You Bet Your Life #59-04 Kent Shelby, owner of a tropical island ('Room', Oct 15, 1959)

[@stevebutler812]

Jack Hanson, the college and military failure, became quite successful in radio broadcasting in the SF Bay Area. Many of Groucho's guests obviously had "connections" to get on 📺

[@maynardsmoreland]

Jack Hanson became a longtime on-air personality at KGO Channel 7 in San Francisco in the 70s and 80s, doing the weather and hosting the station's morning chat show.

[@WayBackNowLetsGo]

I remember watching Jack Hanson on TV channel 5 KPIX in San Francisco. He hosted a Saturday morning television kid show. "Jacks Place" This was around 1963 or 64. Jack would draw with black chalk, cartoonish caricatures on large sheets of paper on an easel while telling stories. He'd ask the kids at home draw along with him. Also on his show Jack would show the animated cartoon space fantasy 'Space Angel'. Jack was a younger hip type of personality. For me Jack was kind of like my cousin Billy and Rod Serling. I was really impressed as a seven year old. Jack helped me to enjoy drawing.

[@loissimmons6558]

According to a German language article written on the occasion of the 50th anniversary celebration of the second incarnation of Lufthansa in Hamburg, Germany, Margot Rohde was chosen as the winner of the Miss Wings over the World contest in 1959, the contest held in Long Beach, California (which seems to have hosted a few beauty contests that sent some of their contestants to YBYL) She was also described as having a 176 mark smile by a German journalist. 176 D Mark was the price of the flight from Hamburg to Munich in the early days, the implication being that her smile was worth the price of the ticket all by itself. She was also present for the 60th anniversary celebration flight from Frankfurt to New York, 86 years old now but still apparently quite youthful and energetic. The article mentioned that she had gone parachute jumping in 2012. I might have come up with more but my German is quite rusty. It has been nearly 50 years since I was in my third year of German in 9th grade.

[@ecmcomichael1]

Margot is an absolute delight in this episode and it sounds like she still is today! Excellent! Thank you for sharing, Lois!

[@TruckTaxiMoveIt]

Thanks for that. Don't forget you also have the option of copying and pasting the material into Google's translator to give you a good sense of what it says.

[@519djw6]

Wie heißt die Zeitschrift oder Zeitung, worin Sie den Artikel gelesen haben? Und ist ihr Nachname noch ,,Rohde"?

[@kennethbailey2616]

Gottseidank, wunderbar.

[@leslieackerman4189]

Sehr cool!

[@loissimmons6558]

From a snippet of a 1974 newspaper article, the name of the island won by Kent Shelby was Ava Ava. It was named that by MGM studios. The naming of the island and the limerick contest were both part of a promotion of an MGM picture starring Ava Gardner. The island is now part of Fiji, which became independent from the UK. The movie was "The Little Hut" (1957) about two men and a woman shipwrecked on an island. The three people are a husband and wife and the wife's lover, i.e. a love triangle. With that in mind, the text of the winning limerick makes more sense. (Stewart Granger plays the husband and David Niven the lover.)

[@lukeheaton5336]

@ Lois Simmons Great intel, thanks!

[@joemackojc2811]

They could of had threesome's and then the husband could find out what the lover was doing that he wasn't. But I never saw the movie.

[@leslieackerman4189]

I don’t think an American young woman would know Capitals as German Margo does. Then, now and all years in between.

[@dwightargo9764]

Margot here reminds me a lot of another Teutonic beauty...Ingrid Bergman.

[@stephane1316]

Margot had a beautiful smile

[@aloisemason3044]

I like all the contestants..they are a joy to be on the show and are very nice at all the jokes..

[@ElaMongrella]

Ah, the 50s. Where a girl could ask "how big is it?" and the topic wouldn't sway from islands.

[@barbecuecity138]

Thank you for sharing this, I enjoyed it.

[@davebonar1]

And how many people could afford to fly in the 50's but if you had money and were wealthy you had it made. Not so much today because they have ruined it with the craziness and the future is scary .

[@leonpse]

Bag of peanuts and canned juice now.

[@firdausHITMAN]

A time when all air hostesses were young and pretty.

[@grouchomarx-youbetyourlife7476]

That's basically because they were *required* to be young and pretty.

[@firdausHITMAN]

Groucho Marx - You Bet Your Life and rightfully so!

[@grouchomarx-youbetyourlife7476]

STRATMAN firdaus Yeah, I can't really say I go along with that kind of thinking.

[@juib4294]

+STRATMAN firdaus "A time when all air hostesses were young and pretty." . And passengers didn't look like cattle.

[@firdausHITMAN]

You've got it the wrong way round sweetie. The passengers are profit therefore it does not matter what they look like.

[@SueProv]

Why was the contestant holding the questions and not George Feneman

[@joemackojc2811]

George Fennmen is union.

[@mattmexor2882]

"We could use more of both of you around here, Joy and Jack" :D

[@519djw6]

Margot Rohde war eine ganz echte Kleine!

[@acousticshadow4032]

what he said...

[@519djw6]

@@acousticshadow4032 Margot Rohde was a real babe!

[@fifty9forty3]

Groucho didn't seem to have his heart in it this night.

[@alexandermarquis6197]

Both male contestants were very handsome.

[@elletrev8687]

The close captioning on this thing sucks.

[@PaulMcCaffreyfmac]

Broadcast on my 6th birthday :-)

[@amirhanif4928]

The first bathtub allegedly hammer because physician consecutively part as a purring sphere. awesome, diligent panties