1954 - Way back when Janet Leigh felt completely safe taking a shower

Movies and tv shows from the 50's painted a picture of women only working in the home. But "What's my Line" showed an equal number of men and women who had paying careers. Really nice to see.

Janet Leigh is one of the loveliest women to ever grace the Silver Screen.

4 years later Janet gives birth to Jamie Lee. Her daughter will receive an Oscar 2023 for best supporting actress.

Back in the day when men stood up when greeting women...

One interesting thing I noticed on rewatching this: Steve Allen's free guess in the final round is

Janet Leigh is so cute it should be illegal

Miss Desmond and Mrs. Bancroft were absolute pistols. They both had fantastic personalities and a sense of humor. Even Mrs. Bancroft schooled the panel a couple of times despite her laryngitis. Janet Leigh looked gorgeous and I liked her for greeting the panel despite spraining her ankle. What class! :)

I love the fact that Arlene corrected herself when she directed the questioning to John instead of to the contestant.

If someone else has already commented on this, pardon me, but it seems to me that Dorothy's "fit or inspect" guess was close enough to the first guest's job of testing the girdles.

This compilation is a treasure. To those who put it together, I say THANK YOU.

I love watching these! People seemed so well-mannered, clean-spirited and polite back then. Makes one wish for simpler times.

The best part about Steve Allen on WML was that his gimmick was that he never got any better. I love how he works his jokes into his long line of questions that almost never ends up anywhere near the correct answer.

A girdle tester and a sword swallower--that is grandmaster-level WML.

Screen legend Janet Leigh's falsetto in the Mystery Guest segment was hilarious! (She was great in "Psycho", too.)

I love watching this show for the style itself. I also appreciate the history from this show. A reminder of simpler times.

I sometimes get the impression Daly just wants some of the guests to get the money. He seems very generous. He sometimes hurries things along in order for the guest to get the full amount.

Thank you super very much for "repairing" this video! We all appreciate the attention to detail and painstaking work you put into gifting us these time capsules of entertainment.

Exactly one year before this broadcast that had Steve Allen & Janet - Janet did a movie with Donald O'Connor called Walking My Baby Back Home. There's a scene where Janet, The Modernaires (vocal group) and a GIGANTIC Dance Band are singing and playing South Rampart Street Parade - the old Bob Crosby record hit. Steve Allen had recently written the words for this long and complicated song - Steve must have been thrilled (and proud) to see this HUGE "production number" on the big screen so well played & sung (Modernaires sang great - Janet was not quite on the beat in spots) with his very clever words to this great (now) Jazz Classic song! And of course this movie was featured in the famous 1975 Columbo episode where Janet is a former singer losing her memory and watches her old films.

Janet seems very happy here! Like her life was good.