Louis Jourdan on "What's My Line?"

Since 'tis the season, I left a mini Yuletide bonus at the beginning. Robert Q. Lewis joins the panel.

[@Lava1964]

He disguised his French accent very well indeed! Great job!

[@kmeccat]

Ugh...he was SOOOO handsome--and a delightful human! RIP Monsieur Louis Jourdan!

[@NicholasYaekle]

One of my favorite actors! Played Kamal Khan in Octopussy brilliantly! Rest in peace, Mr. Jourdan

[@jrmetmoi]

What I like about this show is that it was very American but it gave recognition to celebs who were international and came from non-English speaking countries.

[@malcocreative]

I've watched everything you put up and Louis Jourdan is one of my favorite clips. His 'American' accent is priceless! jrs

[@ajaw_deej]

That is an amazing accent. Louis Jourdan is such a beautiful man,

[@MissLizaMay]

He did a spectacular job disguising that accent! Louis, Je t'aime!

[@rickw1100]

This wonderful actor even now in his senior years sweats class, sophistication, and cool sexy. One of my all time favorites. Thank you for posting this program. Loved it!

[@desiadams22]

Such a gorgeous gentleman!

[@visualize2feel]

Louis Jourdan so handsome, dreamy and a charmer

[@MOGGS1942]

Mr.Jourdan was such a great actor,with charisma to spare. Today's so called "stars" become insignificant when compared with him. He was extremely handsome,and oh how the camera loved him. RIP,Sir.

[@americandreamer6092]

He was perfect in 'Gigi' as was the entire cast. Very elegant and handsome man.

[@leannsherman6723]

Good accent by Louis Jourdan! So handsome, too. ❤️

[@Kuchlenz]

Ohhhh, I love Louis Jourdan!

[@flannerymonaghan-morris4825]

Louis Jordan’s American accent is surprisingly good for a non native speaker. Really goes to show how great of an actor he is.

[@Mathview]

The fantastic Louis Jourdan! And the WML crew. A classy group of people. People we would have actually liked to meet and even invited to dinner. TY for posting. Present day celebs seem to be mostly trash with cash, or mentally ill, or both.

[@MissLoveSoup]

Louis Jourdan Rocks xox .

[@rickcharles191]

He worked with the French Resistance. (anti-Nazi) YEA!!! Fun to watch when Arlene snags a fish and reels it in.

[@victorpegala2698]

His father for sure did but not Louis who managed to live in the south of France

[@Jasper7182009]

@@victorpegala2698 …. Unfair remark by you. Even though Louis Jourdan was with his family in unoccupied France, he still did work to aid the resistance.

[@disvids8754]

RIP, Louis Jourdan

[@michaeldellarippa4168]

RIP Mr. Jourdan!

[@WCaron23001]

Great voice, so handsome.

[@GodOfVictory501]

Louis was with his wife for 70 years - they died six months apart. How poignant.

[@SuperWolsey]

Aww. That's love

[@ashleyg325]

HE IS SO CUTE.

[@RandeeMassler]

I grew up with this show (my mother was a contestant in 1964) I also have been a fan of Louis Jourdan since I saw him as a little girl in "GiGi" Who could have imagined then, that the question "are you a man" would be politically incorrect"

[@Aannan]

Well slather me with jam and call me a croissant, I never imagined Monsieur Jourdan could talk like that!

[@monelleny]

Louis Jourdan was a crack croquet player. I am looking for video of him playing, but thanks for this!

[@victorpegala2698]

La grande classe Louis

[@TinaRus-cd3pv]

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@margaretcanton]

@hkk321 - Lewis might have been thinking of Jacques Bergerac and Ginger Rogers, or Charles Boyer and Pat Patterson...

[@tomwheeler5165]

Americans were certainly in love with all things french in the 1950s

[@XMLarry]

Would love to see this entire episode

[@hemantram]

Loved Mr.Louis since he played Dracula. God Bless you Sir

[@marthafarquar]

He sounds like Tony Curtis impersonating Cary grant

[@larciabella]

lol,

[@dianefiske-foy4717]

He’s trying to impersonate a few stars, I think, though I can’t guess them all.

[@Ezhuks]

Wow, up until I've checked the Wikipedia to see if he's really French, I would never thought that! Great job on that accent.

[@grecogrant2511]

wonderful

[@captainnice9698]

He was excellent in Three Coins In The Fountain. I would've loved to travel around Italy like he did in the movie with those 3 beautiful girls

[@joycepiantes8383]

His movie about Dacula was one of the best.

