To Tell the Truth - Lion tamer; Treasure hunter; Beat poet (Mar 17, 1960)

PANEL: Polly Bergen, Don Ameche, Kitty Carlisle, Tom Poston
CONTESTANT #1: Evelyn Currie (Lion tamer)
CONTESTANT #2: Count Abel Armand (Worldwide treasure hunter)
CONTESTANT #3: Mike Conantz (Greenwich Village beat poet)
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[@lukesharp22000]

That's my Aunt Eveyln. Her and my Uncle Danny used to show me this as a reel to reel projector. When she watched me as a baby, used to put me in the cage with Tonya the tiglan. Thanks for posting this video.

[@sheila174]

Is Evelyn from Chattanooga?

[@JonesNate]

Thanks for not spoilering which one she is; I just started watching. 🙂

[@ansont]

I’m watching an episode now where she was again on TTtT from 1973. Both episodes with Kitty Carlisle

[@lukesharp22000]

@@sheila174 Yes. She was born in Chattanooga and raised there. Moved to Miami and Havana as a young woman where she became a dancer, She ended up in prison for two years and then became a world famous lion tamer.

[@lukesharp22000]

@@ansont What's the date on that one?

[@barbarahill4125]

I love the show when Polly Bergen is on it she keeps it so Lively and funny.

[@susanrutherford866]

Tom Poston certainly knows many people !!

[@susanseverance9683]

Kitty had the most delightful and genuine laugh. She made the panel.

[@93Jubilee]

Great candidates for the beat poet! All three of them seemed very plausibnle.

[@kenyongray2615]

Tom was the easy leader of the disqualifications. He must have really gotten around and known a lot of people. Malachy McCourt would become a semi-famous person. Bud is a professional at what he did.

[@Rodin99]

I disqualified myself because I recognized Malachi McCourt, brother of Frank, who often appeared on the NYC Merv Griffin show "from the Little Theater off Times Sq." in the mid sixties.

[@519djw6]

That's interesting! I knew that Malachi McCourt had made himself locally well-known as a "professional Irishman" on TV in New York. But I had always thought that *Frank* McCourt had remained an unknown until the publication of his first book, the wonderful and bestselling "Angela's Ashes."

[@Rodin99]

I think you're right. McCourt you probably know taught English at Stuyvesant. I don't remember Frank ever appearing on TV with his brother. Griffin was very good about having local NYC eccentrics and personalities and comics on his NYC show. And of varying ethnicities.

[@jeffstumpf9129]

Funny how we remember the McCourts but not that poet.

[@skoplpnews9450]

When Malachy announced his name it rang in my ears like a cathedral bell as I remembered reading it in his brother Frank's book "Angela's Ashes"

[@kevinmadden1645]

She and my uncle. Nominative case,not objective case.

[@randysills4418]

Georgia Southern was in some shows with Gypsy Rose Lee and was a good friend of her's.

[@jonvater8424]

Don's imperious attitude when questioning often gets under my skin... then he's so personable afterwards!

[@sheila174]

I really don't know, but I seem to think he questions the way he does because he really doesn't know the subject and is just asking randomly....sometimes.

[@williamanthony9090]

I hear you, but he also seems to ask the best questions.

[@rhondagiesbrecht4901]

I think he's trying to trip them up by firing the questions fast.

[@jacquelinebell6201]

Me too! Yet he's lovely to them afterwards. He would have made a good prosecuting attorney lol.

[@sheila174]

Terrific episode!

[@jacquelinebell6201]

I thought no. 1 was the lion tamer. She was confident from the very start.

[@catbriggs8362]

It was a bad bet for the frogs....

[@MrSwifts31]

Is Polly Bergen on "something"?She always seems to be "out of it" on all editions.

[@Musician-r5q]

I've been watching a lot of these videos in the last 4 days and I noticed at voting time Polly will say as an example: "I picked #1 but I think it's #3 and I'm probably wrong so it's probably #2" just about every game. Seems confused or really takes it to heart if she guesses wrong. Nice lady and was attractive, but something's not right.

[@cynthiat6505]

That was her persona even in the movies. She was always just a little bit silly.

[@oksills]

Polly Bergman is merely playing a role!! She is an intelligent and quite normal. Throughout her years of being on this program she was frequently gone. During those times she was working on stage and on TV. She was always much in demand and never connected to any “On something” scandal. She always plays this”role” on this show. She was/is highly love for it!

[@williamanthony9090]

What a stupid question!

[@marthagill8336]

She is a flake.

[@chrisst41]

One man, one vote, Don!

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

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

[@irontribeissues9104]

Tom keeps disqualifying bc of ahem… knowing women….. heh. Ps polly… the beats were incredibly unimpressed by your strained efforts during the vote….

[@9094nancyj]

In game #3, how could they think contestant #2 could pass as a student?

[@desertbreeze69]

Why does Peggy Continually vote for number one

[@Walterwhiterocks]

There was no "Peggy" on this particular episode.

[@JonesNate]

First round; Ocelot; 400lbs? 😆😆😆 #3 eliminated. For the second round, #2 got testy about some of the answers, wanting to get the details right. ... Okay, I was wrong. For the third round, I wasn't sure at all.

[@robramsey7535]

😊

[@stevejames5863]

i think keeping lions in a circus is cruel..they ll have the right to attack, they have no right to be in a circus.]

[@luthersharp-workaccount8521]

Even though that's my Aunt Evelyn, the Lion Tamer, I agree. You wouldn't believe how expensive it was to feed them! They used to attack the steaks like it was wild game!

[@Walterwhiterocks]

The board light operator was either under the influence of something or maybe an intern still learning his or her job.

[@Walterwhiterocks]

@Mark Richardson Marky, do you always attempt to insult someone you happen to disagree with ? What a sad way to go through life. Try forming an intelligent response on occasion, if that's possible. Now take a deep breath and move on.

[@Walterwhiterocks]

@Mark Richardson To borrow from Ronald Reagan's response to Carter in that infamous debate in 1980, there you go again. Yet another failed attempt at an insult. You are simply not very good at it, though, "butthurt little twerp"" is original, I suppose. BTW the large majority of my comments are positive "on the internet" proving you have either never read them or are being untruthful. Anyway, have at it. Your insult attempts (feeble as they may be) are a riot and laugh provoking. Thanks for the free entertainment.

[@519djw6]

Round #1: I didn't know that lions and tigers could crossbreed, and couldn't quite make out the name of such a hybrid animal. Aside from that, I'd like to know whether such crossbred animals could reproduce themselves--unlike a burro, the result of a horse crossbreeding with a donkey..

[@519djw6]

Thank you for this information! I was always confused about the distinction between a burro and a mule, as we use both terms in English. Also, it's my understanding that mules are sterile. That's why I was wondering about the situation regarding "ligers" and "tiglons." And of course, I knew that tigers are indigenous to Asia, and lions to Africa. That said, I'd still like to know whether either of these hybrids can breed--either with each other, or with tigers or lions, even in captivity.

[@luthersharp-workaccount8521]

They could not reproduce.

[@marthagill8336]

Tiglon and ligers.

[@geraldkatz7986]

and teddy bears oh my