FOOT IN MOUTH! What's My Line? 1955 | BUZZR

[@Celisar1]

I really love that people could make a living of absolutely everything. So many possibilities and even the small jobs were enough to support someone sufficiently. that’s how it should be.

[@DavidA.-bv8xy]

Picked up on this also. And how many folks were self employed back then.

[@tugginalong]

But people lived differently then. Even when I was a kid, most families had one car and if they had a 2nd car, it was usually a clunker that dad drove to work. We didn’t have a microwave until I was in the 8th grade. A cheap one was $500 back then. Adjusted for inflation, that’s $3400 in 2024. That same year, we got a 2nd phone in the house. When was younger, we didn’t have air conditioning and I grew up in South Carolina where it’s hot. In grades 1,2,3,8, and 9, I went to schools that didn’t have AC. We had one television my entire life growing up and in the 5th grade when we got our first color television. It received 2 channels (CBS & NBC) and occasionally we could get and ABC channel out of Charleston SC and another NBC out of Wilmington NC, which would depend on the weather. We were considered middle class and not many families had much more. My mom was one of nine children and she was 6th of 9. Her brother who was the 7th child was their first sibling to own a bicycle. Their oldest sister and her husband (my aunt and uncle) bought it for him at Xmas just after WWII. And my mother bragged to me that they were poor but they were never hungry. A lot of people were hungry during the depression. This world has changed a lot in the last hundred years and even during my short time on it. We have so much to be thankful for that we’re ungrateful.

[@stephenbabb3805]

I miss Arlene when she isn't on the panel. I found her very charming and a great sense of humor.

[@Celisar1]

Arlene and Dorothy were the perfect combination.

[@RobertJonesWightpaint]

And a very sharp brain. Lovely lady.

[@RobertJonesWightpaint]

Fred Allen had a face like a disappointed bloodhound, but when he smiled his whole face lit up. So sad that he died so early.

[@BellsWatson]

Beautiful handwriting.

[@alanh.3494]

People were very proper regarding talking to the panel. We should go back to being proper regarding talking to others.

[@SomethingSomethingg]

In most other countries on the planet this is how people still talk lol. America is just doomed left and right To be fair though, this was a high class event. If you were to take a train 30 minutes down to the Bronx. It would be a whole different story lol

[@drewsmusical]

i wish i could see all the shows

[@yeahnoonecaresifyouarefirst]

Subscribe to the what's my line channel..... You're welcome

[@19gregske55]

I loved the Stopette commercial!

[@Celisar1]

Indeed. I love the “poof, there goes perspiration” part most.

[@leannsherman6723]

$.25 for a hotdog and Bennett was complaining. 😂 I like that John Charles Daley said that he wasn’t going to open up any megillahs here - even if he didn’t know the origin of the word. 😂❤

[@leannsherman6723]

Why did Bennett always pronounce the word been like bean?😂

[@rdbjrseattle]

25 cent hot dogs, Brooklyn Dodgers 1953. LA Dodgers, 2023, $6.75+.

[@kd6836]

Interesting that the silver quartet from then has about $7 worth of silver in it now. Of course the hot dog is probably half the size.

[@donnasutula7156]

Sometimes they give the panel hints. Really hard to beleive she got that so fast with the thousands of things he could have been doing.

[@leannsherman6723]

Bennett: Is it, or has it ever “bean” alive? 😂

[@chickadee0719]

I do believe Mr. Cerf means been, not bean , alive.

[@joycejean-baptiste4355]

Miss Loraine Day may have had some knowledge of how some people don't wash their hands. I'm a retired nursing assistant and you wouldn't believe what the hands can pass on. Especially now has hand washing been promoted.

[@BJ-fj6jw]

First line of defense, yes!

[@leannsherman6723]

.25 for a hotdog - and Bennett thought that was overpriced! 😂

[@KororaPenguin]

Before ballparks started selling their own refreshments, teams were going belly-up all over the place. Of the eight original National League teams from 1876, only two were still operational by 1880: The Chicago White Stockings (now the Cubs) and the Boston Red Caps (now the Atlanta Braves).

[@chirelle.alanalooney8609]

This show gives their workers the answers.

[@RonGerstein]

THE FCC WOULD HAVE SHUT THE SHOW DOWN IF THE PANELISTS WERE GIVEN THE ANSWERS, YOU BRAINLESS SIMPLETON !!!

[@willisknapick4405]

Dodgers won the Series rhat year.

[@smacksmack5976]

I saw 2 games that year

[@Traderjoe]

We had a toe tapping good time

[@rbilleaud]

25 cents for a hotdog, wow! If only Bennett was alive today.

[@carmellafraser2467]

Brilliant man with beautifully smile. ❤

[@leannsherman6723]

.25 for a hotdog! “ We’re not going to open up any Megillahs here.” 😂 The Megillah is what’s read on the Jewish holiday of Purim that just passed this month. It’s about the Book of Esther.

[@pattimaeda6097]

It mean overly extended explanation or story for something tediously complicated

[@trekkiejunk]

I was born decades after this show was on the air, but i have recognized every single one of the celebrity guests on the dozens of episodes i've been watching....until now. Hildegarde? Have a feeling she had no staying power in people's memories.

[@MrMatteNWk]

5:32 If only she had then asked "Do you sell beer?"

[@BNatoAk]

I cant believe they sold hotdogs that expensive!!! 25 cents is highway robbery 😂

[@RonGerstein]

In a ballpark, it was 25 cents. In the street, it was 10 cents.

