What's My Line? - Robert Mitchum; Congressman John Lindsay [panel] (Mar 28, 1965)

MYSTERY GUEST: Robert Mitchum
PANEL: Dorothy Kilgallen, Congressman John Lindsay, Arlene Francis, Bennett Cerf
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[@jamesgoines7663]

Mitchum had the best voice disguise ever for the show

[@GeorgeKenmore]

Look for Ann Sheridan's too -- she stumped them as well.

[@jamesgoines7663]

@@GeorgeKenmore thanks. Will look for it.

[@shuroom57]

And he didn't even have to use a falsetto.

[@pieteri.duplessis]

What delightful old fashioned, clean, and intelligent humor.

[@annashankland9653]

Ol' sleepy eyes ' Mr Mitcham, a brilliant actor, humorous & a perfect example, of how to just 'be yourself. Talent & presentation sadly missed.

[@peppers8489]

Mr. Mitchum was a hoot. Great sense of humor.

[@donnacook8994]

I agree! He was a wonderful actor, so polite, and VERY handsome. He has a great sense of humor too!

[@MarkHarrison733]

@@donnacook8994 He was an actual Holocaust denier.

[@dbarker7794]

What's your actual proof of that? Let's see it.@@MarkHarrison733

[@paulmorin6569]

A denial of that sort is. despicable

[@kataysmith9581]

It's great that this show in on You Tube so we can still see these great actors. An era gone.☹

[@gailsirois7175]

Love Dorothy so much..adorable, sweet, and beautiful..and most intelligent...total package for sure...

[@icurhuman2]

Robert Mitchum late in life had a restaurant in Santa Barbara and used to go around the tables asking patrons if they were being served well.

[@michaeldanello3966]

Mark Richardson What is that comment supposed to signify?

[@janeiwasduncan8463]

@@michaeldanello3966 Being disobedient to God's Word.

[@bt10ant]

@@michaeldanello3966 Nothing.

[@jaqatlantic]

In my experience, several restaurant owners in Chicago, and in Switzerland, did that too. It was considered a real honor should an owner also join one's table briefly for conversation.

[@MOGGS1942]

@@janeiwasduncan8463 wtf ?

[@geoorobo1549]

Robert Mitchum does a very convincing British accent.

[@dannydoc1969]

John Daly was the MOST gracious, polite, erudite, intelligent, host of any TV show ever.

[@Walterwhiterocks]

I agree, and Bud Collyer was a close second.

[@bneale]

Squaresville, man

[@ald668]

He was. I didn't care for him trying to impress others with big words sometimes, though.

[@zq9m3xh8]

Yes, next to Chuck Barris.

[@havanese1]

He doesn't give the guests much opportunity to answer, he has to hog the microphone!! It's annoying.

[@Noone58319]

This entire episode was a treat. The elegance with which they interact with each other is so admirable. I feel like I’m back with my parents and their friends during their cocktail parties. Very comforting.

[@st.thomasparishunderhillce4283]

Robert Mitchum sang the Ballad of Thunder Road (1958).

[@michaeldanello3966]

Robert Mitchum certainly did make records. He wrote and sang the title song to his 1958 movie Thunder Road which made the charts. He also wrote Whippoorwill a lilting and lovely song that Keely Smith sang in the same film. He also recorded a full album of Calypso music.

[@donnacook8994]

Loved this! My Dad worked on the Gemini program, and would have enjoyed this so much! RIP Dad! ❤️ By the way, his name is on the monument in Titusville, Florida, dedicated to the Gemini program.

[@joycejean-baptiste4355]

I remember Mr. John Lindsay as the Mayor of New York city when I was a little girl. Wow, where did the time go?

[@allys744]

The fake British accent was so funny: “Yes, darling”

[@sandragailgoudelock1531]

Robert Mitcham was a scream! And good looking to boot!

[@fringelilyfringelily391]

Now there's a man who is not afraid to camp it up ... he just doesn't give a damn.

