Arlene Francis - memories of syn/orig What's my line?

[@fairlyvague82]

I only ever heard of Arlene Francis when I started watching WML on KZbin in lockdown 2020. Now I’m absolutely obsessed with her! She’s so gorgeous and classy and smart, I’d LOVE to have met her! 😍😍😍

[@davereynolds7472]

Get in line pal! LOL

[@historydegree2013]

Hey, that line is getting longer

[@momtimepink]

Same here!! 😅

[@garysimmons1485]

I just adore her,,,,from an era too far long gone.

[@MollyT119]

Imagine spending a beautiful life with your best friend…Arlene and Martin could definitely relate! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@paula127v]

Very nicely said ✨

[@christopherlucas4620]

The way she looks at her husband and the way he looks at her says a lot. They were truly in love.

[@brianwilliams3438]

Excellent !! I love Arlene Francis she truly was a fan of Willie Mays and baseball.

[@yeahnoonecaresifyouarefirst]

They are together again now ❤

[@timprescott4634]

The THRILL in her eyes when she got The Say Hey Kid!

[@frankjasonepelley2597]

Actress Arlene Francis was an Exceptional Outstanding Fantastic Humam Being!!!!....

[@michaelterry1000]

My favorite Arlene Francis comment came after the panel correctly identified a lighthouse keeper. Arlene asked “Are you Married ?” Reply: NO Arlene “ Well you should find someone to do the light house keeping” The comment was so cleaver and cute that I chuckle every time I think of it.

[@robertsamson4610]

You're absolutely right.

[@leannsherman6723]

Yes, that was a good one!

[@faithmapstone9982]

I wish I'd met Arlene Francis, she comes across. As a lovely interesting, clever warm Lady! ⭐❤⭐ Best wishes Faith

[@paula127v]

You're not alone in this dream, I bet 😉 All the best to you too! ✨

[@faithmapstone9982]

Thankyou ⭐

[@malikashiqui]

Both Arlene and Martin were exceptional players, and intelligent, cultured, and witty.

[@caraevans2609]

She was a neat lady and I’ve enjoyed watching your tribute videos of her. Great job! 👏

[@paula127v]

Thank you for your time and kind words 😊

[@pauldavis9649]

The one thing I'll never forget about Arlene Francis was when they had one of the men who walked on the moon on and she would NOT stop asking how the "air" smelled and no matter how everyone explained there was no air and it's a vacuum it went in one of her ears and out the other and she was really annoyed they didn't "take a sniff" of the moon air.

[@edwardoneil3962]

Arlene went on to live life to 93years of age. It was a tragedy about her diamond heart necklace though. It was snatched from her when she was getting out of a taxi cab.

[@aileen694]

Edward Oneil, I also read that Arlene's diamond heart necklace was later replaced. But sad to have lost the special original that way!

[@edwardoneil3962]

@@aileen694 it's just so tragic and sad that the original is away. Diamonds are Crystal's and they absorb and hold memories of their owners life ect.

[@bettycogswell9851]

Yes, it was sad it got stolen..

[@ilanarhian]

I have forgotten who it was, but a jeweler made her a replacement and there is a really sweet photo of her breaking into tears as he put it on.

[@momtimepink]

That was so much fun!! Thank you for compiling this!

[@paula127v]

Thanks!

[@Bowruss]

Wonderful! Thank you friend

[@hizgrase]

How star struck she is with willie Mays

[@jennalewis2671]

I love this

[@paula127v]

Thank you!

[@mariechristensen8390]

Wonderful Thank you so much !

[@paula127v]

Thanks for your kind words 😉

[@Lava1964]

That was fun!

[@paula127v]

Thanks a lot! ✨🌼

[@misiek6931]

Nicely done 😊

[@robm3074]

Arlene and Martins son Peter passed away about 3 weeks ago at age 75. (October 25, 2022)..The family is together now. RIP.

[@jacquelinebell6201]

They showed a bit of his memorial on YT. We saw Jonathan Cerf's tribute to him.

[@yeahnoonecaresifyouarefirst]

Yes the whole video is there ❤🥹

[@davereynolds7472]

for me The Grand Dame of Comedy. One of the funniest women ever. Never met an Ad Lib that Arlene didn't immediately recognize/like.

[@raypeters4525]

I LOVE ARLENE ! NONE TO COMPARE ! BEAUTIFUL IN ALL WAYS !

[@michaeldishler9673]

this is really beautiful Thank you

[@toddmccreary4579]

Of course when Willie Mays was on they hadn't gone to one question at a time yet. On the original show

[@hizgrase]

… the obvious love between her and kitty.

[@patcurrie9888]

I believe Kitty was with her when her necklace was grabbed by mugger, just exited a cab.

[@californiadreaming567]

I was taught contracts law by her son Peter Gabel. Peter was a great teacher and a lot of fun.

[@johnscanlan9335]

What law school was that?

