What's My Line? - George Stevens; Claudette Colbert; James Mason [panel] (Sep 30, 1956)
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- MYSTERY GUEST: George Stevens [film director]; Claudette Colbert
PANEL: Arlene Francis, James Mason, Dorothy Kilgallen, Bennett Cerf
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Claudette Colbert had a wonderful ability to appreciate the humor in most situations. She seemingly could laugh away the most troublesome of predicaments. Such a charming LADY.
Claudette Colbert is one of the few actors whose very presence lights up the whole scene.
George Stevens per Wikipedia: During World War II, Lt. Col. Stevens headed a film unit from 1943 to 1946, under General Eisenhower. His unit shot footage documenting D-Day-including the only Allied European Front color film of the war-the liberation of Paris and the meeting of American and Soviet forces at the Elbe River, as well as horrific scenes from the Duben labor camp and the Dachau concentration camp. Stevens also helped prepare the Duben and Dachau footage and other material for presentation during the Nuremberg Trials. In 2008, his footage was entered into the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as an "essential visual record" of World War II.
Claudette Colbert. Perfection.
I could listen to James Mason talk all day
LOL. I was just going to write this. I love James Mason's voice. So beautiful and so elegant. I love how he enunciates.
yes
Love him in Hitchcock's 'North by Northwest'
James was from the same town in Yorkshire as Patrick Stewart, I believe - Huddersfield.
@@ryandavis2775 In a speech at Palo Alto's Stanford Theatre years ago (mid 90s), Eva Marie Saint said James Mason was very funny on the set, always cracking jokes. She paused and continued, All those people I worked with, they're all dead!
I simply adore the lovely feminine outfits the ladies on the panel wore---wish I could have seen them in color!!!
It was just ALL so elegant.
What a likable lady Claudette Colbert was. Wish we had more people like that today.
Claudette was the epitome of class and charm.
She sure was! I have never been an autograph-seeker, but when I was in high school in the 70s, my friend and I went to a play starring Claudette Colbert, Rex Harrison and George Rose ("The Kingfisher") and we did that stalker thing of hanging out by the stage door afterwards... and were rewarded with a lovely chat with all three of them, and autographs, and we got to meet Ms. Colbert's dogs, who traveled everywhere with her. A fun memory!
I still wish she had got the part in 'All About Eve' that went to Bette Davis; Colbert would have made it plausible.
@@rogerpropes7129 matter of opinion -- I thought Bette Davis was outstanding in that role and better than what Colbert would have done. The more times I see Davis in it the better I think she is.
@@preppysocks209 You're right
@@preppysocks209 when Bette Davis got the role, they changed things about Margot, so it fits so well with Bette, Claudette was supposed to be a lovely and friendly Margot, course Mankiewicz would know how to make Colbert rock the role
Seriously, the hesitation on the answers by that hunter. Sheesh.
I have to agree....damn, that lady was agony to watch. However, she is undoubtedly not with us anymore, and some respect needs to be given to her in that regard. However, the whole idea of someone killing an animal for pleasure is surely anathema nowadays. Robert, uk.
I loved her well considered and regal bearing. Clearly one tough cookie!
Arlene looks phenomenal in this episode
I wish sometimes they would bring this show back,but realize there are not any classy celebrities left.
Or unique occupations. Amazon has taken over and big conglomerates.
(I'd say) there are some.. ...but not many.. .
I so enjoy watching Mr. Daly host WML.
He was the best game show host and the most intelligent. I had the opportunity to watch the program when I was a rather young girl!
I've really grown to admire her lately!! With the chance to watch classic movies, what a talented actress and lovely person!!
Love Claudette Colbert beautiful speaking voice miss her.
Claudette Colbert was and still is America's sweetheart!!!!
George Stevens was a great film Director (Shane, Giant, Gunga Din) and shot some wonderful footage as he followed the US Army from D-Day (June 1944) to V-E Day.
I grew up in the 70s, but I loved movies from the 30s snd 40s. Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable in It Happened One Night is one of my favorite movies.
Stevens seems like such a thoroughly AGREEABLE guy.
