You Bet Your Life #59-06 Evelyn Rudie, child actress ('Hand', Oct 29, 1959)

Highlight of this show is young Evelyn Rudie, a child actress and a complete charmer, who went on to have a long career as co-artistic director of the Santa Monica Playhouse. Don't miss the waltz at 13:40, during which Groucho's daughter Melinda makes a brief appearance to dance with her father.
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COUPLE #1: Thelma Wichman, housewife from the Bronx / George Sosnoff, "Junky George, the Friendly Junkman"
COUPLE #2: Evelyn Rudie, child actress / Joseph Paunzen, from Vienna
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Episode identification and basic description based on "Tell 'em Groucho Sent You", © 1997 by Mark Petty. Used by permission.

[@stevebutler812]

Evelyn had two parents who deserve congratulations. What a lovely human.

[@stansawicki2473]

Evelyn is my theater teacher!

[@P1ece2318]

That’s so cool! She’s my great aunt!

[@P1ece2318]

What a small world 😂

[@harlow743]

But she's only 10 years old !!

[@JSB1882]

That was one of the best shows. Plus it was nice to see Melinda.

[@dphotos007]

I never heard of Evelyn Rudie but I was watching an old Alfred Hitchcock TV show tonight where she played a part as a very talkative little girl. She was very talented young actress. Kind of like a Shirley Temple. She was very good on the Groucho show and was a natural.

[@jimfaiella2981]

Having read Evelyn Rudie´s impressive profile on the Santa Monica Playhouse website prior to viewing this video, it doesn´t surprise me at all that she came across so much ¨smarter and more polished¨ than one would expect of a typical ten-year old. As pleasant and charming she was with Groucho, Evelyn was the complete opposite when she played an ¨unpleasant, unmannered and dishonest¨ street urchin in the 1959 ¨Nobody´s Child¨ episode of GE Theatre. You wouldn´t believe that, in reality, she was the sophisticated and intelligent ten-year old who appeared on ¨You Bet Your Life¨. Obviously, great acting skills! On a side note, although Evelyn´s goal of becoming President of the United States hasn´t come to fruition, ironically, the man she co-starred with in ¨Nobodyś Child¨ did eventually do so----a fellow actor named Ronald Reagan!

[@therrienmichael08]

You are right she was 10 but said she was 9. Born in March and the show taped in October. In 5 months would be 11.

[@alisoncole3211]

Thanks for the info! That’s awesome! She’s great

[@m42037]

Ho old is she now 70?

[@corporalclegg9640]

Evelyn Rudie is awesome!. She is doing theater now in LA. I was just watching her last night in an episode of 77 Sunset Strip

[@alisoncole3211]

That’s so cool! She’s a real cutie!

[@theresaholguin699]

Evelyn was a cute child she was cracking up laughing with her partner. Melinda is adorable. Melinda is 73 years old as of 2020

[@donaldcampbell9219]

Really? That’s so cool to know. Thanks.

[@BrooklynJoe]

She was such a doll and simply amazing! Thank you, Evelyn, for all of those performances I had the pleasure of seeing you in as I grew up!😘

[@chrishorwege1433]

Evelyn was a remarkably intelligent and talented child

[@AventuraLuver]

The eyebrow exchange was so cute!

[@alisoncole3211]

That was adorable

[@SaxonC]

I love this show! Groucho is pure heaven to listen to and to watch!

[@barbecuecity138]

Though Groucho could speak german he told the joke in english and let Evelyn translate it to german. He probably did that just to show how bright the young lady actually was and he did get any laughs but she made Joseph cackle. Thank you for sharing this, I enjoyed it.

[@ericascott5117]

Wow... how adorable was she?? What a delight to watch. :-)

[@orionheartofmine]

This is so lovely to see. Evelyn Rudie ( Bernauer ) is a delight!

[@tomitstube]

blew me away when evelyn says, "yeah, but he says he doesn't understand any of your jokes". pepe was hilarious, groucho; "i don't like eating outside, the flies bother me." pepe; "there are no flies in the garden, they are all in the kitchen."

[@mham1330]

😆😆

[@marktrain9498]

That's literally what he said, though.

