What a powerful couple Anne Bancroft and Mel Brookes made! Such talent and intelligence from each one! She had an Italian ancestry. Mel Brookes must have kept her laughing.
I went to Christopher Columbus High School in the Bronx, the same time she attended. I would see her walking down the school hallway and my heart would skip!..I never had the courage to speak to her. She was in many of the school plays which I of course attended. Her name was "Anne Italiano" and of course I had a crush on her for the longest time!..She died much too young!....
She was an extraordinary actress - gifted and insightful and brought to the screen and stage some of the most memorable and important female characters in our generation. She was also a lovely woman in real life
She was such a classy refined lady that Mel Brooks her lifetime husband was in awe of her. He relaxed when he knew her NY working class roots, her real name (Anna Italiano) and her passion for someone who could make her laugh.
i so admired Anne Bancroft in the film, The Miracle Worker. both her and Patty Duke. as a matter of fact, i relived the well scene just now as i was watching Ms. Bancroft, and sobbed my eyes out. it's amazing what Annie Sullivan did for Helen Keller. i am going to look up the movie right now and see if i can find it on-line so i can watch again soon.
One of Anne Bancroft's most memorable roles was that of Mrs. Robinson in "The Graduate". Dustin Hoffman played the "young" college grad having an affair with an older lady that is friends with his parents. In real life she was only 6 years older than Hoffman. When the movie was released Hoffman was 30 and Bancroft 36. Fantastic performances by both
What a group of class act people. That sophistication and intellectuality is so missed and lacking in todays world. Sadly would never be appreciated by an Apprentice era audience.
Anne Bancroft was beautiful and talented. When she died in 2005, it was one of the saddest days of her husband Mel Brooks. He was heartbroken over her passing (Undoubtedly still is, too). Bottom line: Anne Bancroft left this world way too soon.
Aritosthenes Now you know. One thing I didn't know about her until now is that she was Italian-American. She was born to Italian immigrants as Anna Maria Louisa Italiano.
I loved it when I heard part of an interview with her... she was asked “Why did you marry a guy like Mel Brooks.” She answered with “He makes me laugh!”
@@kentetalman9008 I have no idea… it was an old interview someone did with her and I only heard that snippet. It seemed like a ridiculous question to me, but I liked her answer.
That was her “screen voice.” Her actual speaking voice was about an octave lower, and when she wasn’t in front of a camera her voice was peppered with “Brooklynese.” In this compilation, you can hear her actual speaking voice: czcams.com/video/XTujWe175Ts/video.html
gordie eccles You need guts to take the role of an unpopular figure in a play. There is always the risk of being identified with the role, and not judged by your ability in acting. There has been a lot of actors/actresses who has become loved by the public because of several popular role-figures they have done, but they were not always beloved or nice in private matters. Anne Bancroft was a splendid actress in "the Graduate". :)
The next time you watch DON'T BOTHER TO KNOCK (and you should watch that film at least once; it's very good!), which was Anne Bancroft's movie debut in 1952, keep in mind that she was only TWENTY years old when she played lounge singer Lyn Lesley. But she certainly looked and acted a lot older and more experienced - and quite well, too.
What a genius Anne was. I loved all of her performances. And she's so sweet and humble here. So different from today's celebrities. Today, many of them are so full of them selves. And they can't even compare to the talent that existed back then. I was just a kid then. So, this is just my opinion. And I loved seeing Anne do sign language. I'm guessing she must have learned it for her role in the Miracle Worker. And I thought it was really adorable when Anne asked what the word Onerous meant. It showed that she didn't know everything despite who she was, and that she was humble enough to ask. Priceless. I really enjoyed seeing Anne here on What's my line. And I can see why Mel Brooks fell in love with Anne Bancroft. I would have too.
That was some kiss Cerf and Bancroft exchanged! LOVED her in one of the greatest movies ever made, The Graduate. She brings an immaculate grace to The Elephant Man too.
