Chris Murtagh : Incredible. This episode of WML was taped in May 1958. Ms. de Havilland who was born in 1916 would live on for another 62 yrs until her death at the age of 104 in July 2020 . Amazing.

She was a great actress, a class act and a legend.

@@johnburnett3432 Exactly !!!!!

She would outlast Dorothy Kilgallen by over 54 years.

Didn't make it more than three weeks more after your comment, but 104 is quite an achievement.

Rich at Large yes, heartbreaking. She lived a long and happy life.

Bennett Cerf is one of my favorite panelist.

Absolutely.

Class and civility were lost with the loss of Christianity

Here, here. Does anyone even use that phrase anymore?

Ours has never been a society of class and civility, things were just kept under wraps. You didn't do or discuss certain matters in polite company, it doesn't mean those things weren't done, however.

@@texan903 - That was Maynard's point. The unseemly aspects of today's culture which are now paraded openly were not on open display then.

Yes what happened?

I agree with you about Mr. Cerf. He had the jokes and loved to tell them, but his delivery just didn't cut it. But I believe he certainly had heart, and that is always more important.

Cerf was a scam artist. Scanned $42 millions from wannabe writers with his phony “Famous Writers School”

104 soon

@@gretchenmyers4368 She will be 104 on July 1st, 2020. This coming Wednesday!

I know babe

Olivia is 104 today! How lucky we are to still have her, the last remaining classic Hollywood actress.

@@lucytaylor8315 Let's all take up a collection and send her a carton of Lucky's.

I think Olivia gave up the Christmas card tradition many years ago because of the time it took. From what I have been told, however, is she is still the person she has always been, intelligent, gracious, witty and warm. She never took stardom for granted nor do I think stardom meant that much to her. I think being able to do the best films with the best scripts and best directors and best fellow actors gave her much joy. She and Bette Davis were particular friends; they saw eye to eye on matters of excellence, honesty, and hard work.

@@waynebrasler She explained in her interviews that she tried to enlighten and improve the human condition with her movie roles. So she did an authentic expose on mental illness after encountering it among ww2 soldiers. Also other vital topics such as unwed motherhood and other

Estupendo. Y ¿cómo se ganó usted ese derecho y esa suerte de que Olivia de Havilland le felicitara cada año?

And still kicking judging by her recent lawsuit!

27 December 2019 103 years old Date of birth: July 1, 1916

Olivia now belongs to the ages, joining her sister, parents, and her son.

Thank's for the information, I have a 2 questions, when he died how old was he, and what did he die of if anything.

The Amish Umpire He died at his home in Mount Kisco, aged 73, (Aug. 27, 1971) but there are no references to how, or what he died of. I've heard he suffered from Alzheimers in his late years, but cannot confirm it as an accurate truth. Maybe other commenters could be of some help? :)

SuperWinterborn Thank you.

@@theamishumpire1301 He was born in 1898. He was still working part time and doing the show into the fall of 1967, not showing signs of serious mental decline. He wrote his memoir thereafter, so I would guess he had not had enough time in those 4 years to be destroyed by Alzheimer's, as it usually takes longer to wreak its total destruction. For some reason, I thought I'd read somewhere, or gotten the impression from someone I'd read, that he dropped dead suddenly at home, though he may have had underlying health problems leading to it.

He was a frequent guest star on the syndicated Whats My Line from 1968 to June 1971. He had gotten surgery about three weeks prior to his death.

WML was always my favorite by far of the block of late night B&W game shows on GSN, but they're all fun shows. It was always such a nice way to end the evening, watching 90 minutes of these shows. I still miss it, especially since I don't have a collection of To Tell the Truth or I've Got a Secret!

What's My Line? The only way I learned about this show was when it was homaged (satired? parodied?) by Disney's 101 Dalmations as "What's My Crime" and I learned about the reference and discovered the show XD

She was the perfect combo of beauty and grace

Mamie van Doren, Hedy Lamarr, Elizabeth Taylor?...

