MYSTERY GUESTS: Florence Chadwick (first woman to swim the English channel); Jean Simmons (British film and television actress) PANEL: Dorothy Kilgallen, Fred Allen, Arlene Francis, Bennett Cerf
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@mikejschin5 жыл бұрын
It's official: I am obsessed with WML. It was very hot and humid here in Virginia yesterday, and I was outside grilling ribs, burgers and hot dogs for 20+ people. Realizing that I was soaked in perspiration, I blurted out "I could use some Stopette". Also, I have become fascinated with relating historical events with the air dates of the episodes. Most telling is the feeling of fellowship with John and the panelists that has developed. It's almost as if I know them and will miss them if a day goes by without spending time with them.
@windstorm10003 жыл бұрын
You and. 10 million others! Its addictive in this covid especially
@kennethlatham31333 жыл бұрын
"Stopette---turns your armpits into CHARMPITS!" ----Hal Block (purportedly)
@battlegirldeb3 жыл бұрын
I know you wrote this two years ago and as I'm not the far for VA. I can say it was really hot that summer as it is now. Been a fan of this show since 2003 when I first started watching episodes on Game Show Network (GSN) . This is the first time I'm watching the episodes in order of when the aired on TV.
@mikejschin3 жыл бұрын
@@battlegirldeb Hi Debra. I wrote that on my first trip through the episodes in order and am now on my second time through. It's great to hear from another devoted fan of the show. :-)
@Poeme3403 жыл бұрын
Agreed-a wonderful, refreshing blast from the past. Who can what their personal lives were like (that used to be more private) but the warm humanity they share when in public is beautiful.👍
@CDU9166 жыл бұрын
Dorothy gave Jean Simmons a lingering look of admiration as she exited. It's so heartwarming when the panelists are unabashed in their appreciation of the guests.
@ibnalhaytham4 жыл бұрын
Yes, but I wouldn't make too much of it. She often watches the guests depart.
@slaytonp4 жыл бұрын
@@ibnalhaytham Dorothy was an investigative reporter, after all--not merely a gossip columnist, and she took in everything.
@davidsanderson59184 жыл бұрын
When Elizabeth Taylor exited one time, Dorothy had a good look at her bottom half!! Hey....she does the same here too, just seen. Yeahhhhh I know she's looking at the cut of the dress, but still....
@hizgrase2 жыл бұрын
@@ibnalhaytham so does Arlene When she sitting in that in the chair all the way to the right she watches them go all the way out.
@Marcel_Audubon Жыл бұрын
Dorothy watches everyone as they depart
@marycleary78103 жыл бұрын
Fred Allen’s dry sense on humor is just so wonderful
@robertfiller86343 жыл бұрын
The "dry" remark was a classic example of his dry humor.
@kevinscrivano19043 жыл бұрын
Standing up for a lady. A chivalrous manner that should never die. I love it.
@libertyann4396 жыл бұрын
Dorothy really nailed it in this one!
@robertjean578224 күн бұрын
Dorothy was a investigative reporter for years 😊
@wchumphries8 жыл бұрын
Fred Allen: "I didn't recognize her because Miss Chadwick was dry, and also, it's her first time on this Channel."
@princeharming89635 жыл бұрын
Allen was pure genius.
@m.e.d.79973 жыл бұрын
@@princeharming8963 Watch him on some of these vids. Mean and racist.
@princeharming89633 жыл бұрын
@@m.e.d.7997 - You'll have to do better than that. I'll need some actual evidence, if you don't mind. And he might very well have been. I've just never seen it.
@m.e.d.79973 жыл бұрын
@@princeharming8963 I do not have to do better seemed racist with Sammy.
@omargonzalez26414 жыл бұрын
If you want to see truly great acting by Jean Simmons check out All the Way Home.
@Tessmage_Tessera2 жыл бұрын
Spartacus.
@gardensofthegods24 күн бұрын
Is that the one where Robert Preston is her husband ? If so , yes that was a really good movie .