[@vertxxgg]

wow the golden age of TV...great actors and personalities

[@69Flynn]

i think that Mitchum, was the most Alpha male in Hollywood.

[@Retroscoop]

That's not so difficult, Hollywood isn't exactly an American football or icehockey team, is it ?

[@photo161]

and among the most attractive...

[@scotnick59]

@@photo161 Drank like a fish, not so strong

[@joe-vz6hx]

@@scotnick59 LOL @ not so strong. he was notoriously one serious bad ass who you did not want to mess with unless maybe you were chuck norriss :)

[@DiannaAtherton]

Yes... he had chemistry with all his leading women. And especially Shirley McClain

[@lulusaintly631]

What a gent - fooled the lot of them with that accent. His Irish accent in Ryan's Daughter was brilliant also.

[@lllowkee6533]

RYANS DAUGHTER was such an underrated movie, just wonderful. Scenery was breathtaking as were all David Lean movies.

[@libertubey2199]

The few. The proud. Robert Mitchum stumps the panel. Yeah! He fared much, much better than he did 8 years earlier.

[@loissimmons6558]

When Robert Mitchum was asked about his wife during the questioning, it prompted me to look up a little more about him. Like most people, he had his faults and an occasional controversy. But I admire that he met his future wife when they were teens and neither was a celebrity, they eventually married and remained married for 57 years until his death. I was not fortunate to have a long marriage. I admire those who do, especially in the cauldron of temptation that is the entertainment industry. Based on everything I read, he was a devoted family man upon the birth of their first child and no mention of a dalliance with anyone outside of his marriage.

[@jeanesingsjazz]

Mr. Mitchum had numerous dalliances over the years. One of his last with Shirley MacLaine almost broke up his marriage.

[@HolgerRuneFan]

Are you crazy!?? Mitchum was flagrantly and habitually unfaithful to his wife, Dorothy. I know his son, Jim, and he told me his father had over 200 affairs just in the 1950's alone. Read Shirley MacLaine's book, he was the love of her life and they had an affair for over a year.

[@loissimmons6558]

@@HolgerRuneFan It has nothing to do with being crazy. It is simply appears to be a matter of having read different sources.

[@colikil]

A superb book to read is the Mitchum biog by Lee Server. Same author also did a similarly great book on Ava Gardner. Do read both

[@richardmilliken5651]

@@HolgerRuneFan Get a grip on yourself man, He's not Wilt Chamberlain or Warren Beatty!! He fooled around like Garry Cooper!

[@phoenixtimes2]

Mitchum-the coolest.

[@janeiwasduncan8463]

Where are the Mitchum today?? All we seem to have are skinny, palefaced wimpy boys. e

[@CuriousMutation]

I'm right here.

[@dennisbedard9850]

I saw Mitchum on the Dick Cavett show in the early '70's. He had served 60 days in a California jail for marijuana possession 15 years earlier. Cavett asked him about the experience and, without missing a beat, he said it was nice to be with a higher class of people than he was used to in Hollywood. Touche'!!!!

[@MCMARMELSTEIN6474]

GRRRRR❤❤❤❤❤OUCHO STAYS O❤❤❤WWWWWWWCCCCHHHHHH🎉OOOOO!!!!!!!

[@castinmeadows6956]

Mitchum... what a man. In a class of cool badass all his own. And, as screen actors go, far, far too intelligent - and why he so easily stumped the panel. For Mitchum, a piece o' cake.

[@57highland]

Yes, he was a favorite of Mom's. He and John Garfield. Mitchum in "Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison" and Garfield in "Pride of The Marines."

[@SherryAnnOfTheWest]

@@57highland "Night of the Hunter!"

[@MCMARMELSTEIN6474]

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[@castinmeadows6956]

@@SherryAnnOfTheWest Kapow!! Can you imagine ANYONE else in the role? I sure as heck can't. And wouldn't trade his portrayal for anyone else's at the time.

