MYSTERY GUEST: Polly Bergen [singer/actress and panel member of "To Tell the Truth"] PANEL: Arlene Francis, Tom Poston, Dorothy Kilgallen, Bennett Cerf
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@georgemartin1436 Жыл бұрын
Dorothy really nailed the Scotland Yard S/D down fast! She was a great detective.
@michaeldanello39666 жыл бұрын
I can't remember how many times that Arlene Francis has blurted out the exactly correct prefession at the same time that Daly ended the round. It had to be dozens or more. And always accompanied by her delightful laughter!
@donnacook8994 Жыл бұрын
Polly Bergen was so funny! Adorable! What a wonderful sense of humor, and just beautiful! 💕💕💕👏👏👏
@leesher18452 жыл бұрын
Fabulous reaction by the audience to Polly Bergen!
@community19497 жыл бұрын
The Polly Bergen part: Hilarious - now I understand why my parents were screaming their heads off with laughter at these shows. "Do you sometimes weigh over 250 lbs". I remember mom and daddy laughing and laughing. Good memories.
@leesher18453 жыл бұрын
Polly Bergen was a hoot. Great job! She seemed like a nice person and was certainly smart and funny. ❤️
@michellecalling5 жыл бұрын
I wish they had color TV on the market, so that I can see Arlene's and Dorothy's dresses better. I kinda wish those dresses were around today.
@bettycogswell98514 жыл бұрын
Me too...
@neilmidkiff4 жыл бұрын
Color TV had already begun, but most programming was still in black and white, and most homes still had only b/w sets. That was true for our family too until the middle '60s, so I remember seeing lots of NBC peacock logos in grayscale on the special programs that were broadcast in color. Thus I can't give specific memories of what kinds of shows went to color first. But I do know that color required more expensive equipment, more light (and thus heat) on the set, more technical staff, more expense all around, so it wasn't till the last season of the CBS run of WML in 1966/67 that it was broadcast in color. And even then it was archived on b/w kinescope film just as it always had been, since color videotape would have been many times as expensive to make and not really usable: color video gear was found only in TV studios, mostly for temporary time shifting and pre-recording. It wasn't affordable for homes or even for the Goodson-Todman office. Kinescopes could be viewed with a regular 16mm film projector. So even if this season had been broadcast in color as the final season was, it wouldn't have been saved in color for us to see.
@bogieviews2 жыл бұрын
@@neilmidkiff I know for sure that Bonanza was in color in 1963. I used to ride my Honda to my friend's house on Sunday to watch it because they had a color tv.
@patriceodom2553 Жыл бұрын
Me also!
@jamesfox25792 жыл бұрын
The second guest had beauuuutiful penmanship!💕
@drumbum3.1422 жыл бұрын
One of my FAVOURITE Mystery Guest Voices ☺️😊😊☺️☺️☺️☺️🎨😍☺️😊☺️
@rr7firefly5 жыл бұрын
Polly Bergen was extraordinarily beautiful -- and charming.
@kristabrewer93634 жыл бұрын
I don't hate her, but she extremely ANNOYING!
@alansorensen59033 жыл бұрын
@@kristabrewer9363 Again? Not (IMO).
@robertfiller86343 жыл бұрын
@@alansorensen5903 Krista Brewer - your comment is annoying. Polly Bergen was such a beauty - I had a crush on her when I was just a kid in the mid to late 1950s
@ToddSF9 жыл бұрын
Polly Bergen (as she cleverly suggested) was one of the original panelists (1956-61) on the original version of the Goodson-Todman game show "To Tell the Truth" (which ran 1956-68). Tom Poston would soon become a panelist on that show (1959-67) and work with Polly Bergen. So they worked together on TTTT for a couple of seasons before Miss Bergen left -- she was replaced by Peggy Cass on the panel. I remember seeing Miss Bergen in magazine ads in the latter 1960's, promoting a line of beauty products and cosmetics that bore her name as a brand.
@savethetpc15476 жыл бұрын
I didn't realize that timeline and had assumed that Polly and Tom were already working together on TTTT at the time of this broadcast. When Tom thought he knew who she was, I suspected that he probably did, because he may have known her well enough to recognize her disguised voice. Boy, was I wrong! ;-D
@alansorensen59033 жыл бұрын
@@savethetpc1547 me too.
