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Post by gottamatch on Feb 6, 2009 6:29:22 GMT -5
This was mentioned in the Judy Garland thread and I thought it deserved a thread of it's own. Is anyone else obsessed with it?! It is hilarious, I think I have seen just about all the 'segments' available on YouTube. It's SUCH a shame Kate never appeared, but at the same it wasn't really her thing to appear on television till later in life. Here is an example of what made What's My Line a Universally great television gameshow. Often the guests that were ordinary people were much more entertaining and funny than those with 'celebrity mystery guests'! Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz (circa in their second season of I Love Lucy)... The great Lucille Ball... The lovely Rosemary Clooney... One of my favourites, a "Girdle Salesman". FUNNY television!  Love it. Live it. Google it. Jess |
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Post by HollywoodHepcat on Feb 7, 2009 2:51:06 GMT -5
Darlin', What's My Line has been the source of so much entertainment in my life I don't know where to begin. Love that Dorothy Killgallen, The Gal Without A Chin.
I could put the above to song. But I won't.
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Post by gottamatch on Feb 7, 2009 4:16:14 GMT -5
Hahahaaaa.. girl, when one feels the need to break out into song, from my experience, it's usually better to just go with it. So if you feel the need, go for it.
My favourite is Arlene Francis. She is gorgeous and funny and I'm jealous of her famous diamond necklace which of course was stolen in the 60s and shortly after, the US pubic felt so bad for her, they started sending in money to the studio so she could go and get a new one. Awww.
But I love Dorothy cause she plays to win! You can see it in her eyes. And I love that she's the only panelist that makes notes! Obviously coming from her journalism experience.
I've even slowly got my mum to watch it and I think she is secretly hooked. We're on the hunt to find me a duplicate necklace like Arlene's for my birthday in May! My mum still doesn't know who is who and always asks "Is that one Dorothy?" pointing at Arlene lol
Jess
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Post by Alicia on Feb 7, 2009 13:55:34 GMT -5
I think Fred Astaire's is my favorite WML of all time.
Dorothy: "When you're walking down the street, do men whistle at you?"
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Post by Hep on Feb 7, 2009 15:21:38 GMT -5
Whats My Line is the SHIZ.
My personal fav is Bennett Cerf, AND Fred Allen.
Although I love everyone on that show, as a collective. Too funny.
One of my favorites is when Rosalind Russel was on. I posted here somewhere.
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Post by martha on Feb 7, 2009 19:38:24 GMT -5
dorothy plays to win .. without humor. she is hilarious in her cluelessness. i read a bio of her last year .. she is woman who achieved a lot in her life, but yeah. humorless.
but arlene. i've loved her since i was a little girl and she ruled the roost in the version of what's my line that was on in the late 1960s. she has humor and class and style and plays with the right attitude .. sure, try to get the right answer but in the name of fun she'll pass along and allow the mystery guest to get some promos in for their new film or play.
i record it every night (game show network on at 2am in central time zone) and fast forward to the mystery guest slot at the end. such fun.
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Post by martha on Feb 7, 2009 19:53:21 GMT -5
We're on the hunt to find me a duplicate necklace like Arlene's for my birthday in May! My mum still doesn't know who is who and always asks "Is that one Dorothy?" pointing at Arlene lol Jess i LOVE that. i had a little rhinestone version of the necklace when i was a little girl. ... would have been the mid 1960s ... yes, it was a fad of a kind inspired by our miss arlene.  |
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Post by gottamatch on Feb 19, 2009 21:10:51 GMT -5
This is for Shaun. This one will make you love Arlene even more if you haven't already seen it. This is one of my favourite segments. She's so funny. And Dorothy aswell in this one. They're like gigling school girls lol
Jess
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Post by martha on Feb 22, 2009 18:52:37 GMT -5
um, speaking of miss francis and that rhinestone necklace that was widely available in the 60s. .. cropped from a childhood portrait of me in my arlene necklace. i was 7 years old and just loving the "glamour" .. ha.  |
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Post by gottamatch on Feb 23, 2009 5:54:31 GMT -5
OMG Martha, I'm so jealous! You must have been so popular! Do you still have it today?
Jess
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Post by martha on Feb 23, 2009 12:05:21 GMT -5
oh, jess. two themes there. "popular"? ha ha. well, not on the basis of my necklace. [sorry, i was laughing to hard at that that i had to get a kleenex.] .. and no i don't have the necklace any more. this inspires me to go on a hunt for the product's history on line. i wonder if the packaging featured miss arlene herself? all answerable questions ... hm.....
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Post by gottamatch on Feb 26, 2009 23:34:49 GMT -5
Martha, a Klenex, really haha glad I could bring some laughter to your day lol P.S. it's so cute how people call them Klenex. In Australia we have so many different brands, if we need one, we just call it "a tissue" lol same with water. Don't you guys call it Evian? We call it "a bottle of water" lol too cute!
Okay What's My Line? lovers, here's a fairly new one posted on YouTube because I hadn't seen it before the other night. This has to be one of the best ones. It's Arlene's son as the mystery guest! So to all you Arlene lovers, here's to you too.. watch her reaction at the end. Priceless!
Jess
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Post by Alicia on Feb 27, 2009 0:31:50 GMT -5
LOL! I just watched that clip (which was awesome, btw) and thought, I just have to post this to the forum! Well you beat me to it  And you're right about the Kleenex thing, but I still call them tissues. And I don't think I've ever even drank Evian so I just call it a bottle of water, too. But I remember when one of my best friends (who is Australian) first moved to America, and everyone kept asking her to say 'water bottle' because they loved the way it sounded with her accent! |
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Post by HollywoodHepcat on Feb 27, 2009 0:35:08 GMT -5
Hahaha, in These Economic Times "WHY, WHATEVER DO YOU MEAN GAS IS 3.45 AGAIN? LAAA LAAAAAAA LAAA I CAN'T HEAR YOOOOOU" I think most of us are spare-changing it for an Aquafina, let alone an Evian. Meaning, that tasteless elixir still falls under the "bottle of water" moniker over here.
Also, she's so cute!!
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Post by gottamatch on Feb 27, 2009 5:57:30 GMT -5
Ahh sorry exiled! Haha I love Arlene so I was like ARLENE'S SON WOW! haha.. he was a good looking kid wasn't he. You can definately see both his parents in his good looks!
Jess
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