[@bluecamus5162]

I always thought Mitchum was limited. He played one type of character really well and had rugged good looks, but he was never going to play an everyman, do Shakespeare, or do comedy. If he ever did any of these things, I haven't seen it. He once said acting was easy--- you show up, hit your marks, say your lines, and go home. Well, that is easy, if you only ever play the same emotionless character.

[@pjk9056]

He had a fabulous facility with dialects as he demonstrates here. Sadly, it was an underused talent in his career.

[@jamesgoines7663]

Have to disagree slightly. Robert Mitchum was the voice of "Beef is what's for dinner" campaign.

[@jamessmith530]

Robert Mitchum had that walk you could tell him a mile away the way he walked

[@palafox2237]

Had to watch just to see Mitchum. Oh yum!

[@tammyschmidt6869]

If this was filmed in March 1965, it's sad to think of Dorothy being murdered 7 months later. Wistful.

[@peternagy-im4be]

Accidental overdose. Keep trying.

[@kenhenderson1762]

Jack King was the voice of the launch at the Cape, but once the spacecraft "cleared the tower", Paul Haney took over from Houston.

[@amiek9269]

Robert was quite fun and funny!! Very enjoyable. Plus, he stumped the panel.....

[@preppysocks209]

the MGs who are self-confident enough that they won't feel like no one knows that they are a celebrity if they are not guessed are the best. The insecure ones who change back to their normal voice or give some other hint so that they will be guessed are not entertaining.

[@Walterwhiterocks]

@@preppysocks209 Very true, I've noticed that as well. Some MGs truly try to stump the panel, and others for the reason you mentioned actually WANT to be identified.

[@lynnedonaldson4010]

This Congressman is much more dignified than the ones I have recently had occasion to see on television

[@littlebrookreader949]

As close to an understatement as I’ve ever heard!

[@patricebetts6531]

He became the Mayor of NYC and served from 1965 to1973.

[@georgevincent1834]

@@patricebetts6531 Lindsay pretty much bankrupted NYC .

[@patricebetts6531]

@@georgevincent1834. Yep. You’re right!

[@michaelwalsh1035]

Lindsay was a lib lightweight who ran NYC into the ground as mayor.

[@tungstenkid2271]

Check Mitchum's classic "Mitchum walk" as he leaves..:)

[@miltonmoore7687]

During interviews with his leading ladies they are wont to remark that he had the most attractive, animal magnetism generating panther like stroll of any screen star that ever lived.

[@madambutterfly7513]

Tungsten Kid - yep, I sure did - smooooth as silk❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@poetcomic1]

@@miltonmoore7687 He SURE could be scary. When he did the sadistic rapist in Cape Fear he had to stop and sweet talk Polly Bergen down - he had SCARED her so bad and they were FRIENDS!

[@andymassingham]

And on his walk over to John Daly, as well. So fluid.

[@palafox2237]

@@andymassingham Yes! I noticed that too - sooo smooth!

[@lindaroper2654]

Mitchim walked out like I know I'm cool 😂

[@georgemoore7186]

I would love to see Rich Little on a show like this, they could ask questions for a week and would still be confused as to who they were talking too,. I am surprised that no star has impersonated another star, at least not that I have seen

[@JClark-34695]

"The law they swore they'd get him, but the devil got him first..." The Ballad of Thunder road, as sung by Robert Mitchum. Listened to hundreds of times as a kid.

[@aliceberry9392]

They should have stopped Bennett Cerf from yelling from the sideline a question and interrupting things. Be polite Bennett!

[@peternagy-im4be]

He always did that. Always butting in.

[@windchimeisland]

Who knew Mitchum was funny? He was devastatingly handsome, funny and intimidating.

[@shirleyrombough8173]

Narrow Gate - I loved him

[@windchimeisland]

Shirley Rombough Me, too.

[@lopa2828]

Me 3, me 3 😁

[@plasticweapon]

who DIDN'T know mitchum was funny? what is he, mr. serious?