@leesher18452 жыл бұрын
I loved the cursive of the contestants when they signed in and I’m so sorry that they have eliminated cursive in so many schools.
@leesher18452 жыл бұрын
That Arlene was smart; she figured out marriage counselor.
@nancypine99526 жыл бұрын
Greta Andersen, the second contestant who was the Danish long-distance swimmer, is, at this point in June 2018, still alive.
@dariawells74382 жыл бұрын
Updating this to say she is STILL alive!!! She's 94.
@beadyeyedbrat10 ай бұрын
She passed away February 6, 2023.
@jimbeasley19319 жыл бұрын
This show aired the day I turned 5 years old. These shows bring back so many good memories. Thanks for posting them.
@lucindasommer7208 жыл бұрын
I had just turned 6 in April.
@griffcampbell56957 жыл бұрын
This was also my fifth birthday.
@savethetpc15476 жыл бұрын
Happy Birthday, +Jim Beasley! :-)
@savethetpc15476 жыл бұрын
An unusual episode in that the panel ultimately guessed all three of the regular contestants, yet John flipped all the cards for each one of them anyway! I agree with his logic, especially since they had all come considerable distances to be on the show, and the specifics of each of the first two contestants were hard to come up with, even though the panel did guess the basics of their lines; and Arlene came up with the correct answer right after John had flipped the cards on account of time for the last contestant.
@miketheyunggod25345 жыл бұрын
This is the first of three times Polly has been the mystery guest. Watch all three one after another to see how she aged. Pretty cool to see.
@VahanNisanian10 жыл бұрын
Polly Bergen is so cute here!
@kristabrewer93634 жыл бұрын
Polly Bergen is generally very ANNOYING!!
@donnawoodford66413 жыл бұрын
Her answer "To Tell the Truth..." gave her identity away. Not actually a smart thing to do, in my opinion.
@jackkomisar4582 жыл бұрын
@@donnawoodford6641 She might have wanted to be identified. Bennett Cerf, in an interview for a Columbia University oral history project, said, "The funny thing with mystery guests on “What's My Line?" was that they didn't want us not to guess them. It was a loss of face. After fooling us for a couple of minutes, they began to get frantic and practically tell us who they were." It seems to me, after watching many of these episodes, that some of the mystery guests really did want to stump the panel and others wanted to be identified."
@ChrisHansonCanada Жыл бұрын
@@kristabrewer9363 For such a fanatical Christian, you certainly are judgmental.
@michaelnivens62673 жыл бұрын
Polly Is delightful and a fine actress
@philipellis32272 жыл бұрын
It’s so refreshing to see intelligent , polite, charming people for a change!
@GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath Жыл бұрын
And misogynistic too
@GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath Жыл бұрын
Cerf was so charming he charmed people out of $42 million, some peoples life savings with his “famous writer’s school” scam.
@thesweeples3266 Жыл бұрын
@@GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath do you feel better about yourself now?
@GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath Жыл бұрын
@@thesweeples3266 your ignorance is boundless
@donnacook8994 Жыл бұрын
@@GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath and Sweeples: How about let's exhibit some of the comradarie the panel exudes.
@loissimmons65586 жыл бұрын
All of the non-celebrity challengers came from quite a distance. It was still a few months before the first Boeing 707 passenger jet service would be introduced, however. United Airlines had to provide its travel services with prop planes.
@alansorensen59033 жыл бұрын
Train travel was a big adventure then, with gourmet dining and smoking dome cars, lounges and "new" friends from all over the country. And tunnels of love, such as in Hitch's NBNW closing scene.
@SuperWinterborn10 жыл бұрын
I think Dorothy Kilgallen would have done a splendid job at Scotland Yard, namely as a Detective. That should have been HER Line!
@WhatsMyLine10 жыл бұрын
Well, she was a reporter after all!
@savethetpc640610 жыл бұрын
What's My Line? and SuperWinterborn And from what I've read, I think she started out her career as an investigative reporter tracking violent crimes.
@WhatsMyLine10 жыл бұрын
SaveThe TPC That's right, she did, and continued to cover some big headline murder trials throughout her career.
@WhatsMyLine9 жыл бұрын
jslasher1 Thank you so much for that insightful addition to the comments here. Which you +1'd yourself.
