What's My Line? - Fred MacMurray; Jack Lemmon [panel] (Mar 8, 1959)

[@Gioveolympus]

Whenever I watch this show, no matter who the guests are, I always wear a smile on my face.

[@Baskerville22]

The face is where most smiles occur

[@ald668]

I do the same!

[@rmelin13231]

Exactly. I find myself doing the same. And that is a good thing.

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

It must be because of the butt plug.

[@jamesgee9738]

Me to.

[@TheTelepathicKid]

Jack Lemmon is such a treasure, love his work with Billy Wilder, and his films with Walter Matthau.

[@shirleyrombough8173]

TheTelepathicKid - It's good to see Daphne again.

[@shirleyrombough8173]

And brava for Daphne!

[@bbailey7818]

And Lemmon would star with MacMurray in Wilder's very next film, The Apartment. Nobody knew that yet and Paul Douglas was originally meant to play Sheldrake.

[@wiseguymaybe]

Welll Jack's why I'm here, but Fred MacMurray was definatly a bonos.

[@poetcomic1]

Jack Lemmon's first film was for George Cukor. Jack was mugging and used his usual bag of actor tricks and Cukor kept telling him to tone it down. Scene after scene reshot with the same advice from Cukor. Finally the exasperated Jack said "If I tone it down anymore, I won't even be acting." Cukor told him "AHA! Now you understand!".

[@username178able]

I’m so addicted to this program!!! I’d have loved to meet the panelists, they were all so charming, intelligent, witty & refined; & Mr Daley was marvelous. So refreshing to see how things were, but sad to see how most tv shows today in my opinion, have declined

[@josephpanzarella1417]

This was just before Lemmon and MacMurray appeared together in"The Apartment".

[@gbrumburgh]

Fred McMurray was not initially cast in the Lemmon film "The Apartment" (1960). Paul Douglas was originally scheduled to play the part of the boss Sheldrake but died of a massive heart attack on 9/11/59, shortly before filming. Fred was recast in the role. The presentation of this episode was several months earlier on March 8. 1959.

[@MrJoeybabe25]

@@gbrumburgh Arlene talks about the film as if she had seen it.

[@michaelnivens6267]

@@MrJoeybabe25 -perhaps there was a play before the film

[@donhailer4994]

@@MrJoeybabe25 Arlene was speaking of the film “Some Like it Hot” which Lemmon and Wilder made immediately before “The Apartment”.

[@mikejschin]

Arlene had the most glorious personality I've ever witnessed.

[@dianefiske-foy4717]

mikejschin ... Yeah. She was always smiling, I noticed, too.

[@roberthetrick8849]

She was like that in reality she did a lot of great things for and causes especially when it had to do with the prison system trying to help non-violent prisoners to get a second chance she was brilliant she lived into her mid-90s I think. John Charles Daly live here in Rockland Maryland for many many years

[@jamesgivens6127]

She sure was a beautiful person.

[@TheBigMclargehuge]

And she's genuinely funny, she has a kind of quick wit that almost stands up to a juggernaut like Steve Allen. We don't have funny women anymore we have snarky vulgar shock oriented comics.

[@roberthetrick8849]

@@TheBigMclargehuge she was she was brilliant I'll be honest I've never seen such bunch of doll people as I do today. But none of them are very articulate or interesting

[@michaelbaucom4019]

One of Arlene's best shows, her humor is racy, given the times

[@dianefiske-foy4717]

I’ve watched a lot of these episodes (watched when a kid too) and I noticed that Dorothy is especially good at this game. She seems to ask the right questions a lot to be able to figure out what a person’s line is. I just love watching her. This episode was particularly funny 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🥰‼️

[@peterfriend8084]

So fitting that Lemmon guessed Fred MacMurray, his co-star in the wonderful “The Apartment.” Also nice was the impromptu cameo by MacMurray’s wife, June Haver!

[@ginaloverofangels]

This was a fun filled episode. So nice to see Fred MacMurray, he did some wonderful movies and loved him in My three sons. Also such a handsome man.

[@jubalcalif9100]

I agree 100 percent ! A long life and quite prolific career !

[@jacquelinebell6201]

I loved his Disney movies. Saw The Shaggy Dog many times when I was a kid in the 60s and 70s.

[@jimdrake-writer]

He was also self-deprecating and could laugh at himself-as he did when asked if he had “dark, wavy hair.” He laughed because he was wearing a toupee.

