What's My Line? - Maurice Evans; Alan King [panel] (Nov 27, 1960)

[@CdnGeoff]

Further proof, if any were needed, that Arlene Francis was a national treasure.

[@vitalyjohnson3514]

Bet she has a fine kuhunt.

[@kasperjoonatan6014]

Oh yes, she was more bennetty than Bennett.. "a girl for a light housekeeping" 😂😂

[@sandydog291]

I totally agree. I liked her husband too.

[@bluecamus5162]

Arlene probably waited YEARS for a chance to throw out that light house joke.

[@Widda68]

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[@tjbnyc76]

"You've got to have a girl to do the light housekeeping!" LOL! That last contestant was so cute, like a frightened puppy.

[@enriquesanchez2001]

Indeed. RIP 2006. He finally married and had three daughters.

[@wholeNwon]

@@enriquesanchez2001 Thank you for the follow up.

[@kimclayton2860]

Maurice made a great dad to Samantha in the Bewitched series. Fun to watch him quote Shakespeare and such in some of the episodes and he was in knowing he was primarily a stage actor. Love his speech and fun in this episode.

[@petersanders5321]

Never forget that Maurice Evans was "Dr. Zeus" in "Planet of the Apes." Such a distinguished voice.

[@erichanson426]

One reason I love these shows. The only place where I get to hear past actors/actresses talk out of character.

[@stephaniemccoy9602]

Always love it when Dorothy and Arlene makes the puns instead of Bennett. Cause you know it's Bennett's job to make the puns LOL.

[@moonlightray8493]

It's also hilarious when John makes a corny pun, then immediately grimaces at himself for it haha!

[@designsonyouinparis]

Maurice Evans was one of the most elegant actors of our times.

[@rmelin13231]

I found the last segment to be one of the most enjoyable, from start to finish. Mr. Force did a tremendous job, not only in fooling the panel, but in presenting himself. I hope he has led a happy life.

[@Bambi_Harris_Author]

I love how John always pretends to read the name however illegible - I am sure he knew the names before they came on, but its cute :-)

[@jackkomisar458]

He must have met with each guest before the show. He knew details of their occupations that he could only have learned from them. In one case, for example, the guest was a politician who had been appointed to an office that is normally an elective office,

[@paulrichards6894]

@@jackkomisar458 he was a great presenter....saw a few episodes with other people presenting.....they really show how great he was

[@andrealatham1284]

Of course he did.

[@juliansinger]

Miss Traylor was a dietician long enough that the accepted term became nutritionist, eventually. (She worked until at least 1981.) She says tended to gain weight while working, which is, at least, a good line for the newspapers. In the 50s, she was, says the Cumberland Evening Times, 'The East's foremost dietician for the famous,' and worked at Bill Brown's health resort in the Catskills, which was, for most of its existence, for men only. Worked with folks like Jackie Gleason and Danny Kaye. That burned down in 1958, so she moved to Seton Inn Spa. In 1973, she and her fellow workers there became, basically, co-owners of the place, in a profit-sharing venture. She seems to still be alive, at 96.

[@soulierinvestments]

Maurice Evans -- pronounced Morris -- one of the busiest actors of his time. Versatile too. His "Macbeth" broadcast was in its time one of the if not THE most widely-viewed performance of Macbeth ever. In a few years, he would become even more famous when the producers of "Bewitched" had the blinding genius to cast him as Samantha's ubber-sophisticated worldly British worlock-actor father. The joke there was that her father was sort of a ham -- and actually knew Shakespeare. Kept referring to him as "Bill."

[@savethetpc6406]

I thought I recognized him as Samantha's father! Gee, if the panel thought it was unusual that he was doing musical comedy, I wonder what they thought when he started doing "Bewitched!" I'm ashamed to say that's the only association I'd had with him before I saw this.

[@dancelli714]

These shows make me feel so good, I'm throwing away my pills.

[@igkoigko9950]

That works if the pills treat depression; otherwise think again.

[@gabesmith1933]

I love the bromance between Mr. Daly and Mr. Cerf. The world was a better place with these people in it.

[@troydante]

Best pun ever by Arlene!

[@wholeNwon]

It was indeed and then the product of an agile mind.

[@bloodgrss]

Just saw Maurice Evans in a mostly forgotten B=film of 1951, KIND LADY. For those who only know him as The father on Bewiched, his suave and evil villain there is a masterpiece showing his range within the elegance of all his acting.

[@pronkerpronker6708]

I love the way Daly says "Heavenly Days!" just like Marion Jordan used to on Fibber McGee ad Molly.

