What's My Line? - The Cincinnati Reds; Bob & Linda Hope; Paul Winchell [panel] (Jun 24, 1956)

[@Ceelle2]

Paul Winchell was a brilliant man...he actually invented the artificial heart. And I loved his show when I was a child.

[@pammilner7161]

Us as well….we adored him. His invention paved the way for all things heart medical.

[@justinmay3451]

Rest in Peace, Frank Robinson! One of the greatest baseball players of all time and a true trailblazer.

[@georgemartin1436]

Watched him play and manage in Cleveland...he's so skinny and young here!

[@dbarker7794]

Of that whole team, Frank Robinson was the one with the greatest baseball legacy. Won the Triple Crown and went on to help lead the Baltimore Orioles to greatness.

[@Wattamattau]

Nice to see Ted Kluszewski. My father was a football teammate of his at Indiana University. Dad played center and Ted was a standout tight end for the 1945 team was undefeated (9-0-1). It was the Hoosiers first football Big Ten Conference Championship.

[@johncarpenter624]

Great to see young Joe Nuxhall, who first pitched for the Reds at age 15 and went on to broadcast with Marty Brenneman for many years before passing on.

[@woodykelleher9253]

coolest set of mystery guests ever!! So unique! (Reds, Bob AND daughter)

[@KororaPenguin]

Fun fact: The Reds won the pennant their first major league season (1882, as the Cincinnati Red Stockings III in the American Association).

[@neilphelan145]

My wife and Linda were friends in high school days. She lived about a mile from the Hope family.

[@mortimerzilch2608]

the only black player...ended with 580+ home runs! and became the first black manager in the bigs....Frank Robinson...triple crown winner in the American League with Baltimore Orioles. and the only Hall of Famer in the group.

[@angelajoseph6709]

mortimer zilch Thanks for 411. I've heard of Hall of Famer Frank Robinson!

[@piteusx8440]

Frank Robinson was just as famous as Bob Hope in the 60s and 70s. He might have been more popular. This was his rookie year.

[@alansorensen5903]

And the only player to be named MVP in both the American and National leagues. The first and best in numerous categories and as a quiet idol.

[@enniswhalen2428]

@ m z - When you get a chance ,take a look at it . but I believe that black pitchers, Brooks Lawrence and Joe Black were also on that team . . .

[@leannsherman6723]

Thanks for that info!

[@LiveInSydney]

Robbie!!! Ok so I saw Bob hope live in 1975 and managed to get his autograph when in Perth Western Australia

[@sandybruce9092]

It just occurred to me that this is one of the few shows of that time where no one was smoking!!! How refreshing!!!

[@howardwilliams7112]

No wonder my living room smells so fresh!

[@RonGerstein]

They do smoke, but in the episode, there were no cigarettes present.

[@billdurham8477]

This is always wonderful, but this is Wonderfullness.

[@michaeldanello3966]

Wouldn't you just LOVE a thirty second commercial again? These thirty minute shows usually ran from 24 to 26 minutes of actual content. The commercials and public service announcements were less bombastic...ah! the good old days.

[@Charlotte-wp9rf]

Michael Danello I liked the commercials in the Fibber McGee a d Molly radio show. They were written into the script and quite entertaining. And only ONE sponsor!

[@johnparadise3134]

Michael Danello, They are so short and wish they’d keep them in so we could enjoy them, because they would be very entertaining!

[@kevinw712]

something I've found interesting of learning of these old TV shows, it was far more common back then for series to still be airing brand new episodes close running up to and even in some cases on major holidays. (of course some network dramas/sitcoms had like 35 or more episodes per "season") Well with the prolification of original cable series it's starting to get back a bit closer to that model, but for a long time now you just got repeats of stuff near holidays.

[@slaytonp]

now, the commercials are 35 percent of the entire program time, as well as being loud and intrusive. Then, there is more than one of them---there may be a dozen, after which you have forgotten what you were watching in the first place.

[@steventrosiek2623]

The old commercials were entertaining and novel. Today's commercials make very little sense and they are silly.

[@timothyernest6429]

Loved the photographer presentation.

