Still alive as of 10/28/23

With us in February 2024, enjoy his show, still has that beautiful voice.@@RonGerstein

@@wlsallnight I prefer his daughter Debbie

You probably were not one of us "white buck" guys.@@RonGerstein

@@wlsallnight You admit you hate Debbie Boone, who is still a great singer. I am sure Pat will be so happy you hate his daughter.

I was shocked that Bennett didn't know that the past participle of drink was drunk, as in "can this product be drunk?" Of all people Bennett should know that.

@@shirleyrombough8173: I assumed he was joking, as he laughed when he said it.

Beauty and Brains. What a combo! Thanks to her, we can watch these on our cell phones! Thank you Hedy!!! 🥰🥰🥰👏👏👏👏

Connie Francis is a brave , courageous star with morals also . In the late 1960s , she payed her own way to travel to Viet Nam to entertain and boost the morale of our real heroes , our American soldiers . While there , Connie performed the most important concert of all time , singing God Bless America , and 25 thousand soldiers sang along with her . Connie should have gotten the Presidential Medal of Freedom ! And i agree , Pat and Debby Boone are very moral celebrities .

yes, seems like a good guy....i met debbie boone once, i saw pat there...they were performing here...not a bad show too. this was a long time ago, in seventies...yes, i like him...he s taken a lot of ribbing, not fair...] but people always regarded him as square, then all the rock music also came out etc.

He was vilified for being an unashamed Christian.

@@ruthkidney3582 One of the nicest people ever, and he isn't afraid to speak out about what's going on in our corrupt, bought-and-paid-for government these days, either.

😢If Boone is "vilified" it is because of his extreme intolerance, hypocrisy and narrow mind. He is not vilified because he is Christian but because his outspoken behavior often un-Christian life.

@@gbrumburgh Jerry Falwell Sr . was a great American hero who was villified simply because he was a Christian . He founded the wonderful Moral Majority and helped to elect our greatest and most successful Christian President , the great President , Ronald Reagan . Mr . Falwell Sr . also attempted to protect our precious women from the pervert Larry Flynt , Hustler magazine and the extreme x rated porn industry which totally degrades our precious women . You are either on the side of Falwell and the Moral Majority and protecting our women , or you are on the side of the pervert Flynt and degrading our women .

Me too….unbeknownst to them I’ve been living in their basement since 1957.

Her 'idea' had no effect on WW2

@@Baskerville22 that's because she was ignored then. Can you deny she had tremendous influence on modern electronics?

@@vickisawyer7405 Not according to her Wikipedia entry.

@@Baskerville22 "hedy lamarr inventions" look at that web page. She was way ahead of her time, and Wikipedia doesn't know everything. I've seen several documentaries about her and her life. You believe whatever you want. Have a nice day.

LadyT - and they dressed really nice. Notice the difference between the 50s shows and the 70s shows.

The difference in dress between the 50s and 70s shows: like night and day!

Hedy was not a scientist, but was an inventor. She thought of the concept radio frequency skipping to defeat jamming of radio controlled torpedoes and helped improve airplane aerodynamics, but left the science and engineering implementation to others

Ms. LaMar used her considerable scientific expertise to help us win WWII.

Pat Boone is still with us today at 87. He was the second highest charting artist in the 1950s behind Elvis Presley.

Hedy Lamarr's inventive insights with pianist George Antheil were not used in WW2 because the Navy was suspicious of her patriotism and loyalties which was ridiculous because as an Austrian Jew she could not return home during WW2.. So her loyalties obviously did not lie with Nazi controlled Austria.

Interesting, Hedy Lamarr was an inventor that helped in the scientific field. She had expert knowledge that the scientific community in the field of her endeavor could put into use in putting together the invention that she invented.. I'm trying to sound like Mr. Daly, Lol! Therefore some might mistakenly or inadvertently consider her somewhat of a scientist. Long-winded commentary of the subsequent consequences of what might be considered in passing, opinions. Mr. Daly might be proud of me.

