Sophia Loren is one of the celebrities I have met in person. She was as lovely and gracious as her reputation. There was no doubting we were all in the presence of an exquisite human being.

Arlene Francis and Dorothy Kilgallen are out of this world when it comes to guessing someone's "line".

Arlene Frances is really intelligent, she figures out occupations so quickly.

I love Sophia! Thanks for posting this episode. Those dresses are beautiful woman used to dress so elegant back then

I was born 11 years later and it’s pretty amazing that Dick Clark was still doing Bandstand when I was a teenager.

They guessed Sophia quickly because they knew who was in town for the opening of their pictures. They always made it a point to know who was in town for what because many of them would show up as a mystery guest on What's My Line.

Sophia is an example of features that are not symmetrical but man o man do they look right all together on that face......incredible.........

Dick Clark was 28 years old at the time of this appearance. He always looked younger than his actual age -- here he looks as if he were in his senior year of high school.

In just two months from now, Sophia Loren will be turning 80. What a bummer John Daly never got to have a small conference with her!

I loved when Arlene came up with "dog catcher" as a joke and had no idea she was right -- then watching her reaction as she realized she'd been correct. Priceless!

I love how they got off on an animal tangent with the ferryboat lady following the Marine dog catcher.

Wow Dick Clark was just a baby! I love these commercials!

sophia loren is 24 years old. she looks so mature for her age.

I appreciate the commercials being left in this episode. Poor Claire! Delightful!

I love their good manners

Never have I enjoyed watching commercials more than just now ;o) The show is exquisite ... and I thank you for providing this great entertainment with such dedication. Kind regards from Canada!

Most of these people have long since passed this material world, yet they somehow seem to come back to life while watching this show . . .

Sophia is stunning

Such overall class & respect. How joyous to watch this before I turn in. Thank you.

Wow! Dick Clark was 29 here but looks like he's 13! It's so strange seeing him look so young and speaking with that same familiar deep voice!

Holy Mackerel is she beautiful...she's a bit older than me and I guess I didn't realize how old she was when I became aware of Sophia...I'd never seen her this young before viewing this clip....what a gorgeous woman.

I never saw a show were everyone was having more fun than they were.

The day I was born, 6/29/58

I was waiting for you to obtain this episode, Gary. Needless to say, it was worth it. And best of all, it is in its original form. No bumpers, no cut-offs, no credit crunchers. It is unedited with the original commercials. Also, let me share with you this fun fact about Sophia Loren: "The Pride and the Passion" is often regarded as her English-language debut. But actually, it was "Boy On a Dolphin". Though granted, you could say they're correct about "The Pride and the Passion", as it was filmed prior to "Boy on a Dolphin". Both films were shot in 1956.

I remember S.L. in the movie, "Grumpier Old Men" in 1995.

Arlene pulled a Bennett Cerf on Bennett! The Count of Monte Kisco!

The animals- cattle were often ferried. In the 1050's cattle drives often occurred in that part of the country.

Arlene is having too much fun 😂

My God, how beautiful she looks. Amazing.

Sophia Loren....the most beautiful actress on the planet!!

Interesting to see how "protein" gets pronounced in 1958.

Healthy girl that Sophia. This was about the time she married Carlo Ponti for the first time. Interesting that both times Sophia appeared on WML, Arlene identified her. This appearance is good but not quite as memorable as her second appearance in 1961 when Arlene praised Sophia for her new picture "Two Women," and when Johnny Carson, blindfolded, asked if she were free that night. Eat your heart out Johnny. In this period, Sophia made two films with Cary Grant. Two movies to get overdosed on singular good looks.

A time when people on television were well-dressed, graceful, and polite.

Dick Clark! Looking like a teenager. Barely recognize him but when he smiles it’s surely him. What a career!

sophia loren over kim kardashian, rihanna, kate upton, cameron diaz anyday!!!!

Wasn't it around this year that Dorothy and John had their issue? I'd say that John threw a sting at her when she asked why the marines needed a dog catcher. Also, notice the dramatic difference between then and the 1963-64 episodes in Dorothy. Also, I have to say that for some reason, I love the commercials of back then.

