MYSTERY GUEST: The Cincinnati Reds; Bob & Linda Hope [the comedian and his daughter] PANEL: Dorothy Kilgallen, Paul Winchell, Arlene Francis, Bennett Cerf
Great to see young Joe Nuxhall, who first pitched for the Reds at age 15 and went on to broadcast with Marty Brenneman for many years before passing on.
Nice to see Ted Kluszewski. My father was a football teammate of his at Indiana University. Dad played center and Ted was a standout tight end for the 1945 team was undefeated (9-0-1). It was the Hoosiers first football Big Ten Conference Championship.
Wouldn't you just LOVE a thirty second commercial again? These thirty minute shows usually ran from 24 to 26 minutes of actual content. The commercials and public service announcements were less bombastic...ah! the good old days.
Michael Danello I liked the commercials in the Fibber McGee a d Molly radio show. They were written into the script and quite entertaining. And only ONE sponsor!
something I've found interesting of learning of these old TV shows, it was far more common back then for series to still be airing brand new episodes close running up to and even in some cases on major holidays. (of course some network dramas/sitcoms had like 35 or more episodes per "season") Well with the prolification of original cable series it's starting to get back a bit closer to that model, but for a long time now you just got repeats of stuff near holidays.
now, the commercials are 35 percent of the entire program time, as well as being loud and intrusive. Then, there is more than one of them---there may be a dozen, after which you have forgotten what you were watching in the first place.
Linda Hope looks so much like her father in mannerisms and facial structure it is somewhat eerie to see them side by side Edit: just read that she was adopted, hard to believe , but goes to show that also a child of the heart can take after their parents
Maybe his biological daughter with a woman not his wife, so he "adopted" her. Sure as heck looks that way. "Spittin' image". Lots of deep dark secrets like that in show business history.
John Daly Absolutely Threw The Game Telling There's More Than One Challenger After "Sports" Was Established. This Just Cheapened The Overall Suprise Effect Of What's My Line..... Now
the only black player...ended with 580+ home runs! and became the first black manager in the bigs....Frank Robinson...triple crown winner in the American League with Baltimore Orioles. and the only Hall of Famer in the group.
What's My Line was such a great chronicle of American pop culture; amazing to lose yourself in the great personalities of yesteryear featured on the show. Seeing the Cincinnati Reds off the field was fabulous. These were some of the "big guns" of the mid/late 1950's. Ted Kluszewski comes across as a truly classy guy (check his career batting and fielding stats; the guy was amazing!) But seeing the other guys: Wally Post, Gus Bell, Johnny Temple, Roy McMillan, Frank Robinson, etc....Ed Bailey, the Reds' catcher who hit 3 homeruns the very afternoon that this show was taped; he was a very tough, pugnacious guy behind the plate, yet seems SO slight and unremarkable...not at all like the beefed-up dudes who dominant the game today. And Smokey Burgess...also a catcher...who "Big Klu" almost forgets to introduce--- was another very impressive power hitter, who looks NOTHING like his baseball card and PR photos; he looks like a totally average, aging and physically UN-imposing guy. A remarkable piece of baseball history, thankfully preserved for us. LR
in December, 1965, when the Reds traded Frank Robinson to the Orioles, Reds' fans were so upset the hung Reds owner Bill DeWitt in effigy in Fountain Square.
Not having known much about Bob Hope's personal life, I just assumed that was his wife and his gesture to Daly and the crowd when he walked out was indicating that she was newly pregnant lol
Dolores must have been blind or hopelessly deaf to her husband's shenanigans when not on stage. How many ppl are thanking him for the memories done in s__t_s and p_nth__s_s?
As a Catholic, divorce had been presented with a stigma attached, leaving people misinformed and women feeling guilted. Read the Canon Law as I have and you will find a true interpretation of marrital dissolution.
Here's a picture of Frank Robinson in 1956 with Ted Kluszewski and Cincinnati Manager Birdie Tebbetts. He might have been thinner at that age, but comparing him to Klu (look at the arms on each of them), I wouldn't exactly call Robinson thin. s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/6c/fa/c1/6cfac1418389b6318fcb258ba466573f--sports-baseball-baseball-pics.jpg
By the last few years of his playing career, mostly as a pinch hitter for the White Sox, Smoky no longer ran ... he waddled. He claimed that he was slender until the time he entered the Army during WWII. He said that he was given the job of mail clerk, giving him plenty of chow to eat but not much exercise.
