That comment says more about you than about today's females.

​@@lawsonj39 AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

I saw video of Hugh not too many years before he passed, he really let himself go after being in such great shape early in life and during his performing years...so sad. I think for years he had the record of being the youngest Marine drill instructor in the U. S.

So did this teenaged boy.

Did he have some kind of condition??

@@alanhumphrey4198 maybe…

Pittsburg Kansas also, Pa Pittsburgh ends with an H, if anyone cares ;)

It was a common snack back then….see Cracker Jacks

Her grandfather 1/2 black and she was part Jewish as well - she was just delighted and said "Part black, part Jewish...no wonder I made it in show business' Mae West was biracial but for her it was The Big Secret..

Most of the integration you see in today's American media did not begin to happen to any significant degree until after two seminal events: the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1968 assassination of ML King. Before these two events black American citizens were widely restricted by both law and practice from full participation in most of American society - TV show audiences, TV contestants, schools, housing, jobs, patronage in hotels, restaurants, lunch counters, department stores, hospitals, etc, etc - this was the legacy of racism and Jim Crow that goes back to the founding fathers original amoral policies. The 1970's - literally 200 years AFTER the nation's 1776 founding - was the first decade where the Constitution and Bill of Rights actually began being applied more broadly to also include more of America's non-caucasian citizens. This is why on this 1963 Password TV program you rarely if ever saw any black citizens as contestants or audience members. The policy of the day was exclusion...a gentleman's agreement between the programs and their heavily influential advertising sponsors. Corporate sponsors were major hurdles to black inclusion and participation, extending into television commercials and print ads, which excluded blacks. When million-selling superstar Nat King Cole merited a Television show in 1956, corporate sponsors united in refusing to sponsor the NBC show, forcing it off the air in its first year, despite high viewership and rave reviews. When you engage American society before the 1970's, you have to understand that the laws and practices were very different, even if some of the attitudes remain the same.

"Display" them???

Carol Channing was very proud of her black heritage, so, you have one "on display" right here.

@@johnfd0210 - Technicality only. Carol Channing was indeed proud of her black heritage, but her black heritage was not known outside intimate circles and never publicized by the media, if it even knew - Channing was always given full white recognition, rights, access, and privileges by the powers-to-be during her career. So in "displaying" Carol Channing here, the show was not "displaying" anyone other than the standard fare. BTW, Channing only opened up publicly about her black heritage in 2002, when she was 80 years old - after all her major achievements had been accomplished, and federal and state governments had revised or abolished their decades of codified discriminatory laws and practices.

Because not many applied to be on the show.