[@paula127v]

I also created compilations of best scenes of Miss Francis from syndicated What's my line? Part 1: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mXXGeoqdjqx0pdU Part 2: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bKDXmHRpaaikgpY Part 3: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZordfGB7h82WY8k Part 4: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5W1ZpKgo9Bki6M Part 5: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p5q6Zap4Z7KGock Part 6: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqndkK2cpbFmnrc Enjoy! ✨

[@yeahnoonecaresifyouarefirst]

❤

[@malikashiqui]

Arlene Francis was the bee’s knees!

[@JasonSmith-vj1de]

willy mays is now 90

[@yeahnoonecaresifyouarefirst]

He's gone

[@edschneidmuller9496]

Arlene was an extremely bright woman.

[@hizgrase]

❤️❤️❤️

[@ajsmith5295]

❤

[@leannsherman6723]

From all I can tell, Martin Gabel didn’t practice Judaism or marry Jewish, but he did do an excellent Yiddish accent. ❤

[@michaelcase8574]

And Willey is still with us.

[@yeahnoonecaresifyouarefirst]

Nope

[@hizgrase]

Martin gabel. Find their son Peter on KZbin. Talks and looks just like his dad, imho, with a little of his mom looks wise. Carries himself like both of them.

[@armanohaniantheblacksaturd6090]

She kinda looks like Hellen Mirren

[@faithinverity8523]

What a gal

[@johnny1963ify]

Peter Gabol looks a lot like Steven Speelberg.

[@johanbrand8601]

I don't understand. What is this colorized WML?? I'm confused. Someone help me. Didn't WML end in '67?

[@jacquelinebell6201]

They started a new version of it in the early 70s.

[@jeremycrandall2899]

Her son looks a lot like Harold Ramis.

[@galileocan]

Great video. However...wish you could have curbed your creativity by dropping that absolutely ANNOYING piano background music!

[@paula127v]

Even though our opinions differ, thank you for your comment.

[@aileen694]

@@paula127v I'm afraid I have to agree with commenter Galilleocan! 🙄 That background music was really distracting and actually drowned out some bits of conversation. But -- thanks So Much for putting this together! Was still enjoyable. :)

[@paula127v]

@@aileen694 I'm now more aware of that, so I'm sorry, although I'm glad that it was still enjoyable for you :)

[@yeahnoonecaresifyouarefirst]

I love it as is...... You didn't have any reason whatsoever to post these ya know? I'll take free forever

[@nelsonricardo3729]

Arlene on original WML = elegant gowns. Arlene on syndicated WML = bath robes.

[@aileen694]

Nelson, yeah, wonder what happened with her gowns?

[@patcurrie9888]

@@aileen694 Probably returned to Bon Wit Teller (dept store), she was on the company board & I figure it was a marketing ploy.

[@aileen694]

@@patcurrie9888 bet you're right. I read that Arlene (and maybe Dottie too) was given free use of her wardrobe in exchange for the TV exposure. Always gorgeous, anyway.

[@jacquelinebell6201]

Most well known people on TV back in they day wore dresses by a fashion store/designer sponsoring the program. They still do it today on some programs.

[@robertsprouse9282]

RIP, LARRY BLYDEN the shortest tenured host of "LINE". He died in a carwreck overseas, if my memory serves..

[@bluecollarguy67]

Pull up Blyden's Wikipedia page and you can read about the confusion regarding the cause and circumstances of his death. I never knew about this and had always believed that he was killed in a car crash while on vacation in Morocco.

[@dorothykilgallenwasmurdere1653]

I heard he was hijacked and killed in Morroco

So strange to see them in color.

[@tatjanalehnert6721]

Great video, but awful background music! Way too loud!

[@withonelook1985]

Easily the classiest lady in all of game show TV. Playing opposite the truly horrifying Dorothy Kilgallen all those years.

[@trainliker100]

Dorothy Kilgallen wasn't all that bad. She was just a typical Manhattan elitist (as were others on the panel). It was Bennet Cerf who was the pompous one that looked down on everyone. He also founded the Famous Writers School (mail order school) that bilked people out of a lot of money. After a lot of pressure by Cerf to keep the story suppressed, Jessica Mitford finally got her article exposing it in the July 1970 issue of The Atlantic. The "Famous Writers School" went bankrupt in 1972. As one example of what Cerf was really like, Mitford asked him how many books his Random House publishing company had printed by Famous Writers School students. His answer was, "Oh, come on, you must be pulling my leg - no person of any sophistication, whose book we’d publish, would have to take a mail-order course to learn how to write." Now THAT was the horrifying person on the panel.

[@dorothykilgallenwasmurdere1653]

@@trainliker100 wow, I didn't know that.

[@johnscanlan9335]

No Dorothy Kilgallen was NOT "truly horrifying" at all. She was one of the top American journalists of the 20th Century and was most likely murdered to stop her investigation of the JFK assassination!

[@yeahnoonecaresifyouarefirst]

​@@dorothykilgallenwasmurdere1653ugh! You should really check it out Dorothy and Arlene were 2 of the best! ❤❤