What's My Line? - Hugh Hefner, Polly Bergen; PANEL: Tony Randall, Suzy Knickerbocker (Jan 9, 1966)

Posting this show ahead of schedule in lieu of the next show from 1964, due to the sad news of the passing of Polly Bergen (1930-2014). We'll miss you, Polly.
MYSTERY GUEST: Hugh Hefner; Polly Bergen
PANEL: Tony Randall, Arlene Francis, Suzy Knickerbocker, Bennett Cerf
Polly's three other appearances on WML:
What's My Line? - Polly Bergen; Tom Poston [panel] (Aug 31, 1958): • What's My Line? - Poll...
What's My Line? - Jane Fonda; Martin Gabel [panel; Polly Bergen [panel] (Apr 3, 1960): • What's My Line? - Jane...
What's My Line? - Polly Bergen; Martin Gabel [panel] (Jan 28, 1962): • What's My Line? - Poll...

[@xenafan234]

R.I.P. Polly you were a classy and smart Lady!

[@bobflewin3024]

WML was very lucky to have Bennett Cerf. He is so witty and very smart.

[@torchkit]

"Ringo Beatle." LOL

[@wiguy3]

Ms. Bergen was a lovely lady by all standards- an often underrated actress too. RIP Polly.

[@kathyfrew7282]

😃😊😇🤩💋💓💝❤‍🩹👍❤🤍💙

[@linasaidso1355]

But there's a whole generation of people who remember her for nothing but boasting about her multiple secret and illegal abortions during the "Golden Age of Television". And the devilish Hefner's name should never be spoken aloud again.

[@brookehanley3659]

Greatest memory of Polly, Cape Fear 1962.

[@kathyfrew7282]

She was wonderful in that movie and also in Kisses for my President with Fred McMurray.😇😂

[@davidsanderson5918]

Has anyone watched the whole lot of these? I'm spending the lockdown going through 'em. I got halfway down the 1950-1953 batch then thought I'd watch this last playlist just to break it up and see them all looking old. Ha ha!! The sobriety of growing old. No doubt at some point I'll meet in the middle with all the episodes. Did anyone finish the whole lot and how long did it take? I'm already waking up in the night and calling out "are you involved with a product of some kind?'

[@karenmallonee3867]

lOl...too funny! 😂

[@slaytonp]

I should be ashamed to admit it, but I'm on my second time through from the beginning. I think I started about two years ago, doing them in order. I'm so old and senile that by the time I get to the second time around for each episode, it's all brand new again. I find Arlene's looks improve with age, starting from when her cosmetologist discovered where her lips ended and kept her lipstick there.

[@gj4578]

@@slaytonp : I just saw a video on youtube of Arlene's son, Peter Gabel a little over ten years ago. He looks a lot like his father, Martin Gabel, but with long hair. He was a mystery guest on this show in the early sixties with Bennet's son. They both went to Harvard.

[@slaytonp]

@@gj4578 I've just finished my second time through this entire series, so am starting on #3. I'll get to enjoy Dorothy again, but will have to suffer the early time-wasting format that belittled contestants, and at least one early panelist I found to be more offensive than funny.

[@rmelin13231]

Cheers to those who have watched every episode! I got a late start, only about a third of the way through, but I'm skipping around quite often. Having said that, I probably watched pretty much every episode during its original run, but I was just a young lad for most of that. I had to chuckle at the comment about waking up in the night. I can relate.

[@Dolphin-cb9sq]

So neat to watch these endearing shows.

[@jeffreycrippen]

Great episode, Miss Bergen was born in my hometown of Knoxville, TN. She rarely came back here though. She did have a women's clothing store nearby in the resort town of Gatlinburg, TN, at the gateway to the Smoky Mountains National Park. She supposedly visited there several times over the years before it was closed in the late 70's I think. One other note, related to WML, I've been watching the Roosevelts on PBS this week and in tonight's episode, the death of FDR is announced by CBS Radio News correspondent, John Daly from Washington. Very easy to tell it is his voice after having watched all these great WML shows.

[@WhatsMyLine]

Jeffrey Crippen We were wondering whether the doc was going to use Daly's broadcast of the news of FDR's death. Thanks for pointing out that they did-- and good for Ken Burns!

