What's My Line? - Greer Garson (Oct 25, 1953)

[@aryehfinklestein9041]

Greer Garson - beautiful, smart, witty, elegant, immensely gifted actress. Among the greats.

[@tomryan914]

so beautiful

[@geoffm9944]

Greer Garson exuded class, style, charm and intellect. A great actress who spoke impeccably well. She always dominated the screen with her wide eyes and delightful facial expressions.

[@ClarenceHW]

I've been watching at least one a day for the past few months, this show reeks of gracious good humor, intelligence and wit. I love these people and don't care what "party" they belong to because they all understood the strength of unity. We were only eight years past the ending of WW-II. Thanks WML for posting these!

[@blackhawkswincup2010]

This show was terrific, before they outlawed brains, class, wit, and maturity on television.

[@michaelcollins237]

well said

[@Nightturkey1]

...and replaced it with flashing lights, sound effects and greed.

[@fairlyvague82]

I’m 3 years late to the party but 😂😂😂

[@Arwar555]

Lolol

[@bethearly4593]

TV and movies produce what people will watch. So, the viewing public have dictated what is seen, not the other way around.

[@captainjay1034]

Just wanted to thank you again for posting this vidios. As some people just have to nit pick. These vidios give me much pleasure in my golden years.

[@WhatsMyLine]

Thank you for the comment, Jimmy-- I really appreciate it. I'm glad you're enjoying the videos!

[@terryniblett9329]

Go back to school!!...videos

[@davidsanderson5918]

Terry Niblett Their comment appears to have been more successful 'likes-wise', has to be said. So who's the dunce? :)

[@Dolphin-cb9sq]

Greer Garson, what a classy lady. So much fun watching the panel & John Daly having as much fun.

[@SuperWinterborn]

John's facial expressions during the questioning of the man who runs the Burlesque Theatre are quite entertaining. :)

[@lllowkee6533]

I loved Greer Garson in Mrs Miniver, a WW II drama.❣️

[@waynej2608]

Yes, and Teresa Wright was good in that one, too.

[@patriciaannking8601]

Hello, I'm immensely grateful to whomever made these videos possible. I'm a retired university RN and was so unhappy due to the virus pandemic. Finding WML has greatly cheered me up and I've spread the word, especially to friends and former colleagues not born here. I don't want them thinking we were always rude, intemperate, unsupportive, and discourteous ect. Thank you again.

[@shadikhosropanah2363]

Hello friend I have been watching this show for more than five years, and I ave recommended it to all my friends and colleagues as a good example of high-class, humorous English. I am living far from you in Iran but I feel united with you all through this classy show, and I am addicted to it. Even these days that we go to the streets to protest against the Molla's dictatorial regime, coming home, this show is my comfort and rest.

[@timprescott4634]

Greer Garson was simply lovely.

[@AnnieKCleary]

It's cool how a week prior, Eleanor Roosevelt was the mystery guest. Greer Garson would end up playing Mrs. Roosevelt in "Sunrise at Campobello" in 1960 :)

[@sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401]

Loved it!

[@deroiste16]

I don't really know much of Greer Garson but after these two WML episodes....I need to watch everything she's ever been in

[@lauracollins4195]

Puds Deroiste - My favorites are Goodbye Mr. Chips, Random Harvest, and the 1940 Pride & Prejudice w/Lawrence Olivier. I also hear she was marvelous in Mrs. Miniver but I haven’t seen that one yet.

[@johnpickford4222]

Laura Collins: Yes, she was wonderful and won the Academy Award as Best Actress. Please also see RANDOM HARVEST with Ronald Coleman.

[@KonaSitkaRose]

Mrs. Miniver. The Valley of Decision. Random Harvest. Mrs. Parkington. When Ladies Meet. Desire Me. Blossoms in the Dust. Try and watch every movie she was in. You will be amazed.

[@miamars90]

I highly encourage you to watch Mrs. Miniver. Such a beautiful yet sad story.

