To Tell the Truth - Inventor of "Monopoly"; Indian U.N. delegate (Nov 19, 1957)

"PANEL: Polly Bergen, Ralph Bellamy, Kitty Carlisle, Hy Gardner
CONTESTANT #1: Jean Belliveau (Hockey player for the Montreal Canadiens)
CONTESTANT #2: Tarkesswari Singha (Indian delegate to the United Nations)
CONTESTANT #3: Charles B. Darrow (Inventor of the Monopoly board game)
Many thanks, as always, to epaddon for providing his copy of this episode.
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[@geraldkatz7986]

Mr. Darrow #1 disqualified himself on the first question saying the Railroads was the most expensive. #2 disqualified on the second question being unable to name Baltic.

[@dmnemaine]

A woman named Lizzie Magie created Monopoly under the name "The Landlord's Game" in 1903. Charles Darrow was introduced to it at a dinner party with friends, and made some slight tweaks to the game, which he renamed "Monopoly" and sold to Parker Brothers in 1935. Darrow was not the actual inventor of the game, but only a few slight rule changes. When Parker Brothers later found this out, they paid Lizzie Magie $500 for the rights to market the game, but they kept the legend of it being a Charles Darrow invention going.

[@peternagy-im4be]

Darrow definitely invented the game.

[@dmnemaine]

@@peternagy-im4be No, he didn't.

[@peternagy-im4be]

@@dmnemaine Yep. Yes he did.

[@BanaiFeldstein]

And she designed it to teach the evils of capitalism.

[@TheIgnatzz]

Yes. Ms Magie was a Henry Georgeist (they'd probably call her a "socialist" today, though it's not the same thing). She was demonstrating that land ownership always led to massive income inequality.

[@elleryeggen9678]

Elizabeth J. Magie Phillips invented the "Landlords Game".

[@أحمدالصاعدي-ك3ل]

useful programs which make u think,not like the garbage of today.

[@tomitstube]

a private investigator who thought the railroads were the most expensive properties... gone on the first question, but leave it to kitty to vote for him.

[@bluebear1985]

The first contestant, Jean Believeau, was a legend in every sense of the word. When he was still playing in the Quebec Senior League, the general manager of the Montreal Canadiens was so desperate to sign him that the team ended up buying the whole league so he could turn pro. During his time with the Canadiens, he won ten Stanley Cups as a player, retiring as one in 1971. He became a vice president after his playing career, and he would remain really active in the team's organization up until his death in late 2014. RIP, Big Jean.

[@uperdown0]

you just spoiled part of the show congratulations.

[@tomservo56954]

Don't forget...these accomplishments occurred when the Canadians and five other teams were the entire NHL.

[@djdon60]

M. Beliveau altered the spelling, of his surname?

[@bluebear1985]

@@djdon60 Thank you for pointing that out. Must have been autocorrect that added the extra letter.

[@gemoftheocean]

@@uperdown0 if you read the comments before watching the game, "spoiling the game" is on you. No one forced you to read the comments first.

[@larryteren5054]

knew belliveau immediately seeing his face. saw him play several times against black hawks in 1960s. a great, great player.

[@Ilovebubblegummusic]

Kind of cool that Bellamy is leaving for a new play, Sunrise at Campobello and Bud wishes him luck. Sunrise at Campobello, in which Bellamy played FDR, would become one of the most acclaimed productions in Broadway history, especially for Bellamy's performance.

[@terrihenricks4160]

Years later Ralph Bellamy again played FDR in The Winds of War on television.

[@poetcomic1]

@@terrihenricks4160 Ralph Bellamy was Dr. Sapirstein in Rosemary's Baby. Scary role played perfectly.

[@tomservo56954]

@@poetcomic1 And teamed up with Don Ameche in TRADING PLACES...

[@poetcomic1]

@@tomservo56954 I fogot! Managed to get himself some late life hit movie roles even if he did once do The Love Boat on TV

[@donaldwarren463]

Mrs . Roosevelt wasn't impressed by that show ..

[@alexandrebertrand-lafleur3114]

Jean Béliveau is #2, i am from Quebec and i know who is he! The #1 is Paul Chamberland, who work for the french division of the CBC (Société Radio-Canada! #3 is Guy Gignac

[@kenyongray2615]

Jean Belliveau was a legend in Montreal and to all hockey fans until his death in 2014. He was one of the greatest players in hockey history. Back in his playing days, players did not wear helmets and goalies did not wear a mask until the end of his career. The inventor of Monopoly has given fun and entertainment to millions of people. Not a bad accomplishment in life. Thanks for the video.

