Sweet how Fred Astaire did that little dance step at the end.

Nothing but class from head to toe! An all-time favorite of mine

FRED ASTIRE. & GINGER RODGERS. ARE. BURRIED. AT. THE. Sme. Cementry. As. My parents. OAKWOOD. IN. CHATSWORTH, CALIFORNIA

Gene Kelly

@@LM-bn1wt Unless you get to see something running around in the wild.

I read in a book (can’t recall title right now) that he didn’t really like Ginger Rogers & she wasn’t fond of him either. Apparently he had to have control of everything they did together! I wish I could recall the title of the book I read..it was quite interesting!!

Probably the absolute greatest person to be born in Nebraska. I am a Nebraskan and VERY PROUD to have been born in the same state as this great great dancer singer entertainer and truly great gentleman

Martin had a wonderful voice! He was trained as a stage actor.

Arlene was so beautiful,it did not matter what kind of hairdo!

Yeah he was.

Me too, and it didn’t happen very often.

Yes and Mr Astaire did on arriving and departing ...

Did not know he died.

same crush on Arlene

He did answer he was no singer in his other appearance two years before and the panel got furious, Lewis having bought his last album. Actually Astaire recommended even his friends, like Mel Tormé revealed in a book, to downplay his singer's art. The reason is easy to guess. He was number one dancer, while being "only" one of the great american popular singers. But that he considered himself a singer is proven by the quantity of recordings he did.

Astsire has been on the show twice and Dorothy has said the same thing each occasion after his singing being claimed not his main line during the segment.

@@trickydick6152 Oscar Levant said Fred was the best ever singer in movies, and he was right. Fred was no Mario Lanza, but he could get to the heart of what a song meant, and how it fit into a film's story, like nobody else. He acted them out. That was why the best composers formed a line for Fred to launch their latest works. He was their first-stage rocket on the way into orbit as standards. The inventory of classic songs he introduced is without equal: not even Jolson, Crosby or Sinatra matched it.

@@esmeephillips5888 Yeah, but most of those songs became classic only after Sinatra gave them his treatment in his Capitol recordings. He was a great singer, no doubt. But not as great as he was as a dancer. He knew it. Otherwise his own attitude towards his singing wouldn't make sense.

Fred may not have possessed a trained singer’s voice but it was easily recognizable. His phrasing was impeccable.

true story 2 old ladies at a bus stop and one says to the other i think fred astaire was the greatest dancer ever and her old friend said i think ginger rodgers was the greatest dancer because she did everything fred did backwards and wearing high heels 😂😂

I really liked that true syory & watching them dannce.

I really liked that true syory & watching them dance.

I really liked that true story & watching them dance.

@@kevinmarkey9441 Problem with the story is that Ginger did not do everything Fred did plus Fred did all the choreography (albeit with Hermes Pan as co-choreographer much of the time). Furthermore, after partnering with Fred, Ginger barely danced at all in the movies while Fred continued to dance at the highest level for decades. Ginger was in no way his most skilled dance partner. This "story" is a cliche thrown around without an objective look at their careers.

He was Irving Berlin’s favourite singer. His first choice for his own songs.

Classier than Bruce Jenner? who incidentally was born in Bennett’s hometown.

Peter Cushing was a very classy and gentle man too, to the point Carrie Fisher found it difficult to see him as the villain because he was such a charming gentleman on set of Star Wars. He didn't quite understand what it was all about, but he accepted the role because he knew it would be something his fans would like to see him in.

Yes this is the way the world used to be its called respect and being good !!!Since the 1980s people generally are lousy and don,t give a damn about right and wrong anymore only thing that matters is money, greed and lust and being no damn good !!!!!!!

Still like that in my mansion.

Yes you're so right. One of the things I enjoy about this show is the level of politeness between the panel members and the moderator. I'm so happy to have found this show on KZfaq, brings back the flavour of times sadly gone by. I was born around the time they were making the last WML shows, so didn't see them until recently.

Illuminating.

Big fucking deal!!!

Terry Niblett Your crude and angry post is not appreciated.

So great. An electrician friend gave me his Los Angeles address in 1980 and I wrote a fan letter. Got an autograph from his office. It’s tucked into my Fred bio..

Can my claim to fame be that I live in Omaha Nebraska?:/🤣

She's stunning.

It is the same Rona Levein. In addition to her doorman job, she took jobs as a secretary and writer, but would later take employment up the corporate ladder in cosmetics and advertising. At 35 she became the vice-president at 'one of the world's largest advertising firms', but felt something was missing and (two years after a river trip in the Grand Canyon) moved to Marble Canyon in Arizona. She would delivery mail, provide shuttle services (and probably other jobs). These jobs would allow her to go on numerous worldly adventures across many continents incorporating various safaris, skydiving (at least seven times), rafting down the Grand Canyon (at least fifteen times) and elsewhere, climbing Mt Kilimanjaro and Mt Kenya, plus continue her life-long learning (including online classes, plus dance and martial arts classes) and marry a canyon guide. You might enjoy her travel story 'Joy on Kilimanjaro' from "A Woman's World Again: True Stories of World Travel" that collects 33 true travel stories. At age 82 she took a week-long whitewater rowing class and was looking forward to trips on the Rogue river and another Grand Canyon trip before passing away at age 85 in 2017. Some of her favorite places were Marble Canyon, Lee's Ferry and the Vermilion Cliffs. Her beautiful smile and personality is wonderfully captured here (and elsewhere).