[@deanaugust]

Jeffrey Crippen I noticed that too, immediately recognized his voice.

[@gomphrena-beautifulflower-8043]

Tennessee gal here - I didn’t know that the iconic Ms. Bergen was a Knoxville native! Having spent a lot of time in and around Gatlinburg over the years, I’m wondering about the approximate location of Ms Bergen’s store? We haven’t been back since the dreadful fires of late 2016, but planning to go soon.

[@MrTruckerf]

Well, Lt. Col. Jack Albert did become a (three star) general. He passed away in 2017 at the age of 93.

[@michaelalbert8474]

He also had a 10th child, my little brother Joe. ;)

[@dinahbrown902]

Thank You

[@donnacook8994]

My late father worked on the Gemini program as well. He loved it, and we loved watching the launches. We were stationed at Patrick AFB for 10 years. Wonderful period in my life! 🥰🥰🥰🇺🇲🚀 My Dad was part of the Titan program as well! Thank you for showing this!!!! 🥰🥰🥰👏🇺🇲

[@edmundpower1250]

​@@michaelalbert8474Wow! You had a busy dad!

[@janetmarletto6667]

I have enjoyed Suzy's column over the years. She wrote with kindness. Lovely.!

[@VahanNisanian]

The cuteness Polly Bergen always had in her face, even in her 80's, shows just how much she is missed. In January 1966, five years had passed since she left the "To Tell The Truth" panel.

[@tex.45]

Polly was a beautiful woman. The last work I saw her in was on "The Sopranos".

[@leesher1845]

The Gemini launch director was so polished and cordial.

[@donnacook8994]

My father worked on the Gemini program at the Cape in Florida. I was a child at that time! Wonderful for me!

[@jazzvampire]

R.I.P.!! Definitely worth checking out her albums if anyone hasn't already. My favorite is probably 1957's Bergen Sings Morgan.

[@alanfollett6242]

+Elsie M Not Henry, I trust?

[@MrJoeybabe25]

Arlene asked about "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote. He would have made a fabulous panelist. I wonder if the producers thought he was 'too much" to be on? But, gee wiz, if they can have Hugh Hefner on, well?

[@philippapay4352]

@Joe Postove - Capote had an unusual personality and presentation of himself. They felt a bit at risk when they asked Judy Garland to be on and she was loaded that night, but managed to get to the studio at the last minute and pull herself together to do the show. However, Bennett was Truman's publisher. He had gotten respect and good press after "Breakfast at Tiffany's." He might have been on had he not been utterly absorbed in the investigating and writing of "In Cold Blood" from shortly after the murders through the executions of the murderers. That was 1959-1966 when the book was ready for publication. Thus much of the time he was well-known he was holed-up with his pal, Harper Lee, evaluating all he'd learned and being insecure about what he'd written thus far. It was an intense number of years for him artistically. You may recall that when Dorothy's father was on as a contestant, Bennett had thought during the questioning that he was Truman. So, there was clearly no choice for him not to be on. Had he been on early in his fame, he'd have been a good panelist. While writing this masterpiece he was obsessed and afterward he did more drugs and became more insecure in the Michael Jackson sense of fearing he could not produce another "Thriller," so might never be considered pertinent, valid, current again.

[@patperry6290]

@@philippapay4352 k

[@dinahbrown902]

Couldn’t have tolerated Trus voice myself

[@kentetalman9008]

I met Capote once, in my only visit to Studio 54 with my then-bf. I was standing in line for the men's room, and this odd little fellow started chatting with me. I had no idea who he was. But afterward, my bf asked me what I was chatting with Truman Capote about.

[@Beson-SE]

My only memory of Polly Bergen is seeing her in the TV series "The Winds of War" and "War and Remembrance".

[@preppysocks209]

I had no idea Hugh Hefner was so tall. Polly Bergen explicitly states what many commenters have assumed that many of the MGs believed: they were insecure enough to fear that they must not be a very big star if their identities were not guessed. Certainly many MGs over the years acted consistently with this belief, which I think was misplaced, and made the game less fun. The MGs who tried to win the game by not being guessed were infinitely more entertaining. I do believe there were a much smaller number of MGs who did not want to be guessed. One of the repeat MGs who said how much she enjoyed trying to fool the panel was Hedda Hopper.

