Ginger was so drop dead elegant and chic. She personified everything that was required of a true star.

Ginger Rogers seemed so gracious. I love how she bowed to the audience with such style and poise.

Ginger Rogers radiates such genuine warmth and gratitude.

A TRUE ..... MOVIE STAR miss you so much Ginger

Sweet how Ginger Rogers acknowledged the audience. Very few of the celebrities ever did.

No one could seem more genuinely happy and joyous, than Ginger Rogers does on this episode!

Dorothy was the best player and always had a look of dignified victory when she got it right.

Ginger wanted to be on longer. She's just radiant. She's so happy to be on the show.

There simply isn’t any other woman as lovely n sweet n charming as Arlene Francis

Never knew anything about Ginger Rogers, but I now know she is one class act with a great personality.

Ginger. Absolutely stunning :-)

Ginger Rogers was a class act!

Dorothy Kilgallen was so smart!

I miss the old days, but the world never stays the same, does it?

Ginger Rogers was the best of Astaire's film dance partners because she not only was a great dancer, but she could sing and act, both in comedy and drama. Cyd Chairsse was a great dancer but could not sing and her acting was subpar. Rita Hayworth could act but not really sing. Ginger and Fred had a different chemistry (although they did not kiss I think for their first 7 pictures together) and she could sing well and act (she won a Best Actress Oscar later).

The What's My Line show should have taken and kept each and every chalkboard that was signed by a star and kept them each time a star sign them. Imagine how much they would be worth today, not to mention that they would have made a great display exhibit.

I still say Ginger Rogers should only have appeared on nights when Bennett Cerf was away!

At 04:07, Dorothy's eyes roll when John provides one of his classic 57 word clarifications.

Enjoyable mystery guests.

Dorothy must be more psychic than simply literary. She was so amazing!

Ginger Roger's was a phenomenal dancer

Dorothy looks great 👍

+Alan Follett It sounds like we agree! I think it was very progressive to show women in unusual jobs (mayor, stockbroker etc) This show (not just this episode, every episode!!) seemed very respectful and educational. Unless I am missing something...??

This was the same panel group when sexy Ginger Rogers made her Mystery Guest debut 9 years earlier

I know Ginger did a few Dean Martin Roasts in the 1970s but this is the first time I heard her speak, lovely lady.

LOL!!!! "We finish up with some more bull from Bennett!" WHAT A ZINGER OF A LINE! Good for John Daly!

So if Bennett Cerf didn’t believe one word of what Ginger Rogers said when she was at his house, he should have disqualified himself.

I love Bennett's 'reso'utions'

What a reception ! (Ginger)

6:35 - beginnings of Dorothy Kilgallen’s big-haired woman of the world stage. She looked great in 1964 and rarely missed a broadcast.

How in the world did Dorothy know earmuffs.

Another classy dame

If you look at Ginger Rogers when she first appeared on WML in 1957 and then look at her when she appeared in 1962 and on this 1963 segment, she literally got prettier and prettier as she grew older. Not a lot of people can say that. She is stunning in both her 1962 and 1963 appearances on this show and she was in her 50s at these times.

Gosh I would have just been 5 years old then!

That French lady and her dress were knockouts!

She looks so elegant and beautiful.

Loved hearing the cat calls that were normal back then, and anyone doing those today are chastised.

Finally, a contestant from Phoenix. The rickshaw guy worked at Christown Mall. Phoenix's first indoor and air conditioned mall. I used to go there in the early '70s when my sister lived across the street. Amazingly, it still functions as an indoor mall, in part, while every other mall of my youth is history.

I LOVE YOU GINGER!

I wish Bennett had played along a little longer with Ginger Rogers, at least to give the other panelists a sporting chance to guess her identity. Every time Ginger Rogers appeared as mystery guest, Bennett spoiled things by guessing her so quickly.

Dorothy's response to Bennett's question around 16:02 cracked me up.

Dorothy Kilgallen was one smart cookie!How in the world did she figure out earmuffs? No one else on the panel had a clue.

RE: Arizona rickshaw driver - In 17 years of Sunday Night WML, this is the exact only time that my alma-mater Brigham Young University got mentioned in the program. In connection with a prospective Arizona freshman, yet. Of the half dozen Utahans who appeared on CBS-WML, none were associated with higher learning.

