What's My Line? - Barry Fitzgerald (Nov 2, 1952)
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- MYSTERY GUEST: Barry Fitzgerald
PANEL: Dorothy Kilgallen, Bennett Cerf, Arlene Francis, Hal Block
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Hands down (!) if Mr. Fitzgerald had only co-starred in ONE film in his entire life ("The Quiet Man") he would still qualify as my favourite character-actor ever! Just brilliant!
RivaRidge'72 I agree.
Loved him in The Catered Affair, too.
He had a small role in Bringing Up Baby and was the highlight of the film.
Father Fitzgibbon
I loved Barry in The Quiet Man.
I agree. It’s hard to stop watching. Very enjoyable show.
I first stumbled upon this show indirectly from watching a conspiracy documentary about Dorothy’s death. Since then I’ve become addicted to watching this wonderfully warm and relaxing programme, thanks to your hard work in uploading them all. Thank you so much, I’m loving it!
Sheer class and humour combined. Now I’ve grown to know and love the panel, it’s going to be really sad getting to Dorothy’s last episode :(
As for Hal Block, I have found him funny and not as annoying as many of the commentators on the episodes...until now, when I admit his comments are starting to really grate. I felt for the young lady who was the second guest, who seemed uncomfortable and not amused, understandable.
Once again, a huge thank you.
I like Hal Block too.
I went the other way, found this show and was curious who DK was. Quite a surprise there.
Nonsense, she didn't feel uncomfortable. She was reserved the whole time as can be seen.
And not just this show, any TV show from the 50s is great.
Can you direct me to this documentary you refer to about Dorothy Kilgalen?
@@JDAbelRN I think it was this one :) - czcams.com/video/B1_TGp_Ux3U/video.html
11:37-11:38 her facial expression showed exactly how she felt about Mr. Block. lol
11:30 She could've been a stand-in for Lauren Bacall.
You'll notice she wasn't thrilled with Hal Block's horndogging.
I thought the same thing about looking like Bacall. Remarkable resemblance.
I have truly learned how,to despise a person and Hal Block is one of those people! I’m pretty old and still had to look him up as I’ve never heard or seen him before watching these wonderful shows!
Hal was an adult, with a teenager mindset 😂
@@sandybruce9092 Henry Morgan was also one of those people. His last show on WML was his last for a reason - primarily the way he treated literally everybody on the show that night, especially Bennett Cerf. His schtick was his pugnacious attitude but he exposed himself as a true asshole that evening. Couldn't believe what I was seeing. Even John Daly was sick of him, and it took a lot to piss him off on air.
Barry was brilliant In " The Quiet Man "
Barry Fitzgerald was nominated for an academy award for both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for "Going My Way." The only actor to have been nominated for both. The Academy changed their rules immediately after this happened.
He deserved Best Actor, imho.
It makes no sense to have an actor nominated as both lead and supporting role for the same film.
So much fun watching these shows.
WML would eventually dispense with both the "walk of shame" and the "free guesses", which in my opinion improved the show, allowing the game to get started more quickly. Both the walk and the guesses strike me as major time wasters, especially when they do if for a final contestant after the mystery guest when they have only three or four minutes left in the program. Things got much better, I think, when the contestants entered, signed in and then sat down immediately so the questions could begin. The other change I like was when they started treating the mystery guest differently, allowing each panelist one question at a time in rotation. Guessing the identity of a well-known person rather than the profession, it seems, was different enough to warrant the one-question-at-a-time rule, making the mystery guest round more entertaining and fun.
ToddSF 94109 Yes, I could never understand why they bother with free guesses with contestants when they only have a couple of minutes left.
THEY did eliminate that some time on, these are introductory in the 17 year history
And Daly disclosed product it service, eliminating their first question.
Miss Boydjieff is one of those cases where there's a small flurry of news articles, and then nothin'. She was an immigrant from somewhere (came over on a boat from England with her father, but with that name, I would guess Bulgaria), and graduated from the National College of Chiropractic in 1942. Practiced in Pennsylvania, got named, as several people mentioned, the Most Beautiful Doctor In The US by the National Chiropractic Convention of 1952, and eventually moved to California to team up with a Dr. Houser. (Not Doogie.) Seems to have moved back to New Jersey and married someone named Elder. Not sure if she's dead, but her drugless license (to practice) expired in 1988.