No...she was an amateur inventor.

Seriously... they have like a 20th century titan sitting next to them and she's not the guest. What different surreal times. This show is so addictive though, regardless of time period.

@@cagnazzo82 If they only knew she was a brilliant inventor. It was only briefly mentioned in a few articles in the early 1940s, but her and George Antheil's patent for the "secret communication system" had been made Top Secret by the U.S. Navy and it wasn't until around 1985 when the FCC started releasing more info on it, and most didn't know until Fleming Meeks' 1990 article in Forbes. When the Navy gave it to contractors in the late 1950s they knew Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil were the inventors and those early contractors pushed for their recognition in the late 1990s.

Yes, so interesting it’s hard to know where to start. Connections to Judaism and Nazism, inventor, movie star and producer, and her estranged son was a policeman who spurred BLM riots after shooting a teenager in the back.

She has been the mystery guest.

That's Hedley

Jessy Leppert no it's Hedy any other bright observations?

+orgonko the wildly untamed might want to watch Blazing Saddles sometime to get the joke.

Not really surprised that there was only one black female panelist given the era, although I am surprised that the gracious and beautiful one-time mystery guest Diahann Carroll didn't come on as a panelist, as many mystery guests would do. Dionne Warwick might have made a good panelist as well.

And ABC NEWSMAN ETC

+Anthony She was 44 yrs old here.

44 or 48 is one foot in the grave. I got both feet in the grave, I'm 79.

@@dancelli714 How’s life Dan?

Her true date of birth isn't known.

I knew about that, but my impression is not one of a very intelligent woman, especially taking into consideration, how bad her English is after having already spent several years in the USA. As far as I know it's unknown what exactly her contribution was to the invention.

+Celisar1 I think you're making very broad assumptions about intelligence based on absurdly limited information.

+What's My Line? Hi, Gary! It is a pity that you tend to get quite sharp when you don't like other peoples opinion. I happen to know much more about Hedy Lamarr than this video clip. Also it's a valid observation, from which deductions can be made, how bad her English is after many years working and living in an English speaking surrounding.

Celisar1 For the love of Mike, how am I supposed to know upon what else you're basing your opinion on Hedy Lamarr's intelligence if you *didn't mention anything else in your comment*? What am I supposed to be responding to but what you actually *said*? The only "evidence" you provided for the unnecessary comment about how not smart you think she was is that her English wasn't very good. That's all you said. That is, as I stated quite calmly and rationally, an absurdly limited basis for judging another person's intelligence. And that's all I said. If you consider that "sharp", then fine. I get "sharp" with people when they're being unnecessarily negative. And I overlook about 100 times more comments-- and delete 100 times more than that-- than you could possibly conceive of. But thanks for the critique. Personally, I find it a pity that you feel a need to leave a comment dismissing the intelligence of someone you never met, probably never even saw interviewed.

+What's My Line? Again, Gary, you are aggressiv instead of friendly or polite. You rather accuse than try to understand. Exactly, you don't know anything about me, so why did you attack me in the first place by saying, the basis for my evaluation was ABSURDLY limited? Was it necessary to use such harsh words? And why didn't you simply ask me or chose a calmer approach? And You of all people ask me now, why I have and give an opinion about someone whom I have never met and who is dead? That is rather surprising from someone who put such an enormous amount of work in uploading a 60 year old game show, commenting lovingly on every detail of it and exchanging opinions on all people involved, also mostly all dead. Come on. If you don't like my opinion, you are allowed to ignore it....

Ugh. Is this one of the shows where they mess that up? There's at least one show I've seen (I would never be able to pinpoint it now) where John Daly even goes along with the mistake of classifying a whale as a fish!

hopicard -- Where Mr. Cerf was really "off" is in saying, "A whale is a mammal" (so he knew that) "but isn't it also considered a fish?" It sure couldn't be both!