Love Claudette Colbert.. Very classy
Love Claudette Colbert!
I"m surprised the audience needed to be told who George Stevens was and what he did for a living. He was one of the busiest and most well-known directors at the time.
Yeah. But a lot of people probaly didnt know what he looked like.. They probaly werent use to see him, like they were with the actors and actresses..
My late aunt looked very much like Claudette Colbert, and was almost as charming.
Claudette Colbert was a wonderful actress very pretty talented and true class. She was so good in It Happened One Night with Gable.
Luck is a small town in rural Wisconsin of about 1000 that is about 50 miles northeast of Minneapolis. It was apparently the original home of the Duncan Toy company in the 1950s and 60s, one of the original manufacturers of yo-yos. The company went bankrupt in 1965 and was revived in Ohio and still exists today.
Notice how Real Movie Stars dressed to make appearances!! They respected their Audience enough to always always look and act their best.
Contrast that with Jeanine Garofalo and you see the problem here....
Whatever you do, before shuffling off the planet, don't miss George Steven's 1948 film "I Remember Mama.' If you don't like it, I would be happy to give you double your money back
"I Remember Mama" was a great film -- a screen adaptation off a hit stage play by John Van Druten, which was, in turn, based on a collection of short stories by Kathryn Forbes about a struggling Norwegian immigrant family, the Hansens, who lived in San Francisco in the 1910's, prior to World War I. Great cast in that film with Irene Dunne in the title role, Barbara Bel Geddes as the eldest daughter who narrates the episodic stories, and Oscar Homolka (outstanding) as Uncle Kris. Incidentally, Ellen Corby (Grandma on "The Waltons") plays one of mama's sisters and Edgar Bergen plays the man who courts her. I note that the movie adaptation made the Hansen family so popular that there was a TV series, "Mama", that ran from 1949-1957, which was based on the family in the book, the play and the movie, but the fact that the TV series began a year after the movie was released is telling. The film is, for me, a must-see.
I dismember mama
@@peternagy-im4be ...I'm worried. You either don't remember the film, or you carried out a horrendous act on your mother.
🤍GREAT ACTRESS & HUMAN BEING, WITH A GREAT SENSE OF HUMOR🍃
It's been a long time since I heard that pronunciation of "Kenya". It took a minute of two to remember that the way John Daly pronounced it was the way I learned it those many years ago.
Lois Simmons - That was the British way of pronouncing it and they have since adopted the American way of saying it because they associate the old way with the unfortunate things about the colonial past associated with that version of it.
They had to change the pronunciation after Keenya West married that Kardashian woman. A majority of the Kenyan population then voted by referendum to change the pronunciation to Ken-ya. (Actually it was always Ken-ya in Britain. My dad fought the Mau Mau there with the British Army just 5 years before this episode, and he would know.) Philippa, there is nothing unfortunate about our colonial past - many of us are quite proud of what we did to help those underdeveloped nations. Same as the Romans did for us!
CC is terrific !
I was 5. Another world.
Are u kidding no way I can pass up this line up tonight ..man
I love George Stevens voice.
George Stevens quiet the Giant, himself. And what a cultural landmark that film would become. (Although Shane and A Place in the Sun my favorites.)
The last contestant had the panel tied in knots!
The first time I heard a contestant ask for a conference. 😂😂😂😂
Love claudette colbert R I P
Diana Hartley (1919-1960) was part of a notable East African game hunting family. Tragedy beset her and her family. Her husband, Lionel Hartley, a noted white hunter, was killed in a 1950 plane crash. In October of 1954, her mother, Mary, was hacked to death with machetes by rebellious Mau Mau tribal thugs who attacked the family's Nyeri farmhouse. Her 70-year-old stepfather, Gray A. Leakey who was a blood brother of the Kikuyu tribe, was dragged off that same night by the same gang and buried alive. Diana, who was visiting, escaped with her life by hiding in an attic. Diana herself would also die tragically. On November 1, 1960, she was bitten and mauled to death by a captive lion inside its cage while working as a trainer on the John Wayne film Hatari (1962), an epic story about professional animal catchers. Diana's son, Lionel Jr., would resume the family's big game hunting interest in 1970 and later wrote the book Hartley's Heartbeat in 1985 which chronicled two generations of his family's business.
