What's My Line? - Carroll Baker; Tony Randall [panel] (Jun 28, 1964)

MYSTERY GUEST: Carroll Baker
PANEL: Arlene Francis, Tony Randall, Dorothy Kilgallen, Bennett Cerf
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[@princeharming8963]

'Superintendent of the Denver Mint' - a hell of a accomplishment for a woman in 1964. I noticed that both ladies stood to meet her. Nicely done.

[@jackkomisar458]

The Director of the U.S. Mint (in Philadelphia), Eva Adams, was on What's My Line in 1961.

[@princeharming8963]

@@jackkomisar458 - ok.

[@shirtless6934]

She was secretary-treasurer Colorado Democratic Sustaining Fund, 1959-1960; Democratic precinct committeewomen, Platteville; vice chairman Weld County Democratic Committee, Colorado Democratic Committee, 1948-1961, so I guess she had connections too.

[@peternagy-im4be]

She was also a suspected communist ​@@jackkomisar458

[@ddivincenzo1]

I absolutely adore Arlene!! She was such a class act.

[@preppysocks209]

in this episode, she was particularly winsome and attractive

[@hizgrase]

Agree

[@TheCosmicVagabond]

She was on the ball (bull) tonight! 😎

[@domenicv7962]

@@preppysocks209 don't lust !!!

[@ukrandr]

Absolutely

[@SM-gl8yo]

Carroll Baker: Holy smokes! What a dream girl. Stunning girl, stunning dress. Total class act.

[@catsarereallycool]

Carroll Baker, what a great guest.

[@photo161]

@Tessmage Tessera ...What a knock-out she was...a true beauty, and gloriously glamourous!

[@dawnfalvey6766]

Arlene looks marvelous here ( as always). I love her style. Dorothy looks great too. Both of those women were so classy and intelligent. I love that they each had their own style. I also love watching not only to be entertained but to see what the ladies will be wearing.

[@soulierinvestments]

Arlene is really in good form tonight. She really got the essence of the first contestant, and she had a few world-class memorable lines.

[@bigoldinosaur]

"I hardly ever eat any bull." "Arlene you certainly hand it out."

[@anthonyzamora2955]

Carroll Baker was a brilliant actress, and very beautiful!

[@jmccracken1963]

Her daughter, Blanche Baker, is, to me, proof that, in the performing arts, the apple more often that not falls quite far from the tree. She's not even close to the actress that her mother was back in the day.....

[@judylondon7126]

Determined, smart, talented, classy, she came from a humble background.

[@nunosoares2329]

Young Carroll Baker. Still around at 88 :-)

[@galileocan]

Rarely will you see the ladies on the panel stand to shake someone's hand. Mrs. Miller, the Superintendent of the U.S. Mint obviously was important enough to warrant such respect

[@RaoulThomas007]

Galileocan g What a class act by Mrs. Miller donating her winnings to the Kennedy library and John making sure it was the maximum amount!

[@TyrSkyFatherOfTheGods]

+Galileocan g Has more to do with her age. The only time I've seen the women on the panel stand for a guest is when it 's an older woman, or a member of the clergy.

[@domesticviolencesurvivorvi6702]

They stood for Eleanor Roosevelt, a nun, governors of Alaska and Hawaii, elderly people, etc.

[@DAVEJJR]

Carroll was gorgeous!!!!

[@VahanNisanian]

The first time I saw Carroll Baker was when she starred with Arnold Schwarzenegger in "Kindergarten Cop". She was the Mother of the main villain (played by Richard Tyson) in that film.

[@c.s.jackson7214]

That's favorite movie there. Linda Hunt (Hetty from NCIS Los Angeles) was on there as well.

[@ultrakool]

she wasn't so tough without her car 😆

[@soulierinvestments]

Some mystery guests want to be identified; others want to bamboozle the panel. [ 18:43 ] Obvious she is delighted to be recognized. And a kisser, too, in a great gown. What's not to love about Carroll?

[@shirleyrombough8173]

Arlene: I've never eaten bull Bennett: but you've thrown a lot of it. Hilarious!

[@gailsirois7175]

Look who's talking !!

[@kahlesjf]

Bennett: "No Arlene, but you certainly hand it out"

[@butziporsche8646]

Carol Baker was great in How the West Was Won and as Arnie's antagonist's mom in Kindergarten Cop! Crap, Bennett Cerf nailed it and I forgot all about The Carpet Baggers which is weird considering George Peppard is one of my very favorite actors.

[@mikegendron3723]

Juan E. Metzger is the man that changed yogurt. He is the man that introduced the adding of fruit flavours!!