[@laurahoward5426]

You do know he was paid to ACT

[@imkluu]

It is amazing how many of the really big stars come on this show.

[@keithhyttinen8275]

Imagine if they made a re-make of WML now. What "stars" would show up? None.

[@joycejean-baptiste4355]

Amazing how well read and up on the news and current events these panelists were. Even with such busy schedules that their professions required. It seems that people in general were more or less like that. Even when I was in school in the early 1960's we lived at the library. Lol!

[@gurucarcar]

agreed! a time when newspapers were enough.

[@laurahoward5426]

Their professions were news!!

[@amc042759]

He is the only one they didn't guess that I have seen. Great actor and very pleasant.

[@paulamiles9559]

No wonder Mitchum's leading ladies fell in love with him. What a doll!

[@susanrutherford866]

The wonderful and funny robert mitchum did a great job in fooling the panel

[@davidcullen1956]

what an accent Mitchum did

[@barrypoupard7009]

The guest called Mr Haney. There's something about him ... makes me think (as a Brit) of the perfect American ... professional, self effacing and decent to the core.

[@TacomaPaul]

Robert Mitchum was in the weirdest I ever saw as a little kid. "Night of the Hunter". Very surreal. I think it was Lillian Gish's last movie, and of course Shelley Winters. Peter Graves (as a prisoner with Mitchum) was in it, too.

[@jetblack.7186]

Directed by Charles Laughton I think. Very interesting film. The river scene was very mystical

[@greengablesgirl8]

Yes, phenomenal and SCARY role. Lillian Gish final film role was 1987 WHALES OF AUGUST with also Bette Davis and Vincent Price

[@joemartines3545]

I'll check it out...

[@plasticweapon]

yeah, that's his most well known role...

[@walkingtrails7776]

Handsome Robert Mitchum and humble

[@daisyfernandez6478]

7 Move.

[@NealKanter]

And very intelligent.

[@castinmeadows6956]

@@NealKanter Yes! Something he downplayed. Itself, a mark of his character and time.

[@cara9592]

Talented, modest, debonair..

[@castinmeadows6956]

@@cara9592 Indeed. He was one of a kind. The U.S. no longer produces true men. He was. And a true gent. In his distinct, understated way. The public's image of him was/is partial. He was a poet in soul. His best work shows it. He. as an individual, embodied it.

[@sylviaphelps8518]

I've always had a crush on Robert Mitchum since I was a little girl

[@davidsanderson5918]

If Dorothy had delivered the introduction that Bennett gave Daly here, all her detractors would be saying "there you go, proof, she's drunk!!"

[@gailsirois7175]

You're so right

[@rickklaastad8371]

Mitchum - whose maternal grandfather was a Norwegian sea captain (as was James Cagney's) - would have turned 100 on August 6th.

[@zq9m3xh8]

In 2017 he would have been 100 on Aug. 6th.

[@lenhummel5614]

I love WML. This video is another excellent example why.

[@donnacook8994]

My, I sure do love watching these shows so much! Thank you for airing these, as it's a wonderful way to end the day.

[@jadezee6316]

Cerf thought he was Burt Lancaster...The Train...a great movie

[@Thekarlskorner]

I remember his version of the song "The ballad of Thunder Road" from the movie Thunder Road. He did not sing it in the movie, but the song was used in the beginning credits and an instrumental version throughout the movie chase scenes. He was great in Heven Knows Mr. Allison with Debra Kerr.

[@laurahoward5426]

What a compliment from John Daly..." you use your words beautifully"

[@dianepowers9643]

Wow is Robert Mitchum handsome

[@narrowgate528]

Robert Mitchum was beautiful. And funny.

[@soulierinvestments]

Dorothy's group question. Pain killers? However -- In 1957, legendary singer Sophie Tucker appeared as a mystery guest. She used a very deep voice but the panel discovered she was a female. Dorothy found it all confusing and asked her if she were a group. That got a huge laugh at that time, too.