Might as well judge chiropractors on their looks, since they're quacks anyway
a great actor..a Giant
The first contestant, chiropractor Boydjieff, was what I would call a classical beauty.
Agree, she could easily have been a film star...the camera definitely agreed with her.
Barry Fitzgerlad was an actor born and raised in Ireland, but he also had a Hollywood career for awhile. He starred in "The Quiet Man" (along with fellow Irish star Maureen O'Hara), "And Then There Were None", "Bringing Up Baby", and the original film version of "The Naked City", among others.
Don't forget Going My Way! It only won the Oscar for Best Picture!
For me he will also be the Nemesis Judge in "And Then There Were None". I saw the movie on TV when I was 8-9 years and it created an everlasting memory and a passion for the books of Agatha Christie. Much later I saw him in some English movies and as a grumpy Santa Claus in one episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents". He always looked like a kind grandfather.
Chris Barat Interesting facts on Wikipedia:
"Fitzgerald achieved a feat unmatched in the history of the Academy Awards : he was nominated for both the Best Actor Oscar and the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for the same performance, as "Father Fitzgibbon" in Going My Way (1944). (Academy Award rules have since been changed to prevent this.) He won the Best Supporting Actor Award; an avid golfer, he later broke the head off his Oscar statue while practising his golf swing. (During World War II, Oscar statues were made of plaster instead of gold, owing to wartime metal shortages.)"
I had no idea that the statues were made of plaster during WW2! :)
He was tiny. 5'4' tall.
With all due respect, to say Mr. Fitzgerald starred in THE QUIET MAN is being quite a bit generous. I do however have no problem with supporting star.
Thank you for bringing us these wonderful shows.
I hadn't realized that Barry Fitzgerald was such a small man, until I saw him on this episode of WML. Not obvious when he shook hands with John Daly (who was 6'1" tall), because Mr. Daly bowed while shaking hands with Mr. Fitzgerald. But when Bennett stood up to shake hands with him after the mystery guest round ended, he looked like a giant compared to Mr. Fitzgerald. Bennett was also 6'1" tall. So I looked up Barry Fitzgerald's height and found it was 5'3". I note that Mr. Fitzgerald won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for _Going My Way_ (1944) -- and Bing Crosby won "Best Actor" for the same film. In addition, _Going My Way_ won five other Academy Awards, which were: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Original Motion Picture Story, and Best Song ("Swinging on a Star" as sung by Bing Crosby). One strange thing is that Mr. Fitzgerald was nominated both as Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, which hadn't happened before and didn't happen again, because the Motion Picture Academy later changed the rules to prevent simultaneous nominations in both Best Actor/Best Supporting Actor and Best Actress/Best Supporting Actress categories. Though _Going My Way_ is not classified as a musical film, Bing Crosy sang five songs in it.
The Oscar winning director of "Going My Way" was Leo McCarey. One of the losing nominees was Billy Wilder. I have read that as McCarey walked down the aisle to collect his Oscar, Wilder tripped him.
I love these two films.
wow this was a good episode.. The great Barry Fitzgerald... always loved him... He and his brother, Arthur Shields look alike alot...
oooops should be look alot alike...
Love to this show when I was little and I still love it
Barry Fitzgerald played a bad guy (the murderer) in And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie mystery from 1945).... He played a few villains here and there.
Oh yes, some of my favorites I’ve watched over and over. This is probably my fifth time watching this one.
As we all know, November 4, 1952 was Election Day, and Eisenhower defeated Adlai Stevenson in both elections. Stevenson was the only Democrat to run during the 1950's.
Two years before this episode, in "At War with the Army," Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin spoofed Barry Fitzgerald and Bing Crosby in "Going My Way," where Fitzgerald (and Crosby) won Oscars. Martin naturally enough played Crosby. A 20-something Jerry Lewis is hilarious as Fitzgerald.
Miss Whitney did not appreciate Mr Blocks wild guess remark very much.
Hal Block's free guess was the funniest in the entire history of the free guesses: "I think she's a skin specialist in a salami factory!"
