She and Lauren Bacall hit on a hair style that never went out of date.

Meh, Dina was a run of the mill blond, a dime a dozen in Hollywood those days. She's has a great sexy smile I'll give her that and probably a really nice person but breathtaking? Nah don't think so. IMO.

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@@Etnalleb She was a big step up from those "run-of-the-mill blondes" from that era. Dina Merrill had style & grace.

That's like when Col. Sanders came out without the panel being blindfolded. He looks EXACTLY like the signs on his restaurants, but apparently none of the panelists had ever seen a Kentucky Fried Chicken.

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Mr. Jackson has an excellent voice for broadcasting, as well as an engaging personality. No surprise that he had a large following in a top-3 market.

Now, he has his tea in every store nationwide.

Most of the panellists

Dina Merrill was the last of the genuine Gilded Age heiresses. Amazing that she was accidentally a great actress when she really didn't have to DO anything.

@@davemattia - either do something or be the standard no-load 'socialite.'

She really was stunning and always quite elegant.

Yes, and it was great Dina played it fair and square with the panel, not getting cute with the answers to try to throw them off- she's definitely a legit stumper.

If you examine all actors, especially stars, you'll find the vast majority of them have something distinctive in their voice or mannerisms. Even beautiful men and women need something to set them apart because Hollywood's full of beautiful people. Dina's natural voice here is great but it's rather ordinary and could pass for many other people on the street, but since she personally knew some of the panel, she needed the accent and yes, it was very good.

Yes

She always looked like a "million bucks!"

And she always had words for Martin if he stepped out of line with any woman. 😂

In Arlene's biography ... Arlene complained of people asking, "How Old Are You?" Question was resented / not answered.

She died May 22, 2017.

+Greg Patrei I had the great pleasure to have a chance meeting her, I was working as a makeup artist at the beauty salon in Chevy Chase Washington DC ( Red Door Elizabeth Arden ) she came at the salon, she had a big event to attend and needing a clear eyelashes adhesive Duo and I had that and gave it to her and a week later I had a package from NYC and it was from her with a signed picture of her and yes she was so beautiful and very very classy and elegant and a very respectful lady .. I cherish my short conversation and her signed picture of her . 💙

She was also stunning on "To Tell the Truth." Very.

"To Tell The Truth" she is one classy lady.

She was the richest actress in America and is the WASP goddess incarnate. She ended up worth 5 billion.

She was by Edward Francis Hutton (founder of E.F. Hutton) out of Marjorie Merriweather Post (Post Cereals Heiress). And, yes. she was stunning.

@@leonardbennett9903 Indeed. Mar a Lago, Russia, White Cloud, Faberger, etc. (Eventually Alzheimer's...tragic).

Yes, she reminds me of women on the North Shore of Long Island or the tony areas of Connecticut. She was created to play a matriarch of a wealthy family on a TV show.

The like of which is utterly unknown today...

Her father was Wall Street baron EF Hutton, and her mother was the heiress to the Post cereal fortune.

She came from old money...

@@rogerd777 and the show she was on had Kellogg’s cereal ads staring at her throughout her questioning 😄

How was his game then in 1973?

How lucky are you! He was my idol!

The same is true with respect to a very young and similarly not then well known Frank Gifford.

Very few athletes in history if any were more famous or recognizable than Arnold Palmer. How different the world was in 1960.

@@trock6577 - it was way before the global media explosion that would follow the invention of cable TV, the internet, and its digital offshoots in the 1980's/90's. In 1960, most American homes only had 5 or 6 channels they could get on TV. Few followed golf. Baseball was America's game...golf's biggest ratings jump across the sport really didn't come until the 20 yr period Tiger Woods dominated the sport, 1998-2018. The balloon in ratings helped more PGA golfers become more widely visible to even the non-golf follower.

I enjoy his iced tea/lemonade combination beverage.

they've been closing many per week since the decline of tiger woods....although, maybe they might re-open a few in light of recent events

And Arnold Palmer is in no small way responsible for this growth.

I believe either that John Daly wanted to get on with the show, or that he didn't understand Afrikaans--or probably both.