Never would die for a dress, but admittedly in my younger years I might take risks to get Arlene out of her dress

I miss does days of class and civility.

I doubt he was in the top 100

@@Baskerville22 Van Cliburn is ranked 26 on the Ranker list of the Best Pianists in the World. His name shows up on lots of lists of great pianists. Van Cliburn is included in Harold C. Schonberg's book "The Great Pianists - From Mozart to the Present." Schonberg was the senior music critic for the New York Times. In this capacity he published daily reviews and longer features on operas and classical music on Sundays. In 1971, he became the first music critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Schonberg also wrote articles for Harper's and High Fidelity magazine, among others. Pianists were a specialty of Schonberg. In addition to writing "The Great Pianists," he wrote a biography of Vladimir Horowitz, entitled "Horowitz: His Life and Music" (1992), as well as "The Collector's Chopin and Schumann" (1959), and "The Glorious Ones: Classical Music's Legendary Performers" (1985). Schonberg's aunt, Alice Frisca was an early influence and his first music teacher; she was a former concert pianist, and had studied with Leopold Godowsky. He started piano lessons with Frisca at four years old, and "discovered early on that he had a superb musical memory that allowed him to remember pieces in great detail after a single hearing." Schonberg received a Bachelor of Arts at Brooklyn College (1937), during which he published his first music criticism in the Musical Advance journal. He then studied as a graduate student at New York University, receiving a Master of Arts in 1938 while studying under the composer Marion Bauer. His dissertation concerned Elizabethan songbooks, which he studied in both musical and literary contexts. I write about Schonberg's credentials to indicate that he knows whereof he speaks when it comes to assessing pianists. Of Cliburn, Schonberg wrote, "Cliburn, a pupil of Rosina Lhevinne, had brilliant pianistic credentials, including a technique that could take care of anything (his big piece was the Rachmaninoff D minor Concerto) and a golden tone. Of all the Americans of his generation, Cliburn was able to produce the most sensuous of sounds - rich, never percussive, a real piano sound that reminded old-timers of the great romantic pianists of the past."

I'm appreciating it as I hit 60 next month. This show happened two years before I was born, and it helps me understand the national mood a little bit better, into which I would soon be born.

He would be 123 now

Kenneth Butler Arlene asked the guy, “Why” as he shock her hand!

I have to assume you would have to be very rich to understand why someone would need such a thing.

I still don't understand what that is.

I am sure there are things in your life that you consider commonplace that someone in a poor country would find extravagantly frivolous to the point they would consider it silly for you to spend resources to acquire it.

I think you'll find that it's Nov. 20th, 2019.

as of Jan 26 2020 god bless her, keep her here on earth, she's one of the few left from old hollywood

+Ashoodle Oh, that's great-- I don't think I ever saw that before! Thanks for pointing it out.

Years later according to the legend, that hand would make a comeback as Mister Bill on Saturday Night Live.

That hand went on to play "Thing" in the Addams Family 6 years later.

@@loissimmons6558 Sixty-two year-old, Señor Wences moonlighting. Don't scoff, Mr. Moreno would keep working to the sprightly age of 100.

+Alfredo Santiago Easy for Mr. Moreno. For me ees very deefeecult! But s'aright.

When asked “are you happily married,” the actress would answer based upon the public perception of her marriage regardless of what goes on inside the mansions’ walls. She is not testifying under oath. There is an online game, Akinator. I think it’s free. You think of a famous person and the computer asks yes or no questions until it guesses. If you try it you’ll notice many questions which seem impertinent but are actually effective

A "no" answer would mean she is either single, widowed or unhappily married which allows some elimination.

Centuries later, The Federation would give the job of testing Phaser-proof vests to the guys wearing the red shirts.

"Piazza"

Yes!

+Joe Postove For at least the second Sunday in a row.

Joe Postove They're all buddies with Allen having been a panellist for so long so I would be astonished if they didn't keep a tab on each other.

1013pka - Thank you. Me too. What a stupid pointless item to spend money on.