[@augustofernandes9669]

When Arlene started introducing Suzy saying about her being "columnist from Journal America" I was saying to myself "Dorothy is not dead or what"

[@aileen694]

Yes, I was a bit startled by the wording of that introduction. But Dorothy had been dead for four weeks. Really miss her on this panel.

[@scottpardee6303]

I hope to see her again in this show, perhaps she could fill the void that Dorothy left.

[@SC-uq2jf]

Aileen Mehle (née Elder, June 10, 1918 - November 11, 2016), known by the pen name Suzy or Suzy Knickerbocker, was an American society columnist, active in journalism for over fifty years.[1] Her column was syndicated to 100 newspapers and read by over 30 million people. She lived to be 98 years old.

[@ukrandr]

This episode was beauty overload with Suzy and Arlene side by side. In their late 40's and late 50's, respectfully.

[@preppysocks209]

Two of the astronauts mentioned, Jim Lovell and Thomas Stafford, are still living in 2020. Both were also Apollo astronauts but neither made it to the moon. Stafford's mission orbited the moon and both of Lovell's did. However, Lovell was supposed to have made it to the moon. He was on the ill-fated Apollo 13 and wrote a book about the mission that was turned into the famous movie. Tom Hanks played Lovell in the film.

[@jackkomisar458]

One of the flight directors of the Apollo 13 mission, Gene Kranz, whose character in the movie says "Failure is not an option", is also still alive. Glynn Lunney, another flight director for the Apollo 13 mission, who played an important role and made some critical decisions, was left out of the movie. He died on March 19, 2021, aged 84.

[@michaelalbert8474]

Jack Albert did make it to Lt General and passed away a few years ago at 93. My younger brother Joseph Thomas Albert was named for Tom Stafford and was Jack Albert’s 10th child. This generation did so many great things. They remain in our hearts.

[@keithnaylor1981]

I reckon I fell in love with Polly Bergen while watching To Tell the Truth! She added beauty and lovely unpredictable touches of humour to the programme, and it lost its sparkle when she left the show. Just been watching her in the epic WWII series with Robert Mitchum - The Winds of War, 1983, where her moving performances were outstanding, and it's a terrific drama (currently showing on KZbin!) KAN 9.20 UK

[@MrJoeybabe25]

Suzy Knickerbocker is still alive at the age of 90!

[@lizf2400]

So is Hef !

[@MrJoeybabe25]

I must have been wrong about her being 90 in 2014. She was born April 21st, 1921 and is 95! (WIKI)

[@kevinmarkey9441]

+Liz F not now 😈

[@stevemasumoto8657]

John Albert did become a general, a three star general!

[@robertpatrick5188]

I don't think anyone has mentioned that Polly Bergen was one of the original panelists on "To Tell the Truth."

[@Walterwhiterocks]

Yes and what struck me is that she looks so much older here. I realize this show aired in 1966, roughly 10 years after her TTTT appearances, but still. In any case she is still a lovely woman.

[@CarloQuinto]

Polly Bergen, a real beauty, fine comedienne/singer and a great game player. You are missed!

[@WitoldBanasik]

+Charles Henry Spot-on. Witty and charming lady, watch TTTT episodes, too. Cheers !

[@LaPenserosa1]

+Charles Henry Yes! I was so glad to see she was just as charming and witty as I'd hoped. I love her movies and was so thrilled when I found one of her records. Very classy lady. And I dunno, am I the only one who'd loved to have seen that dress in color! Any guesses?

[@MrKTVM]

Bless Polly Bergen. She will be missed.

[@SteveCarras]

She sure will..

[@stickstr8up1]

I don't think Arlene was particularly appreciative of meeting Mr. Hefner (07:58).

[@savethetpc6406]

stickstr8up1 I agree, and I don't blame her.

[@snc0023]

Arlene had good taste

[@bettycogswell9851]

@@snc0023 I'm surprised with the classy show WML was, that they would have him on the show.

