What's My Line, Joan Fontaine, Tammy Grimes, Soupy Sales, Arlene Francis, 1970 Color

[@drachirzim]

Every time I watch anything on KZbin it’s uploaded by Alan!

[@Phaedragon]

Joan was so elegant. I love that posh, mid-Atlantic faux cultured enunciation. Arlene had it, Kitty Carlisle too. Lofty vowels...

[@ccinSFfruitloop]

it's not faux cultured- they WERE CULTURED, and that is the accent. very few have it now (Kelsey Grammer), and few had it then (Katherine Hepburn).

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

Joan had beautiful skin for being in her early fifties.

[@texan903]

Wow. I didn't realize she was in her 50s here. She looked a decade younger and was stunningly beautiful.

[@roymartin1655]

Allen Ludden is so good looking!

[@catholicpriest1]

I always liked the sound reverberation in the Ed Sullivan Theater. By the time of David Letterman the reverb was gone.

[@jmccracken1963]

As it turned out, the road-company production of Alan Ayckbourn's 1965 play "Relatively Speaking" (originally titled "Meet My Father") that Joan Fontaine was playing in at the time never made it to Broadway. In fact, the play has never been produced on Broadway to date. However, Joan Fontaine had appeared on Broadway earlier in 1970, as one of four actresses to play Ann Stanley in the David Merrick-produced, Abe Burrows-directed production of Jay Allen's adaptation of Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Gredy's play "Forty Carats" at the Morosco Theatre, after Julie Harris left the cast after having played Ann Stanley for a little over a year. (The other three were to play Ann Stanley that year were June Allyson, Zsa Zsa Gabor, and Miss Harris's standby, Iva Withers.) The play had a successful 780-performance (1 year, 10 1/2 months) run. And there was a recent Broadway production titled "Relatively Speaking" which ran at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre from 20 October 2011 to 29 January 2012 - but that was a triptych of one-act comedies ("Taking Cure," by Ethan Coen; "George Is Dead," by Elaine May; and "Honeymoon Motel," by Woody Allen), all staged by John Turturro.

[@nicfewer8393]

In one of the older B & W shows, either Joan or her sister Olivia was asked if she was born in America? No! Born in England? No! They were both born in Tokyo!

[@nicfewer8393]

It was Joan in the January 17th 1954 show!

[@aeichler]

THe Meadow sisters, Audrey and Jayne, were born in China!

[@AlexWaylan]

I always get a kick out of listening to Tammy Grimes talk

[@gatewayski1]

Not me. Met her once. Not nice.

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

Tammy's daughter Amanda Plummer sounds so much like her mother!

[@MovieJon]

Ha! Tammy Grimes thought it was Merle Oberon...!

[@Gods2ndFavoriteBassPlyr]

With another 2 minutes of idle chatter... they could have reserved that time to continue the questions~ 2 minutes simply wasn't enough time.

[@justrelax1539]

Let me get this straight: they were stumped by Stevie, Aretha, AND Joan? She and her younger sister Olivia were 2 of the Oldest stars of Old Hollywood when they passed! I wonder who is now!

[@unclealand]

So you’re not in a show on Broadway, you aren’t in a new movie, you don’t appear on TV, you’re an old has been.

[@Marcel_Audubon]

She was in a show in London, but they never asked that

[@stanmarcusgtv]

@Mizitly one Oscar - Olivia got two

[@justrelax1539]

They should have asked her if she had a relative who's also famous: that would have narrowed it down CONSIDERABLY

[@summermen]

that is the ugliest dress anyone ever wore on television...

[@scottlevin3966]

HAK bite your tongue.

[@Marcel_Audubon]

you must be blind!

[@hopelewis5650]

And everyone else was wearing dark suits.