I am addicted to this show!

Having dinner with Hank. Just one of those things. I'm so envious. What a life these panellists lead!!

You didn’t see Henry’s smile very often; it was very handsome.

I love how Arlene worked in multiple compliments when she was sure she knew who the mystery guest was. She did this often and was always so gracious.

I'll always remember Henry Fonda in Twelve Angry Men. What a classic.

Mr Daly with his wordy responses 😂

Gig Young would go on to win an Oscar for his unforgettable performance as Rocky, the dance marathon emcee, playing alongside Jane Fonda, Hank's daughter, in "They Shoot Horses Don't They?" Sadly, Gig Young's life and career spiraled downward after that.

I loved these shows when they were first aired; and I love them just as much now. They manage to be very entertaining while not being in any way smutty or violent, like many of the TV programs today. I'm so happy these videos are posted on You Tube.

Henry Fonda always had the most beautiful smile ❤️

Fonda in "The Lady Eve"...BRILLIANT!

Bennett Cerf seems to ask every other celebrity guest if he recently ran into him somewhere or has a child that goes to school w/ one of his kids or something. That guy certainly got around.

Henry Fonda was so handsome!

Any sight of Gig Young I just think of him playing the bongos in Teacher's Pet, impressing Doris Day, with poor Clark Gable looking on jealously, ha ha,

Fonda: a legende in Once Upon a Time in the West

What a legend of the greats

Miss X, the second contestant will be 82 years old on Thursday, October 8th. (Penny Pitou).

Penny Pitou is still alive at 82 y.o. Once again, Arlene seems to know the guest's "line' without a supporting series of questions that logically led her to the 'line'. Henry Fonda answers "no" to Gig Young's question, "Are you primarily a motion picture star"? By 1961, Fonda had made 49 films, including classics like, My Darling Clementine, Mr Roberts, 12 Angry Men, Jesse James, Young Mr Lincoln, Warlock, The Grapes of Wrath, The Ox-Bow Incident, Fort Apache etc.

In my opinion greatest actor of all time

Sometimes I think Arlene Francis bears a striking resemblance to Helen Mirren. I think it's the close-set eyes. Anyone agree?

How elegant, sophisticated, these man and woman's talk,and behave , compare to , today, show , language, and behave of panel in FOX TV, or other show, so sad,

I luv WML!

It sounds so funny to hear them refer to Henry Fonda as "Hank".

At this showing Henry Fonda was in a play called "Critic's Choice " until May 1961.

I think the early 1960's must have been a wonderful time. It was just before all Hell broke loose!

I see comments that make reference to Dorothy's under the influence appearance and behavior here, and I guess based on how her history played out this must be so, but I'd like to add that even 'lit' she behaved with more class than a lot of people do sober.

Jane looks so much like her dad

4 minutes of commercials in 61.

Yay!! They'd obviously had a word with, or managed to control, the audience from giving it away when the panel mention the correct answer during a conference. Hopefully that can carry on!! (I'm not holding my breath) :)

Precious time capsules.

Great epi.

Strange placement for Dorothy's bow in her hair

There was a time when a young Henry Fonda played a future President known for wearing a top hat. His first cross-examination of J. Palmer Cass was comical, with Abe Lincoln's wit leading him to refer to that witness as "Jack Cass". This is his second cross-examination of Cass, the one which is the denouement of the movie "Young Mr, Lincoln". It is my favorite Henry Fonda scene. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h9WXd5eVmprVhHk.html

I never realised Henry Fonda was handsome. He always looks so stern in films

the smile and the expression of the faces on that era, was onest

I would never want to go last. He always cuts them short.

Very attractive, nicely cut and styled dress worn by Penny Pitou -- of course, she had just the right figure to wear it, too. Very attractive.

This was the beginning of the end for hat wearing. JFK gave his inaugural address hatless despite the cold, breaking with tradition. For awhile, Wall Street types and Mad Men continued to wear hats but by later in the 60s, men no longer wore them.

Anybody notice that Mr. Fonda appeared to have almost buzzed right past Ms. Kilgallen as he exited? I wonder if there may have been some bad blood there, with her being largely a "gossip" columnist??

Dorothy Kilgallen was lit pretty good on this show.....

The Ski instructor is gorgeous.

I was just going to say something about Arlene Francis's resemblance to Helen Mirren. She has a lot of the same vocals and gestures.

Gig Young won an Oscar playing opposite Henry's daughter in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? 1969

JFK disliked and seldom wore hats. Leading to a decline in people wearing hats.

I wish they, ( The men ) still wore Top hats for big functions.

There is a much more famous William E. Bierer, who was head of Mellen Bank and Equibank for a long while. This Mr. Bierer, however, was 25 at the time of his WML appearance (and looks younger), and was basically in training with Standard. Previous to this, he'd been in the Korean War, and graduated from Alleghany College. He seems to have moved to Chicago by 1969, and had a kid at that point. By 1975 (when his parents were celebrating their 50th anniversary) he'd moved to Malvern, PA, nearish Philadelphia. Is about 79 now, so I assume he's retired, though I don't know what from.

Penny Pitou was a member of a boys' team at the age of 15 and nobody noticed 😯

Gig Young is tall and handsome

At one point even Bennett Cerf gave up on following Dorothy in her wanderings. She was headed for the hospital shortly.