[@hawktchr8]

I love how they pronounced “theatre” and “again” - “theatuh” and “a-GAIN” ! What an enchanting time in New York!

[@jeffdawson2786]

Evans was the first voice of the Winnie the Pooh records of my childhood.

[@VahanNisanian]

I like how back then, they used to make a big deal out of the fact that a certain film was in technicolor.

[@neilmidkiff]

It *was* a big deal -- a cumbersome and expensive process, with a complicated camera that exposed three separate strips of film at once to make an RGB color separation right in the camera. But the color fidelity and the stability of the dyes used in the prints are still stunning; I've seen vintage prints made in the late '30s and early '40s that are still bright and unfaded.

[@dianemutchler9213]

Arlene Francis, in my book, had the BEST pun ever on this show with the last guest's occupation. Wow! She is so bright, so witty, so much fun!

[@PeteTechGuy]

You are so right. Bennet did several puns per episode, most fairly painful, but this one by Arlene was far better than any he’d ever done

[@erichanson426]

Till this episode, and some goggle research, I never knew that the Man who played Maurice on Bewitched was named Maurice. You couldn't ask for an easier way to remember your character's name.

[@wholeNwon]

But not the pronunciation.

[@Merrida100]

And Maurice Evans was also in Batman and Rosemary's Baby? How can I not remember these performances. He has such a strong, powerful and charismatic persona. So much elegance and pleasure.

[@jubalcalif9100]

He became an American citizen and did a wonderful job of organizing stage shows for the troops during WWII !!

[@robertmelson2130]

Dorothy was definitely acting chipper tonight. Good to see her old self back after some weeks absence.

[@gailsirois7175]

She was not absent..I watch these in order..she was there

[@enriquesanchez2001]

Tom Force passed away after a sudden illness on August 6, 2006, he finally married and had three daughters RIP 🙏

[@leesher1845]

Maurice Evans seemed like such a refined gentleman. I didn’t see him in much as I was too young, but I did enjoy him in Bewitched. 😜

[@williamlynnroden]

@Lee Sher. And to think there was a time the network had trouble getting Bewitched to "fly" in some Southern states. Now I don't know a Southerner that can't name every witch and warlock that appeared (or disappeared) from that very successful series.

[@beadyeyedbrat]

I've always loved Maurice Evans' voice.

[@lilybean835]

Every episode John says of a contestant's work: This is loads of fun.

[@jerrysky4598]

It's sometimes mentioned as to the chemistry betwixt actors in roles, in that when Mr. Evans played the part of Samantha's Father on 'Bewitched', the majority of watchers readily accepted the Father/Daughter love aspect of the two characters.

[@Prof_Tickles92]

I thought Maurice Evans would have had that deep Dr. Zaius voice

[@generalyellor8188]

The ape appliances affected of of the actors' voices.

[@MaggillaKutz71]

That last contestant looks like he could be a great friend if you ever needed one

[@gbrumburgh]

The musical Maurice was starring in, Tenderloin. ran for six months (October 1960-April 1961) and he was nominated for a Tony Award.

[@dgoldg]

Is it bad that the only thing I know Maurice Evans from is playing Samantha's father on Bewitched? ;)

[@LarsRyeJeppesen]

I don't know him at all, so no

[@princeharming8963]

I have learned so much about a great many 'accomplished' and noted personalities of the past by simply watching hundreds of WML? episodes here. And one of the things that stands out to me is the number of television stars who were in simple weekly shows in the 60's.. but actually hailed from enormous careers in live theater. I'm sure by now a number of us almost feel as though we know Arlene, Dorothy and Bennett personally. And I always thought how neat it would be if somehow someone like Cerf were to know, that because of the miracle of youtube, he (as well as A & D) would now be known and appreciated by untold future generations.

[@marvinfanny8989]

I remember reading somewhere that he was a Shakespearean actor.

[@sandydog291]

@gcjerryusc I noticed that too.

[@CBright7831]

He also played Dr. Zaius in the first and second movies of the Planet of the Apes franchise.

[@kasperjoonatan6014]

It is funny how they almost never ask about locations of the workplaces, if the guests are from NYC. I think that would sometimes help a lot, if they find out e.g. that a person works in midtown or lower Manhattan.

[@battlegirldeb]

The Panel was on fire until the last contestant.

[@henrygrove100]

It's the only TV I watch

[@walterbyrne5888]

Funny that Maurice Evans had such a distinguished career yet he's remembered as Samantha's father.

[@henrygrove100]

1968 played Hutch character in Rosemary's Baby a brilliant actor!

