This is the nicest, most welcome, most spirit-recharging comment I've read on KZfaq for a very long time. Thank you for taking the time out to acknowledge the generally very high level of conversation in the comments on these videos! :)

This show sends me to "ask Google" so much. I love learning soooo much.

Me too!

me too - the comments are almost as entertaining

And we like hearing from you as well

Hugh O'Brian and Mickey Rooney was the stars of the movie "Ambush Bay".

Cerf is a cheater

Bennett cheated!

@@gailsirois7175 No he isn't.

@@joelfogelsanger5773 No he didn't.

@Reyna Herichan. Yes, they were both very intelligent. Bennett Cerf did a lot of reading up on all of the celebrities and other people that were big in the news every day. That caused a lot of ignorant people to accuse him of cheating.

I was impressed too. He's much smarter and informed than celebrities today.

I was moved to tears by what he said. I had never heard such a moving tribute to our “boys” during that era (I graduated from College that spring and remember the blizzard that January.) I didn’t come across WML till years later.

What a fairytale on Nam

@@dinahbrown902 get phuqqed commie pos. I doubt a woke millennial like yourself knows anything about the Vietnam War beside what she's seen on Family Guy or South Park.

@@noobsshadow1369 I’m a 67 year old woman who remembers my neighbor screaming horribly throughout the whole neighborhood when she received the news her young handsome son had stepped on a landline and had both of his legs blown off. I remember him sitting in a wheelchair and his dad building a ramp. You are very quick at labeling people dear JR. Name one stinking thing good that war accomplished .

stlmopoet I was a foetus in my mother's tummy at this point.

Which he should have done more often, as Larry Blyden did.

Dated his wife for 18 yrs? Heavens, she was patient.

I didn't know any of that, although it is totally believable. And Sinatra was a guy who held grudge and you didn't want to cross. It didn't stop the two of them from making "Guys and Dolls" the following year. Even a die hard Sinatra fan has to know that Brando was a better actor than Sinatra, certainly at that time, and that Brando was infinitely better for the role. Just picture Sinatra talking about how he could have been a contender.

Sinatra seemed to be a bit of a hot head to a lot of people.

Sinatra sacked George Jacob rom his job as his personal valet after he was told that Jacob had danced with Mia Farrow - Sinatra's wife at the time - at some 'do', in Sinatra's absence.

Sam Spiegel kept all the profits from "The African Queen," never distributing production points to Humphrey Bogart and John Huston, to which they were legally entitled. Katharine Hepburn, Bogart and Huston had a terrible time trying to get paid their salaries, and may not have ever been paid in full or at all. Sinatra, as a close personal friend of Bogart, would have known about this. It wouldn't have increased his fondness for Sam Spiegel. Spiegel was one of the most powerful producers in the world and I would assume that's why people kept risking working for him, even though his theft of "African Queen" profits was widely known.

@@preppysocks209 I can see Sinatra doing the "contender" scene and being excellent in the part. He would've been different from Brando, but Brando wasn't necessarily better. Brando is so thoroughly identified with the role of Terry Malloy, we can't imagine anyone else saying those lines in those scenes, by this point. He has passed into legend.

So Spiegel knows his way around in Polish. Good for him. Proszę przekazać mu moje pozdrowienia ! Please say hello to him on my behalf ! Cheers !

He was born in Poland

I took 4 years of Latin in HS and 1 semester in college. This must explain why I have such a disciplined mind! :-) It also explains why I love grape jelly and jam. Veni, vidi, vici ... I came, I saw, I concord. :-)

Mr Spiegel said Israeli Hebrew. Any political reason you wrote Palestinian Hebrew?

@@stevekru6518 Thank you for the question, Steve. It was not I that said Palestinian Hebrew, but rather the Associated Press, in an article dated Feb. 14, 1949. Wikipedia currently states that "Palestinian Jews were Jewish inhabitants of Palestine . . . prior to the establishment of the modern state of Israel." The AP article was, in fact, written "prior to the establishment of the modern state of Israel"; Israel was founded three months after the article was written, on May 14, 1949. This broadcast was made many years later, so of course the reference would have been updated.

I used to love Wyatt Earp

I was so glad to hear this tribute. Moved me to tears.

Yes. This was an earlier version the same movie as Ten Little Indians. That was made in 1945.