[@ronflatter1235]

8:09 “A lot of people are fed up with” the WML scoring system? Pray tell, could you elaborate, JCD?

[@YY4Me133]

I think he meant that a lot of people were fed up with him _explaining_ the scoring system.

[@yeahnoonecaresifyouarefirst]

That's what he meant

[@dianepowers9643]

Just took a guess at his occupation and was right

[@yeahnoonecaresifyouarefirst]

That's why they stopped doing that

[@miel1074]

My Gawd, there was Stoppette… why you don’t say!!

[@AuthorLLaurence]

How come Loraine Day not shake hands with the people including the mystery guess???

[@eunicel5964]

She should have worn gloves like the ladies of the day did if she didn't want to touch people. Came across as very elitist and rude

[@eunicel5964]

I just noticed she shook hands wit the mystery guest...perhaps because SHE was wearing gloves? But then she did with the foot doctor. I bet that creeped her out after she found out her line.

[@joycejean-baptiste4355]

Miss Day did shake the hand of the gloved Miss Hildegard. So maybe she was afraid of germs. I wonder.

[@akrenwinkle]

@@eunicel5964 I believe the past tense of creep is crope. Crape? Well, whatever... creeped looks wrong.

[@rogerpropes7129]

@@akrenwinkle Normally 'crept' but in this usage 'creeped out'.

[@Celisar1]

You cannot tell me that Dorothy did not get some hints regarding Mr. Cohen’s business. It is impossible to guess that streamlined.

[@nirmalawilson3697]

Exactly my thoughts.

[@enriquesanchez2001]

HOW the hell did she get so FAST! Sneaky I'd say

[@pattimaeda6097]

Because if they start with Lorraine Day then it has to do with baseball

[@rogerpropes7129]

@@pattimaeda6097 Laraine Day looks exactly like some other celebrity whom I can't bring to mind...?

[@carmellafraser2467]

She is a journalist????? I think 🥰🥰

[@moccalou]

Man, imagine the 1950s where employers cared about you and wanted you to make a living. Selling hot dogs was a salaried position.

[@largemember]

I have no idea who Miss Day is but,DAMN!!!,she's HOTT!!!!!

[@leannsherman6723]

Poof! There goes perspiration!

[@johnkekely7357]

Well, Wikipedia thinks her worthy of note.

[@DavidA.-bv8xy]

Interesting how many women, despite what you might hear these days, worked outside the home back then.

[@Richard-d9p]

I wish someone would give me some examples of "Foot in Mouth" from these segments. Sounds like another incorrectly titled clip or click bait.

[@davidbowden796]

At the risk of sounding "ignorant", but just who the hell is Hildegarde???

[@nataliep.9047]

Forget Hildegarde. You would do better if you check out something called Google search.

[@YY4Me133]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegarde

[@rogerpropes7129]

One of the most obscure guests on the show ever--she played the piano and sang.

[@b.deville3236]

@@rogerpropes7129 Obscure nothing! She was a famous international musical entertainer who was still performing in NYC clubs into the disco era.

[@gnirolnamlerf593]

You don't sound ignorant. You sound younger than 70. However, if you're here, as natalie points out, you could also go to a search engine and find out without sounding like you think Goodson and Todman were crazy for having her on in 1955. You might not know who Gale Storm or Anne Jeffreys were, but they were famous TV stars in 1955 and were WML mystery guests too, just to name two of dozens. Now, if you just type in "Hildegarde," you're going to run into Hildegard von Bingen and Hildegarde Knef, but we know that this Hildegarde also played the piano and worked in nightclubs, because they said so, so you've got a couple of key words to add to the search. While you're at it, look up Cafe Carlyle and Bobby Short (who? look him up) too and then go listen both to Hildegarde and Bobby Short on KZbin. You probably won't like their romantic pops style, but it was perfect for supper clubs. She turned up on lots of TV variety shows too, worked clubs until around 1990 and died at 99 in 2005. She was pushing 50 when she appeared here. As they mentioned in this video, she was nicknamed "The Incomparable Hildegarde!" a bit over the top, because she was basically just a nice singer in nightclubs all around the world and made a pretty penny doing it. She was elegant and classy, and more talented than, say, most Kardashians, of whom you probably _have_ heard. Lots of people thought she was from Europe, but as she mentions, she grew up in Milwaukee. The gossip columnist (like Kilgallen, though _she_ was also known to do serious investigative reporting) Walter Winchell designated her as "incomparable." Not sure why, but Eleanor Roosevelt and the King of Sweden at the time also liked her performances.

[@glen1ster]

Hildegarde

[@rocky3993]

Wow! Complaining about 25 cents for a hotdog. The good old days. Today they range from $4 to $7 at MLB ballparks.

[@eunicel5964]

What's with the ads in this one? Five before the mystery guest. And if that Day women didnt want to touch common people she should have worn gloves like the ladies of the day did.

[@elliebellie7816]

Maybe she's like Howie Mandela and has an aversion to touching other directly. Would you tell him to wear gloves on his game show?

[@yeahnoonecaresifyouarefirst]

Mandel*

[@yeahnoonecaresifyouarefirst]

If you don't like the ads the what's my line channel lacks those ads for most of its videos

[@bambi274]

Glove woman is so rude

[@leannsherman6723]

Poor joke by Fred Allen about the next atomic bomb. 😖

[@yeahnoonecaresifyouarefirst]

He's hilarious! 😂❤