[@ginaloverofangels]

@@jimdrake-writer I never knew he wore a toupee.

[@jimdrake-writer]

@@ginaloverofangels: If you compare his earlier appearance on WML, you can see that his hairline was receding. The ones he wore in “My Three Sons” were fairly obvious because they were made of synthetic hair. He never wore toupees other than on television and in films, however. When fishing or hunting, or in his neighborhood in Brentwood, he wore seasonal hats (straw fedoras mostly) or baseball caps when he was playing golf.

[@robertolsen6720]

For the wholesome 1950's, this show had more than its fair-share of double entendres!

[@keithhyttinen8275]

Wholesome 1950's? I suggest you watch the film "LA Confidencial". As close to the real time as you can get. Drugs, prostitution, wife beatings, greed, lynchings, you name it. How Reaganesque and "wholesome"!!

[@Justin-ti4xc]

​@@keithhyttinen8275You are a buffoon.

[@skyedog24]

​@@keithhyttinen8275I guess that depends where you grew up in the United States all things are relative remember that.

[@whizkidliz]

LOVE Fred Macmurray, he has always reminded me of my grandfather both personality and looks

[@bkavanaugh863]

Arlene looks gorgeous here. I love this show!

[@orgonkothewildlyuntamed6301]

i agree she looks better as a blonde which for whatever reasons she's only that way in a handful of episodes

[@narrowgate528]

Funny, handsome, talented. I've always liked him.

[@ianman15]

I met Fred MacMurray while I was living in Dayton, Ohio in the 1980’s. He was in town for a charity golf tournament. What a charming man! A true gentleman. So polite.

[@charlescanterbury9762]

For the eight years that Fred MacMurray did My Three Sons, he brown-bagged his lunch every day, never spending money in the commissary. And the same lunch every day,2 hard-boiled eggs, and an apple, sometimes a cookie. A very frugal man, who left a considerable estate.

[@saran3214]

The show ran for 12 years, 1960 to 1972. I did enjoy the eggs and apple story.

[@jimdrake-writer]

The innovative contract he negotiated for “My Three Sons” enabled him to be on the set only for four weeks per season, during which only his lines in all the episodes were filmed. His “stand in” was a cleaning tool that matched his 6’ 3” height-so the rest of the cast said their lines to the apparatus they called “Fred MacMop.”

[@daler.steffy1047]

He owned a large ranch up here in Sonoma County, California, where I live (with his cattle ranch located about one-and-a-half+ hours drive north of San Francisco. I believe he raised registered Herefords. And with his innovative studio contract, it enabled him to come up to his ranch often for rest, relaxation and doing woodworking projects (if I remember correctly from what I read some time ago). Upon Fred McMurray's passing, I believe it was his daughter who eventually sold the ranch, and all of the open pasture areas/ meadows have become vineyards, with redwood groves standing stately here and there throughout the 1,000 plus acres of property.

[@itiswhatitaintanditaintwha1427]

The Shaggy Dog is one of my favorite Disney pictures ,along with Absent Minded Professor and Son Of Flubber!

[@brookehanley3659]

Loved Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity. He seemed like an awesome nice guy.

[@guyfihi]

Oh you are so right, Edward G. Robinson was good in that one two. I am a big fan of classic films like that.

[@ToddSF]

Brooke Hanley -- "Double Indemnity" is a topnotch film and both Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray were excellent, playing roles that were unlike anything they'd done before. Billy Wilder had a very hard time finding actors who were willing to play the parts and had to convince Stanwyck and MacMurray to do it. They were both glad they did, though, because they got rave reviews and it opened doors for both of them -- they proved they were capable actors who could do more than light comedies. Raymond Chandler rewrote the screenplay and that's one reason "Double Indemnity" was such a success. Billy Wilder's direction, set concepts and location filming was another reason -- it's one of the best examples of the film noir genre ever. Wilder said, years later, that he had no idea he was helping to create a genre. It's a great film and Fred MacMurray was simply excellent in it.

[@italianbaby]

A favorite all time movie. So well made.

[@rickklaastad8371]

There's a shadier side to MacMurray's roles in "Double Indemnity", "The Caine Mutiny". and "The Apartment" which balances out his Disney work.

[@jubalcalif9100]

@listerone Well said and well put ! Veteran stage & screen Paul Douglas had been signed to play Mr Sheldrake in "The Apartment" but sadly passed away from a massive heart attack. Director Billy Wilder had enjoyed working with Fred back in '44 in "Double Indemnity" and asked him to take on the role. And of course Fred gave an xlnt performance !! I watched "The Caine Mutiny" from 1954 last night on TCM and Fred played a real stinker in that one too !