@jayterry97509 жыл бұрын
What's My Line? Some People just don't understand WML...To ME, I remember the 50's as a time of "Highballs" ( movies = cigarettes and drinks ), Dead Red Nail Polish, Fashion, "Stereotypes" in Fat People, Woman, Manners....Culture, History... and we called it, "Good, Clean Fun"....WML ......It's really just stupid to put "Today's Crap" on such a valuable part of these United States.........THIS IS WHAT IT WAS........Respect the changes we go through, ADMIRE rather than INSULT.....LEARN
@randysills44184 жыл бұрын
I loved Polly Bergen here! When I was a young sprig about a hundred years ago, I didn't like Ms. Bergen because she was the new wife of James Garner in a Doris Day movie...and I felt sorry for Doris... Polly seemed a lot of fun and I felt so sad when she died...
@LarsRyeJeppesen7 жыл бұрын
Cool to see a fellow dane from Copenhagen :)
@janeiwasduncan84636 жыл бұрын
But she became a United States citizen and swam for our team but did her great feat as a Dane!
@drumbum3.1429 ай бұрын
@@janeiwasduncan8463 Seems that this Beautiful Olympic Calibre Long Distance Swimmer 🏊♀️🏊♀️🏊♀️ passed away earlier this year at age of ninety five years young.. .😥😥😥😥😔😔🙁☹️☹️🏊♀️🏊♀️🏊♀️🏊♀️🏊♀️🏊♀️💐🎨💐🕊
@jrm88993 жыл бұрын
Polly.....so cute and charming. Always loved her!
@billgrey Жыл бұрын
Very good actress, as well. Good performance in the Winds of War Series in the 80's with Robert Mitchum
@jackkomisar4583 жыл бұрын
Until recently, I hadn't realized how hard John worked to avoid causing embarrassment to the contestants. In this episode, at 10:00, Arlene asks Mrs. Sonnichsen if her work is artistic. Mrs. Sonnichsen says, "yes", which is the wrong answer. John then goes through his "we have very broad terms of reference" speech and tells Mrs. Sonnichsen that he has to have a "no" to flip over a card. So John overrules the contestant and she ends up laughing.
@lllowkee65332 жыл бұрын
Daly was a media genus. Wish he was could could see the ‘internet’ !!!! WWW
@orangesherbert7752 жыл бұрын
Young Tom Poston was adorable!
@kentetalman9008 Жыл бұрын
I remember an even younger (and funnier) Tom Poston, on the old Steve Allen show.
@dannydoc19695 жыл бұрын
Polly Bergen would often play the "dumb" card on TTTT, but she in fact was extremely smart, and it was a calculated act on her part. She was beautiful, intelligent and very funny.
@kristabrewer93634 жыл бұрын
To say that she PLAYED Dumb implies that the host and the panel KNEW how long-winded she was. There have been MANY times when Bud would hurry her along! I didn't hate her, but she was a very useless character on that show
@robertfiller86343 жыл бұрын
@@kristabrewer9363 Your comments are very useless.
@sgsmozart Жыл бұрын
When I would watch TTTT , I could never decide if she were a real dunderhead or a actual comedian ...
@moonlightray8493 Жыл бұрын
Polly was downright infuriating to watch on TTTT... Her questions weren't "dumb" per se, just completely incoherent. It felt like she was just wasting time with her rambling, and it was especially frustrating when the contestants had a genuinely interesting story that I would've liked to hear them being interviewed about!
@hopicard10 жыл бұрын
O yes, I can imagine Bennett Cerf as a judge in a beauty contest :)
@savethetpc640610 жыл бұрын
hopicard Like a kid in a candy store! :)
@elisabethlinz42563 жыл бұрын
@@savethetpc6406 Haha, exactly!
@GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath Жыл бұрын
They don’t allow groping anymore
@keithnaylor19815 ай бұрын
Thrilling to see Polly Bergen again! She brightened up TO TELL THE TRUTH for a long time with her beauty and wit!
@vintagetvandexciting8 жыл бұрын
who would have thought both polly bergen and tom poston reunited on "to tell the truth" later on (bergen as this episode aired was already a regular)
@shirleyrombough81734 жыл бұрын
Interesting that Dorothy said she'd rather have the position of the head of Scotland Yard than any other. And that drive was her undoing- her quest to learn the assassin of John Kennedy. I wish that she had been less so.