[@username178able]

Madame Curie, with Walter Pigeon, wonderful film

[@belindaalbright8798]

I appreciate the difference in wording, something we tend to miss. The last guest made "false faces" rather than masks. How delightful!

[@saritaschwedes8393]

What a wonderful actress...and funny too! Mr Daly certainly loved being nice to women...and i think he loved his job!

[@al4berry]

The more John talked the more he dug himself in deeper in insulting Steve Allen's looks!

[@cassandrabeatrice3683]

I absolutely love what’s my line, they are all so glamorous, witty, classy, and amazing, thank you for posting these videos on here!!

[@silverbank3]

Quite a coincidence! The mystery guest, Greer Garson, was my all-time favourite actress and I note the show was originally broadcast two days after I was born!!

[@cherylstemen8063]

ROY STORNAWAY

[@cherylstemen8063]

Cheryl Stemen Greer Garson is one of my favorites too! this show was originally broadcast on my 3 months birthday!

[@mj6962]

ROY STORNAWAY and 20 days after my dad was born! lol

[@jrm8899]

Greer Garson is so adorable.....always loved her!

[@bovnycccoperalover3579]

I always loved Miss Garson, especially as Elizabeth Bennett in 1940s "Pride and Prejudice" with Sir Laurence Olivier.

[@Beson-SE]

When Greer Garson was Mystery Guest for the second time she used a very husky, deep voice and if I remember right the panel (among them Orson Welles) failed to recognise her.

[@screenactorsguilable]

why the judge Benick can ask her many questions ?

[@neilmidkiff]

@@screenactorsguilable The rules of the game were changed in April 1955, including having the panelists ask the mystery guest one question at a time in rotation. Before that change, questioners could continue until they got a No answer, as in the regular contestant rounds.

[@ChristopherTate]

One can't tell in this black-and-white television show: Ms Kilgallen's question about a "characteristic that is particularly glorious in Technicolor" refers to Greer Garson's famously rich red hair.

[@Bonobanos]

i love john’s flustered chuckle when he’s explaining his halloween mask comment, i have such an odd crush on steve allen

[@ginnylorenz5265]

What's odd about it? I've had one for years. He's adorable. I really believe that he and Jayne Meadows had a truly happy marriage.

[@bostonblackie9503]

Greer Garson did "Pride and Prejudice" at MGM in Victorian costumes in black and white. Greer had done the dramatisation before in Regency costume in colour for BBC television in the 1930's. There is a small silent clip of film and Greer looks spectacular in colour.

[@waynej2608]

Imagine the folks seeing Blossoms in the Desert upon its release. It must've been breathtaking to see her beautiful red hair for the first time. I know that I was impressed and delighted when I first saw it on TV in the '70s.

[@Lilykins]

Thank you!!!

[@gabe-po9yi]

The burlesque theater owner was one of the best guests on WML. One of the few who was able to give honest, forthright answers the first time asked.

[@adriennegormley9358]

Steve Allen has the most deadpan face, esp whenhe figures out he's being led downbthe garden path.

[@hcombs0104]

I've always thought Greer Garson was one of the truly classy ones, and from any account I have ever read a very good person. Too bad Bennett picked up on her so quickly! Oh well, she more than made up for it in 1958 when the panelists couldn't decide whether or not she was a woman!

[@jpireri6777]

Mr. Daly: "Would you come in a bit closer?... To the microphone, I mean." He's too cute!

[@SusanDofash]

I have a major crush on John Daly!

[@ryanschroer]

Clever ruse at the opening, totally flipping the order of intro.

[@loissimmons6558]

Yes it was. And it would have been perfect for a show on April Fool's Day. Unfortunately, no one picked up on Dorothy's lead when she said goodnight to Bennett instead of Steve.

[@juanettebutts9782]

I enjoy when the panelists are introduced and they come out to bow to the audience.

[@patriciaannking8601]

@@juanettebutts9782 I do too. The audience at home and in the theater was able to see the usually glamorous apparel of the ladies. As the show "matured" the apparel, hairdos and makeup usually became more elegant and sophisticated.

