Arlene Francis is terrific at witty one-liners!

Dorothy's powers of deduction and her ability to home in on the occupation of contestants and guessing the celebrity guests is amazing and uncanny .

I met Ms. Winters in 1978ish in London and she was a very lovely, polite woman.

Shelley was a beauty and a great talent.

I so miss this kind of game shows.

WML can be so educatinal. Where else can we learn from John Daly more information about worms than any of us can fathom?

That imitation of Judy Garland by Shelley was amazing.

Shelley Winters was delightful!

Shelley Winters looks beautiful in this clip.

I love Shelley. She did the same Garbo style voice that Lucy did. It’s terrific!

Bennett Cerf was very good at distinguishing actors and actresses voices.

Shelly really looked good here . She really knew how to steer her career away from that dumb blonde image that destroyed so many actresses careers !!!

I always loved Shelly Winters. She was such a great actress and always a pleasure to watch, with my family and friends, not to mention a lovely lady, who was fun and down to earth. RIP Shelly❤💐🌹🌹🙏

Hey what a great Garland impression. I'm so used to seeing Shelley play parts that pull on my heartstrings it's great to see her full of light gaiety.

This is another good illustration as to why for my tastes the Fred Allen era of WML was the golden age. Funny stuff.

I had no idea Shelley could sing, and what a voice! Besides that, she was one of the more interesting celebrities to be on the show because she didn’t just answer in boring one-note sounds but created a voice and actually spoke in it! Sometimes when actors or actresses come on and are boring, I think, “ you’re an actor; so act!”

That second woman on the panel, Frances is just gorgeous. God, I love her look.

At 2:49 Fred asks about worms in apples. Those _are_ actually larvae, an immature stage of flying insects which lay their eggs in the fruit, like the codling moth.

Loved the professional demeanor of these panelists ❤

Just finished reading "Shelley," her first book that ends about a year before this appearance. I can see why Hollywood, and many men, fell for her. Although I don't think she's a "classic beauty", she definitely had something very special and attractive, for sure.

Two Best Supporting Actress Oscars for THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (1959) & A PATCH OF BLUE (1965). Extremely Recommended! Multiple viewings! :)

I always enjoyed Fred Allen. He had a great sense of humor. His radio show is great to listen to. I’ve downloaded many episodes of it from the Internet 👍

Just love dear Fred Allen, he was hilarious on this series of shows.

"Is it a bi-focal glass bottom boat?" 🤣 Fred Allen cracks me up!

Shelley Winters is beautiful. IDC what anyone says. "And all because of a man that got away!" 😂😂😂😂😂😂 #EpicShelley

How many times did Shelly Winters play a role where the character dies in water? A Place in the Sun Night of the Hunter. The Posideon Adventure and she was almost drowned in "Lolita"

She was one of the best

since i was born in 1959, i only knew Shelly Winters from her later years. looks completely different in this show.

She also died in the Poseidon Adventure. She always seemed to drown or or nearly die underwater in her movies.

Wow! When I was visiting Acapulco in 1964, I did go out in a glass-bottom boat. A memorable experience!

Love these airings so much! Very grateful for the opportunity!! I watched this show as a child!

I love how even in 1955, people were already joking about how often Shelley Winters died in the water

Shelly was such a smart lady and a doll.

I love Shelley Winters RIP

I was introduced to Shelley Winters in the movie Posiden Adventure.

I wondered what 50 dollars was in pesos in 1955. So I looked it up. According to two different conversion sites a U.S. dollar was between 36,330 and 39,905 pesos in 1955. Today the exchange rate is between 18.58 and 20.41 pesos for 1 dollar.

I always thought she was dead sexy. A voluptuous blonde, great character actress, a fine comedian and now I realize she was also fabulous songstress. Is there anything you don't do Miss Winters

Do you hate the rushed questioning after the mystery guests? Sometimes it is just not worth it and the occupations are more interesting than the ones they give more time to.

Are you a member of the opposite sex? Opposite from what? Loved it!

The panel must have really let Daly have it over the worm lady in the episode before this one. He was right that they weren't insects though he was wrong that they were larvae. What an intro

Shelly looks great on here , but I will always remember her in the Poseidon adventure ...

It always amazes me now Bennet was a human encyclopedia of places and what goes on in those locations.

Good night, John boy! Reminds me of the Waltons' sign off.

100 years old in 2019 hope they give her a postal stamp

I'm definitely glad they got rid of having the guests strut in front of the panelists and the "free guesses"....it just wastes so much time that would be so much more enjoyable actually with the contestants. I like it when they spend more time with the actual people and get to ask them questions. Sad to see them rushed.