@brentgambrell2 жыл бұрын
Dorothy was so intelligent. RIP
@lopa28282 жыл бұрын
Dorothy was very smart, some suspected it's the reason of her untimely death too
@shuroom579 ай бұрын
@@lopa2828As do I.
@robertjean578224 күн бұрын
Dorothy was a investigative reporter for years 😊
@contraryMV6 жыл бұрын
I loved Jean Simmons narration of Mysteries of the Bible decades later.
@spindalis794 жыл бұрын
Six days after this aired, Doctor Emmett Brown would come up with the flux capacitor.
@md_vandenberg2 жыл бұрын
Great Scott!
@jacquelinebell6201 Жыл бұрын
Lol.
@michaellevandoski535811 ай бұрын
Of course! November 5,1955!
@goldenrulebanner289610 ай бұрын
😂
@FocusBeyond7779 ай бұрын
❤
@puffnstuff122 жыл бұрын
Fred Allen is such a joy to listen to!
@scottpardee63032 жыл бұрын
Yes, this time he said to Florence Chadwick that this is the first time you crossed this channel.
@granthoops11 ай бұрын
Edward Cairns making John his own fireman hat is so adorable
@professorjams4 жыл бұрын
Jean was so pretty.
@dancarrison935427 күн бұрын
Her only rival was Janet Blair, who was a few years older. But at their respective peaks, they were the prettiest actresses on the screen. I've always considered "really pretty" to be superior to "beautiful." Liz Taylor, Ava Gardner, et al, lost their beauty at 40, but the prettier Blair and Simmons were still fetching in their 50s.
@Cosmic86x7 жыл бұрын
Jean Simmons was so incredibly cute. A mix of Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor. Gorgeous!
@charlescanterbury97625 жыл бұрын
Couldn't have put it any better myself.
@ibnalhaytham4 жыл бұрын
I had the great pleasure of seeing Jean Simmons many times in the role of Desiree in "A Little Night Music" when I worked as an usher at the Shubert Theater in Los Angeles. She was terrific. A couple years later when they made the motion picture, they case Elizabeth Taylor as Desiree. I admire Liz's other work, but Jean Simmons would have been so much better.
@brigittebeltran67014 жыл бұрын
Icalwaysxthiught that too ...Audrey and Liz 8n one package!!! I live near her home...a beautiful ranch on the Az Mex border (Nogales) a wedding gift to her from hubby Stewart Granger...
@musik1024 жыл бұрын
Well, Jean was a big star before anyone had heard of Audrey Hepburn, and, surely, Audrey's performance in "Roman Holiday" was simply a Jean Simmons impersonation.
@davidsanderson59184 жыл бұрын
I couldn't have put it better either! I'll only add that I had no idea she would be quite shy. She is such a strong presence on screen.
@WendyDarling19744 жыл бұрын
Fred Allen is so funny here. Such a shame he was gone not long after.
@windstorm10003 жыл бұрын
I know. .best panelist
@juliansinger8 жыл бұрын
I'm a little baffled about the part where neither WML or Miss Selkirk mentioned that she and one of her chimps were in an *ice skating act*. (That's hard!) She and Jinx (the chimp) had already been on the road in 1954, even. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinx Also, Mr. Cairns has a bunch of patents in the hat area, starting in about 1925.
@gentlemanjake80052 жыл бұрын
Love Jean Simmons
@michaelclark62234 жыл бұрын
Darlene Sellek didn't just train chimpanzees. She trained them to ice skate, and appeared with Jinx, the chimp, in several circuses. They also did performances at Jack Valentines's Supper Club, The Ice Capades, The Jackie Gleason Show, Las Vegas hotels, and The Ed Sullivan Show.
@belindaalbright87982 жыл бұрын
I find it quite amusing that Arlene always makes a point to ask the tall men just how tall they are followed by a suggestive sound or comment, yet she towers over her husband.
@Beson-SE9 жыл бұрын
John calls Jean Simmons for "mrs Granger". She was at this time married to Stewart Granger,
@ruffntumble19648 жыл бұрын
Maybe it's just me, but the woman who trains chimpanzees was described as dealing in a "product" while the man who made fireman's hats dealt in a "service". I would think both of them should have been the other way around.