[@georgimihailov4906]

And he is the reason yoghurt is not Bennett's favorite food.

[@patriceodom2553]

Dannon yogurt was so good back in the day. Now? Not so much.

[@kentetalman9008]

@@patriceodom2553 I agree. They got rid of the best flavors and quadrupled the price.

[@michaelmiller1215]

A beautiful lady, and a terrific performance in “Harlowe”.

[@michaelkuypers9798]

24:50 "'I think I must announce yogurt is not my favorite food." Of course not. Bennett's favorite is corn.

[@mathewfullerton8577]

His comment was totally unnecessary and, to a great degree, rude.

[@davidsanderson5918]

Mathew Fullerton Whose comment? Whoever's it was....it was meant to be funny and most probably was. You have to lighten up to enjoy these things. The panellists and Daly pull each other's legs all the time. Meanwhile the pun on 'corn' by the person here was a pretty good one.....and this is coming from a Bennett Cerf fan!!

[@georgimihailov4906]

@@davidsanderson5918 Well, it was a bit rude to the contestant. 24:51.

[@tomgraves6463]

I always thought Bennett was a Ham and Cheese kinda guy, and would think that he would have been more onto *CULTURE.* 😆 Great marketing gig for yogurt guy.

[@lynettepalecek3141]

@@georgimihailov4906 No it wasn't.

[@karenleemallonee684]

Carol Baker is just lovely!

[@lynettepalecek3141]

Carroll Baker was a beautiful woman! Her makeup was perfect and her hair was very pretty. I can see why so many men found her so attractive. No, I'm not a Lesbian. I just like to comment when a woman does her makeup just the right way. Too many actresses overdo their makeup, especially their eye makeup and their eyebrows.

[@ilzamaria6424]

I adore Tony Randall.

[@kentetalman9008]

One of my favorite WML panelists. Wish I could have met him.

[@VahanNisanian]

Ooh. Bennett was lucky to get a kiss from Carroll. Also love how Carol clearly took lessons from the times Debbie Reynolds was a Mystery Guest.

[@WhatsMyLine]

***** Yes-- She even said at the end of her segment that she wasn't imitating Zsa Zsa, she was imitating Debbie Reynolds imitating Zsa Zsa!

[@WitoldBanasik]

Long Live Carroll; the charming and witty lady is of Polish origins, as I am. Hurrey !!!!!

[@LANCSKID]

As am I.

[@MrJoeybabe25]

As of 9/18/20 Carroll Baker is alive and 89 years old!

[@judylondon7126]

As of 3/27/23 she's still alive at 91 and will turn 92 in a few months.

[@DA90027]

Carroll had such a distinctive voice it was hard not to know who this was.

[@jmccracken1963]

She did a good job of disguising it for a while, though - until she let more than a bit of her natural tone slip in answering Tony Randall the second time around.

[@slc2466]

Her eyes are also absolutely piercing when you meet her. I was able to get her to autograph her autobiography after an interview at a showing of”Baby Doll” about ten years ago. As she was signing the book, I mentioned she had sent me an autograph with a nice note years before which I treasured, and she looked up with a baby-blue gaze that was distracting. I could see why she stood out from others in her field- add in her talent, and a fruitful career as a glamorous star was a given.

[@Rosey01222]

The woman in charge of the Denver US Mint that produces coin money was asked if it was true small coins were in short supply. Who would have predicted an American future where money, coins as well as paper, would be in less use replaced by credit cards? Not much use for pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters anymore. In 1964, a cup of coffee cost 10 cents as did an ice cream cone. Those days long over.

[@preppysocks209]

The Mint, the President, and others lied to the American people in 1964 about the reasons for shortages of coins. 1964 was the last year in which the US Mint produced small coins that were 90% silver. People were hoarding the coins because due to inflation that the government did not want to admit existed, the silver in the coin was worth more than the face value of the coin. The Mint produced 40% silver coins beginning in 1965 and the percentage was reduced to miniscule amounts by 1970. People born in the 1960s can remember during our childhoods seeing many coins from 1965 but none from earlier years except pennies.

[@lynettepalecek3141]

I use cash quite often even though I have a debit card. I wouldn't say that cash isn't used much anymore. No way! A lot of people use cash quite often.

[@kentetalman9008]

@@preppysocks209 And try to find a penny prior to 1959.

[@A100-y2c]

A funny episode. Arlene and Dorothy look nice.

[@TheBraveIntrovert]

"I hardly every eat any bull"......hilarious if someone were to make a video of great Arlene moments, this should be included.

[@TennTalker]

I agree!!!! :) :) :)

[@Kat-fw9se]

Yes!