@@519djw6 John was still thinking of his joke of getting out of here. He was paying no attention to Mr. Jackson.

Yes, she was always being dumped for some tart. As though that would happen!

She was on an episode of Batman when I was little. Her husband played a cowboy villain named Shane and she played his girlfriend. I thought she was the most beautiful woman I'd ever seen.

My mother often commented on how Arlene and Dorothy would look the women and the better looking men up and down from the bacsidek as they left the stage.

Dina Merrill's lineage is impressive: Merrill of Merrill Lynch; Post of the cereal fortune ...and several others. Growing up at MaraLago had to be a beautiful experience. Her mother was a force with exquisite taste as evidenced by MaraLago.

@@janetmarletto6667: Her lineage is from Post and E. F. Hutton. "Merrill" was a stage name.

Dina Merrill was beautiful and so poised and polished. Arlene was easily jealous when beautiful women were contestants and her husband, Martin was one of the panelists.

@@leesher1845 But that didn't stop her from taking multiple looks of pretty men.

+poetcomic1 Poor??? I call that amount of money enough to live and therefor she is rich. And be able to give away for others make you rich too in a better sense than many can understood.

+Sabine Beyer I understand that facetiousness can sometimes be misinterpreted when written out in a comment,still though,could you POSSIBLY have thought that peotcomic was being serious when he said she is "only" worth 5 billion dollars?!

Maybe. Sometimes it's not so easy to find that whithout some smileys, especially, if english is not your first language. Thanks for the clarification.

poetcomic1 - Oh, alas.My breaking heart.

Arnold Palmer was one of golf's greatest blessings. He was not only a great golfer and very charismatic, he genuinely liked people, and he understood that golf needed the interest of the television crowd to succeed. He signed autographs by the millions, he responded to mail, he waved at the crowds when other golfers ignored the people who followed them. Any golfer who won a tournament could expect to find a note of congratulations from Arnie in the next week's mail, and even when he was in the last couple weeks of his life he wrote a note to a young girl who hoped to join the LPGA when she grew up. One young golfer who was practicing before an important tournament realized that someone was coming up from behind, and then realized that he had actually cut someone off. Arnold Palmer then asked, very politely, if he could join him. He was a great man in many ways. The sport would not be what it is if not for him.

I met Arnold Palmer in Las Vegas Nevada at the Desert Inn. I played blackjack at the same table with him. As a matter of fact I sat right next to him!

Lars Rye Jeppesen They should have told him to Beat It.

Unfortunately, many did...and destroyed my home state of California. I had to move east to South Carolina.

D Stuart the Golden Bear is Nicklaus.

Arnold was known for "Arnies' Army", but Jack Nicklaus was the Golden Bear.

In her comments about the actors she worked with, she was always complimentary and gracious. She absolutely adored Deborah Kerr in "The Sundowners."

@@dph22013 right you are! i couldn't believe the panel didn't recognize him. i think that the coasts were more distant from one another back then.... had betty white or someone from cali been on the panel, he probably would've been guessed right away. he was well-known in 1960. i also remember him being quite charming as my old uncle smiled whenever palmer would win and uncle didn't really smile much otherwise, being a stern fellow.

By 1960 golf WAS televised. Not like it is today but it WAS televised.

True, but newspapers and magazines were huge, and by that time Arnold had been on the cover of Sports Illustrated and pics in the newspapers. The major tournaments were on network TV. I wonder if some of them did recognize him, but didn’t want to spoil it right at the start, though they did guess him pretty fast. Blindfolds should have been used.

I watched every game of the 1960 World Series on TV. I don't know if golf was on TV in 1960. My father might have recognized Arnold Palmer anyway. Our family lived in Hartford and my father started attending the Insurance City Open in 1954, when it was won by Tommy Bolt. In later years, as the tournament changed its name several times, I went with my father and saw Palmer and the other great folders of the day.

My dad had a 1967 Impala Super Sport. So much chrome! I needed sunglasses to see it when the sun light reflected off it! P.S. Super Sport, or SS, is the signature performance option package offered by Chevrolet on a limited number of its vehicles. All SS models come with distinctive "SS" markings on their exterior. The SS package was first made available for the 1961 Impala.

