She should have gotten the man in the end, he was the fool on that ship.

@@saran3214 I was young and bought all the magazines with the great stars. I saw the Ship of Fools advertised and never saw it being so young. About 5 years ago I found it in the bargain bin and bought it. I finally saw it. I sobbed through that movie. Everyone was perfect.

​@saran3214 re Ship of Fools -- the good doctor died immediately after she departed the ship... so they were both doomed. 😢 I agree they had quite a chemistry, didn't they?! It was such a sad film, for so many reasons. "What can they do, kill ALL of us?"

@@hilakummins3104 it was one of the saddest movies I have ever seen.

I used to sell bottles of warm water on Ocean Boulevard L.A. if that helps.

True!!!!

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IF I ONLY HAD A BRAIN, MY DARLIN', MARY DARLING, and of course ONCE IN LOVE WITH AMY (if you wanna see an AMY to fall in love with, AMY SLATTERY..who plqays songs from the same decade..))

Not amazing...cheating

@@gailsirois7175 - No. These people didn't cheat.

She should've asked the dance master, Mr Ray Bolger, to do the Twist with her. He may have accepted, and that would've set the house on fire.

Dorothy should have done the twist with Ray Bolger. Supposedly, she was very good at it.

How very interesting! Thanks for sharing.

And a dead ringer for the actress Elizabeth Ashley when she was in her 20's.

WML. Missed a wonderful opportunity in not having Ray Bolger dance the twist. He seemed to have been ready to jump right in.

Joey Dee was the lead singer of Joey Dee & Starliters not David Bragati. Brigati may have been in the group but wasn't the lead singer. Jimi Hendrix was part of JD & Starliters at one time and so was Joe Pesci (Raging Bull, My Cousin Vinny)

@@wyatt_kincaid Brigati and Dee shared lead vocals for the Starliters, but it was Brigati who was the lead vocalist on the "Peppermint Twist", their biggest hit. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppermint_Twist en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey_Dee_and_the_Starliters

I don't know if that's the English title, but in French, it's called "Les Diaboliques".

And such BEAUTIFUL EYES!😯😀💗❤👍

The first time I ever saw her was in "Ship of Fools" on the B&W Telly with my Dad in the late '60's. Simone Signoret was a standout amongst a great cast - I luved that movie and it really "internationalized" my appreciation for Great Cinema.

@@kenmunro8317 That officer should have chucked it all and gone with her.

Me too - and To Tell the Truth!

@I'm Here to Spew Sarcasm please explain.

I've been watching these shows in order, and I've noticed how the whistling has tapered off lately. I wonder if that was in some indirect way a byproduct of the JFK era. Certainly by the end of the 60s no one would have gotten away with it. So maybe the cultural transition away from wolf whistles as a sign of acknowledgment happened in 1961. Then again, maybe I'm wrong, and I'll have to see what happens in future episodes.

And Arlene Francis was from Newton, Massachusetts.

And though JCD was born in South Africa, he claimed Boston as his home during his most formative years.

Robert Rauschenbach Bennett Cerf was grand too!

Robert Rauschenbach Except when she said "You have Yves Montand"! He was the lucky one!

Oh please .she was a phoney snob of a bitch!!....

Joseph Palermo I thought that to start with but I've watched every episode from 1951 to this point and after about the fortieth or fiftieth one I thought 'd'you know, I like her now'. She has a social persona like all of us (hanging out in Manhattan with her showbiz colleagues, how could she not?) but she's consistently warm, funny, bright and affectionate. Her little asides and under the breath witticisms are often quite near the knuckle which shows her to be no prude, that's for sure!! I think she would've been a lovely person to know.

(Walt Disney slams his fist down when she flubs the name of Ray Bolger's upcoming Disney movie). "I want that b**** dead!"

i was gonna say there great chemisty between cerf n daly

If there ever had a Top 10 of what made the show so enjoyable, their relationship would be in, can you imagine John Daly not being introduced with one little quip or a snarky but witty joke (and from time to time, a genuine heartfelt compliment)?