[@paulabasso6153]

Arlene is so enthusiastic and makes everyone happy! RIP to all these wonderful panelists!

[@ruthnoelmarie...9061]

Thoroughly entertaining... thanks for the joy... ;)

[@YouzTube99]

08:02 Winchell very cleverly uses Jerry to poke fun at Daly's pedantry.

[@HassoBenSoba]

What's My Line was such a great chronicle of American pop culture; amazing to lose yourself in the great personalities of yesteryear featured on the show. Seeing the Cincinnati Reds off the field was fabulous. These were some of the "big guns" of the mid/late 1950's. Ted Kluszewski comes across as a truly classy guy (check his career batting and fielding stats; the guy was amazing!) But seeing the other guys: Wally Post, Gus Bell, Johnny Temple, Roy McMillan, Frank Robinson, etc....Ed Bailey, the Reds' catcher who hit 3 homeruns the very afternoon that this show was taped; he was a very tough, pugnacious guy behind the plate, yet seems SO slight and unremarkable...not at all like the beefed-up dudes who dominant the game today. And Smokey Burgess...also a catcher...who "Big Klu" almost forgets to introduce--- was another very impressive power hitter, who looks NOTHING like his baseball card and PR photos; he looks like a totally average, aging and physically UN-imposing guy. A remarkable piece of baseball history, thankfully preserved for us. LR

[@oswaldomilano3848]

it is live history

[@georgesenda1952]

Smokey Burgess who wound up on my beloved Pirates.

[@georgesenda1952]

No steroids either.

[@Joeybagofdonuts76]

Paul was a very intelligent man. He had multiple patents.

[@patbest7057]

Foxtrot yes along with Hedy lamaar

[@markcornish2519]

This was during frank Robinson's rookie year!

[@perpieta]

Yep, he'd win the NL Rookie of the Year award for 1956.

[@bshan804]

Ladies knew how to dress back in the day. Beautiful!

[@DoctorInsomnia-qw7us]

Hooray hoorah it's Winchell Mahoney time on what's my line

[@bigwilson8794]

The girls (Dorothy and Arlene) seemed to be really smitten by Jerry Mahoney

[@Spirosaur]

Linda Hope looks so much like her father in mannerisms and facial structure it is somewhat eerie to see them side by side Edit: just read that she was adopted, hard to believe , but goes to show that also a child of the heart can take after their parents

[@suelutz5364]

I thought that as well.

[@philomenaweekes9796]

Adopted?! I was just marvelling at how alike they looked. Uncanny.

[@strideman1680]

Maybe his biological daughter with a woman not his wife, so he "adopted" her. Sure as heck looks that way. "Spittin' image". Lots of deep dark secrets like that in show business history.

[@pmccoy8924]

@@strideman1680 Has to be 100%. No question that is his biological daughter. Perhaps an affair? Was very shunned upon then.

[@merricat3025]

​@strideman1680 yeah I thought she was daughter as a result of an affair

[@ksman9087]

Two of the best lines from the Cincinnati part of the show: Bennett Cerf: "Is it one of the metropolitan teams?" Answer: "No." Dorothy: "Then you won today" Jerry Mahoney, after a one of Daily's typical explanations: "Hey, Wench" Paul Winchell: "Yeah." "What'd he say?" "Who knows!"

[@KororaPenguin]

The irony of that last line is that the spokesman for the team played the same position as Who!

[@ksman9087]

Ah, yes. Abbott and Costello's Baseball Routine (Who's On First?), A classic. @@KororaPenguin

[@AstralPixie]

I really liked the Bob and Linda Hope bit.

[@kevinw712]

Not having known much about Bob Hope's personal life, I just assumed that was his wife and his gesture to Daly and the crowd when he walked out was indicating that she was newly pregnant lol

[@donnawoodford6641]

Dolores must have been blind or hopelessly deaf to her husband's shenanigans when not on stage. How many ppl are thanking him for the memories done in s__t_s and p_nth__s_s?

[@spiff8862]

#Donna Woodford... Dolores was a devout Catholic. Divorce was not in the cards.

