MYSTERY GUEST: Ginger Rogers PANEL: Arlene Francis, Robert Q. Lewis, Dorothy Kilgallen, Bennett Cerf ------------------------ New group on Facebook for WML! / 728471287199862
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@leannsherman6723 Жыл бұрын
Ginger Rogers seemed so gracious. I love how she bowed to the audience with such style and poise.
@nancyhenrichs85899 ай бұрын
Bette davis did as well. They knew there fans
@galileocan6 жыл бұрын
No one could seem more genuinely happy and joyous, than Ginger Rogers does on this episode!
@leesher18453 жыл бұрын
Sweet how Ginger Rogers acknowledged the audience. Very few of the celebrities ever did.
@nancyhenrichs85899 ай бұрын
Bette davis did as well when on this show
@vickiebohy76099 ай бұрын
Yes!
@tigergreg87 жыл бұрын
Never knew anything about Ginger Rogers, but I now know she is one class act with a great personality.
@davidsanderson59184 жыл бұрын
tigergreg8 Wow REALLY??? Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers??? One of the best-loved, classiest and significant pairings in 20th century entertainment culture. Together they contributed some of the most iconic cinematic moments of all time. They say Fred gave Ginger class and Ginger gave Fred sex appeal. The other tagline is that Fred was obviously a genius dancer....but Ginger mirrored a lot of what he did, in heels!! It's all a long time ago but so important.
@tigergreg84 жыл бұрын
@@davidsanderson5918 I've got to say, I love your enthusiasm
@MehWhatever992 жыл бұрын
@@davidsanderson5918 backwards and in heels! 😂
@ltcolumbo9708 Жыл бұрын
A TRUE ..... MOVIE STAR miss you so much Ginger
@nunosoares23294 жыл бұрын
Ginger. Absolutely stunning :-)
@Glenn14418 жыл бұрын
Ginger Rogers radiates such genuine warmth and gratitude.
@girlgeniusNYC8 жыл бұрын
+Alan Follett It sounds like we agree! I think it was very progressive to show women in unusual jobs (mayor, stockbroker etc) This show (not just this episode, every episode!!) seemed very respectful and educational. Unless I am missing something...??
@leesher18453 жыл бұрын
Dorothy Kilgallen was so smart!
@DaisyKayBirchАй бұрын
Definitely Smart! It may have, unfortunately, led to her untimely passing--💐RIP💐
@soulierinvestments10 жыл бұрын
6:35 - beginnings of Dorothy Kilgallen’s big-haired woman of the world stage. She looked great in 1964 and rarely missed a broadcast.
@markxxx217 жыл бұрын
She looks high here to me.
@aileen6944 жыл бұрын
Doesnt look high to me.! Well maybe the Big Hair was a bit high. I thot her makeup, hairstyle, camera angles, lightning Etc all converged in later years to give that beautiful look, to accompany her clever mind!
@calliopivogiatzis22353 жыл бұрын
Dorothy must be more psychic than simply literary. She was so amazing!
@henryj.sadowski98052 жыл бұрын
. "MLB
@mona2242 Жыл бұрын
She was absolutely brilliant without being haughty like Cerf
@ericsamuelson56565 жыл бұрын
This was the same panel group when sexy Ginger Rogers made her Mystery Guest debut 9 years earlier
@karlakor3 жыл бұрын
Bennett Cerf ruins the mystery guest spot every time that Ginger Rogers appears. EVERY TIME! The result is that Ginger is whisked off the set before the viewer has a chance to enjoy her.
@tylerdaly53953 жыл бұрын
I love Bennett's 'reso'utions'
@neilmidkiff2 жыл бұрын
There is a faint L sound, but most of us don't notice it because we aren't expecting the Y glide that turns the 'u' from OO to YOU. The same New York dialect effect turns columnists into 'colyumnists" for example.
@billolsen17699 жыл бұрын
Another classy dame
@kevinmarkey94416 жыл бұрын
true story two old woman at a bus stop and one say to the other i think fred astaire was the greatest dancer in the world and her friend said no i think ginger rodgers was better as she had to do everything fred did and backwards and wearing high heels 😂😂
@preppysocks2094 жыл бұрын
@@kevinmarkey9441 a funny line but not true. Ginger didn't lead, and she didn't choreograph the dances.