He does a lot of that kind. One was I think she's an eye specialist in a needle factory & he's a tooth examiner in a comb factory 🤣 I love those/
Majority of people didn't get his sense of humor 😢
Now over 70 years ago., amazing on that fact alone !
I'm binging it right now! Love this! ❤️
The guessing part before the question portion was thankfully not continued through the run of the series.
I wished they had used that extra time to speak with Barry Fitzgerald instead of bringing out another contestant and then had to rush! I always love listening to Mr. Fitzgerald speak!!
Bennett (to Hal Block): Maybe a dermathologist?
Hal Block looking confused.
Bennett: Skin, skin!!
Hal Block: He's worse than Arlene! 9:11
Hah, Hal Block asked Barry what was wrong with England. Never ask an Irishman what is wrong with England. My Irish grandfather could go on for hours on that subject!
+guyfihi Especially someone whose brother was in the GPO during the 1916 Rising (Arthur Shields)
My Irish Grandmother.
This was comment was likely the reason Dorothy guessed correctly.
Being from England but of Welsh-Scottish-Irish-English descent it is pure cringe seeing Americans going on about Ireland as if it’s something I should be apologising to them for. For some reason Americans of Irish descent find it hard to believe many English people have connections to Ireland.
I don’t think my agrarian ancestors were oppressing you at any stage. They couldn’t even vote.
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The sleeping bag lady did not appreciate Hal Block’s comment that she “shakes” very well. It was super inappropriate. He just goes too far sometimes, doesn’t know when to stop. I’ve noticed he’s not very good at reading people’s nonverbal cues. I think he’s a good guy, but he’s quite socially awkward, which accounts for his foibles when it comes to the fairer sex.
I think Hal Block was in kind of a no win situation. I suspect they hired him because everybody else had a classy, intellectual demeanor and he was somebody the average joe could identify with. Unfortunately, he never really fit in with the tone of the show and I think the show improved when they found Steve Allen who was funny in a more refined way.
@@ParkerAllen2 That’s a very good point and something I’d not considered. Producers do indeed often have particular ‘roles’ in mind and choose accordingly. I noticed with Hal that he eventually got more inappropriate and it did cross my mind that he was told to step up his game, but nothing more than that. He ended up stepping over the proverbial line and was fired, but perhaps they wanted an excuse to let him go at that point and essentially set him up because they realized they needed someone with more sophisticated humor.
She was obviously offended as well she should have been. Hal Block just couldn't control himself with his remarks....
@@ParkerAllen2 everyone else was intellectual is a nice way of putting it. He never fit into the show because he was an ass and wasn't funny
I split a rib when Bennett referred to the chiropractor's patients as carcasses.
I would rather they spend a minute or so with Barry Fitzgerald and not rush another contestant out for a quickie. I wonder if the producers at this time felt that since another contestant was in the wings, they felt obligated to bring him or her out, if even for a truncated game?
I agree. It would have been interesting to hear something from Barry Fitzgerald and what he was up to at that moment.
Fitzgerald was a very man in real life. He may not have wanted to chit-chat after his appearance.
Not appearing on screen would be a disappointment for the contestant waiting, though.
Thanks very much. Block has always been one the great boors of our time.
I alway enjoy this show
Yes I love this show,
"Are they living organasms" Bahaha!! Well done Mr. Cerf.
How is "organism" hilarious to you?
If you've ever thought there was a resemblance between Barry and the Protestant minister in The Quiet Man, it's because the latter was his younger brother in real life, with the stage/birth name of Arthur Shields. Barry was born William Shields.
The last contestant sang birthday greetings for Western Union. I know that Western Union does not send telegrams of any kind these day, but I think there is another company that took up the slack when WU gave up the practice (they mostly shuffle money all over the world, now).
The other day I read an article about how in Japan it's still fashionable and popular to send telegrams for special occasions.
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Hal is reusing his 1st guess-pickup- lines
Lars Rye Jeppesen Oh not only him. Mr Untermeyer re-used his free guess from the very first episode again in the second or third episode, one of the two.
Why not? No re-runs, tape machines or CZcams back then. And episodes a week apart. I only noticed his three-peat “if you could trust your father/grandfather” because I’ve been binge-watching.
