What's My Line (Arlene Francis Premiere) (2-16-1950)

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12 жыл бұрын

Dr. Richard Hoffman, AF, Louis Untermeyer, Harold Hoffman

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@aaronsakulich4889 10 жыл бұрын

I like the one free guess that they got; but I'm glad that later episodes removed the "stand on one foot, balance this on your head" routine.

@altfactor 10 жыл бұрын

Arlene Francis made a career out of "What's My Line?". She'd be a regular panelist through the entire quarter-century run (prime-time and syndication)!

@ForeverSills 12 жыл бұрын

5:12 - 5:15: Ms. Francis' first appearance, and she nails it right off the bat! What an incredible person!

@adverse 11 жыл бұрын

Suave is a good word to describe John Charles Daly. He had a voice "like buttah" and was SUCH a handsome man...I could listen to him speak all day long! ;)

@Lava1964 10 жыл бұрын

It's always interesting to see shows grow from works-in-progress to great accomplishments. This is a good example of a show enduring its growing pains. I'm glad CBS stuck with WML. It would have been easy to cancel it.

@ladyyuna2000 11 жыл бұрын

Arlene Francis and Dorothy Kilgallen are my favorite panelists on What's My Line?

@leemcdonald5713 7 күн бұрын

dorthy is a hot tootsie woo woo

@BetsyBooth22 11 жыл бұрын

Boy, Arlene ruled this episode!

@davidpierce3 10 жыл бұрын

So interesting to see an early episode, before all of the kinks were worked out. Arlene is still dazzling. Things have changed so much since that time ... Thanks for uploading the entire episode. (And that was the first time I'd seen Arlene smoke a cigarette on camera!)

@Cris43130 12 жыл бұрын

A "floorwalker" was usually a manager. The floor walker was called that because he walked a route through several departments so a salesperson who needed managerial assistance would not have to call a central office or leave his sales area to find him.

@xenafan234 10 жыл бұрын

Wow! Thanks for posting this! I have only read about this!

@observerguy5031 10 жыл бұрын

Louis Untermeyer was a poet and author.

@bigred997 12 жыл бұрын

first, thanks for uploading. second, this showed how much work they had to do to make it more popular with a national audience. the panelists were quite irritating. it also needed glamour and a respect for the rules which i guess they were still working on.

@38ddkelly 9 жыл бұрын

0:45....wake up, Dr. Hoffman.

@robertcollins7025 10 жыл бұрын

Smoking. The host John Charles Daly and Arlene both smoked on camera. Different time for sure! !

@Gaygarious 11 жыл бұрын

Love Arlene's evening hat!!!!

@libertyann439 6 жыл бұрын

Arlene made the show

@chuckendweiss4849 5 жыл бұрын

It is difficult to use today’s standards on what happened 50 years ago. What people did or said then is different now

@davidgladstone5261 2 ай бұрын

John Daly was one of the broadcasters on D Day in June ,1944. A very good straight news broadcaster.

@AlizeeDefan 11 жыл бұрын

Yikes this show came on exactly one year to the date, to my birth! lol, make me feel old. As far as smoking on TV, Carson did that well into the 80s.

@mle7143 11 жыл бұрын

Its amazing how on this 1st show the mystery celebrity was pretty much a nobody. but in years to come being the mystery guest became a much coveted thing to be for famous people.

@BlazeDuskdreamer 4 жыл бұрын

Just because you weren't around in 1950 to recognize them. Rosevelt was a war hero. This is not long after WW2. I'm sure war heroes were celebrities for quite some time following the war.

@MatchGameProductions 12 жыл бұрын

I just edited it. Good eyes! Thank you

@fromthesidelines 11 жыл бұрын

The program was still "sustaining", on alternate Thursdays at 8pm(et)...Jules Montenier, Inc., the makers of "Stopette", became the sponsor a few months later.

@Ramubay 12 жыл бұрын

This episode was horrible, its amazing this show stayed on the air after this episode. If I had seen this when it first aired I would never had watched again. 100 percent of the reasons are the three male panelists.

@soulierinvestments 12 жыл бұрын

On this broadcast, if the producers had canned the walk down the panel and the free guesses and got rid of the guy at the table and what he does for a living -- they could have done another game. Gil Fates wrote that Arlene Francis was involved in WML development try out games as early as November 1949. This is mid February 1950, and for some reason Arlene did not appear on the first broadcast. She would have been an improvement over either Dr. or Ex-Guv Hoffmanns.