[@jubalcalif9100]

Amen to that ! He was sheer perfection as Hutch in "Rosemary's Baby" !

[@hoteldennis]

The last contestant, Thomas Force, has a voice that sounds very similar to the MGM cartoon character Droopy which was voiced by Bill Thompson

[@jubalcalif9100]

I love Droopy's catch phrase: "Hello folks...." :-)

[@jayrice5156]

LOVE Arlene's dress!

[@dancelli714]

"CLEEE ONTELL !"

[@juliansinger]

Can't find hide nor hair of Mr. Force. Does seem as if he didn't have to be lonely in his duties, though; the Coast Guard had a policy of having a four-man rotation at Romer Shoal, with three men on duty, and the fourth having a week's leave. (They automated Romer Shoal in 1966; it got a bit munged in Superstorm Sandy, but preservationists appear to have fixed the most urgent problems.)

[@loissimmons6558]

Can't seem to find hide nor hair of Sandra Kelsey, either. While I am estimating that she is 20 years older than me, if she stayed in the profession, we would have been in the same profession at the same time (I became a broker in 1983) in the NYC metro area. Of course, there are a lot of brokers in the NYC metro area and I only met a small percentage of them. It also would seem that her firm, Whitmore Bruce & Co bit the dust a long, long time ago. I've never heard of it, or seen any part of their name incorporated into an acquiring brokerage firm's name. I never heard of them and while I would not necessarily know about an individual broker, I knew a lot of the competitor's firms that were around during the 20+ years that I was in the business.

[@jacquelinebell6201]

Good joke Arlene! Lol. Better than most of Bennett's jokes! 😄

[@feraudyh]

Yeah, Bennett. Nice guy, but groanworthy.

[@wholeNwon]

Everyone knew that Bennett was saying to himself, "Why didn't I think of that?"

[@shuroom57]

No doubt! She K*LLED it!

[@bluecamus5162]

There's an out-of-marriage great-grandparent in my family tree and the father's name is lost to history. All I know about him is that he was a lighthouse keeper from Michigan.

[@chuckbracken]

Right before bewitched started in 64!

[@loissimmons6558]

Apparently there was no show on Nov. 20, 1960, although any announcement that John Daly might have made about that fact was not part of the surviving portion of the Nov. 13 episode.

[@richatlarge462]

I was caught off guard by that as well.

[@sandrageorge3488]

I saw one dated for Nov. 20, 1960

[@sandrageorge3488]

The day I was born.

[@accomplice55]

@@sandrageorge3488: These are all shown in order, and it's not there.

[@savethetpc6406]

"Melon-domed?" I've gotta try to find that Time Magazine article now! I tried looking up "melandome," "melindome," "melondome" and every other spelling I could think of both in print dictionaries and online, but came up with nothing close that they could have meant. I certainly would not think of John Charles Daly during this period as "melon-domed" either, though.

[@savethetpc6406]

Got it! See: content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,871848,00.html. You have to subscribe to read the whole article (which I did not do), but right there in the first sentence, they indeed call him "melon-domed." I still don't think it fits at all. The term makes me think of someone with a round, bald head. (The perfect example, of course, is Muppet scientist, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew.) John may have been losing his hair, but he was neither bald nor round-headed.

[@kimfuhrmann7700]

I have a subscription, and this is what Time Magazine said was the crux of John Daly's disagreement with ABC: "Daly's main trouble with ABC has always been that it is something of a bargain-basement network, fighting hard to win ratings and income away from its two bigger competitors through relentless peddling of westerns and cop shows." Thanks for the link! And maybe they meant melon-headed in the sense that he's very smart--melon-headed in the metaphorical sense rather than literally. Or maybe there is a melon that is elongated like his head!

[@savethetpc6406]

Kim Fuhrmann Thanks so much for sharing that information with us! You may be right about what they meant, but the only definitions of "melon dome" that I could find had to do with architecture, and yourfreedictionary.com, (which takes its definition from Bennett Cerf's Random House Dictionary, btw), cites "melon-head" as meaning a dimwit or a fool -- quite the opposite. On the other hand, I'd imagine that Jim Henson & co. chose the melon shape and name for Dr. Bunsen Honeydew to signify someone with a lot of intelligence, so maybe the term could be used either way, even though I can't find that definition for it. According to Wikipedia, "Melon Heads is the name given to legendary beings and urban legends in parts of Michigan, Ohio, and Connecticut...," but this is not helpful. ;)

[@kimfuhrmann7700]

What the? Legendary beings in Michigan??? ha ha!