[@charleswinokoor6023]

Evelyn Rudie was excellent in an Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode. And she was so smart, not to mention cute and precocious.

[@gerardmazzarese9363]

Every once in a while heaven opens up and God gives us a little glimpse into the joy promised to those who love him and do his will. Watching beautiful people doing beautiful things is just a taste of things to come. I enjoyed this episode. The girl who danced with Groucho was his daughter.

[@nedludd7622]

Yawn.

[@mortalclown3812]

@@nedludd7622 Be better.

[@nedludd7622]

@@mortalclown3812 You and I are already better than the imaginary fiend called "god". One could hardly be worse.

[@mham1330]

@@nedludd7622 Boy! Don't you have a lot to learn.🤨

[@nedludd7622]

@@mham1330 You have a lot to forget.

[@OrchestrationOnline]

Rudie is such a pro!

[@deebin4]

Evelyn is precious.

[@TheWriterWalker]

Am I the only one who loves the beautiful, lank, tough-talkin' chick from the Bronx?

[@russellcampbell9198]

TheWriterWalker I was thinking the same thing.

[@younghoss2877]

she isn't the prettiest, to be sure but she's pretty, and there is something sexy about her.

[@nefersguy]

No you're not 😎

[@paultheaudaciousbradford6772]

I wonder how she and “her Maury” made out in their lives. Maybe her kids will comment.

[@tomitstube]

she reminds me a bit of rhoda morgenstern, pretty sure there's a "maury" in there somewhere too. not real smart, or the junkman anyway, picking all those $300 questions.

[@paultheaudaciousbradford6772]

I’ll vote for her!

[@mikeking7710]

How could I have never hear of this little charmer, Evelyn Rudie, before? I came here after seeing her in Alfred Hitchcock Presents. She was so polished and self-assured. And to think just a few weeks ago she and her husband celebrated their 50th anniversary.

[@way2deep100]

I watched Evelyn Rudie this weekend on an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and simply had to find out more about what she did with her career. I had never seen nor heard of her but what a talented child-actress she was and frankly funnier than Graucho Marx on this showing.

[@ohmeowzer1]

Loved this thank you

[@markavey75]

I'm from Chico, CA where the first male contestant, George Sosnoff, said he had his junk business. He died in 2005 and according to his obituary in the Chico Enterprise Record he was really into health. In fact, the article stated that he earned a black belt in taekwondo when he was in his sixties! He owned and operated Junkie George's until he retired in 1979.

[@brockpalmer793]

Evelyn Rudie gave the correct answer. In the summer of 1959, Mamie Eisenhower Christened the 1st Nuclear Powered Submarine The Nautilus #571! I was there!!!

[@Frank_Nemo]

The question was - '1st nuclear powered MERCHANT vessel'

[@howardsachs6398]

Just watched Evelyn Rudie on a 1957 episode of The Alfred Hitchcock show. "A Much Beloved Man" I believe was the title of the show. It, also, starred Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Hugh Marlowe and Robert Culp. Evelyn played an extremely precocious 9-year-old even, though, she was only eight. She was a mini chess master in the episode, as well, as having a special personal insight into the feelings of others. I looked her up on Google and found that she had appeared on the old "You Bet Your Life" show which starred Groucho Marx. KZbind the show and found Evelyn to be utterly charming. According to Wikipedia, she has been connected to the Santa Monica Playhouse since 1973. I live in L.A. metro so I think I'll give her a call just to say hello and tell her how totally charming I found her performance to be. Be interesting to see what kind of a response I get. Will she be receptive or just tell me to "Get Lost"? Stay tuned. Lol

[@FullHouseFanatic]

did you?

[@paultheaudaciousbradford6772]

I joined the SMP mailing list after viewing this.

[@joeambrose3260]

I call BS. Post proof

[@joeambrose3260]

@@paultheaudaciousbradford6772 Who gives a phuck

[@CmonstoleCmonstole]

A slap across the face ?

[@jingerjar1365]

One of the best yet!

[@flyingdutchmaniam]

Wow! 🥲🥲 Just watched Evelyn in Alfred Hitchcock Presents. An amazing performance 👏

[@martinjones5965]

18m12s ... "There are no flies in the garden ... they are all in the kitchen" Brilliant :). He was right about 'sloppy'.

