PASSWORD 1967-06-27 Joan Fontaine & Jack Jones

[@gwenwilliams1439]

Love all of these Passwords for June 26th-30th 1967! Love Jack Jones. He's very intellectual! ❤

[@scotnick59]

Joan was in movies 3O years prior to this: she looked super for 5O!

[@glendarichardson5337]

My, my, Jack Jones was very good looking!

[@piustwelfth]

His father Allan Jones was also very good looking.

[@NeryssaPaige]

Jack Jones was so handsome during the 1960s - then came the 1970s with the white and shaggy hair 🥴

[@faithfulforever6331]

I love his hair and the way he has it styled. That was a very mid 1960s look for men.

[@waldolydecker8118]

12:15 Contestant Elaine to Jack Jones: "Look at me." Well done. Love how Joan got a kick out of the after-commentary.

[@jasonhurd4379]

Love Joan's colorful top. She was always quite chic.

[@sonnyroy497]

Joan was beautiful!

[@rogercarrico4975]

No doubt some of the most earliest color programs. Amazing quility, Looks like it could be taken last week. But yet 50+ years old. Imagine people watching these 100, 300 years from now

[@davidpanetta6400]

It has been over 55 years since I watched this particular episode when I was a little kid, but whoever was tapping that bell was very annoying !

[@dr.winstonsmith]

The game is fun to watch and play along so I imagine it will be timeless as long as English is still a common language.

[@ericsamuelson5656]

This aired on my mom's 26th Birthday and she was 6 days away from giving birth to my half brother Sheldon when they lived in Central New Jersey

[@donaldleroy6502]

I really ❤ these color episodes, otherwise that vivid green dress couldn't be truly appreciated. I also ❤ Joan's reactions when she's unsuccessful, I hate losing too 😮

[@akrenwinkle]

Joan a "stage and television star?" Had the announcer never heard of her? She was an Oscar-winning movie star.

[@waldolydecker8118]

When Ludden comes out he talks to Joan first, but his conversation with her for some reason has been edited out. This was 1967 and Joan was most likely currently doing more "stage and television" work than movies. Most performers desire to accentuate what they are currently doing rather than their past - even when their past was great. Common sense should tell you the announcer and everybody else affiliated with producing the show absolutely knows Joan Fontaine - the guest they booked.

[@akrenwinkle]

@@waldolydecker8118 Who TF do you think you are informing me about common sense? Password surely wasn't the announcer's only gig. He had a good voice and likely busy enough not to know or care who Password's guests were that week, and just read the copy put in front of him, possibly written by a college student and I don't necessarily mean senior. Joan Fontaine, aside from being an Oscar-winner, had a decades-long persona as cool, classy, and elegant, not vivacious. He never heard of her until taping. I have watched talk shows and on occasion even been in the audience when guests were Gloria Swanson, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Farrah Fawcett, and others, and clearly even the hosts hadn't heard of them until that morning.

[@waldolydecker8118]

@@akrenwinkle - The reason the talk show hosts didn't know those guest you site is because they were usually infants or not even born when those guests were popular...a somewhat understandable situation; they would have to read about them to know anything. That's not the case here in this 1967 Password episode. We don't know the age of the announcer, but based on most of the other announcers in 1960's TV, he's probably NOT in his 20's, and is more likely between 35-50 yrs old. In that age range - unlike your talk show examples - this announcer would be old enough to have been alive at the peak of Joan Fontaine's movie career, and with her many movies, had most likely seen her name/face in the papers or media, if not actually seen her in movies on the screen. None of this would be true of your talk show examples, as those young hosts would not have seen those guests in any current media or movies. Fontaine was on the program all week. If you listen to the announcers introduction the following day, he references her Academy Award movie career - with 5 days of introductions, it only makes sense that they varied the presentation. Not sure how you know with 100% certainty that the announcer "never heard of her until taping." Probably would agree with you if this was one of your talk show host examples, but in this specific 1967 scenario, it seems a lot less likely that would be the case. That's where I would submit the 'common sense' comes in, because its more likely the announcer knew of her beyond the copy he may have been furnished. Cheers.

[@akrenwinkle]

​@@waldolydecker8118 I knew that the hosts - who were not young - became aware of their guests' existence on the morning of the show by the questions they were asking and misinformation they said. Although you think I'm either a dope or a child, I easily perceived the announcer's age by his mature voice. I'm guessing in his forties. That still doesn't mean he attended Joan's films or had a thumbnail idea of her. I'm aware she made dozens of films but only remember her in two, "Rebecca," and "Suspicion" both made in the 40s. It is very possible that a 40 year old in 1967 had no idea of Joan's career because she had ceased being a busy film star long before. Whoever wrote the copy didn't help matters describing her as vivacious, certainly news to Joan. If Joan's introduction improved by the next day- I'm not going to bother checking it out- it's because she took the announcer aside and informed him about herself. Again, I ask, who TF do you think you are? I cannot be the only one who has brought to your attention you are dismissive of others.

