Judy Garland on 'What's My Line?' (CBS, March 1967)

[@Marcel_Audubon]

Never seen the audience so enthralled with a mystery guest ... they were answering all of her questions for her with their applause!

[@SaxonC]

Marcel Audubon well said!

[@golden-63]

@Tim Dewano I see your point, but without the audience, much of the humor would be lost.

[@cosybully]

I think she was high as a kite, and they were trying to help her out.

[@susanbultman9676]

@@golden-63 The host burst out laughing over the sweep the stage crack with no help from the audience.

[@courtneywilliams5565]

They done that with quite of few others that was special guests

[@srobindittrich6599]

I adore seeing Judy here. So charming and full of life and glamorous and pretty. The audience went nuts over her...as they should. That little kick she did after greeting each panel member was so adorable. I just wanted to hug her.

[@alangray9117]

Judy Garland was so massively talented: singing, dancing, acting both dramatically and comedy. She had that THING, that charisma. Although I didn't get to see her in person I did see daughter Liza almost 20 years later and she had that THING Judy did. What a great show and even though the tickets 🎟 were three times as much as other concert tickets at the time, worth every penny I spent.

[@PeaceFan1]

When the AUDIENCE Answers the questions, you KNOW you have a LEGEND!!!!! Never heard a reaction like this from the audience on this show for one of the guests!!

[@Lava1964]

Check the episode where Audie Murphy is the mystery guest.

[@SaxonC]

When Garland appeared, the audience goes wild and exploded into applause when Bennett Cerf asked if her voice was so well known that it would give it away

[@lizxlana]

I know! One when she answered yes to that that should of gave it away. They should of figured that out and two the audiences going wild before she answered yes, that should of also gave it away! I love Judy and always will! So sad how she died! I miss her everyday😭💔❤️🥰🥺

[@AtlantaGymFan]

An incredible actress, singer and dancer - an American treasure!

[@57clc]

Judy wasn't a "once in a generation talent," she was a "once in forever talent."

[@suziemills2201]

Genius Her voice still gives me chills

[@photo161]

One of the greatest entertainers of the 29th Century!

[@photo161]

sorry, typo, of the 20th Century, or of any other century for that matter, Miss Judy Garland!

[@MarvinParksAmericanJazzSinger]

hahahahahaha

[@asadacoehlo7964]

Slow down a bit!

[@Velvettyy_]

29th century good grief lmfao

[@Ariane67]

The one and only Judy Garland, the epithome of talent ! Each time I see her singing The Man That Got Away in A Star is Born, it gives me a thrill... Artists like her never really die !!!

[@WitoldBanasik]

Judy Garland- now the treasure of the whole human kind ! The overall world champion in show business. Hugely talented, witty, honest, sensitive, perfectionist, loving literally everybody in this/that world.... and now somewhere over the rainbow !!!

[@Janvsone]

This show is so old, that, the commercial(poli-grip denture glue)I need it now.....

[@SaxonC]

Audiences were known to jump on chairs in excitement at a Garland concert. It was said that Going to a Judy Garland concert, really wasn’t a concert.. it was an experience! ❤️

[@dodge96neon]

i love how even though she was afraid of using her voice for giving herself away the audience's reaction was helpful and moving

[@razorback9926]

“Over the Rainbow” was ranked the #1 film song of all time by the AFI.

[@myronmadey3040]

Judy Garland is so loved!!❤ The greatest performer of all time!Of our generation!!

[@stephaniestanley8041]

GOAT

[@zero_bs_tolerance8646]

Wonderful Judy.

[@morticindavis9410]

We loved her in our household mother cried when she died.

[@lasuvidaboy]

When the fabulous Miss Garland says she adores her son in law, she sounds like Liza. What a superstar she was!

[@allancuseo7431]

As a long time fan I spent many hours with her in hotels and dressing rooms. I miss her so much. She was so funny and her talent was superb .

[@SymphonyBrahms]

And this dear people is a STAR!

[@stevejarrettnc]

Absolutely no one like her in the history of entertainment. God how folks loved her (and still do).

[@destineydevereux4722]

I've never cried watching this show,, but she was so great. I miss her,,,2019 , Aquitaine France😢💕💕💋🇫🇷🇫🇷

[@bluepool210]

her mannerisms are so charming

[@chrisallen7911]

I love Judy, but its painful to see her obviously drunk or high on this show.