Live by the sword, die by the sword
@@tammykay4330 The Mau Mau thugs didn’t care if you were Vegan - they were equal opportunity murderers. She likely should have shot that caged lion too, rather than try to train it. Or taken John Wayne into the cage with her. Nothing wrong with big game hunting. Teddy Roosevelt loved it!
Sad life.
Just further reinforces my feeling of having absolutely no desire whatsoever to go to Africa.
"A tangential bus". hahaha, I love Dorothy!!
Little did she know that 10 years later that would be a groovy album title.
Not really -- but that woulda been awesome. _"Tangential Bus on a Magical Mystery Tour."_
The woman who was an African hunter didn't seem to understand English. She just looked dumbfounded after every question from the panel
I'm with you. Even when she answered a question that was so simple and straightforward that it had an obvious answer, it took her forever to respond.
must've been stage fright
I agree. It took FOREVER to get through her segment.
Galileocan g - As English is spoken in both Ireland and Kenya, I suspect her clear hesitancy after each question had to do with not being familiar enough with the show to know how the scoring system worked. So, I think she over-thought how to apply each question to her specific line of work, IF she could hear the question. There has been a trouble with the sound system, accoustics, and not-at-all soundproofed location of the rooms/makeshift studio in which this was filmed forever, so much so that about half the people there seem hard of hearing because they have to keep asking for repeats of both questions and answers.
I strongly suspect she did it for effect, to draw attention. 1. She signed in with a joke "Dr" ,which initally impresses, then there is the reveal. 2. When asked where she was from she said she was "born" in ireland- a response that begs the question, 'where have you been raised/live currently' (but not on this show) 3. She took her glasses off for the camera closeup with her line, then put them right back on 4. She barely tipped her head politely to John for a conference- even if she didn't like a conference it would be normal to acknowledge his leaning far in, even to draw back, so that he was required to make the movement, not her ( power.) 5. She answered some questions readily, so the language was maybe not always a barrier - she seemed to take longer on questions that could have even a remote 'yes', I agree, over-thinking. 6.Bennet said in an exasperated tone, "We haven't gotten one straight answer." Arlene was frustrated. 7. I became annoyed with her quickly which always tells me something (I am a kind person). I think she (mostly ) was just posturing and wasted everyone's time.
Comments left on prior version of this video:
Todd Brandt 7 months ago
Re: Claudette's apparent distaste for television, her most recent foray in that medium was a production of Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit," which was not the easiest of experiences for the accomplished movie legend. She and Coward had a tense relationship during rehearsals. After flubbing one scene constantly, Colbert apologized by saying, "I knew these lines backwards yesterday!", to which Coward responded, "And that's how you're reading them, my dear." Another Coward-ism: "If she only had a neck, I'd wring it!" he quipped to a friend about Colbert.
David Von Pein 1 year ago
A film that I've probably watched more times than any other movie is the 1934 picture starring Miss Colbert and Clark Gable, "It Happened One Night".
If you've never seen this movie, you've missed a real gem. I can watch it twice a week and never get tired of it. (And the radio version is very good too.)
Classic--Movies.blogspot.com/2011/01/it-happened-one-night.html
Sabine Beyer 1 month ago
+David Von Pein
thats quite a coincidence, i had heard the radio version yesterday in my car (on CD of course, no radio broadcast in germany would air such fun today)
and I love this old radio shows, you and other people upload on youtube
and Miss Colbert is very charming, as always
Johan Bengtsson 7 months ago (edited)
The female African Big Game Hunter obviously had not a clue what WML was for a programme. It took ages for her to answer even the easiest question and all without a smile. During one of her conferences with John Bennett is heard saying, "We havent got one straight answer." 14:50
Todd Brandt 7 months ago
I think Mrs. Hartley was trying to give thoughtful, considered answers. When she did speak, she demonstrated a good, very dry sense of humor and did indeed smile. But she clearly had never seen the program before, and obviously didn't have any experience in being a quick, snappy television guest.