[@donnawoodford6641]

As a Catholic, divorce had been presented with a stigma attached, leaving people misinformed and women feeling guilted. Read the Canon Law as I have and you will find a true interpretation of marrital dissolution.

[@accomplice55]

@@donnawoodford6641: Status and parentheses? :D

[@stacynels4]

John Daly Absolutely Threw The Game Telling There's More Than One Challenger After "Sports" Was Established. This Just Cheapened The Overall Suprise Effect Of What's My Line..... Now

[@larchmontmark1]

It helped keep the panel from going way off track, which among other things would have made it take much longer to get it, which would have been uncomfortable for everybody.

[@jec1ny]

Frank Robinson, an American institution and one of the last of the "old school" managers. RIP

[@tomitstube]

had to look it up, 1956 was frank's rookie year, 20 years old and won rookie of the year.

[@bluebear1985]

He was the manager of the Expos for their last three seasons in Montreal, and moved with the team for their first two as the Washington Nationals.

[@mickeysanders74]

in December, 1965, when the Reds traded Frank Robinson to the Orioles, Reds' fans were so upset the hung Reds owner Bill DeWitt in effigy in Fountain Square.

[@bubblinbrownsugar616]

Frank Robinson gave my Baltimore Orioles some great years. Too bad I wasn't alive to witness it.

[@dbarker7794]

I was, and I remember when the Orioles traded for Frank. Couldn't believe we were getting a player of that caliber.

[@chuckcaputo5144]

Love Paul Winchell.

[@519djw6]

Linda Hope was a real looker!

[@dlou3264]

Their good-byes sounded like the original of good-byes on The Waltons! (And finally .....”Good night, John boy .....”)

[@michaelnivens6267]

Arlene Is a knockout, as usual and Cerf Is back !

[@robertjean5782]

Arlene a gorgeous woman 😊

[@carolsmart238]

Love to see C Reds. Watched Paul Winchell as a kid. He had a patent for one of the first artificial hearts! Loved the memories this show brings back.

[@KororaPenguin]

If that had been the Pirates playing in Ebbets Field that day rather than the Redlegs, and the Senators playing in Yankee Stadium that day rather than the White Sox hosting the Yankees, then all three choices would have been teams whose names represented professions!

[@Nyquil5]

Great to see a young Frank Robinson!

[@gj4578]

He was thin back in 1956.

[@loissimmons6558]

Here's a picture of Frank Robinson in 1956 with Ted Kluszewski and Cincinnati Manager Birdie Tebbetts. He might have been thinner at that age, but comparing him to Klu (look at the arms on each of them), I wouldn't exactly call Robinson thin. s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/6c/fa/c1/6cfac1418389b6318fcb258ba466573f--sports-baseball-baseball-pics.jpg

[@38ddkelly]

So was Smoky Burgess. By his last season in 1967, Burgess weighed close to 300 lbs.

[@loissimmons6558]

By the last few years of his playing career, mostly as a pinch hitter for the White Sox, Smoky no longer ran ... he waddled. He claimed that he was slender until the time he entered the Army during WWII. He said that he was given the job of mail clerk, giving him plenty of chow to eat but not much exercise.

[@ricksaxe3120]

That was my first thought also! Go Orioles!

[@BNatoAk]

No way they didn't know they're 1st guess (guesses) wasn't in the studio. This isn't the first circumstance that "what's my line" has had in this scenario.

[@michaelnivens6267]

Luv that Bob -with his daughter Linda

[@rollotomasi8116]

Grew up in Baltimore, saw Frank make history.......go O’s......

[@michaelnivens6267]

Good team & Frank was a great player.

[@christophermorgan3261]

So did I my favorite player was gus triandos

[@dbarker7794]

@@christophermorgan3261 Haven't heard that name in years. I always got his baseball card in the little packs of cards with chewing gum.

[@dallasdrew1164]

On man!!!! This is awesome!!!

[@AiMR]

Bennett and John like to push each other's buttons.

[@ruthnoelmarie...9061]

I loved being a “Pitcher...” Short stop...” Out fielder...base guardian as well...🤣

[@bigwilson8794]

I would sincerely love to see the WMLs British version on which Bennett appeared.