@@poetcomic1 I think the Italian background is irrelevant here, Bancroft could have been her real name regardless of the degree of her education, I know you meant well given your comment about her elegance but the post makes it sound that just became her real name is what it is, then it explains her lack of vocabulary.
@@sdkelmaruecan2907 Shanty Irish, Back of the Yard Polish, my own low class Jewish back ground. NO apologies whatsoever for people being who they are and certainly no insult intended.
Last week, I celebrated my 60th birthday. I have fond memories of Ann Bancroft’s movies, she truly was a great actress. It’s easy to watch her movies multiple times!
@@nassauguy48 OK, then …sweet corn, and more than a little contrived at times. Those WML names defined in full: Cerf - (i) An overbearing and rather pompous person who makes creepy remarks to females. (ii) A Pisstaker (iii) A Smartarse. Daly - (i) An extremely verbose fellow. (ii) Mildly creepy, especially around beautiful young women (iii) A corn merchant.
Anne Bancroft gave the best Oscar-winning performance ever given by an Actress in a Leading Role even ahead of Meryl Streep's magnificent performance in "Sophie's Choice".
The kitchen Scene in The Miracle Worker was one of the most powerful ever put on film. It leaves you exhausted. Also, Anne Bancroft's performance in the very depressing, but highly dramatic, The Pumpkin Eater is equally impressive.
Anne Bancroft was such a class act. I loved her in everything from The Miracle Worker to 84 Charing Cross Road. And she was married to the comedy genius Mel Brooks!
My all time favorite actress. And her marriage to Mel Brooks always seemed like a match made in heaven, as bizarre as it might have initially struck people on the surface.
Love Anne Bancroft. If you want to see two amazing actors. At the very top of their game. Watch " prisoner of 2nd avenue" Jack Lemon and Anne Bancroft are spectacular in it!!!!
That's because this was originally shot in 35mm, which is the highest definition format other than 65mm, although of course they were originally broadcast in sub-HD format then; some of the prints are better preserved in digital copies than others.
Mel Brooks would come by the yogurt shop I use to work at and he was the nicest customer I had ever served. He would bring his wife Anne and Carl Reiner with his wife. One time I told her I just watched Don’t Bother To Knock with Marilyn Monroe and Ann Bancroft and the only problem was I didn’t know who to look at,her or Marilyn. She just smiled.
When Mel Brooks first met Anne Bancroft he was immediately smitten. But he did not want to appear too eager and scare her off. She was leaving and he bribed her maid to tell him where she was going. He then showed up at the nightclub she was at and acted all surprised and happy to run into her.
I loved Anne Bancroft! She died too soon. She and Patty Duke originated their parts in The Miracle Worker on Broadway and starred in the great film version, both actreses won Oscars for their performance.
I can see why Mel Brooks chased Anne Bancroft. God rest her soul. A great actress and a wonderful human being. So humble and real. Not like today’s celebrities who get so full of themselves. Love she signed as ASL would be part of our school curriculum. It’s unbelievable we cannot communicate and still shun millions of deaf citizens and those who suffer from vocal loss.
Another wonderful performanceshe gave was in The Pumpkin Eater a British art house film for which she received a nomination Julie Andrew's who won that year for Mary Poppins because she was not cast in My Fair Lady stated years later in one of her autobiographies that she felt that Anne really deserved it
i've been binge-watching this show over a period of weeks and thoroughly enjoy sampling the general kindness and esprit de corp of the panel members. what a very different time it was. it has to be said, though, that John Daly's hostility, at times, is unprofessional and dismaying. it's remarkable how the usual panel members can keep a smile going.
It's funny that in the early 1960's so many people did not associate Crabs with eating or with Baltimore or even as being a well known shellfish. They seemed to hit every shellfish in the book before they got to it.