[@preppysocks209]

Arlene was unfailingly gracious, and while her greeting was not as effusive as some, she offered a cordial smile.

[@TheGreatAtario]

@xxGodx Sex bad amirite

[@pmccoy8924]

LTG John G. Albert. He was promoted to the grade of lieutenant general Feb. 24, 1978. Passed away in 2017.

[@donnacook8994]

Polly's outfit was gorgeous!!! 🥰

[@normamcmanus1139]

Loved Polly Bergen in “Crybaby”.

[@drumbum3.142]

Have Always LOVED, Madam Polly's Troves of Wonderful Hysterical Expressions

[@leannsherman6723]

Smart and handsome lieutenant colonel; we don’t see much of his ilk anymore.

[@epaddon]

So sorry to hear of Polly's death. She was IMO the greatest part of "To Tell The Truth's" early years and when she left in 1961 to go to the west coast, the show lost something it never recovered the rest of the Collyer run through 1968. Incredibly, she never once came back to appear on TTTT during the rest of its run in the 60s or in the 70s, but finally appeared again in the 1980 Robin Ward hosted version and the 1990-91 NBC daytime revival. On this WML appearance she again recalls her first MG appearance from 1958 when the panel was mixed up on the gender and was guessing Jackie Gleason.

[@soulierinvestments]

The 1958 mystery guest appearance was hysterical. Tom Poston or Bennett Cerf asked if she tipped the scales at [some huge number]. "No," she replied firmly. "And I resent the question."

[@bkavanaugh863]

Thanks for the info. I did not know she died. She was always very beautiful and always came off as super nice too. She looked gorgeous here.

[@user-ne8lh2vr2t]

I wish WML could have lasted until the moon landing, that would have been an excellent way to go off the air!!!

[@ilzamaria6424]

How I would like to meet Tony Randall then !

[@kentetalman9008]

Me too!

[@Musician-Songwriter]

22:11 Charters Yachts, Wheels, huh? a bit misleading, ya think? Does it have Less than 4 Wheels? as far as I remember, a Yacht is a Large Boat, how does it have Wheels? I understand it has to be Towed on a Trailer with Wheels but, the Yacht itself does not have wheels. There, I got that off my chest, Lol!

[@stevenginsberg8471]

A very obscure reference to the 1966 transit strike that bedeviled John V. Lindsay's first days as mayor of NYC

[@algoritmosalfredohipicasig7116]

I love the local repartee lost on most non New Yorkers. #WaxingNostalgic

[@community1949]

If this is 1966 and Polly was born in 1930 she was only 36 at the time.

[@photo161]

Could Polly Bergen act? See "Cape Fear", the edge of your seat thriller featuring, in addition to Ms. Bergen, Robert Mitchem, and Gregory Peck, in which she gives a truly magnificent performance... a must see film!

[@photo161]

In the original Cape Fear, a truly terrifying must-see film, Ms. Bergen is absolutely fantastic in an extremely difficult role...a brilliant but sadly underrated actress.

[@mtnman6557]

Really enjoyed John's talk w/ & about Lt Colonel Albert & others in the service who during their career, also complete graduate work in their field.

[@ejej6934]

2:36 . Ringo Beatle? Wow.

[@mthivier]

The seating was interesting in that they almost always had boy-girl-boy-girl, but here they had Arlene and Suzy in the middle, and the two gentlemen on the ends.

[@RonGerstein-tf5tp]

I seen this seating many times

[@jacquelinebell6201]

Hugh Hefner was so young! I didnt recognise him.

[@RonGerstein-tf5tp]

He was 12 years younger when he started Playboy.

[@tennissir1986]

Suzy Knickerbocker was very bright and witty.

[@WhatsMyLine]

I'm just noticing now that the panel isn't seated boy-girl-boy-girl. Not being as familiar with the later shows, I wonder does anyone here know whether this was more common after Dorothy's death? It almost never happened when she was still on the show.

