WML 1959 Page Wightman Livestock Auctioneer

[@toddjenest3212]

Damn, she was gorgeous!! 🥰❤

[@jmccracken1963]

She's smart; she's articulate; and when she takes her glasses off (when we see what line she's in), she shows how really beautiful she is outwardly, too. Thank you very much for sharing this with us!!!!!!

[@Celisar1]

jmccracken1963 That’s clearly visible quite the same with glasses.

[@talegunner115]

She is outstanding. God Bless you.

[@chrisnzella]

Arlene clearly said "training" I listened very closely and im glad that she got the money.

[@JeffChase]

It sounded like Mr. Daly said she went to the Reisch School of Auctioneering. My grandpa and uncle both went to the same school around the same time.

[@lulumoon6942]

She's sharp and adorable! ❤️

[@m.e.d.7997]

Dorothy looks beautiful here. Love, love this epi

[@leannsherman6723]

Ben Gazzara was so handsome and well spoken, and that was so sweet when he hugged Dorothy after she was embarrassed by the contestant.

[@joehill8014]

I remember going to the OKC stockyards in the 1970s. They had three full time auctioneers and when the cattle were coming in from the Oklahoma and Texas Panhandles, feeder cattle receipts could run 20,000 head per day with the auction running 24 hours a day on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Now that was an auction.

[@miketheyunggod2534]

John loved this contestant.

[@misspearltaylor]

I think this girl is adorable AND smart! I love how she stands up to Dorothy without being disrespectful and points out that she's asked several questions. Actually all of the regulars are guilty of this question "packing" so to speak. I was also quite disillusioned with Arlene in this clip. She flat out lied. She clearly asked if the contestant had something to do with TRAINING. John didn't hear clearly and he said did you say this or that and Arlene lied and claimed she had said "trading".

[@m.e.d.7997]

She was laughing about it and open though...You would at times see that on this show. But they should not have let it go really. John should have corrected her and I think the girl may not have liked it. Justified!

[@m.e.d.7997]

She did end up winning the money though.

[@slc2466]

Ms. Wightman is obviously a Ben Gazzara fan @ 9:45- this is 1959, so I'd guess she'd recently caught "Anatomy of a Murder."

[@tomconstance2391]

Smoking on the set. Some things I do not miss in the good old days.

[@jmccracken1963]

This is also one of those rare clips in which we see a panelist smoking on-screen - in this case, it's Ben Gazzara.

[@SirCumference31]

For someone who smokes that much, I wasn't surprised when I found out he had throat cancer in his later life, although he survived it.

[@bigoldinosaur]

"Anybody wanna swap a cow for a cat?"

[@Ben-zh8bx]

Great contestant, shows how out of touch with the real world Hollywood people were even back then.

[@craigwheller]

The panelists were mostly Manhattan urbanites, pretty detached from the rest of the country

[@greg_216]

The panel was probably typical of most Americans' thinking of the day -- even today. The amazing part of this program was how it showed little girls all over the USA all the jobs women can do if they want to do them.

[@mattbachman5291]

So Agreed!!!!!!

[@marshallcurtis3251]

8:57…What fascinated me most was when Miss Wightman dramatically switched vocal gears just before she gave an example of her auction shtick, as if she were switching from one part of her brain to another. 7:11… I’m also fascinated that it was Miss Wightman, not John Daly, who flagged the panelist for asking three questions.

[@Celisar1]

Marshall Curtis Why did you have the impression that lowering her voice resembled switching from one part of the brain to another? It’s only a bit deeper and a singsong that I cannot understand for the life of me.

[@lorraineb.4698]

Arlene did say training. She should have stuck to that and the girl heard what she said

[@Baskerville22]

Men don't make 'passes' at girls who wear glasses... A very attractive girl who possibly hides that attractiveness behind her spectacles Ben Gazzara taking a 'drag' on a coffin-nail at 3.39. Diagnosed with throat cancer 1999; died of pancreatic cancer 2012.

[@Celisar1]

Baskerville22 But the way she spoke and acted with calm confidence and charm made her very likeable to me.

[@m.e.d.7997]

@@Celisar1 As previously stated the woman's beauty came through even with glasses.

[@m.e.d.7997]

Most all people smoked back then and many did not die of cancer. The cigs likely did not help him though.

[@m.e.d.7997]

@@victor.elkins IT was actually 40 years but I agree..

[@stonyrerootkit1013]

I'm just watching this time first time... When the Lady removes her Glasses @ 1:00 she is a Knockout!! Whatta Babe!! Noice!!

[@stellakowalski1]

Very hard to believe this one-that they didn’t know this. I got this a few minutes in. So easy, people! Especially in 1959 when women were not hired as auctioneers. Panel is much too smart not to know this one. They must’ve known in advance to fake it.

[@mattbachman5291]

Wow, the way people carried themselves back in the day! Thank Goodness we have moved on!!....🙄

[@Elias_Veine_Wiig]

She looks like an 18 or 19 year old, but she's probably over 20 or maybe even over 30. Maybe 25? Anyone knows, btw?

[@sheila174]

Has anyone made the connection that the panel's questioning "worked around" that she was an auctioneer much the same way one would mistake the wording of a pastor/priest or the likes, when they "marry a woman". (I may not have written this concept correctly, but I believe it to be the same type of concept)

[@marshallcurtis3251]

Sheila Dreaden Do you mean that the panelists probably already knew (or had already figured out) that she was an auctioneer before the show, but they were instructed to drag out the questioning in order to bump up the show’s ratings? I believe the concept you’re referring to is called “payola”.Yes, this occurred to me too. But then it is easy for an audience member to assume this being that the audience is told what her line was in advance. On the other hand, if the audience did not know what her line was in advance, how could anyone have guessed her line? If you look up “unassuming” in the dictionary, one might expect to see Page Wightman’s picture next to the definition.

[@lorraineb.4698]

Wonder if she is still living?

[@CuriousEarthMan]

yeap, a "red-faced herra-ford" he's a cattleman for sure!

[@scottshales4804]

No he's not. Herra Ford's are all white faced

[@callumthesnake6573]

Ben Gazzara. Before Dalton came to town to stop his as Brad Wesley.

[@Geert365]

4:38 I thought Jim Carey invented that word (or derived from word). 5:08 Looks kinda like Jeff Goldblum, or other way around.

[@lagrangepoint9386]

What the hell is that chant? What's she saying?

[@tedpuckett1742]

Each auctioneer makes up their own sounds or chant.

[@lagrangepoint9386]

@@tedpuckett1742 So how do people understand them?

[@EllipsisTriangletrap]

@@lagrangepoint9386 Ya understand by paying attention. When ya go to the auction ya get to know the people there.

[@120upperoom]

8:47

[@olympedegouges1789]

C.

[@chrisocupertino]

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[@jimmyrosen9424]

I have been a cattle auctioneer all my life. I can tell you thsi girl was terrible. she won't last in the ring, as buyers will quit coming. She would be close to 90 years old and most likely deceased by now.