[@normans1799]

I was sure it was 3 because he is the closest to looking like the Monopoly guy

[@alanfollett6242]

In game 3, I was pretty sure it was contestant 3 when he knew that the Reading Railroad is pronounced /redding/ rather than /reeding/.

[@stanochocki8984]

as a former Directory Assistant for Verizon...some of the stupid customers, who would call and could not pronounce nor know the difference between , 'redding--in Penna., to reeding, as in a book. Reading, Pa, was named after the' in England, by the Sons of William Penn. As I once told an irritatingly stupid toned customer---" Then if I'm wrong on my pronunciation Sir, then WHY THE HELL DON'T Y-O-U, PICK UP A BOOK AND reeeed,. IT FOR YOUR SELF....IT IS /REDDING,PA/---Though he ranted a bit, as a fully Unionized worker in a closed Union Shop--I didn't give a Fig, I gave him the correct #, then sent him on his way.....LMAO---ALL, us 'girls' at the switch-board'...Only took so much B.S, from the customer---and No more....Haaaaaaaaaaaaaa...

[@Gravydog316]

lol I'm from Regina, Sask. (Americans say "Ruh-geena" & they have no idea how to say Suh-sask-chaw-win) @@stanochocki8984 haha

[@lynettepalecek3141]

@Alan Follett. That was an excellent observation. I get so sick and tired of so many people mispronouncing the name "Reading" when referring to the railroad. I knew the correct pronunciation when I was a young girl in the 1960s because my late mother grew up in Boston, Massachusetts.

[@MrTrashcan1]

@@lynettepalecek3141 Coincidentally, the Reading once owned the Boston and Maine RR.

[@lynettepalecek3141]

​@@MrTrashcan1Thank you for letting me know that. That's very interesting and I didn't know that. Thank you! 🙂

[@joex7305]

Jean was 6ft4 so he was easily recognizable. One of the all time greats.

[@DarylReeceJames]

After watching many of these shows this was the first time I correctly identified all of the correct contestants.

[@goback3spaces]

There's something about Kitty that just breathes class.

[@nelsonricardo3729]

She rather reminds me of Arlene Francis of What's my Line?.

[@sweiland75]

They said class, not crass.

[@LFD254]

Read her bio on Wikipedia-she was a genuinely charitable and well liked woman who lived a long and fully filled life.

[@nelsonricardo3729]

sweiland75, In what way was Arlene crass?

[@jackbusby2019]

I totally agree. That type of class is extinct these days.

[@alanr4447a]

Not even the real Charles B. Darrow was telling the truth. He did not invent Monopoly, he merely presented to Parker Bros. the game he'd seen being played in Atlantic City for several years. The company learned the true history of the game, and obtained rights to the necessary patents, but elected to support the myth of Darrow as inventor.

[@lynettepalecek3141]

@alanr4447a. He did say that the Parker Brothers invented the boardgame "Monopoly" and that he presented it to them. You were definitely not observant when you watched this video.

[@alanr4447a]

@@lynettepalecek3141 Well, I might ask you how he could present a game to Parker Brothers that THEY invented, but I won't bother, because he most definitely did NOT say that Parker Brothers invented it (which would not have been true either, anyway). You are the champion at being unobservant! The ONLY thing he said about Parker Brothers, at the end, was to answer that it was they who _manufacture_ the game, present tense. His "affidavit" states, "I invented a game" and "I am the man who created the game 'Monopoly'." In future use your brain, if you have one, before you use your mouth.

[@djdon60]

In all, of these shows, who looks/acts like he wouldn't need Geritol? Mr. Collyer.

[@jimmygoodrich9590]

Kitty its a uniform not a costume

[@rmelin13231]

I wanted to shout the same thing!

[@MrTrashcan1]

As others mentioned, only Charles Darrow #3 was able to answer all the questions. Very surprised the other two were so poorly briefed. Plus, if you know railroads, you'll know that the Pennsy, Reading, and B&O were all in Philly (Short Line was just a made-up generic name), and #3 was living in Philly when he invented the game.

[@Beson-SE]

The hockey players even wore skates... 2:13

[@randomvintagefilm273]

375 million in 1961? It's over a billion now..wow how does the planet feed them all!!