Thats one very popular stockbroker with her clients, Im sure ! Certainly one worthy of the usual whistles from the guys in the audience. Wow !

Bennett Cerf ruins the mystery guest spot every time that Ginger Rogers appears. EVERY TIME! The result is that Ginger is whisked off the set before the viewer has a chance to enjoy her.

Bennett really loves himself

Bennett Cerf was definitely tipped off! Sadly it happened too often.

If you want to see her acting abilities, see her in “Stage Door”.

The first guest appears to have been the first regular guest ever to donate his prize to charity. The amount was not huge, and I don't fault any regular guest for keeping the money. But it was a wonderful gesture for him to be so unselfish.

Epitome of class baby, only one Ginger Rogers...Don't make them like her anymore...

Bennett and John Carles were REALLY sparring tonight!

At 01:55, Bennet exposes his lambdacism (inability or limited ability to pronounce L). Many New Yorkers and British have this handicap. Ira Glass, host of the radio show "This American Life" is one example. He would substitute a very soft W for the L, so he says "This American Wife".

I think Dorothy was cute especially with the more flattering hair styles. I liked her giggle and the way she looked sideways when questioning . I felt sorry for her for how she felt inferior for her looks. I read that. The men never teased or complimented her or given the attention Arlene always got.

Exactly 60 years ago today -- 12/29/2023.

Gee, seeing Robert Q Lewis is like seeing a "Shemp" Stooges short.

Earlier in the day, I watched as a 10-year old boy the Chicago Bears beat the NY Giants 14-10 in the NFL Championship game. We had to watch it at my uncle's country club that had an antenna that could receive Milwaukee stations, because the game was blacked out in Chicago where it was played (pre Super Bowl days). I'm surprised John didn't mention the event even though the Giants lost.

One snip of the last contestants dress...and all fall down!

I thought for sure Robert Q. was going to kiss the hand of that lady stockbroker!

It's poignant to hear them wish everyone a happy new year at the end. President Kennedy had just been killed a month earlier and everyone must have longed for a better year and relief from the pal that fell over the country. I remember Tom Hanks saying he could feel the sadness in the adults around him and the first time things really felt lighter with adults smiling again was in February of 1964 when The Beatles first appeared on Ed Sullivan. No wonder the country went nuts for them - people must have longed for something to lighten the weight of those difficult times.

She was about 60 and she looked like a million bucks

Bennett should've disqualified himself. He knew the mystery guest was going to be Ginger Rogers before the show even started.

There aren't any rickshaws that I can tell in Phoenix anymore but there are a lot of pedi cabs. Related? I wonder

Ginger was a cousin of Bennett Cerf’s wife !

Bennett's asking Ginger Rogers, "Do I have a lock of your hair?" is a question similar to what Dorothy is capable of asking, e.g., "Did you lose your address book in Greece?" or "Did I see you in Harry's Bar?". It doesn't fall nearly as flat when the answer is "Yes", does it?

It may come as a surprise to many, but Robert Q. Lewis was in fact Clarke Kent's alter ego.

Very, very interesting mutterings from Dorothy in reagards to the self-procaimed "ex-Mrs" Stockbroker at 21:19. Dorothy's insistance on referring to her as 'madame' is perhaps indicitative of her Catholic upbringing.

I was intrigued by Dorothy's mentioning a "secret crush" on Bennett, especially as he didn't seem to like her much.

Coming so soon after that terrible day in the November of that year, one wonders if Bennett is introducing John Daly or the upcoming Warren Commission

Robert Q. Lewis was way overstepping his boundaries with the final contestant. It's a miracle she didn't tell him to stfu

Must have been irritating to the producers that Bennett always knew when Ginger Rogers was in town. Too bad Wanda Cowley was not Phyllis’s favorite cousin. Whether or not she is, as Bennett observed, one of the greatest people in the world, she has great taste in clothes. She looks every inch a diva. I wonder what happened to the Jamaican movie contract, since she was available a few years later for Cinderella and then Hello Dolly.

Ginger Rogers is 54 here. She died at 83.