[@victorvelazquez6547]

I am 62 yrs. Old, grew up watching, “My Three Sons”, which I thoroughly enjoyed, also enjoyed his films but his appearance on,”The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour”,“Lucy Hunts Uranium”(1958), Season 1, episode 3, was STUPENDOUS!

[@wendywoodruff2871]

I love Jack Lemmon's laugh. ❤️

[@madeleine9907]

Jack Lemmon was such a lovely man, he had it all.

[@rayizard5687]

14:35 Dorothy's reaction to Arlene's stifled laugh...hilarious!

[@shirleyrombough8173]

Some Like it Hot, the best comedy ever made. So glad to see Jack Lemmon on the panel.

[@tompaulcampbell]

"Well, nobody's perfect!" Love that movie!

[@shirleyrombough8173]

Tom Campbell: That was the best line in any movie, right up there with, "Here's lookin' at you, kid." But better because more subtle.

[@foxbasealpha]

Jack Lemmon on the panel the same year he co-starred in Some Like It Hot.

[@gothicshadowstgg]

It is nice to see when people didn't take the World so seriously. Also: Fred MacMurrary made it too easy for the panel.

[@bluecamus5162]

These people had recently come away from WW2 and Korea with a sense of empowerment, and America was at the apex of it's culture, wealth, and influence. It would go downhill from here, but for this moment, these people did not need to take the world seriously. Life was good.

[@liwmld]

they were claiming Ms. Kirkendoll was a 'nurse' and that they just had to find her niche, but then when they explained it, John said, she started as a nurse and then worked her way up to an anesthetist. oddly enough, the position today is actually called 'nurse anesthetist' and is not to be confused with an anesthesiologist, who is an M.D. who administers anesthesia, whereas the nurse anesthetist is not a physician; but she is SOOOOOOOOOO much more than a nurse. i haven't worked at a hospital for many years now, but back when i did in the 70s-90s, nurse anesthetists made something like $70 an hour lol, and that was just their starting wage. they are WAAAYYY more than a nurse.

[@scotnick59]

Fred was so refreshing in films: a quiet gentle giant

[@michaelbaucom4019]

Watch "Double Indemnity", also with Barbara Stanwyck, he's quite a good villain too.

[@savelysavely2483]

@@michaelbaucom4019 Well the villain is a Stanwyck character, he is more just man in love

[@michaelbaucom4019]

@@savelysavely2483 I've seen the movie numerous times, he is a villain , don't tell me otherwise

[@sbalman]

Except when he was a murderer in Double Indemnity.

[@rr8960]

I watched a documentary about Fred from his daughter. He was a family man, and very much loved by them.

[@jamesgivens6127]

Bennet Cerf was such a gentleman. Advising the charm school administrator that none of the ladies on the panel were in need of his services. What a charmer.

[@vibra64]

When America was America!! Notice how cultured and classy the panel and the host are along with the guests. What happened to out country???

[@Jay-vr9ir]

Sad , now we have a virus, that is here to put us straight .

[@tonycevallos7513]

What happened. The invasion of the counter culture in America with the Communist left taking over our institutions of higher learning,the Hippie vomit,the Drug feast of young America, the taking out of Prayer and the mention of God in our Schools and Public places. The High cost of low living and this evil march toward Globalism. That is the Cancer that brought down America and it is coming to full fruition now. Cherish these great old shows cause it is gone forever.

[@jimhanold9026]

An excellent observation.

[@MrYfrank14]

if they tried to do this show today- are you a man? racist! bigot! how dare you say there are only two genders. show canceled. are you married? sexist! cancel the show are you marred to a curvaceous blonde? fat shaming, cancel the show. big game hunter. firearms, cancel the show. members of the armed forces. baby burner, cancel the show. police officer. racist, cancel the show.

[@michaelbaucom4019]

To answer the question posed: electing Democrats

[@jimhanold9026]

"What's My Line"-which ran on CBS from 1950 to 1967-was one of the classiest shows in television history!

[@sashachitownvillegas6850]

the final episode was Sept 1975 it had 26 seasons altogether

[@paulasarkar2981]

Wow that long!

[@winstonsmith11]

14:04 "Any old part, in a storm" Arlene was hilarious.

