What's My Line? - Rosemary Clooney; Martin Gabel [panel] (Jun 10, 1962) 

I'm an old man and remember Rosemary Clooney on TV as a kid'; my mom really liked her. When I got old, I lived in Las Vegas and she was scheduled to appear, not in the casinos, but at UNLV in their theater. She came out and sat down to perform, and told the audience that she had 2 rows of seats saved for her nephew George, who was coming with some friends--they were in town filiming Ocean's 11. She sang for about an hour and it was amazing--as old as she was and all of her health issues didn't stop her from performing. George never showed.up.

It's so refreshing to see this show but then again I'm 86 years old. I love how dressed up they are and how polite they are

One dinner party in old NYC! That's all I want with all of these gorgeous people. What an adorable, eclectic bunch! 😍🤗

I think this is the only time I've seen the panel NOT guess the mystery challenger. And I have watched dozens of these. Such a simple formula, but so entertaining. Of course, the concept would never work these days. TV, music, movies, all entertainment, so FRACTURED. "Influencers", "stars" of the bazillion cable shows, reality TV performers - it all makes my head spin. When this program aired, stars were just that = true STARS. No wonder I spend my nights combing YT for wonderful moments of the past.

How can I love Arlene more….??? ❤❤❤ Probably not possible 😂😊😘🙏🙏

Rosemary, was so glamorous and beautiful! She sang like an angel! This was a memorable episode!

She was a great entertainer and a standout in "White Christmas".

Arlene: "On this panel we eat everything, let me tell you", is just hilarious! 🤣🤣👍

WOW!!! I never saw a young Miss Clooney. She was gorgeous.

Rosemary Clooney was at her prettiest at that time.

Rosemary Clooney looks so glamorous, healthy, and happy here (except when Bennett asks if she's Patti Page, her chief rival)...yet she was going through a hellish personal life at the time, and within a few short years, would suffer an almost complete mental breakdown and be institutionalized. She battled back and forged a new career as a superlative jazz singer and nightclub performer; I saw her at her very last live engagement, and even though she was extremely heavy and in poor health, which contributed to making her set extremely short, she still wove vocal magic.

This show is so darn funny. It's timeless 😊

rosemary clooney: big time talent!

Hard to believe Rosemary Clooney was the mother of 5 young children when she did this show.

Rosemary Clooney was a wonderful singer with an incredibly warm and sensuous voice. I believe that she struggled with various things in later life, but came back fighting...God bless her....

Just read through some of the comments. So judgemental and critical of people none personally knew. So true of our current world. I have to stop reading these stupid comments. Just ruins the enjoyment of this wonderfully entertaining show I am so grateful to @What's My Line has posted.

One of the funniest episodes I think I've seen, the cow segment especially. Arlene was hilarious. Love these old shows. Thanks so much for posting.

Thank you for this delightful impression of our one and only! As for her trip to France: July 25 Rosemary flew into London ,en route to Monte Carlo, where she was met by José Ferrer whom she had divorced only recently / On July 26, Thursday. Rosemary was in Monte Carlo where she sang at a Red Cross benefit at Princess Grace’s invitation. Joe Ferrer was also there. Newspapers taked about a possible reconciliation, but Rosemary told them “There are five good reasons why Ferrer and I met at the airport: “The children, who are at present staying with my mother in Kentucky.”

I loved the rapid exchange of cattle-related puns between John and Dorothy, beginning around 13:10 -- they were all having fun with that one! (And surprisingly, Bennett didn't say a word.) :D

Rosemary Clooney was quite beautiful at this point in her life. Even in her later years, she always had such an engaging smile.

Proof positive that Arlene is just about the sauciest lady around!

Rosemary Clooney appeared in ER (with George Clooney) in 1994. Naturally 😊

When New York City was so Sophisticated.

The MOST truly funny episode ever!

The cow episode with Arlene is soooo FUNNY ! Arlene was a little UP there. I liked Dorothy's hair. Gable said "You don't brand them ?" He should have gotten a yes, not a no. Rosemary was super cute than ever. All the women looked great and that includes the Tax Collector. I'm saving this one on my FB.

