You Bet Your Life #58-38 "Crash" Corrigan (Secret word 'Chair', June 11, 1959)

COUPLE #1: Kathy Qualen (stewardess) & "Crash" Corrigan (B-Western movie actor)
COUPLE #2: Joanna Lee (actress/greeting card writer) & Dick Matheson (NY Times religion editor)
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Episode identification and basic description based on "Tell 'em Groucho Sent You", © 1997 by Mark Petty. Used by permission.

[@dianewinnicki8115]

Love this tv show. It brightens my day. Thanks for posting. GROUCHO was a comedy genius.

[@poetcomic1]

"It seems like I've seen you at one o'clock in the morning" Crash made lots of B westerns that were shown back then for 'Insomniac Theater".

[@larrywhite6464]

I've always loved this show

[@m42037]

Why would anyone stop? 🤔

[@firdausHITMAN]

Love Groucho. Miss him greatly, gone but never forgotten.

[@ferlenarab]

Love this show, I remember it as a child, but the jokes I get now!

[@suzannemcmaken4648]

Same here!

[@solohoh]

Joanna Lee (1931-2003) was 28 at the time of this show. She was married and divorced by the time she was 20. Her son from that marriage died of aids in 1992. Joanna Lee went on to become an award winning writer.

[@DavidLeeAndrews]

She also starred in Plan 9 from outer space - the Ed wood film

[@m42037]

Only 72 wow died young

[@freddyfurrah3789]

Thanks

[@bobbyventers8726]

That line about his wife was gold 😂 if she could cook well and look like you was awesome

[@arcmayAskvanpay]

Joanna Lee was in Plan 9 from Outer Space! And she wrote for the Flintstones, among other things.

[@grouchomarx-youbetyourlife7476]

arcmayAskvanpay Neat-- I had no idea!

[@loissimmons6558]

She had a much longer career as a writer for television than as an actress. She no longer worked in front of the camera after a serious car accident in 1961. In addition to the Flinstones, she has a long list of television episode writing credits for such diverse shows as The Jetsons, My Three Sons, Bewitched, Death Valley Days, Gidget, Gilligan's Island, Petticoat Junction, I Dream of Jeannie, Mod Squad, Nanny and the Professor, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, Room 222, Marcus Welby, The Brady Bunch, The Waltons, and Dynasty. On the Flinstones, she created the character known as "The Great Gazoo". She preferred that her female characters be depicted as winners. She eventually did remarry and was still married to the same man at the time of her death in 2003 at age 72. The only child from her second marriage was Christopher Ciampa who had a brief career as a child actor, including appearing on some of his mother's projects.

[@poetcomic1]

That adorable actress in the second couple was Joanna Lee of Ed Woods Plan Nine From Outer Space - often called the worst movie ever made!

[@tommyvictorbuch6960]

Beautiful women on this episode. My goodness. And solid style as well.

[@loissimmons6558]

The DIck Mathison who appeared on this episode is not to be confused with another writer, Richard Matheson, prolific author and screenwriter in the fantasy, horror and science fiction genres. Matheson wrote numerous novels, the most famous of which is generally considered to be "I Am Legend", which was adapted for the screen four times. He also wrote 16 Twilight Zone episodes. Two of his television episodes featured William Shatner, the Twilight Zone episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" and the only Star Trek episode he wrote, "The Enemy Within". And he wrote the screenplay for one of my favorite movies, "Somewhere in Time", co-starring Jane Seymour and my Cornell classmate, Christopher Reeve. The movie was based on his novel, "Bid Time Return".

[@ferlenarab]

Or Christy Mathison the famous athlete!

[@loissimmons6558]

@@ferlenarab I guess he isn't as famous as he used to be. It's Christy Mathewson.

[@aloisemason3044]

I was 7 years old on this time of Groucho Marx appearing

[@DavidRice111]

Kathy Qualen was a Swedish starlet; two uncredited roles...

[@texastechredraiderfan]

Thank you for posting. She was a very pretty lady, and I think she got kind of forgotten with Joanna Lee being in this same episode. I wish Groucho had asked how old she was. He seemed a little "off"/in a bad mood during this episode.

[@0IDaveCouch]

How lucky was Alice Cooper to be friends with Groucho?? 😂✌🏻🇦🇺

[@patbackus7668]

She got kick out the one line Groucho said about the vibrating plane ,

[@noneomarxistactor2863]

Women today would be outraged ! Progressive Brain Washed offended at everything . J.Lee seemed to be very attractive ,Lady !

[@arttrombley7385]

Crash Corrigan was 30 years older than his then wife Dupont.

[@henningandersen9027]

Considering his genius and wit I don't understand how Groucho could stand hearing himself going on with his "you don't look that old"!

[@mikenewton474]

Groucho was either trying to be his usual smartass self or he was a little dense. Corrigan had already begun his famous Corriganville Movie Ranch and amusement park at the time this episode was shot. His nickname came from a couple of sources. It was the name he used in his sci-fi serial "Undersea Kingdom" which coincidentally rhymed with Flash Gordon, whose serials were being made at the same time. Corrigan was a little clumsy in doing his stunts and had a habit of falling on his butt doing jungle rope swings. He was also a physical culture teacher with Bernard McFadden.

[@ferlenarab]

Isn't the movie ranch a park now? Corriganville?

[@fifty9forty3]

"I'm going to try 9 again?" I don't remember the first time. Do you?

[@davemooreblues]

joanna lee was amazing

[@arieyelen8040]

V

[@jeffclement2979]

So refreshing the civility Not PC but not all the yelling and crudeness of today

[@evangelstrategies]

To be clear, I love Groucho! But the "no PC" you're referring to included Jim Crow laws in the South, the exclusion of a significant segment of the population from the benefits of the American experiment, the white sheets of the klu Klux Klan, and the exclusion of women from the front office to the boardroom. So, whereas I love Groucho and he was a comedic genius, I'm still willing to acknowledge it was a less perfect world in 1958 for many of us then it is today for the vast majority of us.