[@healthymike4971]

she looks beautiful

[@P1ece2318]

That’s my great aunt, aunt Evelyn!

[@bh9225]

She seems so intelligent and full of joy!

[@caseyedward2890]

Just saw her on the Wagon Train episode. She was really good Season 2 Episode 8

[@ohmeowzer1]

Evelyn is soo cute

[@charleswinokoor6023]

“Do I get money for this?” She’s funny.

[@ianhatesyou]

Crazy, Junky George was still in business when I was a kid. I didn't know he was on this show.

[@johntucker7063]

What is good about these videos is that you can research what happened to a guest after they appeared on this show.

[@russellcampbell9198]

You missed your big chance America! Evelyn was too honest and hard working, huh?!

[@giavannabellucci309]

Groucho: Housewives in California don't have to throw out the garbage. They serve it to their husbands as hors d'oeuvres. LOL!

[@poetcomic1]

Or as Woody Allen says "There's no garbage on the streets, they make it into TV shows.

[@roberttelarket4934]

Groucho is so clever and funny!!!

[@timcarr6401]

Mr. Paunzen was born in his early youth he said. Quite the line.

[@ummglick]

Little girl is wonderful

[@SquareNoggin]

What a joyful kid

[@christinalw19]

The conversation of the garden reminds me of life in Eagle Rock during the 50s, when I watched this originally.

[@scootergreen3]

This is so funny!

[@ericgoldfarb4870]

Amazing child

[@dodgyemail680]

6 days after this originally aired Evelyn ran away from home to go and see president Eisenhower and the first lady, and was found on a plane to Baltimore. The poor girl had been upset by her career not going so well.

[@GaryWattsWorks]

CUTE CUTE CUTE!!!

[@carolgarabedian01]

Smart girl

[@jimmiedee2315]

At the top of the show, Groucho and George obviously share a common misunderstanding with many English-speaking Americans regarding the word "anxious". They should be saying "eager", instead. Of course, a contestant could be both eager and anxious, but that's not what Groucho and George mean. anxious: experiencing worry, unease, or nervousness, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome. eager: (of a person) wanting to do or have something very much.

[@519djw6]

+Jimmie Dee I haven't consulted my dictionary yet, but in popular usage "anxious" can have both meanings, depending on the preposition used after it, as well as the form of the verb that follows: 1. They're anxious about meeting you. = They're afraid to meet you./They're worried about meeting you. 2. They anxious to meet you. = They're looking forward to meeting you.

[@jimmiedee2315]

+519DJW "Popular usage" is not synonomous with "proper usage". Please get back to us, after you've consulted your dictionary.

[@519djw6]

+Jimmie Dee "Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary": "anxious" (meaning 3): "ardently or earnestly wishing *syn* see EAGER." *That* is proper usage.

[@TheWriterWalker]

God bless you, Jimmy. You are absolutely right. I wondered if the mistake bothered anyone else. Of course, language usage evolves over time, and the dumbing down of America is evident now even in the works of some lexicographers, but folks like us know better. ;-)

[@kevinwachs5905]

An Englishman, W S Gilbert, used "anxious" as a synonym of eager in 1882 in the libretto of "Patience." The poet Reginald Bunthorne sings, "If you're anxious for to shine / In the high aesthetic line..."

[@theoakhills]

"The southern cross" I hate smart azz kids. ( I had no Idea and it's 2018)

[@beingnr159]

I think they didn't clap passionately enough for I could still hear the music. 5 stars for the episode.

[@sandrauhlein4317]

beingnr159 they pressed the golden puzzer

[@claylrobinson5998]

At age nine Evelyn without telling her parents bought a ticket on a airline for Washington DC to visit First Lady Mamie Eisenhower ... check out her bio to find out why and what happened.

[@charlieb1140]

One of the funniest ones

[@jimmiedee2315]

Google shows a Junkie George Auto Wreckers in Chico, California. I can't tell whether they're still in business.

[@FullHouseFanatic]

www.legacy.com/obituaries/chicoer/obituary.aspx?n=george-shaw-sosnoff&pid=3009759 George Sosnoff passed away in 2005.

