To Tell the Truth - Bill Thompson, "Fibber McGee & Molly" actor (Jan 6, 1959)

PANEL: Polly Bergen, Ralph Bellamy, Kitty Carlisle, Hy Gardner
CONTESTANT #1: Murray Rose (World champion swimmer)
CONTESTANT #2: Bill Thompson (Former "Fibber McGee & Molly" radio actor)
CONTESTANT #3: Kyung O. Kim (Lady pilot & panelist on the Korean "What's My Line?")
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[@punkwu]

Thanks so much for posting this! That is in fact my Mom on the third game as contestant #3. She has passed away now so this is very special to me as her son. Seeing her at only 23 years old and hearing how different her voice was is simply amazing. Thanks so much!

[@leesher1845]

Very sweet.

[@Pudentame]

Glad you got to see your Mom. What was she studying at the University of Texas?

[@jt414]

That is so wonderful, you got to see your Mother on film like this!

[@leannsherman6723]

❤ That’s wonderful. What a special gift.😊

[@joecaroselli5858]

Bill Thompson was a marvelous voice actor. A few years after this program aired, he began doing the voice of Hanna Barbera's "Touche' Turtle" on the series "Touche' Turtle and Dum Dum." As a boy who grew up with HB cartoon in the 60's, I always enjoyed that unique, timid voice! It was only later that I became very interested in old time radio. So, when I first heard the Wallace Wimple character on Fibber McGee and Molly, I thought to myself " Hey, that's the same voice as Touche' Turtle!!! Bill Thompson was a tremendous, versatile voice actor.

[@echoecho3108]

Bill Thompson also voiced Droopy the dog, for Tex Avery. Reportedly, Tex heard Bill's Mr. Wimple on Fibber McGee and Molly, and developed Droopy, especially to be voiced by Bill.

[@WizardOfHumor1989]

He was the man!

[@MrLikecats]

Bill Thompson also was the voice of Droopy in the MGM cartoons.

[@musicom67]

And MGM never gave him credit as far as I know...

[@kathymoralez1034]

White rabbit and Mr. Smee in his Disney movies

[@darthdmc]

@@kathymoralez1034 He was in several Disney films, including several roles in Lady and the Tramp.

[@kathymoralez1034]

@@darthdmc How many did he have in Lady and the Tramp?

[@darthdmc]

@@kathymoralez1034 The scotty dog who lived next door, one of the chefs, the bulldog at the pound being 3. He did around 6-7 but I can't remember them all, though each was a different nationality.

[@MrMenefrego1]

I am a huge fan of 'Fibber McGee and Molly'; Bill Thompson was truly the most gifted actor on that great old program! When he was five years old, actor Bill Thompson lost his voice campaigning around the country selling Liberty bonds; America had just entered World War I. Now, if you’ve ever listened to a broadcast of Fibber McGee & Molly or watched a Droopy cartoon, you know that Thompson’s voice eventually returned, but it took two years of throat exercises to fully recover. What’s more, Bill discovered as he got older that he was able to switch back and forth from bass to tenor with very little effort. (Doctors later determined that the actor’s ability to do this was a direct result of the temporary voice loss in his youth.) Combined with a fine comedic sense, the man born William H. Thompson in 1913 in Terre Haute, Indiana enjoyed a long and prosperous career on radio, in cartoons, and in movies, providing voices for many of all three mediums’ most memorable characters. Bill Thompson’s hawking of Liberty bonds was done while he was in vaudeville, where he performed as a song-and-dance man alongside his parents; he was a stage veteran at age two, making his debut performing a tap dance. He’d transition from the boards to a microphone in 1932 after a successful audition with NBC, garnering attention with a routine called “International Parade”; which included demonstrations of ten different dialects. Thompson then appeared on such programs as 'The Breakfast Club', 'Club Matinee', 'The Hoofinghams', and 'The Saturday Night Jamboree'.

[@mxylpx]

Forever the voice of Mr. Smee in Peter Pan!

[@barontaylor7139]

Also Ranger Woodlore and the White Rabbit in Alice In Wonderland

[@WizardOfHumor1989]

Jock and Joe and a few others in Lady and the Tramp and King Hubert in Sleeping Beauty

[@mxylpx]

@@barontaylor7139 And the Dodo in Alice as well.

[@kylemenow1666]

He was also the voice of King Hubert from Disney's Sleeping Beauty.

[@jessyleppert2]

Smee and White Rabbit

[@WizardOfHumor1989]

As a baby / toddler my parents and siblings and I had Disney classics and a couple - few of them were voiced by Bill thompson

[@jacquelinebell6201]

Hilarious episode, especially the Bill Thompson game.😂

[@Jinks1447]

Beginning in 1962 Bill Thompson did the voice of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon character Touche Turtle.

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

Man #1 in Game #1 Man #2 in Game #2 Lady #2 in Game #3

[@danieldawg100]

Mr.Punkwu, I am glad that you were blessed to be able to see your mother here on this show😊.wado,Ann Benson.

[@alskndlaskndal]

Murray Rose--a vegetarian (almost vegan) when this was very rare, especially for an athlete. And quite a good advertisement for the diet, I'd say. Horatio K. Boomer sounds like W.C. Fields and Wallace Wimple sounds like Droopy! Very interesting show.

