You Bet Your Life #59-21 Home for wayward husbands ('Walk', Feb 11, 1960)

COUPLE #1: Irehne Hobson, a 90 year old woman who met the Marx Bros in vaudeville when they were still children / Captain DeVere Baker, who is raising funds for a rafting expedition across the Pacific ocean
COUPLE #2: Anita Arrington, who clearly doesn't like a man in a beard / William Tynan, Jr., who doesn't want to get married and runs a "home for wayward husbands"
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Episode identification and basic description based on "Tell 'em Groucho Sent You", © 1997 by Mark Petty. Used by permission.

[@tonyaltano7992]

One of the most interesting TV programs of any era.

[@garyfernandez8513]

I can’t believe I’m sitting here watching a living breathing person born in 1869. Just imagine what she has witnessed in her wonderful life.

[@stevebutler812]

Her story about the Wright brothers was amazing. In fact, they were only known for being bicycle mechanics until after they had successfully flown a plane in 23 mile an hour winds on a beach in Kitty Hawk. So they were upset, that people thought they were cuc's and ignored their passion to build a "flying machine." People thought them insane. Even the US government refused to buy their planes, and they sold planes to Germany which created the luftwaffe, which kicked our ass in World War and all through World War until we got aerial power. The Wright brothers proved to be 50 years ahead of their time and knew that the value of planes was primarily military. But the US claimed, we have a Calvary, and if we need the air, we have these things called hot air balloons.

[@leaccordion]

@@stevebutler812 True about everything you write except being 50 years ahead of their time. Their TIME WAS in the beginning of the 20th century. We could arguably say that people, inventions, movements etc. may have been all ahead of their time, but in my opinion EVERYTHING IS ON TIME. PERIOD. That in itself can be scary! ???

[@setphaserstostun4626]

I think she was full of bull.....

[@acousticshadow4032]

@@setphaserstostun4626 Groucho thought same, apparently. Very annoyed with her, it appeared. But she died in 1967 at 97 years old. So ???

[@justplainbrad7713]

@@setphaserstostun4626 With naysayers like you, who disagree, not for a valid reason, rather, just for something to do...what I would do is, order phasers to full power & open fire. [There's always one in every crowd]

[@williamanthony9090]

These shows are an amazing study in sociology.

[@stevebutler812]

Her story about the Wright brothers was amazing. In fact, they were only known for being bicycle mechanics until after they had successfully flown a plane in 23 mile an hour winds on a beach in Kitty Hawk. So they were upset, that people thought they were cuc's and ignored their passion to build a "flying machine." People thought them insane. Even the US government refused to buy their planes, and they sold planes to Germany which created the luftwaffe, which kicked our ass in World War and all through World War until we got aerial power. The Wright brothers proved to be 50 years ahead of their time and knew that the value of planes was primarily military. But the US claimed, we have a Calvary, and if we need the air, we have these things called hot air balloons.

[@Tormund_Giantsbrain]

The beard guy was born 80 years too early. He even speaks like my friends.

[@elwoodziggurat]

I'm convinced the bearded guy is a time traveler from 2017 or something.

[@MrMenefrego1]

👀

[@davidtice4972]

I watched Grocho as a kid and now I'm older than he was.

[@oldhippie81]

Me Too.

[@brandonk8948]

I'm in love with Bill's personality, perspective, and vibes. Absolute legend. lol

[@Thomas-fu8vp]

William Tynan Jr :born November 25,1930/death May 2, 2016. And it reads from his obituary that he stuck to his guns - he never married.

[@ivanprekajski1993]

Was he gay maybe?

[@lakemaniac]

Explains his long life

[@bixbybixby]

Wow, the second woman is such a doll. Beautiful. And beautiful personality.

[@timothyhughes1904]

You said it! Not only did Anita Arrington possess a rare and regal beauty, her personality seemed poised and polished. The bearded guy must have been a zombie because no living man could have looked into that woman's entrancing dark eyes and totally discard ever being married to her.

[@theoakhills]

she has magical beauty...and grace.

[@MrJoeybabe25]

Irehne Hobson is now 145 years old and living in Malibu, CA!

[@grouchomarx-youbetyourlife7476]

Joe Postove The answer man, here.

[@HansDelbruck53]

That's Malihbu.

[@jimmiedee2315]

Irehne Hobson died October 27, 1967 at the age of 97. She's buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, CA). Plot: Inspiration Slope, Map A19, Lot 582, Space 6.