[@fuscinula]

As a fan of the Montreal Canadiens, I obviously knew the answer right away! And, strangely enough, he's wearing #22, when he's known to have worn #4.

[@Gravydog316]

i think they switched just to confuse the panel, if they knew his #

[@beccalove8791]

I love this show and wish it was still on today

[@waynegilchrist1596]

I have to smile at the "Geritol" ad, how, "it makes you feel so good"! As with a lot of the old "Remedies" it was loaded with a heavy dose of alcohol! 😊😅😂

[@ricksaxe3120]

I know who Jean is by sight... Damn I must be old!

[@fpinzow]

I managed to guess the 2d and 3rd contestants correctly. Sometimes, logic will tell me that a particular contestant is right, when my gut instinct is telling me that another is the correct choice. When I was growing up, before the invention of the Internet, my family had 2 board games that I remember--Monopoly and Scrabble.

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

I only got the Indian lady correct in this one. 1 for 3 :(

[@johngreen3543]

Of the two mentioned games. The one requiring the most skill is Scrabble. Monopoly is largely a luck game based on good dice results.

[@phaonthomas6094]

I thought it was interesting that Jean's jersey was #22 here and 3's was #4. Jean is famous for his #4 jersey

[@Gravydog316]

i think they switched just to confuse the panel, if they knew his #

[@amcconnell6730]

If Charles Darrow had told the truth, then he would have said that he stole the game from Elizabeth Magie.

[@Gravydog316]

no; she invented The Landlords Game

[@bobhart677]

I was looking at the comments to see if any one would mention he stole the game.

[@gemoftheocean]

@ZoneFighter1 to be fair, Darrow's game had houses as groupings.

[@lynettepalecek3141]

@@bobhart677 You're obviously not observant at all. Charles Darrow DID say that the Parker Brothers invented the boardgame "Monopoly" and he presented it to them.

[@bobhart677]

@@lynettepalecek3141 Talk about lack of observation! I simply made a statement about looking for a particular comment.

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

Break a leg, Ralph, in your future endeavors for playing FDR in Sunrise at Campabello.

[@aaronbruceladner1983]

17:03

[@osahju914]

Monopoly properties

[@adamcoates2890]

I knew by the way number 3 pronounced her name at the very beginning, that it was her.

[@Beson-SE]

Finally I got an answer to a question I have wondered about for years... 6:00

[@savethetpc6406]

Johan Bengtsson Professional hockey players *_do_* wear helmets nowadays. My son, who's a big hockey fan, says this started in the 1970s. I haven't done the research to see if he's right or not, though. ;)

[@Beson-SE]

SaveThe TPC It's so strange that hockey players or slalom skiers never wore helmets back then. One must have been aware of the danger.

[@fanboy2015]

+Johan Bengtsson Lots of missing teeth back then.

[@sweiland75]

Back then they didn't even know that smoking was dangerous

[@terrihenricks4160]

Helmets were made mandatory for all incoming players in the National Hockey League in 1979. The last player to not use a helmet retired after the 1996-97 season.

[@allanshulstad1783]

Charles b Darrow

[@Beson-SE]

Hy is actually rather funny here. :) 2:41

[@savethetpc6406]

Johan Bengtsson 21:56 -- Ralph seems to have developed a case of "Polly-itis." ;)

[@Beson-SE]

SaveThe TPC Charming actually but why vote for one but believe another? :)

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

everybody seems to get that way about Polly but then she get normal again.

[@taofanarchy96-renzomaracas14]

8:38 Wow, an CBS/CBC crossover! 16:26 Now even an All India Radio crossover!

[@davidn.5803]

I'm here just for Polly.

[@ClassicAustralianTV]

The US version of Monopoly obviously has different street names in comparison to the Australian/UK editions

[@kevinwachs5905]

The US version is based on Atlantic City, New Jersey.

[@turningyourthinkingintoact8370]

Good show

[@VahanNisanian]

For Game 3, I had to look up the middle name. #2 and #3 knew the most expensive properties in the game.

[@Beson-SE]

***** Each country has their own names for properties and streets. In the Swedish version it's all about streets, squares and railroad stations in Stockholm.

[@Gravydog316]

Charles Darrow needed a nickname like "Wheeler-dealer Wheel Barrow Darrow"

[@tomservo56954]

@@Gravydog316 Darrow specifically didn't include certain Atlantic City streets in the game because they were in the black community...

[@mrpuniverse2]

Did the last guests get paid in monopoly money? I have only ever played the English addition

[@bobbbxxx]

I'm amazed that any of them would think that a guy with a New York accent would be Jean Beliveau!