[@WhatsMyLine]

David Von Pein I don't think the order had to do with that time Arlene blanked on Tony's name (whether intentionally or otherwise; I'm of the mind that it was not intentional, but that's just my take). I've seen plenty of shows after that one where Arlene introduced Tony. He was a very frequent guest panelist, second only to Martin Gabel in number of appearances-- 62 times! Nice catch on the guest panelist coming out first. I didn't even register that. I can't think of another example, but this is not the sort of thing I'd trust my memory on. :)

[@SuperWinterborn]

What's My Line? David Von Pein May I as a woman, suggest why they sat in that order this time? Despite being a wellknown columnist, I think Ms. Mehle was a bit insecure in this new role, and had asked for both Arlene to introduce her, and to sit besides her, during this first appearance as a guest panelist. I've rewatched this twice now, and there's something in the way she both look at, and talk to Arlene, that tells me it might be so. Very understandable, and not that uncommon when it comes to girls in a group with mixed genders.

[@WhatsMyLine]

SuperWinterborn Yes, interesting take, SW.

[@SuperWinterborn]

***** :)

[@soulierinvestments]

The producers seem a little panicky to want to make the show look new and fresh. And familiar Arlene gets to use her prestige to introduce Suzy.

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

Suzy out-dorothied Dorothy! 3 wins!

[@ludenasan1]

Bennett gave her the first one.

[@gailsirois7175]

No one can

[@RLucas3000]

Is the other Polly Bergjn episode she mentions, available? I can't find it on youtube

[@gomphrena-beautifulflower-8043]

Not only was this era the now longed-for time of decency and manners, I noticed the audience was more reserved, and not as thrilled with the appearance of Hugh Hefner, as they usually are with famous mystery guests. We were just all-around a more decent folk back then, I’m convinced!

[@mehboobkm2018]

They may have been thrilled, but they didn't want to show it.

[@MrWindermere123]

I'm still puzzled by the wheels on a yacht. To the question 'Does it have less than 4 wheels?', the challenger answered 'No' and John Daly defined wheels as the primary bearers of the body in question. Were they thinking of a yacht on a trailer or was it wheels in the engine? The show ended abruptly because there were two mystery guests and two challengers, so time ran out. Normally Mr Daly explains why the answers were fair but this time it's left unclear.

[@preppysocks209]

Right -- if the issue were weight bearing for movement of the conveyance, one would think that Arlene would have received a "yes" because presumably a yacht needs no wheels for that. Then Suzy would never have asked if there were four wheels.

[@mikejschin]

John blew it on this. Arlene should clearly have gotten a "yes". Perhaps John was distracted, because right after Suzy's "no", he gave Bennett a "yes" and flipped a card anyway. He corrected that, but only after Bennett objected.

[@stevekru6518]

The yacht charter was likely referencing wheels at the helms. Many sailing racers have two, sport fishing yachts three.

[@VahanNisanian]

When she was on "To Tell The Truth", her trademark was that she would play dumb and say things like "I voted for no. x, but I know it's really no. x". Always so cute and funny.

[@soulierinvestments]

My favorite Polly Bergan movie was "Kisses for My President." She portrays the first woman president of the USA and her first gentleman is Fred MacMurray. There is a political scandal; her husband helps dig her out of the problem. It climaxes in some sort of screaming congressional hearing. In one of the biggest cop out endings I ever saw in Hollywood, the president becomes with child and has to resign her office. This leads to MacMurray saying what I consider one of the tackiest closing lines ever. It is along the lines of it look 25 million men to get you into office and one man to get you out of it. I can't picture Hilary copping out that way.

[@linasaidso1355]

Even yuckier when you consider that Polly Bergen in later years used to boast about her multiple secret and illegal abortions during this time. Polly Bergen never let the life of a child inconvenience her in her career, so it's ironic that she would play a tender-hearted character who would.

[@algoritmosalfredohipicasig7116]

No means no, Suzy. From eye candy to real candy, the Playboy Mansion was sold for a record $100 Million in 2016 to the owner of Hostess Twinkies.

[@stevegibson8626]

Again, for the record, the "conference" was, one more time, panelists guessing out of turn.

[@user-tf9bt3qz4m]

RIP Hugh hefner

[@morganrussell6783]

Hugh is a legend here in Australia 🇦🇺💖💯

[@savethetpc6406]

What's My Line? I waited to watch this one in the correct chronological order of its original broadcast, instead of watching it when you first posted it. I have to tell you that I'm slightly spooked by some of the comments on this page. I think you know which commenter I'm referring to. I didn't want to dignify his comments by even replying on that thread, but I agree that there was something very irrational and bizarre going on there...