Actually, one of the hats that Mr. Schnautz made turned out to be the topper that JFK didn't wear during the inaugural parade following the swearing-in ceremony. I've seen the second segment as a "stand-alone," and it's nice to see it in context - AND it's just as enjoyable here as there. And Penny Pitou is gracious as well as beautiful and talented - and she went on to a long and happy marriage (to Austrian Alpine skier Egon Zimmerman) and a long career as a ski instructor in the area of New Hampshire where she learned to ski in the first place. (And she is, as of this post, still alive, aged 75. She was only 22 years old when she appeared on this episode, and had won her two silver medals at the 1960 Winter Olympic Games at Squaw Valley, California.) And the same goes for the Mystery Guest segment. Henry Fonda has a great time on the show as guest. As much as it saddens me to say so, I have to agree with several other commenters: Dorothy Killgallen was drunk beyond belief on this episode. Sad.....but at least she went in for treatment, whether or not by choice.

Miss X was gorgeous!!

How unutterably sad- Dorothy was to cover the inauguration of

Inebriated or not, I love Dorothy's banter with the top hat guy and John. Classic. Gig was a bit toasty. If you haven't seen him in the one season tv series The Rogues, he's awesome!! [It was supposed to be David Niven, Charles Boyer and Gig Young, but it seems that the other two lost interested and 80% of the show was all Gig - that's fine with me.]

Glad to see that other people have noticed Dorothy on this show. She seems like she's acting and talk irrationally. I've noticed a change in her over the past number of weeks leading up to this show. I understand she was treated for substance abuse shortly thereafter?

" President elect Kennedy.... "

How ironic it is for Dorothy to pose the question (during the vinegar salesman portion) that begins..."When it is drunk...."

Wow! Bennett pulled that one out of the hat! Or pulled the hat out of somewhere else. But it wasn't out of the wild blue yonder because, as usual, JCD helped give it away. That man talks too much sometimes, but after all, he makes his living from talking. I suppose he can't help himself.

If I were a contestant, just before getting up and shaking the hands of the panelists, I would flip all of the cards over. Steak dinner for four in 1961, I'd say, huh?

Gig Young was so handsome!

Dorothy wasn't having John's long-winded overly cautious definitions and explanations

My second favorite Henry Fonda movie is "12 Angry Men". Here's a pivotal scene, a confrontation with Lee J Cobb. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mq-carBltK7PfKM.html

Out of the thousands of items to pick from for the first guest, Arlene asked if it is used in Washington in the inauguration and Bennet zeroed in on a top hat. I think there was something fishy here.

Mr. Schnautz died in 1988; he was married to someone and apparently had no kids. (But his wife died in 1958. Don't know why, but I certainly don't suspect it was old age.) At the JFK point, he'd been with the Company for 30 years. Mr. Schnautz putting the finishing touches on JFK's hat: news.google.com/newspapers?id=tQAhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OHYFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5345,3676365&hl=en Also, a blogger focuses carefully on JFK's hat history: thehattedprofessor.bowershats.com/2013/11/jfks-hat-legacy.html

Every time somebody says how do you do? I get the urge to reply how do you do what?

Somebody mind to be kind enough to tell me where does the first woman's accent come from?

They called the top-hat a high -hat, interesting.

Top hats have been made from beaver fur.

For the first time, the score cards are plain with no logos. It looks odd.

Daly looks tanned. Where's he been then??

Later on, Henry and his son, Peter, appeared together as mystery guests. They signed-in together, but Peter signed-in with his left hand. Is Peter the only left-handed member of the Fonda family?

Very often Arlene's guesses and questions are so specific that I'm wondering someone gave her the answer.

Dorothy is annoyed with first guest. He does seem out of it.

Surf has to be. With advanced information

You know what I just thought? WML may not have been played to its full advantage. In other words, would it be better to start the game with the $50 correct answer, and work your way down to zero for each missed question? The reason being, the audience's rooting interest is in seeing the panel guess the occupation and the contestant's instinct is to flummox, and often mislead, the panel. Rather than trying to stump the panel the contestant would be eager to help the questioner. It would also cut down on the consultations between the contestant and John Daly. Thoughts?

Dorothy certainly looks dissipated.

17:04 - 17:05 ,,looks like a mystery guest ...who is the brunette in blue ? 21 : 44 - mystery guest Is a vacuum cleaner salesman ?

Agreed Dorothy was a bit under the influence here. As is Gig Young. And we all know how things went down with him eventually :(

Kept mishearing "Miss X" as "Miss Sex"

Dorathy seems to be more out going than arliene. When things are said funny you can hear her laughing. 😂

I guess they didn't have hat racks back then.

Dorothy sounds drunk ... slurring her words ...

Dorothy is slurring a bit here. I have to say if she was a little inebriated she still is somewhat coherent.

Life was so simple then

Gig Young murdered his young girlfriend and then committed Suicide.

Why did he walk way to soon

Interesting many years later what Gig Young did. He was ahead of his time but it's normal these days.

MAKES TOP HATS (MADE JFK's INAUGURATION TOPPER) RUNS SKI SCHOOL (OLYMPIC SKI STAR PENNY PITOU) SELLS VINEGAR 24:27 "Vinnagah!"

Gig Young. So typical of the 50s. Started out handsome and rose to semi stardom, but spiraled downward with booze and numerous wives and eventually committed suicide. I still watch my VHS of "City That Never Sleeps."

Bennet shows up with a really bad cold and doesn't wear a mask or social distance. Oh what times were these.

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I have never seen a woman wear a tophat, shouldnt that question been a no?

Him and Jimmy Stewart 🤮.

Is Dorothy drunk here?

Henry Fonda was a bad parent.

Dorothy od'd on booze and pills. And my brother stole arlene's heart pendant in 1988.

The ultimate gentleman. Unlike his kids