@jankypop-a-matic584 жыл бұрын
Nothing better than a classy dame and a cool broad! Sorry feminists! 😁
@dancelli7145 жыл бұрын
What a reception ! (Ginger)
@tomklock5685 жыл бұрын
Gosh I would have just been 5 years old then!
@piustwelfth9 ай бұрын
Exactly 60 years ago today -- 12/29/2023.
@bluecamus5162 Жыл бұрын
Finally, a contestant from Phoenix. The rickshaw guy worked at Christown Mall. Phoenix's first indoor and air conditioned mall. I used to go there in the early '70s when my sister lived across the street. Amazingly, it still functions as an indoor mall, in part, while every other mall of my youth is history.
@UncleDavesKitchen2 ай бұрын
Christown Mall is still open in Phoenix.
@preppysocks2094 жыл бұрын
The first guest appears to have been the first regular guest ever to donate his prize to charity. The amount was not huge, and I don't fault any regular guest for keeping the money. But it was a wonderful gesture for him to be so unselfish.
@NewfieMom524 жыл бұрын
I’ve watched the shows from the mid-50’s through 1963, and have seen at least 3 or 4 guests ask to have their prize money given to a specific charitable organization.
@bluecamus5162 Жыл бұрын
I've seen every one available through this date, and I've seen at least 10 contribute their winnings , but it's usually the famous and wealthy that do it
@doomranger60474 жыл бұрын
There aren't any rickshaws that I can tell in Phoenix anymore but there are a lot of pedi cabs. Related? I wonder
@benreyirl6 жыл бұрын
I think Dorothy was cute especially with the more flattering hair styles. I liked her giggle and the way she looked sideways when questioning . I felt sorry for her for how she felt inferior for her looks. I read that. The men never teased or complimented her or given the attention Arlene always got.
@lopa28282 жыл бұрын
Dorothy was sweet but sharply intelligent lady while Arlene was charming with ready wit. Most unfortunately one will look at her and so much accustomed with her presence but never notice her except when she is absent. But Arlene's radiating persona was so charming that men will immediately notice it whether she is present or absent. I suppose that is the reason. However I like and adore them both. Arlene was like radiating sun while Dorothy was like charming moon. Both were indispensable parts of this panel.
@rmelin13231 Жыл бұрын
@@lopa2828 That is an excellent portrayal of each. I applaud your similes as well as your observations.
@nordvegfigg77466 ай бұрын
Dorothy Kilgallen was one smart cookie!How in the world did she figure out earmuffs? No one else on the panel had a clue.
@RonGerstein-tf5tp3 ай бұрын
She became "friendly" with this contestant before the episode.
@robertmelson21309 жыл бұрын
Bennett's asking Ginger Rogers, "Do I have a lock of your hair?" is a question similar to what Dorothy is capable of asking, e.g., "Did you lose your address book in Greece?" or "Did I see you in Harry's Bar?". It doesn't fall nearly as flat when the answer is "Yes", does it?
@preppysocks2094 жыл бұрын
Bennett always knew when his wife's cousin was on, even without being told. He was looking for confirmation, not to obtain private information at the expense of fellow panelists. I wish at least once they had Ginger on when Bennett was away.
@danstipancic94633 жыл бұрын
Epitome of class baby, only one Ginger Rogers...Don't make them like her anymore...
@poetcomic19 жыл бұрын
Bennett and John Carles were REALLY sparring tonight!
@harrysharp38383 жыл бұрын
Earlier in the day, I watched as a 10-year old boy the Chicago Bears beat the NY Giants 14-10 in the NFL Championship game. We had to watch it at my uncle's country club that had an antenna that could receive Milwaukee stations, because the game was blacked out in Chicago where it was played (pre Super Bowl days). I'm surprised John didn't mention the event even though the Giants lost.
@cathythompson496528 күн бұрын
I miss the older stars that had real talent and beauty I just dont see it anymore in the new stars.
@2508bona10 жыл бұрын
"Resoyution," Bennett? THAT's a pronunciation I'd never heard before, to be sure...
@brtherjohn10 жыл бұрын
Despite Cerf's heavy accent he seemed to have a speech impediment with pronouncing L's.
@markxxx217 жыл бұрын
He pronounces so many words weird it's unbelieveable. Pit-zah for Pizza was his worst.
