She exuded elegance, kindness, humor and good taste.

I want to see them both in the next life

There is no next life, when you're dead you're dead.

Don't forget GRAND!! Classy and very fashionable. :-)

@@design17 Better not google Peter Gabel recent pic.

Indubitably !

It’s wonderful when someone sees a relative on this show. We can only say, RiP for this person’s mother.

Pretty lady. And what a lovely, feminine voice

I'm one year older than your beautiful mom. RIP.

my condolences and may she rest in peace

Weird seeing your Mom so young, huh?

That era ended in Nov. 1963, not extending into future years.

I liked Arlene's Kindness concerning that gentleman also!

I agree with you, I love people who clear things up when they realize someone has been embarrassed.

Very kind!

Lolol. Arlene had a naughty wit.

Read with a huge smile on my face!

It has that effect.

And what a wonderful "hurt" it is, compared to the dreck that comes out of the television now!

Proves you have excellent taste.

A real tragedy regarding Dorothy.

Can’t understand why two people must share a chair 🤔

Well, our dear Ethel had already appeared (at this point in time) on a Broadway stage for more than 10,000 times. She was used to it. Cheers to Ethel and bless her memory!

The pockets are my favorite.

You know I thought they had pockets too but recently I saw her hands looking like they were in pockets but she was pushing the gown out with her hands under the folds. I saw it. Either way she looks great.

She was above all a theater goer and critic and could be just as starry eyed as anyone.

Ethel and Dorothy were great friends - Ethel remembers her fondly in her autobiography as being one of the only writers she knew she could get dinner with, and not have to worry about her personal woes ending up in the next days paper.

@@maggiehall3471 Dorothy was a real reporter, not a scandal monger like Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons.

They were good friends.

@@SymphonyBrahms Amen

I have noticed on several episodes that Dorothy makes effort to show she "Knows" the mystery guest by reaching out to them, as she did Ms. Merman. And the mystery guest always reaches out to Arlene first, as Ms. Merman did.

Mary Tyler More. No, it's Moore. ... okay, I'm not good at this.

When that question is asked, my brain automatically answers, "Toyota!" Lol.

I know, seriously. Tackiness knows no higher example.

Getting a tattoo is like keying your own car.

Amen!

I love how Ethel Merman acknowledged the audience. Not very many of the celebrities did that.

There was one episode with a nun and Dorothy actually did a curtesy.

Indeed. The biggest star Broadway ever had.

eoselan7 ... I agree with you 100%. She's the reason that I watch "it's a mad mad mad mad world." Ms. Merman came off as the funniest one in that picture among all the great comics.

I love when she says" We're in the Imperial and we're in last?!"😀

True, but still, my favorite Ethel Merman film role is that of Lt Hurwitz. No one in the world could play Lt Hurwitz like her.

My pleasure-- glad you enjoy the videos. :) I just uploaded a rare complete episode of the BBC version of WML: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bbqYnpWAv5zQcY0.html

Elio Cuellar Arlene yes, Dorothy no.

LOL, Dorothy Kilgallen looks like Snow White with her hair style and puff up sleeves.

There will never be another Merman!

A disco album? Wasn't the disco era rather out in 1979?

Nope, that was right at the tail end, 1974-ish to 1980-ish. Ethel killed it! :-P

That album is one of my favorite entertainment train wrecks, which I return to often when I really need a good laugh. The amazing thing about it is not so much that Ethel Merman did a disco album in 1979-- there are a slew of godawful disco albums by artists who should have known better. It's the way it was recorded: she recorded her vocal tracks with the accompaniment of her usual pianist, having no idea whatsoever what the arrangement that was laid over them would sound like. And you can tell, because she sings in her usual style with no modulation whatsoever for the genre. It just makes the insanely conceived album that much more over-the-top insane in execution. You haven't lived till you've heard Merman belting out "Alexander's Ragtime Band" set to a disco beat. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Zq2RopudmN61koU.html

What's My Line? That record must have been a real floorfiller at the discos... My goodness... :)

What's My Line? I think the disco version of "There's No Business Like Show Business" works in spite of itself - "why why WHY baby?" If you like (?) that album you might enjoy (?) the movie _Sextette_ with Mae West, possibly the worst trainwreck at the junction of old Hollywood and '70s cheese.

What decline? Dorothy was always healthy looking, bright, humble, kind, witty, and extremely on point!