"Never Trust a woman" best death line ever. Go barry!
Dave Arcudi - Yes! I remember that... From “And Then There Were None.” Excellent movie.
'Depublican' a new word by John Daly.
Johan Bengtsson Even better -- "Demublican!" (1:48)
SaveThe TPC You're right, even better. :)
John was simply responding to that idiot Hal Block blending the names of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson.
@@TheCometHunter not that bad of joke, as this episode was presented near Presidential Election Day of 1952.
Uugh!!! Disappointed!
I love Barry Fitzgerald!
I wanted to hear him talk. Love his voice...
You would think over the years that the producers and stage crew would get the sound adjusted and instruct people to speak INTO THE MICROPHONE!
calm thyself, sweetie, this show is over 70 years old
Just remember, this was back in the early days of television! Sometimes things just weren’t done as well as we might be used to in this day and age!
Miss Whitney seems extremely unimpressed with Mr. Block
Galileocan g Most certainly. :)
That's OK, he was impressed with himself enough for two (though why I'll never know).
He was a creepy lecher.
He was like an elephant in a porcelain shop. Certainly didn't belong there. His comments seemed primitive, unpolished and uneducated to me and I had no joy whatsoever seeing/hearing him on the panel. He did not belong there and I'm glad he was later removed.
@Christina McIntosh I just watched that show an hour ago and I actually screamed out loud the words "disgusting creep".
At the same time, I feel sorry for how he was looked down on and treated by the other panel members and John but he brought it upon himself. In his defence - as much as I hated him on the show - maybe he was the type of person who could never do anything right, you know the type who actually means well but everything he does turns out to be a disaster... If indeed he was that type, I'm sorry for him. I'm also sorry for how he died. But all these can't take away the fact that he was really cringe-inducing on this show.
Notice how the first contestant is holding her hands while standing next to John. Picture of composure; or at least how to present yourself as being composed even if you're nervous.
Do they still have finishing schools? Or were all women taught how to stand properly?
First off, thanks for posting these!Someone may have asked this before but I haven't seen it in any comments I've read. Did Mr Daily receive the names of the guests prior to them signing in? Sometime I think he is familiar with them and sometimes I think he isn't.
Daly not only had their names in English, if natively in an Asian, Cyrillic or Arabic script, but he met them backstage beforehand where they discussed if they should not mention their surname of place of residence and such. He was a terrible snob on many levels, so in some cases they may not have seemed interesting enough to his tastes to remember by the time they came out and signed in. He had a habit with everyone, great and small, of using names other than the one they introduced themselves as or were known as, which is a social no-no. He would call a Joey JOE or a Richard DICK. Rarely did he use in speech the name provided him or the name that was their brand name in essence, as with a performer who is well known as...
It was incredible fake the way he would pretend to read the name on the chalkboard, making it seem as if he wondered if that's what it said, when you knew damn well he knew what it was.
Second game. Hal's spontaneous gambit was a lot funnier than the prepared one for game one. And yes, the panel got no where with that product, but it was sort of amusing anyway. The genius of the WML format.
soulierinvestments As noted above, I'm not totally convinced that one was spontaneous.
dizzyology soulierinvestments And as I also noted above, I think perhaps the 2nd game _was_ the prepared gambit of this episode -- if there was one at all, even though it didn't lead off with Hal Block.
SaveThe TPC That's my take on it too. The second one had a specific focus ("canoe") and obvious double-entendre potential ("Would a fella and his girl jump into one of these..." ) That sounds prepared, and it gets big laughs. The notion that prepared gambits were used ONLY with the first questioner remains unproved, and this one cssts doubt on it. But if it's an exception, it's the one that proves the rule. Certainly most of the obvious prepared gambits did come from the panelist that JD called on first.
dizzyology
Agreed.
SaveThe TPC Glad to see we're on the same page! And did you notice how carefully I kept my toes out of that thread about translation and text formatting and ... oh, whatever it was originally about? My inbox is *clean!*
I just noticed that at the 1:50 mark John Daly gives his ear a tug. That's usually a sign to a panelist to back away from the subject. Do you suppose he was giving Hal Block a signal to stay away from politics since he referred to it in his introduction of Daly?