@galileocan6 жыл бұрын
I've commented on this many times in other episodes. No doctor or any medical or health professional has been able to name what Bennett had (at least, not on here). It's certainly a disorder where a person jumbles letters or pronounces words oddly or slightly incorrect. I saw this disorder only in one other person. No matter what name or object he was talking about, he would always say it completely different than the general public. There must be a name to this disorder! Someone help!
@Merrida1006 жыл бұрын
It drives me crazy. Like his Los Angle-lis. Or how he butchers people's names (that would drive me nuts from such an educated man). He also has what Jonathan Ross has when it comes to R's sounding like W's. He definitely has an impediment but I don't know the name. But it's like he can't seem to wrap his lips around letters. (Don't get me started on his drooling).
@neilmidkiff5 жыл бұрын
Hasn't anyone here ever been taught the old-fashioned formal English diction once common on stage and the lecture platform? In that system, the letter "u" is pronounced "you" rather than "oo" after the consonants d,l,n,s,t,th... So "duty" rhymes exactly with "beauty" instead of "booty", and "lute" with "cute" instead of "coot." I agree that Bennett's mixture of a specific New York dialect with that classic standard comes out sounding very weird, but if "resolyution" is new to you, you haven't been listening to the great actors of previous generations like Olivier and Gielgud very carefully. Listen to Martin Gabel more closely: he makes the formal diction sound natural because of lots of practice, and probably he was adding it to a native accent that wasn't as identifiable as the way Bennett grew up speaking. Folks, before you leap to conclusions and mistaken diagnoses, it's wise to have some historical perspective on how the spoken language has changed over the years.
@watchman11783 жыл бұрын
Bennett should've disqualified himself. He knew the mystery guest was going to be Ginger Rogers before the show even started.
@Echo_1174Ай бұрын
We can look at a stunningly beautiful and successful woman, thinking her life to be perfect. Ginger Rogers was married 5 x's and divorced 5 x's (even to the husband she mentions doing films with). That's just sad. 😔
@commercialzone41414 ай бұрын
She looks so elegant and beautiful.
@sabinebeyer92498 жыл бұрын
At least: Bennet didn't get Ginger himself! But of course, he brougth up the main clue. She looks marvelous as always! But I must say, for though I usually dislike Robert Q. Lewis, he was quite good in his rephrasing his question after John Daly makes his usual limitations on the second contestant. He has his moments.
@bronxbearbud2724 жыл бұрын
Coming so soon after that terrible day in the November of that year, one wonders if Bennett is introducing John Daly or the upcoming Warren Commission
@peterwinkler35706 жыл бұрын
I was intrigued by Dorothy's mentioning a "secret crush" on Bennett, especially as he didn't seem to like her much.
@davidsanderson59184 жыл бұрын
Peter Winkler That's the first I've heard of the latter part you mentioned there. I've watched 14 years of episodes and I haven't seen any evidence of thst.
@syd88024 жыл бұрын
Bennett hated Dorothy after she dies and I think what's my line ends he does an interview and talks about her did care for her much and how she was just very annoying in many ways as well as she was an out casted compared to the rest of the panel.
@jackkomisar4583 жыл бұрын
@@syd8802 This is what Bennett said in the interview for Columbia University's Notable New Yorkers Oral History Project, "
@jackkomisar4583 жыл бұрын
My previous post was truncated. "As for Dorothy--personally she was very nice. All of the cattiness that came out in the column did not show when you met her personally. I hit it off with her too."
@watchman11783 жыл бұрын
Bennett said the same thing about Hal Block. Maybe Bennett was the one with a problem.
@MrDanamp8 жыл бұрын
Funny - ha! At the end, he said it's "hard to believe" but that she (the contestant) was a stockbroker. Ah, that's 1963 for ya!
@loissimmons65585 жыл бұрын
So true. I was a stockbroker for over 20 years and we had other women brokers in the office, It was still uncommon when I started in 1983, but it was becoming more and more common as time went on.
@JudgeJulieLit5 жыл бұрын
That was the year ex- NYC model and new Barnard graduate Martha Stewart started on Wall Street.
@meman69642 ай бұрын
Anyone notice that slit showing just a flash of leg as she shook hands with panel?
@MensAsses333 жыл бұрын
Dorothy looks great 👍
@robertcollins70253 жыл бұрын
Three days before I was born.
@RonGerstein-tf5tp3 ай бұрын
Robert Q. Lewis real middle name DOES NOT START WITH "Q".