Ms Winters was in the wonderful Western, "Winchester '73" but she complained about how the gun was a bigger focus of the story than she was and that her part didn't have the love story.

I was reminded of the fellow who denied all accusations of wrongdoing so thoroughly, he tied himself in "nots."

What's My Line? was always so staged; no way would they have known who this was. The guest stars were always currently in the news and out promoting some new project. Also, the audience reaction often helped determine not only the gender, but level of 'celebrity' as well.

Shelley Winters was gorgeous at this age. She doesn't look like the poor lady who drowns in "The Poseidon Adventure."

We love you MS.Winter R.I.P.

I love Shelley Winters!

Never saw Shelley Winters when she wasn't overweight. Wow. She was Model Pretty.

Nana Mary from Roseanne. Wow she was so beautiful.

For those of us familiar with the latter half of Shelly Winters' (born Shirley Shrift) career, it's hard to believe what a svelte hottie, with an hourglass figure, she was when younger!

When John said, “Arising”, he gave it away.

01:05 Fred was happily caught off-guard. He didn't expect a big laugh!

In the made for television movie "The Initiation Of Sarah", where Shelley portrayed a witchcraft practicing house mother to a college sorority (Mrs. Hunter), a picture of her during this time was used to depict Mrs. Hunter during her own college days as a member of that same sorority.

+Johan Bengtsson The United States is primarily a nation of immigrants, mostly from Europe. Of course there were native Americans (who alao are the origin of the names of many states, cities and villages) here when the Europeans arrived and there were people brought here against their will. And when the west coast of the United States was settled, immigrants came here from China, Japan, the Philippines and later from Korea and SE Asia. And more recently we are seeing immigration from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Because Europeans came first, most foreign place names either come from Europe, with another group of Biblical place names (as most of the immigrants were at least nominally Christian) and some names reflecting a neo-classical period of American history in the late 18th and early 19th century. The Dutch heritage of New York can be seen, as well as many names from places in the British Isles. But there is also examples from Spain and its American colonies, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, Norway, Egypt, Poland, Denmark, Arabia, Ukraine, Syria and the Czech Republic. Just taking my home state of New York (which itself is based on the name of an English city, we have Babylon, Jericho, Syracuse, Rome, Greece, Ithaca, Marathon, Mexico, Warsaw, Leicester, Amsterdam, Belfast, Cuba, Nineveh, Panama, New Berlin, Oxford, Smyrna, Peru, Ghent, Delhi, Tivoli, Angola, Eden, Holland, Derby, Zoar, Geneva, Bergen, Corfu, Elba, Athens, Cairo, Troy, Poland, Antwerp, Carthage, New Utrecht, Copenhagen, Port Leyden, Turin, Lima, Avon, Brighton, Bethpage, Harlem, Verona, Jordan, Liverpool, Cardiff, Memphis, Mycenae, Naples, Cornwall, Goshen, Medina, Nassau, Potsdam, Madrid, Corinth, Galway, Rotterdam, Odessa, Lodi, Waterloo, Bath, Bohemia, Mount Sinai, Flanders, Phoenicia, Argyle, Cambridge, Greenwich, Shusan, Palmyra, Macedon, Chester, Dresden, and Dundee. New York was one of the first areas of the United States settled by Europeans. But every state reflects its own history in the names of its cities and towns. Some areas are more German, some are more Scandinavian, some have more French influence. And my list only included cities and villages named after cities and countries on the other side of the Atlantic. Another extensive list could be generated of places named in honor of foreign people. Ideally, the United States of America is a mixture of people from every country of the world who came in search of an ideal: that all men are created equal, and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these rights are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. To be sure, ideals are difficult to live up to, and sometimes we have done a better job of it than others during our 240+ year history as a nation. But if anyone hates America, in a way they hate themselves, because we are them and the best of their hopes and dreams. And to speak specifically to you, Johan, that's why you will find a place named Sweden or New Sweden in 8 different states, a Swedesboro in New Jersey, a Stockholm in seven different states, a Malmo in Nebraska, an Upsala in Minnesota, an Upsala College in New York and New Jersey from 1893-1995 founded by the Swedish-American Augustana Synod of the Lutheran Church, a Lund in 6 different states, and a Skane and a Karlstad in Minnesota. And you may have some distant (or not so distant) relatives here. While Minnesota or New Jersey are the most likely places, (former American football player and coach Phil Bengtson was born in Minnesota), American artist Billy Al Bengtson was born in Kansas and lives in California. And no doubt you a search of various directories of people would find many Bengtsons and Bengtssons in the United States. According to Ancestry.com, there were 460 Bengston families recorded in the 1920 United States census (nearly 1/3 in Minnesota) and 22 more Bengtsson families. And according to the surname data base, the name is derived from one of the earliest recorded surnames in history, due to the popularity of St. Benedict in the 6th century and following. Apparently people named Benson (but more often English), Bankson and Bankston may also have originally been named Bengtsson somewhere in their lineage. Their are three villages in the U.S. named Bankston (Iowa, Alabama and Mississippi). So you come from a rich heritage, my friend.