[@MaskedMan66]

@@chrisallen7911 Didn't you hear her say that she was getting over the flu? If she had anything in her system, it was the medication for that. She was not the least bit unsteady, walking in or out.

[@lekoman]

@@MaskedMan66 Judy Garland was notoriously hooked on painkillers throughout most of her adult life, and especially in the 60s when this was filmed. She died from a self-inflicted (though apparently accidental) overdose of barbiturates just two years after this was filmed.

[@MaskedMan66]

@lekoman She never took anything that wasn't prescribed. And even given her troubles, that doesn't mean she was blitzed when she did this show.

[@srobindittrich6599]

@@chrisallen7911 - I'm not trying to disrespect you Chris, but I really don't think she was drunk or high here. Judy was naturally very effusive and showed her emotions freely with people. I think her emotional mannerisms, which I find charming, were often misinterpreted as being just too much for some to handle. She had a cold here and her voice was deeper, but her walk and hand gestures were steady ... not the gait of a stoned drunk. The audience was in love with her this night. Chris, hope u don't mind my comments. U certainly have a right to think as you do. I guess I just get tired of the stories of Judy that paint her as such a tragic figure. She was really delightfully funny as hell and was a wonderful loving Mother and is still an American treasure we can thankfully still enjoy thanks to her incredible body of work.

[@jadeshannon5583]

It was very good to see Judy Garland on the show.It's a shame how she died.RIP

[@pattibrooks1907]

Judy was such a funny lady loved her so much and she did so great hiding her idenity until she spoke and laughed !

[@HurricaneRhonda]

The Senator Dirksen reference is about the Illinois US Senator who had a top 40 hit on the charts with his recording of "Gallant Men." It hit #29 (#24 in Chicago on the WLS Silver Dollar Survey) on the Billboard Top 40 in January 1967.

[@SteedHiggins]

And he was known as the Wizard of Ooze wasn't he? Quite clever.

[@chriswesterfield2042]

Judy was a MEGA SUPERSTAR, and sadly she lived a tough life. Her Wizard of Oz role will never be outdone. I was shocked to learn that she died at the young age of 47. Must have happened shortly after this show.

[@Camop-iz9kt]

She died in London, in June of 1969.

[@sirbenjamin8315]

"I'm the only one in the book who doesn't take pills"

[@whatafreakinusername]

I can't believe this is 1967, it looks like 1950.

[@optimisticwhovian1726]

If you think that woman with the bow in her hair and patterned dress is from 1950 you need your eyes testing...

[@whatafreakinusername]

@@optimisticwhovian1726 I'm just talking about the image and sound quality.

[@optimisticwhovian1726]

Its TV they didn't have the budget of film so they were still doing black and white regularly until the 70s. And even then people still had black and white TV's so if this had been broadcast in colour a lot of homes would've still seen it in black and white, I remember watching a black and white TV regularly myself at my grandmother's house when I was a kid and that was the 1980's so it dragged on a long time. @@whatafreakinusername

[@whatafreakinusername]

@@optimisticwhovian1726 It's not even the lack of color, it's the quality of the image. Sitcoms from the early 1950s had better image quality; this video just seems to be very ... noisy.

[@davidhenschel1990]

Optimistic Whovian : What you see here is a black-and-white kinescope of a live network television broadcast in 1967. The company that paid for and saved the kinescope saved only one copy of that kinescope, which was a reel of 16 millimeter film. Evidently, company employees watched that only existing copy of the kinescope multiple times using a movie projector and screen. In the 1960s and 1970s, threading the same 16 millimeter film through a projector many times scratched the film. You might wonder about the following. This half-hour television show aired live in 1967. A lot of popular movies from 1967, such as Fantastic Voyage, were threaded through movie projectors repeatedly, so why do they look crystal clear when Turner Classic Movies revives them? That is because the copyright holder of Fantastic Voyage saved the original 35 millimeter negative. Preservationists could digitally transfer that negative, and Turner Classic Movies makes it appear fresh. But the television production company that produced What’s My Line saved only one 16 millimeter positive print of the episode with Judy Garland, and repeated projection of that print caused damage to it. You can not use the original negative to generate new images or a new soundtrack because nobody saved the original negative. The truth gets worse. In 1967, people who owned color television sets watched What’s My Line in color. They saw mystery guest Judy Garland in color. But the company that paid for kinescopes paid for black-and-white kinescopes only. Even if company employees had taken better care of the kinescope film, it would still be in black-and-white. Had they not threaded the film through a projector so many times, the picture would not have scratches and the sound would be crystal clear, but the picture still would be black-and-white.