In every instance I've ever seen where it is "9 down and 1 to go", and it comes to Dorothy - she always passes. For some reason Dorothy never wanted to be the person who got the 10th wrong answer causing the panel to lose the game. She did it again here with Rosemary Clooney in the mystery guest spot

Arlene was so funny in this.

Everyone has such beautiful penmanship!

Rosemary's nephew George was born in 1961 and thus too young to watch his aunt on WML.

Love the cow epi!

More drinks than usual in this episode

You'd think it would be easy for them to guess Rosemary Clooney: they all seem to know her well; she's been on before; and recall that it was only a couple of months ago that Dorothy, her husband, and the McGuire Sisters were going to see her after the show. The fact that she had absolutely nothing to plug is what stumped the panel. No nightclub performances, no Broadway plays, no movies, nothing. What an oddity!

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Rosemary Clooney was beautiful in White Christmas

They seemed to be having a good ole time in that second round

It is always fun to watch when the guest stumps the panel which by the way were very good at what they did, especially with mystery guests.

June 10, 1962 - about 2 months before me and my family drove to Washington DC for a vacation and we went through the White House while JFK was President.

Read Rosemary's memoir....as I recall, its title is 'Girl singer' --- it's a good one.

Arlene Francis: "It probably wouldn't interest anyone but a bull."..hahahaha! Hilarious!

This is about as "giddy" as I've ever seen Arlene, and it appears as if Dorothy has matched her (cf. her introduction of Bennett). There was a Xmas show (though it had been taped the week before) with Tony Randall that comes to mind as about the only show I've seen that's comparable. A good time has been had by all....

Cerf seems in a furious mood, especially with Miss Kilgallen. I wonder if her alleged betrayal of the panel’s confidence which he later mentioned happened around this time.

I think Dorothy had another episode introducing Cerf. Smaller but noticeable. it wasn't any sneeze either.

Rosemary could belt out a ballad.

Why can't this messed up world go back to decency and class like it use to be!!

Hahaha! This never gets old!!!!

For those who are curious if there is any connection…Rosemary was George Clooney’s Aunt.

Rosemary Clooney was the mentor and idol of understated mega-star of modern jazz singing Diana Krall!

boy, seeing rosemary so thin you can tell her & George r related. she was pretty.

Wow! Rosemary looks slimmer and younger here than in her 1955 appearance on the show.

19:37 You can totally see nephew George in her face

HAAAPPPYYYYYY HOLIDAAAYYYSS, Arlene!! LOL 💖🍸🍹🥂🍾

If a guest's occupation has something to do with cows you now it will be funny - after seeing most of availble episodes I think everybody agree that is a general rule ;-)

LOL Dorothy was about to sneeze again, had me in stitches! LMAO!

Love tipsy Arlene!

Rosemary Clooney completely fooled the panel this time - unlike her first time as Mystery Guest (mid-1950s, I think), when her distinctive laugh gave her away. Great episode!!!!!

Being from Colorado myself, as soon as he mentioned where he was from, I thought "This guy works with cows"

Rosemary Clooney had just performed at an expensive event for President Kennedy and she was close to the Kennedy family. She campaigned for Robert Kennedy and was with him at the Ambassador Hotel when he was shot. She heard the shots. She suffered a nervous breakdown about a month later, which may have had some relation to that fact. But she had abused substances before then. She was not faithful to Mel Ferrer during their two marriages according to numerous sources.

Love this episode.

This was the second time in early 1962 WML episodes where Arlene seemed . . . . uh -- flushed. This may account for why she was so memorably funny with the second contestant.

Psssst...beforeourveryeyes....The high-necked, polka-dot dress that Arlene is wearing in this episode is the same one she wore a year earlier on the June 4, 1961 episode.What's My Line? - John Sellers; Phil Silvers; Joey Bishop [panel] (Jun 4, 1961)

I can't believe the panelists had such trouble with Rosemary. Although, being mistaken for Connie Francis and Patti Page is high praise indeed!