Dorothy is so gorgeous here

John, John, Big Ben is the bell not the clock.

LOL!! My man Bennett Cerf...the KING of corny jokes!! 😆

One of the greatest American Actresses of the post-war era. She became a caricature in her later years, but in her prime, few were greater than Shelley Winters. A superbly talented actress.

About the last line Shelley Winters says in "The Poseidon Adventure," is something like, "I guess I'm not the woman's swimming champion any more."

I don't know who Shelly Winters in; I just knew I knew the name from somewhere. She was the voice of Frosty the Snowman's wife; both in Frosty's Winter Wonderland AND in Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July

Shelley didn't make enough movies in her hey day.

How is UN "not" and institution? An institution is an organization with a purpose, usually tied to some specific structure. It doesn't just mean "mental institution"

I think people have been pretty much the same with slight differences but the entertainers of the past knew the art of communicating to the point where there was something cute about them. But the masses were not like this and that is why they loved them so much too. Because people hide most of themselves which can get pretty dull. But it’s in everybody it’s just a matter of waking it up and letting it roll.

I guess that I never paid attention to this era of Winter's career

Shelly winters... my goodness..isn’t ageing cruel.

Shelley Winters is DIVINE 😍

Shelley Winters was lovely

Fred Allen and Groucho have the same comedic style.

"32nd° Mason" Brilliant!

As Burt Lancaster told Bruce Davidson off camera, ahh, Shelly, hell of a woman in the 50s.

Comments left on prior version of this video: ToddSF 94109 4 months ago (edited) So the first contestant was from Acapulco and Fred Allen's "wild guess" at the beginning is "I think she's a tortilla inspector at a Mexican Howard Johnson's". I think that was rather a rude attempt at comedy. Then, too, Bennett actually loused up his rather mannerless joke about the weather prediction in Acapulco. The old joke isn't "Cold today, hot tamale", it's supposed to be "Chili today, hot tamale". Every school kid who ever grew up in Southern California has heard that joke at one point or another -- even my mother knew it. However, it's the sort of joke that a gringo ought to keep to himself, though, when he's speaking to a visitor from Mexico such as Sra. Bárcenas. What's My Line? 4 months ago +ToddSF 94109 I was very disappointed to see Groucho use this joke on an episode of YBYL once. . . but at least Groucho quoted the line correctly! For a guy who made it a personal crusade to bring more humor into people's lives, Bennett's inability to tell the simplest of jokes properly is staggering. MattTheSaiyan 4 months ago Ha ha at all the worm jokes in this episode. Jimmy Flanagan 7 months ago Shelley Winters is one of the most underated star of the 40s and 50s Miko Sharp 4 months ago +Jimmy Flanagan That's true! And in 60s She still looks marvelous, like the charming, sentimental lady in Lolita. hopicard 1 year ago Fred Allen very funny! But what does Bennett Cerf say at 9:45? "Cold today, hot ..."? What's My Line? 1 year ago It's a pun on the weather report: "Cold today, hot tamale", a typically groan-worthy Bennett Cerf pun. Actually, I doubt he came up with it himself, since I've also heard Groucho use a variation many times on You Bet Your Life, but he ups the pun factor to "Chile today, hot tamale" (Chile is a pun on the South American country). I love Bennett Cerf, and I love his sense of humor, but those puns. My goodness. At least John Charles Daly's pseudo-exasperated responses to Bennett's puns are always funny. hopicard 1 year ago +What's My Line? Ah, thanks! :) Johan Bengtsson 9 months ago (edited) My goodness so slim Shelley Winters was in 1955! Not at all the way she looked in "The Poseidon Adventure". Johan Bengtsson 6 months ago +Sdk ElMaruecan Both women were beautiful. orgonko the wildly untamed 4 months ago +Johan Bengtsson if you mean the 1st contestant i agree she may have been the 1st natural blonde Mexican lol Johan Bengtsson 4 months ago +orgonko the wildly untamed No I meant the Mystery Guest, but the 1st contestant actuallly looked like Shelley Winters. :) Johan Bengtsson 9 months ago (edited) I didn't know there was a Peru in Illinois? :) 10:52 ToddSF 94109 4 months ago +Johan Bengtsson -- Lots of towns and cities in U.S. states are named after other towns and cities, after U.S. states, and after countries. There's a Mexico, Missouri, for example, and a Denmark, Minnesota, just to name two. There's a California, Pennsylvania, and a Washington, Pennsylvania. Then there are places named after foreign cities, such as Cairo, Illinois (except they pronounce it "KAY-ro"); Athens, Georgia; Alexandria, Virginia; Paris, Idaho; Lisbon, Connecticut and Lisbon, Ohio; Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; York, Pennsylvanica; and the list goes on and on. It's a huge list and I certainly don't know all of them. City and town names are frequently duplicated from state to state which is why you have to put the name of the U.S. state after the town or city. We're a big country with lots of towns, cities, boroughs and counties that needed names and many of them were named after other places -- and it can be confusing. If someone in Minnesota says, "I'm going to Stockholm tomorrow," they might actually mean they're driving to the community of Stockholm, Minnesota and the same thing would apply if someone said they were going to Oslo, because there is also an Oslo, Minnesota. Many times, these names were chosen by immigrants who got the places settled -- they often named a new locale in the U.S. after the place they came from in the "old country". Johan Bengtsson 4 months ago (edited) +ToddSF 94109 That was very interesting to read and learn. I had no idea it was so frequent with "foreign" names on towns and cities. But a bit confusing too I guess. When you wrote "Athens, Georgia" it reminded me of a funny (for me anyway!) story I read some years ago. When Queen Frederica of Greece was on a visit to the U.S in the 60's she had to phone her husband who was sick. She was staying at a hotel and picked up the phone: - Could you give me Athens? - Athens Georgia or Athens Ohio? - No, Athens Greece! - But that's Europe. I'll give you International. - I want to speak to the king. - Which king? - There is only one. Personal call! - Who's calling? - The Queen of the Hellenes. - But that's a ship, isn't it? - Yes, you are right. Skip it! So she gave up. :) joed596 6 months ago thank you Quan Dang 1 year ago Shelley Winter is a winner !!!