[@markgray7778]

Greer Garson`s voice is glorious so unique,the way she said"Well thankyou" i could listen to that all day,not to mention her wonderful face those high cheekbones upward sweeping eyebrows and her smile,she was stunning in this show.

[@Beson-SE]

Contestant nr 2, Manager of a Burlesque Theatre... now there's something you don't see many of these days. :)

[@loissimmons6558]

+Johan Bengtsson And you didn't see them in NYC in 1953. There's a reason that challenger's establishment was in New Jersey. In the 1930's and early 1940's, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia drove them across the Hudson River into New Jersey, allegedly as part of his campaign against crime and corruption. Some say it was based on his suspicion or knowledge of who owned these established; others say that it was related to his puritanical views. Although LaGuardia left office at the end of 1945 when he did not run for reelection, it did not return to New York under the next two mayors (one of whom was leaving office at the end of 1953). By the time more risque forms of entertainment by females became legal again in NYC, the higher forms of burlesque that made it more than just striptease was pretty much dead in America.

[@Rosarium2007]

I finished my undergrad at SMU, where the Meadows School of the Arts includes the Greer Garson Theatre.

[@bettycogswell9851]

I love these guys so much.

[@shirleyrombough8173]

betty cogswell - Me too.

[@jamesfoss5428]

24:25 - that moment when John almost backed himself into a corner with his jokes and almost got in trouble.

[@fairlyvague82]

I loved her in Goodbye Mr Chips 🥺😫😭

[@kd6836]

70 Years ago, today. It was another world.

[@irvinemuscle]

She was so lovely and such a class act, beautiful inside and out and always in wonderful movies.

[@johnphillips5081]

I'm from Los Alamos New Mexico and Greer Garson has a Theater named after her in Santa Fe NM.

[@dustypink4802]

Greer Garson

[@awhitershadeofpail]

My most favorite (and SO underrated actress golden hollywood, though she was heavily favored by Louis B. Mayer)

[@lauracollins4195]

A Whiter Shade of Pail - Agreed! (Great user name and image. 😄)

[@screenactorsguilable]

@@awhitershadeofpail 17:04

[@screenactorsguilable]

@@lauracollins4195 17:07

[@orgonkothewildlyuntamed6301]

would have been fun if Walter Pidgeon was on the panel during Greer's appearance(s)

[@boognish999]

I am surprised that no one laughed when Bennett Cerf guessed gynecologist for Mr Myers given that the audience at that time laughed at nearly anything.

[@cricketrecords1411]

I think they were shocked. I don’t think that was something you discussed on television back in the 50s.

[@leannsherman6723]

I can’t believe they had people exiting behind John Charles Daly. Thank goodness they changed that and also got rid of that walk of shame in front of the panelists.

[@joncheskin]

Greer Garson appeared on the show the week after Eleanor Roosevelt and then later in her career played Roosevelt in Sunrise at Campobello.

[@Sgt_Glory]

At 2:00 John Daly tugs his earlobe... could this have been one of _those_ earlobe tugs, the ones supposedly meant to quash a topic of conversation, or was that the other ear?

[@redwatch.]

Good catch, he seemed perturbed by Dorothy.

[@patriciaannking8601]

Your correct. A tug on the right earlobe meant a change in conversation was needed. I'm guessing now but I thought this might have been because Hal Block used the double entendre quite often and that was the reason given for his contract not being renewed.

[@waynej2608]

Maybe he was doing his Humphrey Bogart imitation.

[@sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401]

My very favorite movie star, Greer Garson. One of the first movies we were allowed to watch was, Mrs. Minerva. I still watch it often...still cry ! 😢

[@michaelm6948]

The barber woman was lovely.

[@elspethcoogan1499]

Love how Greer Garson preps for her first answer after Bennett’s question: She pretends to chew gum and then channels a stereotypical 1940s blond starlet from Brooklyn.

[@lllowkee6533]

These girls wore very low cut dresses but they always look classy…… unlike the vulgar displays we see these days.

[@lindanitzschke1315]

I love Greer Garson!

[@bleepiestofbloops]

I always love hearing announcers trip up.