@shirleyrombough81733 жыл бұрын
Oh so do I. She might have lived a long and happy life. I hate to watch the episodes after her death. In fact I check. If the episode does not include Dorothy I just don't watch it.
@epaddon10 жыл бұрын
Polly's five years on the To Tell The Truth panel was the golden age of that show's run in the Collyer period. I loved her feistiness and her backward sense of logic when explaining her vote and the show I think lost something when she left in late 61 to pursue film roles on the west coast. In regard to this mystery guest appearance, Polly would never forget being guessed as Jackie Gleason and kept referring to it in the postgame of all of her subsequent MG appearances on the show.
@savethetpc640610 жыл бұрын
Polly Bergen's mystery guest appearance here was certainly a lot of fun! I just love it when the panel is totally flummoxed (as John Daly might say) and goes off on the wrong track! "To Tell the Truth" is another panel show that I remember fondly from my childhood, though Polly Bergen as a panelist was apparently before my time. I'm sure I'll be seeking out episodes of that show here on KZbin eventually, but for now I'm being pretty systematic about watching these WML episodes in order, and I can't afford to develop a second KZbin addiction! ;)
@xoStarstruck4 жыл бұрын
What a coincidence! I've just watched Greta Anderson on "To Tell the Truth". I then felt like watching an episode of WML and ended up here, where Greta is the guest again.
@Retroscoop4 жыл бұрын
Just like it is interesting to hear about how the name Scotland Yard originates, I invite all of you visitors to google how the word "cockpit" was invented, that too is a very interesting one, leading you back to London....
@neilmidkiff4 жыл бұрын
I missed this before: at 13:34 Bennett asks, "which do you prefer, the English Channel or Channel 2?" The CBS flagship station in NYC, WCBS-TV, broadcast on VHF channel 2. So his question would have made sense to local viewers but not necessarily everywhere. I grew up in Kansas City, where the local CBS affiliate broadcast on channel 5 from the mid-50s until the early 1980s as KCMO-TV.
@allenjones3130 Жыл бұрын
Polly's falsetto was hilarious!
@zarabada61254 жыл бұрын
Ah. So this is the source of the apocryphal story about Scotland Yard's name. I've seen comments on a TTTT episode refer to the same story. The name Scotland Yard for the police headquarters comes from the original site being next to Great Scotland Yard. Great Scotland Yard, in turn, got its name for nearby buildings being the chosen residence of the Scottish court when they visited London before the union of the two crowns.
@jackkomisar4583 жыл бұрын
According to the "History of the Metropolitan Police", which I was able to access on the Wayback Machine, "The exact origin of the name [Scotland Yard] is not clear and the following two stories have both gained credence at various times: 1. It is said the location had been the site of a residence owned by the Kings of Scotland before the Union and used and occupied by them and/or their ambassadors when in London, and known as 'Scotland'. The courtyard was later used by Sir Christopher Wren and known as 'Scotland Yard'. 2. Number 4 Whitehall Place backed onto a court called Great Scotland Yard, one of three streets incorporating the words 'Scotland Yard' in its name. The street names are said to have derived from the land being owned by a man called Scott during the Middle Ages."
@juanettebutts97824 жыл бұрын
Mrs. Sonnichsen had gorgeous handwriting! It was a downright shame cursive writing wasn't taught for a few years, reinstated only this past September 2019.
@stevekru65183 жыл бұрын
Admittedly it’s not mutually exclusive but wouldn’t you agree math, reading, history, and just about EVERY academic subject is more important than handwriting, especially when keyboarding has replaced almost all writing?
@RoosterPisces2U Жыл бұрын
No. Handwriting is just as valuable as other subjects. I worked for a middle school where computer, science, and aerospace were the primary focus. Although EVERYthing was done on computer the CEO insisted that cursive writing be taught as it is artistic and uses the creative side of the brain, thus establishing balance in skills. Also without cursive writing a student will never be able to read the Constitution or original works by literary masters.
@Lighthammer184 ай бұрын
@@RoosterPisces2Uor a doctor's note
@jyutzler4 жыл бұрын
"Kansas?" "No, Scotland"
@xoStarstruck4 жыл бұрын
That made me chuckle!