The one thing I did not like about this show is when John let the panel have those conferences. Sometimes it ruins the game for the contestant like it did with the woman who ran the boat. Bennet did just like he always does when he needs to keep his mouth shut.

2:59-3:32 Did he say tied up in nuts or knots?

Shelley looks cute and is charming.

oh lord dorothy just ask a question

Shelley Winters defined the word "sultry".

CHILI today, hot tamale. not cold today.

Skip ahead to 3:07 if you happen to be eating a bowl of spaghetti while watching this. You'll thank me later! 🤣

You notice that the entertainers in recent years have cashed in on the fad of having no personality is cool and if you do your a fake. Now take a look at most people their imitating this way of behavior. So many others around the world do have a personality and they have energy and manners . But our movies and tv shows are filled with the former. This trend will someday come to pass. And then all people will finally be themselves and then look out. In other words the dawning of the New World is not just a matter of technology and proper care for all of its citizens but it also means a change of behavior. Changing out of what isn’t really them into what has been their true selves all this time.

On this clip...shes a ringer for Kim Novak.....and she was fabulous!...funny...her BIO is wonderful....

Shel ly Winters was quite stunning and beautiful.

It's "chili* today, hot tamale".

Stopette?

Im peruvian and I didnt know there is a Peru in Illinois , where David lives

One of the most wonderful things is to see people who started businesses that we still use today. Even though most of them are just names now, sold out and butchered by the Chinese, it's nice to see the origins of daily use items, like a westclox. Such better times. (pun)

It wasn’t fair. Bennett Cerf knew how Red Buttons' jacket sounded when it brushed against his trousers because he'd had dinner with him 6 months prior. He could recognize Clark Gable’s sneeze. He knew where everyone in show business was at any given moment. The first round should have been a Cerf-less round.

Shelley Winters looked beautiful.

Was that a DC-7 from American Airlines?

I think the Mexican forecast Bennett was thinking of is chili today and hot tamale.

How is it that phernalia always come in pairs?

I.. ...don't think this is the case; pretty unlikely.. ..(but) does anyone know if Shelley was (perhaps) related to Jonathon ?..

What a waste of an interesting career to leave the UN Chef for the last quickie guest :(

Peru, Illinois... Been there... If you blink, you will miss it. lol

Captain of a glass bottomed boat “Do you operate some sort of boat?” “No” 🤷🏼‍♂️

What happened to John Daly at 10:57? It's like his cyber chip malfunctioned for a second. I kid, but it was kind of strange.

Wow... she was a real babe!