What's My Line? - Salvador Dali; Lillian Roth; Peter Lawford [panel] (Jan 27, 1957) 

Yes! Turn on the game show network now and see humans screaming, shouting, jumping at a tempo designed to create excitement on steroids. Why? Advertisers sell more when people are hopped up in Adrenalin. Sad.

You have forgotten the artificial intelligence. You didn’t think John Daly was real, did you?

That was perfect!

Surrealism defined, Dali's forte, one more reason why Arlene is my favorite regular panelist

Hmm are you 103?

@@summertummer2394 lillian roth died in 1980. a few years before she died would have been the 1970s. a teenager in the 1970s would have been born in the 1960s or 50s. in 2020, someone born in the 1950s or 60s would now be in their 50s or 60s.

@@funboy7979 yep, my dad was born in 1958 and he turned 61 last year, and he knows who Lillian Roth was.

Doug R - I bet that you cherish that photo and the letter.

@@shirleyrombough8173 i do indeed!

Bobby Gabinadina I agree. Very addictive.

I spent about two hours a night watching these I am so glad these are on RU-vid thank you so much

You are not alone with that!

Ain’t it the truth?

The first one of these I watched was still I believe technically less than 48 hours before my posting this, and I already pretty much consider it my new favorite TV show lol

He was a bit odd.

Fkn hilarious! It was like having Groucho on! I wish I had that board he signed. BIG influence on my artwork.

Dalí. (Accent on second syllable.)

@@sandrageorge3488 of course he was. He's Dali.

I was laughing too. Just that confused look and all the ‘yes’!! Then he just jumped up out of the seat and took off.

He's like the anti-Groucho... they must never meet or the universe might implode.

A genius alright. PS. In the US, he wouldn't be so lucky as we get our paud checks back!! Or used to.

would such a small drawing on the back of a check be worth much today?

@@terranova22 definitely more than the cost of a meal even adjusted for inflation

@@terranova22 would you rather have a drawing by Salvador Dali or a few hundred bucks?

@@happydreamer4679 Do you mean "by" Salvador Dali? ;-)

I counted 18 "Yes"s, ( overturned), 3 "No"s and 6 questions Daly answered himself.

Steven Chappell,I think their were more no's than that

The Persistence of Yes

Surreal.

I wonder who got to keep that Dali signature board?

John was over-the-top with his eruditeness. He should have given his explanations in a concise and intelligible manner.

I love listening to his twisted, vague and extremely wordy responses. His job was to help baffle the panel, not make it easier for them. Also, for some people who are very well read, speak several languages, travel around the world, it is more challenging to think of simple words to explain something. A simple word contains too many assumptions and can lead peole to misunderstand a statement. He was a journalist and his job was to choose words carefully so as not to mislead his listener. Notice how he listens to the questions which are quite often double negatives - in order to get an affirmative answer? He thinks it through, helps the contestant to understand how to answer so that the panelist is not misunderstood and therefore misled. There is so much deep thinking, reasoning and complex language going on behind the faces. That is what is so fascinating to me and I cannot stop watching it! Btw: i am a speech language pathologist. My life work is studying language development, use, disorders, and the brain.

She's all over RU-vid singing her trademark songs like Red, Red Robin. An early 1930s star, she became better known for her battle with alcoholism. Perhaps an acquired taste, but I'm a big fan, have been forever.

She was in the early Marx Brothers film 'Animal Crackers'.

Salvador Daly?

I became a huge Lillian Roth fan around the time I became a huge What's My Line? fan, both way before my time, both because I was able to watch their stuff on yootoobius. Isn't she an absolute wonder here? What power and sass. I'm much too young to know about these people but was always one of those weirdos who sought out old media while not connecting with present-day media. I'm happy to say that when talking to two generations younger than me, people are really interested in discovering artists who were popular before their parents or grandparents were born, because they grew up on the internet and can research anything and have a general curiosity. So I think America is due for a proper worship of the awesomeness of Lillian Roth. Finally! Start with The Love Parade "Let's Be Common" and go from there.

@@zBeestBeest If you haven't already, check out her "This Is Your Life episode"! "What a courageously honest woman, she was!

+poetcomic1 The only problem is in that specific case she said "dear" instead of "dahling" lol. I do like how she says darling though ;)

I worked on Lillian Roth's estate in the 1990s. Despite her literary talents, she died practically penniless in a studio apartment - there was just enough to bury her. But she lived quite an up and down life.

@@ccbsnyc No disgrace! Mozart died the same way!

@@ccbsnyc 💔😢🥀🥀🥀

Me too

Funny, I never took it that way at all. I always assumed Dali was being intentionally "surrealist" in his answers.

I also think that Dali did not know what a "leading man" is. English is not my first language, and I had never heard that term before watching "What's My Line"-Videos.

I think it was just his personality. If he turned his back on John, it must have been very subtle as it was not obvious and they seemed to get along quite well. He seemed to take delight in some of John's answers. Let's face it, some of the John's answers could be quite surreal, which probably made him feel quite at home.

+romeman01 Exactly what I think. The phrase "leading man" can be extremely misleading (sic!) for a non-native speaker of English.

+romeman01 What seems likely is not what always turns out to be true. He didn't seem offended to me, but my point is ultimately this: Who knows for sure? We don't.

Great statement Mark!! Wow,,, just the sports alone!! Mantle, Mays,, Leo,,, My God!!! The Dali painted sig?? I am a collector and dealer of signatures and i wonder if they kept any??

And worth a fortune!

Interesting they didn't show the blsck bull fighter saying good bye to the panel....

And bless her heart her problems were not over in 1957

@@libertyann439: Many of the guests don't say goodbye to the panel.

@@libertyann439 It's because he wasn't a mystery guest.

very cute in her youth!

And Eleanor Roosevelt

@@carolv8450 Eleanor, a woman for the ages. She and Barack would have been great friends, IMHO.

That is awesome!☺

yes and very tall for a toreador

I'm terribly sorry, I bumped the dislike button on your comment quite on accident.

Rosey01222 We got to hear him say, “Yes!” to every question they could think to ask.

Superlative divas, Leontine Price and Marian Anderson, for two.

They had opera singer Lily Pons, conductor Seiji Ozawa, pianist Van Cliburn, and architect Edward Durrell Stone.

He didn't have to try, he WAS outrageous.

If you look at his bio, you will find that eccentricity was born in the bone.

maybe she confused it with palladium?

ToddSF 94109 Bennett was well traveled, doing lectures all over the country, and often remembered and mentioned the principal department stores and hotels in a guest's city. This was before the era of nationwide chains for the most part. I'm sure he made a deliberate effort to do this, and found it useful in his business, but it's also part of his charm and helped guests feel at ease.

Jenny Brown What? I found that super funny...

Bennett also said Salvador didn't talk English instead of speak English. It sounded awkward and uneducated...of which he was neither.

I actually love his puns....well, most of them!

I agree. This is the only time I've heard him introduce JCD without the Charles.

One might say Golly !