Chris Clements 6 months ago
+Todd Brandt the show did an awful job preparing her for the show... draw a Circle around Big Game Hunting.... if she has been allowed to see a few taped shows she would have been much better.
Johan Bengtsson 7 months ago (edited)
What an enchanting laughter Claudette Colbert had!! It made my day!! :) 19:13 and 19:20
Johan Bengtsson 7 months ago
James Mason's son Morgan (former Deputy Chief of Protocol) is married to Belinda Carlisle, and their son James Duke Mason is also a politician and was named in 'OUT' magazine's 2011 "Out 100" issue as one of the 100 most influential LGBT people in the World.
joed596 5 months ago
thanks very much :-)
519DJW 1 year ago (edited)
Seeing George Stevens here makes me wonder why Alan Ladd ("Shane") never appeared as a mystery guest on this show. In the early 50s at least, he was still one of Hollywood's top stars. (I might add here that, quite by coincidence, this show aired on the first anniversary of James Dean's death. George Stevens had wanted Ladd to play Dean's role in "Giant," but his wife/agent nixed it because he would have had third billing after Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson.) I think that if Ladd and his wife would have accepted his transition from "leading man" to "character actor" he might have gone on to much better parts later--and probably would have lived a lot longer.
Galileocan g 1 year ago
Was it just me....but I thought the Yo-Yo lady was a little Koo-Koo
Melissa Jennings 1 year ago
I felt like not only was she a little koo koo, but I can't believe anyone let the African hunter have a gun, lol. Panel had a rough night and Daly had an even rougher one!
Ryszard Pajak 1 year ago (edited)
Why do you think she was cuckoo?
daniel stanwyck 1 year ago
Claudette Colbert is a charmer with a wonderfully infectious laugh; George Stevens was one of the better directors, especially, in my humble opinion, everything before and including Shane - his latter films were top heavy, like Giant etc.; John Daly's head was making large scale nods in either direction, hoping that the slow-thinking ladies of the big game and the yo-yo's would catch a peripheral vision of what answer should be supplied.
Unlike her later MG appearance, on this occasion a certain guest panelist did not tell the other panelists that Claudette Colbert was the MG.
Yes I made sure it wasn't that episode before I watched it.
The Big Game Hunter, Diana Hartley & the YoYo lady seemed ill-prepared for the show. Probably more the show's fault than their own. Sadly, 4 years later in 1960, Diana Hartley was killed by a lion she was working with during the filming of Hatari.
And I agree with one of the posters, Claudette Colbert had a wonderfully delightful laugh.
I'm not too saddened by the death of a big game hunter at the jowls of her would-be prey.
There's a terribly morbid joke in here somewhere about "What's My Lion?". But truthfully, as I watched her here, I was thinking that I hoped she was much quicker responding to the animals than she was to the panel's questions. She appeared to be overwhelmed with being on live television.
@@bluecamus5162 She has got to be the most frustrating challenger I've ever listened to on this program. It's like she had to cold-start her brain every time a question was asked. And she had a manner that I found rather standoffish.
What happened to her glasses towards the end? They disappeared. lol
I wonder Diana Hartley was having a hard time talking about her experiences in Africa since so many members of her family were murdered there a couple of years before this broadcast.
Big Game Hunter: I skipped that part.
She was tediously both dull and dumb at the same time
18:11 Have you ever pitched a no- hitter. I thought that this might have been after Don Larsen in the World Series but Sal Maglie instead. HaHa. I love how these shows give you a sense of what is going on right at the moment.
Sal Maglie had pitched a no-hitter on September 25.
Bennett's comment at 25:32 is a pun on P. T. Barnum's sideshow performer Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy, a young man from Russia with a rare condition leading to hair growing on the face, sometimes called werewolf syndrome. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedor_Jeftichew
Also a song recorded by Annette Funicello.
I read that George Stevens after WW2 would not make anymore comedies and only made dramas due to his experiences he captured on film of the consentration camps .