[@waldolydecker8118]

@@akrenwinkle - Your dismissive claims could use some practicing of which you preach, as you did it again, stating with certainty that Joan's introduction changed the next day "because she took the announcer aside and informed him about herself." She did? lol You mean you have factual information to 100% know this? You talk with such dismissive certainty as if you were in the studio on this 1967 taping date and you saw it happen. Nonsense. You earlier also dismissed the announcer with 100% certainty that he "never even heard of Fontaine until he was handed the intro copy." C'mon, not only do you not have any facts on any of this, the claims have little probability of being accurate. I agree, the announcer is probably in his 40's, which means he would have been a teenager when Joan began her movie career in the mid 1930's; by 1967, she would have made 50 or so movies in the US - the announcer would have been old enough to possibly know any of them as they were all made during his teen and adult years and many were heavily promoted first rate productions during a time when Hollywood movies were the only video publicly available. Sure, not everyone goes to or pays attention to the movies, but its statistically unlikely this announcer never heard of a star as highly visible and promoted as Fontaine when he lived essentially as an adult over her entire high-vis career. Not sure why the standard corny guest introductions on this show upset you ...they are somewhat canned, stock blurbs that they rattle off on all the guests - its usually the same kind of trite phrases shuffled around as need be - few of them fully match the stature of the guests. Could the intros have been written better? Without a doubt, but this is what you got on Password in 1967 and it was consistently trite for every guest. Joan probably raised an eyebrow over the word "vivacious" because it often is used for a woman near half her age (she was about 50 here). I understand her reaction, though in watching her all week, the word fits - she seems to have a real life personality that contrasted her famous movie persona - an result of great acting skills. Nope, do not believe you are a dope or child, just someone who seems to make wild claims with certainty which you have no factual proof and which defy likely probability. If you've only remember Ms Fontaine in two films, allow me to recommend the following among her best: 1943 The Constant Nymph 1947 Ivy 1948 Kiss the Blood Off My Hands 1950 September Affair 1950 Born to be Bad 1953 The Bigamist 1963 Maybe her best television performance in The Alfred Hitchcock Hour "The Paragon." Cheers.

[@sonnyroy497]

Joan is so beautiful!

[@gwenwilliams1439]

Jack had such felt so comfortable with Elaine from San Jose! They were perfect together!! Jack would make you feel comfortable with him! They were so cute together. ❤❤😉

[@jacquelinebell6201]

Jack was so handsome.

[@waldolydecker8118]

Joanie was a doll.

[@consueloavalos1254]

Joan Fontaine ❤️

[@brugglesby]

I remember Jack Jones sang the Love Boat theme song.

[@michaelnguyen6730]

Joan Fontaine will also guest star on Love Boat.

[@davidpanetta6400]

I loved that theme song mainly because Jack Jones made it sound great !

[@honeysucklei]

joan fontaine is too smart that she should be paired with her equal lol

[@gwenwilliams1439]

On this episode Joan acted like she was in "another world"! "Out of it:!!

[@kurtmorris454]

for marathon I was thinking 'rrrrrrrruuuuuuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnn'

[@wheelinthesky300]

Joan Fontaine had a ton of moxie.

[@waldolydecker8118]

Lou Grant to Mary Richards: "You got a lot of spunk." Mary: Thank you, Mr Grant. Lou: "I hate spunk."

[@lynettepalecek3141]

I would have said "manners" and then "proper" for "etiquette."

[@johnphillips5081]

I haven't been to Elitches Gardens in decades.

[@dr.winstonsmith]

You had to be pretty smart to play this game decently. Today, I don’t think most people, including celebrities, contestants, and audience, would be able to understand this game show’s content well at all.

[@danielalderman1069]

The correction Allen gave was regarding the governorship of New York State. ROCKEFELLER was Governor.

[@Keatonkg360]

I've never heard Lee Vines raise his voice while whispering the password. Was he holding in laughter?

[@smadaf]

Wow. In the previous day's show, I thought that the contestant from Wisconsin might cringe at Jack Jones's "ath-a-lete" pronunciation-and here he is, teacher of diction, saying "decath-a-lon".

[@knowthepillarsofdemocracy]

Wow. "What does your husband do?" Not a hint of an idea that she might have a life with at least one interest in it.

[@elspethcoogan1499]

I like both sisters but whereas Olivia often came over as somewhat haughty, Joan seemed more down-to-earth. Put it this way; I think Joan would be* a hoot at a party after a few drinks! * would have been

[@davidpanetta6400]

I love to watch the old Password shows, but whoever was ringing that bell was very annoying.

[@kurtmorris454]

I'd take that all day long over Alan's "5 seconds.......5seconds....5 seconds....there goes your time'

[@waldolydecker8118]

3:32 As soon as "Umbrella" popped up, I was wondering since this is 1967 would Jack say "Cherbourg" in reference to the 1964 popular movie and soundtrack of which Jack was familiar and had sang and recorded. "Bang," he was right on target....and kudos to the contestant for knowing its location in France.

[@gregrak9389]

Fontaine's gay designer went into overtime over that frock!

[@alexrafe2590]

To the ghost of Allen Ludden - no actually Joan was correct, it was Vanderbilt, Amy to be precise, who in 1952 wrote that famous book on etiquette. If I had been Joan I would have had a word with you after the show to set you straight. No Rockefellers that I’m aware of ever wrote a book on manners. They and the Roosevelts and the Vanderbilts may all have been New York aristocrats and descendants of early Dutch settlers, but they weren’t interchangeable. For someone who messed up as often as you did - mispronouncing contestant names repeatedly, meanings of words, etc., you had a bad habit of sticking your nose in with pronouncements that were not only rude, but frequently inaccurate. You really should have bitten your tongue much more often. For the most part I did like you as compere of the show. But even your wife Betty called you on your pedantic streak occasionally.

[@lynnturman8157]

As a clue for "insurrection", I would've said "trump" duh.....

[@kurtmorris454]

Poker, Ace, Gamble' would likely be your responce.

[@johnsmith-tr3dh]

Wow, that Joan's a dud