My parents adored MacDonald and Eddy and I can see why. Wikipedia presents their relationship as unusual, to say the least. I would like to better understand them as well their respective marriages to others. I would like a good biography.

efesgirl999 Me too.. he is clever and I love his looks..

efesgirl999 - The sister has a very pleasant expression on her face.

I wonder how far back the relationship between the Greens and Gabels go. Phyllis's parents were sideshow entertainers and Phyllis's dad billed himself as 'Gabel the Graphologist'. (according to Wikipedia)

@@bluecamus5162 I don't know, but can take an educated guess or two based on having read the memoirs of Moss Hart, Phyllis Newman Green, Bennett Cerf, and Arlene Francis Gabel a long time ago. Gabel is not an uncommon German Jewish name, so that probably does not signify in terms of choosing a character or stage name. Martin Gabel came from Philly (I am from Philly): a suburb on the northern border of the city, but in Bucks County where some show biz elites, like Moss Hart and the composers and writers at his level who worked on Broadway or wrote for Bennett Cerf's Random House had homes, as it's easy driving or train distance from NYC. Ginger Rogers & her cousin, Phyllis Fraser, were among their regular guests and Bennett married Phyllis after they met there. Moss Hart was his best friend. However, when the Gabels vacationed locally it was in Harvey Cedars on Long Beach Island, NJ, and I do not know of their having hobnobbed with the Bucks County set where they could perhaps have met Adolph Green and his set early on, leading to a lengthy friendship in adulthood. (Arlene was from Boston.) Phyllis Newman's memoirs do not mention reasonably local vacations beyond their summer home in the Hamptons that exploded. She also never mentions the Gabels as close personal friends, as she does Lauren Bacall, Felicia Montealegre Bernstein et al who were present for her child-bearing years and Broadway and breast cancer. When the Gabels bought a home outside Manhattan, it was next to the Cerfs in Mount Kisco, NY, where they had land and a swimming pool and spent their weekends with their son who was best friends with the Cerfs' younger son. Their sons even went to the same boarding school and university. We can be pretty certain the Gabels and Greens would have known one another, seen each other's work, enjoyed one another's good company at swank parties or charity events and Broadway openings. But, I do not see evidence of a close friendship there from the memoirs I read.

@ToddSF 94109 - Yes, the worlds of science and the culinary arts and agriculture do differentiate between produce being a botanical fruit while a culinary vegetable. I think salt is the only mineral we eat on its own in large quantities, not merely included in the other food. And corn is a culinary vegetable while being botanically a grain. And mushrooms are fungi. Who were the benighted souls who had to find out the hard way which ones were poisonous and which edible?

So could any corporate board.

SaveThe TPC Yeah it was rare, but Arlene stood up a lot for political figures, religious figures and older people.

Purple Capricorn -- Arlene would stand up for any member of the clergy or any nun, but Dorothy wouldn't stand if they weren't Roman Catholic.

She gets so excited she stands up as soon as the nun started to sit down ...

@@anneroy4560 I loved Dorothy’s little curtsy to the sister

Dorothy did stand up then, or is that what you meant - it was very brief.

She gave a little bow or curtsy - I don't know what Catholics would call it, but it appeared to me to be a gesture of respect that couldn't be done sitting down.

Doesn't ever surprise me...cheating helps

You just made me laugh out loud. Funny you saying it three years ago, and me just now seeing it. Thanks!!!!

Or today 5 months later. that is comedy at it's best. Funny does not require a 5 page routine.

And be cancelled by the Catholic television comm. Not likely...

At the time these were filmed, they had to pass a standards test that was over seen NAB, television code usually having church groups and others monitor, and as funny as it might have been to ask miss or mrs.

Joseph LaCerra - John was deeply in love with himself, yet overall a very good moderator. But there are times when his onanistic need to spotlight himself, when others were not doing so for him, got the better of him and he could not shut off the logorrhea and gave away the game with some aspect of his lengthy monologues.

Philippa Pay Looks like you're fond of wordy monologues yourself!

I think people would stand for her today as well. I have actually WITNESSED this

Class ... *Class* ... *CLASS!!!* *SHUT UPPPPP!!!!!!* Thank you.

@@loissimmons6558 I know Cheech & Chong when I hear/read it!

Apparently these people didn't buy their own pickles

Of course legumes are high protein.

Absolutely there are legumes and other vegetables that are high in protein. Oh debbi.

I thought he was just giving an honest answer. I think Bennett was on the track anyway.

Doesn’t everyone know that cucumbers grow on a vine? You can even look at a pickle and see where the stem was originally!

Bennett said he checks who’s around town. That’s what they did. It wasn’t cheating.

He just knows who is around. He's very cluey to who might be on. It's just good figuring.

John Gee -Not necessarily. I don't find them snobbish at all.

Roly And Me. Dubious on both counts. Firstly.... people are New Yorkers where food is a BIG BIG BIG pastime. They don't just have a sandwich they have a SAMMITCH two feet wide with all the trimmings including the pickles. Secondly....Bennett's comment was NO surprise to anyone!! Pretty much by the ninth or tenth episode of anyone watching this show they get the message loud and clear that the panel simply look at who's in town, indeed in Kilgallen's case she had to because it was her job! What Bennett said was no surprise to anyone in the audience or the viewing public....BUT it may have been to Nelson Eddy, which is why he said it!

That is correct.

Do we owe him reparations?

Neil Midkiff Pickles to me comprise of a whole array of options including gherkins, onions, shallots, cauliflower. None of them are manufactured and are provided by nature, despite the 'pickling'.

@@davidsanderson5918 Do you spend much time in the kitchen? If you did, you'd understand better the difference between cucumbers and pickles, between apples and apple pie, between beef and beef jerky, between strawberries and strawberry jam. Nature provides the first; somebody has to *make* the second of these.

Pickles were once cucumbers!!! I’m a city girl and even I know that! Just like raisins were once grapes, etc.

Of course it requires physical dexterity. Doing dental work is like pulling teeth!

Lars Rye Jeppesen So would you say dentists DON'T require physical dexterity. They'd be pretty floppy and hopeless with the hands if they didn't.

@@davidsanderson5918 well in that case you could say that about anything.. chess players have to move the pieces, for example

@@LarsRyeJeppesen I wouldn't want a chess player doing my root canal, however.

They have to work in the confined area of the mouth, often performing delicate manoeuvres.

All of the contestants get 50 dollars. The cards are only to follow YESes and NOs

I hope you can get over your anger and confusion over people getting a small handfull of five dollar bills more than 60 years ago.

You mean the regular cast members notifying there audience they wont be on the show next week? Your right, how odd.

Take a downer, honey.

it having been established that the sister's work was therapeutic immediately before his turn, his question was illogical. But I am sure that it is very hard to do this well in one's first appearance, particularly someone not used to acting in front of an audience.