At least: Bennet didn't get Ginger himself! But of course, he brougth up the main clue. She looks marvelous as always! But I must say, for though I usually dislike Robert Q. Lewis, he was quite good in his rephrasing his question after John Daly makes his usual limitations on the second contestant. He has his moments.

Funny - ha! At the end, he said it's "hard to believe" but that she (the contestant) was a stockbroker. Ah, that's 1963 for ya!

"Resoyution," Bennett? THAT's a pronunciation I'd never heard before, to be sure...

*_MAKES EAR MUFFS_* *_PULLS RICKSHAW AT SHOPPING CENTER_* *_STOCKBROKER_*

Ginger Rogers wanted to stop making musical films and get into serious dramatic roles by 1936, when she was still under contract with RKO. She screen tested for the title role of "Mary of Scotland," a historical costume drama directed by John Ford. Although according to wikipedia, she performed well in the screen test, RKO felt that the role did not suit her image. Instead of the part going to a 3 time MG and the cousin of the wife of one of the panelists, the role went to another RKO contact player, Katharine Hepburn, who never appeared as a MG. Be careful what you wish for. Although "Mary of Scotland" gets ok critical reviews, and I think Hepburn was better suited to play Mary Queen of Scots, the movie was a commercial failure. Because it was Hepburn's second consecutive flop, theater owners labeled her "box office poison," and her career went into a slump that lasted until she was able to get control of her own movie roles and made "The Philadelphia Story." If Ginger Rogers' first serious dramatic role had been a commercial failure, and I suspect in this role it would have been. she might never have been given another chance at RKO to pursue the serious dramatic roles that she began to play a few years later, including winning an Oscar.

UNTILL HER HEALTH FAILED HER, GINGER ROGERS MAINTAINED ALL HER BEAUTIFUL LOOKS....

Alright can we talk about why Bennett had a lock of Ginger’s hair💀💀

Sad that Lewis felt it necessary to feign more than social interest in female guests.

Does anyone know if they rotated the audience when they shot two shows in a night, or did the same people get to see both (lucky them)?

John cautions guests to not give more info than absolutely necessary, but then he turns around and gives more info than necessary in one of his long screeds. The more I watch these show, the more tired I get of him doing this. He needed to be reminded that he wasn't supposed to be main attraction.

I wish they would have cut to JCD when Robert Q. Lewis did his Daly imitation.

Dorothy was a DRIP 🤪

Daley looks annoyed a little in this episode..

Three days before I was born.

That's the second female stockbroker I've seen lately. Clearly that was considered a fish out of water scenario... In 1963 (as John might put it).

dorothy's demeanor is interesting, merely 5 weeks after kennedy's assassination she seems perturbed by the light heartedness and frivolity around her. she would write several columns on the assassination and famously denounce the warren commissions findings some 8 months later and would be dead 2 years later. i don't buy into the conspiracy theory's dorothy was murdered but like most of the country she did seem to lose her innocence and saw things thru much more critical eyes. the country was about to go thru some radical changes at this point.

What amazes me is that this great country USA had so many companies that produced product that don't do it anymore. So sad. US citizens with jobs. What a concept!

Why did Jon keep saying "it's 1963" I think I heard it at least three times.

Something kin the bottom of my gut tells me Ginger Rogers has a terrible temper .Its my training in psychology is telling me that .

Do ear muffs have moving parts. I know that you can manipulate it, but I don't think any of the parts themselves move.

Robert Q. Lewis real middle name DOES NOT START WITH "Q".

"Superb city in Arizona..." Ah, Kleenex...I mean PHOENIX, excuse me. (This humor will be lost to anyone not residing in Southern AZ!)

They have others who pull rickshaws at stores before.

Ginger Rogers what a beautiful woman

First time I've heard "resolution" pronounced as "resoyution"

Some of those men's neckties look more like ribbons !!

The last footage I saw of Ms. Rogers showed her in a wheelchair. Can anyone tell me what ailed her in her later years? She always seemed like someone who was so active (like Debbie Reynolds today).

Interesting that when Dorothy asks what kind of uniform the rickshaw driver wears, she adds "coolie, I hope". Wouldn't this have been rather insensitive even in 1963?

They still looked kinda shellshocked....