You Bet Your Life 1953. Groucho Marx quiz show with original DeSoto commercials. NBC Network.

[@CuppaTeaandaSliceoCake]

Extraordinary ... a rare treasure.

[@frackstonwilson685]

Groucho is among the best game show host of all time!

[@frederickcombs8661]

70 years later and it is still fun to watch. Grouchy listened to operettas all the time.

[@Johnny53kgb-nsa]

Thus is one of my favorite old TV shows. I especially like the shows with Grocho's daughter Melinda on them.

[@HappyCamper2023]

I knew Groucho from the 1960s until his passing in 1977 and he told me that NBC "threw out" most of the television shows (he still had some in his garage) so where you got such an incredibly pristine copy is a mystery to me but God bless you for sharing it. P. S. Most of the radio versions of the shows still exist and were aired on NBC radio earlier than the TV version.

[@kevinpaul180]

Thanks. Great info.

[@Neal_R]

The one ... the only ... Groucho!!! Thank you!!

[@MoviecraftInc]

You bet!

[@retrobilly1986]

Very funny. Still better than anything today as of 2024

[@jimbo97]

"Tell 'em Groucho sent you!" 😄

[@LyleFrancisDelp]

Next time I go to my local DeSoto dealer.

[@edwardfondeur4477]

Groucho was the funniest person that I know of. And he was a wonderful father ❤

[@pfflyer3381]

Never seen this one, tks !

[@fromthesidelines]

The 1950-'54 episodes were never syndicated. "THE BEST OF GROUCHO" was initially syndicated in the fall of 1961 (through the late '60s), with 250 episodes from the 1954-'61 series.

[@Papageno2006]

Richard Russell’s heart operation was described in a Time magazine article in December 1951. You can read it on the web.

[@MoviecraftInc]

Interesting. Thanks for the tip on the article.

[@tsimmons121]

Cheers

[@henrybrowne7248]

Man did this show evolve. The latest years were the best imo.

[@henrybrowne7248]

And man did Melinda grow up quick! See her on some of the later shows . . .

[@VincentConti-m5j]

Nice. This is an early show. The format changed over the years. It was one of the most successful shows of all time. This was as good as the later shows. A lot of it is scripted. Groucho had the best producers. He wasn't just a comic genius. This was his third incarnation Vaudeville, Hollywood movies and TV.

[@VincentConti-m5j]

Fwiw the prize money was not chump change. The $2,500 is is worth almost 30 large today! Two DeSotos!!!!

[@ThreePhaseHigh]

Wow, the swimming pool man was about dead as a dead horse

[@m42037]

His daughter I think is 78 now , smart kid

[@franklinnorth7708]

I remember Paddock Pool co. B&R in LA

[@donkey9455]

Groucho is a legend and really had to work here to make this episode fit together. Some parts were hard to watch.

[@markschildberg1667]

They filmed 90 minutes of material for each episode and cut it down to a half hour. That may be why some shows don’t have great continuity.

[@RogerArthur-z2v]

1year older than my mom

[@ronflatter1235]

20:05 Secret word.

[@keithhyttinen8275]

By 1963, those '53 DeSotos were gone. Rusting in junk yards. No quality control whatsoever.

[@jahbad01]

Not quite true. I guy came into to make keys for a Barn find with the Power Master Six. Light surface rust coming thru the original paint job but otherwise in good running order. Ugly as a Parson's widow but it made it away under it's own power.

[@richardalongi4720]

Groucho Marx passed away on Aug. 19, 1977; only 3 days after Elvis Presley. His death got very little publicity due to all the mourning over Elvis!! 😢😢

[@franklinnorth7708]

Sounds like Coarctation of the Aorta, very rare.

[@oddjob7821]

According to Wikipedia Malinda Marx was 8 when she first appeared on Bet your Life. Here it is stated she is six. ?

[@MoviecraftInc]

Seems Wikipedia should correct the page.

[@robertholman8730]

She was six

[@dcasper8514]

Put General Motors in that class.

[@LyleFrancisDelp]

Though she was no Shirley Temple, Melinda was a real cutie. And she grew into a real talent….singer and dancer and actor. Very fine, but just took a bit longer than Temple did.

[@alexvaliansky7707]

Melinda never got anywhere with a career in show business because there was really nothing exceptional about her performances.

[@LyleFrancisDelp]

@@alexvaliansky7707 That's a rather nasty comment. Can you back it up with facts? I've seen plenty of performers who made it big without anything exceptional in their performances. What I've seen from Melinda was really quite good. Excellent stage presence and a fine singing voice.

[@alexvaliansky7707]

@@LyleFrancisDelp The fact is that her career really went nowhere after the mid sixties, although I've read that at least initially her dad was playing her up, but she wasn't all that interested in a show business career. She was more interested in settling down and raising a family.

[@pfflyer3381]

If we humans had a real sense of humor, there would be one, one and only statue of a man!

[@robertmurphy440]

THEY SHOULD COLORIZE SHOW AND RE RELEASE IT....BETTER THEN THE CESSPOOL CULTURE COMEDY THEY PUT OUT TODAY

[@pat.henderson]

The second couple with the 65 year old woman named Laura "Hammy" Hammersley, I almost fell off my chair. She is only 65? She looks at least 85-90 years old! Most people smoked in those days. Smoking itself ages people rapidly. It's amazing how rapidly people aged in those days compared to the modern era.

[@kevinpaul180]

Ironic the most famous wit was sponsored by the worst car company.