[@rebeccaquartieri3564]

Dick Wilson the Brit version of WML is dry and boring...not a bit of charm.

[@monsieurbertillon9570]

Yes, there were several British versions over the years, but the original wasn't a patch on the US version, as Bennet Cerf implied (speaking as a Brit myself here).

[@kevinw712]

funnily thing is, I'm only just finding this show now (I've known about it forever, but never actually saw any, and always assumed it was a guessing a phrase or password type game) but as a part of being a fan and obsessed with many things British culture for almost 20 years now (I'm 43 and American) I've been a major regular fan of several of the current British comedic panel shows. Some of them are out to be downloaded via torrent, but mostly diligent UK users upload new episodes here on YT and that's where many Americans like me watch. I especially adore Would I Lie To You, and have for awhile wondered if the US might try to make its own version. The closest right now is I've occasionally seen that Jimmy Fallon has a recurring bit on his Tonight Show that's essentially that very idea, but distilled into just a one or two round like 8 minute segment. I've often wondered if his writing staff knew about WILTY first.

[@monsieurbertillon9570]

Kevin W Yes WILTY is a lot of fun! Not sure if any other countries have picked the idea.

[@siggylloyd3566]

@@kevinw712 to wonder whether Fallon's "Tonight Show" writers know, well, anything at all, is itself a fever dream. Give them 50 years and they couldn't come up with something original.

[@michaelnivens6267]

watched Gus Bell's son , Buddy play as a Texas Ranger - both fine players

[@deborahwestendorf9486]

awesome to see this!

[@Gwaithmir]

I served in Vietnam for 2½ years, but I was never fortunate enough to go to one of Bob Hope's USO shows.

[@sandybruce9092]

Luckily we can hear some of these shows on SXM Radio Classics!

[@debbigray1752]

Thank you for your service❤

[@dbarker7794]

Glad you made it home.

[@carolchristmas9527]

John Daly called Bob Hope "Robby!" That is so sweet.

[@RobJazzful]

Carol Christmas ...especially since his name was “Leslie.”

[@carolchristmas9527]

@@RobJazzful haha omg that's right!

[@richardr8753]

Is your daughter Merry?

[@mal74]

Joe Nuxhall a long time radio voice of the Cincinnati Reds after his playing days. His side kick Marty Brennaman retiring this year.

[@leonmarcus4592]

P0

[@calliopivogiatzis2235]

Johnny Bench was 9 years old when his past teammates appeared on the show

[@loissimmons6558]

Two things with which I correct or differ with John Daly on the baseball segment: 1) Arlene asks if the entire team is there as she takes off her mask. John Daly replies, "The whole team." There are 11 players there. A major league roster at that time was 25 players. 2) John Daly calls Ted Kluszewski a first baseman virtually without peer. No doubt about it, he was one of the best players in the NL at that time. But he was not rated as good a first basemen as Gil Hodges (who was as strong if not stronger than Ted). Both became regulars during the 1948 season. Klu was an All-Star in four seasons, Hodges in eight seasons. Hodges hit more home runs during his career (370 to 279) and was more consistent as a home run hitter over his career (Klu basically had four big seasons and the rest relatively few, with some seasons as a starter in single digits). Klu had a better lifetime average (.298 to .273) but Hodges drove in 246 more runs, was a productive major league starter longer and was with little dissent considered the best fielding first baseman in the 1950's and a serious candidate for best all time. While Klu had better fielding averages in many of their seasons competing against each other, he didn't have the range of Hodges or the footwork of Hodges at first to save bad throws, and he didn't have the versatility of Hodges to make all the plays. Klu was never considered a serious candidate for the Hall of Fame. Hodges is brought up before the Veterans Committee regularly and many astute baseball observers consider his omission from Cooperstown to be one of the biggest injustices regarding the Hall. Many experts believe that if Hodges hadn't died young in 1972 (age 47), he would have made it by now. But sometimes it is out of sight, out of mind.

[@SOULRELIEF22]

You should be an announcer! 💖

[@larchmontmark1]

It was reasonable 'poetic license' under the circumstance!