If you swallowed a yo-yo at least it could be pulled out again.
George Stevens was a giant
Wish i had lived in the fifties.
Stevens appears here on the 1 year anniversary of James Dean's death. Was Giant filmed at least over a year before it was released?
It was filmed in 1955; Dean was killed before it was finished, and Nick Adams dubbed some of his lines. Stevens spent a year editing it before its release.
Below there are many references that the second guest seems not with it or strange. That the panelists are frustrated with her. But someone else mentioned here that a lot of her family were murdered when she was doing her job.
So why did she appear on a show where people would ask her about her job?
Mrs. Hartley was really very PRETTY. you could see it when she took those glasses off. A more sophsticated hair style would help bring that out more.
These days it's consider "uncool " to well mannered,
polite and classy.. The 1960s cultural and revolution changed all that.
too bad Fred MacMurray couldnt have been on the panel he made several movies with Claudette
The second guest was unnecessarily difficult. Honestly I was left wondering if someone put her up to posing as a big game hunter on television.
She was a literal thinker. People, especially women, that process information like that can be perceived as off putting.
She also was trying to be fair.
@@thesweeples3266 This is what I thought as well.
Lot of big game hunters on WML.
PRODUCER-DIRECTOR GEORGE STEVENS
AFRICAN BIG GAME HUNTER
PUTS STRING ON YO YOS
I wonder if Stephen Colbert is related to Claudette Colbert.
They're not related, no. Stephen Colbert's real family name is Colbert, but Claudette's birth name was Émilie Claudette Chauchoin.
She's his grandma.
I think the big game hunter was an imposter.
Who was the producer on Mrs. Hartley’s segment?
I loved hearing Daly refer to "KEENYA." Why was that pronunciation changed?
I don't believe it ever was KEEN YA anymore than Rodeo was ever Ro Day O (except in Beverly Hills)
tamaytoe, tomodtoe.
they also pronounce row dee oh, row day oh on this show. never heard row day oh outside of row day oh drive. always assumed the working class goes to row dee ohs and the rich live on row day oh drive. rich cant use peasant words.
One of my political science professors had spent a lot of time there, and he pronounced it Keenya. He surely knew the correct pronunciation.
@@Sylvander1911 Ro-DAY-oh is an accepted alternate pronunciation in every dictionary I own; it's probably older, since it's close to the Spanish pronunciation of the word. The Oxford English Dictionary lists keen-ya before ken-ya as the British pronunciation, but doesn't show it in use in the USA.
the home country of berry
i am going to guess the big game hunter is one of those people that are fine with one person they know but get very uncomfortable with a group of strangers.
i doubt she deals with large numbers of people very often.
either that or years of recoil from large firearms have caused brain damage.
It would be called social anxiety.
Would this episode have aired the day that James Dean died?
James Dean died on September 30, 1955.
George Stevens met his future wife in Oliver Hardy house.
Why would anyone put a Yo Yo in their mouth?
String
What was up with the Hartley lady? She seemed strange.
Stage fright
Mrs. Hartley is definitely high. What sort of drugs could she get in Kenya in the 1950s?
😀 right
Some of these contestants must've made the producer absolutely cringe to hear how it played out. Both the big game hunter and the yo-yo stringer give the unfortunate impression of being either substantially hard of hearing, or a quart low. It was probably nerves. One could tell the panel was completely exasperated with Diana Hartley, who nonetheless must've been a very intelligent woman. Such a performance boggles the mind and tries the patience of a CZcams viewer 60 years later too.
+Andrew Carey And this is one of the many reasons why you need a host like John.
Indeed. Soon as I saw this episode I was like she has got to be the most frustrating challenger I've ever listened to on this program. It's like she had to cold-start her brain every time a question was asked. And she had a manner that I found rather standoffish.
Yeah, you've said that at least three times here in the comments.@@briane173
Indoor big game hunting? What did Mrs. Hartley shoot and kill indoors? The elephant in the room? Whom did she help by killing African animals? Perhaps people who wanted to procure a rhinoceros head for their wall? I also have to wonder what big game she could kill in Ireland -- perhaps some giant leprechauns? And while she might ride around in a 4WD vehicle while looking for animals to kill, saying that her profession has something to do with "transportation" was disingenuous at best. I have the impression the woman's elevator didn't quite make it to the top floor every time the button was pushed.