Yes.

That question got a yes, but the follow up whether it can "subdue an opponent" got a no.

Good question

They did that when the contestants were older than them, or when they were a very influential figure such as Eleanor Roosevelt.

The TV Guide website gives the lines of the contestants by episode: www.tv.com/shows/whats-my-line/episodes/all/?sortmode=oldest

poetcomic1 - Boy that’s for sure. What an asinine concept.

@@lauracollins4195 Oh, I think it was par for the course.

Alfredo Santiago - Ha ha! You just made a hole in one. :D

@@algoritmosalfredohipicasig7116 Thanks for the laugh!

@@lauracollins4195 Thank you also for a good laugh.

nowvoyagerNE -- There's a lengthy list of film actors and actresses from the 1930's through the 1960's or so that just have no equals today, in my opinion, or very few equals anyway. There's a wonderful "coffee table" book of glamorous photos of female movie stars from the 1930's called "They Had Faces Then" that I highly recommend. It has posed publicity portraits as well as stills from the sound stages featuring costumes and sets. Sadly, it's out of print now, but you can find copies on eBay and used book sources. Looking through it, I kept turning the pages and saying "Wow!" I don't think you could come up with a book quite like that with today's movie stars and have the same "wow-factor". It's not that there aren't talented actresses or actors working in Hollywood now, but as the book title states, they had faces then.

ToddSF 94109 thanks for the info :-) it sounds lovely.

They had style. They had grace. Rita Hayworth gave good face.

@@ToddSF Yes. Nowadays, the actresses are all botoxed, fake-bosomed, Malibu Barbies and the men are mostly emasculated.

@@loissimmons6558 🤣

John was joking, Bennett was 60 that day.

No, I don't have Password, sorry. WML is the only old game show I have a large run of.

Why not?

That sounds like a totally disrespectful thing to say. Joan was a brilliant actress and starred in the very best versions of Jane Eyre and Rebecca.

@@peternagy-im4be they competed with each other for Oscars and one of them beat out the other one one year but beyond that you’d have to research it if it didn’t go to the grave with both of them

Doug w. Absolutely.

chord972 I've seen it many times on the small screen over he years, but I only got to see it on the big screen once back in college. I'm sure the latest restoration would be like a whole new experience. I just don't know if I can sit still in a movie theater for 4 hours at this point in my life!

+Doug w. A little long

Have you seen it yet ? If not its worth watching I promise .

For lovers of this movie the length is irrelevant. A lover here.

you can see bennet's eyes moving back and forth between the lady and john...i suspect john had an odd look on his face or nodded or something which made bennet hesitate to believe the lady's response.

Seriously! I can't imagine a more unnecessary product to kill animals for!

What's My Line? I totally agree, I have been asked to make a lot of strange things, but never this product.

Naturally you can buy these things on ebay and etsy. The 50's also gave us mink-trimmed sunglasses.

What's My Line? -- A mink-trimmed golf tree definitely had to have been a novelty item. I'm thinking the company that made them probably bought small pieces of mink, the trimmings, from companies that made mink coats, stoles, muffs, etc., because those small bits of leftover mink would be suffiicient to trim out something as small as a golf tee. Mink pelts in the coat and stole industry had to be trimmed to specific sizes and shapes, mostly four sided, so that they could be sewn together to form a coat or stole, leaving all the pieces surrounding such shapes that wouldn't be useful to the coast and stole manufacturers. Not that I approve of killing minks or chinchillas or the like for making coats in the first place, but, in 1958, people thought nothing of it and almost every woman would have loved to have had mink coat if they could have afforded to buy one and pay for its ongoing upkeep.

According to information turned up by one of the best commenting sleuths on this channel, Mr. Zeller's family's business was furs. They would have had plenty of remnants and presumably no other minks would need to be killed. Under the scenes we'd like to see department: taking your golf tee to get it appraised.

Equal rights? No. Equal pay? No.Thanks, but men can stay seated.

Women’s Lib ruined that

@@suible 🙄