@WitoldBanasik7 жыл бұрын
You are right !
@xyzzyxyzzy25 жыл бұрын
Virtually everyone on WML was described as dealing in a service. The chimpanzee trainer would have been described that way if anyone asked. Some guests were said to deal in a service and have a product, others a service without a product.
@Teri_Berk4 жыл бұрын
The panel usually ask "is there a product involved in what you do" to distinguish whether it's a plain service job or not.
@gentlemanjake80052 жыл бұрын
That’s a totally sane thought.
@yeahnoonecaresifyouarefirst4 ай бұрын
Arlene you weren't on this earth long enough to see a woman avail herself of his services 😢 Oh I love that little hat! What a precious memory ❤
@MarkGunter5 жыл бұрын
Fred appeared quite embarrassed and hung his head low after getting Ms. Simmons name wrong. I had to empathize with him, he looked sad, but the gaff was put behind them quickly.
@m.e.d.79974 жыл бұрын
Jean handles it well.
@sandrageorge34883 жыл бұрын
The all did it especially Bennett.
@gaelengesser948410 жыл бұрын
I missed NCIS last night, I was too busy watching your new WML posts!
@WhatsMyLine10 жыл бұрын
This warms my heart. :)
@a.b.s_productions7 жыл бұрын
Dixie Alexander Funny because both shows came on CBS and probably WML came on the same night as NCIS.
@loissimmons65587 жыл бұрын
What's My Line was a fixture on Sunday night @10:30 PM Eastern Time. NCIS has always been seen on Tuesday night at 8 PM Eastern Time. What both shows have in common is that they are/were two very long running programs (WML 1950-67; NCIS 2003- ) not moved around on the network schedule at all. NCIS happens to be one of only two current shows I watch regularly. The other is NCIS-New Orleans.
@zquark19 ай бұрын
Correct, no female firefighters in 1955, even a decade after the heyday of "Rosie the Riveter." Society in that time correctly recognized that, overwhelmingly, women do not have the strength or stamina to be full and effective firefighters. Plus we then valued women more than to place them in such dangerous situations. Now it's virtually mandatory for every fire department to have women firefighters who stand by the truck and monitor the gauges while men knock down the flames, enter the structures, and rescue the people and animals. Of the 343 firefighters who lost their lives in the collapse of the twin towers at the New York World Trade Center on 9/11, none were female. Q.E.D. Women were not going to be tasked to strap on 40-70 lbs. of gear and climb 80+ floors to rescue victims. (Two female police officers and one female EMT did lose their lives on 9/11, but not in while ascending the stairs of the North or South Tower in full firefighting rig.)
@loissimmons65587 жыл бұрын
This is the third week in a row that there was no name in front of the MG. The last one was when Hal March was MG on 10/9/55.
@leesher18452 жыл бұрын
Wow; that Dorothy Kilgallen was so smart.
@robertjean578224 күн бұрын
Dorothy was a investigative reporter for years 😊
@wchumphries8 жыл бұрын
Gotta love Arlene: "With the exception of 1 or 2 women who might be male impersonators"!
@ibnalhaytham4 жыл бұрын
So far ahead of her time. I can't believe some of the stuff she slipped in.
@neilmidkiff4 жыл бұрын
@@ibnalhaytham There were male impersonators in vaudeville years before this era...nothing particularly sexy about the performance, just creating a theatrical illusion. On the dramatic stage, didn't Sarah Bernhardt play Hamlet? I'm sure that Arlene was thinking about this stage kind of impersonation.
@gardensofthegods2 жыл бұрын
@@ibnalhaytham Poor Arlene Francis ... her daughter said years later when her mom was a widow that heart necklace which she always wore because it was a gift to her from her beloved husband was ripped off her neck by a thief when she was outside her apartment high-rise .
@robertjean578224 күн бұрын
@@gardensofthegodsActually Arlene was getting out of a taxi, the driver grabbed it,and took off😢
@scotnick59 Жыл бұрын
Gertrude Ederle was the first lady to swim the channel, I always thought.