[@loissimmons109]

And now Gil is in the Hall of Fame!

[@larchmontmark1]

.....and I made a point of going to Cooperstown when Hodges made it!! It was great. I'd been pulling for him forever.

[@markross2124]

At the 10.15 portion the Cincinnati Reds, I never knew Smoky Burgess played for the reds, in my much younger days I watched him play the batting left-handed catcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates in Forbes field, now a present memory

[@fanboy2015]

Frank Robinson was the only Red I knew. The guy managed for a hundred years.

[@corvus1374]

Some great players there.

[@hiyapal7719]

6:54 I feel that Daly actually cheated for the panel there, by pointing out that there were more people, without them asking; (and the panel knew Daly enough to read between the lines), smh. It should've been handled differently. IMO

[@laura1000]

I think he had to say something because only one person was answering the questions. Usually the panel is tipped off that there's more than one person when they hear different voices. If Daly hadn't said something they never could have understood there was more than one person.

[@hiyapal7719]

Laura Snyder 👍😉

[@dizzyology7514]

JCD was concerned because they were starting to focus on what position "the" guest played. That would have been a lenthy detour, and not a very entertaining one. So he felt he had to give them that clue.

[@hiyapal7719]

dizzyology True. 👍😞

[@alexhu7939]

HiYa Pal Does “smh” mean “severe medical handicap”?

[@dancelli714]

I THOUGHT THE DAUGHTER LOOKED LIKE HOPE But she was Adopted, I was surprised.

[@evepeabody4738]

Maybe she was the product of an affair... mind you, I said maybe...

[@merricat3025]

​@@evepeabody4738that was my guess

[@sue2611]

Linda Hope was adopted, but, my goodness, she sure looked like Bob.

[@pennymurphy5449]

YES ...I THOUGHT SO , ALSO !

[@midnightmilkman1]

My My did his daughter look like him!

[@jerrylee8261]

A poster stated that she was in fact his daughter from another mother besides his wife.

[@michaelnivens6267]

Wow ! - the Reds when they were the Redlegs - I was 2 years old.

[@Claptonfan]

John Daly ALWAYS gave away too much.

[@balconi89]

Got a kick out of seeing Ted Kluzewski wearing a suit. He had biceps that were so large he played with his jersey sleeves cut off.

[@danielsmith608]

balconi71 Ironically, he went through 3 different suits during rehearsal. They kept ripping off hulk style.

[@juliansinger]

+daniel smith I could believe it of Kluzewski. Strong man, that.

[@loissimmons6558]

During his career with Cincinnati, they switched to sleeveless uniforms with Big Klu in mind. Most players wore sweatshirts underneath, but not Ted.

[@Allpointz]

As a kid in the early '70's, and you get to Riverfront early, then Coach Klu would stand by the dugout and effortlessly swat fly balls to deep right and purposely hit homers for us kids to catch/take home.

[@steventrosiek2623]

He sure was good looking.

[@philiphoward1731]

When she came out with Bob Hope I said is that his wife? Then I was establish she was his daughter. She’s a very very pretty daughter

[@robertjean5782]

Adopted 😊

[@thomaswolf723]

This show aired in either 1956 or 1957. This is because Frank Robinson was a rookie in 1956 and the Dodgers (who the Reds had beaten) left Brooklyn for Los Angeles after the 1957 season.

[@michaelnivens6267]

remember listening to Joe Nuxhall broadcast the Reds when I lived In Ohio 2003 and 2004

[@GreatDarkWing0491]

Interesting that they were credited as the Reds here. At the time they were officially known as the Cincinnati Redlegs due to the Red Scare of the 1950s.

[@mortimerzilch2608]

what about the one now in 2020?

[@GreatDarkWing0491]

@@mortimerzilch2608 Guess we'll have to see where it goes.

[@bridgetclooney3643]

They changed from Redlegs to “Reds” b/c of Red scare I think

[@moonlightray8493]

I really wish we could see the episode that Bennett did with the BBC version of What's My Line... No doubt he would've made a playful remark about Eammon Andrews not being as verbose as John Charles Daly, haha Might I also add that I absolutely adore Arlene's look in this episode! I always thought the sideways part was a very flattering hairstyle on her, her headband is cute and stylishly placed, and the elbow-length gloves are very classy!