What's My Line? At least, this time, Mr. Daly was spot on when he said that a while is "an aquatic mammal of the cetacean family". I'm constantly amazed by how clueless various panelists and the moderator often are when it comes to animals and how they're classified. You'd think they never took a biology course in high school or even 8th grade general science.

Well, today, and it's been several decades, students don't know the preamble to the Constitution, and certainly not the document, itself! Nor, classical literature, nor how to express oneself without the use of "like" about 5 times in every sentence! And this is just the beginning of their inadequacies that manifest from a mediocre education delivered to them by large numbers of mediocre teachers! PS: I can testify of this; I'm an elementary school teacher, as well as a Mom of school-aged children and young adults.

Oh, also, teachers deciding that teaching cursive writing is no longer needed. We now have thousands of teenagers who cannot read a cursive letter!!!! When my daughter was in high school from 2009 - 2013, she was often surprised at how many of her peers were amazed when they heard her reading cursive writing! They'd actually ask her how she knew what the words said!

She’s 18? Wow

And I doubt they would be able to write their name so beautifully.

Did she make a very mature impression?

Yes, everything used to be better; nothing is any good anymore; and we should all jump off a cliff.

@@crabbyoldman8209 Cliffs were so much better in the fifties!

Pat Boone was great!!

She loved the handsome young men, all right.

@@kulturekritik9665 She is not the only one!!!!!😍

Thanks for the heads up-- I appreciate it. This show actually *was* in the playlist, but for some reason as the LAST in the playlist when it should have been the first. I expect this was due to some sort of KZfaq glitch that screwed up the proper order and probably happened relatively recently; it just doesn't make sense to me that I'd have made this mistake (I'm pretty obsessively meticulous about this sort of thing, and this is a very obvious mistake that I should have spotted easily if it was always an error) AND that no one ever pointed it out before, considering this video was posted over 5 YEARS AGO! Anyhow, whatever caused it, I've fixed the error. Thanks again for the heads up!

@@WhatsMyLine Your efforts to bring these shows is greatly appreciated- it brings so much joy and laughter to see these fantastic, intelligent panelists and, of course, John Daly again.

In the early 70s, even though we were only in elementary school, my sisters and I used to wonder why our mother's brassiers were pointy! ...Then, in the mid 70s, when our teenage aunt started wearing them, we REALLY wondered why! My oldest sister, who was almost a teenager, herself, used to lightly tease our aunt about her pointy bras, after which, suddenly, they were no longer pointy anymore. Us younger girls were all relieved!

How strange that sometimes the most exaggerated, unattractive styles prevail! Yikes!

Was wondering if I was the only one who noticed torpedo bras

Irene Ryan I'll ask her over dinner this evening.

+Charles Henry Well? Is dinner over yet?

Lois Simmons Henry was hypnotized into a sleeping beauty....

Hahahahaha

Double hahaha ha

Lol!

Jackie Carroll really had those ice-cream-cone boobs going on.

Perhaps they were useful for hypnotizing the men. ....or lauch a pair of missiles! BTW 35 years ago the movie TOP SECRET parodied that bra design hilariously.

😁

Well those old foggies on the panel were probably never going to guess a rock and roll pop singer.

Beauty aside, that tone of hers probably turned off a lot of men.

Austrian. 🇦🇹 LedHed Steven 🎶 🎸 🎹 🎸 🎶

she sued Mel Brookes over that joke, so be careful.

it had to be said!!!

I think all whaling needs to stop, actually. We're long past the need for whale oil as a source of fuel for lighting and when it comes to whale meat, Japan, Norway and Iceland could easily get by nowadays without it or even using whale blubber as cooking fat. Given what plastics have become, they haven't needed baleen a.k.a. "whalebone" as stays in women's foundation garments for many years and I don't think it has been used for that purpose in ages. We're to the point that it's time to lay off hunting and killing whales for many reasons -- there just aren't enough of them left to justify it, if it could even by justified. It's right up there with hunting and killing elephants, if you ask me.