Debra Battle It was called "And Then Their Were None," and starred one of my favorite actors, Barry Fitzgerald.

In 1974 Peter Colinson directed another version of "And Then There Were None" set at a grand hotel in the Iranian desert starring Richard Attenborough as judge Arthur Cannon, and with Charlez Aznavour, Elke Sommer, Gert Fröbe, Herbert Lom, Oliver Reed, Adolfo Celi and Orson Welles as the voice on the record. An awful movie! The best version is still that made in 1945. In 1989 there was further a version set on a safari in the African savanna with Donald Pleasance and Herbert Lom (I thought he died in the last one!!).

Debra Battle he played in ambush bay

My goodness Mr.Bengstsson, you are a very negative person. We are all only humans. Try to look for the positive in life.

She was actually asking if it was with her wording and inflection: "It's not David Niven?" (The inflection suggested a following "is it?") Had she said "May I assume it is not David Niven?" would give her a "Yes." You will notice that she didn't argue the point.

Wouldn't have made a difference One question at a time

For some reason I always mix up Shirley Eaton with Sheena Easton. Wilfrid Hyde-White was Colonel Pickering and Stanley Holloway played Alfred Doolittle in the 1964 film "My Fair Lady". I didn't know Fabain was in this one. If I am correct one of these four persons was the murderer.... :)

Johan Bengtsson Shirley Eaton was the woman painted in gold in "Goldfinger".

***** Yes, beautiful actress! Too bad she retired so early from filming. Sheena Easton sang in my absolute favorite Bond-movie "For Your Eyes Only"!!

I know what you mean. . . how can a person not know whether he appears regularly on television, e.g.? Happened all the time. I think sometimes the pauses are due to their concentrating on their vocal disguise.

+GLC2013 Keep in mind these shows were at 10:30 at night so there's also a decent chance they might have had a few "belts" under their belts.

Or maybe they want to be exact with their answers so as to not give themselves away right away because the panel is so well informed at times they could guess a mystery guest in no time flat. So the mystery guest has to try to throw them off the track any way they can..... Just my assumption.

Johan Bengtsson Believe it or not, I actually liked that one! :D

SaveThe TPC The difference between good and bad is very small when it comes to Bennett's jokes. :)

Johan Bengtsson And quite subjective too. :)

SaveThe TPC Right!

He tells it better than Ralph Kramden

Absolutely. One of my all-time WML favorites.

soulierinvestments "The Chase" is going to be on TCM tonight at 2:15 AM EST -- What a coinkydink! :)

Good observation, I never listen with both ears what the announcer says at (in?) the beginning of each show.

Johan Bengtsson Ah, but you do notice, with your eyes, Steve Allen checking his watch for approximately 3 seconds when that sort of thing happens. :)

What's My Line? Of course, that's quite another thing. When I look at the TV weather forecast I always doze off mentaly and miss the whole thing, the same when Johnny Olson announces WML. But when something unexpected happens I wake up. :)

+soulierinvestments What's old is new again. That's how they used to introduce the show starting around mid to late 1953. Interesting how they decided to use the intro they first used over 10 years earlier.

Guess they decided to change things up eventhough they used that intro "slogan" many years before

You're exactly right, they read all the papers. In fact, Bennett admitted the panel would often know and there was an "unwritten rule" that they would let the guesses go around one time just for fun, even if they knew. Like here I think Bennett knew way earlier and was playing along.

@@markxxx21 Bennett was known to bring a scrap of paper with a list of celebrities he knew to be in New York and would study it before airtime.

That is true, but also these were prominent people in society who personally knew almost every celebrity so they'd be aware that way, too, of who was in town and what they were up to.

So i use the pc title

I think you meant trooper...

I was curious as well and found nothing on IMDB or IBDB or good old Google.

Rarely do I disagree with John, but here I would have given Tony a "yes" if I were the judge.

Motorcycles are powered by gas, bicycles are powered by men.

Bicycles are also powered by women 🙂. I also would have given a Yes answer: both "vehicles " are two-wheeled, are sat upon by the driver and are used for transportation. "Is it in ANY WAY like a bicycle?" I see three ways!

Who says he's acting?

