I agree. Not only is he funny, but he's a pretty good game player, too.

Joey Bishop had a late night talk show in the late 1960s, opposite Johnny Carson. I used to watch Joey; as great as Johnny was, I found Joey's show more entertaining. His humor just worked for me, and he was an outstanding host in talking with the guests. btw, his "Ed McMahon" was a very young Regis Philbin.

@@mikejschin it's funny that you say that, because I was going to comment to OP and say that as great as I find Joey on "WML", I generally did not care for him when he guest hosted The Tonight Show for Carson. But I must say, I have never watched the show that Bishop had with Philbin; maybe it's different enough for me to like. I have to remember to check it out once I'm done my "WML?" watching binge.

Steve Allen is thirty, forty, maybe even fifty times better though!! Not keen on Bishop personally. I don't find him self-deprecating at all. He strikes me being rather vain and too eager to get a laugh (I've not laughed at him yet, I hasten to add!).

@@davidsanderson5918 u sound like a real boring individual

That era long gone when celebrities acknowelge their fans and their likes and opinions. They interact freely with their fans unlike today's celebrities.

Ah, well, Bette was a one-off.

@@lopa2828 He is talking about other MGs on WML, not about the modern day celebrities

Actually, many did so.

you must not have watched many episodes

This is my grandfather & my great uncles!

Nadia Zahroon Yes she was. Very typical of the old-school entertainers/performers. And NO TATTOOS😃

So much so she had several abortions.

It’s name is “What’s My Line. TV’s Most Famous Panel Show.” I have read it, and suggest that anyone who is as addicted to these shows as I am should read it as well. You learn a great deal about each of the panelists and how they interact with each other.

Yes she was amazing... I love A Catered Affair...

NAH, I can think of two dozen others who were better. Bette was too mannered and always herself.

@@ChrisHansonCanada agree to disagree..

Remember the first nurses allowed in hospitals were actually man. Because women were not allowed to work.

lol, I just made the same comment. I'm surprised they had male nurses back then

9:45 Dorothy describing them as "male" nurses shows a bias too. They are registered nurses. Period. A man who is an RN told me that hospitals prefer to hire men, "because we can lift patients up off the floor."

such a great observation. i was taken aback myself, as well as the comment being a bobbsey twins. endearing!

I know, right! I was shocked myself!!

Todd Brandt -- It's possible that Bette and Arlene went way, way back. Arlene was born in 1907 and Bette was born in 1908, and both of them were natives of Massachusetts. Their being within a year of the same age and their Massachusetts background might have been the foundation of a friendship. Just a thought.

The first time Davis appeared on What's My Line Hal Bloch was still on the panel. When she shook hands with him he grabbed the back of her head and forced her to kiss him. Davis was so angry I thought she was about to hit him. (You can actually see her hand shaking with anger). It was one of several incidents that led to Bloch's departure from the show, and I suspect it was one reason Davis didn't appear again for several years.

Nancy Pine Wow! Great 411. I'm going to look for that WML episode.

Most people today would be clueless regarding Joey's excellent humor here.

This question of transportation has come up before. The idea of riding the bull is not to convey a person from one place to another, therefore it cannot, or should not, be considered transportation. John was wrong on that one. But true, John's reaction was amusing.

@@bluecamus5162 ummm watch it again John hesitated but gave a NO answer.......................

karlakor Personally I don't feel sad, if the final guest is low-salaried. They could almost as a rule, be sure of having the whole pot. $50 was a lot of money to many at that time.

SuperWinterborn It's the equivalent of about $500 today-- which would be considered a lot of money to most people now. That said, I still believe-- not on any direct evidence-- that all the guests got their full $50. It would have been so totally unfair otherwise, since John is completely arbitrary in when he flips all the cards over.

What's My Line? Yes, I have noticed "Daly's mysterious ways" with the cards, and usually to benefit the less privileged. But if they all got their $50 anyway? I remember once, with E. Andrews as a Guest Host, and there obviously was a poor Lady sitting there, when Dorothy(!) reminded Andrews that "John uses to flip all the cards, when situations like this one occures" (something about how the panel came to the right answer). Andrews so did, and both, Dorothy and the contestant, looked quite relieved. If all of them received those $50, wouldn't Ms. Kilgallen (of all!) had known?