@roberttelarket4934 Жыл бұрын
Fred: Very very very clever: she has never been on this channel!!! Fred is brilliant like Dorothy!!!
@gmeles144810 жыл бұрын
Gertrude Caroline Ederle (October 23, 1905 - November 30, 2003) became the first woman to swim across the English Channel, in 1926, according to Wikipedia.
@preppysocks2094 жыл бұрын
You are correct, and no one on the show said otherwise. Nobody is perfect, and Gary made a rare error here to state that Ms. Chadwick swam the Channel first. She did break Ederle's record, and she was the first woman to swim the English Channel in both directions.
@rmelin13231 Жыл бұрын
@@preppysocks209 Thanks for sticking up for the one who has brought so much joy and so many smiles to us all.
@hizgrase2 жыл бұрын
I feel bad for Fred. He gets too down on himself. He needs a hug.
@effyleven9 жыл бұрын
(How is channel swimming a "service?")I was home in the daytime and veg-ing out in front of the TV when I flicked through the channels and found "Guys and Dolls" running through its opening scene. I hadn't watched this one in forty years, but the print was a restored one, and the colour was great, so I stayed with it for a minute. That was enough. I was hooked all over again. It was wonderful.
@juliansinger8 жыл бұрын
+effyleven Well, in their defense, it's not a product, either.
@greydogmusic5 жыл бұрын
It is because she does something. If you needed a letter delivered across the channel and the only way to get it there is swimming you could hire her to perform the service. Swimming she may not have done for hire, but could have. There is no product involved only the ability to do the service.
@sharrybednar691010 жыл бұрын
I just love these, thank you so much. Wasn't Gertrude Edderly the first woman to swim the English Channel?? I could be way wrong.
@WhatsMyLine10 жыл бұрын
You're very welcome-- and a quick check of Wikipedia says that you're right, Edderly was the first woman to swim the English Channel.
@neilmidkiff4 жыл бұрын
Note that on the show her line was given as "Famous Channel swimmer" and it was mentioned that she had swim it four times, setting a record for the England-to-France crossing. No one claimed that she had been the first, so Gary's video description is wrong.
@jacquelinebell6201 Жыл бұрын
Loved the channel joke Fred lol.
@Finians_Mancave6 жыл бұрын
It's interesting they avoided any personal info on the first guest for fear of giving away a clue. That hasn't always been the case. I recall a guest who was asked where he was from, and he replied "the Canal Zone". Well, it took the panel about 2 minutes to figure out that he piloted ships through the Panama Canal. I was a bit annoyed they had reveal where he was from, otherwise he probably could have stumped the panel.
@preppysocks2095 жыл бұрын
no, they actually had a great deal of trouble determining that his line was piloting ships
@johnboyle3822 ай бұрын
Love Dorothy. It was never the same after she died. She balanced out Arlene’s um Arlene-ness.
@davidspedding83493 жыл бұрын
fred allen always brill
@jaengen9 ай бұрын
Not here he wasn’t.
@Sylvander19114 жыл бұрын
1955 A time when no one dreamed of female fighters
@Sylvander19114 жыл бұрын
She might not call it that, but I think she sang very eell
@johnschuh8616 Жыл бұрын
And she and Audrey Hepburn should much alike, and I am one of those who think Audrey’s singing would have enhanced the film “My Fair Lady.:”
@Historian2128 ай бұрын
@@johnschuh8616Oh heck no. She didn’t have the pipes for those songs. Bad enough that they didn’t cast Julie Andrews, who originated the part on Broadway and beat Hepburn for the Oscar that year (Mary Poppins). Hepburn’s rendition of “Moon River” in Breakfast at Tiffany’s was ok, because the movie wasn’t a musical. But even there, her voice was weak and thin.
@johnschuh86168 ай бұрын
@@Historian212 Not good enough for the stage/an album, but good enough for a non MGM musical. Have to remember that Audrey Hepburn was a much bigger star than Deborah Kerr AND Nixon’s voice blended seamlessly with Kerr’s but NOT imho with Hepburn’s.