[@SaxonC]

Also, she looked so beautiful here. ❤️

[@Vnzo]

Cannot believe she passed only two years after this. May her soul rest in peace. :/

[@SymphonyBrahms]

And I believe that she took too many pills by mistake.

[@Vnzo]

@@SymphonyBrahms I agree

[@bryanismyname7583]

"Valley of the Dolls." How sad she couldn't finish it.

[@neildickson5394]

Bryan ismyname Yes, "I'm the only one who doesn't take pills". Poor Judy. Aside from friend Marilyn, the. quintessential Hollywood tragedy.

[@dondawson3377]

Sadly, she was living it :(

[@joansmith6092]

In that movie, Susan Hayward took her place.

[@randyfrancis2808]

Judy was not well enough, physically and emotionally to take on this kind of role. I think she lost a lot between 1963 and 1967….her instincts as an actress, her self- discipline and confidence in herself had worn or faded. Her personal problems were many and visciously threatening to destroy her. I think she wanted to be able to pull herself up again, but the maze was too complex and she was trusting the wrong people to help her out of the madness. It would have been better for her to never have been offered the part of Helen Lawson in the first place. The Palace comeback tour was a good thing for her.

[@sqaat]

Not necessarily sad, it would have been her swansong and it's pretty awful. Better to have it be I COULD GO ON SINGING.

[@Ross.Cavendish]

Just two years later, Judy Garland died at 4 Cadogan Lane in Chelsea, London, which is close to where I live. I can just about remember it.

[@atiboyful]

Judy gave her self up to help the panel at 3:56!

[@myweightloss11928]

"I'm the only one in the book who doesn't take pills". How ironic! Also that wedding was her daughter Liza Minelli marrying Peter Allan, a cabaret performer whom was gay. Supposedly Judy knew that!!

[@jamesbachreeves]

Who

[@bradthompsonuk2011]

Peter Allen was much more than a "cabaret performer". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Allen_(musician)

[@Jorisvanderkamp]

Oh well, you can't win them all...

[@WitoldBanasik]

I don't agree she was ironic... she honestly thought she had not been taking drugs... Judy was quite a lady... perfectionist... just eradicated her benzedrine fixation from her mind for a common good of herself and her family.

[@llcooljay520]

Witold Banasik she was always one for self-deprecating humor. After all, she quickly said she’s been around a long time. Most women in Hollywood, of any era, would not be so quick to say that.

[@rmelin13231]

This episode is discussed in some detail in Gil Fates' book.

[@tigertbalm]

Arlene Francis wrote about Judy's appearance in her memoir.Judy took so long to get ready they were ready to replace her. She came out with 5 seconds to spare and signed after saying "What the fuck was the hurry?"

[@phillipabowe5349]

She would have been talking about Liza and Peter Allen, Australia's own wonderful talent. She adored him.

[@MapleSyrupPoet]

❤❤❤

[@hawktchr8]

If you read Arlene Francis’ memoir and the page regarding this appearance…it’s amazing. And for dear Judy to say she wasn’t on pills!! Oh my. She ultimately was fired from Valley of the Dolls due to her sad condition and didn’t make the film.

[@courtneywilliams5565]

She was saying she’s playing the part of someone was wasn’t on pills in the book she’s referring to her Valley of dolls character she was supposed to play but was fired and replaced by Susan Hayward

[@iDATUS]

From hearing from the actress who took her place it was more how bad the director treated everyone especially Judy that was the issue. The film would have been great for her morale. I watched this clip a long time ago and just popped up for me to watch, I saw the year and thought I don't remember thinking she was in poor health. Seemed very bubbly (as usual) and keen on the movie.

[@SymphonyBrahms]

The film was a huge bomb at the box office. It was a good thing that Judy left it so that she wasn't part of the disaster.

[@lindaclaudine3029]

@@SymphonyBrahms - Critics didn’t like it, but it was a huge box office success. Sharon Tate was in that movie ffs.

[@sefyendor]

Shotouts for who is here because of Jinkx Monsoon's Snatch Game

[@dearmakeupdiary]

I miss Dorothy on these shows.