@H-Vox Жыл бұрын
First time I've heard "resolution" pronounced as "resoyution"
@dancebandleader8 жыл бұрын
Some of those men's neckties look more like ribbons !!
@alanfollett62428 жыл бұрын
+dance bandleader Ah, yes, I remember those little skinny ties from my high school years. You know, if all the air date information were to be lost, we could probably reconstruct a fairly reliable chronology based on the waxing and waning of ties and lapels. (Women's hair and dress styles might be an even better index fossil, but I don't have a good eye for that sort of thing.)
@loissimmons65585 жыл бұрын
I saw it go from one extreme to the other. In the first decade after WWII as late as when I went to kindergarten starting in 1957, ties for boys and men were so wide they could almost be mistaken for bibs. By 1963, they were so narrow, they could be mistaken for a man's belt.
@JudgeJulieLit5 жыл бұрын
@@loissimmons6558 And during WW2 soldiers' trousers had a tailored, more form fitting fit. But postwar through the early 1960s (especially after the early 1964 "British invasion" of boy bands sporting the "Carnaby Street" look of again, narrower, tailored trousers), men's coats and pants were long and baggy.
@chuckendweiss48495 жыл бұрын
dancebandleader Ties were only an inch wide. The 60’s brought us 3 to 4 inch wide ties
@MrJoeybabe2510 жыл бұрын
Interesting that when Dorothy asks what kind of uniform the rickshaw driver wears, she adds "coolie, I hope". Wouldn't this have been rather insensitive even in 1963?
@superwinterborn790110 жыл бұрын
Joe Postove Even if it *had* been on the edge to use "coolie" in 1963, I dont think Dorothy would bother...
@maremacd9 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure the "coolie" comment came from Arlene. And though it's an odd word to use in this context, I think she was simply stating that she hoped it was cool in the AZ heat. The kid was doing a very physical job in a very hot climate.
@peterwinkler35706 жыл бұрын
After obsessively "rewinding" that exchange a few times, I'm pretty sure it was Arlene's voice.
@Tahoenjr5 жыл бұрын
There's a picture of it on-line and although the face a little blurry, I think it is the contestant.
@johannarhymer10932 жыл бұрын
Ginger Rogers what a beautiful woman
@joecole71228 ай бұрын
What happened to the Rickshaw driver? Anyone know.?
@RonGerstein-tf5tp3 ай бұрын
He became Emperor of Japan
@VahanNisanian10 жыл бұрын
Yet another appearance from Bennett Cerf's cousin.
@JudgeJulieLit5 жыл бұрын
Mrs. Bennet Cerf's cousin. His wife's cousin.
@jessicaphillips45423 жыл бұрын
Why does he keep saying 1962
@terryv Жыл бұрын
It was "1963". He said it three times, during audience noise (laughter/applause), once during each of the first three segments, apparently as an audible year-marker for the tape, for some reason. And finally, a fourth time during the end-of-show "goodnights", when John and the panelists wished everyone a "happy new year"going into 1964. So it must have been the final episode of 1963.
@doclee87556 жыл бұрын
A resi-what, Cerf?
@neilmidkiff5 жыл бұрын
See my reply to an earlier post from Chris Barat for an explanation.
@JudgeJulieLit5 жыл бұрын
Mr. Cerf may have had labialism, like the cartoon character Elmer Fudd ("Dwat that wabbit!") and tv interviewer Barbara ("Baba Wawa") Walters.
@markxxx217 жыл бұрын
They have others who pull rickshaws at stores before.
@preppysocks2094 жыл бұрын
Ginger Rogers was the best of Astaire's film dance partners because she not only was a great dancer, but she could sing and act, both in comedy and drama. Cyd Chairsse was a great dancer but could not sing and her acting was subpar. Rita Hayworth could act but not really sing. Ginger and Fred had a different chemistry (although they did not kiss I think for their first 7 pictures together) and she could sing well and act (she won a Best Actress Oscar later).
@jsstar762 жыл бұрын
It’s been documented Rita Hayworth was Fred Astaire’s favorite dance partner.
@rhondablack8079 Жыл бұрын
Rita Hayworth was the most graceful dancer. She was so beautifully talented🌹
@wvanderwahl Жыл бұрын
Ginger was so drop dead elegant and chic. She personified everything that was required of a true star.