While she was a bit slow on the uptake regarding how the show worked, rewatch and a bit of thought - clearly stated she was as African big game hunter, came from Ireland but lived in Kenya. Planning any kind of safari would be done indoors (you know, maps, telephones, etc.). Hunters were not all killers - during this time trapping for zoos was common. The reply re transportation might be considered disingenuous, I do think it would be darned difficult to do a safari without it. Not the best segment, by any means, but I get the feeling the lady did not want to be impolite to the panelists and was trying to give what she felt were fair answers.
AthenaeusGreenwood quite right. it's clear she was carefully considering her answers and there was no need for the frankly obnoxious comment above
I hate how fetishizing they are of the trophy hunting women. Sigh.
The big game hunter has got to be the most frustrating challenger I've ever listened to on this program. It's like she had to cold-start her brain every time a question was asked. And she had a manner that I found rather standoffish.
James Mason was a lifelong cat fanatic, and wrote at least one book about cats with his wife. I'm sorry he had to deal with the annoying hunter.
What was the deal with his "inmate" question? That was weird. I don't blame her for her response to that!
Collet had Clark Gables daughter.
No, that was Loretta Young...
If you mean Colbert, no, she did not.
Today in no one cares: i despise big game hunters they are the reason the world is going to crap.... They started it anyway
Is she a Yo-yo Ma?
John Daly gets the award for having the WORST hair on 1950s television. The second contestant acted as if she had splinters in the windmills of her mind.
That big game hunter was the worst guest ever!!!
Dear me! Wasn't that first contestant a right pain in the neck!! Not too impressed with her 'line' either.
Do you mean the one after George Stevens?
some of the jobs these people have are nothing to be proud of like putting string on yoyo's
I think the show's hook was that jobs be unusual, not that people need be particularly proud of them.
There us no shame in work unless it is illegal or does harm.
Back then you could live on their professions.
@@debbigray1752Which is why this show would not work today. No one has these individual occupations.
John Daly was an Afro-American.
Copy/paste into CZcams's searching field: Pahana's Helper's Temporary HEROES #3 GREG HALLETT
What's with this Irish woman? She has to think for minutes about every answer
Stage Fright
Nothin like some good old fashioned animal cruelty!
What a disgusting trade she has. An animal killer. 👎🏻👎🏻
The only good lion, is the one providing the carpet in my living room. And their heads stuffed on my wall. You don’t see that much these days, but some of us think that this decor is charming. I’ve got wastebaskets made from elephant feet too! And plenty of zebra skins on my sofas. Good source of ivory too!
My grandparents had a lamp with a base made from four deer legs. I thought it was cool when I was a kid, but would never want one now.
@@ChrisHansonCanada Wow! I’d love one of those! If you’re selling, I’m buying! It will go with my Okapi-leg lamp, and Elk-skin lampshades!
Go eat your hamburger Bob Whyte
I always found Claudette Colbert annoying
I am sickened by so many peoples politically correct rantings over animal hunters, bull fighters ect. People back in the day unlike now held a balanced perspective concerning animals. They understood humans are to be loved and protected, animals are not to be worshipped. Maybe if you people had more love and concern for your fellow humans, the world would be a better place.
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If human beings treated animals better, especially meat animals, we would also have a better world. Also, less meat eating would be a whole lot healthier for you obese Americans.
James Mason was awful - didn’t realize he was so dense
He was as witty and colorful as the scripts provided him. He was a brilliant actor who learned his lines, hit his marks, and could get into character. Not dense. Live unscripted TV was not his specialty.
He was not dense. Watch him on an episode of PASSWPRD. SMH. Celebrity guests were out of their element and rarely there to win the game , but more for their notoriety.
The remake was of IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT. It was YOU CAN'T RUN AWAY FROM IT and starred June Allyson and Jack Lemmon.