What's My Line (Bennett Cerf Premiere) (10-15-1950)

Dorothy Kilgallen, Arlene Francis, Louis Untermeyer, and Bennett Cerf

[@davidpierce3]

Thanks for uploading this. Great to see the entire episode.

[@13loomisst]

Very entertaining. Thanks very much.

[@mle7143]

In these very early shows ...it looks like a bedsheet is hung behind Daly and the guest..haha

[@VinylToVideo]

First time I've seen Daly smoking, though didn't see him take a puff.

[@georgemartin1436]

They had no idea this new show would last 17 years.

[@VinylToVideo]

First time I've seen Daly smoking on the show!

[@shawn830]

Amazing how times have changed: if today's audience heard "gayest game" they would have an entirely different interp

[@MatchGameProductions]

I make it with Windows Movie Maker. I wish I could position them better!

[@shawn830]

Idea of what the game is about.

[@mle7143]

Did anyone ever in all these shows guess the identity in these "free guesses?"

[@teresatatum7506]

Yes they did. Not often though.

[@lynettepalecek3141]

@M LE. Yes. I watched it happen at least twice.

[@44032]

I wonder what Kilgallen thoguht of Untermeyer.

[@ClarenceHW]

I enjoy not being distracted by color or even the fact the picture is sometimes fuzzy or murky, it makes one focus on the personalities, the dialog and the general interplay between the unflappable Daly, the panel and contestants.

[@bigred997]

well i say that arlene's free guess at the beginning of the 2nd contestant should have been indicated as correct. this is deceiving.

[@GlennPeters]

No surprise that they eliminated that part of the game.

[@MrWindermere123]

Clumsy in many ways (the set, the loose paper for signing in, the count- down to 15 seconds left at the end) but still the charm and panache of John Daly shine through. He must have learnt to stay calm and cheerful under pressure in his news career. I'm glad that he took on the role of moderator but I wonder why he chose to - it looks like a cheap production which wouldn't pay a huge salary.

[@colleenbarber3517]

Well it was the year 1950!

[@JayTemple]

The Mystery Guests are the one thing that might be more interesting now than then.

[@alskndlaskndal]

When Arlene still had brown hair and Daly still had hair...

[@torchkit]

"Is she a 'woman scientist?'" LOL

[@BlazeDuskdreamer]

@Mary C Almost 20 years before this! 1934.

[@damsideau]

The "Cosmetics Buyer" buys the products and reviews them on KZbin. lol version of the new millennium!

[@BlazeDuskdreamer]

I wanted to hear more about the tea tasting! How's that work? How does anyone even make a living off it. Very interesting peek into 8 years before I was born, especially since my big sister was named after Gloria Swanson. My mother pretended not to be a star gazer but we have Gloria, Jacqueline and Donna. Only 3 out of 8, I guess she's off the hook. Only boy is Russell but not sure if there's a Russell celebrity back in the late 40s, early 50s.

[@1911beauty]

The picture couldn't be worse

[@TyrSkyFatherOfTheGods]

Isn't the Bronx a part of NYC?

[@MrUhwoody]

Yeah, it's one of the five boroughs of NYC; north of Manhattan.

[@MrUhwoody]

MrUhwoody Got a spare cig?

[@americanmanhood]

What's sad about these old programs is that it is almost impossible to imagine it in color. Obviously in the studio this would have been as colorful and vibrant as any program today, and could have been, had they the technology, as high-def as the Super Bowl on your big screen t.v., but in our imaginations they were these dull, black-and-white and shadowy figures.

[@BlazeDuskdreamer]

Dull? They weren't dull.

[@shirleyrombough8173]

americanmanhood - I rather like the fact that these programs were in black and white with no distracting bombast. Just calm, witty people who didn't need a lot of hullabaloo going on to distract the audience or the performers.

[@walterweddle7644]

@@shirleyrombough8173 We have a consensus. I prefer black and white. That's one reason I watch old movies!

[@RobertPerrigoOkiechopper]

I heard car horns in the back ground

[@drobbi]

the cheapness and awkwardness of this is really charming. Early television is a hoot--in retrospect; one can certainly see where it would have offended the stewards of higher culture.

[@carlsperr]

Yes, several times I don't know the exact number.

[@salbertron]

"Television's gayest game" LOL

[@Rosey01222]

Almost 70 years ago now it was the year 1950. Enter both Arlene and Dorothy showcasing the unattractive hairstyles worn by women in the that 1950s decade.

[@Rosey01222]

Mary C, one thing to be said for today is that it allows for more individual self-expression than in previous eras. Now, like what you see or not, no matter, it’s all about a do your own thing time. And that’s a good thing. Unlike previous eras where it was about conforming to demanded standards of dress, what was considered socially acceptable.

[@blueduck5589]

The walk down was ridiculous and unnecessary.

[@Dannys99887]

The announcer calls it "television's gayest game." What were they thinking? This was REALLY bad. What on earth is the bit about walking over to the panel?

[@sweiland75]

Gay means happy. If you were educated and not a moron, you would know that.

[@bjstover9523]

Stop trying to be politically correct! Thos was a different time and gay means for someone to be happy, that was before the gays today changed that! Not a very intelligent thing to say.

[@shirleyrombough8173]

Dannys99887 - In those days gay meant cheerful and upbeat. No sexual meaning of any sort

[@shirleyrombough8173]

@Mary C People who adopted the word "gay" to describe themselves were not any more miserable with themselves than anybody else was/is. What a strange thing to say.