That’s correct, she was coming out of a taxi and it was ripped off her neck. She became more reclusive after this.

What a piece a crap... mugging a 79 year old women with a dear piece of hers worn money times

@@LoomingWren i hope the same thing happens to him.... that was a special necklace.. worn by arlene many times on the show

I often think of the beautiful necklace, and realise that it is still 'somewhere' with hopes that one day it will see the light again and be returned to the original family. Arlene - beautiful soul.

@@pennylane2304 that scumbag that stole that necklace that Arelene tresured needs to rot in hell... she wore that beautiful necklace so many years on whsts my line her husband bought her... a horrible thing

I've only recently discovered WML and I'm absolutely 💯 loving it. What a beautiful treasure! A gift, truly. After watching so many shows I feel like I know them. Yes, WML is a treasure ❤

She should've absolutely received an Oscar for her role in Sunset Blvd!! William Holden should've won one for best supporting actor!!

@@neilphelan145 There were several outstanding performances nominated for Best Actress that particular year and I agree with you that Judy Holliday was the wrong choice and that Gloria Swanson was excellent. However, from my reading on this subject, it is clear that if Judy Holliday had not won, the winner would have been Bette Davis for "All About Eve," and that Ms. Swanson was not particularly popular with Academy voters or had any realistic chance of winning. Bette Davis was hurt by Anne Baxter's excellent portrayal as Eve in the same film. Whatever the Oscars may represent, they are not a meritocracy except as a matter of coincidence.

Very stiff competition from Judy Holiday, yes.

Read Gloria Swanson's autobiography; it's an eye opener.

I agree!

Gloria was such a healthfood pioneer I'm surprised she died at only 83!

Absolutely correct so true great comment. ☮️👊

I’m very much a millennial 90s baby and I find 1960s American television very classy. It’s just a shame they didn’t put more people of colour onto the tv.

How elegant people dressed back in the day, compare to today's sacks of Potatoes!

WOKE!@@chad3358

Mine too. I like Martin, but Steve comes first

Mine too

He was a genius.

The immortal inventor of the immortal question, 'Is it bigger than a breadbox?"

Ah crap, crying again with the spouses!

I take issue with "The whole family of Dorothy Kilgallen fell apart after her death." Her widower Dick married dress designer Anne Fogarty in 1967. She became his breadwinner. During that period, Jill Kollmar, daughter of Dorothy and Dick, was married to Broadway musical composer Larry Grossman. Jill and Larry had their first and only child in December 1966. Click below for Larry's Wikipedia article that makes him seem like a high achiever when his former father-in-law Dick was married to Anne, hitting it big with the musical Minnie's Boys in 1970. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Grossman_(composer)

Miss Dorothy did not have a good night.....

As sad note to this episode. Yes, Dorothy only had a little over 9 months to live and Bennett Cerf only 6 more years. Cerf died in 1971.

@@johndonahue3162 There appear to be quite a few sources out there that claim suicide. However, all the ones I found were either forum posts or publications related to the death of JFK. I tend to be a little skeptical of unsourced claims by conspiracy theorists.

John Donahue Read his Wikipedia page.

And remember it all too. And have that ingrained in our “DNA” too.

So did Gilda Radner and her then husband George Edward Smith. Leonard Bernstein and his wife lived there, too, until she died in 1978. Bernstein remained there as a widower.

Vahan Nisanian way

We had it all, just like Bogie and Bacall. Starring in our own late, late show. Sailing away to Key Largo.. 🎵🙂

She was also old man Joe Kennedy's openly flaunted mistress.

Agreed.

Joe Kennedy's main squeeze.