Dorothy sounds different when introducing Bennett Cerf

Ive always said it but in black n white just amazing how much George Clooney looks like his Aunt R

I believe John missed a double negative answer and gave Martin a "no" when "he" should have gotten a "ye"s at 15:47 when he said "You have nothing to do with branding any of these animals?". The contestant said "no", but should have said "yes I have nothing do with branding"... they all missed it!

it is rare that the celebrity stumps the panel.

Martin Gabel's question, "You have nothing to do with branding," should have gotten a yes. I'm surprised John Daly missed that one. He's usually right on top of questions like that.

"Live from New York". ? I didn't know WMLnwas broadcast live. I've watched countless episodes and this is the first time I ever noticed that announcement in the intro.

Rosemary Clooney's face never changed.

I was around in 1962, though in grade school at the time. But, I don't ever remember Rosemary Clooney looking this young and "hot."

Thank you ,I've never laughe😢😅 so hard at a cow good job old tv shows

In 1981, I bought one of my first 45 rpm records, Shakin's Steven's "This Ole House." My mother said that this was "an old song from my teens, by a woman named Rosemary Clooney." My grandmother said shortly thereafter, "..and that doesn't sound like Rosemary Clooney (!)" Apparently, Rosemary Clooney didn't like having to record this song, but was "obliged" to, or get fired. I wonder if she liked Shakin' Steven's version better..! Regardless, I assumed she liked the money that it brought in.

How insulting…they were very slow not to guess Rosemary. Connie Frances…then Patti Page? Hello? Rosemary having to say because the host asked her, that she was heading to sing at a princess Grace Red Cross Gala dinner put things in perspective along with the fact that she’d just sung the previous night at the political fundraiser. Ohhhh they weren’t so smart that night….considering how quick they were 7 years previously! God rest them all at this stage…especially Dorothy Kilgallen…tragic.

Dorothy doesn't seem impaired to me, she seems emotionally upset and on the verge of tears a lot of the time. I think she and Cerf were arguing and Arlene is trying to be more "on" because of the tension.

Not a real surprise that they, being mostly New Yorkers, didn't know what a stanchion is. Still, I really enjoy watching.

Arlene was tipsy...but in a really sweet and delightful way!

She's such a favorite of mine

Arlene Francis in this episode honestly reminded me of Brett Somers' Match Game persona.

Great epi of WML!

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I laugh every time the men in the audience whistle and carry on whenever a girl signs in.

What a Doll Rosemary Clooney Was!!!!!!!!

The Aunt of George Clooney

Interesting that water pollution was talked about back then. Maybe had to do with Rachel Carson's upcoming book about ecology.

In later years she was heavy and when she got off the stage, she shook the floor, this was at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. A very good singer of course. She had a trumpet player that was great. Later I heard him many time on KJAZ radio. I'll have to look up his French sounding name. It sounds like Martin bushay The spelling in incorrect of course.

Amazing how closely George resembles her

Having grown up during this period, I can tell the younger generation that it was considered Ill-mannered at this time to NOT wolf whistle even the slightly attractive ladies! Hard to believe, huh?

One thing that always got to me about John Daly is after the game is over with the guest. the guest very seldom gets to explain what he does. John feels he has to do it for them.

Since cattle have feet, not hands, shouldn't the second challenger have more properly been called a cow "pedicurist"?

lol "No"

Love Rosemary !!

At 16:37 Dorothy's Max Factor just hardened.

$250 for a dinner is equivalent to about $2000 today!

That’s the only time I’ve seen them not guess the star!

George Clooney's Aunt..the resemblance is clear

John Daly talks about acid rain in 1962.

Odd how Clooney looked much better here than 7 years before. And then Fred Allen got her in a whiff.

Mahhhhtin Gabel!!!

Rosemary does look a lot like Sondra Locke who played her in a documentary.

Vineland Ontario Canada ? Is that what they said ? Where the heck is that ?

She fooled them! What a beautiful gal.