[@MrJoeybabe25]

They used to take a commercial before the first contestant. I wonder why that changed.

[@2508bona]

The future mission that Lt Col Albert referred to had to be aborted after the craft started tumbling due to a stuck thruster on the rendezvous rocket.

[@majorpayne608]

And Neil Armstrong was the pilot aboard Gemini 8. His quick analysis of the situation saved that craft.

[@jackkomisar458]

Actually, the stuck thruster was on the Gemini spacecraft itself. Once it undocked from the Agena target vehicle, the tumbling accelerated. Armstrong turned off the Orbital Attitude and Maneuvering System, which was causing the problem, and used the Re-entry Control System thrusters to regain control of the spacecraft and stop the spin.

[@toddmccreary4579]

Bennett, come on! 50¢ to charter a yacht?

[@beadyeyedbrat]

The amount of hairspray!

[@lancesteel1475]

I wonder if the wolf whistles were encouraged much like an applause sign? It seems that just about any woman other than the elderly would receive whistles.

[@richatlarge462]

Yes, to the point at which it would have seemed insulting to NOT do it.

[@joelfogelsanger5773]

Yes. They got into the habit and then had to keep it up. I found it demeaning to women

[@OnCloudNine62]

RIP Polly

[@ukrandr]

How perceptive of Tony to recognize the military posture @11:37.

[@karlakor]

am surprised that Tony Randall did not correct Arlene's grammar when she asked the last contestant, "does it have less than four wheels?" She should have said, "FEWER than four wheels".

[@gsadventures678]

Polly was stunning!

[@robertfiller8634]

When I was a youngster in the 50s, I thought Polly Bergen was the most beautiful female I ever saw - those eyes!

[@marycleary-qe5ou]

WML made a rare misstep in inviting Hugh Garner on.

[@mathewfullerton8577]

I just came upon these wonderful shows in the last week and I have been binge-watching them since. I noticed that this episode is the only one I've seen where the panelists were not arranged by alternating genders. Was this the first time it happened? And thank you for posting them.

[@WhatsMyLine]

It was very rare for the panel to be arranged in any pattern other than alternating genders, but this definitely isn't the only, or first, example.

[@susanrutherford866]

Poor Polly had barely hit the seat and they come out with her nane .Now how is it possible to guess so quickly ?

[@jamesdean258]

They know who the mystery guest is. There’s no way they would know some of these so quickly!

[@mehboobkm2018]

​@@jamesdean258 pity your ignorance!

[@VahanNisanian]

This episode marked the first appearance of the increasingly-crazy-haired Aileen Mehle, aka Suzy Knickerbocker. She was 41 here, and already, she was looking great. Her career as a guest panelist on this show, got off to a great start with this episode.

[@WhatsMyLine]

Susie was quite good already in this first show.

[@soulierinvestments]

My favorite to replace Dorothy -- but for whatever reason, it did not happen

[@lemorab1]

I wonder why she didn't become the official new panelist. Did they try any other women journalists as regular panelists?

[@hilarygrant4351]

According to the New York Times obit, she was born in 1918, so was close to 50 years old when this initially aired!

[@jamiejones3821]

She was 47.

[@thedonwesley5279]

RINGO !

[@MrJoeybabe25]

What was Suzy Knickerbocker's accent? She sounds a little like Jackie Kennedy who was from Brookline Mass. But Suzy is from El Paso. They don't talk like that down there. I guess she just really took on an affectation.

[@jazzvampire]

Ah, the "Mid-Atlantic" accent. There was a good article about this in recent years...it's sort of a mix between theater British English and New England/Mid-Atlantic regional types. Although by this time it was definitely a fading thing.

[@jazzvampire]

Here it is! theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/08/the-rise-and-fall-of-katharine-hepburns-fake-accent/278505/

[@MrJoeybabe25]

Elsie M. I read it. very interesting! Thanks!

[@stlmopoet]

Elsie M. Thanks for sharing. It is interesting. I'm glad I read the comments after the article, because some of them correct a few errors in the article itself.