@michaelg.golden73272 ай бұрын
I think Jean Simmons was in Elmer Gantry . Yes, standing up for a lady was an old tradition and I'm not sure if it's done now.
@robertjean578224 күн бұрын
Unfortunately no😢
@kevinbernard97912 жыл бұрын
I love watching Jean simmons movies from the 40s and 50s ..she was incredibly beautiful especially in GREAT EXPECTATIONS and BLACK NARCISSUS
@johnschuh8616 Жыл бұрын
Vivian Leigh without the insanity.
@marietta1335 Жыл бұрын
Jean Simmons was just 20, lovely and terrific in "So Long at the Fair," opposite Dirk Bogarde. Catch it on RU.OK. You're welcome.
@boognish9995 жыл бұрын
It always irritated me when everyone on the panel knew who was "in town" that week ultimately making the mystery guest part of the show anticlimactic.
@xyzzyxyzzy25 жыл бұрын
This was almost every mystery guest segment. Hollywood actors would come to New York, where the show was being filmed, because they were in a play which just opened or in a movie which just opened and they were doing publicity. This is how they guessed almost every one of these famous people.
@ibnalhaytham4 жыл бұрын
Agree. It would have been much better if they had just asked questions about Broadway etc., but Bennett Cerf just could not help showing off his "inside knowledge."
@TheGreatAtario3 жыл бұрын
That's all right, gives 'em more time to shoot the breeze with the mystery guest, which I always enjoy
@Cosmo-Kramer2 жыл бұрын
@@ibnalhaytham Bennett should have recused himself, but no, he's a show-off.
@gardensofthegods2 жыл бұрын
Actually there was a story here somewhere on the internet by someone who worked for the show that said it was actually Dorothy kilgallen who pissed off the other panelists because they all agreed that when they thought they knew who the mystery guest was they wouldn't say it right away and would wait till it went another round or two but they said Dorothy if she knew who it was would say it immediately and they really just were not very fond of her
@butziporsche8646 Жыл бұрын
She was so cute as young Estella in Great Expectations! “A common laboring boy”
@Baskerville223 жыл бұрын
If the tall guy makes fireman helmets, he's not "dealing in services". The lady who trains chimpanzees doesn't have a "product". She's providing a "service", just as a school-teacher provides a service.
@robertjean578224 күн бұрын
70 years ago it was reversed😊
@vincentdaly784 жыл бұрын
What Dr Kershaw does Bennet Cerf wish good luck to at the close?
@yawlltube4 жыл бұрын
"The service has as its end result the beneficence of men." Surely men have the beneficence of this service?
@americanmanhood9 жыл бұрын
How Jean Simmons went from this to singing with the rock group KISS must be a very interesting one. ;)
@waynehowell61609 жыл бұрын
***** Wrong Jean Simmons. She's the one that went on to make mattresses.
@orgonkothewildlyuntamed63017 жыл бұрын
dont give up your day job
@loissimmons65587 жыл бұрын
As a matter of fact, about 3 years ago, I went into Walgreen's to exchange an item. A young man in his early 20's waited on me, and when he saw the name on my credit card, he asked me if I was related to Jean Simmons. I told him that I was impressed with his knowledge of someone that far back. He replied that he appreciates all those old groups like the Beatles, Rolling Stones, etc. That's when I realized he had meant Gene Simmons, not Jean Simmons. And since I have never been a fan of KISS, my mind would not have gone in that direction anyway. And of course I wasn't happy to hear that the groups of my teen years were old groups. Miss Simmons and I are not related, much to my regret. She was from England and my parentage is German-Hungarian. But it would have been lovely to inherit genes (no pun intended) from a woman of such exquisite beauty. She has two daughters, both of whom work in entertainment production, not in front of the camera.
@lauracollins41956 жыл бұрын
+americanmanhood, +corner moose - Ha Ha! That was fun. :D
@robertfiller86343 жыл бұрын
@@loissimmons6558 Funny and charming post, Lois!