@dominicpiscopo79154 жыл бұрын
There simply isn’t any other woman as lovely n sweet n charming as Arlene Francis
@dayceem2 жыл бұрын
Even as a kid I had such a crush on Arlene
@zeldasmith61542 жыл бұрын
Ginger wanted to be on longer. She's just radiant. She's so happy to be on the show.
@m.e.d.79975 жыл бұрын
I miss the old days, but the world never stays the same, does it?
@cuidatrava14 жыл бұрын
Oh yeah, the "good old days" when Barry Goldwater was a presidential candidate and game show panelists could make casual jokes about coolies, lol.
@prnfl4 жыл бұрын
no
@YowzaBowzaWowza3 жыл бұрын
@@cuidatrava1: Go watch some reality show instead. Maybe all the tats, perversion and idiotic dialogue is more your speed.
@cuidatrava13 жыл бұрын
@@YowzaBowzaWowza Lol. What a very odd conclusion to jump to. I quite enjoy What's My Line and the kind of class and charm they exude, or else I wouldn't be here. I get the nostalgia too. My point is I wouldn't want to turn back the clock and actually live in pre-civil rights, pre-women's lib, homophobic etc. 1963. We may have lost some of the charm and grace of those days, but what we've gained isn't worth giving up.
@lancebaker13747 жыл бұрын
At 04:07, Dorothy's eyes roll when John provides one of his classic 57 word clarifications.
@WhatsMyLine7 жыл бұрын
Dorothy had such a wonderfully expressive face. :)
@preppysocks2094 жыл бұрын
You and I think of John as speaking a minimum of 57 words. Yet in this same year, a 1963 Dick Van Dyke Show episode opens with Rob and Laura having a fight in the car. He can't understand why she is mad and when he guesses, he gets the silent treatment. Rob pleads with her to answer, saying, "Even John Daly says 'yes' or 'no.'" It is funny but as soon as you think about it you realize how wrong factually it is. John virtually never said only 'yes' or 'no.'' He went on and on, often not being particularly helpful. It is odd that Rob asks a silent person to so at least something not by saying even a very quiet person says a one-word answer, but a very verbose person. A more apt contemporary analogy would have been the then-Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. Mansfield answered his questions with "yup" or "nope" and reporters used to say they needed twice as many questions for an interview with him than any other politician. With Daly, you could ask, "How are you" and you would not be able to get another word in until your time had expired.
@slaytonp3 жыл бұрын
@@preppysocks209 Nor with you, I fear.
@leesher18453 жыл бұрын
So if Bennett Cerf didn’t believe one word of what Ginger Rogers said when she was at his house, he should have disqualified himself.
@rmelin13231 Жыл бұрын
I have to agree with you. Bennett should have passed on this.
@kentetalman9008 Жыл бұрын
If he had disqualified himself, it would have tipped off the other panelists.
@johnloudaros8004 ай бұрын
By disqualifying himself, it wouldn't have tipped off anything. They're could be a multitude of reasons why he would disqualify himself
@bronxbearbud2724 жыл бұрын
I still say Ginger Rogers should only have appeared on nights when Bennett Cerf was away!
@Gerard_20243 жыл бұрын
Agreed. A crass error of judgment. Spoilt all the fun.
@Mmdmade3 жыл бұрын
How in the world did Dorothy know earmuffs.
@bluecamus5162 Жыл бұрын
Yes, she really pulled a rabbit out of the hat.
@GeeBee9093 жыл бұрын
The What's My Line show should have taken and kept each and every chalkboard that was signed by a star and kept them each time a star sign them. Imagine how much they would be worth today, not to mention that they would have made a great display exhibit.
@neilmidkiff2 жыл бұрын
Some at least were saved. The "board" was actually a frame holding sheets of black posterboard, with a slot at the top that allowed a stagehand behind the set to pull out a used sheet to expose a fresh one behind it. The saved sheets are very collectible and show up from time to time at online auction sites such as Heritage Auctions.
@Noone58319 Жыл бұрын
I have always thought that exact same thing.
@kd6836 Жыл бұрын
I saw where a Lucille Ball signature brought $6,700. Apparently, they were cut and sprayed with lacquer. Quite an autograph collection.
@mcbrion1951 Жыл бұрын
Ginger Rogers was a class act!
@donnacook8994 Жыл бұрын
She certainly was!!!🥰👏🥰👏🥰👏
@lancebaker13747 жыл бұрын
At 01:55, Bennet exposes his lambdacism (inability or limited ability to pronounce L). Many New Yorkers and British have this handicap. Ira Glass, host of the radio show "This American Life" is one example. He would substitute a very soft W for the L, so he says "This American Wife".