@519DJW 11 жыл бұрын

Louis Untermeyer was a poet, but is probably best remembered today as the editor of anthologies of poetry by better-known writers than he. I know it's almost impossible today to imagine anyone connected with poetry in any serious way as a game-show panelist, but the world has taken a few turns since 1950!

@imsixftsix 11 жыл бұрын

Actually, there are minority contestants on this program...Arlene Francis married a JEW...She wasn't allowed to buy into certain coops in NYC

@wardka 11 жыл бұрын

My goodness! This is embryonic and uncomfortable to watch. But it's also very interesting seeing the seed that soon became the intelligent show it was.

@13loomisst 12 жыл бұрын

Some fun, but still embryonic. Thanks for posting.

@JayJayinNYC 8 жыл бұрын

lol Mr. Hoffman missed his cue

@mle7143 11 жыл бұрын

Who was Louis Untermeyer anyway?

@johnwester8609 9 жыл бұрын

When Louis Untermeyer was fired from this show for his political views, he went into a deep depression and he wouldn't leave his house for a year. His wife deflected all phone calls, even from his close friend, playwright Arthur Miller.

@jvcomedy 10 жыл бұрын

The Tax Collector gets his one shot at being on national television and what does he do...........blows his nose! WTF could he possibly have been thinking?

@halewich 11 жыл бұрын

At 22:10 you can see Arlene taking a puff of a cigarette.

@5star555555555 12 жыл бұрын

Actually, this aired 2-16-50

@ericmaine 11 жыл бұрын

Umm...he's not really a 'nobody' by any stretch.

@soulierinvestments 11 жыл бұрын

I wonder how long it took the producers to realize that if Daly identifies the gender of the mystery guest up front -- the show loses a lot of potential laughs when a panelist asks someone like Yul Brynner if he is a dazzling startlet with long blond hair

@karlakor 12 жыл бұрын

Both John Daly and Arlene Frances are seen smoking in this episode, something that looks very odd to people watching this program today. By the way, I think that Louis Untermeyer is extremely annoying. I'm glad he was later replaced by Bennett Cert.

@mle7143 11 жыл бұрын

haha..youre so right..damn he was obnoxious! And smoking..I can remember in college when you could smoke in classes....a bad habit that thankfully is not so common anymore

@BlazeDuskdreamer 4 жыл бұрын

You're thankful for less freedom? No wonder America's going to hades in a handbasket!

@henrygrove100 12 жыл бұрын

john daly and arlene were smokers didnt know that!

@Dannys99887 10 жыл бұрын

Except for Arlene, these panelists are awful....a doctor, a poet, and an ex-Governor of New Jersey. What were they thinking? This is more than awkward. It's awful beyond words. How did they stay on the air for even one more episode?

@Dannys99887 10 жыл бұрын

***** I agree that the attraction of the show was that they seriously played the game. It was not just a show biz celebrity fest. And of course two of the permenant panelists were in fact a book publisher (Cerf) and a newspaper columnist (Kilgallen.) The story (in Wikipedia) of Louis Untermeyer's tenure on the show is interesting. He was forced to leave the show after a little over a year (this was the Communist witch hunt era) and Cerf became a permanent panelist then.

@marthagill8336 3 жыл бұрын

Still just 1 female panelist!

@grandexandi 10 жыл бұрын

how awkward!

@JHRobbins 12 жыл бұрын

No kidding - I thought this was terrible

@mle7143 11 жыл бұрын

I said..."pretty much a nobody"......but his heritage isnt...ask anyone today who he was..and I suspect NO ONE can tell you except who his famous relatives were...thats what I meant

@BlazeDuskdreamer 4 жыл бұрын

Um, google it, you fool. We know who his parents were but he gained fame independent of them as a war hero. You do know this is in 1950 and that World War 2 had ended a mere five years earlier? You are opening your mouth and proving yourself a fool.

@inhighspeed 11 жыл бұрын

It's such a very large world we live in. I knew you must be out there, that person who liked John Daly. I loved the show but thought Daly was more annoying than fingernails on a blackboard.