[@curly208]

One of my favorites!

[@paco3343]

Miss Parker retired in 1988 after around 50 years at her trade. She passed away at age 87 in the year of our Lord 2000.

[@EricM_001]

I was born eight years after this show aired. I fell in love with Miss Parker 70 years after it aired..

[@JamAshleyFilms]

I am working on a time machine right now so that I can get a haircut by Miss Parker.

[@MelodicSymphonywithBeas]

one of my favourite hollywood actresses.....I like Greer Garson very much...such a stunning beauty....🤩🥰🥰🥰

[@paxwallacejazz]

People were flirtatious.

[@joycejean-baptiste4355]

The Empire Theater was shut down the month and the year I was born in, it was on Washington Street in downtown Newark N. J.. But then there was The Little Theater that lasted from about 1930 to about 2018 I think, pretty long. Interesting and kinda funny the looks on Mr. Daly's face on some of the questions. I was in my mom's belly when this one aired or I would have asked her, mommy what's burlesque, I was a very inquisitive child, Lol!

[@cbass2755]

Greer….what a great actress. So pretty too. I loved this!

[@bleepiestofbloops]

Hmm...wonder how often gynecologists were mentioned in '50s television...

[@kennethlatham3133]

Very carefully.

[@melianna999]

British actress Greer Garson 1904 - 1996 She was oldest from all panelist/ and John/ and she survived them all.

[@juliansinger]

Oh, huh, I didn't notice, the first time I watched this, Bennett's joke about Julius LaRosa around 16:16. He'd just been fired on-air (on October 19th) by Arthur Godfrey for, basically, becoming too popular.

[@zekezacker9449]

Interesting that the panelists and the host all attended college, with Bennett, Steve, and John having college degrees (not sure how long Arline attended college) - for the 1950s, those folks had a lot of education. Also interesting that out-of-staters mention being from a city followed by state. A lot of New Yorkers mention they are from a borough or from a city (with or without mentioning the state), but other New Yorkers mention they are from a city followed by Long Island, as if Long Island is a separate political entity.

[@robertfiller8634]

You don't mention whether Dorothy had a college degree...and she was the most erudite of all of them.

[@44032]

Dorothy was definitely to the right of the rest of the panel. :) Greer Garson played the previous Mystery Guest in a subsequent film.

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

MEN'S BARBER MANAGES BURLESQUE THEATRE MAKES HALLOWEEN FALSE FACES

[@dbarker7794]

Ms Parker the barber was fabulous and vivacious.

[@WhatsMyLine]

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[@BlueShoeLover]

Well, Miss Parker is a perky thing, isn't she! ☺

[@robertfiller8634]

A charming beauty, and totally at ease on TV!

[@kennethlatham3133]

Let the bangs grow out, part down the middle, I'm thinking.

[@RadialSkid]

The first contestant, Sunee Parker, was a barber for over 30 years. She died in 2000 at the age of 87.

[@keithnaylor1981]

You must see Greer Garson in That Forsyte Woman with Errol Flynn. It's wonderful!

[@johannarhymer1093]

Yes I own that movie

[@waynej2608]

Flynn did a damn good job in that one. Glad he insisted on not trading roles with Pidgeon.

[@chordcaster]

I saw one episode where John Daly used a little "small conference sign" (which, I think, had been given to him by a viewer) to cover up his face while he whispered to the guests. I don't remember seeing him use it in any other episode -- he just went back to using his hand. I wonder if the producers made him get rid of it.

[@joycejean-baptiste4355]

Wow, a burlesque theater contestant. I thought that would be kinda risque for the mores of this show, I thought Mr. Daly said it was a family show. Interesting, yes. It was at 10:30 at night though, so that was probably acceptable. Hmmmm! I watched with my mom sometimes as a kid, but that would go right over my head, Lol!

[@markblass4490]

At about 18:53 Dorothy mentions black and white videotape, but I've read that the 1st TV show to be videotaped wasn't until November, 1956. If this show is from 1953 what am I missing?

[@johnmoreland6089]

Actually, she says “black and white video sets” meaning televisions.