@@davidharris6581 Late in life, Ms. Swanson wrote a memoir that contained quite a bit of revelation about her being Joseph P. Kennedy's mistress. She was interviewed about that on TV, available on youtube, by Barbara Walters. Swanson said at one point, she, Kennedy, and Rose Kennedy, maybe the kids, went on a vacation together. What was remarkable was how much grief Walters gave Swanson about her claims to have had an affair with Kennedy. And in fact, Walters simply did not give Swanson the last word on the subject. Before the interview aired, she gave the Kennedy family the opportunity to comment. Walters read a statement from the Kennedy family on the air at the conclusion of the interview in which one of the Kennedys vehemently denied that such an affair had occurred. We know this was nonsense.

She came across as very stuck up.

@@ericstuart7748 - I always thought she came across as someone with very high standards, and as someone who worked very hard to do things in the right way in her career. Incredibly articulate, a person who used the language to its utmost potential, as well as a gifted storyteller.

Nifty😊

Nifty indeed!

That year should have been a quad-breaker. They were all great performances.

🤪

Chris, yes..OH OH OH OH OH !!!!!!!!!!!!!

One can never, ever have too much or too big hair!

I didn’t remember how pretty she was.

Tell her Return to Sender. HA HA

Gloria Swanson did not win the Oscar that year. They said so in the show.

I thought the same thing,

SaveThe TPC She couldn't have been a very fun dj.

She plays records in a discotech and she can't answer if her job has anything to do with dancing and music???

She was no fun at all. Reminded me of the wooden Indian guy or the fellow who ran the elevator at the Statue of Liberty.

well she was black and they asked her to dance and Bennett to whistle DIXIE... a little racist maybe?

Cerf was being gracious and inconclusive. Doubt Block had much else bigger to celebrate than that he had been on WML.

It never stopped him from criticizing those who interjected when he was talking.

Lois Simmons. relax Lois.

+D Casper It's tax season and I am a professional tax preparer (I watch WML while eating and taking a break). So I will relax in two weeks.

@@dcasper8514 LOL gosh thanks. She/ they has been full of wind for yeeears. My head hurts from eyerolling when I see her comments, smh. Relax, indeed.

Very well stated, Lois Simmons!

@@bethe192 Hers (not "theirs") are easily the best comments on this channel, and are one reason I read the comments. Unfortunately I then stumble over some like yours, full of 2020-era revisionism.

Kirk Barkley. Her diet habits shows..

She even looked better in the coming years. Fasting and excellent diet.

Killed

The makeup people on SUNSET BOULEVARD had to put wrinkles on Swanson's face to make her look as ravaged by time as the character of Norma Desmond presumably was...

she's gorgeous

It's been said by people in the Industry that Gloria Swanson had seven face lifts during her life!.

You're looking at a kinescope of a low-resolution TV broadcast. Most people would look good under those conditions.

CrazyWedz Good reminder there!

Sounded like Johnny Olsen said it was the 16th year right before introducing the panel.

@@HelloooThere "Beginning" their 16th year, which is accurate. Just semantics.

@@rmelin13231 Understood, Commander!

soulierinvestments I'm thinking that one of the other times must have been when everyone put glasses on at the end of the show, in solidarity with Fred Allen, who had worn glasses at a fan's suggestion, to hide the bags under his eyes. What was the third time?

Aside == Arlene appeared in her glasses regularly in syndicated WML. The early 1960s episode I am thinking of is when she sunburned her eyes in rehearsal for summer stock and wore sunglasses on that broadcast. Frankly, I think I have forgotten some episodes.

The repeated mention of the word "Watusi" refers to an African "tribe" and a dance that could be associated African-Americans. It might be considered racist considering the mid-sixties political environment.

She was a female DJ how awesome

@DC PARODIES What do you mean? Explain yourself!

@DC PARODIES Idiot!

@DC PARODIES Yeah, that's not what racist means.

Oh really?

Beth Di Bartolomeo - The era of the discotheque was just beginning. It is not surprising that the panel members had to search for a term for what became known as a dee jay.

Grumpy dj

poetcomic1 Actually, GS smoked for years.

I remember reading somewhere that when Gloria was a guest on The Beverly Hillbillies, either Nancy Kulp or Buddy Ebsen said she would talk about the dangers of eating sugar to the cast and the crew.