Could be! If it wasn't just a random fidget, I can't imagine what else the ear tug would have been signalling here than to avoid politics.
What's My Line?
I'm working my way back through the entire series for the second time now. It's interesting that I find myself noticing things I didn't pick up on the first time I watched these over a year ago.
I thought it was meant to be Daly's right lobe that got tugged to send a signal. According to Wikipedia anyway. But anyway, yep I think so.
Miss Whitney is very attractive!
Looks like a movie star.
Yes she is. She didn't appear to be too amused by Hal Block's comments directed at her.
Jeff Vaughn
No, she certainly did not.
Wow. Bennett nailed it when he noted Miss Whitney's resemblance to Veronica Lake.
+Jeff Vaughn
She looked especially disgruntled at Hal's free guess: "I think she shakes very well." The way she averts her eyes in disgust, she certainly wasn't stirred to good thoughts towards Hal, especially after him coming up to her before she even did the walk of shame. It was the most negative response to him that I've seen from a female challenger so far. Most took it in stride rather graciously or with some amusement.
Personally I didn't think she was disgruntled so much; her expression was similar as the other guesses were made. I just think she was very nervous and loosened up a bit as things went along. She actually grinned as Hal was questioning her later.
I've defended Block in these comments before, but he's definitely turned up the dial. The rest of the panel have their moments, and I still say they were a bit mean to him, but he's slipping quickly.
I was about 2 months old when this was taking place.
it is so exciing,all this mistery guest that another contenstant should not be at the end
Father Fitzgibbon!
Bennett asks if the chiropractor's patients are fully clothed while she is fooling around with them! What must go through the minds of the panelists and viewers....oh jiminy crikets!
The first contestant was a chiropractor and has the title doctor. Compare the minimal education credentials of chiropractors to the much more extensive requirements for physical therapists. It defies logic and common sense to call chiropractors doctors. I feel sorry for folks who don’t distinguish real doctors from chiropractors and expect modern medicine from the latter.
I disagree. My chiropractor is a healer and has been a godsend.
He has advanced degrees and is highly adept at natural medicine.
MD's lack education in nutrition.
I respect good healers.
Agree. Here in Texas, a physical therapist must go through 8 years of the same kind of training a medical doctor goes through, something I think is a bit over the top for what they do. Chiropractors, on the other hand, constantly dismiss many real ailments such as ADHD as merely coming from spinal misalignments, which is dangerous and cruel. There is the occasional chiropractor who does someone a bit of good, but for the most part, it's utter quackery.
for me, regarding Hal Block & his constant comments towards the women guests that come onto the show, 1 or 2 jokes is funny, ha, ha; but as they are non-stop, it becomes tedious and looses the impact of a smart joke with good timing.
As I'm going through these episodes in order, I'm really looking forward to when Block is no longer on the panel. As you noted, an occasional quip regarding a woman's looks might be OK, but as the look on Miss Whitney's face demonstrated to me, Block could really be nothing short of creepy.
Brigit Kelly
This is my gripe as well. I can see why he was a good comedy writer for a scripted show, though. In that environment it’s helpful to rattle off as many jokes as you can. If you can come up with nine lame jokes and one funny one you’re doing fine, because only the good one will make it to the script.
On live TV there’s no chance to edit out the losers. It’s a bad vehicle for him.
His problem: He was not a comedian, he was a joke writer. Timing and pace were not his forte. The show improved when he was replaced by Steve Allen and Fred Allen.
Mary Corder I grew up in the time of these shows and watched them. Even though a different time with vastly different sensibilities he was a pig. He had no place on this show, then or now.
You're being generous. Block was a boor and a cad, and the more I watch (and re-watch) these episodes, I'm amazed he wasn't kicked off the show earlier.
Barry was so scary as Cookie in that Jack London story THE SEA WOLF
Block looked and sounded sleazy. I'd hate to see him with a few drinks on board
it is interesting to see how times have changed.
the sleeping bag maker was clearly disgusted at hal block's personal comment, but back then women had to take it. all she could do was look away.
these days, she would text her lawyer during the first commercial and hal would be notified of the law suit during the second commercial.
