I loved Arlene’s reaction to finding out that it was Johnny Olson. He was quite talented!

"And now let's ALL play Whats My Line!" This time he took those words literally! :)

That was a fantastic segment with Johnny O, I never would have seen how extraordinarily talented he was if not for this video

Arlene: "-A devil on stage, an angel at home" that's Martin Gabel ! :-) 1:09

This is the only comment not written 3 years ago but here goes anyway! I heard Johnny Olson’s warm up routine for the Price is Right at CBS Television City Hollywood several times ( early 70s) and he was just beyond fantastic. What a gift he had.

Johnny Olson was about my age (55) in this clip. He was a big part of my childhood!

Aw bless Johnny Olson. That was a scream!

This segment with Johnny Olson is one of the most entertaining spots on this show.

I love John's laugh at 7:13, very devious and devilish!

Happy Birthday in Heaven, Johnny! You were an outstanding announcer and one of the most entertaining contestants of all time!

The woman rose for Maurice Chevalier as he left. No small honor!

I had NO IDEA how talented Johnny Olsen WAS! ♥♥♥♥

All together now... A NEEEEWWWWW CAAAAAAAARRRR!!! 😆😆😆 Olson could have been a good voice actor (for cartoons and such) had he chose to go that route.

It's nice to know Johnny Olson had such a good career before 1972, but seven years later he will hit it big with The Price Is Right with Bob Barker.

Johnny Olson had two different careers as an announcer. First, he was based in the East Coast, and did announcing work for several Goodson-Todman productions, including WML, "To Tell the Truth" and "I've Got a Secret". He also did "The Jackie Gleason Show", including the Florida episodes. He announced for the first few seasons of the new TTTT and WML. Then in 1972, Olson moved to the West Coast in Los Angeles. The first two productions he worked on in his new career as a West Coast-based announcer were "I've Got a Secret" (Weekly Syndication with Steve Allen), and "The New Price is Right" (CBS Daytime with Bob Barker and Syndication with Dennis James). The latter is still on the air to this very day. Olson continued his association with Goodson-Todman shows until his death on October 12, 1985.

Did Johnny Olsen ever write his autobiography? As a radio guy, growing up admiring announcers, Johnny Olsen was one of the best. And I'll bet he made more money (because we worked so much) than anyone on the panel. His radio days literally had him going from one show to another, doing dozens a week (actor, announcer, warm-ups, etc...) People tend to forget about announcers, but like a car without a bumper, a show is mighty wanting without one. VIVA J.O.!

If anyone here only knows Chevalier as an older gentleman, as in "Gigi" and on television, you owe it to yourself to seek out the 1932 movie "Love Me Tonight" -- a wonderful early talkie musical with a Rodgers and Hart score ("Isn't It Romantic") and a young Chevalier as a Parisian tailor who falls in love with a princess (Jeannette MacDonald). It's sweet, funny, sexy, outrageously clever, way ahead of its time, and of course romantic. It's on DVD and occasionally on TCM. Some clips are on KZfaq, but it's better to enjoy the whole thing. Rouben Mamoulian directed, very much in the style of Ernst Lubitsch, maybe even better.

Both times Maurice Chevalier appeared on the show he showed obvious dismay at being identified so quickly. He was set for a long tease of the panel but could not hide his trade mark voice even with a lisp.

Bennett 15:40, “I should have known you’re a publisher, you have an extraordinarily intelligent look.” :D

Unfortunately John Daly did not have the hoped for vivaciousness at 77 as he only lived four days past his birthday.

Sheila MacRae lived to be 92, passing away just last March.

The respect by the ladies for age and talent.

Very rare in this show, the two ladies stand up for a man, a gentleman

I love this show.

"That's a dirty laugh."

Epic Johnny O. Had fooled them all.

John is talking about being as vibrant as Maurice Chevalier when he reaches 77. Sad to say John died at the age of 77 in 1991.

Within a year and a half, Sheila MacRae and Johnny Olsen started working together. Sheila transformed into a red head and became the new Alice Kramden in the 1966-70 CBS color Honeymooners with Jackie Gleason and Art Carney -- mystery guest two weeks before. And for years after, fans argued who was the best Alice, Audrey Meadows or Sheila.

Chevalier was enormously popular on multiple continents from the 1910s to the 1960s. Let Justin Bieber try and top that.

Sheila MacRae played Alice Kramden in the new color episodes of "The Honeymooners".

Martin was the last one to grasp that the Mystery Guest was monsieur Cheavlier. "Are you italian?"

Maurice Chevalier was so beloved all over the world. Josephine Baker and ZiZi Jeanmaire came close.

16:38 This time, Maurice Chevalier got it right.