[@deaded5040]

Senator derkson? 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😆😆😆 Never laughed so hard

[@wildaboutjackwild6002]

What does she say at 3:58

[@Ross.Cavendish]

It sounds something like "and I'll sweep up the stage", the rest is indecipherable.

[@stpaley]

the line like mother like daughter could not be more true, in talent but also weren't both their 1st and last husbands gay

[@stephaniestanley8041]

❤

[@Grizzled556]

Didnt know she was left handed. Interesting.

[@ashes8256]

Well we know whose the gay on the panel. I love seeing Judy laugh. For the first time she was interviewed and nobody knew who she was and the asked her legit questions I’m sure she’s never been asked and she had the best fun with it. And notice how she handshook and kisssed everyone on that panel. Gracious Hollywood of her !!!

[@robinhite5496]

Judy Garland was fired from the movie Valley of the Dolls

[@holarc]

we know. it was a blessing she was, she shouldn't have signed on.

[@hansvonrittern9168]

EERIE the mention of Valley of the Dolls

[@alywhite3265]

She did wizard of oz over 28 years ago from the taping of this episode...she was just 16 at that time. Which would make her 44 during the taping of this episode. But, Her voice sounds like a 80 year old woman

[@wdh47211]

My god she was so thin...

[@AlfredHawthornBennyHill]

All those years of popping pills and heavy drinking finally caught up with her. It ravaged her body, that's why she was so thin and looked haggard. She looked so much worse less than a year later. Had she taken care of herself and kicked her terrible addictions, she would still be alive at 96.

[@anneroy4560]

She was just a little person ... 4'11 ...

[@AxelQC]

Just 2 years before her death.

[@MFuria-os7ln]

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@mike856ms]

The audience is no help with all of the clapping

[@ell1090]

mike856ms there clapping to say yes

[@cosybully]

I think they were trying to help her out. She seems a bit out of it.

[@lizxlana]

@@cosybully yes she does! She also was just getting over the flu and was on pills for that as well plus all her other medication she was so I agree. They were helping her out. When he guess Benedict, she lost it with laughter. One but when she was talking before he guessed, you would think that would give it away because her voice is well known, as answered in a previous question

[@Timbyte]

60s flex seal meme

[@ralphewell8398]

She's so frail and so unassuming.

[@golden-63]

*Senator Dirksen, AKA "The Wizard of Ooze".*

[@weckar]

Was this the famous Drunk Mystery Guest?

[@aaronjones7260]

I don’t know about that, but although Judy did like her drink, I actually think she’s coming down. She had a pill addiction at the time, she probably hadn’t slept properly for like a week

[@jp9707]

She had the flu

[@willmilton2922]

Tony Randall a jerk here.

[@cluvsonj]

I didn't feel that way. I though the was joking with deadpan humor.

[@willmilton2922]

@@cluvsonj I felt he did acknowledge Judy just wanted to joke about something else.

[@warnersfan2o9m]

no signature.

[@thomasgrass6357]

Das ist ja 50 Jahre her? War sie krank, sie bewegt sich sehr auffällig?

[@edwardwhite199]

Sie ist betrunken.

[@Rodin99]

cerf always hard to take

[@jamesbachreeves]

I find him the most enjoyable panelist. What exactly is it that you dislike about him?

[@colesmith1256]

0:52

[@colesmith1256]

4:41

[@colesmith1256]

5:23

[@colesmith1256]

6:14

[@gffpau]

the commercial before this comes on is full of crap

[@paullemon5154]

she started the evening with 5 vodka tonics

[@meritofapproval]

Tony Randall seemed particularly rude towards her.

[@AndrewMacLaine]

Just out of curiosity, in what way? He joked that he was disappointed that his guess was wrong (which was a joke as well), but how else did he seem rude?

[@meritofapproval]

Andrew MacLaine It appeared he was disappointed that SHE was the mystery celebrity. She even seemed to (mis)take it that way. That was simply my initial take. Hopefully I'm wrong.

[@johnw8984]

Dimitri Merritt she needed to be in a rehab together than have them back then.

[@AllenMQuinn]

He was joking... they were friends in real life..

[@davidhenschel1990]

What is your source on the alleged friendship of Tony Randall and Judy Garland?

[@movieklump]

The marriage to a gay Australian.

