She was very feisty! 😎

Indeed, her and the remarkable "white Hunter". Man should have been another Errol Flynn

@@TheCosmicVagabond I agree! She had a very strong personality, something that you did not usually see with the "non-celebrity" guests.

There was something about her I didn’t like. I think she was a little arrogant.

Adorable. A statuesque beauty with a level of self-assuredness rarely found in any day. I imagine she has scads of interesting and funny stories to tell which she'll tell over a pint or two. What I ponder is, why would any country give license for a self-employed foreigner to dredge gold on their land?

I liked that. It's sometimes a little irritating, the way he repeats the question to the guest, and the answer to the panel, as though he needed to translate them!😂

I think he was intimidated by her and I found her a little arrogant

Yes! I really liked her. Very no-nonsense, and bright, very direct and confident. I wish there was a way to speak more with her. She's a hidden gem, I think. She sounds brilliant and quite educated, and also very clever with her choice of words. I like that she isn't the typical "fashion/household/entertaining" type of housewife.

Absolutely charming, intelligent, and gorgeous. One of my favorite non-mystery guests, of all time, and my current favorite based upon personality rather than having an amusing job.

She's brilliant and it's refreshing when a guest grabs control the way she does. It is great television. But with the dismal hindsight that 54 years gives us anyone familiar with these miserable gold mining operations in the Amazon has to draw their breath to see how that mess began. No foul for this guest. So much really in hind sight looks God awful after 54 years. Depressing. But she's definitely not.

@@ErisRising A very interesting woman.

@@karlschwinbarger105 - agree, the woman was off the chart, but the massive criminal goldmining operations in the indigenous Amazon rainforests that have continued in varying degrees right up to today have led to catastrophic pollution and deforestation. Also would submit that 54 years of hindsight was not needed to know these operations were God awful. Like slavery, they were God awful when they were initiate; they simply were able to (and still do) politically get away with it.

Well spotted. Yes he was brilliant. I wasn't amused by the Downs syndrome at the start at all, but his bright intellect and comic excellence shone through after in dazzling style

Too bad she wasn't named Glittering Goldie O'Gilt. That would have been perfect. 😄

+shevegen Pamela Painter.

typo - but constantly signing it would be a sight to see...

Heres to the Crabgrass is all the more brilliant both in being prescient and also cause it was based on an English Ditty, Country Garden

My first run in with Allan Sherman was when I was about four or five years old in 1987, when my parents taped the 1971 DePatie Freleng special "The Cat in the Hat" on a Disney Channel preview, and I didn't even know it back then!

That flop was "The Fig Leaves Are Falling," for which Allan Sherman wrote the book and the lyrics (the music was by Albert Hague) - based on his 1966 divorce, after 21 years of marriage. (I'm thinking that this show was the polar opposite on the subject of marriage of "I Do! I Do!") The show opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on Thursday, 2 January 1969 - and closed on Monday, 6 January 1969, after only 4 performances (preceded by 17 preview performances). What a colossal waste of talent, including Barry Nelson, Dorothy Loudon, Jenny O'Hara, Kenneth Kimmins, Helen Blount, and David Cassidy (all of them in the cast; this show was David Cassidy's Broadway debut), George Abbott (director), Eddie Gasper (choreographer), Abba Bogin (music director), William and Jean Eckart (set design), Robert Mackintosh (costume design), and Tharon Musser (lighting design)!

And John goes out of his way to prevaricate by wishing Miss Gillette a happy birthday "tomorrow" August 16th. Broadcast standards should apply here too. John would never introduce a filmed or taped news reports as "live", why lie about what day it is?

+Vahan Nisanian Does anyone know the reason for her absence? Oddly, the panel doesn't allude to it.

fishhead06 She had injuries on her shoulder, and had slipped on a bear skin rug.

Again? Or was this a recurrence of the injury? After all she'd been back.

So John was being cute when he referenced Anita's birthday as "tomorrow."

+Joe Postove Frank Gorshin was very popular at the time and had done numerous guest spots on the Ed Sullivan Show and The Tonight Show as an impressionist so he would have been very well known. Also Rich Little was starting to make a name for himself at this time and had made several TV show appearances. Not sure who Bennett was thinking of, but it could have been any one of these guys and maybe some others I may not be remembering.