[@ummglick]

Jean was poetry on ice!

[@henrygrove100]

Goodnight Panel Bud says

[@auntiem873]

The one question to ask a person who claim to be a hockey player. Can you please smile and let’s us see your teeth? Who ever has all their teeth are lying.😉

[@peternagy-im4be]

No head protection in ice hockey??

[@auntiem873]

@@peternagy-im4be - no mouth protection.

[@yourontheair]

Saw Jean Believeau and Montreal beat New York Rangers 3 - 2 1972. Thanks Dad!!

[@yourontheair]

Looks like 1971. See below

[@djdon60]

It, no longer, is "Beliveau"? Someone messed, up, a gravestone.

[@yourontheair]

@@djdon60 my mistake Mr. Béliveau. thanks for correction. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_B%C3%A9liveau

[@TruckTaxiMoveIt]

Polly is amazingly beautiful but also immensely annoying in terms of being out of order and just trying to grab attention without being particularly engaging or funny -- if you going to take the spotlight away from somebody else make sure you're funny.

[@Gravydog316]

nobody's perfect

[@aileen694]

Agreed. Polly really did overplay it, interrupting, unfunny rambling, distracting. Yes, she was in The Biz. Should at least have been funny!

[@johngreen3543]

Polly reacts differently because she thinks verbally. So any thought can spring up in verbal form interupting other panel members. I don't find it annoying at all, its just a personality foible and you have to get used to it in the TTTT shows.

[@jacquelinebell6201]

Is strange hearing about the American Monopoly. We had the English version in Australia.😊

[@alskndlaskndal]

I do have to believe some of these questions are set up...the ones where they all give three different, funny answers. Still very entertaining!

[@savethetpc6406]

Reluctant Dragon You mean like Bruce, Bryce and Brace? :D Brace doesn't even sound like a real name, so it would have been a silly choice if it weren't true!

[@Gravydog316]

You never heard of Brace Beamer? Who was the Lone Ranger?! (Bud was Superman on radio) @@savethetpc6406

[@savethetpc6406]

@@@Gravydog316 No, I have to admit I had not heard of him before. Thanks for enlightening me. I even looked him up to find a bit more information. :-) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brace_Beemer

[@lynettepalecek3141]

@R.D. Dragon. I don't think that the questions were set up ahead of time.

[@lynettepalecek3141]

@@savethetpc6406 Number 3 said "Bryce-" not "Brace."

[@allanshulstad1783]

Any relation to Clarence Darrow

[@Beson-SE]

I just love Kitty's laughter! :) 4:14

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

me too!!!

[@henrygrove100]

Is that nervous laughter?

[@Yobbie72]

I got them all right.

[@Gravydog316]

cheater.

[@tomboardman5694]

Ralph became a great actor & was on 'Trading places' the movie!

[@neilmidkiff]

Tom Boardman Ralph Bellamy had been making movies for over a quarter century by the time of this show; his first was in 1931. He got an Oscar nomination for "The Awful Truth" in 1937. So "became" is maybe not the best word; he had a long and successful career before and after this time.

[@tomboardman5694]

+Neil Midkiff :)

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

Trading Places was certainly not a high point in his or Don Ameche's long long career of ups and downs.

[@9094nancyj]

I knew the inventor of Monopoly because I play it so much and he gave correct answers

[@Ivehadenuff]

I picked the real hockey player immediately because his name is in my family tree several generations ago and he looked just like my uncles did in there old photos.

[@JayTemple]

Given how often people appeared in costume, I wonder whether Monopoly had introduced the Moneybags character by this time.

[@Gravydog316]

oh yes! he was a character back in the 30s, almost right from the start, actually.

[@kevinwachs5905]

Moneybags was a caricature of Otto Kahn.

[@hizgrase]

If you look real well number three looks just like the little old man on the board and on the cards

[@henrygrove100]

Kitty stop laughing that’s the wrong guess on monopoly inventory. So shocked

[@twinpeaksfan929]

Interesting that Darrow was living in Philly but still used Atlantic City for the Monopoly board.

[@MrTrashcan1]

But the railroad names came from Philly. And the Reading owned the Atlantic City RR which ran to AC. AC was an extremely popular resort back then for Philadelphians, and I think the alphabetical, state-named streets just lent themselves to being used.

[@kellyjustus6394]

No protection for the head but protect your manly parts.