[@shirtless6934]

As another episode revealed, the "mystery guest" feature was corrupt, and it is not surprising that Bennett Cerf "guessed" that it was Judy Garland, because the show made a practice of informing Mrs. Cerf of the identity of the mystery guest. Now they swore up and down that she did not tell him, but how can we believe that? Spouses keeping secrets from one another? And to avoid the specter of corruption, why tell her in the first place? For proof of my assertion, see the episode broadcast on November 27, 1966, featuring Frank Sinatra, Mia Farrow, and Mark Goodson.

[@MsBamafanatic]

It's sad that it was the pills that she died from.

[@filmmekker]

I suppose the panel all got the flu after she went over and kissed them.

[@aaronjones7260]

She didn’t have the flu. She had an addiction to upper and downer pills that she was prescribed as a teenager to keep up the frantic pace of making one film after another. She’s actually most likely coming down from a high and unfortunately her addiction killed her two years after this. She always denied she was addicted despite it being public knowledge, I think this was her way of trying to disguise that fact to protect her reputation. “I’m the only one in the film who is not on pills”

[@jp9707]

@@aaronjones7260 she says "I'm the only one in the book that doesn't take pills." I think referring to her character. I always assumed that was a knowing joke, because everyone knew about her pill addiction. I hadn't realised it was a secret!

[@Roholi]

Unfortunately she developed a lot of vocal issues/damage in the 60s for badly using her once fabulous voice.

[@bobholmes65]

It’s sad but it appears that Judy was strung out on drugs. Hollywood ruined her!

[@Timbergal]

So high

[@slowpainful]

She's high as a kite. After a certain point I find it embarrassing to see her in person, I prefer just to watch her movies and hear the great Carnegie Hall album. Seeing her flail her arms about, clearly strung out on uppers, makes me think of her monstrous ego and self-centredness. I begin to think people are more fascinated with watching her crash and burn than they are with her talent. She was a fabulous musician and a decent actor, but there are plenty others with just as much talent who didn't think their addiction is an excuse for dragging down everyone else. (The fact that she actually talks, giving the game away, makes me think of Mindy Grayson, Kristen Wiig's character who plays "Secret Word" on SNL!)

[@suziemills2201]

David Roddis was her defense Life is hard especially when one is famous

[@slowpainful]

@@suziemills2201 In retrospect I think I feel sorry for her more than anything. I just hate to see her talent wasted and her life over so much sooner than it should have been. She was a truly phenomenal singer.

[@llcooljay520]

“Monstrous ego and self-centeredness.” Wow. Pretty harsh.

[@aaronjones7260]

She had a horrible and traumatic life. The drugs were a coping mechanism, she tried many times to get off of them, sadly the right help just wasn’t available back then. Judys childhood trauma caused her to develop an addictive personality, she just didn’t have a strong enough will to stop. She was 16 when she was put on those pills. Nobody knew then how addictive they were. Don’t judge her, you don’t know what it was like for her, and so many other celebrities like her. She was a Hollywood tragedy.

[@jp9707]

She never 'used her addiction as an excuse to drag down everyone else'. Her mother forced her to perform on stage from the age of 2. She fed Judy (then called Francis Ethel Gumm) and her sisters drugs to give them energy for the performances. When she joined MGM they told her she was ugly and fat, and encouraged her to keep taking drugs to keep her weight down. She had no choice. Stars back then, especially the women, had to allow the studios to dictate their lives - where they went, who they dated, what they wore, what they ate, etcetera - because if they didn't dance to the studio's tune there were thousands of other talented women waiting in the wings for a chance at stardom, and they'd be dropped in an instant. Of course she got addicted to drugs after decades of being forced to take them, starting from childhood. Plus she faced abuse and controlling behaviour from almost everyone around her from an early age. She said herself in interviews that she was afraid of her controlling mother. And the studio executives were no better. She didn't get offered counselling for all of the awful things that happened to her, including collapsing from exhaustion, and not being allowed to visit her dying father when she was 13 because she had a performance scheduled. All she was offered when she was struggling were drugs, to give her energy and make her seem OK. You see a victim of abuse who became addicted to the drugs she was forced to take for decades, starting from childhood, and you call her selfish? Shame on you.

[@bambi274]

The younget lady did not want to kiss Judy

[@tbec3011]

Who can fault her. Judy Garland said she had the flu.

[@mprkg]

She is super high. Looks awful!

[@wildaboutjackwild6002]

She seemed under the influence of alcohol here!

[@jp9707]

If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. What on earth is the point of insulting a wonderful woman, who moreover died over half a century ago? What possible good could come of you attempting to shame her?