so beautiful

well said

...and replaced it with flashing lights, sound effects and greed.

@@Nightturkey1 and violence, sex, and cursing.

I’m 3 years late to the party but 😂😂😂

Lolol

Yes, and Teresa Wright was good in that one, too.

Thank you for the comment, Jimmy-- I really appreciate it. I'm glad you're enjoying the videos!

Go back to school!!...videos

Terry Niblett Their comment appears to have been more successful 'likes-wise', has to be said. So who's the dunce? :)

The more John talked the more he dug himself in deeper in insulting Steve Allen's looks!

Puds Deroiste - My favorites are Goodbye Mr. Chips, Random Harvest, and the 1940 Pride & Prejudice w/Lawrence Olivier. I also hear she was marvelous in Mrs. Miniver but I haven’t seen that one yet.

Laura Collins: Yes, she was wonderful and won the Academy Award as Best Actress. Please also see RANDOM HARVEST with Ronald Coleman.

Mrs. Miniver. The Valley of Decision. Random Harvest. Mrs. Parkington. When Ladies Meet. Desire Me. Blossoms in the Dust. Try and watch every movie she was in. You will be amazed.

I highly encourage you to watch Mrs. Miniver. Such a beautiful yet sad story.

Madame Curie, with Walter Pigeon, wonderful film

What's odd about it? I've had one for years. He's adorable. I really believe that he and Jayne Meadows had a truly happy marriage.

Hello friend I have been watching this show for more than five years, and I ave recommended it to all my friends and colleagues as a good example of high-class, humorous English. I am living far from you in Iran but I feel united with you all through this classy show, and I am addicted to it. Even these days that we go to the streets to protest against the Molla's dictatorial regime, coming home, this show is my comfort and rest.

ROY STORNAWAY

Cheryl Stemen Greer Garson is one of my favorites too! this show was originally broadcast on my 3 months birthday!

ROY STORNAWAY and 20 days after my dad was born! lol

Imagine the folks seeing Blossoms in the Desert upon its release. It must've been breathtaking to see her beautiful red hair for the first time. I know that I was impressed and delighted when I first saw it on TV in the '70s.

Thank you!!!

Yes it was. And it would have been perfect for a show on April Fool's Day. Unfortunately, no one picked up on Dorothy's lead when she said goodnight to Bennett instead of Steve.

I enjoy when the panelists are introduced and they come out to bow to the audience.

@@juanettebutts9782 I do too. The audience at home and in the theater was able to see the usually glamorous apparel of the ladies. As the show "matured" the apparel, hairdos and makeup usually became more elegant and sophisticated.

why the judge Benick can ask her many questions ?

@@screenactorsguilable The rules of the game were changed in April 1955, including having the panelists ask the mystery guest one question at a time in rotation. Before that change, questioners could continue until they got a No answer, as in the regular contestant rounds.

+Johan Bengtsson And you didn't see them in NYC in 1953. There's a reason that challenger's establishment was in New Jersey. In the 1930's and early 1940's, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia drove them across the Hudson River into New Jersey, allegedly as part of his campaign against crime and corruption. Some say it was based on his suspicion or knowledge of who owned these established; others say that it was related to his puritanical views. Although LaGuardia left office at the end of 1945 when he did not run for reelection, it did not return to New York under the next two mayors (one of whom was leaving office at the end of 1953). By the time more risque forms of entertainment by females became legal again in NYC, the higher forms of burlesque that made it more than just striptease was pretty much dead in America.

My most favorite (and SO underrated actress golden hollywood, though she was heavily favored by Louis B. Mayer)

A Whiter Shade of Pail - Agreed! (Great user name and image. 😄)

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I have a major crush on John Daly!

betty cogswell - Me too.

I think they were shocked. I don’t think that was something you discussed on television back in the 50s.

Very carefully.

A charming beauty, and totally at ease on TV!

Let the bangs grow out, part down the middle, I'm thinking.

You don't mention whether Dorothy had a college degree...and she was the most erudite of all of them.

Yes I own that movie

Flynn did a damn good job in that one. Glad he insisted on not trading roles with Pidgeon.

I was born eight years after this show aired. I fell in love with Miss Parker 70 years after it aired..

I am working on a time machine right now so that I can get a haircut by Miss Parker.

+Abigal M. And in the game "What's My Team?", my guess is that you are a Detroit Tigers fan.

My mom went to college at Findlay!

That joke was not clever or funny, and rightly so went over like a lead balloon.

She looked much younger than 40 years old. She was so personable and one of those people who is aptly named. I would imagine the men enjoyed their conversations with her as much as they did the "tonsorial" experience (to use Bennett's terminology).

That would've been tremendous.

You are right! An uncanny resemblance to Linda Kaye Henning who played Betty Jo! Ms Parker was 39 years old here and looked like someone in her 20s!

Good catch, he seemed perturbed by Dorothy.

Your correct. A tug on the right earlobe meant a change in conversation was needed. I'm guessing now but I thought this might have been because Hal Block used the double entendre quite often and that was the reason given for his contract not being renewed.