La bela Sofia! These big stars being in New York promoting their latest movie, for example, was such a huge giveaway... I would've loved to have gazed upon this beautiful woman for quite a while longer!

Sophia Loren was and still is a very attractive lady

Since there was some question about this, the animal were definitely cattle. Also, Mrs. Gretschman eventually divorced her husband, moved to California, and opened a barbershop. www.keloland.com/news/article/other/river-of-dreams

Dick Clark was HOT! And remained so until the very end. Lucky guy. Probably my earliest memory of television was the saturday morning cartoons, capped off with American Bandstand. "It's got a great beat, I give it a 9!"

Sophia Loren was definitly a great actress and one of the most beautiful ladies ever. Along with Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Jean Simmons and Elizabeth Taylor, in my opinion.

Okay, Dorothy. Let me help you understand. Marine bases have housing for marines and their families. On some of those bases, there are a lot of housing units. Like civiliian families, Military families sometimes have dogs (as well as other pets), and when the dogs get loose (even though they shouldn't, they do, just as they do in civilian neighborhoods) there needs to be a dog-catcher to round them up and put them in the pound until the owners can claim them. Having a dog catcher helps prevent stray dogs from getting run over by motor vehicles and can also keep them from biting strangers, which some dogs might do.

The Queen 👑 👸🏻 Sophia Loren

Today's mystery guest is still with us as of my posting on July 30, 2023.

Not that it means anything, but I have noticed that the women on WML generally bring their purses on stage with them. You never see that anymore.

Wow, Dick Clark when he not long looked young but WAS young. I was young then too, all of 5 months old.

I remember when Sophia Loren started appearing in photographs while wearing eyeglasses. So much for one of Dorothy Parker's most famous quotes.

"Richard King Beecham" from a Google search shows me a person in the marines, by that name born Jun. 29, 1936 and died Mar. 9, 1994 (58 years)

love this show watched in high school

Mahomet Illinois, I never heard of it until this episode. I looked it up and it's a lovely place I would like to visit. Thanks for the video. I mean a lot from WML.

That Suave commercial reminds me of the 'Suave does what there's does,'.commercial, funny. Thanks for the memories.

Cary Grant made a couple of movies with Sophia Loren. He was madly in love with her but she went with Carlo Ponti instead.

When they get as far afield as they were with the ferry boat captain, John usually rescues them. This time they let him twist in the wind.

I guess we can forgive Dorothy here. American Bandstand was aimed toward the pre and early teen market, and had been on the air for only 9 months when this show aired.

Yes I'm old enough to remember those colorful crinolines. So much fabric!!!

Fewer and fewer mystery guests still with us, but, as of this post, gorgeous Sophia will be 90 this year. A baby of 24 in 1958 (two years older than the handsome dog catcher! Wonder if he's still alive.)

Even the period ads are great ...

Sophia really is striking. That Suave commercial for hair steals the cake - that's what the gorgeous women like Grace Kelly probably put on their hairdo then - where to buy that now?

Everytime I see Bennet Cerf, I think of the impact Random House had on the spread of Dungeons and Dragons across the globe. You may have to research that to understand it, but for decades they were the principal print house. If only he had lived to see the wildness to come. TSR could never have pushed that amount of paper by itself. And Random House always made a quality product.

The Neopolitan Knockout - One of the most gorgeous women to walk the planet.

The movie Sophia is opening in co-stars the equally gorgeous Tab Hunter.

I've wondered why the panel doesn't always ask, "Your work doesn't involve animals, does it?"

Dennis James and Po-te-un. I looked it up in Merriam-Webster and it is accepted. But it sounds odd. I think if I were the sponsor I would have asked for a change.

DC was a real gentleman in not correcting Dorothy on the air. Arlene could cus she's part of the gang. I think Dick Clark had his Saturday night Beech-Nut show by then and maybe the producer's knew him from that. At three in the afternoon, the very...I mean the very last place they would be would be tuned to a rock and roll dance show. I wouldn't be surprised if some of their kids gave them a heads up on Dick.

Semper Fi!!!