[@noway7555]

I think this is the first time I have seen both of the ladies stand up for a guest.

[@rmelin13231]

It didn't happen often, but on occasion. In particular I believe they both stood for Eleanor Roosevelt.

[@lucyflorey9152]

I remember Carroll Baker from the epic "How the West Was Won".

[@luissantiago8446]

She also played along Richard Widmark in Cheyenne Autumn.

[@Noone58319]

I remember how she said “Linus”.

[@annettekelly1592]

At 8:19 plus. Arlene’s expression is hilarious. I watched it over and over.

[@tomgraves6463]

You can tell they all liked each other and had a lot of fun. 👍

[@lindas.martin2806]

This show makes it too easy to guess the mystery guest and I want them to stay longer!

[@markschildberg1667]

There was an element of star ego here. Some actors would be insulted if the panel didn’t identify them.

[@yawlltube]

"I hardly ever eat any bull." Go Arlene

[@kennethlatham3133]

Lost in all the discussion about the lady Denver mint superintendent and the coin shortage is the fact that the very next year, silver coins would no longer be 100% silver; they would have copper interiors. I remember in school, we passed around our "New" quarters & dimes with much interest. Little did we know.........

[@VahanNisanian]

Tonight's show was another double-up as prior to the live airing of this episode, the September 6, 1964 episode was also taped.

[@michaelnivens6267]

a stunning beauty !!

[@soulierinvestments]

At the end, yet another example of how tactless Bennett could be. Oh, shut up. On the other hand, it is interesting in the fourth game to see the president of what would become within a decade maybe the biggest yogurt company in America. Whoever came up with the idea of putting fruit in yogurt and placing it in individual containers was some kind of genius. The sack lunch was never the same.

[@WhatsMyLine]

soulierinvestments One of his most tactless moment, yes. So completely unnecessary!

[@epaddon]

What's My Line? Bennett channeling Henry Morgan a bit there!

[@jvcomedy]

+soulierinvestments Yes, Bennett seems to make tactless comments on occasion and consistently mispronounces words so sometimes you wonder just how smart he is. I know he's a successful publisher, but we all know people that just happened to be in the right place at the right time and are successful in spite of themselves. Sometimes I think there's a chance Bennett could fit into that category.

[@michaelbarnhart2593]

It's been 52 years since this broadcast and I still know people who won't get near yogurt. In 1964, the popular culture (pardon the pun) back then saw yogurt as obscure and not part of a normal diet. Thankfully, we have evolved to benefit from it in a majority of households. :-)

[@jvcomedy]

@M M Yes, the show definitely wouldn't have been the same without him.

[@VahanNisanian]

Years later, Carroll Baker would gain a loyal cult following from fans of European B-Movies, when she starred in a ton of Italian films for nearly a decade. They were mostly of the Giallo and Horror genres. For the unaware "Giallo Films" are what the Italians call "Mystery Films".

[@jmccracken1963]

I've seen a few of them on-line here and there. They're interesting - and she acts well and looks suitably sexy in all of them.

[@LANCSKID]

Carroll … looks and sounds very much like one of my mistresses ❤️

[@thomasdelvin3683]

that laugh gave it away

[@Franjim34]

Carroll baker was hot. Damn

[@soulierinvestments]

Dorothy is still in her high-waist empire gown period, which probably lead to my mother speculating in 1964 she was pregnant. Not at 50 she wasn't, Mom. Pretty dress in Dorothy's best late period.

[@lynettepalecek3141]

Good point. Dorothy Kilgallen was born in 1913.

[@antonmarino6568]

Carroll as HARLOW. Great

[@susanwenner8738]

In my 20s so many told me I looked like Carol Baker and I had no idea who they were talking about. No Goggle back then to look her up!

[@bevn362]

Carroll Baker (2022) Born: May 28, 1931 (age 91 years). Baker was mainly based in Palm Springs, California, throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. As of 2016, she resides in New York City.

[@midnightmilkman1]

Ms Baker is still alive as I type this 4/8/21 she is 89 yrs old

[@antonmarino6568]

Loved her in HARLOW

[@soulierinvestments]

Baby Doll all Grown Up. Carroll Baker during her Levine period. The year before, she was one of the reasons to see "How the West was Won," where her character eventually winds up owning a farm on the banks of the Ohio River. Stunning picture with a great score and monumental scenery behind the action, but very hard to see in its original format. "The Carpetbaggers" producer Joseph E Levine was involved in quite a few good movies -- "The Graduate" and "The Lion in Winter" come to mind. He also made a lot of glorious shlock -- "Santa Claus vs The Martians" and the imported "Godzilla" for example.. As I recall The Carpetbaggers was not about reconstruction.