@gretchenking59528 жыл бұрын
Jean Simmons always was to me the English version of Elizabeth Taylor. They look very much alike and were around the same age - I think Ms. Simmons was 3 years older than Ms. Taylor.
@perpieta7 жыл бұрын
She also looks like Vivien Leigh (as did Taylor). Vocally, I always thought Simmons sounded a lot like Audrey Hepburn and Leslie Caron; they all had that nice soft sing-songy voice.
@gretchenking59527 жыл бұрын
perpieta You know, I never thought of it, but you're right, she does resemble Vivien Leigh.
@riversofjoy65296 жыл бұрын
But I though Elizabeth Taylor was English too
@markblass44906 жыл бұрын
Taylor was born in England to American parents.
@VTMCompany5 жыл бұрын
Jean always welcomed references of looking like Vivien. See how she looks here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o4nGfJuqrresgLc
@carolv84506 жыл бұрын
Fred Allen - so funny!!
@lauracollins41956 жыл бұрын
Carol V - Fred Allen was fun tonight. 6:40 - he didn’t recognize Florence Chadwick because she was dry. And it was her first time on this “channel.” :D
@windstorm10003 жыл бұрын
Hes the best pane list!!! Or the funniest
@johnschuh8616 Жыл бұрын
@@windstorm1000 He and Jack Benney were a riot together.
@robertjean578224 күн бұрын
It's a shame the younger generations doesn't appreciate his dry wit😢
@roylcraft2 жыл бұрын
A real shame the stars do not often get to speak much and get rushed right out.
@robertjean578224 күн бұрын
WML isn't a talk show 😊
@roylcraft24 күн бұрын
@@robertjean5782 ....for the quest. The others blab on and on sometimes.
@philippapay43525 жыл бұрын
How did this suddenly get too quiet to hear properly? Was once fine.
@michaelangood3 жыл бұрын
i have a gadget to in increase the sound, very useful
@philippapay43523 жыл бұрын
@@michaelangood What's it called? It's not a problem on too many of them, but some.
@michaelangood3 жыл бұрын
@@philippapay4352 any electrical shop should have thrm
@michaelangood3 жыл бұрын
them, sorry
@robertjean578224 күн бұрын
Use close caption 😊
@TamaraSheeler7 жыл бұрын
A San Diegian!
@bgbgbg1235 жыл бұрын
I guess there were no female firefighters in 1955
@slaytonp4 жыл бұрын
WWII did a lot to open up unusual jobs for women, thanks to" Rosie the Riveter. "
@philippapay43525 жыл бұрын
Again, sound way too poor even at high volume. Ruins the game.
@ibnalhaytham4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I noticed that, too, in the last couple of episodes.
@neilmidkiff4 жыл бұрын
The sound is very clear on my Samsung tablet, although I do have to turn the volume up high.
@manuelaffonso21914 жыл бұрын
Same here. I have to be all ears close up to my computer.
@davidsanderson59184 жыл бұрын
I recommend watching KZbin on the television. So much better. I haven't watched YT on anything else for a couple of years and having not watched 'ordinary TV' for so long I cancelled my TV licence and now I watch the best television channel (YT) in the world!!
@WendyDarling19744 жыл бұрын
No problems with sound on this one. Some from 1954 I couldn’t watch bc of sound issues but this one is good.
@geoffm994417 күн бұрын
Sadly, Bennet spoilt guessing the celebrity section again. I suspect he was tipped off which meant the celebrity guest didn’t have time to display her charms.
@werewolftoby5 жыл бұрын
“I didn’t recognise her because Miss Chadwick is dry.”
@tracygaluszynski186811 ай бұрын
Mrs. Selleck, the second contestant was the mother of Tom Selleck.
@jimdandy7083 Жыл бұрын
Is it just me or does Fred Allen bear an uncanny resemblance to Humphrey Bogart? Even the voice is strikingly similar.
@dcasper8514 Жыл бұрын
A little similarity.
@LANCSKID4 ай бұрын
Firemen’s hats? Helmets, surely? Bizarre.