Two of the best lines from the Cincinnati part of the show: Bennett Cerf: "Is it one of the metropolitan teams?" Answer: "No." Dorothy: "Then you won today" Jerry Mahoney, after a one of Daily's typical explanations: "Hey, Wench" Paul Winchell: "Yeah." "What'd he say?" "Who knows!"
At the 10.15 portion the Cincinnati Reds, I never knew Smoky Burgess played for the reds, in my much younger days I watched him play the batting left-handed catcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates in Forbes field, now a present memory
If that had been the Pirates playing in Ebbets Field that day rather than the Redlegs, and the Senators playing in Yankee Stadium that day rather than the White Sox hosting the Yankees, then all three choices would have been teams whose names represented professions!
Two things with which I correct or differ with John Daly on the baseball segment: 1) Arlene asks if the entire team is there as she takes off her mask. John Daly replies, "The whole team." There are 11 players there. A major league roster at that time was 25 players. 2) John Daly calls Ted Kluszewski a first baseman virtually without peer. No doubt about it, he was one of the best players in the NL at that time. But he was not rated as good a first basemen as Gil Hodges (who was as strong if not stronger than Ted). Both became regulars during the 1948 season. Klu was an All-Star in four seasons, Hodges in eight seasons. Hodges hit more home runs during his career (370 to 279) and was more consistent as a home run hitter over his career (Klu basically had four big seasons and the rest relatively few, with some seasons as a starter in single digits). Klu had a better lifetime average (.298 to .273) but Hodges drove in 246 more runs, was a productive major league starter longer and was with little dissent considered the best fielding first baseman in the 1950's and a serious candidate for best all time. While Klu had better fielding averages in many of their seasons competing against each other, he didn't have the range of Hodges or the footwork of Hodges at first to save bad throws, and he didn't have the versatility of Hodges to make all the plays. Klu was never considered a serious candidate for the Hall of Fame. Hodges is brought up before the Veterans Committee regularly and many astute baseball observers consider his omission from Cooperstown to be one of the biggest injustices regarding the Hall. Many experts believe that if Hodges hadn't died young in 1972 (age 47), he would have made it by now. But sometimes it is out of sight, out of mind.
Yes, there were several British versions over the years, but the original wasn't a patch on the US version, as Bennet Cerf implied (speaking as a Brit myself here).
funnily thing is, I'm only just finding this show now (I've known about it forever, but never actually saw any, and always assumed it was a guessing a phrase or password type game) but as a part of being a fan and obsessed with many things British culture for almost 20 years now (I'm 43 and American) I've been a major regular fan of several of the current British comedic panel shows. Some of them are out to be downloaded via torrent, but mostly diligent UK users upload new episodes here on YT and that's where many Americans like me watch. I especially adore Would I Lie To You, and have for awhile wondered if the US might try to make its own version. The closest right now is I've occasionally seen that Jimmy Fallon has a recurring bit on his Tonight Show that's essentially that very idea, but distilled into just a one or two round like 8 minute segment. I've often wondered if his writing staff knew about WILTY first.
@@kevinw712 to wonder whether Fallon's "Tonight Show" writers know, well, anything at all, is itself a fever dream. Give them 50 years and they couldn't come up with something original.
Linda Hope's longtime partner, Nancy Malone, won an Emmy for directing Bob Hope: The First 90 Years. Nancy is dead, but Wiki says Linda is still alive as of June 2022.
This show aired in either 1956 or 1957. This is because Frank Robinson was a rookie in 1956 and the Dodgers (who the Reds had beaten) left Brooklyn for Los Angeles after the 1957 season.
Interesting that they were credited as the Reds here. At the time they were officially known as the Cincinnati Redlegs due to the Red Scare of the 1950s.