[@WhatsMyLine]

soulierinvestments Levine was involved with "Santa Claus Vs The Martians"? I had no idea. I've seen that many times with the MST3k treatment. I have tremendous respect for the cinematic stamina of anyone who could sit through it any other way.

[@epaddon]

What's My Line? Levine was also the man who brought Godzilla to America when he bought the distribution rights to the first movie and then redid it for the American market with the new scenes with Raymond Burr intercut with the Japanese original.

[@jmccracken1963]

Let's just say that THE CARPETBAGGERS was to Howard Hughes as CITIZEN KANE was to William Randolph Hearst. I've seen it, and I like it very much, and Carroll Baker's performance in it is very, very good.

[@errol-ih4jy]

Carrol was the most beautiful woman i ever saw on film.

[@dalej42]

Coins were in short supply, wonder what she would have thought about the coin shortage of 2020?

[@lynettepalecek3141]

There was no coin shortage in 2020. That was a lie being told by the lying msm.

[@Baskerville22]

The woman Superintendent of the Denver U.S. Mint didn't have a "product". She provided a "service" to a government department responsible for creating the currency.

[@zzzut]

I don't get the "yogurt is not my favourite food" remark (24:51). Did I miss something or was it a reference to a previous episode?

[@shadykatie100]

I have a lot of relatives from Platteville, Colorado. (from the Mrs. Miller segment)

[@johnnydoe7846]

The coin shortage conversation is interesting because the year this aired (64) was the last year that the the USA made regular coins out of mostly silver… I wonder if that was generally known by the public at the time of this recording and if that was a big factor in the shortage 🤔

[@adamodeo9320]

charming people - nowhere to be found nowadays

[@feraudyh]

Arlene is looking glorious tonight.

[@TheGadgetPanda]

For the life of me, I can't figure how Bennett got to the Mint straight away. It didn't seem like there was anything in previous answers to lead him there. Was Denver particularly noted for minting coins in 1964?

[@alskndlaskndal]

Bennett seemed to specialize in knowing about a prominent industry or institution in just about every city. There are only a few mint facilities around the country and I think Denver's is pretty well known. But I agree it was a particularly shrewd, or lucky, guess!

[@alanfollett6242]

+The Gadget Panda It does seem a leap, especially since Mrs. Miller says she's from Platteville, which Bennett may or may not have known is about 25 miles from Denver proper. Still, Denver was and is known for its mint. Currently Denver and Philadelphia are the only two US mint facilities producing coins for general circulation; any coin with a "D" next to the date was born in Denver. (San Francisco and West Point also have mints, but these are currently only used for proof sets and commemoratives and such.)

[@electraglide9357]

I just thought the same EXACT thing! First thought was this must've been edited or the fix was in for time constraint!

[@dalej42]

Knowing the mint facilities might have just been something Bennett picked up, I’ve known it since 8th grade when we studied the Bureau of Printing and Engraving, along with the mint. I think the roundabout response on sports and games led Bennett to think of gambling and thus money

[@lynettepalecek3141]

@TheGadgetPanda. Yes, Denver was.

[@TyrSkyFatherOfTheGods]

Speaking of bulls, it's too bad that they never had an AI technician. That would have been hilarious - especially if the contestant was asked if they milked the animal.

[@broughtbackin]

I'm telling you, they must have FED Cerf the answers sometimes. There is NO WAY he thought of the 'mint' that fast.

[@davidpar2]

From Johnstown!

[@MrJoeybabe25]

Carroll Baker kissed them all as she left! Has that ever happened before?

[@jrm8899]

I think Mia Farrow did too

[@RonGerstein]

Caroll Baker is still around (9/2/24).

[@ultrakool]

if tony said he was from new england I;d believe it, but I would never have guessed the tulsa metro area🤔

[@Fatherofheroesandheroines]

"Yogurt! I hate yogurt..even with sprinkles!"

[@lynettepalecek3141]

I love your remark!!!! I can't eat yogurt because it causes excruciating pain in my stomach because I have scoliosis. I get so sick and tired of so many people praising yogurt and saying what a good food it is. They think that they're so smart, but they aren't. Experts several years ago said that prebiotics are much healthier than probiotics are. In fact, these experts said that people should stop consuming so many probiotics because they are doing damage to the body. That's good that you hate yogurt.

[@Eddie_Schantz]

One of the things I wish they would have not done on this show was to tell the panel whether it was a service or a product. They should have figured that out on their own with their questions.

[@joelfogelsanger5773]

Dorothy knew it was Carole Baker. She should have guessed it instead of letting Bennett get it.