@@borbetomagus Thank you so much for this recounting of her life! Wow wow wow! What an extraordinary life Ms. Levein led, the definition of someone doing mostly simple jobs in order to live their life with exceptional passion.

5 years later and no one gives a fuck about what you have to say

"Ghost" ("Dance with me, you toad"). What a film!

John Charles Daly was very good except that he couldn’t laugh at himself. As the years went on, he took his introductions from Bennett Cerf rather poorly I thought and stepped out of his professional role at times with his responses.

Hes fantastic as host

I really like John Daly.

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The show wouldn’t be. John could only make this what it was 😊

Jolar70 I agree with you.

Jolar70 -- I think when one of the panelists suspects (s)he knows who the mystery guest is, one way to determine if (s)he is correct is to ask, "Did we meet earlier this week?" or "Did we encounter each other at the 21 Club last week?" If the answer is yes, then the contestant can, with assurance, come up with the name of the mystery guest. If no, there's no embarrassment of naming the wrong person. It isn't the sort of question they typically ask when they're a long way from knowing who it is. If the mystery guest is sufficiently disguising his/her voice, I can see no problem with having encountered the individual in person recently that should require a recusal -- and, in fact, if they don't figure out who it is, a panelist can say, "And here we just saw each other last week!"

I disagree. Part of the charm of this series for me is insight into the lives of the panelists and the celebrity guests at that moment, and what was happening in Broadway theaters and cinemas at the time. To strictly follow The Rules would rob us (me) of that joy. Honestly, JOY. But I'm a historian interested in primary source material, not a gamer. That being said, THANK YOU FOR UPLOADING!!

The reason they are blindfolded for the Mystery Guest segment and occasionally other segments as well as that the round is played with a likelihood that one or more panelists will know who the challenger is. If they were required to disqualify themselves because they know the mystery guest personally, there would be a lot of mystery guest segments with no panelists left to play the round.

Jolar70 although the show is What's My Line, when it comes to the special guess it's more like Who am I? because once you know who it is, you know what they do. Additionally I love when the panelists bring up some little private tidbit to let the special guests know that they know who it is and it just undresses the mystery guest internally it just shows immediatly on their face then they give up the accent the Rouge and the contest

+Ginny Lorenz Well, I was foolish to write the above before finishing watching. Very glad to see that it was addressed and all cleared up at the end. I was a little hasty in my defense of an artist I love so much! My apologies.

+Ginny Lorenz I am glad that Dorothy strongly brought it up that Fred Astaire was an excellent singer....

yes, john Charles explained and basically apologized but the question was 'are you a singer?' and not 'are you only a singer?' or 'are you mainly a singer?' so you are right, john was wrong. he was a singer and no need to mention anything else. if Picasso were on the show and were asked 'do you sing or dance?' and he did one or the other or both, john Charles would have no business saying 'but he does something else too' 'do you sing?' 'yes I sing'.

You could do that kind of stuff (cat calls, whistles, etc back then and not be offensive because people back then weren’t so bloomin’ perverted!

@@raylenenielsen5943 good point

Sheila B I noticed that too, she could barely take her eyes off of him!

+Sheila B i took her reaction to daly as being nervous and not knowing what to focus on

Could very well have just been a mannerism but I noticed that when she shook his hand upon leaving, she put her other hand under his forearm for a second. :D

Splendid!!!

I prefer Steve Allen to Martin but I’d say this is my second preference

Most likely Arlene was reacting to what she sensed was a bit of hesitation before the yes answer was given.

There’s no harm of celebrities asking it of other celebrities. It would be a bonus for us audience too. I don’t see why y think that that’s an intrusion or “rude.” Since audience in this show never gets to ask Qs, her asking is a great I thot. I’ve always Arlene super charming, smart and funny.

@@nh6870 - You are confused. Arlene being "super charming, smart and funny" has absolutely zero to do with the issue at hand. You act like you don't understand how you can love a person, yet they still occasionally do something you prefer they not do. Its a simple concept. It has been my observation that most professionals in the entertainment business do not like to be imposed upon to to do any kind of public performance - regardless of how minor - when they are not scheduled, expecting, or prepared. On off-days, they just want to relax and step out of their "stage persona" character for a day or few hours. Arlene knew this as well as anyone. Its like someone seeing Arlene on the street and asking her to recite a few of her lines from one of her recent Broadway performances - its an unnecessary imposition - yet Arlene repeated it with multiple guests over years.