For those of you who do not know, when Johnny answered Arlene's question about impersonations, his answer "oh do I" was a direct take off of the great Frank Nelson, known for many things in radio or television, but perhaps best known as a nemesis of Jack Benny's, usually as a floorwalker in a department store, a ticket agent at a train station and lots of other identities. You might know him best as the man who answers, very flamboyantly "yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees" on radio or tv. Search for him on KZfaq and you'll know who I mean.

Class. The women standing out of honor for mystery guest.

Something in me wants to see Arlene in longer gloves with that cocktail dress. I don't know why.

Arlene refers to the petite and comely final challenger as a "cute little girl". "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" was one of the signature songs of that night's Mystery Guest, Maurice Chevalier. Of course "girl" was much more freely used back then to refer to a grown woman, which Jean Murphy, the pool room manager, clearly was. I wonder if there was a surge of interest in the game of pool in Northern New Jersey shortly after this episode of WML aired. Alas, the pool room in Emerson (NJ) is no more.

How many times were the panelists going to ask Johnny Olson if he was working at a club? Pay attention guys!

Odd that Goodson and Toddman would have Chevalier on. In 1942, Chevalier was named on a list of French collaborators with Germany to be killed during the war, or tried after it.[18] That year he moved to La Bocca, near Cannes, but returned to the capital city in September. In 1944 when Allied forces freed France, Chevalier was accused of collaboration.[3] The August 28, 1944, issue of Stars and Stripes, the daily newspaper of U.S. armed forces in the European Theater of Operations, reported in error that "Maurice Chevalier Slain By Maquis, Patriots Say". Even though he was acquitted by a French convened court, the English-speaking press remained hostile and he was refused a visa for several years.[19] In a review of the 1969 Oscar-nominated documentary film about French collaboration Le chagrin et la pitié (The Sorrow and the Pity), Simon Heffer draws attention to “a clip of Maurice Chevalier explaining, entirely dishonestly, to an anglophone audience how he had not collaborated.”[20] Wikipedia

For anyone wondering what I meant in my last post: The last time Maurice Chevalier came on this show, in 1963, he got confused apparently. He was unsure of where he should actually sign-in his name, so he signed on an easel that held black art cards, used to superimpose the white lettering on the screen.

Arlene didn't want to show up Martin so she didn't guess Maurice Chevalier when she knew it was him. Jeez and yet another plug for Baker Street.

When I was a child I can remember having a dislike for Maurice Chevalier. I'm not sure why, other than, perhaps, it was because girls and women liked him so much. I remember when the Beatles were first marching across America, in the first year or so, boys my age and older not liking them so much just because girls were so crazy about them. That changed as their music became so good it was impossible to ignore them any longer. The same was true about Elvis, but I don't know if guys ever really jumped onboard the Elvis boat, even in his later years, I remember so many more females as his fans than males.

This is kind of an eerie episode. Dorothy is away because of what was rumored to be the beginning of her alcohol/drug addiction hospitalizations and John Daly mentions that, "I hope when I'm 77, I'll be as youthful" as Maurice Chevalier. JC Daly died at 77. :/

I see that one of the ads here was for SuppHose Sheers. Wearing nylons was once practically mandatory with a dress. Not anymore. Several reasons. 1. Pantyhose was expensive. 2. If a run occurred, that pair was wastebasket bound. (Unless one had another run in another pair and you could wear another pair so you again had 2 run-free legs.) 3. Runs happened every time pantyhose was worn. Great for the hose manufacturers; not great for the consumer. 4. Far less dresses are worn anymore. 5. Women just stopped wearing hose-even to formal events. Frankly, I do not miss this $$$ drain!!!

There was and is plenty of money passing through different hands in a pool hall. I guess they didn't want to admit that, shockingly GAMBLING went on in these establishments. Shocking, shocking!

Actually, Maurice Chevalier turned 77 in September of 1965.

With the advent of the internet, phone books are pretty much obsolete.

Mr. Mace the telephone book guy looks like someone famous, but I can't put my finger on it.

I'm not familiar with Sheila MacRae's career, but I keep thinking she looks a bit like Krystle Carrington from Dynasty! Probably just me...

Meridith macrae looks a lot like her mom.

With the pool room lady, they got too hung up on money changing hands, I'm not sure why.

Dorothy looked good the week before, but broken bones can and did pose problems. And I always wonder if her alcohol and pill misuse contributed to compounding her health problems that spring..

Is everyone in Darian Conn. rich?

I loved Maurice Chevalier.

Martin was wrong. Billiards and pool are different games.

How much did Cerf pay for all the plugs?

Maurice

The last contestant was a petite little package of goodies! the face that she worked in a pool room only adds to her dark mysteriousness!

Why was Dorothy in hospital?

Bennett certainly.. what a large nose

i trulylove whats my line and rarely ever have anything bad But Sheila Mac Rae should have been booted off her only real talent was getting a movie star to marry her.. she looked disinterested to just abot everyones occupation as if it were so beneath her wml must have been desperate for a panel member never liked her never will

Francis can not shut her mouth