[@jadezee6316]

Mitchum....in the night of the hunter is one of films greatest villains.....and had something very few male actors did....

[@vincentmcgrath4179]

Modest enough to not be guessed, many can't help but let the panel know because of their ego

[@silverpslm]

I wish they could bring this show back. It paid so much love and respect to not just celebrities and politicians, but everyday people and their jobs.

[@elizabethlenahan9833]

Couldn’t get celebrities of this calibra today

[@57highland]

They'd make a perfect mess of it today.

[@bethearly4593]

It is a lovely thought. But, the drive for attention, good or bad, would overpower the desire to be articulate, intelligible and sophisticated.

[@dbarker7794]

Funny but I was just wondering the other day if Robert Mitchum ever appeared on this show. And today here he is! Initially he seemed like he didn't want to be there but then got into it. Great with the voice. One of the best actors of that generation. I used to have a copy of his calypso album.

[@dianepowers9643]

I take after Dorothy. I fell over a rug and fractured my right humerus very close to the shoulder

[@aliasmarg8ta127]

I loove Robert Mitchum

[@madambutterfly7513]

Has anybody noticed Ms Killgalon always looks at the handsome men as they’re walking off the stage?? That is so cute, she’s a little flirt - lol

[@martinvanr.545]

Madam Butterfly She also looks at the ladies, for their dresses I might assume 😉

[@NealKanter]

She probably noticed how big his hand was. Burt Reynolds said he had the biggest hands he'd seen.

[@davidsanderson5918]

Ahhh she looks at anyone looking good. Checking out the styles mainly.

[@SR-iy4gg]

She looked at everyone as they walked off the stage.

[@gailsirois7175]

She watches the women leave as well...a lot...beautiful women .so ...

[@CommanderOfTheSun]

I watch these EXCLUSIVELY for the celebs. They are so fun.

[@jolenaagapisou3803]

CommanderOfTheSun - me too

[@davidsanderson5918]

I watch it for EVERYONE on it.....it's a window upon a time a long long time ago and yet I feel I'm there, they're all so vividly 'with us' in spirit diring these clips.

[@kenyongray2615]

Robert Mitchum did a great job with his voice. The public back in 1965 really respected the space program and NASA. It was all quite amazing in 1965 what was going on in space. Plus we were trying to beat the Russians to the moon at that point. Took another four years till the USA got there. Thanks for the video.

[@lrb3989]

It's funny how the guys whistle when a lady signs in now a days it would be discouraged

[@soulierinvestments]

One of the most original of Dorothy's outfits. I like it, even though she looks like she is about to go to bed. It is hiding her arm in a sling. 2:50 --> Here is where we got the information about what happened to Dorothy . . . .sort of. He makes it clear it was an accident with a throw rug, so that's where my mother heard of it; I remember her saying at the time she would never have the dangerous things in HER house. I thought it was a collarbone break. Shoulder. Apparently there is a difference.

[@kentetalman9008]

Dorothy is wearing the rug she had tripped over.

[@tungstenkid2271]

Mitchum played a wimpy schoolteacher in 'Ryan's Daughter' which on paper looked like miscasting for such a tough guy, but he carried the part well so full credit to him..:)

[@mitch89014]

Excellent

[@gregorym7598]

Oh, thanks Robert for this performance, I was born on 28 March! And I would say there is no better gift for my birthday...

[@savethetpc6406]

When Bennett asked Robert Mitchum about "The Train" (17:35), he must have been thinking of Burt Lancaster, who starred in a film with that name, released in March of 1965: www.imdb.com/title/tt0059825/.

[@joelfogelsanger5773]

How did Bennett happen to guess the NASA guy? I swear he was clued in to the identity of their occupation.

[@darreljohnson3644]

Night of the Hunter,Cape Fear and Five Card Stud.Nobody could play a creep like he could except maybe Bruce Dern......

[@Orange-Jumpsuit-Time]

Mitchum even had his cigarette cough back then.