@loissimmons65585 жыл бұрын
And thus Gilda Radner's lampooning of Barbara Walters ,,,
@AnnMartin3092 жыл бұрын
Thankyou for clarifying that!
@graperonto7 жыл бұрын
LOL!!!! "We finish up with some more bull from Bennett!" WHAT A ZINGER OF A LINE! Good for John Daly!
@bluecamus5162 Жыл бұрын
Those two really went at each other tonight.
@ParkerAllen2 Жыл бұрын
It's poignant to hear them wish everyone a happy new year at the end. President Kennedy had just been killed a month earlier and everyone must have longed for a better year and relief from the pall that fell over the country. I remember Tom Hanks saying he could feel the sadness in the adults around him and the first time things really felt lighter with adults smiling again was in February of 1964 when The Beatles first appeared on Ed Sullivan. No wonder the country went nuts for them - people must have longed for something to lighten the weight of those difficult times.
@kentetalman9008 Жыл бұрын
I was around back then, and yes, everyone was starving for something upbeat. That's why even some people who weren't into rock music loved the Beatles.
@lindadickerson3692 ай бұрын
I rememer this to be true. I was the same age as Tom Hanks in 1963, only 7.
@alskndlaskndal10 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know if they rotated the audience when they shot two shows in a night, or did the same people get to see both (lucky them)?
@andreaplummer3841 Жыл бұрын
That I don't know but I do know they had about 2 hours between taping and live so it would be possible to switch the audience easily. That 2 hours allowed the panel and staff to have dinner and the ladies to change clothes.
@geoffm99442 жыл бұрын
Bennett Cerf was definitely tipped off! Sadly it happened too often.
@randysills4418 Жыл бұрын
Ginger was his cousin by marriage.
@jacquelinebell6201 Жыл бұрын
Because she was his wife's cousin. I think he should disqualify himself if he knows she's in town. Dorothy is fair and does if she suspects she knows.
@karlakor5 жыл бұрын
I wish Bennett had played along a little longer with Ginger Rogers, at least to give the other panelists a sporting chance to guess her identity. Every time Ginger Rogers appeared as mystery guest, Bennett spoiled things by guessing her so quickly.
@MrJoeybabe2510 жыл бұрын
That French lady and her dress were knockouts!
@janeiwasduncan84636 жыл бұрын
Would fit in quite nicely in any New Year's party in 2019!
@wholeNwon5 жыл бұрын
Sad that Lewis felt it necessary to feign more than social interest in female guests.
@preppysocks2094 жыл бұрын
Ginger Rogers wanted to stop making musical films and get into serious dramatic roles by 1936, when she was still under contract with RKO. She screen tested for the title role of "Mary of Scotland," a historical costume drama directed by John Ford. Although according to wikipedia, she performed well in the screen test, RKO felt that the role did not suit her image. Instead of the part going to a 3 time MG and the cousin of the wife of one of the panelists, the role went to another RKO contact player, Katharine Hepburn, who never appeared as a MG. Be careful what you wish for. Although "Mary of Scotland" gets ok critical reviews, and I think Hepburn was better suited to play Mary Queen of Scots, the movie was a commercial failure. Because it was Hepburn's second consecutive flop, theater owners labeled her "box office poison," and her career went into a slump that lasted until she was able to get control of her own movie roles and made "The Philadelphia Story." If Ginger Rogers' first serious dramatic role had been a commercial failure, and I suspect in this role it would have been. she might never have been given another chance at RKO to pursue the serious dramatic roles that she began to play a few years later, including winning an Oscar.
@johnfd02104 жыл бұрын
This is according to Ginger Rogers' autobiography...she tested for the role of Elizabeth Tudor. The role eventually went to Florence Eldridge, wife of Fredric March, who was the male lead of the movie.
@preppysocks2094 жыл бұрын
@@johnfd0210 I haven't read Ginger's autobiography. I was relying on wikipedia. In any case, I didn't realize that March played opposite his real life wife, so thanks for that.
@RevMarket3 жыл бұрын
@@preppysocks209 Wikipedia itself proclaims that anything on it can be incorrect.