[@acousticshadow4032]

It is something that technology has advanced far enough where we can see & hear the likeness of a person who was born during Reconstruction. Amazing, really.

[@lukeheaton5336]

@Acoustic Shadow. There’s an episode of “I’ve Got a Secret” from 1955 where a gentleman’s secret was that he was the last surviving witness of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. I believe man was 95 or 96 and had been at Ford’s Theater with a relative. The clip is here on KZbin if you’re interested.

[@acousticshadow4032]

@@lukeheaton5336 Thank you. I have seen this episode. Fascinating stuff, indeed!

[@dotsywotsy18]

Do you have a link to the clip?

[@lukeheaton5336]

@@dotsywotsy18 kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4OzoKyjqZh9rpY

[@mehboobkm3728]

@@dotsywotsy18 Here you go if you have not seen it already.. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4OzoKyjqZh9rpY

[@joet840]

The guy with the beard looks like someone you'd see in Starbucks nowadays.

[@edwardhutchison1583]

Joseph T. Z

[@stevebutler812]

Spoiler Alert! The wheel question asked who's on. a $20 bill. The 1960 hourly wage was $2.40, so using $20s then was rarer than using $100s today. Thus, not a throwaway question.

[@percboy555]

$174.81 in 2019 dollars

[@censusgary]

I dunno. I rarely see $50 or $100, or, for that matter, $2 bills, but I know whose picture is on each of them.

[@sallykohorst8803]

Great when he talks to older people.

[@mattmexor2882]

I'm pretty sure the girl who comes down in place of the duck to hand out the money for the secret word is June Lewis, married to Reginald Lewis, the 1957 Mr. Universe winner. They were on You Bet Your Life #59-08 a few months before this one.

[@wardka]

Exactly. I recognized her too. I mean, who could forget her? But I've been binge watching these so maybe I only saw that episode the previous night.

[@gaylelewis9114]

Yes, that was her

[@poetcomic1]

"I'm a professional lecturer" "You're a professional lecher???

[@captaindj9790]

The guy with the beard? Amazing the way he looks and acts, it's as if someone took him out of our time and dropped him right here in this video.

[@greglauer]

Holy moly...almost 60 years ahead of his time. Good catch!

[@josephbailey3968]

Agreed!

[@kamikazeyamamoto4545]

Proof that time travel was possible as early as 1950's.

[@blakeaasgaard9028]

Captain DJ - EXACTLY what I was thinking IMMEDIATELY, and then, amazingly, throughout the entirety of the encounter! Amazing.

[@uzomaohajekwe7149]

Yeah instead of a lecture on Mexico he’d give a TED talk

[@davidtice4972]

I drove in a car from Los Angeles to La Manzanilla del Mar, Jalisco, Mexico. That took a long time and it was still another two and a half hours or more to Mexico city.

[@marions.120]

She looks great for 90, couldn’t understand a word she said, but she looked pretty good for 90.

[@billyshepard5514]

Irehne became a countess in 1946. Her count was the classic movie-comedy no-count count, complete with theatrical beard and monocle-little about Irehne's life was not stagey. Her bid for a life above one tinged with shades of Belle Watling and Mildred Pierce faltered after a year amid the inevitable charges by the count that his countess had married him just for his title and equally inevitable countercharges that he had only wanted hard-earned money from her. While it was back to the maisons de beauté-and to offering tricks of the trade in her 1950 book Wings to Youth-it should come as no surprise that it wasn't until 1967 that the indomitable Ihrene retreated to Forest Lawn. She was 97 years young.

[@arttrombley7385]

Wow, two full grown adults that didn't know whose picture was on a 20 dollar bill, amazing.

[@contraryMV]

They weren't that common back then. They didn't have atms kicking them out ad nauseam.

[@adkforever6997]

@@contraryMV You're exactly right. And the reason they weren't too common was because of their value. $20 in 1960 was the equivalent of today's $173.88!!! (source: in2019dollars.com)

[@lakemaniac]

@@contraryMV or a pause button, that you could look it up, and act like a know -it- all👍🤣🤣🤣 btw directed to Art Trombley

[@519djw6]

I'm loath to insult the dead, but the first couple was mighty ignorant. They had never even heard of James Joyce.