[@brandystoy]

They broke the mold after they made John Daly.

[@jamesabrams6908]

John Daly is the gentleman we of a certain generation wished to become.

[@luissantiago8446]

Gentleman? A quaint relic of a more saner, sober era. One in which a gentleman was what most men would want to aspire. Now it's drug dealers, corruot politicians, scamming CEOs or a serial killer who kills serial killers. People who don't know better, assume the father figure played by Robert Young in "Father Knows Best," was just a mental construct or artificial figment of a creative writer. But even that has a basis in reality, like stereotypes. Robert Young or Hugh Beaumont, was what society held up to what fathers should be, and that is a gentleman. The folks that criticize these shows are the very same idiots who gushed and fauned over the Huxtables, in the Bill Cosby Show. How many black families are like that? Or even have a father for that matter. Zero is more likely.

[@jamesfeldman4234]

Both Fred MacMurray and Jack Lemmon will forever be linked to their mutual friend Billy Wilder. Billy wrote and directed the noir classic Double Indemnity which starred Fred MacMurray. And after this WML, Billy, Jack, and Fred would go on together to make another film classic, The Apartment.

[@samiam74]

I just loved Fred MacMurray. The Shaggy Dog and The Absent Minded Professor was so charming when I was a child.

[@jubalcalif9100]

He was a wonderfully gifted actor ! Known as a really nice fella ! And thanks to savvy investments (mostly real estate) he became one of the richest men in show biz !

[@norelcopc2431]

Fred MacMurray and Jack Lemon were both in the movie "The Apartment". The movie came out in June, 1960 so they probably filmed the movie in 1959 (the same year as this episode of WML). Maybe that's why Jack had Fred on his mind.

[@lindajohnson4204]

I was thinking about that. Fred McMurray doesn't know that he's soon going to have a situation comedy on TV. This is 1959, and neither Jack Lemmon, who's just finished working with Billy Wilder, nor Fred McMurray,.who had also worked for Billy Wilder, knew they were soon going to make a great movie together, with Billy Wilder, which I believe came out in 1960. That's cutting it so close! Yet, with all the negotiations, the preparation, the filming, and the post-production and promotion, before it can even be released, neither one knows a thing about it. Or they sure act like they don't.

[@PhilMoskowitz]

@@lindajohnson4204 Who knows. Maybe this episode inspired Wilder (or someone else) to cast Fred McMurray. After all McMurray was playing against type in "The Apartment".

[@stevenjoyal6565]

This episode aired two days before I was born!!

[@robotnik77]

The cowboy on the Sugar Pops box is Guy Madison, who played "Wild Bill Hickock". The show ran 8 years.

[@michaeldanello3966]

Before a year had passed both Lemmon and MacMurray would costar in Billy Wilder's acclaimed 1960 film The Apartment. MacMurray went from a saxophonist in Ozzie Nelson's band to his breakout performance in Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity through comedies and the successful TV series My Three Sons.

[@daler.steffy1047]

I didn't know that Fred MacMurray had been in Ozzie's Nelson's band. I did see him play the saxophone on an episode of the Jack Benny television show.

[@molinalong3468]

Fred Macmurray in my three sons came out 1960

[@OhSankYouDoktor]

This was total class and wit. Horrible what TV and culture has become. MacMurray was a very underrated film actor, and, from this, obviously a funny guy.

[@paultheaudaciousbradford6772]

I guess Arlene Francis is a pretty good critic! “Some Like it Hot” is now considered by many critics to be the Greatest Comedy of all time. It wasn’t released to the public for three weeks from this air date. Talk about being ahead of the curve! (The next week, as you know, she raved about the Beatles)

[@willg4802]

I have never heard of any critic that made that claim

[@shirleyrombough8173]

Paul the Audacious Bradford - Truly Some Like It Hot is the very best comedy ever. The last line is as iconic as "Here's Looking at You Kid." I just watched it on my bloody phone.

[@benreyirl]

Dorothy is good at solving the service or product.

[@loissimmons6558]

I think that Jack Lemmon was much improved as a panelist compared to his previous appearance. That is atypical. When it comes to being on the WML panel, usually once inept, always inept.

[@billolsen4360]

It's alway good to be ept

[@gastropod557]

I do miss the "Civility" in these older programs.

[@jimhanold9026]

As do I.

[@sharshar1011]

And intellect!

[@lijohnyoutube101]

You are viewing history incorrectly-how many people of color do you see on this show for example. There is no perfect time-period of ‘civility’, all ages have issues!