[@markblass4490]

@@johnmoreland6089 Thanks, John, you're quite right.

[@Merrida100]

It's interesting how the panel picked up on the first contestant's physicality and thought she appeared strong (and perhaps muscular?) She's so slender and thin!

[@PaulDA2000]

What is the “glorious characteristic” that Dorothy was talking about that Greer Garson has in technicolor that cannot be seen in black-and-white?

[@Cosmo-Kramer]

Greer had "glorious" red hair!

[@johannarhymer1093]

Her beautiful red hair

[@oswaldomilano3848]

i wanna see dorothy's blue beautiful eyes and the beauty of both her and arlene

[@melianna999]

Dorothy is at this time pregnant with her 3rd child, a son which will be born in March 1954.

[@johannarhymer1093]

Greer my favorite actress of that era

[@broughtbackin]

Read all the comments. Nobody noticed that Greer Garson snorted something at about 16:42 ?

[@2014moorea]

I live close to Findlay, Ohio!

[@loissimmons6558]

+Abigal M. And in the game "What's My Team?", my guess is that you are a Detroit Tigers fan.

[@justinmay3451]

My mom went to college at Findlay!

[@sdkelmaruecan2907]

I'm pretty sure the two most represented professions were bullfighters for male guests and men's barber for females.

[@keithhyttinen8275]

It would have been a fun episode if they could have gotten Clara Bow to do it.

[@waynej2608]

That would've been tremendous.

[@juliansinger]

Miss Parker was engaging and, apparently, somewhat locally famous. (It helps that the Belvedere was, too.) I found a 1988 article on her, and her obituary. (Died in 2000.) articles.orlandosentinel.com/1988-07-14/lifestyle/0050300145_1_ronald-reagan-barber-hair articles.baltimoresun.com/2000-12-16/news/0012160143_1_barber-miss-parker-sunee Mr. Myers, meanwhile, shows up in a bunch of Billboard magazines from the 40s, since he was the manager of record at the Empire for awhile. I think Mr. Elsea was on a publicity campaign, since he not only appeared on WML, he got into a newspaper article the same month. news.google.com/newspapers?nid=266&dat=19531027&id=uN0rAAAAIBAJ&sjid=02UFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1366,3845495&hl=en

[@loissimmons6558]

She looked much younger than 40 years old. She was so personable and one of those people who is aptly named. I would imagine the men enjoyed their conversations with her as much as they did the "tonsorial" experience (to use Bennett's terminology).

[@eveevelittleevil7422]

Ah, my faves- Bette, Irene, and Greer!

[@paxwallacejazz]

How did they get her so quickly. Greer Garson she was still a babe in 1953

[@shannonwri]

They usually read the trade papers to know which celebrities were in town. That's why Greer said she knew the jig was up when she ran into Dorothy in a department store--Dorothy would know she was in New York.

[@roostero]

Cerf: "I think he's a gynocologist."😬

[@Cosmo-Kramer]

That joke was not clever or funny, and rightly so went over like a lead balloon.

[@kristabrewer9363]

I thought that was Betty Jo Bradley when she came out!! WOW DOES SHE EVER LOOK LIKE HER!

[@robertfiller8634]

You are right! An uncanny resemblance to Linda Kaye Henning who played Betty Jo! Ms Parker was 39 years old here and looked like someone in her 20s!

[@smadaf]

The sound is only in the right stereo channel.

[@frankroper3274]

When I was a kid a haircut was 50/75 cents. She could have gotten 5.00 from me if I had it!

[@44032]

If they are trying to sound like a particular person that means that that isn't who it is.

[@melianna999]

The second contestant just visit the gabinet of the first one.😂

[@listeningeyes3298]

Greer Garson narrated for “The Little Drummer Boy”.😊.

[@imthefrogman1]

I Was Only 5 Years Old Then Back In 1953 Much Older Now.

[@oswaldomilano3848]

ts ok

[@mikejschin]

I was 2 years old at the time. In an amazing parallel with your life, I too have gotten much older. I comfort myself with the observation that growing older sure beats the alternative. ;-)

[@turbo1672]

No sound, and it's not my computer, other episodes play alright.