[@JamesVaughan]

There used to be such a thing in the US as an "upper class" accent-yes, in many ways resembling an upper class British accent. People from wealthy backgrounds and high social status in this country often spoke like that 2 or more generations ago-and they had all attended "finishing" schools or prep schools, then Ivy League universities or "Seven Sisters" colleges. FDR and his First Lady Eleanor spoke like that, and so did Jackie Kennedy (Onassis). Almost nobody in America talks like that today. They would be considered elitist, affected, or snobs. Time was when kids learned correct grammar and speech in the public schools. Now, it seems, anything goes.

[@kevinwilliams8904]

R.I.P MR HEFNER

[@VahanNisanian]

The last contestant is hot!

[@jeffreygrossi2800]

I am surprise they made him mystery guest…..

[@tonydalcon]

Dang, no pipe!

[@akrenwinkle]

Polly Bergen is just one of many lovely ladies who smoked themselves to death. I read an interview with her, sometime in the 80s, she said she had overcome her tobacco addiction, kicked the habit, and was feeling better than ever and working more. But alas, emphysema doesn't go away, and it caught up with her.

[@RonGerstein-tf5tp]

84 years young when she finally died, despite emphyasema: 1930 - 2014

[@akrenwinkle]

@@RonGerstein-tf5tp I think I might know what you're getting at: cigarettes aren't to blame; we're all going to die anyway... and you can do whatever tf you want, it doesn't matter, you can exceed the life expectancy charts, even smoking... it's all the luck of the draw, nothing else. Am I right?

[@RonGerstein-tf5tp]

@@akrenwinkle My mom was a smoker but was cutting down Then in the mid 1960s, she was coughing up blood one day and decided to go COLD TURKEY. She lived to be 97 years, 3 months, 27 days old.

[@akrenwinkle]

@@RonGerstein-tf5tp That's great. The "we're all going to die anyway" contingent is out there, and they are foolish.

[@Garacha222]

does anybody know technically, why wide angle B&W film shots of the black suits have a weird light gray cast? then when camera gets a closer shot of 1 or 2 people, the black become a true black again. Some of the older videos of this program show a very flat gray (low overall contrast) especially of the faces.

[@thomasfritz6425]

Ah back when we used to make movie STARS.

[@roberttfoley]

Damn, young Heff was hot

[@kristabrewer6736]

POLLY BERGAN! I haven't seen HER in a while! (she was just AWFUL on To Tell The Truth) And also, Suzy needs to start asking questions by saying Are you? or Did you? not "You're not a _______ are you?"

[@TheJMascis666]

Is it bigger then a breadbox?

[@tomitstube]

and 3 1/2 years later (1969) we would land on the moon. and now we've got a space ship that successfully travelled to pluto billions of miles away.

[@jackkomisar458]

And in 1977 we launched Voyager 1 and 2. Voyager 1 entered interstellar space in August 2012, and Voyager 2 entered interstellar space on November 5, 2018.

[@tomitstube]

@@jackkomisar458 yep, and meanwhile we have two greedy asshole private billionaires who just spent 8 minutes in suborbital space... but hey, let's take rides into space, you know... to make more money... for one person.

[@jackkomisar458]

@@tomitstube I don't pay much attention to the billionaires. I am more interested in things like the James Webb Space Telescope, which, if all goes well, will launch in less than two weeks, on December 22, 2021. It is designed to study some of the first stars and galaxies in the universe and to provide information about the atmospheres of planets orbiting other stars. On average, each star has at least one planet. We may find that the chemistry of the atmosphere of certain planets has high concentrations of methane, for example, which would suggest the presence of life on those planets.

[@teriannebeauchamp254]

Does anyone know. Was Hugh Hefner well enough known at this time that he would have been identified without blindfolds?

[@preppysocks209]

Hefner was asked that very question and responded in the affirmative.

[@richatlarge462]

If nothing else, someone would have remembered him from when Hefner was on the WML panel on 4/23/61.

[@galileocan]

I really like SUZY!!!

[@chatticheswick4939]

0:51 Hang on, I think I was supposed to watch that movie.