[@Ransomhandsome]

@@lijohnyoutube101 Oh ... there's always a turd in the punch bowl. Presentism is a corrosive practice. Knock it off.

[@larrygrebler5054]

@@lijohnyoutube101 You are wrong! For it's day, this show was way ahead of its time. They had many guest on who weren't white. All of them treated with a high level of respect.

[@reinacoffee8557]

Handsome MacMurray, and a cute Mrs. MacMurray. A very young Lemmon.

[@AllenMQuinn]

Can imagine this being a great icebreaker for Fred and Jack a couple months later when they unexpectedly ended up working together.

[@jubalcalif9100]

As I do when I take off my hat, you make a good point ! Actually, veteran actor Paul Douglas had been signed to play Mr Sheldrake in "The Apartment" but died suddenly of a massive heart attack in Sept of '59 before filming began. Director/Screenwriter Billy Wilder had enjoyed working with Fred back in '44 on "Double Indemnity" and asked him to take on the role. And of course Fred was xlnt as philandering executive Jeff Sheldrake.

[@jasonburns4071]

The wonderful Jack lemon...

[@sdkelmaruecan2907]

yeah, i've always loved his 'average man' look, typically the man you can count on, who could be your best buddy and that every one of us could relate to, simple, decent and oddly charming

[@jenniferyorgan4215]

Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck reunited for a wonderful movie called There's Always Tomorrow.

[@johnscanlan9335]

I have a particularly good reason for watching every moment of this episode of WML - it first aired on Sunday, March 8, 1959 which just happened to be the day of my christening!!! Needless to say that being just a few weeks old at the time, I didn't stay up until 10:30pm to take in the sophisticated wit of the urbane WML panel. But it's great to now know I arrived into the world when such elegance was so readily seen!

[@kenyongray2615]

Fred MacMurray could do any role. I don't think anyone disliked him.

[@kenyongray2615]

@@christinecatt5391 Why? Just curious.

[@jimdrake-writer]

He was liked by every co-star in Hollywood, and prior to that as a tenor saxophonist and vocalist with the Gus Arnheim and George Olsen bands in the early-1930s. He was also a “regular” in the radio recordings of the World Broadcasting System under co-founder Gus Haenschen during that same period.

[@kenyongray2615]

@@jimdrake-writer Thanks for the information. He did a lot of different things. A very interesting life.

[@gilliankew]

I’d forgotten how handsome Jack Lemmon was.

[@shirleyrombough8173]

Well after all he attracted Osgood, the millionaire, who famously said, "well, nobody's perfect.

[@madeleine9907]

@@shirleyrombough8173 haha love it!

[@sumame47]

I remember hearing how he told his wife he wouldn't play bad guys anymore after a fan hit him with her purse. She took her kids to see The Apartment and told him that The Apartment was "...no Disney movie". Great movie and I love his movies as well as My Three Sons.

[@jimhanold9026]

Fred MacMurray did "The Shaggy Dog" movie in 1959 with Tim Considine and Annette Funicello, among others. Additionally-Fred and Tim went on to act on the long-running comedy "My Three Sons".

[@jvcomedy]

Robert Reinhart was one of the leading QB's in college football in 1956. He had more pass completions and more passing yardage that year than future NFL Hall of Famer Len Dawson and than Paul Hornung who won the Heisman trophy that year. Pretty impressive.

[@JJJBRICE]

Does anyone know why did not make the NFL and ran a charm school instead ?

[@robbob1234]

@@JJJBRICE He was drafted by the Browns along with future-HOFer Jim Brown and three other quarterbacks in 1957. I would guess he saw the writing on the wall and decided to go for more playing time with Toronto in the Canadian Football League. I read he eventually made his way to the AFL playing for the Oakland Raiders, but I can find no record of him playing pro ball in the AFL or NFL. Football, being seasonal, probably didn't pay the bills in those days; a charm school was likely a nice steady gig.

[@JDAbelRN]

@@robbob1234 anyone know the college he attended?

[@spongevee1]

Some Like It Hot is my favorite picture!! So good to see Jack Lemmon - AKA Daphne!

[@UNOwen1]

I love Ms Frances - she's a little goofy (14:30).

[@littlebrookreader949]

The charm school owner had a definite presence. Very charming as well as handsome!

[@oldwestguy]

I was surprised they didn't guess Fred sooner... I thought his voice gave it away several times.