[@ejej6934]

Linda Hope's longtime partner, Nancy Malone, won an Emmy for directing Bob Hope: The First 90 Years. Nancy is dead, but Wiki says Linda is still alive as of June 2022.

[@jamesr1703]

Arlene was looking particularly fetching on this episode.

[@Paul71H]

@SavageArfad I agree; Arlene often had way too much make-up on -- it almost made her look like a ghost sometimes. I guess it was intended to make her look better on camera. But I think she was stunning anyway.

[@mortimerzilch2608]

fetching? like a retriever?

[@Paul71H]

@@mortimerzilch2608 In this context, "fetching" means beautiful, attractive, easy on the eyes, etc.

[@michaelnivens6267]

@@Paul71H -she always looks great, a beautiful lady

[@robertjean5782]

Arlene always gorgeous 😊

[@RobJazzful]

See the “Dick Van Dyke Show” episode with Paul Winchell; it’s hilarious!

[@nandofigueira2005]

Bob hope's daughter is alive and 85 years old.

[@FaridShahidinejad]

What about now

[@pattimaeda6097]

Farid S. You’re kidding right?

[@accomplice55]

@@FaridShahidinejad Google?

[@beadyeyedbrat]

She's 90 now in 2023

[@captainobvious5650]

Jackie Robinson = First African American baseball "player" Frank Robinson (featured in this video) = First African American baseball manager. No relation between the two players.

[@romansroad2007]

The Count I was thinking about that. Back in the day , I don't know if he felt uncomfortable on the show.

[@JayTemple]

Fun if unhappy fact: Frank Robinson was the first African-American manager in each league.

[@jcl410]

Of the 11 players, the only name I recognized was Frank Robinson! (When I moved to Baltimore in 1988 he became the replacement manager after a 0 and 21 start.)

[@ksman9087]

Jackie was the first black baseball player in the modern era (after 1901), but there were black players before the ban in 1884.

[@zeldasmith6154]

They are all thin, wear ties and suits, no tattoos or facial piercings. Amazing.

[@志瑜杨]

And this fact doesn’t change how good or bad their personalities are/were.

[@erichanson426]

Jerry is such a playboy.

[@RaisedLetter]

7:59 That was so close before it was even established.

[@ruthnoelmarie...9061]

Teehee, I was on a softball league with some of my brothers and bam I hit a grand slam, that was an exciting day for me...lol 🤣

[@steveprice33]

Frank F'n Robinson! WOW.

[@buddmannable]

The Big Klu....used to cut the sleeves out of his jersey to show off his pythons pre Hulk Hogan.

[@markvicens5459]

Frank Robinson only player. To win MVP in both leagues!

[@michellecalling]

I know I shouldn't say this, but Bennett is the cat's meow!

[@EmilyTienne]

michellecalling what does that mean exactly?

[@janeiwasduncan8463]

@@EmilyTienne Like, man, he's a cool cat... he's got it all together 🎈🎈

[@ignorecorporatenews]

@@janeiwasduncan8463 You have to translate for The Kids ....

[@johnpersechini4951]

They were obviously messing with Bob hope as Bennett would say in an interview later. You can tell he is not that amused after the first few guesses lol.

[@jacquelinebell6201]

Wish John didn't give so much away I'm sure they would have got around to asking if there was more than one challenger.

[@daler.steffy1047]

The Cincinnati Reds baseball team members on stage appeared so well-mannered, so classy, so pleasantly stylish. So now I'm wondering if you put a MLB 11-member (baseball) team from 2024 on that stage, standing there behind Mr. Daly, if they would be able (and willing) to showcase those same mannerisms and classiness that helped define the more formal and "polite" societal times of that (1950s) era?