6:54 I feel that Daly actually cheated for the panel there, by pointing out that there were more people, without them asking; (and the panel knew Daly enough to read between the lines), smh. It should've been handled differently. IMO
I think he had to say something because only one person was answering the questions. Usually the panel is tipped off that there's more than one person when they hear different voices. If Daly hadn't said something they never could have understood there was more than one person.
JCD was concerned because they were starting to focus on what position "the" guest played. That would have been a lenthy detour, and not a very entertaining one. So he felt he had to give them that clue.
I really wish we could see the episode that Bennett did with the BBC version of What's My Line... No doubt he would've made a playful remark about Eammon Andrews not being as verbose as John Charles Daly, haha Might I also add that I absolutely adore Arlene's look in this episode! I always thought the sideways part was a very flattering hairstyle on her, her headband is cute and stylishly placed, and the elbow-length gloves are very classy!
As a kid in the early '70's, and you get to Riverfront early, then Coach Klu would stand by the dugout and effortlessly swat fly balls to deep right and purposely hit homers for us kids to catch/take home.
Jackie Robinson = First African American baseball "player" Frank Robinson (featured in this video) = First African American baseball manager. No relation between the two players.
Of the 11 players, the only name I recognized was Frank Robinson! (When I moved to Baltimore in 1988 he became the replacement manager after a 0 and 21 start.)
@SavageArfad I agree; Arlene often had way too much make-up on -- it almost made her look like a ghost sometimes. I guess it was intended to make her look better on camera. But I think she was stunning anyway.
Bob Hope was devilishly handsome when younger and explains why he had a reputation as quite the ladies' man. (Good lucks and funny are a deadly combination when it comes to seduction ;-)
Ted Kluszewski was 6'2" weighed 225 and he cut off both sleeves of his jersey, because they constricted his huge biceps and shoulders and limited his ability to swing a baseball bat freely.
They were obviously messing with Bob hope as Bennett would say in an interview later. You can tell he is not that amused after the first few guesses lol.
@@accomplice55 All of Bob Hope's children were adopted. I believe there are four of them But isn't is a miracle that she looks just like him? She really does!
14:50 In what I've watched so far, Jon Daly's usually pretty good about being on top of the guest's answers to make sure they're accurate as possible. Here I feel like it would've been very fair for him to clarify that while the guest could handle "a large group" as they said on the job, but the members would still only be dealt with one at a time. well and technically the "what you would give me is only made of paper and nothing else" answer was wrong, because surely a passport is comprised of BOTH paper AND film. Those are distinctly two different objects, as far as I know paper is not an ingredient in raw film. nice to know I can still bring my nerd logic brain to a 70 year old game show lol Also, did Daly often just sort of make up rules as he went along like this? I'm actually getting a kick out of it lol
The photographer would only have supplied Bennett's photo, not the rest of his passport, and it would have been printed on paper. (The photographer would likely have kept the film negative in case other prints were needed later.) The photo print would have a tiny amount of gelatin emulsion and silver image, so "and nothing else" isn't strictly accurate, but it's comparable to referring to a "paper document" and neglecting the ink as a component part.
The photographer might be asked to take pictures of, say, a high school graduating class or a wedding party. These would involve a group, and not one-at-a-time. He did not take *only* passport photos.
Not only did the Giants and Dodgers each lose both of their double header home games that day, but the Yankees also lost both of the games they played in Chicago against the White Sox! Not a good day for New York baseball.
Daly actually made a mistake calling Bob Hope "Robert" when his actual name was "Lesley". He changed it after a teacher, in school, doing an attendance check, referred to him as "Hope, Lesley"
@@SusanDofash Yes, Susan, but, basically, he was a comedian. Look up " Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope" in Wikipedia. I also have copies of his "Road" movies, with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour, and "The Princess and the Pirate", from an Internet site.
@@SusanDofash Yes, Susan. We all enjoy a laugh every once in a while. Are you familiar with "My Fair Lady", when Audrey Hepburn sings "The Rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain". Prior to that Rex Harrison refers to the Spanish Inquisition, although I can't imagine what this has to do with the original story. However, with the last name "Rain" and having a certain "ethnic" connection, I tell my brothers that it is not worth flying to Spain simply to be told to stay on the plane.
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