[@AlejandroGarcia-ek3uy]

Jack Lemmon was handsome 😍

[@jonathansmith9235]

I love such a blast from the past. I remember the show well, being born in 1954, and the quality of entertainment back then, even though we were limited to 3 networks, if you were lucky to be able to tune them all in. There was great humor, great musical stars of all varieties,(not just limited to Rock and all of it's progenies), and news reporters who were not labelled as being fake or liberal. There were even some honest Republicans back then.

[@shirleyrombough8173]

A rarity these days.

[@shirleyrombough8173]

"Honest Republicans?" Gasp. Must have been very different times. But wait. Dwight Eisenhower, for example. Would there were more of him now.

[@justjohnney]

Panelist Jack Lemmon identifies mystery guest Fred MacMurray one year before the two teamed in the great Billy Wilder film "The Apartment"

[@brookehanley3659]

Both wonderful in that movie. Fred was such a versatile actor from My Three Sons to The Apartment and Double Indemnity; he really had a wide range in his acting abilities.

[@justjohnney]

Brooke Hanley When Billy Wilder asked Fred MacMurray to do "Double Indemnity," he turned him down, saying the role required real acting and that he couldn't do it. He was also reluctant to do weekly television, but it was in his "My Three Sons" contract that all his scenes for the entire season would be shot in one month--which is why the "sons'" haircuts change from scene to scene in single episodes.

[@brookehanley3659]

John Yang Billy must have had faith in Fred because MacMurray ended up being perfect in that role and his acting was flawless in that movie IMO. He got quite an applause when he appears here on Whats My Line! He was great in The Apartment too.

[@brookehanley3659]

John Yang Never knew that. He was great in the role of Steve Douglas as the usually unruffled father.

[@MrShobar]

John Yang Fred wasn't the first choice. Paul Douglas was slated to perform the role of Scheldrake. Douglas abruptly abruptly died of a heart attack shortly before shooting began.

[@Farmer_El]

John is quite the charming man.

[@soulierinvestments]

Arlene Francis certainly got it right about "Some Like It Hot" -- years later AFI rated it the funniest movie ever made. Fascinating to see Lemmon and MacMurrary cross paths a few months before Billy Wilder brought them together in "The Apartment." I doubt at this stage either one of them realized it -- for Wilder in the beginning wanted Paul Douglas for the Sheldrake role. Douglas would have been very good, but he died suddenly and the rest is history.

[@BeIIeDoc24]

i always find it fascinating that subsequent to these panel and mystery guest meetings, they becomes colleagues. Take James Cagney and Arlene Francis, again for a Billy Wilder production.

[@brookehanley3659]

Sometimes the one that is not "first choice" ends up being very good. Fred was not the first one asked to do" Double Indemnity" either and I cannot imagine anyone but him playing Walter Neff.

[@soulierinvestments]

McMurray, Billy Wilder, and the script all came together on "Double Indemnity." And while Paul Douglas would have been great in Shelldrake's role in "The Apartment," McMurray certainly went to the heart of it. .

[@TheBraveIntrovert]

soulierinvestments Fred was a real Jerk in that to me,but "The Apartment" was one of the movies that made me fall in love with older movies when I was a teen in the early 00's......around 2004

[@steveburrus9347]

I assume hyou are t alking about McMurray being a "real Jerk" in Double Indemnity? I really loved Barbara Stanwyck's acting in that movie?

[@tomitstube]

love the ending when john got "lepidopterist."

[@preppysocks209]

Daly uncharacterstically mispronounced the word as "lepidoptist"

[@joeambrose3260]

Scripted and rehearsed

[@richardleon6848]

Funny when the question was asked about Fred MacMurray and tv show and a few years later he was on My Three Sons.

[@adamodeo9320]

saw "some like it hot" 5 times and I will see again

[@zardozmania]

boy, those were the days.....

[@shirleyrombough8173]

Some Like it Hot was one of the best movies I've ever seen. T he closing line, when Daphne reveals he was a man to Osgood, who replied, "Well, nobody's perfect," was the best line in any movie. Does anyone agree?

[@cvcjr13]

This is fascinating. Within a year, Jack Lemmon and Fred MacMurray will star in "The Apartment". I wonder if they knew that when they came on the show, Lemmon being in "Some Like It Hot" and MacMurray being in the upcoming "The Shaggy Dog" at the time?

[@toonrog9957]

Jack Lemmon was one sharp questioner....