[@LinkRocks]

I wish they had time to interview Mr. Darrow.

[@mijajajaja]

As a lifelong hockey player, I immediately knew that it was #2 just based off of how his hockey pants fit.

[@ddruxman3579]

But were they on backwards??

[@ana419]

Do they get $500 each, or $500 to split among the 3 of them?

[@dcasper8514]

Split among them.

[@leesher1845]

Good looking hockey player!

[@englishcountryside4581]

13:23 It's the Third Eye!

[@djdon60]

What a surprise! This "4Ts" fan came to see, "Inventor of 'Monopoly" and, finds this. How was this excluded, from the 'tease?' One 'l', in, "Beliveau." Being a 'close, to' 59 year-old Canadian fan of the show, I'm disqualified, from segment #1. I am, though, going to watch. Excellent pronunciation, Mr. Collyer! Just, "google", 'gentleman'; I'm fairly sure M. Beliveau's image will appear. No surprise, there. Did Miss Carlisle mean, "King Clancy?" I'm not going to say Mr. Gardiner came, to his surmise, because he was a "broadcast professional." He knew "Ching Johnson.(I'm retired-lol.) So, Mr. B...guess, who had 'their' pants on, back-to-front? To my mind, if you are posting, you should be able to 'put it, up' and, not have someone think, "Is(SUBJECT)what the poster means, to convey?" Regarding, the second segment: 'number two', definitely...after four queries, by panelists. I've got some hearing loss-what did #2 say, at the "reveal?"

[@lynettepalecek3141]

For the inventor of the boardgame "Monopoly" I chose number 3 before any of them answered any of the questions. His body language gave him away.

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

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

[@terryniblett9329]

Kitty....good..you didn't overdress!!

[@joet840]

They probably put his hockey pants on backwards on purpose to fool them, since he was the only one with pants showing.

[@VahanNisanian]

Jean died recently.

[@zacharydunlap-tunnage2220]

***** Who's Jean?

[@VahanNisanian]

Zachary Dunlap-Tunnage The first contestant, Jean Beliveau.

[@zacharydunlap-tunnage2220]

***** Gotcha. Wasn't there was a segment featuring him already uploaded somewhere?

[@VahanNisanian]

Zachary Dunlap-Tunnage No, there isn't.

[@zacharydunlap-tunnage2220]

***** I meant a short clip of his segment on *TTTT*. Was it taken down or something?

[@lafq]

Chuck Grassley invented Monopoly?

[@johngreen3543]

Too old to be useful in Congress. Do the right thing and retire Mr Grassley

[@lynettepalecek3141]

@Flomia. No, of course not.

[@patriciamooney928]

Monopoly is derived from The Landlord's Game created by Lizzie Magie in the United States in 1903 as a way to demonstrate that an economy that rewards individuals is better than one where monopolies hold all the wealth,and to promote the economic theories of Henry George-in particular his ideas about taxation.

[@larryteren5054]

the monopolg game guy had nothing to brag about. he basically "borrowed" his rules from a couple of other well known games that had not been marketed so extensively. and this was supposedly proven in court when parker brothers sued someone else for parodying monopoly rules.

[@tuxtommy69]

+Larry Teren For instance Milton Bradley's game "Easy Money". Basically the same as Monopoly.

[@rjwalker6677]

I looked this up and you were right. There were other similar games before Monopoly, and Darrow had in fact copied the idea of the game from a friend who was playing a similar game. Darrow should get credit for marketing the game and selling it to Parker Bros though. In fact, when he first offered it to Parker Bros in 1934, Parker rejected it as to technical and time consuming. I did not know that either. When Darrow's own sales kept growing, Parker realized they made a mistake and bought him out in 1935. Parker also bought out some of the earlier patented games that were similar to Monopoly , so that they would have sole rights to the game. I never knew any of this. Interesting stuff.

[@goback3spaces]

That may be true but lots of games are similar to each other. Chess, for example, has many variations. Monopoly is a magic game.

[@alanr4447a]

Truly, Darrow did NOT "invent" Monopoly. He merely marketed it to Parker Bros.

[@lynettepalecek3141]

@Larry Teren. Charles Darrow DID say that the Parker Brothers invented the boardgame "Monopoly" and he presented it to them. He said so in this video.

[@krystonjones]

To me, the host is lame and annoying when he pretends to laugh whilst talking. But Polly compensates.

[@lynettepalecek3141]

To me, you're lame and annoying.