[@quizmaster85]

Still going strong at 90 :)

[@senoramariposa]

Somewhere on YT there is a clip of Louis Jourdan on the WML panel. Wish I could remember which one it was.

[@quizmaster85]

Thanks for that :)

[@ShawDAMAN]

awesome voice disguise. he sounded like fred macmurray with hints of french and british lol

[@RenanCMaia]

Very funny!

[@carolynargabright8132]

Jourdan sounds like a cross between Clark Gable and Cary Grant

[@mmjhcb]

What a hunk he was!

[@rosea2350]

He did a great Dracula.

[@satinecharm]

I would really love to see the play - The Immoralist - because the book is one of my favorites!

[@wiguy3]

good lord he's handsome......woof!

[@63utuber]

"Are you American?" - John rarely misses a chance to give a "no".

[@satinecharm]

I agree!

[@lukefrohling]

Nice! Also from Columbo

[@VonCringe]

Well I tried to post a link to one of Louis' guest panelist appearances, but it doesn't seem to have taken. Do a KZbin search on: what's my line McClellan. Senator McClellan was the mystery guest on one of Jourdan's panelist appearances - the one in 1955.

[@Richard40171]

I love his "Waltz at Maxim's" in GIGI ("She's so gay tonight," etc. when "gay" meant something else).

[@senoramariposa]

I wish I could find the clip where Louis Jourdan was one of the panelists.

[@ShawDAMAN]

Arlene was surprisinlgy close on her free guess there with the santa teacher ;p

[@wmlfan9]

Alas, I wanted to see the segment with the man who runs the Santa Claus school.

[@bigred997]

this is one of the top 3 fake accents on this show of the few hundred that i've seen. nicely done.

[@nurula007]

hey, do u have the clips of the 2 contestants that show up prior to louis jourdan? if u do, could u post it up?

[@torchkit]

@AAMLfan "is this someone that the 'bobbysoxers' might be very excited about?" "Bobbysoxers" was a 1950's term for teenage girls. Basically, Robert was asking if Mr. Jourdan's fan base was old or young.

[@bronxbearbud272]

So was Louis Jordan from Brooklyn or Oklahoma?

[@63utuber]

Yet another example of D.K.'s astonishing intuition - in regards to Mr. Howard.

[@romeman01]

Excellent. To see why they were astounded at his "American voice," an astonishment I shared, see watch?v=PIJobPF6YqY . There also used to be a clip on KZbin of Gene Kelly as the mystery guest and on that occasion as well Louis Jordan was a panelist.

[@zyxmyk]

wow, nice accent. not from any exact locale, but still great.

[@romeman01]

John slipped up here. At 3.06, Rbt Q. Lewis asked: "Are you American?", to which the answer was (indirectly stated to be) no, but Daly let Robert continue on.

[@63utuber]

Let's see more of that test driver!

[@roots66]

Sorry, I didn't save the quiz portion--I must have been more knocked out by Dorothy's near-guess than with the Q&A at the time.

[@bronxbearbud272]

as another sign of our changing times, as the little kids said in response to one of the panelists guesses, what's a department store Santa Claus,? a chance to sit in his lap today would be a true miracle on 34th Street. But who knows, miracles happen everyday

[@ufofan1980]

Make that 93, according to IMDB.

[@soulierinvestments]

Charles Howard ran one of the more famous Santa Claus schools of his time. See Wikipedia.

[@banner74]

Dr. Anton Arcane,or to others Count Dracula,himself.

[@johnalbert5187]

Goooood uUCKING television

[@satinecharm]

Lol! At first, he sounds like Gary Cooper. :D

[@davidarcudi230]

Jourdan doing Cagney lol

[@ShawDAMAN]

He sounds like Burt Lancaster a bit in spots lol

[@galileocan]

Jordan pretty much gave himself away by talking too much. The panel picked up that he was foreign, and that quickly narrowed it down allowing them to guess him

[@hugh0221]

Why don't you hear to Juliette Binoche's? She's one of the best examples of French actresses who speak English with American accent.

[@hannainc4996]

What the heck kind of masks were the panel wearing

[@roots66]

Sorry, I think I only saved Louis' clip.

[@hedwigkiesler]

gosh, he was really hot...

[@Kuchlenz]

Actually, Louis Jourdan was born in 1921 - despite what Wikipedia says. That would make him 88 (until June 19, 2010). I have irrefutable proof.

[@roots66]

I didn't save her whole segment...sometimes a lady's walk-on is more interesting than the quiz itself and that probably was the case here.