Will Milton - Tony Randall was an extremely educated man, particularly in theatre and opera. He was making fun of himself because he so often worded what he wanted to ask backwards from the way that would have gotten him a YES reply to continue. He was not stupid or out of it. He was the commentator for years on the Met's live Saturday afternoon broadcast of their opera performances on radio. He funded a theater company doing classics with the monies from his nationwide theater tours in "The Odd Couple" with Jack Klugman, because his commitment to fine theater was so great. He was happily married for 50 years before being widowed and had friends of some talent and grace, like Eva Marie Saint and her director husband, Jeffrey Hayden, all the years they all were alive. She alone remains now. But he was a decent, refined human who lived a life filled with performance arts and exemplary behavior. If you watch enough of these, you will note his witticisms and puns are often erudite and he has great humor and warmth. He has a particularly funny exchange with fellow Okie James Garner when Garner was the Mystery Guest and Randall was on the panel that night. It was witty and caustic and all done with great appreciation one to the other for each of them being among the finest of the American light comedic actors.

@@philippapay4352 Very interesting information! Thanks!

My favorite guest panelist.

Yes, so you don't and you will be kicked out of our great country.

+Johan Bengtsson I remember that through the 1960s there were constant reminders on radio and television for non-citizens to file their Alien Registration cards during the month of January. John Daly wasn't the only one to do this and I never thought it peculiar. I don't know when the filing of Alien Registration cards came to an end.

This is rich - alien registration cards are still required. There used to be PSA's like John's on the TV and radio all the time. I guess it is peculiar in the sense that breaking the law is now so widely tolerated.

You hear that public announcement on many shows - Bud Collier used to do them on To Tell the Truth also, and I suppose many others.

Peculiar that it should seem peculiar.

I remember the late, late night Public Service Announcements of the '70s, but I don't recall ever seeing one during a prime time show. Peculiar, indeed.

I don't think so; I don't understand why Arlene wasn't in the first chair, as she usually was after Dorothy's passing. I do remember one show from the syndicated era when Bennett made one of his frequent visits; Soupy and Arlene were not on, and the panel (in order) were Gene Rayburn, Brenda Vaccaro, Joanna Barnes, and Bennett.

It seems to have changed since the beginning of 66. I'm glad.

You stop Taking Lord’s Name in Vain Broke 1Of The 10 Commandments!! SHAME

@@toinimoore3463 Jesus..what a reply. Freedom of speech.

@@toinimoore3463 Remember, your Lord is YOUR Lord, not everyone's. You don't get to dictate other people's beliefs. So typical.

Very sugar coated, who got to him?

I'm not sure O'Brian himself believed the stuff he was spouting. He sounded so paternalistic, it was nauseating--- like we found a primitive tribe in the jungle and we're going to force them to be modern. You can't do that, and Ho Chi Minh proved it.

Hugh O'Brian was the youngest ever Marine DI during WW2. His generation largely believed in the Vietnam War and thought the US war machine and it's leaders were infallible. Many would change their minds, many would not.

Thank you for saying this. I could not figure out how to word it without going off into excruciating detail of facts I know to the contrary of the vision Hugh was shown and expressed.

Johan Bengtsson We *could* blame the chalk, but I think you're right. ;)

And that matters how?

YES..

Nick Doe I like the beginning of the shows though. The programme needed another five minutes that's all. :)

Producer Gil Fates realized it. When WML went into syndication there were six minutes of commercials so there had to be some cutting down on the basics, such as the panelists introducing each other; another thing was a clue to the contestant's occupation; Bruner or Blyden might say, for instance, that the professional stilt walker "gets around in a most unusual way." The panel then did not have to ask the preliminary questions that always seemed to take a couple of minutes on the network show; the time saved, whether the panel came up with it or not, allowed the contestant to demonstrate or show a film clip of his or her occupation. The mystery guest spot also had a time limit of 2-3 minutes on syndicated "Line." Blyden, in particular, liked to have time to talk with a mystery guest of some stature; he would say, "Leave me some time. I want to talk with him (or her)."

How?

You fail to understand that Dorothy, Arlene and Bennett have spent over 15 years making it an art knowing who is in town and who isn't and what plays and films are opening and who are in them. There is NO CHEATING. Moreover, they all have disqualified themselves at times if they were made aware of a guest.

Stupid people often accuse smart people of cheating. Bennett was very smart.