[@ValleyoftheRogue]

He later ate meat after his competitive swimming days.

[@TimL2005]

Bill Thompson was the voice of Droopy in The cartoonsBoomer was a WC Fields soundalike on purpose.

[@aubrey1008]

I would like to know how long this person lived. Does anyone know?

[@loissimmons6558]

The first two panelists to ask questions in Game 2 totally failed to understand that the contestant was only pretending to be Danish. They kept asking questions about Denmark that the right one wouldn't know and the impostors might or might not know (but could lie as if they didn't know, even if they did).

[@Walterwhiterocks]

Huh ?

[@jimmygoodrich9590]

They got stuck on Danish count

[@kevins.butler3402]

Bill Thompson also did more cartoon voice overs for Walt Disney eg"Trusty" for'Lady & The Tramp" and "Ranger J.Audeborn Woodlore".

[@jazzplusmore]

Not trusty. Joc.

[@monalisatomatosakura174]

​@@jazzplusmoreExactly 💯. He was also the cop in the film too 🙂 and the dodo from Alice in Wonderland 😊

[@chaplainmattsanders4884]

19:50 “i don’t know”-sweetest answer ever! 😂

[@HeWentThattaway]

They still make rise shave cream. I never heard of it before I watched these TTTT episodes.

[@stanochocki8984]

Kitty Carlisle should have disqualified herself, as she was WELL With in the Time frame of 'Fibber McGee & Molly', and probably might have even sat in on one of the original radio broadcast. Just how Stupid were these panelist, during this particular questioning? Instead of trying to trip-up an avowed 'phony/imposter' why didn't they zero in on the important questions concerning their involvement with the old 'FMG&M' show? WTH?!

[@divebarcasanova7610]

They're just winging it and many of them have a few drinks in them. Dorothy Kilgallon was also know as Dorthy Kilafifth.

[@taofanarchy96-renzomaracas14]

Game #3: I didn't know that What's My Line was an international format: even in South Korea! The fact that the contestant was a Korean War veteran (and fellow panelist) is a second thought. I need to make a search in KZbin! 19:53 “I don’t know.” ❤️

[@kenbrown438]

Bud in ski should lighten up on his Polly remarks !!!!

[@barbarak2836]

He was just going along with the "oh-polly-is-so-adorable" schtick.

[@kenbrown438]

@@barbarak2836 : oh , thanks for the response , I'LL consider it !!!!

[@tmlinmi]

I wasn't impressed with most of the questions from the panel for game 2.

[@kenowens9021]

The questions are already written for them, that's why the contestants know the answers.

[@cpcva724]

The only person ever given on screen credit in cartoons was Mel blanc

[@Gravydog316]

Oh dang! #1 sounds like Wallace Wimple! & looks like I remembered. oh gosh

[@adamcoates2890]

Polly think about what you just said it's not silly for a man to go to Japan to get a special mushroom because he's a vegetarian any more than it is for a person to go to Paris to get a bottle of champagne.

[@jesselee669]

yah he was the best day of forever..

[@devanmoran]

Smee

[@jacquelinebell6201]

I should have recognised Murray Rose. He was Australian, although competing before I was born.

[@tanyalong2606]

I guessed Bill Thompson right away by him using McGee and Molly's proper names. The panel did flub on the #2 line of questioning which was distracting.

[@Messaiiina]

Kind of ironic that Murray Rose, who exercised and ate right his whole life, still died of leukemia at 73.

[@peternagy-im4be]

Extraordinary comment.

[@grdn02100]

God dum dum's Bill Thompson is NOT actually DANISH!! Did they not listen to the affidavit. Kitty asks "why did you chose the name Count Karl Hansen?" Why did you choose Kitty Carlisle, your real name is Catherin Conn.

[@leannsherman6723]

Thank goodness the swimmer wasn’t told that he had a carton of Winston’s waiting for him. 😖😣

[@RobotWillie]

Murray Rose was 73 when he died, the same age my moms dad (my grandpa) died who smoked like a chimney and ate everything this guy didn't, except my grandpa wasn't much into fish either, while I love it on the other hand. And he was born in the 1930s as well and died 3 years before Murray did (so my grandpa was about 3 years older). Not saying either way of life is better but I think the health benefits of a so called vegan and vegetarian diet are exaggerated to make it sound like you will live a lot longer which in most cases have not been proven factual.

[@mxylpx]

I chose 1 Ichose 1 Ichose !

[@Walterwhiterocks]

Bud wearing his ill fitting rear hair piece again

[@anndeefam]

it's a stupid show but I loved Bill Thompson

[@nowvoyagerNE]

meow between Kitty and Polly. daggers out of the eyes of Kitty into Polly, and a smirk from Polly back to Kitty. personally, i find them both overbearing.

[@karltiedemann9329]

W. Wimple was one of the funniest characters on FM & M. One time, he was telling McGee how his "big ol' wife" has been opening his mail. McGee says, "Gosh Wimp-- you mean you LET your wife open your mail?" Wallace chuckles sadly and answers, "Yes, Mr. McGee. And I also let the sun rise each and every morning...." For what it's worth, there's a very large cache of the series over at radioechoes.com .