[@hillbillywisdom777]

Such Class

[@michaelwalsh1035]

Mrs. Wank was a stunner...

[@jimrick6632]

I AM OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER FRED'S WIFE WHEN SHE STARED IN ALL THOSE MUSICALS...SO HAPPY SHE FOUND HAPPINESS WITH FRED AFTER SOME TRAGIC HAPPENINGS IN HER LIFE...

[@yawlltube]

'Conflabberated.' Lovely word.

[@drumbum3.142]

I'll have to Cogitate over that one.. Lol.

[@KckStartMyHeart]

OK, I rewound the part where Arlene bursts out laughing @14:36 like 10 times. She kills me;) On a related note, thank you SO much for uploading these; I'm addicted to them now! My mom and I watch them on our Apple TV haha. You don't happen to have any of the 1964-67 full episodes, do you? It's just so nice to have them all compiled into playlists the way you do:D

[@WhatsMyLine]

Thanks to a lot of help from other collectors, I should be able to post virtually all the episodes that were rerun on GSN over the years.

[@juliansinger]

+KckStartMyHeart What I also love about it is how it completely derails Dorothy. She's just like, 'Arlene...'

[@roastedpeanuts]

I think Arlene was just laughing at how the lady said 'yes' ...'yay us'.

[@judith_thordarson]

@@roastedpeanuts Arlene is laughing because she had a visual of where alot of medicine was administered back then.

[@MrYfrank14]

based on what Arlene said, and Dorthy's reaction, Alene was thinking of suppositories.

[@AmberWaves444]

I think Arlene may have had a couple drinks before going on. She kept talking and her little comments were a bit out there this episode.

[@joycejean-baptiste4355]

Kelloggs Sugar Pops, was in our pantry. My brother loved the cowboy with the gun on the box. Don't think that would fly today. . The sugary cereals took the place of home cooked oatmeal in time.

[@kirchoff4733]

Today it's impossible that you are an anesthesist without studying medicine.

[@mikejschin]

An anesthesiologist has to be a doctor. Anesthetists are nurses with advanced training.

[@MrPeterbs]

So often they would guess the mystery guest quickly by simply querying them as to an imminently opening movie they would be appearing in.

[@poetcomic1]

Jack Lemmon and Fred would soon star in The Apartment. Fred didn't mind playing bastards in Caine Mutiny and in The Apartment, he even enjoyed working at Disney. NO attitude at all. NICE GUY.

[@20alphabet]

Nice guy, and notoriously stingy. On the set were almost always donuts and coffee for the cast and crew. The honor system used was if you took a donut you'd drop a dime in the cup. This fine man had a habit of taking half a donut, leaving the other half and paying a nickel.

[@joycelebaron2582]

Oh I had forgotten that he was in the Apartment

[@martinwoyzeck2634]

As someone else here said, McMurray was known as the cheapest guy in Hollywood.

[@bikefixer]

He also played the slick, but villainous insurance salesman in possibly his most famous film, DOUBLE INDEMNITY.

[@jubalcalif9100]

You are so right ! They (Jack & Fred) would work together later that year - 1959 - on the Oscar-winning "The Apartment", which would be released in 1960. Actually, Hollywood veteran Paul Douglas had been cast in Fred's role as Jack's philandering boss, but after Mr Douglas' sudden death from a massive heart attack, Fred stepped in at the last minute, due to director/producer/co-writer Billy Wilder's urging. Back in the mid-40s, Billy & Fred had had great success with the film noir classic "Double Idemnity" & had enjoyed working together.

[@oldwestguy]

Arlene almost always had a witty remark when John Daly had one of his conferences with a contestant.

[@shirleyrombough8173]

oldwestguy: There was a judge on as a contestant. Someone asked her if she passed the bar. Arlene said,"Haven't we all?" Someone else said, "Not often enough."

[@oldwestguy]

@@shirleyrombough8173 The banter between Daly, the panel, and the contestants was often the highlight of the show. Clever and cordial... to often missing in today's shows, which seem to value corny instead. I remember an episode that had a female judo instructor. At the end, when Arlene was confronting Daly about being mislead, Arlene said to Daly "You're just trying to throw us because SHE can." Lol.

[@golden-63]

Mr. Reinhardt (charm school) is seriously handsome.

[@2dasimmons]

+goldenthroat86 He looks like a serial killer! But he is at least over 6 feet tall. The men of this period on TV seemed to be often under 6 ft. tall and even shorter than 5'10". Wow.