ToddSF 94109 What about the Inuits that live in the artic region?

I'm sure he wouldn't get the same sort of applause if the show were done today.

@@HariSeldon913 I agree. Whaling is awful Beautiful and intelligent creatures.

Humans eat meat and do not need to apologize for it nor stop doing it. However, we can be reasonable about it. It is a lot easier to farm cows and chickens than it is whales. I can agree whaling is not a necessity and don't object to it being stopped. Maybe one day we will develop replicators and don't need to eat cows and chickens. If that day comes, great, but until then bon appetit and let's hope we don't get served Soylent Green.

519DJW there are new comments here that give a lot more info about her....😀

Frequency-hopping spread-spectrum - I don't even know what that means!

***** She had an interesting accent..

+John Waller the funny thing about her accent is that for my ears (I'm german) it sounds totally different to the usually horrible german accent I speak myself. But I heard recently an austrian actress, she had mad some announcments for the australien railway company. There is a tiny bit of an english sentence. Funny this voice reminds me immediately of Hedy Lamarr. I didn't notice before, that an austrian accent produce an other english accent, then my own slightly saxonian german. But accents are most always a bit funny, aren't they?

Yes she was a pre-inventor of WiFi technology we all use today !!!!

In another episode he exclaimed that when Salvador Dali had a book published by Random House, he 'couldn't talk any English'.

@@PrenticeBoy1688 What Bennett was clumsily saying in that show was that Dali had been young and not accomplished at all in English and had done really well over the decades with it. It was meant as a compliment, but was awkward.

@Dave Arcudi - Yes, and Bennett was very well-read and well-educated formally. Like all of us he sometimes misspeaks or stumbles over how dolphins & porpoises may differ. He asked quite reasonably, I thought, one time of a pig farmer or hog breeder what the difference was between a pig and a hog and got a good answer that was also not definitively the final word. No one seemed to know what a worm really was on one of the shows. Born in 1898 Bennett lived in a time when folks would have commonly known a story about a man named Jonah who was swallowed by a big fish, which was meant to be a whale because much of what was in the sea was called fish. We knew even then it was not all fish, though seafood even when seaweed. Whereas, a lake or river trout, while a fish, is not seafood. Then again, there are lakes that could have been part of an inland sea once. He asked for clarification. He was not insisting on a point. I think this happens with people with education. If the last time one had biology was high school, having taken perhaps astronomy and physics in college because they did not sound as icky as biology and chemistry, one might have to double check if a spider, though informally a bug, could in any way at all be called an insect or what are the 4 extant branches of the family of the great apes. I think people tend to lose their clarity on things they are no longer dealing with and so ask questions or look it up later. My family of educators insisted there are no stupid questions, except perhaps the ones that are not asked. Poetically, I am sure he had read many a manuscript that referred to whales as the largest fish in the sea. Not scientifically accurate, but poetic license. He read mostly literature and reference works for his reading matter at Random House so it may not be so odd. Do a lot of people know that polar bears are technically not white, but have black skin and hollow fur that does not have any white pigment in it? If of interest, one asks.

@@philippapay4352 Well, yes. I understood what he said. I speak English as my native tongue and my ears function adequately.

@@PrenticeBoy1688 I am sorry. I was not intending to be rude to you. Cerf had unusual cadences and even pronunciations in his use of English, his native tongue. I was explaining his oddities that could mask intent. I was not criticizing you nor was my intent to demean in any manner. Sorry.

Over and over again, the WML panel and John Daly demonstrated a horrific lack of science knowledge in general and biology knowledge in particular. No wonder the Soviet Union was able to get ahead of us in the space race in the 1950's.

This is an understatement. My grandchildren today know of Elvis but some of my friends ( In my early 70’s) never heard of Pat Boone.