That's overstating the case. People don't get taken to court over comments like that (it would have to involve defaming the person's character). I agree that Hal's continued sleazery on this series was a repugnant facet of his society that belongs in the past (the 60s couldn't come fast enough!). But I think it's misleading to say that women would prosecute someone over a lewd comment. They continue to put up with the same crap, the difference is that today they can tell people to bog off without a scandal.
No, she was not disgusted. She gave those same looks to everyone. Why would she have been disgusted anyway? He just said she shakes very well after shaking his hand.
I wonder how Phyllis Cerf felt about her husband flirting with every young woman on the show.
I think, considering their very long and happy marriage, she must have understood Bennett's "flirtatious" behavior on WML to be totally non serious.
Is that Bill Goodwin doing the "Stopette" ads at the beginning?
Think so
19:55 Looks like an ear tug, but the panel was blindfolded. It could just be a personal mannerism sometimes.
This is the 4th use of the term “weenie.” Dorothy said it first on 29 Apr 1951 during the Hedda Hopper game. “Have you a weenie, Connie?” Then on 24 Aug 52, DK said “Not a weenie in the world.” Then on 17 Aug 1952, during the Perle Mesta game, John said, “I see weenies all over the place.”
I've always felt a little sorry for Block, as everyone seemed to treat him as an outsider. I now understand why: he simply had No social filters whatsoever... completely out of control.
Additionally, he would interject comments that disrupted the flow of the show...just not a fit for the show.
Hal an adult, in a teenager mindset 😮
Opening this with an anxious curiosity as to how he's going to hide the brogue and keep the game going. If they guess Msrcello Mastriani I guess he would have done a pretty good job of it!
So glad they replaced Block.
Hal Block: This may be the last chance I get (stands up and handshakes with the second female contestant, who looks like Lauren Bacall). 10:54
(How true said...)
Johan Bengtsson Serf was closer than you with Bacall with his 'Veronica Lake stand-in guess'. Absolute spitting image of Miss Lake.
I find it a tad bit surrealistic to be watching and hearing these ad libbed comments and quips being made at a time when Harry Truman was still President!
If you think that's surrealistic, imagine what it's like being born when Harry Truman was still President. I'm still trying to get used to the fact that we survived the Y2K crisis!
Back in '48, we kids shouted, " If you vote for Dewey, you're screwy, ....if you vote for
Truman, you're human ".
Late election night, Truman retired to bed, thinking Thomas Dewey
Had soundly defeated him. So did all the morning newspapers. He is later shown holding over his head the headline of Dewey defeats Truman. Truman goes on to guide us through the bombing of Japan; & put an end to WW2. He also released the pompous Gen. MacArthur of his duties, & sent him into retirement.
@@dcasper8514 always liked Truman's strong leadership personality, but I am sorry to disagree with you, General Douglas McArthur is an American hero. TRUMAN made it personal, he hated the General, probably for reasons still classified.
Everyone has their own
Opinion. You mentioned Truman hated Douglas Mac., it was the same on
The other side of the fence. Gen. MacArthur, (West Point grad), hated to be tethered by Truman, a (a non grad).& brought home,thus quelling a March into North Korea, which was being supported by China.
Look at Arlene in this session.
She has not yet begun her makeover
process: see eyebrows.
WML always had an affinity for the comic potential of chiropractors. I do not remember it ever booking an allergist. Or osteopath.
soulierinvestments There was apparently an osteopath as a contestant in a lost show: www.tv.com/shows/whats-my-line/episodes/
They never had a podiatrist on, either. You'd think that would be a line ripe for laughs, too.
+soulierinvestments Is there comic potential in chiropractic? Maybe if they twist a head off.
fishhead06 Much closer to comedy than to medicine
@@TyrSkyFatherOfTheGods there's comic potential in the fact they expect people to take them seriously as doctors rather than the frauds nearly all of them are.
All throughout their years, the WML panel always seems to struggle with chiropractors.
Can’t blame them. Misleadingly Chiropractors are titled “doctor” but really don’t deserve that title. Nurse practitioners, physicians assistants and physical therapists are much more deserving.
@@igkoigko9950 Agreed.