[@lakemaniac]

I guess that weren't as lucky as you, by googling everything

[@Tormund_Giantsbrain]

Damn I guy from the 50s with a full beard. That's a rarity. Dude looks like a hipster from Bushwick.

[@danielmoose1273]

It was Stunning to me that contestants didn't know whose likeness was on the U.S. $20 bill.

[@roby72s]

William Tynan j passed away in 2016, in Los Angeles. He never married.

[@keithhyttinen8275]

Dang...she was a 30 year old in 1900.

[@solohoh]

It's 1930 miles from LA to Mexico City, he must have taken the long way around on a lecture circuit.

[@alexandermarquis6197]

Miss Irehne was born in 1869, dec. 15.

[@keithnaylor1981]

I wish there had been subtitles for that first lady she seemed to have a lot of interesting things to say! I could have listened to the guy with the beard for hours. Totally fascinating.

[@jimmiedee2315]

'Captain' DeVere Baker, was a Mormon who sought to establish the authenticity of his church's views on the first peoples to visit American shores, by making a series of daring raft trips over a 30-year period. He died December 5, 1990 following a long illness at the age of 75.

[@alevine1951]

Well he revealed himself to be very uneducated when he didn't know James Joyce was a writer, or Nijinsky a dancer, or Brandeis an attorney/judge. Good grief, not even one. But now I know he was a complete fool to boot. Sad.

[@B1970T]

Didn’t he discover the South Pole, North Pole, or the barber pole? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@adamhartmann13]

The woman who came out swinging on a rope. I believe I saw her on another episode with her husband who was Mr. Universe.

[@mariocordeiro8728]

Where did you drop the H maybe i can help you find it 😆

[@jessiejames7492]

shes 90? so beautiful!

[@1tigerbee]

She was beautiful wasn't she. And wearing heels! She had her cane but didn't use it.

[@jessiejames7492]

.....and not a strand of dyed hair in sight..:)

[@marisakelm8157]

jessie james youbetyourlife

[@kamikazeyamamoto4545]

1950's GILF - classy too.

[@keymaninmusic]

Why did Groucho say “Welcome to You Bet Your Wife”?

[@billyshepard5514]

In one of the Groucho outakes it shows the bearded guy and Miss Arrington and Groucho asks her if she ever dated a married man and she said yes

[@joeambrose3260]

Bill says he's 28, he turned 29 on 11-25-59. Was this taped months before the airdate?

[@acousticshadow4032]

Very likely. Found one today taped nearly 5 months prior to air date.

[@therrienmichael08]

Beards were really radical.

[@dennishardy3869]

Waa Waa Waa to the lady swinging on the rope like Tarzan. Love YBYL by Groucho Marx.

[@chicojcf]

What an amazing story.

[@ADAMSIXTIES]

0:13 Irehne Hobson 1869-1967.

[@maxinegallant3240]

Love to know what happened to Anita Arrington ,I did read about William Tynan that he never marring and died in 2016 at 86 yrs old?.

[@timothyhughes1904]

I'd like to know the same thing.

[@liten48]

@@timothyhughes1904 she passed in 2018 married with one son

[@timothyhughes1904]

@@liten48 Sorry to hear that. Was hoping she still remained. Difficult to believe that the young and lovely woman has wilted away. Thanks for telling us.

[@mehboobkm3728]

Is it just me or if really the older people from those times looked younger for their age and young people looked older!?

[@tirmyta]

The “secret word girl” was a real swinger.

[@davidburke2697]

I'm Tarzan, she Jane.

[@daveqr]

William never did get married. Died in 2016 at the age of 85.

[@CamhiRichard]

Hard to understand why Groucho was always pushing marriage so hard. He had three marriages, as I understand, all flops.

[@bradgotch]

He wanted others to experience pain and suffering.

[@stevebutler812]

The entire show is built around Groucho & his witty remarks. Much of each episode was editing in only the funny and less risque stuff. Thus, getting people to disclose potential comedic retorts was the real show, the Game-Show format was just a platform.

[@miclazy-5m]

William kept his beard til he died.

[@sjoormen1]

He got married?

[@miclazy-5m]

sjoormen1 never

[@sjoormen1]

Thans for feedback. I wish there was some data for guests on these shows, what happened to them. I know that's none of my business, but still.

[@stevebutler812]

@@sjoormen1 www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?n=william-tynan&pid=180242174

[@sjoormen1]

Thanks for information. He led life many could only hope for.