@preppysocks2093 жыл бұрын
@@RevMarket Wikipedia is highly accurate -- researchers unaffiliated with it have found it to be more accurate than Encyclopedia Britannica (in part because it can rely on Encyclopedia Britannica as well as other sources). Humans are imperfect and so is wikipedia, so most teachers would not allow students to use it as a source in a term paper. On the other hand, autobiographies are also incorrect on many occasions. I don't think Ginger Rogers would have lied about what role she was tested for, but it is possible that many years afterward she had misremembered. In any event, there is no dispute that she wanted to switch to drama from musicals then, that she sought a part in this film, and that if the popular reception to the film had been the same as it was with Hepburn in the title role, with Rogers in either part, Rogers' dramatic film career might have started and ended with the same film.
@flipflopgoddess3 жыл бұрын
Dorothy's response to Bennett's question around 16:02 cracked me up.
@Anonymous-fb1qu Жыл бұрын
Goodnight! It got me laughing too😂
@dpm-jt8rj6 жыл бұрын
I know Ginger did a few Dean Martin Roasts in the 1970s but this is the first time I heard her speak, lovely lady.
@sitbone34 жыл бұрын
If you want to see her acting abilities, see her in “Stage Door”.
@leonoranicolaysen2784 Жыл бұрын
Thanks! That is one of the hardest movies to get!
@CMRinehart9 жыл бұрын
Loved hearing the cat calls that were normal back then, and anyone doing those today are chastised.
@MrJoeybabe2510 жыл бұрын
Gee, seeing Robert Q Lewis is like seeing a "Shemp" Stooges short.
@winstonoboogie76975 жыл бұрын
I thought of him more along the lines of one of the curleys
@ananiasconley33943 жыл бұрын
Enjoyable mystery guests.
@randykirkland39274 жыл бұрын
Ginger was a cousin of Bennett Cerf’s wife !
@davidsanderson59184 жыл бұрын
Randy Kirkland Oh yeah. He gets her every time she's on and each time we get a bit of family goss!! :)
@gretchenking59525 жыл бұрын
If you look at Ginger Rogers when she first appeared on WML in 1957 and then look at her when she appeared in 1962 and on this 1963 segment, she literally got prettier and prettier as she grew older. Not a lot of people can say that. She is stunning in both her 1962 and 1963 appearances on this show and she was in her 50s at these times.
@seanburke58054 жыл бұрын
I just seen her on here from 1954... (Kimmy Hawk)
@julegate3 жыл бұрын
@Gretchen: I agree. Ginger Rogers does look prettier as she ages. I was thinking the same thing.
@stephenwilliams12692 жыл бұрын
Hairstyles and fashion in the late 1950s and early 1960s transformed women and took years off them. Ginger remained stunning until age and illness caught up with her. She really was a beautiful star.
@johnloudaros800 Жыл бұрын
I completely agree. She looks prettier than in 1954
@eenusch62258 ай бұрын
Dorothy was the best player and always had a look of dignified victory when she got it right.
@lllowkee65332 жыл бұрын
Bennett should have recused himself and not have ruined the show.
@rmelin13231 Жыл бұрын
You are correct.
@TheBlackhawkbrat11 ай бұрын
Since he strongly suspected it was Ginger Rogers, he should have formed his questions so as not to give it away.
@soulierinvestments10 жыл бұрын
Must have been irritating to the producers that Bennett always knew when Ginger Rogers was in town. Too bad Wanda Cowley was not Phyllis’s favorite cousin. Whether or not she is, as Bennett observed, one of the greatest people in the world, she has great taste in clothes. She looks every inch a diva. I wonder what happened to the Jamaican movie contract, since she was available a few years later for Cinderella and then Hello Dolly.
@soulierinvestments10 жыл бұрын
RE: Arizona rickshaw driver - In 17 years of Sunday Night WML, this is the exact only time that my alma-mater Brigham Young University got mentioned in the program. In connection with a prospective Arizona freshman, yet. Of the half dozen Utahans who appeared on CBS-WML, none were associated with higher learning.
@JudgeJulieLit5 жыл бұрын
Curious, as Utah has the most college graduates per capita of any state in the US.
@lindanitzschke13156 ай бұрын
John cautions guests to not give more info than absolutely necessary, but then he turns around and gives more info than necessary in one of his long screeds. The more I watch these show, the more tired I get of him doing this. He needed to be reminded that he wasn't supposed to be main attraction.
@MrJoeybabe2510 жыл бұрын
Why did Jon keep saying "it's 1963" I think I heard it at least three times.