I watched this just to see how Barry FItzgerald would disguise his giveaway voice. He said nothing but yeah and naw. As he walked off I was amazed how short he is! A little more than 5" tall.
Tom Thumb? Lol
People are things #stay in school kids #dont do drugs kids
Bennett: she may be a dermatologist
Dimples: looks horrified 😂
Singing telegrams wow! ❤
Of course a man and a women could both get in a sleeping bag IF it was big enough. Daly put a NO there 'cause he thought ti was too sexual. The young woman looks like she could be related to Lauren Bacall.
Did John cut his eyebrow?
Miss Whitney didnt appear to be impressed with Mr Block.
Not a Hal Block fan.
I don't want to add any spoilers but Mr. Fitzgerald played quite an evil character memorably in a film which long preceded this program. He denied he played any such character on the program so I won't mention the name of the film or describe it.
+Edward Gold I will. You must be referring to "And Then There Were None". Delightful cast of characters.
+pyccoye Better you than me! Yes, that's the one.
They are playing the film tonight on CUNY TV and the TV listings alone make it very clear who the culprit is! So where is the mystery now?
There oughta be a law!
He was great in And Then There Were None (1945)
At the start it looked like Mr Daly had a cut above his eye & a hint of a shiner. Then the camera angles don’t show it.... Can’t find any mention
Early rather primitive television lighting perhaps?
How were these recorded in 1952? Tape?
Kinetoscope. A motion picture film camera attached to a TV camera’s monitor (or a stand alone monitor) so as to capture the images displayed on the monitor.
@@mikezimmermann89 Thanks!
How does a singer work with her hands?
What's the purpose of looking at their hands?
Sleeping bags are not usually used in the 🏡
Sleepovers and power outages, we used sleeping bags by the fireplace. 😃😃
Hal Block was the Artie Lange of this show.
Obviously Hal had NOT seen the movie “The Quiet Man”, because John Wayne was the actor who that description fit the character he played.
Mr. Daly seems a bit extra on this night.
I hate the way the mystery guest is often hustled off without ceremony. I would like to hear them speak as themselves before they leave the program.
I was appalled that the last contestant had a few minutes more. DALY didnt give the panel more time.😮
Hal Block was extremely funny but I could see how over time he could also get on people's nerves, which from what I've read led to him being pulled from this show.
Hal was an adult in a teenager mindset 😮
Barry Fitzgerald was a little guy.
It's odd the panel had such a difficult time with the sleeping bag; in an earlier episode, there was another contestant who either made or sold sleeping bags.
A chiropractor is not a Doctor.
Maybe back then they may have been called that, but since 1966 the AMA does not accept chiropracty.
There other types of doctors. Dentists, people with PhD etc.
In 2016 The AMA accepts Chiropractors as Medical Personnel. It’s covered now by many insurers
Merri Cat And every other type of doctor has significantly more education than chiropractors.
Dam hal block passed that 2nd contestant off. He sure was obnoxious
I am so SICK of Hal on EVERY episode, "Can I, can I, can I." UGGHHHH
Was the first contestant the first chiropractor they ever had on the show?
It seems like they have it well in hand (no pun intended...ok, a little one) after the first go round, no?
Yes, she was the first.
Why Did Dorothy always want to see Peoples Hands?
I'm still trying to figure out, after all this time, who the heck Hal Block was...
Michael Klein Hal Block was a renown comedy writer. Among others, he also wrote gags for Bob Hope, while he was entertaining the troops during WW2.
Hey, thanks for educating me! His name sounded so familiar to me but I couldn't place it. Greatly appreciate your help! Michael
Michael Klein You're welcome! :)
Think of him as a 1950's version of Conan O'Brien, only 1/10 as funny.
He fell into obscurity after ca. 1955. He got a criminal record later. Oh and he suffered serious injuries in a house fire in 1981, dying from this injuries 3 months later.
I find it odd (not just this episode) how often John has to repeat the questions ... they do not appear to be all that much physically apart ... contestants & the panel ...
Thank goodness they got rid of that ridiculous and degrading walk in front of the panel.
That exiting behind John Charles Daly wasn’t much better.
The program definitely improved over the years .