[@jeffclement2979]

@@evangelstrategies I get your point But obviously I was referring to the humor only

[@kb6kgx]

@@evangelstrategies also the rather obvious lack of black (or any other) people in the audience or among the contestants.

[@cefcat5733]

He had an accent even in German.

[@lorihansen8674]

He wasn't speaking german, he was speaking yiddish. Yiddish is a combination of German and Hebrew.

[@cefcat5733]

@@lorihansen8674Amerikanisch Deutsch, Englisch, oder Yiddish.... No matter what language he speaks, he keeps his NY City accent.

[@larrys5083]

Crash was the cradle robber

[@FF11Freshstep]

woah! groucho's intro joke seems tame til you think about it. the punchline is he punched the old lady lol. 1959 joke about beating an old woman.... GROUCHO YOU ROCK

[@PimpLenin]

There are a lot of things Groucho says on this show that would get him tarred and feathered today! And yes, he ROCKS.

[@patbackus7668]

Why would a man say he’s a coward on live t v ? Unless it was just part of the act ?

[@fifty9forty3]

Act, probably. I think some of the interaction between the two was prepped prior. It's likely all contestants meet Groucho before they go on set.

[@greglauer]

I'd have to see it in slow motion, but did Groucho actually hit Crash's chin by accident?

[@googleyeyes5122]

Love potion: musk

[@barbecuecity138]

The Duke would whip Crashs ass anytime! Thank you for sharing this, I enjoyed it.

[@tomitstube]

if you could get the "duke" to sober up long enough to fight.

[@EFFIEWalker-pn7hh]

Barbecue you are a Bum and have a nasty mouth, from joe walker

[@mattsoloff2653]

If this show was in 1959, why is the Desoto in the ads a 1954 model?

[@grouchomarx-youbetyourlife7476]

That's due to stupid editing done by the producers of the cheapo home video release of this episode. They spliuced the same opening from 1954 on all the episodes in the set. It's annoying.

[@cefcat5733]

Wonder if he always drove a DeSoto.

[@fifty9forty3]

Automobile sponsors probably gave the show's host a new car every year.

[@jazzmanchgo]

Hard to know whether Groucho really knows what Joanna is really saying when she says a woman "should be a woman" before she's married. If anyone has any doubts . . . kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJPOf5Rno9xgiLM

[@justplainbrad7713]

@David Whiteis - Aside from being a soulful tune, it has very little to do with ,"A woman being a woman", and more to do with a woman waiting for her mate to return for the (suppose to be) pleasures of a healthy relationship/union. Being a woman means more then simply having sex!

[@nibsvkh]

Joanna..so yummy!

[@texastechredraiderfan]

This particular episode bothers me. Normally Groucho's comments are funny, partially bc of the era and the things he could get away with, but he was mean in the first half of this episode, until Joanna Lee came out that is. His joke about hitting an elderly lady wasn't funny at all and the way he kept degrading Crash Corrigan wasn't entertaining.

[@nealchampagne7297]

Thanks, you're very perceptive. I swear that too.

[@lukeheaton5336]

I agree. As much as I enjoy these episodes, Groucho does an awful lot of interrupting and this episode seemed to have more than usual.

[@robertewing3114]

Mind bothers, not Marx brothers...

[@fifty9forty3]

Ad lib is not easy, and sometimes what is said for a laugh isn't as funny as it was meant. There is no opportunity for proof reading or editing. It's not like e-mail where you have a chance to read it over before "send". Once sent, it's too late.

[@fastcars77loop89]

11:25

[@automatedelectronics6062]

1959? Why is the DeSoto a 1956?

[@poetcomic1]

"I prefer the old prop planes - when there's a little vibration the stewardesses look better". That is very close to the rather puritan censorship they imposed at the time. I'm glad he got away with it, its a funny image.

[@bobbywimsy6741]

poetcomic1 Google story about Groucho and the Catholic Priest at the airport. It's a riot.

[@MileyonDisney]

Joanna Lee, from the second couple, actually has a very impressive IMDb page - actress, writer, director, producer, and more. To me, she looked like she may have been a little high on cocaine in this show. Once a writer for the popular animated series The Flintstones, she is noted for creating the character known as "The Great Gazoo". (I hated the Flintstones episodes he was in.)

[@nealsausen4651]

Miley onDisney : Harvey Corman?!

[@noneomarxistactor2863]

Yes ! I commented on this ,but differently ! Very Attractive personality ,and looks ! Wish I had met her .

[@CD-db1zo]

That Joann is so affected. I find her silly

[@irontribeissues9104]

I get such a laugh out of you people who publicly yearn for an era when misogyny, racism, tokenism and forced contact were all the rage. You show yourselves for who you are.

[@justplainbrad7713]

Well I get a kick out of people who are mentally unbalanced, and want everything they see or hear to be perfect, by all, but themselves. The condition you possess is called, "The BS Syndrome". You show yourself for what you are ~> Full of $#it!

[@MrJamespeyton]

Wow aren’t you so pompous and judgmental.

[@kengodnavec634]

Lighten up Iron Tribe

[@juliawidner1881]

Mainly people are yearning for their youth...

[@bobbyrobby3600]

She is an early feminist. I hate it.

[@lorihansen8674]

She probably doesn't like you, either.

[@freddyfurrah3789]

Joanna is STACKED😮 She co-starred in a 1958 film with Leonard Nimoy. The Brain Eaters.😮😮😮😮😮😮