@WhatsMyLine10 жыл бұрын
I didn't get that either! He must have said it a half dozen times, as if trying to make a running gag out of it, but he really didn't get any laughs out of it, did he. ;) Clearly it has something to do with this being the last broadcast for the year, but I don't get it, and neither (apparently) did the audience! Anyone out there understand what this was about?
@alskndlaskndal10 жыл бұрын
I suppose he was joking on Bennett's introduction about resolving to forgive him for leading them astray. Since it was still 1963, he could go on leading them astray. Or something like that...as you said, it didn't go over so well.
@WhatsMyLine10 жыл бұрын
Reluctant Dragon Oh, yes, that makes sense. . . and it reminds of enough times I've found myself repeating a failed joke hoping it will get funnier with the repetition. :)
@herlastvoyage8 жыл бұрын
It was December. The year was almost over.
@MrDanamp8 жыл бұрын
I thought maybe it was not heard on the broadcast but for later reference... Could that be possible? It almost sounded a bit creepy...
@axiomist10764 жыл бұрын
Thats one very popular stockbroker with her clients, Im sure ! Certainly one worthy of the usual whistles from the guys in the audience. Wow !
@carlamartinezvega134 жыл бұрын
She was about 60 and she looked like a million bucks
@somewhere64 жыл бұрын
51 at this point
@madeleine9907 Жыл бұрын
Bennett really loves himself
@christopherbowen30559 жыл бұрын
The host here can be very misleading. . .and gives away extra information.
@ChrisHansonCanada5 ай бұрын
*_MAKES EAR MUFFS_* *_PULLS RICKSHAW AT SHOPPING CENTER_* *_STOCKBROKER_*
@MrJoeybabe257 жыл бұрын
One snip of the last contestants dress...and all fall down!
@clearfield20093 жыл бұрын
Ginger Rogers is 54 here. She died at 83.
@johnsewell65937 ай бұрын
Shes actually 52, but lets not split hairs......!
@clearfield20097 ай бұрын
@@johnsewell6593 you just did.
@johnsewell65937 ай бұрын
Touche' !
@no-36076 жыл бұрын
Daley looks annoyed a little in this episode..
@tomitstube8 жыл бұрын
dorothy's demeanor is interesting, merely 5 weeks after kennedy's assassination she seems perturbed by the light heartedness and frivolity around her. she would write several columns on the assassination and famously denounce the warren commissions findings some 8 months later and would be dead 2 years later. i don't buy into the conspiracy theory's dorothy was murdered but like most of the country she did seem to lose her innocence and saw things thru much more critical eyes. the country was about to go thru some radical changes at this point.
@davidsanderson59184 жыл бұрын
tomitstube Have you watched Mark Shaw's interviews and lectures?
@shuroom57 Жыл бұрын
@@davidsanderson5918It always amazes me that people who don't believe a conspiracy exists, can't just leave it at that, they have to demand that nobody else should ever question fishy circumstances. For instance, the ones Mark Shaw brings up
@cecigrant4 ай бұрын
Ginger Roger's was a phenomenal dancer
@carollee4443 жыл бұрын
Dorothy was a DRIP 🤪
@hollyking25804 жыл бұрын
I thought for sure Robert Q. was going to kiss the hand of that lady stockbroker!
@MrJoeybabe2510 жыл бұрын
Do ear muffs have moving parts. I know that you can manipulate it, but I don't think any of the parts themselves move.
@WhatsMyLine10 жыл бұрын
Well, "moving parts" doesn't mean the parts have to move on their own, though. E.g., a fork has no moving parts, but a Swiss army knife does. I figured this referred to earmuffs being adjustable to fit different sized heads.
@sandy34822 жыл бұрын
I LOVE YOU GINGER!
@Damon_Strong5 ай бұрын
Ginger was a total has-been in 1963.
@jimrick66326 жыл бұрын
UNTILL HER HEALTH FAILED HER, GINGER ROGERS MAINTAINED ALL HER BEAUTIFUL LOOKS....
@winstonoboogie76975 жыл бұрын
Yes and we Americans with our bulging slacks and rock and roll hamburgers had sex many times with lady and the protruding breastses.
@NewfieMom524 жыл бұрын
I think it’s a reference to the Wild & Crazy Guys skit on Saturday Night Live, with Steve Martin and Dan Aykroyd.