[@joelfogelsanger5773]

Arlene has to stop whispering to Suzy. If she wants to call a conference then she should do so. Otherwise, that's a form of cheating. Suzy wound up getting the colonel on her own anyway and Polly Bergen!

[@johnpickford4222]

Joel Fogelsanger: It does absolutely no good to criticize Arlene Francis and Suzy Knickerbocker here; KZbin can’t do anything about their egregious behavior. You should direct your criticism to the network. Send ‘em a letter. Just don’t hold your breath waiting for an answer.

[@Fush1234]

Hahaha… bazooka training id say😮. 1960’s fashions.

[@jimhanold9026]

Hugh Hefner was publisher of "Playboy" magazine.

[@dcasper8514]

Really ???

[@mehboobkm2018]

Thanks, we thought it was Bible!

[@edmundpower1250]

No that was Huge Hefner

[@soulierinvestments]

If I had been Aileen Mahle, I would have thought about it three or four times before accepting a column that required me to go by the pen-name of “Knickerbocker.” There is the issue of having people know how to spell it. There the business that it is an old-fashioned slang term for New York aristocracy. Wikipedia has about 40 persons, places, things, and ideas that bear a variation of the name including hotels, court cases, streets, and boys pants.

[@ironduke2000]

Hugh Hefner was, in this period, addicted to uppers that he took to stay awake while working on the magazine for days at time, and losing weight as a consequence of his addiction, which is why he appears gaunt on the show. Eventually he kicked the uppers and recalibrated his life, since he wasn't terribly happy, not then, despite having everything he ever dreamed of having and then some.

[@lemorab1]

At this period, Hugh Hefner was one of the most envied men in the world, if you weren't privy to his actual world. I was in high school in 1966 and every guy wanted to be him. Mr. Hefner never struck me as a contented person.

[@VahanNisanian]

Hugh Hefner: Playboy founder. According to some, the degrading of the United States of America began when he launched Playboy in 1953. But his magazines have also provided a form of entertainment for U.S. Soldiers, who were fighting during the Vietnam War.

[@lemorab1]

I discovered P.G. Wodehouse, Roald Dahl, and other great writers in Playboy. The 1964 interview with the Beatles was a classic, which I read at the time, when I was sixteen. I discovered the magazine about the time I discovered the book "Forever Amber" and both represented the glamorous, decadent world of adulthood that was still several years away.

[@libertyann439]

Vahan Nisanian He is buried next to Marilyn Monroe.

[@Forensource]

Suzy looked a little like Ginger from Gilligans Island.

[@dcasper8514]

Just a tad shorter

[@MrJoeybabe25]

Were not most astronauts in the Navy? What about NASA itself?

[@majorpayne608]

No. Astronaut were chosen from all branches. John Glenn was a Marine. Gordo Cooper Air Force, and even though he had served in the Navy, Neil Armstrong was a civilian.

[@MerynCadell]

Very interesting that John Daly - who always insisted on using honorifics for the panel - calls the new panelist "Suzy" throughout. Mr. Randall, Miss Francis, Mr. Cerf... and Suzy.

[@nolancain8792]

MerynCadell probably because Mrs. Knickerbocker would sound weird.

[@Schquirl]

I didn’t realize how creepy Hugh looked when he was younger. Yuck 🤢 and yikes 😬 Those were sinister and beady eyes!!!!

[@YowzaBowzaWowza]

He was a scumbag.

[@algoritmosalfredohipicasig7116]

Miss Welldon looks like she chartered yachts for the Amazons.

[@sparekeiv]

Does it have less than 4 wheels? Yes, it has 0 wheels. Should have been a "yes".

[@noobsshadow1369]

Even in 1966 John and the panel seemed reluctant to just spell it out that Hugh Hefner was editor of a "Nudie Magazine". This show tried to be hip sometimes, but they were all the epitome of class and sophistication. You'll never see another show or era like this on Television.

[@kaiballington55]

AKA a pornographer

[@nelsonricardo3729]

Oh, well. So much for WML being classy. It was nice while it lasted.

[@photo161]

In the commercial break after Hefner left the stage, I bet Arlene went out to wash her hands...

[@edmundpower1250]

Or to get his number😊