@@Ransomhandsome yes

rtususian / Smart lady, before her time!!

@@Ransomhandsome Her health concerns came later in life.

Which is better remembered today: Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard or Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday? Sunset Boulevard may have been hindered in the Oscar voting because some believed it put Hollywood in a bad light.

+Terri henricks Not only that, although such Hollywood moguls as Louis B. Mayer did, indeed, think that about "Sunset Boulevard," but 1950 was also a strong year for the movies, particularly "All About Eve." Which of its many Academy Awards should that film NOT have won? And there were FIVE strong performances at play in the Best Actress category that year, not only Gloria Swanson in "Sunset Boulevard" and Judy Holliday in "Born Yesterday," but also Bette Davis in "All About Eve," Anne Baxter in "All About Eve," and Eleanor Parker in "Caged." Any one of the five could have won, and would have deserved to have won. I've seen all four movies, and they're very good films, and those five actresses are very, very good in those films. Gloria Swanson was actually performing on Broadway in "Twentieth Century" in early 1951 - including the night of the Academy Awards presentation. Her co-star in "Twentieth Century" was Jose Ferrer, who won Best Actor that year for his performance in "Cyrano de Bergerac." The two of them and Judy Holliday (who was making a New York-based film at the time) were at a party at La Zambra in New York City, listening to the Academy Awards on the radio. When the winner of the Best Actress award was about to be announced, Gloria Swanson leaned over and whispered in Judy Holliday's ear, "One of us is about to be very happy, my dear." And she was right - and very gracious and professional (in the best sense of the word) to have done so.....

@@jmccracken1963 Yes, Daly was an equal opportunity complimenter of who was deserving of the 1950 Oscar for Best Actress. Three of these actresses appeared at least 3 times as MG. Swanson appeared in an intervening episode between 1950 and 1965 and she was referenced there as having been a MG in 1950 as well. Bette Davis appeared as MG multiple times, the first time is reported to have been the occasion that meant the end of Hal Block's run. Judy Holliday appeared and twice was asked to speaka in her voice from Born Yesterday. And although Anne Baxter was never an MG to my knowledge, her grandfather was one of the most memorable MGs -- Frank Lloyd Wright, whose daughter was Baxter's mother.

Yes, I always take note of the signatures. Every Thursday we had to do a sample of copybook writing at night. And every letter better be perfect. Or next day it had to be repeated. I have written in copulate my whole idea, from school education

When computers came into schools, it was determined that WE would no longer be writing in longhand. My son writes in a combination of script and print. He's 35 now and they weren't teaching script back when he was in 2nd grade. Most kids struggle with decipering script or cursive when they see it. I think that's just a shame myself. We used to get penmanship medals as awards when I was in grade school in the 60s.

Yes, it’s a shame. You should see my mom’s beautiful signature at nearly 96! I’ve always related penmanship to character since it does say something about our’s, sometimes rather obviously. Perhaps it’s really like throwing out the baby with the bath water 💦 in that having thrown morals out, we could hardly expect them to keep the penmanship. 🧐😏

I actually liked the fifties hair styles better.

Lol, hilarious! What I call, "raw-raw" music! Everything is "🎶 Raw-raw-raw raw raw...🎶"

All of the panelists and John were on their second marriage, except Dorothy.

good point

Delivery. Some have it, some don't. That's my non-professional and simplistic take after over 50 years of studying the subject.

And speed and intelligence, I suspect.

@@Noone58319 Definitely those also.

She had a lil attitude, didn't she?

She looked nervous more than anything I thought

Vahan Nisanian More than that

Vahan Nisanian - was he Dorothy Kilgallen's spouse?

@@shirleyrombough8173 yep 😉👋

Fun for those of us born on a Sunday to find the episode of the day. On my birthday, Bennett even mentioned my hometown - Youngstown, Ohio.