+Jeff Vaughn Speaking of Frank Gorshin AND Anita Gillette..... Four years after this episode aired, Frank Gorshin (Jimmie Walker), Julie Wilson (Allie Walker), and Anita Gillette (Betty Compton) would co-star in the musical "Jimmy" ("A Musical of the Life and Good Times of Jimmy Walker"), which ran on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre from 23 October 1969 through 3 January 1970 - only 84 performances. (The week the show closed was the week that the Metropolitan Opera re-opened, after a long and acrimonious strike which lasted 5 months.) The music and lyrics for the show were by Bill Jacob and Patti Jacob; the book was by Melville Shavelson (based on "Beau James," by Gene Fowler). The show was produced by Jack L. Warner, directed by Joseph Anthony, choreographed by Peter Gennaro, and conducted by Milton Rosenstock, with sets designed by Oliver Smith, costumes designed by W. Robert LaVine, lighting designed by Peggy Clark, and projections designed by Charles E. Hoefler and James Hamilton. As Anita Gillette says in the book "Sing Out, Louise!", the main reason for the failure of the show was Frank Gorshin, who played Jimmy Walker as a street punk, quite unlike the larger-than-life real Jimmy Walker. Gorshin also fought with the director and most of the cast. But Jack L. Warner liked Gorshin's impression of long-time Warner Bros. contract player James Cagney, and he would have pulled his money out of the show had Gorshin been replaced.

I'm not surprised by Anita Gillette's explanation. I never considered Frank Gorshin very talented: a man of a million voices, all of them sounding like Cagney, Burt Lancaster, and maybe a little bit of Kirk Douglas. I also consider him one of the worst guest stars on "Star Trek" (TOS). I have no doubt that Gorshin's limitations as a impressionist contributed to his decision to play Mayor Walker out of character.

Yes, and many today are still shaving with her brand of razor blades over fifty years later.

He wanted to be guessed at that point. If you have ever read anything Allan Sherman ever wrote, it is clear that he was one of the most insecure people on the planet. He obviously enjoyed playing with the panel for a bit but I don't think his ego would have taken not being guessed because that meant he wouldn't have been a huge celebrity. So he didn't blow it, meaning making a mistake -- given the clip that someone posted above, there was no way Tony Randall was not going to know it was Sherman, which was the whole point of adding "recently."

I think he sensed they were getting close to guessing his identity plus they had been questioning him so long that he decided to give himself up.

Camp is very entertaining.

Eeyup.

+bigoldinosaur Not Camp Grenada, certainly - unless I was part of Gunnery Sergeant Highway's recon platoon. Nor Camp Grenada, either; remember that "All the counselors hate the waiters - and the lake has alligators. Our director wants no sissies; so he reads to us from something called 'Ulysses.'"

Depends on the weather.

Me!😝

Where did they get the male audience from? Sailors on leave after six months in a submarine? :)

Johan Bengtsson t seems that way sometimes. Or maybe remnants from the Hal Block Appreciation Society!

@@MrJoeybabe25 Blockheads, but not from the Ian Drury camp?

Finaly i've seen the "Fluffy" picture. It isn't as quite as bad as I thought. It has some funny moments. It's good entertainment for a rainy afternoon for example. If one isn't expect to much sense in the movie. One can see this whithout pain ;-)

She did a good job playing along with the game and not bringing it to an abrupt halt as numerous comedians did.

@@granthoops Miss Gillette is alive at 86 and will be 87 on August 16th, 2023!

+kumppi The belief that precious metals grow in the earth was once widespread. It's alluded to, for instance, in John Dryden's "Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell": "As wands of divination downward draw / And point to beds where sovereign gold doth grow." Still, it does seem unlikely that the contestant, who had studied geology and was obviously a smart cookie, still held this ancient belief three hundred years after Dryden. I'd love to know what she meant.

I believe Miss Painter was referring to the fact that gold has a crystalline structure and that crystals have the ability to grow in the sense of expanding volume (not in the sense of producing more gold).

kumppi yeah I’m sure the person with a degree in geology got it wrong🙄

Yes, strange argument by someone I otherwise would marry immediately nqa. Gold does not grow! All I can think is she meant accumulates?

She would have had him when she was 11.

I know of only one other guest who was able to do this, a highly articulate male guest from a few years earlier. Ironic that this was the night Bennett said Daly couldn't stop talking, which was true in virtually every other show but this one.

Careful! I think she’s a gold digger!

Sorry-- I'm not clear what you're responding to when you say "not all women are gold diggers." Replying, I assume, to something that was said in the program?

One of the guest was a goldminer and she said women are gold diggers or something like that.What's My Line?

Purple Capricorn I figured it was something along those lines! :)

I think she meant they all like nice things.

+shevegen She wrote it right up there on the board; you can go back and re-run it any time you like. For the record, her name is Pamela Painter.