I've always thought it funny when John or Bennett would mention the letters they'd get urging them to stop fighting or be nicer to each other, when they were in reality very close friends who just liked to tease each other. Not sure how anyone could miss their friendship and not know they were kidding.

They were the two I preferred most. Although Arlene generally seems pleasant and good tempered, I've seen some episodes in which I detected what I suspect was some kind of slight condescendance towards some guests, and Dorothy apparantly wasn't always nice when the camera wasn't there, and is said to have quarreled with Daly over probably trivialities. But Cerf and Daly were real gentlemen, and I really loved the friendly teasing between them. There's one episode in which one or another "comic" who was added as a panelist very rudely and impatiently interrupted Cerf's welcome joke, and it was nice to see how Daly took over, and told it anyway. I frankly hope this was the last time that silly new panelist appeared, what an arrogance....

@@Retroscoop This occurred on one of the last episodes in 1967, so there would have been essentially no chance he (Henry Morgan) could have appeared anyway. Yes, he was rude, but the joke was particularly awful, and John's retelling of it only made matters worse.

She was a good sport too … mmm …

IT (i.e. the performance) won the Academy Award

@@woodstein ... sorry ... “It” was a strange reference. Better would be, “It won you an Oscar.” But Mr. Daly was the best host.

Must have been a "twist" of fate (as Bennett may have said!).

​@@joelfogelsanger5773 😅

Colleges and universities

Corn mills.

She was quite a performer herself.

Eric Hanson: What are dibites?

TheGreatAtario: Yeah, I wondered how they got detoured by the fish line of questioning.

John didn’t need to lead them on like that he should have just said no

It was implicitly said, but I think as everyone commented afterward that fish was an ingredient in making the glue.

John's fault to a great degree.

Oh, please … I am just about to have my dinner.

It's amazing how slim the people were in the fifties. Suddenly, or not so suddenly, we are all thick. Gives me some motivation to head back to Jenny Craig, if she'll have me. From the soon to be not so thick.

What a very funny guy.

Those WML Panellists’ names defined in full. Cerf - (i) An overbearing a rather pompous person who makes creepy remarks to females. (ii) A Pisstaker (iii) A Smartarse.

Arlene never cheated. She was the epitome of class.

And you know that for a fact? 🙄🧟‍♂

I once applied for a job at Centenary (didn't get it) many years ago. It is located in Hackettstown (NJ), better known as the home of Mars Candy. At 23:09, Dorothy asks Miss Williams if she has a degree and the reply is "no". But it would appear that she had an Associates degree from Centenary by that time.

The Liberty Bowl was played in Philadelphia from 1959-63 at spacious Philadelphia Municipal Stadium that also hosted the Army-Navy game many times (later renamed John F. Kennedy Stadium). In 1964, it was moved to the Atlantic City Convention Center, making it the first major bowl game played indoors. Seating was limited as it wasn't designed for football. It can only hold 14,770 for concerts. Therefore only a little over 6000 people were in attendance. A profit was made because the game was broadcast nationally and a group of Atlantic City businessmen put an additional amount in the pot. I can remember watching the game and it was rather eerie. For one thing, the end zones were only 8 yards long instead of the regulation ten. And the lighting wasn't that good at the time. Also, artificial turf was not available yet, so they had to spend a good deal of money to put in padding over the concrete floor and then thick sod, plus special lights to help it continue to grow until the game was played. Four months earlier that convention center hosted the Democratic National Convention. It was also the venue for the Miss America pageant from its opening in 1940 until 2006 and returned there in 2013. It has been renamed Boardwalk Hall. The Liberty Bowl was moved to Memphis in 1965. According to the obituary I read, Miss Williams continue to work for the Liberty Bowl committee for many years after the game moved there. obittree.com/obituary/us/maryland/edgewater/george-p-kalas-funeral-home/constance-williams/2519996/

John Daly & Ray Bolger did indeed mispronounce MOORESTOWN. RAY makes an enjoyable panelist.

I also caught that! I grew up in Moorestown, and my ears perked up :)

Sarcasm I assume.