@horatiohornblower56263 жыл бұрын
How did Dorothy zero in on scotland yard immediately?
@lllowkee65332 жыл бұрын
Good question. It happened a lot!
@ChrisHansonCanada Жыл бұрын
*_Detective Superintendent at Scotland Yard_* *_Professional Distance Swimmer_* *_Marriage Counselor_*
@galileocan3 жыл бұрын
Dorothy's comment before the gender of the Mystery Guest was even known about the feminine screams being misleading is extremely suspect. It's almost like she knew the Mystery Guest was a female making the feminine screams out of place. She then tried to backtrack those comments because it made her seem like she already was aware of who the Mystery Guest was. Very odd....
@wholeNwon4 жыл бұрын
If Polly Bergen hadn't smoked, she might still be with us.
@juanettebutts97824 жыл бұрын
Smoking was thought of as elegant, sophisticated and fashionable back then. It was permitted almost everywhere: restaurants, movie cinemas, airplanes, even hospitals. Ashtrays were in every room of the home. The interiors of cars reeked from ashtrays and old smoke. I am exceedingly happy those days are over!
@timothydouglas79494 жыл бұрын
She was 84 when she died. I hope to live that long.
@oldhippie814 жыл бұрын
@@timothydouglas7949 I'm 78. I hope i live that long:-)
@tugginalong21 күн бұрын
The questions they could ask back then would get you crucified today.
@kasperjoonatan60143 жыл бұрын
l thought Poston was spelled wrong; must be Boston 🙂
@creative-community-cafe Жыл бұрын
As a marriage counsellor,you BNEVER teach ANYTHING, but are there as a support for the client
@paulawerchowsky926 Жыл бұрын
Why does John flip over all the cards, when the panel won?
@beadyeyedbrat9 ай бұрын
Greta Andersen lived until February 2023 and died at the age of 95 in Solvang, California.
@GeeBee909 Жыл бұрын
Daily was not pleased when Poston said "not you John, the mystery guest" (look at his eyes and he becomes a bit flustered)
@feraudyh Жыл бұрын
The moment I saw that Danish woman, I thought "Long Distance Swimmer"
@troydante5 жыл бұрын
It isn’t often that John Charles Daly makes a vocabulary mistake ...
@preppysocks2095 жыл бұрын
if you are referring to "me" rather than "I," it is a mistake of grammar rather than vocabulary
@shirleyrombough81734 жыл бұрын
preppy socks - Actually "to me" is correct. The preposition always takes the objective case.
@neilmidkiff4 жыл бұрын
@@shirleyrombough8173 Are we talking about the same thing? I assumed that Troy meant 16:55, where John said "if it was me .. or if it was I." So there's no preposition involved, no reason to put "to" inside the quotation marks. "I" is correct, as the subject case is used after a linking verb such as any form of "be"--formally called the predicate nominative. I'm surprised that John didn't also correct himself on the grammatical mood and put this contrary-to-fact statement in the subjunctive: "if it were I" similar to "if I were you."
@leesher18453 жыл бұрын
They shouldn’t have told the panel that he was from Scotland.
@rapunzelz55205 жыл бұрын
They should not have said he was from scotland
@shirleyrombough81734 жыл бұрын
What was Polly Bergen known for?
@michaelnivens62673 жыл бұрын
Cape Fear, Days Of Wine and Roses , Move Over Darling and other movies
@beadyeyedbrat10 ай бұрын
How rude to ask about the weight
@andrewmorrice9139 Жыл бұрын
Didn't do the stupid accent at the Scottish guy this time.
@randylovering245 жыл бұрын
Never
@armyvet4081 Жыл бұрын
francis can not keep her mouth shut
@GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath Жыл бұрын
This was quite the misogynistic, duo
@thesweeples3266 Жыл бұрын
Virtue signal some more please.
@mjji217 жыл бұрын
the panel is drunk
@shirleyrombough81734 жыл бұрын
mjj i - Or maybe they are just having a good time.
@peternagy-im4be3 жыл бұрын
On success
@mov1ngforward3 жыл бұрын
Was Tom Poston an idiot or what? What does he get by making fun of the handshake with the swimmer? Then he insulted Polly Bergen. Was he inebriated?