[@100PurpleAvenue]

"Everything eventually turns to junk"

[@russellcampbell9198]

100PurpleAvenue An unarguable assertion. George was on the money.

[@Groucho-tg1tx]

Nothing could be further from the truth

[@MrMenefrego1]

@ 11:19 -> Groucho: "Tell us about your gay Hollywood life." - Maybe that was okay to ask in 1959 but you sure couldn't ask that question now!

[@kimboling8481]

That's because "gay" has been redefined.

[@buckroo8424]

Watch any old movie from the 30s and 40s and the word “gay” is often used to mean “happy “! Even Fred Astaire was in a movie called “The Gay Divorcee”!

[@MrMenefrego1]

@@buckroo8424 Thank's "Buck", but I was just being facetious. I'm an 'old timer' and remember the days when the word "Gay" had no sexual connotation whatsoever. It was just a word.

[@auletjohnast03638]

Jeff di Giusto, Now that is accepted. What is not accepted is if you're not gay. What a bizzard world we live in today.

[@keithnaylor1981]

Young girl - the most intelligent person I have ever seen. “No flies in the garden… they’re all in the kitchen” First joke I’ve ever heard from a contestant that is on par with Groucho’s.

[@terminator2513]

Damn.. is 'Peppi' Drew Carey's grandfather, they are just like a copy.

[@FF11Freshstep]

the slapper on the jackpot wheel just didn't have anywhere near the tension as the season 9 one. you can see as the season goes on they started making it tighter so the wheel didn't spin FOREVER

[@jimmiedee2315]

That may have had to do with the tremendous tug Evelyn gave the wheel. Notice the sickened look on Fenneman's face immediately after the wheel gets going. Jack Meakin (orchestra leader) seemed to be caught off guard, too.

[@joeambrose3260]

The Southern Cross, this show is rigged

[@Rickynyc69]

In 1959, at age 9, she disappeared from her Los Angeles home and was feared kidnapped. But it turned out she had booked a flight to Washington, D.C., herself, and boarded the airplane unaccompanied. When she was taken off the plane at Baltimore, she said she'd wanted to visit First Lady Mamie Eisenhower, whom she had met previously, at the White House to ask her help to "get me a part in a TV series".

[@solohoh]

Great entertainment, was that his daughter Miriam or Melinda he waltzed with?

[@grouchomarx-youbetyourlife7476]

That's Melinda-- Miriam never appeared on the show, as she was a full grown adult by the time YBYL debuted on TV. The main point of bringing Melinda on the show repeatedly, according to the producers, was to soften Groucho's image for the audience with the aid of his irresistibly adorable child..

[@auletjohnast03638]

Melinda. She was also on the show once when she was 8 and she sang with her dad.

[@therrienmichael08]

Melinda definitely. I saw the show when she was 8.

[@MileyonDisney]

Evelyn was a hard-working, very intelligent girl. I have no doubt that if she continued her desire to be president (and didn't mind being a total crook), she could have done it.

[@joeneighbor]

Yea really, so charming and intelligent. I see on IMDB for "Evelyn Rudie"; looks like she had a lot of TV and movie appearances as a child/teenage actress for a few years but then either she got disinterested and/or the roles dried up. Then according to the wikipedia entry about her, she's turned to state acting. Funny bit from her IMDB bio (must have been close to the time of her appearance here): [In 1959, at age 9, she disappeared from her Los Angeles home and was feared kidnapped. But it turned out she had booked a flight to Washington, D.C., herself, and boarded the airplane unaccompanied. When she was taken off the plane at Baltimore, she said she'd wanted to visit President Mamie Eisenhower, whom she had met previously, at the White House to ask their help to "get me a part in a TV series".]

[@B.H.56]

Cute in spite of that horrible bleached blonde hair.

[@auletjohnast03638]

@@B.H.56, I love blondes.

[@CmonstoleCmonstole]

Boy has this country gone down hill from here

[@mauriceupton1474]

See lost her bet...America's lose.

[@33maisie]

Whatever happened to Evelyn? Did she continue acting?

[@grouchomarx-youbetyourlife7476]

There's a link to her Wikipedia page right in the video description. . .