[@williampatience9524]

Arlene is the perfect woman, needs to be more like her.

[@lawrencecunningham7321]

Bennett pulled the Denver Mint out . He was really a great player

[@gailsirois7175]

Big cheater

[@lynettepalecek3141]

@Lawrence Cunningham. I agree completely! Ignore Gail Sirois. She's a lying troll.

[@miketheyunggod2534]

Hmm. Somethings not right about that. He made a huge jump.

[@jerryrichardjr.2128]

This might be the first time I saw the ladies stand up for anybody. Was it because she was old? .

[@jmccracken1963]

Take a look at some episodes from the 1950s. The ladies stood for Ethel Barrymore - and they most definitely stood for Eleanor Roosevelt. And those are just the two that pop into my mind most readily; both Dorothy and Arlene had stood for ladies before. (Dorothy also stood when Bishop Sheen was Mystery Guest - and when they had a nun on (in full habit) whose line was as "barber").

[@hor2kulture]

Yes they stand for older women and clergymen.

[@sdacj]

They also stood for Frank Lloyd Wright.

[@princeharming8963]

In further thinking about that, they might have stood because of what she'd accomplished.. or even more likely, her donation to the JFK library. His passing was still quite recent and must have stirred quite a bit of emotion.

[@philippapay4352]

Jerry Richard Jr. - No, the women on the panel tended to stand to greet those of exceptional accomplishment, like a Frank Lloyd Wright or Eleanor Roosevelt. My guess is that it related to her achievement in a time when women did not hold those positions. There were older men and women for whom they did not stand. They had huge respect for genuine service in a profession or military/religious that was not so much for personal gain. Mrs. Miller had a long record of public service and accomplishment for the common good, which would have been among the things considered, of course, in her getting the position she held.

[@nealhurwitz]

fab

[@anthonyhutchins1441]

How come U didn't grab her? Lolololololololol! Arlene never disappoints!

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

*_WASHES BULLS FOR CATTLE SHOWS AND SALES_* *_SUPERINTENDENT OF U.S. MINT IN DENVER, COLORADO_* *_MAKES YOGURT_*

[@wookinooki9023]

Frank Sinatra?? Bennett is 20 years late! LOL

[@henrywyche]

Mr. Daly does not acknowlege the ladys of the panel in the begining when he enters, and they seem to be disappointed.

[@shirleyrombough8173]

I noticed that as well.

[@LANCSKID]

He can spell, however … LADIES.

[@SMAY0001]

I swear the sexiest actresses were from the ‘50s and 60’s!’

[@SMAY0001]

Miss Baker was a total knockout!!

[@tporchia7751]

Dorothy does look pregnant, and the yogurt, I miss the fruit at the bottom that you have to stir. Dannon still making yogurt in 2019

[@chuckc7375]

A beautiful girl

[@tompaulcampbell]

Bennett loves the voluptuous blondes, as do i!

[@gilbertotongco8895]

hav you ever wxperience that the spound of footsteps remunds you of the storm troopers in the nazi era

[@gilbertotongco8895]

l

[@gilbertotongco8895]

it’s terrifying

[@LANCSKID]

Are you soused?

[@terryniblett9329]

That's bullshit....Bennet Cerf!!!

[@miketheyunggod2534]

Yogurt was alive. The actual cultures were alive. This would mislead the panel.

[@peternagy-im4be]

Pedantic

[@ADAMSIXTIES]

16:00 Carroll Baker.

[@boognish999]

Or just watch the whole episode.

[@ekspert52]

How do they jump to money all of a sudden... fixed!

[@gailsirois7175]

Cheater cerf... at it again

[@kristabrewer9363]

Doesn't domesticated mean friendly? How are BULLS friendly?!

[@lucyflorey9152]

Domesticated just means raised and kept for profit or for some sort of human use. Steers, bulls, cows as well as hogs and sheep are often wild but kept in farms.

[@Baskerville22]

Carroll Baker was a poor actress and always seemed to play unlikeable characters - e,g: Gregory Peck's fiancee in The Big Country

[@garytbradbury4799]

That's debatable!

[@Baskerville22]

@@garytbradbury4799 Many things are.....but the evidence is there in vivid technicolour & Cinemascope

[@twinsonic]

She was good enough to appear on WML, unlike you.

[@Baskerville22]

@@twinsonic So....you had to be a great actor to appear on WsML ?

[@garytbradbury4799]

@@Baskerville22 Get a life!

[@markxxx21]

The yoghurt guy doesn't sound like he knows anything about it. "Is it a dairy product?" / "ahhhh. yes?" Of course it is.