One year before I was born

This is the first time that Bennett was referred to as “The Count of Mount Kisco.” As puns goes, nice going baby. Interesting that when Arlene got her country house next door to the Cerf house, no one ever called her “The Countess of Mount Kisco.” RE: Special K. Talk about better living through modern science. Did anybody think to instruct Dennis James - who was one of the best commercial spokesmen of the 1950s and 1960s - how to pronounce “protein” in the first commercial? Or is that how the word was pronounced somewhere in 1958 America?

those commercials

Sophia once said::: "Everything you see about me, I owe to spaghetti"....

I enjoyed seeing the original commercials in this episode, even though I wasn't especially fond of Dennis James back in the day (for example, as host of PDQ). His pronunciation of "protein" was jarring, mostly because the word was in the script so often. And yet I remember when that was a fairly common way to pronounce the word. (If it wasn't, Kellogg's and the director for the commercial would have changed it.) It also didn't matter that I didn't particularly like Special K. My mom tried to get my brother and me to eat it. I think my dad did. The rest of it went stale and ended up in that year's turkey stuffing. It didn't taste terrible. To me, it had little flavor at all. However, it was a lot better than a later health-conscious Kellogg's cereal, Product 19. I imagine the cardboard box with an after taste would have a similar flavor.

8:42 Dorothy once again cutting in when it's not her turn one of the reasons Cerf wasn't fond of her

Dick Clark is 29 years old here! Looks way younger than that. But the voice is nice.

Actually, Dorothy did not make a "gaffe". American Bandstand was a local Philadelphia show from1953-1957. It went national in the Fall of 1957. So in June,1958 it was nationally broadcast for less than a year.

A year later, Dick would appear opposite "WHAT'S MY LINE?", on ABC's "DICK CLARK'S WORLD OF TALENT" for the first half of the 1959-'60 season.

Arlene was as hot as a pistol at the start of this show: correcting Dorothy on the name of Dick Clark's show, one upping her neighbor (on the panel and in Westchester) with a fantastic pun, and then coming up with the first challenger's occupation at the 11th hour (as John Daly described it).

As I've said before, I love how the women on the panel turn their heads to watch attractive women depart so they can eyeball their dresses...but the men look straight forward!😅

Sophia Loren responded in French because French is taught in Italian schools.

Sophia Loren is still live in 2024 at 89 years old.

Dick Clark was so small here! lol American Broadcasts.

On the one hand, Dorothy was knowledgeable about modern music. On the other hand, as Gil Fates wrote in his book, neither Dorothy nor Arlene nor Bennett watched TV. When would they have time?

Dick Clark appears on the panel. What happened to all the negative comments about rock 'n roll? It will be interesting to see how fast they resume after Dick headed back down the Jersey Turnpike or on what would have then been the Pennsylvania Railroad to Philadelphia.

I feel bad for Larry. They ran outta time and he seemed to have a fun job. I hope he made money and did well after his telephone operator job.

Wonder if they ever showed the Snagglepuss 'What's My Lion?' advert on this show? Since Kellogg's sponsors at least this instalment.

Was Dick Clark ever on the panel again, or a mystery guest? I think it would be the only time, with the exception of Arlene, that you might see him and anyone else on the show together on the air.

Whoa.

Wow, that's a very young Dick Clark for me to behold. He looks like a 10 year old with a burly voice. I'm just use to seeing how he looked back in the 1970s

Clark Doesn't Look Any Older The Larry The Operator 📞

...I want Dorothy Kilgallen’s necklace...;)!!

23:25 Do not say si, say oui.

Was it common to pronounce protein as "pro-tean" at this time? I've never heard it pronounced as such.

Shame on John for not welcoming Dick Clark to the panel!

“Protee-in”. I’ve been pronouncing it wrong for decades.

Yep, his name is definetly Larry

How they used to grease down their hair. I used to hate my mother having me put hair tonic on . . .

The second contestant has them completely off track because of John. I wonder, did he do that on purpose sometimes? I would think by this time it is his job to instruct the panel members (at least) that focusing on the animal aspect of this line may mislead them. He's (John) just having fun. I think Dorothy and Bennett are steaming inside.

1:03 lol American Brodcast 😅

I have only eaten Special K once and that was once too often. When I pooped, it felt as if I was passing a rough-edged house brick … 💩

I did not get the Ferry boat thing ...Cattle right ?

22 looked so much more mature back then. (In reference to the corporal.)