[@33maisie]

Groucho Marx - You Bet Your Life Thank you!

[@loissimmons109]

In addition to what's on her Wikipedia page, here's a link to her IMDB page. Ironically considering that Groucho asked her about appearing on stage, that was where she spent most of her career as actress, theater director and playwright. Her last role on big or small screen came as a young teenager, an uncredited one in Bye Bye Birdie (1963). www.imdb.com/name/nm0748766/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 Wikipedia mentions a brief marriage in 1968 to an actor, but not that it was annulled that same year. In 1970, she married someone (Chris DeCarlo) who does not have an IMDB page, but he is listed as co-director of the Santa Monica Playhouse.. They are still married according to the sources I checked. She also did something amazing at age 9, an interesting blend of intelligence and innocence that is found in precocious children. I won't give it away. It is worth going to her bio page on IMDB to find out what it is, I promise. In some ways, she was a typical giggly 9-year old girl. But I also found her to be very intelligent and she appears to have thought out her strategy well: take easy questions until forced to take harder ones, if necessary, to reach $500. (Or possibly her parents coached her well.) Since she got the first three correct, she only needed to go into the $200 category one time. Groucho seemed genuinely surprised by how much she knew, but I find that the children who came on the show often were more knowledgeable, at least on one particular subject, than many of the adults they had. I am enthralled by her. Considering her $2000 bet that she would become President someday, I wistfully note that she is actually younger than the two major party candidates. I can't find any videos of her online, but there are some images of her as an adult on Google Images, interspersed with many of her as a child. And searching for Santa Monica Playhouse on You Tube shows a number of productions using casts of children, but not exclusively. People joke about wanting to go out and buy a new DeSoto. I seriously would love to go out to Santa Monica and meet the adult Evelyn. Alas, I am over 3000 miles away and a trip there isn't in the budget.

[@DougCeleste]

LOIS: GREAT comments about Evelyn and too bad she did not make more movies. She was BRILLIANT on this show and as a child and I LOVED her performance in the movie "The Gift Of Love" with Robert Stack, Lauren Bacall and Joseph Kearns from about 1958. And Evelyn noticed the boos in the audience when she said that women should become president and I was surprised that Groucho did not comment on the boos which were uncalled for.

[@sandrauhlein4317]

Maisie33 yes

[@automatedelectronics6062]

Is that woman Alice the Goon?

[@kevinjudy2459]

Sly Stallones sister

[@SuperPatrick777]

Woman president , God forbid its bad enough now .

[@roberttelarket4934]

Do we get money for this? Typical New Yorker question.

[@joeambrose3260]

Big star? Never heard of her. WTF happened ?

[@wendywood3268]

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[@gregm.857]

WTF are you smoking crack?

[@giavannabellucci309]

George Sosnoff from couple #1, was pretty slovenly dressed for the time period. No tie, weird cheap semi-suit jacket or sport coat with his undershirt showing. Figures that he was a junk man!

[@tonichappell7596]

She seemed annoyed at him picking the tougher 300$ questions all the time instead of trying to reach the bonus round!

[@theresaholguin699]

@@tonichappell7596 she didn't answer the questions right so it's her fault as well

[@atiphwyne5609]

Not your type then? Perhaps you don't go for the rugged look? Maybe a Cary Grant kind of girl.

[@howardsachs6398]

Just watched Evelyn Rudie on a 1957 episode of The Alfred Hitchcock show. "A Much Beloved Man" I believe was the title of the show. It, also, starred Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Hugh Marlowe and Robert Culp. Evelyn played an extremely precocious 9-year-old even, though, she was only eight. She was a mini chess master in the episode, as well, as having a special personal insight into the feelings of others. I looked her up on Google and found that she had appeared on the old "You Bet Your Life" show which starred Groucho Marx. KZbind the show and found Evelyn to be utterly charming. According to Wikipedia, she has been connected to the Santa Monica Playhouse since 1973. I live in L.A. metro so I think I'll give her a call just to say hello and tell her how totally charming I found her performance to be. Be interesting to see what kind of a response I get. Will she be receptive or just tell me to "Get Lost"? Stay tuned. Lol