@littlebrookreader9493 жыл бұрын
❤️❤️❤️
@leesher18452 жыл бұрын
Joan Simmons? Poor Fred. 🤪
@marietta1335 Жыл бұрын
No, Joan Clements.
@poetcomic19 ай бұрын
They dropped the boring 'guesses' but still have the 'walk of shame'. It is only when BOTH were gone that the show picked up its pace.
@robertjean578224 күн бұрын
The guesses sometimes help the panel get a clue😊
@poetcomic124 күн бұрын
@@robertjean5782 They even have a collection of moments when the first wild guesses were RIGHT. Its on KZbin.
@robertjean578224 күн бұрын
@@poetcomic1 Correct 9 times, the free guesses were eliminated after this!
@michaelcarter73873 жыл бұрын
Fred 4 months to live
@ChrisHansonCanada7 ай бұрын
FLORENCE CHADWICK, FAMOUS SWIMMER TRAINS CHIMPANZEES MAKES FIREMEN'S HATS
@YY4Me133 Жыл бұрын
Am I the only one who can barely hear this, even with the volume all the way up?
@robertjean578224 күн бұрын
Close caption 😊
@ingsve5 ай бұрын
I didn't know the bassist for Kiss used to be a woman...
@TheGreatAtario3 жыл бұрын
13:52 Dorothy prefiguring _Planet Of The Apes_ by several years
@galileocan5 жыл бұрын
Was Jean Simmons a relative unknown at the time? It's unusual for anyone on the panel to take two stabs at guessing a celebrity's name properly, before finally guessing it correctly
@VTMCompany5 жыл бұрын
Oh, no. Jean was nominated for an Oscar in 1948 for "Hamlet."
@perpieta3 жыл бұрын
Jean was very familiar to American audiences; in addition to Hamlet (mentioned by another commenter), she'd subsequently appeared in big budget productions including but not limited to The Robe and Desiree (also with Brando). Maybe Fred was getting her name confused with the similar-sounding Joan Collins, another English actress who was making a splash in Hollywood in 1955.
@ChrisHansonCanada Жыл бұрын
Florence Chadwick was 36, but looked about 45.
@miketheyunggod2534 Жыл бұрын
Why do a lot of these contestants hesitate on the questions? I know the answer before they do.
@robertjean578224 күн бұрын
Things were very different 70 years ago 😊
@oswaldomilano38484 жыл бұрын
yes., too low
@geoffm99442 жыл бұрын
Once again, Bennett Cerf looks as if he has been tipped off. Far too often, before the rest of the panel had a chance to question the celebrity guest, Cerf had ‘guessed’ the identity of the celebrity. This seemed to happen far too often, which spoilt the show for the audience as it reduced the time the guest spent on the show. Very annoying!
@Merrida1006 жыл бұрын
Is anyone else getting double ads? Two ads in the beginning that despite saying you can fast forward and skip,. . . . you can't do that?
@robertjean578224 күн бұрын
The ads weren't removable without harming the product 😢
@user-lq8ci4tt8x11 ай бұрын
Darlene, the chimpanzee trainer, bared an uncanny resemblance to Gilda Radner!
@musik1024 жыл бұрын
It's funny how John tends to refer to actresses by their husband's names. Jean, of course, was a far bigger Hollywood star than her one-time husband, Stewart Granger. AND, if she hadn't smoked so much, she could still be with us.
@johnschuh8616 Жыл бұрын
Well, she made it to 81. As for her shyness at the time, she was quite young and married to a much older man, She lost her Dad at age 16. People, of course, need time to grow to maturity, even performers who are bold on stage. As a woman in her fifties the person and the performer came together quite well.
@marietta1335 Жыл бұрын
Granger was a big, big star in the UK, too. Being married to him protected Jean Simmons from the eager arms of a number of Hollywood lotharios, notably Brando, who was very attracted to her. In Brando's biography, he described Jean as "beautiful and winning" UNFORTUNATELY, she was "married to the Great White Hunter."