[@stevenwolff6866]

I wonder how many single couples on the show actually got together afterwards

[@gilbertotongco8895]

groucho was a cgatterb😅x

[@papagen00]

Groucho should have hosted a talk show and not a quiz show. The quiz part is just a waste of time.

[@Eddie_Schantz]

Even though the first lady was interesting, she was way off on the president when she was born. She was born during the U.S. Grant admin.

[@janepatterson6779]

Shoulder pads in ladies clothes were certainly needed...

[@ziparis]

MGTOW in 1960!

[@stevebutler812]

I just looked that up. MGTOW. Sounded like gays at first. But, their resistance to the anti-male, "male patriarchy" "toxic male" attitudes is accurate.

[@marions.120]

She looked awesome on that rope!

[@mariocordeiro8728]

You're a Captain and you only have a raft ahaaaa 😆

[@joeambrose3260]

Anita is one prime piece of tail. Book me on that time machine pronto !

[@emorris272]

The guy with the beard was gay. That's why he didn't want to marry a woman. He passed in 2016.

[@emorris272]

@@jeffreymclaughlin1789 I looked his name up online that's how. He was a very esteemed photographer. Several articles and wikipedia say he's gay. SO WHAT!!!

[@jeffreymclaughlin1789]

@@emorris272 NO PROBLEM MY FRIEND I DIDN'T KNOW

[@jennifer86010]

At 12:28 we keep seeing close-ups of the " beard-o" and not a single close-up of Anita Arrington, one of the prettiest women who ever was on the show. The show's director must be gay!

[@williamanthony9090]

jennifer86010- Practically nobody had beards in those days. It probably had something to do with that. BTW, you think "Plain Jane" tall and lanky Anita is one of the most beautiful women to ever appear on the show.?!? Lol...

[@uzomaohajekwe7149]

Don’t disrespect da beard!

[@timothyhughes1904]

Jennifer86010, I noticed that too. Guess the camera man went in for beards more than beauty.

[@uzomaohajekwe7149]

Put him in joggers, a T-shirt, and a ball cap and he’ll fit right in

[@timothyhughes1904]

I agree 100% with your assessment of Anita Arrington's beauty, jennifer86010.

[@timothyhughes1904]

Lovely Anita Arrington looks somewhat like Donald Trump's former communications chief, Hope Hicks.

[@davidtice4972]

Born in 1869

[@tomsimpson5317]

Strange people

[@519djw6]

Boy, I wish I'd had a chance to be a contestant on this show! Ninety percent of the answers are a piece of cake! It boggles the mind how such relatively educated people don't know the answers to these questions.

[@FF11Freshstep]

gotta remember! this was 1959! no internet, no DVDs, no cell phones, no PCs, no VHS, no audio tapes, no cable TV, no calculators, no electric typewriters, the US space program was about 5 years old, even TV was still only about 15 years old in its commercial form! we are SURROUNDED by this type of information today, but back then, unless you specialized as a profession in something you got asked or, read the encyclopedia all the time (if you could afford one), or were a library troll, this was not all common info back then!

[@grouchomarx-youbetyourlife7476]

FF11Freshstep The other thing to keep in mind is that YBYL wasn't a serious quiz show. The point of the show was the interviews, not the quiz segments. This is particularly true once they discarded the element of competition between couples, and had two couples on per show rather than three. Groucho usually very clearly wanted the contestants to win.

[@FF11Freshstep]

yeah he always seems like such an advocate of them! i even remember very specific instance he would give them credit for partial answers etc

[@1tigerbee]

And don't forget the "nerves" of being on stage, on TV and talking to Groucho. I don't know if I would have known my name! :)

[@kevincaress4047]

FF11Freshstep v

[@charleswinokoor6023]

Groucho should have been a little more considerate and asked the secret word girl her name.

[@timothyhughes1904]

What do you mean by "more considerate?" He could have said nothing to her. Groucho provided the woman with 5 minutes of immortality.

[@rickrick5041]

@@timothyhughes1904 He even asked her to come out in front of the contestants and talked about her and with her.

[@mr.crighton9491]

I think she was on an episode herself, along with her husband, a bodybuilder and winner of some Mr. USA contest or something. If I recall, they were both strong in body but quite dull-witted.

[@ernestinematthews4563]

The thirsty client importantly vanish because shame spontaneously wash amid a closed scallion. cloudy, tranquil dish