[@WhatsMyLine]

I can't explain what's going wrong for you, but there's audio on this video and it plays perfectly fine. 23,000 people have already watched this video without noting that they hear no audio.

[@418-Error]

You probably only have the left channel working. This video only has sound in the right channel.

[@oswaldomilano3848]

can they make it in color like they did with the series" zorro"?

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

What's My Line? wasn't filmed. What you see on youtube are kinescopes, produced by recording the broadcast from a monitor.

[@oswaldomilano3848]

what's the name of the person who uploaded this jewel,,thanks ever so much!

[@davidsanderson5918]

Wow not a titter from the audience at 'gynaecologist'! A modern studio audience would've fallen about. Here it sounds like they held up the 'don't laugh' card. :)

[@jamest3002]

There is definitely value in the "formal" way everyone is speaking, but at the same time they often undermine a question with overcomplicated phrasing.

[@paulchristopher8634]

She was good in “ The life and Times of Colonel Blimp “.

[@artemisiaallan2390]

didn't greer garson have the best handwriting!

[@ct6410]

Did they have a female men's barber on every season??

[@ibnalhaytham]

I find it almost heartbreaking that they did not plug the guests' companies in these early broadcasts. So many missed opportunities.

[@ChristopherTate]

Is there any chance of ever getting a re-render of the audio track? It's right-channel-only instead of evenly left + right as most of your videos are.

[@WhatsMyLine]

Sorry, but, no. I have no intention of replacing the tiny handful of videos that have audio in only one channel. Most devices have a balance adjuster which would completely address the problem for those listening on headphones (if you're not listening on headphones, I doubt you would even notice it.) Among the problems with reposting videos is the loss of all prior comments as well as the accumulated views, which are hard fought to get given how KZbin's search engine works. I **have** been posting upgrades of episodes that **really** need it all summer, shows with significant a/v dropouts or that were incomplete or unwatchable in their prior versions. But single channel audio just isn't a big enough deal for all the time required to address it, as well as the loss of all the comments and views on the existing video. I do appreciate your asking in such a polite way, though! I've gotten a handful of really obnoxious comments from people over the years complaining about this. I never have a problem with comments regarding a/v problems or errors I make in descriptions and such, as long as they're respectful! :)

[@ChristopherTate]

Oh, I understand completely -- no need to apologize. Losing comment history is an enormous price to pay. And I'm sorry that apparently people are hostile on such subjects. It's such an enormous lot of work to produce these on KZbin; I'm so very grateful that you've done so!

[@WhatsMyLine]

Christopher Tate Thanks so much, Christopher! :) And really, the complainers are a tiny, tiny, tiny minority. I'm blown away continually by the gratitude most people express for these videos. It's not necessary for people to do so, but I do greatly appreciate it.

[@ToddSF]

If you're listening to one of these videos using your computer's speakers, I don't think it's that big a deal because they're entirely monaural to begin with. If the sound does come out of both speakers, it's exactly the same for both speakers since the source material never had left and right stereo channels. Now that you've mentioned it, I hear that I'm only getting audio out of one speaker, but it's just not that big a deal. If it were bothersome to me, I'd simply move the working speaker temporarily to the center.

[@juanettebutts9782]

I usually listen with ear buds when the volume is too low for my aged ears to hear well. At first, I thought I'd pulled a wire loose. Then I checked to ensure my cat hadn't chewed through the wire. I'm old enough "modern technology" has frequently reached beyond me so I didn't realize there were right and left sides for sound. As soon as I read this thread I smacked my forehead and said, "Oy vey!" and laughed at myself. Thanks for educating this old woman to the functionality of two sound channels. LOL!

[@kataysmith9581]

Why does Bennet Cerf guess them all??

[@thunderball6908]

I wish my name was Dr. Jules Montenier.

[@terryniblett9329]

Miss Parker gives more than just a shave!!!

[@gralbr]

I spotted that too. And she has very strong hands for a woman