@jackseward7779 Жыл бұрын
Firemen have dress uniforms with "hats." Evidently, the last contestant makes helmets, not hats.
@robertjean578224 күн бұрын
70 years ago they were called hats😊
@loissimmons65587 жыл бұрын
Why is swimming the English Channel considered so special? I know lots of men who channel surf! :-)
@riversofjoy65296 жыл бұрын
Lois Simmons not much point channel surfing any more. There is never anything on television
@sandydog2915 жыл бұрын
I'm guessing at least some of these men you know can channel surf for 13 hours. Especially on Saturday during college football season.
@windstorm10003 жыл бұрын
Lol
@johnschuh8616 Жыл бұрын
My son was part of a team that swam the Channel. The water is 60 degrees and he had a devil of a time getting warm against after his second stint in the Channel. She was some tough cookies to do the whole thing.
@robertjean578224 күн бұрын
😅❤
@rosepearl70925 жыл бұрын
Is that Tom Sellek's mom?
@michaelclark62234 жыл бұрын
No. Not spelled the same.
@robertjean578224 күн бұрын
She would be Tom's mother😊
@MrWindermere1235 жыл бұрын
If the swimming lady had worn a jacket to disguise her shoulders, she would have done better. This episode showed its age when a panel member suggested she might be the wife of a famous man and had to hide her name for that reason. Later the firemen's hat maker and John Daly agreed that a woman would not wear such a hat. We call them firefighters now simply to remove the 'man' or 'woman' suffix.
@Tahoenjr5 жыл бұрын
a woman firefighter of course not lol how times were back then
@robertjean578224 күн бұрын
70 years ago in small towns women would help fight a fire, by filling water buckets😊
@tracygaluszynski186811 ай бұрын
Jean Simmons? Gene Simmons?
@robertjean578224 күн бұрын
Jean name for woman. It could also be a males name French😊
@windstorm10003 жыл бұрын
Theres one way they could have improved this show: if panelists dont guess the non celebrity guests line, guest should get 500 bucks! Would hav added a bit of suspense! Cheap producers. !!!
@rick4233 жыл бұрын
$5O was often more than a weeks pay for most people.
@stevekru65183 жыл бұрын
Respectfully disagree. Apparently $50 was sufficient motivation to be on the show. Raising the stakes would only increase the pressure and decrease from the fun. At $50 decisions can be taken to improve the enjoyability of the show without much concern for winning. Experience teaches playing tennis for fun is much more enjoyable than playing the opponent in an official match.
@johnschuh8616 Жыл бұрын
@@rick423 It was what I got paid for a week. Minimum wage.
@robertjean578224 күн бұрын
@@rick423And a house payment 😊
@Baskerville223 жыл бұрын
Again the "Celebrity guest" segment was a bust. Too often the celeb has been in the company of a panelist soon before the WsML episode, or has just opened on Broadway or had a film released..... One gets the impression that the panelists yearn to be regarded as valued, close friends of the film stars, sport stars etc. All rather incestuous.
@mikejschin5 жыл бұрын
Bill Gates was two days old when this episode aired.
@ibnalhaytham4 жыл бұрын
I was eight months old.
@slaytonp4 жыл бұрын
@@ibnalhaytham I was old enough to drink alcohol and vote.
@accomplice553 жыл бұрын
I was three months old. :)
@OhhhLaverne4 жыл бұрын
5.25 RE://everyone is important. Everyone has a purpose. Even those in a wheel chair , autistic , and gifted in some way. But yea she do has some broad shoulders. 😆 I have that and barely swim at all. 2020 watching this. ( informative and interessssting )
@death2pc5 ай бұрын
Bennett Cerf......... Always the supercilious wet blanket.
@frankjrtagliareni6307 Жыл бұрын
ONE OF THE PHONY TRIO STRIKES AGAIN! ARLENE, BENNETT, DOROTHY!
@orgonkothewildlyuntamed63017 жыл бұрын
the 2nd contestant's line of work would come handy in the White House...........
@dcasper85145 жыл бұрын
orgonko the wildly untamed. she could've been helpful the previous 8 years too..