[@gailsirois7175]

Reference to his supposed baldness...cerf did not have any more hair...in fact, less

[@henrygrove100]

They use to be called fat farms.

[@jubalcalif9100]

Is that where the "Battle of the Bulge" took place ??

[@michaelkuypers9798]

The lighthouse keeper was from Climax, MI? I guess that's why he was last.

[@jubalcalif9100]

The last two lighthouse keepers that I saw looked like Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson !

[@generalyellor8188]

Dr. Zaius lives!

[@dmnemaine]

In a few years from this broadcast, most people would know Maurice Evans as Samantha's father on Bewitched, and then a few years after that as Dr. Zaius in Planet Of The Apes.

[@savethetpc6406]

Did anyone else notice the second contestant's (stockbroker's) necklace? (around 9:15) It looks like a copy of Arlene's heart pendant! Arlene, on the other hand, was wearing one of those large necklaces with which she may not have worn her pendant at all (and if she did, the larger necklace was hiding it).

[@neilmidkiff]

Someone recently shared on Facebook an interview article in which she said that she wore the heart pendant inside her dress on a longer chain even when she was wearing another necklace with which it would have clashed.

[@BeIIeDoc24]

What were they "all wishing" John? I heard Arlene mention John's wife, Virginia. Family thing?

[@BeIIeDoc24]

oh! okay! thank you :)

[@richatlarge462]

@@BeIIeDoc24 I no longer see the original reply to you, so I'm left wondering as well. I find this on Wikipedia: He married twice, first to Margaret Griswell Neal in January 1937. The marriage resulted in two sons, John Neal Daly and John Charles Daly III, and a daughter Helene Grant "Bunsy" Daly. It ended in divorce in April 1959. On December 22, 1960, Daly married Virginia Warren, daughter of then-chief justice Earl Warren, in San Francisco. They were married for over 30 years, until Daly's death. The marriage yielded three children: John Warren Daly, John Earl Jameson Daly, and Nina Elisabeth Daly.

[@brookehanley3659]

Arlene looks gorgeous and younger than ever

[@henrygrove100]

I saw one with Bert Lahr maybe there were two with him!???

[@WhatsMyLine]

Bert Lahr was on WML 4 times, actually. One of the shows is thought to be lost, and two of them are already posted to this channel. The one I'm missing is the one from 1/6/63. I want to ask you again, Paul-- I'm sure you mean no harm-- but please use the "reply" feature when you make a comment that continues a train of thought. If you need more explanation on this, I'm happy to help you understand how to do this. Otherwise, when you make a whole new post like you've been doing, it really clutters up the comments section, and no one else but me can possibly understand what you're referring to, since your new comments will show up separated from the old ones. Thanks!

[@Gioveolympus]

Classy people.

[@dancelli714]

The free guesses I like, especially when someone guesses right. THE WALK OF SHAME was awful especially that Professor woUld tell some lady to hop or worse, man, that was CRINGE TIME. I wish one of the contestants said; "HELL,NO !!!

[@philippapay4352]

Dan Celli - I'm with you. I wish they'd said, "Hell no, I'm not a trained monkey." And with Dorothy and anyone who followed her lead, including John, "I know my words, you don't need to touch me." Sometimes it got a bit creepy and I really like Dorothy as a panelist. But these folks were not trained performers and were much too compliant, like letting John answer for them when he didn't need to or he had no clue what the job entailed. Sometimes it was clear that he was off base.

[@henrygrove100]

You are amazing to start this thread as what's My Line is my favorite shows. Are there any episodes you think you are missing but haven't found? Or located?

[@WhatsMyLine]

I'm only missing one show that is known to have survived and is available from the reruns on GSN. I'm working on it, though! Have a couple of leads on tracking it down. There are at least a couple of shows held by archives that have never been rerun, and which can only be seen by going directly to the archives to see them in person. I'm glad you enjoy the videos. :)

[@henrygrove100]

Do you know who the mystery guest was and approximate year of missing episode?

[@WhatsMyLine]

Paul Edelstein It's the show from 1/6/63 with Bert Lahr that I haven't tracked down a copy of yet.

[@henrygrove100]

How would you begin to find it?

[@WhatsMyLine]

Paul Edelstein Fellow collectors. There are a couple of people who I know that have it on VHS tape but can't locate it, and then the show needs to be transferred to DVD. There's a guy with a trading website who has it, but he's temporarily not actively trading. The usual channels for this sort of thing.