[@RonGerstein]

The Cincinnati Redlegs (1953-58)

[@michaelnivens6267]

The great Frank Robinson , Rookie of the year

[@RayhanAhmed-qr3vz]

My GOD he can’t remember him as he took His USA passport photo 😮

[@robertjean5782]

He doesn't remember the little people 😮

[@robertolsen6720]

How many Hall of Famers beside the great Frank Robinson on this pre-Big Red Machine Reds?

[@theoriginaledi]

Wow, that kiss! I am, as the kids used to say a few years back, shooketh! :D

[@williamrich7638]

Boy, does Hope's daughter look this him. WOW.

[@accomplice55]

She was adopted.

[@williamrich7638]

@@accomplice55 All of Bob Hope's children were adopted. I believe there are four of them But isn't is a miracle that she looks just like him? She really does!

[@choward5430]

Wow! Frank Robinson!

[@PeterTea]

RIP Frank Robinson

[@bneale]

Like most Hollywood stars, Bob had a couple of mistresses stashed around LA.

[@Filmbuff1979]

A good friend and former coworker is a lifelong Cincinati Reds fan

[@FaridShahidinejad]

So?

[@ruthnoelmarie...9061]

Here, here to “The Reds!” 🤣

[@jameswilliams663]

I seriously doubt any of these Reds team players had neither impressive 44” chest nor inflated bicep dimensions, nonetheless superior athletes indeed!

[@sst568]

Ted Kluszewski was 6'2" weighed 225 and he cut off both sleeves of his jersey, because they constricted his huge biceps and shoulders and limited his ability to swing a baseball bat freely.

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

Bob Hope should have spent some of his money to get his daughter's teeth fixed.

[@robertjean5782]

Had braces on😊

[@Montevideo2001]

Bennett Cerf : "I think that the funniest one was when Bob Hope was a mystery guest one time. We knew damned well that it was going to be Bob Hope because he was plugging a terrible movie he had made--one of his worst, and he's made some bad ones. Movies are not really his best thing. He's great as a monologist and a wonderful person as an M.C., but in movies he has done some pretty sloppy work and this latest one was a disaster. It needed help so he came to New York and appeared on just about every television show on the air. When I got to the theater that night I said, “You know, Bob Hope has got to be the mystery guest tonight. He's been on every other show in town-- everything from 'Howdy Doody‘up. Let's not guess him;” So we decided that we were going to have some fun. We came out and we put on our masks. You could always tell when it was, first, a big star because the audience went wild. You could tell by the audience applause how big a star was on. You could tell when it was a pretty girl too because there would be a lot of wolf whistles. Then, when it was a comedian, you always knew that it was a comedian because he would perform some little trick as he came out--you know, signing in some crazy way--and roars would go up. Bob Hope walked out and was greeted with an ovation. We had our masks on, but it was obviously Bob Hope. It was agreed that I would be the first questioner. I said, “Are you a comedian?” He said, “Yes.” We spent the rest of the evening guessing every comedian in the world except Bob Hope. After about three rounds, it became absolutely obvious to the audience that we knew perfectly well it was Bob Hope. You know, every name that we'd bring out, they'd scream more with laughter. We got down to Zeppo Marx. Bob joked along with us for a couple of rounds, but then he began getting angry. We were asking these idiotic questions and dredging up comedians long forgotten. When we had asked ten questions and hadn't named Hope, John said, “Take off your masks, panel, and say hello to our friend Bob Hope,” we all registered great surprise. John said, “We seem to have reached the end of our time. I'll have to say good night for everybody.” We signed off and Bob never had a chance to say one word plugging his movie. He was furious. He went stamping out of the theater without saying good bye to any of us. He was furious for a reason. He had come on just to plug his picture, and we all knew it. We didn't mean to thwart him, but we fiddled around so long that we used up all of the time. He didn't forgive us for about two years."

[@boognish999]

This is strange because the part about him being the first questioner and asking "are you a comedian?" is not accurate. And John Daly did actually mention the movie after the reveal.

[@Beson-SE]

John must had been aware of that the panel knew it was Bob Hope and just played along. He even said, "Three down, 47 to go!" 22:07

[@juliansinger]

+Zac M. Bennett's a perfectly nice man with a slightly selective memory, is all. Fairly normal.