SuperWinterborn Yes, but the *audience* didn't know. I'm not saying I'm right-- like I said, I have no evidence to back it up-- but I think that's a reasonable explanation.

What's My Line? I hope you're right, and that this generous flipping of cards just was a show-off to the audience.

and somehow looks 10 years younger!

Fredrick Marshall I remember that! Bette was pronounced Betty and sometimes spelled that way. It's interesting that Jazz Icon Miles Davis had a wife who was somewhat of an entertainer and her name was Betty Davis😅

I saw Bette Midler interviewed and she suggested that Miss Davis preferred “bet” but couldn’t get people to catch on…

It was obvious that Arlene and Bette were friends, and as you know, friends or family will often use different forms of the name --- nicknames, terms of endearment, etc.

She always did. Such a class act. I could watch her glide in all day.

Why wouldn't she?

tomitstube Bette Davis did a Perry MASON episode this. Very year called constant Doyle. Great episode but no Perry a!l Bette!!!

only 52 yikes

fairly funny but virtually clueless in guessing occupations/celebrities

who?

No hobgoblins of little minds to be found anywhere near "What's My Line?"

I've had the same thought. On the other hand, if you were sitting in the green room, you'd probably rather be trotted out for a minute and a half of time on national TV than be told to go back home because they didn't have time for you. This was broadcast live, so they didn't have a second chance to get the timing right. I think they did the best they could.

whenever time ran out the guest automatically got the full $50 so dont feel too sorry

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I'd want Paula Poundstone in the mix-- very sharp and SO funny.

actually the bull is more the acrobat; trying not to fall is not exactly an acrobatic feat

Lol it’s not haunted silly

What hair

Joann Smith -- You didn't need a huge amount of money to live decently in 1960. Everything was so affordable then. Houses in middle-class suburbs were $20K or less in most places and with a 20-year mortgage at 4 to 5% interest, the payments were low. My father paid cash in 1963 for a Ford Fairlane 4-door sedan -- $2,900 including tax and license. All types of candy bars like Snickers or a Hershey milk chocolate bar were either 5 cents (for the regular size) and 10 cents for large. Milk in California back then was 25 cents a quart, 49 cents for a half gallon. My mother wouldn't buy butter because it was 70 cents a pound and maragarine ranged from 19 cents to 39 cents (for Imperial). Ground chuck for hamburgers was 59 cents a pound. Don't even get me started on how cheap apartment rent could be in 1960 -- in 1977, 17 years after that, I rented a 2-bedroom, 1-bathroom apartment for $125 a month. It could have used new wall-to-wall carpeting and wasn't by any means luxurious, but it was clean and comfortable, and I was making $1,000 a month gross pay. Of course, gasoline in 1960 cost around 25 to 29 cents a gallon for regular.

ToddSF 94109 I understand that but wages were also quite low at that time. Wages are much higher now but then so is the cost of everything else. It is all relative I guess.

+Joann Smith My grandfather was mad because his electric bill rose to $6 one month, & that was in 1970. 1970 also happened to be the year I graduated high school & rented my first apartment for $45 a month. Things were just so different years ago.

I remember the late 1970's when I rented a 2-bedroom, one-bath apartment in Downey, California, a suburb of Los Angeles for $185 per month and I can't tell you how cheap my electric and gas bills were, not to mention the monthly rate for telephone (though long distance was way more expensive then). Groceries were dirt cheap, too, and gasoline, and seeing a movie at night was something like $2. I was earning $1,000 a month on the job I had then, and I managed very nicely.

I remember the 70's prices quite well...showing my age! LOL I still don't understand how a zipper tester made enough to support themselves. She must have been married to someone with a better paying job. At least I hope she was. $1,000 a month in the late 70's was a pretty decent income. I just wonder how much that contestant made doing what she did for a living.

also male babysitters.

That’s my grandfather & great uncles :)

The hospital that three of them worked in, Pilgrim State, was a mental hospital. Probably a good portion of the brothers' time was spent subduing patients.

Yes she overdid it a little bit, but partly because she was an actress herself.