[@gretchenking5952]

Considering the fact that she broke her shoulder, Dorothy was looking very well tonight. For the last few episodes she really looked sickly.

[@SR-iy4gg]

I saw her last episode the other day, and I thought her face looked very bloated. She doesn't look that way here.

[@RichardHannay]

They were so surprised to find out Robert Mitchum made records lol... and I am too!

[@nataliep.9047]

Richard Hannay; "Thunder Road". It was a hit.

[@Wolfinger1935]

He actually recorded a Calypso record. I had it when I was younger.

[@vasileiosgkenes3592]

One of my favorites. An icon.

[@trevorkeyes1639]

One of the greats of hollywood

[@judywhiting1675]

NOW......THATS A MANS MAN......how're...he was sooo rugged..handsome...and a fine versatile actor

[@alanaronald244]

It's charming to see how Dorothy & Arlene are clearly tickled to sit next to Lindsay.

[@GGreen-yf2xk]

Mayor Lindsay was a handsome man.

[@keithhyttinen8275]

Mitchum. Arrested in 1946 in LA for marijuana possession. A serious charge indeed. The movie studio execs made a few phone calls and he was out of the hoosecow before noon. LOL

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

*_VOICE OF GEMINI CONTROL DURING SPACE SHOOT_* *_U.S. INCOME TAX EXAMINER_* *_MAKES NAIL POLISH_*

[@laurahoward5426]

Mayor Lindsay looks as if he is having a great time

[@adamgrimsley2900]

Another icon

[@joycejean-baptiste4355]

Wow, I remember when Mr. Lindsey was Mayor of New York. I was 9 years old in 1966 and I remember watching him on the news. Two terms he did. I was a teenager when he finished in 1974. I guess I'm getting up there, Lol!

[@PROUDCANADIANGIRL]

It makes me so sad that Dorothy won’t be on for much longer.. she was the best part of WML to me and my hubby… she was an incredible, intelligent, gracious beauty and after she was murdered we quit watching

[@MrJoeybabe25]

Did Bennett Have, like, 100 versions of the same suit?

[@janeiwasduncan8463]

Just like "Matlock"!

[@carolynwoodman1734]

What a wonderful programme. X

[@carlamartinezvega13]

Mmmmm Robert Mitchum

[@seriouslyyoujest1771]

All these beautiful people i remember from my childhood, teens, and as a young adult. Now I’m 62, the age my mother left us.

[@dinahleeloo]

Nobody’s ever made Daly laugh like that before, I like his laugh. Who would have guessed Robert Mitchum was funny! He’s so cool, who would know it. Man, he had it all! Is it just me or did he have a sexy walk?

[@preppysocks209]

he did. And he and Cary Grant made a movie together. Now that is the battle of the best movie star walks!

[@plasticweapon]

what was mitchum, mr. serious?!

[@tomitstube]

wow, right after the gemini III flight, the first of several manned orbits around earth, this was all done to get space travel and maneuvers (outside the space craft) worked out before going to the moon in 1969.

[@loissimmons6558]

It's when we became acquainted with EVA (Extra Vehicular Activity).

[@roberttelarket4934]

I can’t believe future mayor Lindsey is here.

[@hiyapal7719]

I wonder if this injury that Dorothy has received, is the beginning of her relying on pain meds, which eventually led to her demise. =-(

[@preppysocks209]

it wasn;t standard pain meds that led to her demise. Another possibility, theoretical and I don't have evidence, is that her fall occurred because she was drunk

[@hiyapal7719]

preppy socks Sad, either way.😔

[@cookielady9995]

Bennett needs to shut up! He constantly interupts the contestants after their line is revealed. Let them enjoy their 5 minutes

[@Walterwhiterocks]

He's always done that. If you watch enough of these shows, you come to realize he was, essentially a very rude man.

[@momtimepink]

“Taxes are what we pay for civilization.” Interesting quote! ~ Justice Holmes