Job then said “good night”.

Maybe he was doing his Humphrey Bogart imitation.

ts ok

I was 2 years old at the time. In an amazing parallel with your life, I too have gotten much older. I comfort myself with the observation that growing older sure beats the alternative. ;-)

They usually read the trade papers to know which celebrities were in town. That's why Greer said she knew the jig was up when she ran into Dorothy in a department store--Dorothy would know she was in New York.

Greer had "glorious" red hair!

Her beautiful red hair

I spotted that too. And she has very strong hands for a woman

Actually, she says “black and white video sets” meaning televisions.

@@johnmoreland6089 Thanks, John, you're quite right.

I can't explain what's going wrong for you, but there's audio on this video and it plays perfectly fine. 23,000 people have already watched this video without noting that they hear no audio.

You probably only have the left channel working. This video only has sound in the right channel.

What's My Line? wasn't filmed. What you see on youtube are kinescopes, produced by recording the broadcast from a monitor.

Sorry, but, no. I have no intention of replacing the tiny handful of videos that have audio in only one channel. Most devices have a balance adjuster which would completely address the problem for those listening on headphones (if you're not listening on headphones, I doubt you would even notice it.) Among the problems with reposting videos is the loss of all prior comments as well as the accumulated views, which are hard fought to get given how KZfaq's search engine works. I **have** been posting upgrades of episodes that **really** need it all summer, shows with significant a/v dropouts or that were incomplete or unwatchable in their prior versions. But single channel audio just isn't a big enough deal for all the time required to address it, as well as the loss of all the comments and views on the existing video. I do appreciate your asking in such a polite way, though! I've gotten a handful of really obnoxious comments from people over the years complaining about this. I never have a problem with comments regarding a/v problems or errors I make in descriptions and such, as long as they're respectful! :)

Oh, I understand completely -- no need to apologize. Losing comment history is an enormous price to pay. And I'm sorry that apparently people are hostile on such subjects. It's such an enormous lot of work to produce these on KZfaq; I'm so very grateful that you've done so!

Christopher Tate Thanks so much, Christopher! :) And really, the complainers are a tiny, tiny, tiny minority. I'm blown away continually by the gratitude most people express for these videos. It's not necessary for people to do so, but I do greatly appreciate it.

If you're listening to one of these videos using your computer's speakers, I don't think it's that big a deal because they're entirely monaural to begin with. If the sound does come out of both speakers, it's exactly the same for both speakers since the source material never had left and right stereo channels. Now that you've mentioned it, I hear that I'm only getting audio out of one speaker, but it's just not that big a deal. If it were bothersome to me, I'd simply move the working speaker temporarily to the center.

I usually listen with ear buds when the volume is too low for my aged ears to hear well. At first, I thought I'd pulled a wire loose. Then I checked to ensure my cat hadn't chewed through the wire. I'm old enough "modern technology" has frequently reached beyond me so I didn't realize there were right and left sides for sound. As soon as I read this thread I smacked my forehead and said, "Oy vey!" and laughed at myself. Thanks for educating this old woman to the functionality of two sound channels. LOL!

Drives me batty when she does this, yes. Fortunately, she largely outgrew this tendency to hog the camera time by the 1960s.

You'll also see Bennet Cerf and rarely Arlene Francis doing this as well.

Christopher Tate I disagree-- I can't think of any overt instance of obvious camera hogging by anyone but Dorothy. It seriously annoyed the other panelists that Dorothy did this, as Bennett discussed in a long interview he gave about his career.

Weellllll.... I can certainly see that Ms Kilgallen makes a bad habit of it, but it did seem to me that once in a while Bennett in particular would ask a string of two or three additional questions, particularly of celebrity guests, that indicate he obviously knew already who the guest was. It's particularly striking in contrast to Steve Allen, who would typically guess outright as soon as he had some inkling.

Christopher Tate Probably true-- it's just impossible to remember 760 available episodes! But Dorothy was the real screen hog, at least in the 1950s. It seems to me that she "outgrew" this tendency by the 1960s (or possibly was instructed by her castmates or the producers to cut it out already!)

This episode is from 1953.

Because they are kinescopes, not shot on film.

The producers wanted to preserve the episodes but didn't think anyone would watch them again, or it would ever go into syndication, hence the cheapest way to preserve them...16mm black and white film. Little did they realize there would indeed be an audience many decades later.

Shirtless - I don't think the program was corrupt or basically dishonest. There was not enough money involved to tempt dishonesty or corruption. And also don't spoil it for me!

In 1966 there was one episode in which for logistical reasons Bennett was tipped off and he disqualified himself. That proves nothing about any other episode, except that he disqualified himself on the one occasion you cite, which shows that he acted honorably.

Yes, it was common in early 50s quiz shows.

Steve Allen was charming and a brilliant wit . Hal Block was a lecherous boor who on occasion could come up with witty wordplay, but, hey, you're entitled to your wrong opinion.