[@carolv8450]

But I thought he said he was in a movie that nite? Or was that another one?

[@samdash4706]

The movie in question, That Certain Feeling, though hardly a masterpiece, was by no means terrible. It was a moderately amusing, run-of-the-mill, feel-good comedy ("with heart", as they say.) Incidentally, Bob Hope's adopted son Kelly Hope also played a very small role in the film.

[@GreatDarkWing0491]

Not only did the Giants and Dodgers each lose both of their double header home games that day, but the Yankees also lost both of the games they played in Chicago against the White Sox! Not a good day for New York baseball.

[@richardpoplis6777]

Bennett is very smart when it comes to sports....

[@richardpoplis6777]

All 4 panelists are very good when it comes to sports especially the women

[@robertjean5782]

He's been around the world and met many well known people dignitaries. Intelligent worlds largest publishing company 😊

[@robertjean5782]

​@@richardpoplis6777Dorothy was a investigative reporter for years 😊

[@michaelnivens6267]

why Is he telling the panel there Is more than one ( Redlegs ) - I thought they were supposed to figure It out themselves

[@hhale]

Joe Knuxall, as much a Cincinnati legend as "Big Klu", some would say bigger.

[@RobJazzful]

Harold Hale If he’s so big, why did you misspell his name? Nuxhall.

[@jvcomedy]

By stating that after doing WML in London he now values how much John Daly means to the show it seems to me that Bennett is actually dissing the host of WML London. Or at least implying he isn't as good as Daly.

[@Mandeley100]

I watched the British WML for years in the 50's and 60's and although Eamonn Andrews had a certain Irish charm (as is evidenced by his appearances on the panel) but he wasn't a patch on Mr Daly. In fact, the British version was a lot stiffer and less witty all round.

[@WhatsMyLine]

Mandeley100 I will be posting a complete episode of the 1950s BBC version in a few days, one of maybe only two surviving complete episodes.

[@JackDecker63]

+What's My Line? Will you be eventually (or have you already) posted all of the episodes from all the different versions of What's My Line? that were produced around the world? If not, please do. :-)

[@WhatsMyLine]

Jack Decker I wish I had such magic powers, Jack. The reason I've been able to post the CBS series is because it was made accessible to all of us in the first place via GSN.

[@JackDecker63]

+What's My Line? Wasn't WML on BBC? Don't they keep episodes archived? Don't they air them once in a while on BBC ... or at least late at night?

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

CINCINNATI REDS BASEBALL TEAM PASSPORT PHOTOGRAPHER

[@libertyann439]

Wow I used to wach Paul &Jerry Mahoney ! Dorothy and Arlene-cute!

[@robertjean5782]

Arlene gorgeous 😊

[@ronaldrain513]

Daly actually made a mistake calling Bob Hope "Robert" when his actual name was "Lesley". He changed it after a teacher, in school, doing an attendance check, referred to him as "Hope, Lesley"

[@SusanDofash]

He was known as Robert to several people back then. I watch a lot of old shows and have seen him called Robert a lot.

[@ronaldrain513]

@@SusanDofash Yes, Susan, but, basically, he was a comedian. Look up " Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope" in Wikipedia. I also have copies of his "Road" movies, with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour, and "The Princess and the Pirate", from an Internet site.

[@SusanDofash]

Ronald Rain I know he was a comedian and I know his name. I was just telling you I’ve heard a lot of people call him Robert.

[@ronaldrain513]

@@SusanDofash Yes, Susan. We all enjoy a laugh every once in a while. Are you familiar with "My Fair Lady", when Audrey Hepburn sings "The Rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain". Prior to that Rex Harrison refers to the Spanish Inquisition, although I can't imagine what this has to do with the original story. However, with the last name "Rain" and having a certain "ethnic" connection, I tell my brothers that it is not worth flying to Spain simply to be told to stay on the plane.

[@robertjean5782]

​@@SusanDofashstage name 😊

[@contardi]

This blindfold, or whatever this type is named, of Arlene, is so fancy !

[@neilmcdonald9164]

Linda Hope is still alive and aged 91🎩