[@lopa2828]

As a charm school owner he must have certain charm

[@kennethbutler1343]

Lots of pretty contestants on this one!

[@rayizard5687]

19:02 little did he know that just over a year later he'd begin 12 years in a television series.

[@edisone1]

Fred was considered a very nice man, and also the Cheapest Guy in Hollywood - he regularly "disappeared" into the Men's Room just before the check arrived, when eating out. I am stingy myself, so cannot fault Mr.MacMurray !

[@RichardHannay]

“Do you administer drugs?” “We know what part of the body that is!” 😆

[@boringpolitician]

Oh, darn! From the thumbnail I was sure it was the guy from the twilight zone.

[@markhine3232]

Contestant #2....hubba hubba!!! What a beautiful woman. If still alive, shed be about 93?

[@lucyflorey9152]

The blonde looks like a rockabilly woman from those years

[@perrybarton]

I’m just here for all the nonrhotic Rs. And the way Dorothy asks those “doo yoo” questions. 😏 Love this show!

[@johnrowell6725]

Fred and Jack must have been just a few months away from filming THE APARTMENT, which was released in 1960, but they don't seem to have known that yet!

[@GeneHettel]

One of my favorite MacMurray comedies was "Son of Flubber"!

[@sdgakatbk]

A lot of good panels on this show and this was one of them.

[@JS-gn9rs]

Arlene is great.

[@joycejean-baptiste4355]

We had schools of etiquette, similar to charm school.

[@soulierinvestments]

The second contestant is literally a knock out, but the audience needs charm school. It acts like it never saw a girl before.

[@savethetpc6406]

soulierinvestments IMHO, she (the anesthetist) is more glamorous than beautiful, and I think that's what Bennett was thinking too when he complimented the last contestant as being "the prettiest thing that's been on this show since Claudette Colbert." I think he is sincere but is also slyly stating his personal preference for her kind of simple elegance over the other contestant's flashier look. Then again, whenever he says things like that, it's sort of a backhanded insult to any other women who have been on the show recently! (There's an example I'm thinking of when he says something similar to a female mystery guest the week after another beautiful woman had been the mystery guest; I just can't remember now which two women were involved.) I do agree that the audience sometimes goes overboard with their wolf whistles and such over attractive women -- though they also made so much noise over Fred MacMurray that Dorothy thought he was another "curvaceous blonde!" Lol. --And on the subject of charm school, I thought Arlene was spot-on when she told the first contestant (the charm school director) that he would not have told Jack Lemmon that he couldn't use his services if he had seen Jack's new movie ("Some Like It Hot," in which his character dresses up as a woman)! :D

[@savethetpc6406]

tomtriffid How do you know?

[@brookehanley3659]

SaveThe TPC He described the woman bouncer the same way in 1958

[@savethetpc6406]

Brooke Hanley Hmmm....

[@jvcomedy]

Yes, Bennett really overstepped his boundaries with his comment to the last contestant. By telling her she was the prettiest since Claudette Colbert he was dissing numerous beautiful women that had been on the show since Ms. Colbert including Sophia Loren.

[@MrJoeybabe25]

Fred MacMurray's five films previous to this show were westerns.

[@judypasqualone3819]

I adored Fred MacMurray

[@zlopez-steele3362]

Fred MacMurray will always be Steven Douglas from My Three Sons

[@jubalcalif9100]

To me, he will always be Walter Neff !

[@patrickryan1515]

I really liked Fred MacMurray's fake voice, almost like some little old lady. 6/2019

[@maureengauvin1768]

Actually, the voice Fred used here reminded me of the voice he affected years later in a MTS episode where thfamily traveled to Scotland cuz Steve had inherited a castle from a distant ancestor. In that episode, Fred played a dual role as Steve/? the character of his distant Scottish cousin. Sounded like the Scottish cousin to me…

[@patrickryan1515]

@@maureengauvin1768 Thanks!

[@michaelnak2681]

What's interesting is the next year Lemmon and McMurray would both be in the Apartment . They don't mention that they're working together so I wonder if this was just before they started shooting.

[@BeIIeDoc24]

Arlene with her naughty moments :) love!

[@brookehanley3659]

Unbelievable her quick wit.

[@laura1000]

Yes, she seemed especially on the ball in this one.

[@physio43]

"John's gonna have the treatment "- Arlene francis

[@kchara7078]

Arline was on a roll tonight... And the anesthetist was a knock-out! Hehehe