I agree. So tragic.

When we get closer to her demise, you will see more comments about her behavior.

He had a bountiful vocabulary...

"is it masticated?"

And even when they do answer he speaks at the same time or nods or shakes his head at the same time. I remember in one episode when the mystery guest was talking, Daly was saying the exact same sentences right over their sentences.

@@taraxacum Yes! and the Panel started asking him why he kept answering questions for the guest xD

Agree that was wrong and i think the first contestant noticed

SaveThe TPC I noticed this too, but couldn't find a clear enough shot of the necklace to decide if it was really heart shaped or not, so I didn't say anything about it. :) You may very well be right about Arlene mentioning it when the guest is leaving.

23 years after this episode a mugger snatched the necklace from Miss Francis’ neck and it was never recovered.

She sounded a bit like Julie London here.

+buyvital HA! You're right. She looks ready to cut him in two with that glare!

You're right. It wouldn't happen today, but if it did, Arlene's retort would contain the word "mansplain."

He interrupted people frequently on this show through the years. I remember one night Henry Morgan called him on it rather sharply. Cerf pouted for the rest of the show.

I totally agree!!

She stole every scene she was in, and she was the surprising, hilarious character in doing that from some of the greatest comics in history!

Nicholas Todor Bennett had a way of making comments like that charming. Hal Block on the other hand... She was a stunning woman when she stood to greet them. And just Bennett's type (who clearly prefers brunettes)

I think EB and EM separated because they looked too much like each other.

Joe Postove Birds of a feather flock together?

Johan Bengtsson I was just thinking if they had a child together would it be a singing butcher?

Joe Postove Named Marty. :)

Johan Bengtsson Very good, Johan! You know your Americana. For 10 bonus points, who played Marty in the live television play that ran in 1953, before the motion picture came out (in 1955). No peeking!

I think you're right. He probably wanted to keep the game going & not end the suspense too quickly.

She did not play Jim Backus wife in that classic movie!

I thought it was Milton Berle s mother in law.

ETHEL MERMAN WAS MILTON BERLE'S MOTHER-IN-LAW IN IAMMMMW!

Cerf was savvy and picked up on famous voices easily.

@@brkitdwn He was in publishing and had a lot of inside information, and also apparently would scour the newspapers for celebrities in town. Not exactly cheating but would have been nice for him to have just gone in blindly.

Johan Bengtsson It took me a while to figure out why the audience was laughing so hard, because we did not see anything but his hand and arm at first -- but once I saw the rest of him, I laughed too! I felt kind of bad for him for getting laughed at like that, though -- leave it to Arlene to put it in perspective in a way that did not make fun of him and probably helped him feel more comfortable -- good going, Arlene! (I personally couldn't help noticing that his name rhymes with ballerina, but I suppose after he'd already drawn laughs once, just by walking onto the stage, nobody dared embarrass him further by mentioning that!)

SaveThe TPC I can't decide if the producers did this on purpose.

What's My Line? Why should they have done that? Perhaps it was only an unfortunate coincidence.

Johan Bengtsson To get a laugh-- just as happened on the show. I'm not saying they did, I'm just saying I wondered. Mainly cause the guy wasn't just bald, he was *very* bald.

Well, who would you EXPECT to sell a hairpiece? Captain Caveman? :-)

+soulierinvestments She wasn't asked if her spouse was in show biz. She was asked if her spouse was a singing star. Plus she was divorced from Borgnine. So your comment was STUPID>

TheTerryE although his comment was wrong it was definitely informative and no where close to "stupid".

Yes a blank page in her book.

Jeff Vaughn ha very true

Yeah. Maybe he was sweaty from being nervous.

He was like a male Kilgallen

So was I, but not on that particular day. :-)

Joe Postove No, Joe, it's not sad. A lot of men who have full heads of hair shave their heads because male baldness is considered fashionable these days.

schwul1956 I see that. But if you look at the hairlines of many "voluntary" heads many are going through the process of losing their hair. As long as I've got enough hairs I will continue to weave and crochet.

It's the effects of abundant testosterone. Notice how deep a voice he has, especially for a relatively short and slender man. (Amazing how the same naturally produced substance that puts hair on the lower part of the face takes it off the top of the head.)

I am with Arlene..I like him just as he is.

Oh yes, he gave away far more than he had to, I totally agree.

But it was worth over $400.00 by today's standards, which was a lot back then.