There's a WML episode where the panel did not recognize Colonel Sanders by sight. No blindfolds were used.

Yes! I replied this exact same thing on another similar comment above!

Sporting events weren't nearly as widely broadcast back then, particularly in minor sports (as was golf then).

I agree. I can’t believe they didn’t recognize him on sight. He had already won the Masters twice and US Open by this time.

You're not "skeptical," you're just pulling nonsense out of your rear end. You have zero facts that Cerf recognized Palmer and was merely "putting on an act." You are essentially insulting Cerf's integrity that he didn't have the decency to immediately announce that he recognize Palmer and instead, would infringe on the veracity of WML by pretending like he didn't recognize him. Ridiculous. Clearly you have no sense of how relatively obscure pro golf was to the general public in 1960, especially when compared to more popular sports at the time, like Baseball.

She must have been on her way to a children's birthday party playing the clown. .

Oh, woman! I guess that’s the risk of her being so fashion forward. When you take big risks, you can miss big!

It reminded me of a wrapped gift or wallpaper. I wonder what the colors on the dress were.

Oh it's a dress. I thought it was a bow-tie.

Ha! What women wear just because someone said it was fashion.

ToddSF 94109 Dina (she was youngest) had two other sisters both of whom are now dead.

Dave Matas -- Yes, they were her half sisters by her mother's previous (first) marriage to Edward Close.

I always thought her date of birth was December 9, 1925, which would now make her 89.

Dave Matas Her two half-sisters are the the Aunts of Glenn Close.

Her mother, nee Merriweather(originally spelled Meriwether), descends from Nicholas Meriwether of the Jamestown colony(c1652), of which lineage, Capt Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark Expeditions also descends from. I know since I descend from that same lineage.

Prince Harming - I was thinking that. He should have stuck with what he had. His nose might not have fallen off.

You're right. The surgery radically changed Michael Jackson's appearance. His nose looks pretty stable here.

This is actually very close to the time the more famous Michael Jackson was born! Interesting that this fellow was a DJ. Foreshadowing?

@@shirleyrombough8173 a great that memories

@@stevenjoyal6565 a great memories

Paint drying and/or grass growing.

He is still alive as of May 22nd, 2019. He's 85

@@oobaka1967 Unfortunately, he passed away yesterday, January 15th, 2022, aged 87.

If you mean the one on Hollywood Blvd., I used to eat there daily. I worked for TV Guide in the building next door.

I agree. Golf, was, by 1960 a pretty popular sport that was regularly covered on television. I was a kid, but I remember that people loved Arnold Palmer not just for his golfing prowess but for his aw, shucks manner and friendly smile. He was so popular in the 60's that his fans were called "Arnie's Army" because they would follow him from hole to hole.

I think Bennett knew right from the start when he first saw him, that it was Arnold Palmer and then just played along until he "guessed" him.

@@Walterwhiterocks If Cerf knew who Palmer was before the questioning started he should have disqualified himself. Gil Fates in his book indicated that at times Bennett wasn't a team player.

@@ericstuart7748 That is true as a general statement -- there were times Bennett wasn't a team player, such as frequently blurting out the answer out of turn. And sometimes he cut things short rather than giving everyone a chance -- those traits would define him as not being a team player, as Dorothy was often not a team player with the MG, asking questions that gave her fellow panelists no help. But Bennett disqualified himself on a number of occasions when he knew who the guest was. There is no indication he ever participated when he knew who the guest was in advance (sometimes he had a hunch from who was in town who the guest would be). So yes, there were times Bennett wasn't a team player but no indication he was ever dishonest.

It's been remarked that John Daly just wanted to get on with the show. But I think there's a strong possibility that Daly didn't speak Afrikaans.

Yes, he is. And he continued on radio into the 2000's.

What a lovely polite man

Bennett wasn't "uncertain" about it at all. He hated it.

Yes, and unlike several mystery guests, she really was elated to have stumped the panel. Most MGs deep down want the panel to guess (get) them.

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