[@danielfronc4304]

It's nice to see Alan King when he was young, slim and funny. Later in his career he hung out with the mafia, got fat and angry. Not too entertaining then I'll tell you!

[@georgealexander141]

Dr. Zaius, you sly devil you

[@Enthrox]

I can't help but wonder if the show would have a similar success, if it were to be revived today. There would certainly be a lot of peculiar lines, even more so than the ones we get to see here. Still, I reckon it would be pretty bland, especially to us who've watched the original ones, that and also because most of today's showbiz personalities have the charisma of a sock, to put it bluntly.

[@MrUhwoody]

Make that a dirty, stinky sock..

[@savethetpc6406]

MrUhwoody I literally laughed out loud when I read your comment!

[@Bambi_Harris_Author]

It wouldnt last a second today. This show's appeal was based on its charm and wit, qualities sorely lacking in any part of todays offerings - it seems nowadays there is always the addition of violence or nudity or crassness

[@wholeNwon]

@@Bambi_Harris_Author And vulgar language.

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

I could just imagine the occupations: "condom maker", "dildo manufacturer", "TikTok twerker."

[@henrygrove100]

They look slightly alike but I don't have my reading glasses right now

[@henrygrove100]

Oh what's my line did you see Rosemary's Baby Maurice Evans played a character named Hutch but you probably were not born then

[@WhatsMyLine]

No, I wasn't born then, but I have seen Rosemary's Baby many times-- I just didn't remember the reference. Thanks for explaining. May I please ask you to respond to comments by hitting reply on the original thread from now on, rather than making a separate new post as you generally do? By making a separate, new post, no one who reads your comments will have any idea what you're talking about or referring to. I only know because I read every single comment posted by anyone, but even if other people do that (which no one would or could), they still won't be able to tell what you're referring to because the posts don't sort in order on KZbin. Thanks!

[@aliksahnda]

I would never have recognised the "Hutch" from "Rosemary's Baby" as the actor Maurice Evans from this installment. This is what I love about WML and its contributors....so many links and recognitions are made.

[@gailsirois7175]

Melon-domed ??? Look who's talking Baldy Cerf

[@yadayada9581]

Dr Zaius!!!

[@kristabrewer9363]

Maurice Evans was a REVEREND? and he played on a show like BEWITCHED?!

[@neilmidkiff]

As I understand it, they're jokingly giving him that title because he played a minister in the Broadway musical TENDERLOIN in which he was currently appearing.

[@henrygrove100]

Are you Marice Evans? arlene said

[@MrJimmy440]

The “ Cleon Tel “ LOL

[@miketheyunggod2534]

Dr. Zaus.

[@MidnightWarrior1976]

This lady gives stock advice? I wonder how her clients did.

[@henrygrove100]

Hutch

[@WhatsMyLine]

Pardon me?

[@henrygrove100]

He looks like my Uncle Alvin

[@WhatsMyLine]

Does anyone not look like your Uncle Alvin? ;) Who now, Maurice Evans? Cause he and Van Cliburn don't look anything like each other, so I don't understand how they could both look like your uncle. . .

[@lindanitzschke1315]

Love these videos, but I have to admit that the more I watch them, the more I get tired of Daly's long and usually unnecessary explanations.

[@BellaFirenze]

She's a dietician at a reducing farm? Yikes!

[@michaeldanello3966]

I know it's impolite but why would anyone go to a diet/weight reducing spa that was operated by someone who was overweight? It doesn't take a genius to reflect that if the process worked why doesn't she weigh less.

[@augerontgen8240]

To call Daly melone-domed is a joke on the cost of John Daly and not fair from a collegue, because he cannot take it without accepting that he, Daly, is a clown. It seems Bennet Cerf is jealous of Daly, who is a real genius of Logic and Rehtoric (except some biological subsumptions), while Bennet Cerf is just a Publisher and no real poet, not to mention there is no american literature at all.

[@twinsonic]

Just chill..they were friends. If you had any you would know how to make fun of each other.

[@augerontgen8240]

@@twinsonic You long for company because you feel bored by yourself? That's the eternal problem of the average people. Why don't you watch "Britian's got talent" or stuff like that?

[@michaelmayoh656]

It's a joke between friends Lighten up!

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

DIETICIAN AT REDUCING FARM STOCKBROKER LIGHTHOUSE KEEEPER

[@yeahnoonecaresifyouarefirst]

Today in no one cares: Maurice Evans died around the time I was conceived Cereal killers, or......? 😂

[@markxxx21]

John Daley calls him Morris

[@TheKelJacob]

Markxxx His name WAS pronounced Morris, as is Maurice in England.