Dorrance was a very wealthy man, but probably not too much made it to his great granddaughter. Campbell's is in Camden NJ, which is across the Delaware from Philadelphia. Mr. Dorrance was not careful about establishing domicile for tax purposes. Both Pennsylvania and New Jersey ruled that he was domiciled in their respective states and both states imposed estate taxes on his estate.

And Dorothy's husband disowned Kerry after her death.

She loved both of them deeply. Kilmar was despicable and jealous.

I learned the twist around this time with the rest of my 4th grade class from our teacher ... for free.

No cell phones back then.

@@dcasper8514 and, of course no Google. No Internet for that matter. Sigh. Life was hard. 🙀

Yes he sometimes but rarely gave significant hints

She aged faster than her though... by the mid-70's, you'd think Winters was 10 years younger.

He didn't really care for Dorothy too much because alot of things said and done in the studio, made it in Dorothy's newspaper articles.

It was HER FATHER who was of Polish-Jewish descent. Mme. Signoret was of French Catholic background (the faith in which she was raised) on her mother's side (she adopted her mother's maiden name, Signoret, as her screen-stage name). She was a wonderful actress-so moving (and heart-breaking) in "Room at the Top", for which she richly deserved her Academy Award.

James Vaughan Thanks for the info!

rick charles what do you mean 'dirty old man'. He may have said something 'dirty' but don't we all? It's he human thing

rick charles plus he wasn't even that old here....

@@kayjohayden Exactly,i thought Ray was charming,it must be some of that Irish heritage coming through.I'm sure that he was delightful and i'm sorry that i never had the chance to meet him.

I never got that impression.

I do hope so.

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I was surprised too. Guess it was back then. Most things weren't as artificial back then.

Philly Rebels

It was the Philadelphia Ramblers. They played in the Eastern Hockey League from 1955 to 1964. John said the name correctly, and then Bennett "corrected" him to say Rebels. This was before the Philadelphia Flyers, which joined the National Hockey League in 1967 when the league expanded from 6 teams to 12.

50 years. You can't go back.

Well, there was Louis Armstrong singing Hello Dolly. And the mariachi band...

Don't be so silly.

That was ol’ Cerf’s job.

The number was only for the diagnosed ones and apparently, there were millions undiagnosed

Those WML Panellists’ names defined in full. Cerf - (i) An overbearing a rather pompous person who makes creepy remarks to females. (ii) A Pisstaker (iii) A Smartarse.

He didn't "get to be" publisher of Random House - he co-founded and built up the company, not the track record of an intellectual nonentity.

Cerf was instrumental in meticulously planning a legal challenge to obscenity law so as to be the first to publish James Joyce's Ulysses in the United States. A new book to be published in 2020 calls Cerf "eager, savvy, impulsive" and "a good hustler" in this effort. One way he built up the company, Mr. O'Suilemabhain, was to publish the dirtiest book he could find. Cerf reached out to the ACLU, which developed a brilliant strategy of not challenging then prevalent obscenity law under the First Amendment, but under the Tariff Act. One advantage of this approach was that Cerf would not actually have to publish Ulysses to challenge the obscenity law, saving him a large sum, and another would be that the defendant in the lawsuit would be the book and not Cerf or Random House. A copy of the book was shipped from Paris to Random House and surprisingly, after much effort by the ACLU lawyer, an obscenity trial was held. In part to ward off future obscenity prosecutions, but for other reasons as well, each American edition of Ulysses from the 1930s until the 1980s began with the judge's ruling that the book was not obscene. And this was not because the book satisfied the existing law of obscenity. Cerf and his lawyer changed obscenity law and produced a regime with less government censorship of publication. This was not the work of mediocre intellects.

Bennet was brilliant, the founder of Random House, and a much-sought after speaker at universities all over the USA. He was also known to be a very kind man.

I agree with you

Those WML Panellists’ names defined in full. Cerf - (i) An overbearing a rather pompous person who makes creepy remarks to females. (ii) A Pisstaker (iii) A Smartarse.

She was a lot of fun!

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What show have you been watching? Arlene was anything but snooty and square. But Dorothy was the one who was really into the twist.

Arlene? Snooty and square?? Not at all.