among other venues, theaters. He mentions tents, and other locations, but I think John gave him too much benefit of the doubt when he "asks" with her "permission" that Bennett be given a qualified yes. If anything, it should have been a qualified no. C'mon, theaters!!!???
Joe Postove Daly was clear enough when pointing out, that the qualified "Yes" was given because Bennett's question "was so broadly expressed". The panel should already then, have guessed that theaters might be ruled out. All in all, this time it seemed to me, that the entire panel suffered from lack of concentration. They had all been on this game so often, that they should be able to understand Daly's terms, and heard 'the bell ringing', before they went further on with theaters and similar areas. But of course, he COULD also have given a "No", but then, it wouldn't have been a game, and well...not Daly either! ;)
I noticed that as well, SW. The panel did seem to lack concentration, and even though they were dancing all around the line, they did not really get close. However, Dorothy was not there, and I think she would have done better (though I have certainly seen her distracted as well)!
Joe Postove I would guess it's the same as other situations where a panellist includes an erroneous item in a list along with an appropriate one and the answer has to be a qualified yes.
Guess this trivia about Robert Q. Lewis from IMDb was all wrong: "Said on What's My Line? (1950) August 18, 1963, of the University of Michigan, "As an old U of M man, I am delighted to recognize Miss Michigan. We used to say back at Ann Arbor, four out of five are beautiful and the fifth goes to Michigan. That is *not* true."."
im glad those ppl who think just about everything was alive at 1 time didnt comment on the hammock maker when it the question was answered with a no(fyi cotton is one of the materials in most)
Richard Boone was 'descended' from Daniel Boone's brother. His distinctive voice gave him away here. At 20.12, John Daly says, "I too played with Dick, once". Might have been better if he'd used "Richard".
I'm surprised that the panel did not even get close to the line of the stunt car driver. They were in the territory of state fairs and circus'. Sometimes they just dance around it. I wanted to ask the fine people here who are having as much fun as I am with this format of watching WML, do you ever cover your eyes when the line is on the screen and play along?
Joe Postove Usually not, because I'm not that good at the game, it's funnier when I know the correct line, and I wouldn't be able to get answers to original questions if I thought of any that the panelists didn't think of. Instead, I often find myself telling the contestants and John Daly how to answer the questions -- especially if they're taking extra time coming up with the answer. Also, if I think Daly gives an unfair or unwise answer/interpretation, I find myself yelling at him, explaining why he's wrong and should have interpreted and answered the question differently. :D
axiomist Looking at BBC listings for UK in the 70s (during which I was a child) we often had theatrical plays and classical concerts at peak viewing times of an evening!! And on BBC2 they'd have programmes where there'd be a debate going on between deep thinkers and philosophical minds . The mid-sixties to the end of the seventies was a GREAT time for television. It's over now of course. Got rid of my TV licence a long while ago.
Yeah we all miss the days of Green Acres, Petticoat Junction, Beverly Hillbillies, and all that other good theater we used to have back then. Much better than the drivel we have to watch now, such as Shakespeare in the original pronunciation, virtual tours of all the great museums of the world, live opera, etc etc. We need to go back to the 60s and watch more of The Newlywed Game.
Daly takes over again with Boone, who has professional work to promote, and retells the same damned story about himself, as always, that he told the first time Boone was mystery guest.
Every effin' time Richard Boone is the mystery guest or on the panel, John has to talk about their one time on stage together in his youth. He can talk about himself endlessly. So rude.
Philippa Pay Agreed. There'll be a living legend of the time sat right there and instead of hearing them talk we get John Charles Daly leisurely concocting his speech about what he knows, thinks and feels. Meanwhile I'm thinking, never mind you (we hear you for most of the programme!), I want to hear what ELLA FITZGERALD has to say!!!
@@davidsanderson5918 Daly got to talk about his latest endeavors a bit at the opening of the show. It was more than enough. Ella and Frank more or less ushered out the 20thc. as the queen and king of singers known around the world and defining something unique about their century in their styles that also helped explain it being called The American Century. They were so very much of their time and place and yet universalized it. He really was depriving the audience by not allowing her to speak of her unusual life and world-renown artistry and quirky show biz experiences while on the show.
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