Today, whenever a sports event with a national audience such as the Preakness or an Orioles or Ravens game is broadcast, the commentators invariably make it a point to let the viewers know how much they enjoyed the crabcakes they had for dinner the night before.
I was eleven when I first saw the beautiful, classy Anne Bancroft on this show. I'll always remember her, in Point of No Return (1993,) delivering the line, "I never did mind about the little things."
I like that Bancroft, Daly and the panel talk a bit with her instead of the celebrity most of the time jumping up and leaving with out a 30 second interview.
John Daly was in the middle of explaining how the bomb act worked, and they cut him off! So the explosion creates a vacuum and then what?? The metal plate is sucked up? She pops out? Guess we'll never know. Interrupting can be good, but it can also be stupid!
During the late 1970's and early 1980's I worked in Feeding Hills, Mass. Every morning, on the way to work, I would drive past the Anne Sullivan Memorial Park and the birthplace of Anne Sullivan a short distance down the street.
@@JD_13 Because I fail to understand all of the unwarranted adulation and sycophancy that is attached to this ‘show’ and the phoniness of the panel made up of self-regarding ‘sophisticated people.’ The show is blatantly rigged for the most part and the contestants are subjected to insufferable patronising. What you describe as ‘hating’, I regard as criticism with a satirical edge. When the show aired is of little or no relevance.
@@LANCSKID when it aired IS relevant. It was so long ago, that your displeasure will have no effect whatsoever on this programme or the people involved, or their place in history. You just want to tell people you hate the show, even people who were here leaving a light hearted comment two years ago. That is really sad. The only thing that will come of this is people today see you have misplaced anger issues, and spend way to much energy commenting to people who only take these old videos on a whimsical light entertainment face value. Its not that serious!
@@JD_13 You seem intent on overlooking the fact that it is effectively being broadcast again and that as a result it generates a peculiar nostalgia wallow complete with irrelevant comments … “I was only two years old when this first aired,” “This episode date coincided with my parent’s wedding anniversary…” etc. Worse still, the vast majority of comments unleash a veritable tsunami of adulation for the (so-called) ‘mystery guest’. My issue is not so much one of hatred for the show (although I do think it is insufferably corny and weighed down with its artifice) but the fact that many people fail to see through its vacuity and phoniness but instead, actually enjoy it. I am not a lone voice with ‘misplaced anger issues’, but I am a serious student of post WW2 American and European ‘culture’, undertaking research possibly for a book in due course. What’s My Line? My line is straight - none of us are the jobs we do, and when such considerations become our measure, they are also that which contain us.
Helen Keller was the greatest ambassador from the state of Alabama encouraging us all to never let our inabilities to hold us back. If she could overcome hers surely we can also.
They need some Chesapeake education... YES, there are clams in the Bay! And hard-shell crabs and soft-shell crabs are the same crab... they become soft shell when they molt/shed their hard shell. Lobsters... exist in the Bay, but not well known. Funny how it took them a while to get to crabs, I guess they hadn't reached such popularity in the early 60s. I'm a Maryland-raised crab snob, LOL.
the great actress Anne Bancroft appears about 18:45. She looks so pretty in that short or pulled back hairstyle. almost all actors until recently chose a stage name. Ms. Bancroft's full birth name is Anna Maria Louisa Italiano, and yes she was a full blooded Italian american. At that time Italian actors were still usually and unfairly stereotyped and typecast into mafia, dancing, singing, and making great pasta. It is depressing that most movies about Italians or Italians in roles are of the same stereotype. stupid simple minded americans still desire to see these stereotypical portrayals of Italian Americans. most of us italian americans hate the mafia, etc. here's a beginners list of Italian Americans who were great inventors, writers, physicists, writers, etc. Ms Bancroft died at the age of 75 in 2005 of uterine cancer. She is a much better actor than robert dinero imho. She won an academy award in 1960 called the miracle worker. "Blind and deaf after suffering a terrible fever as a baby, young Helen Keller (Patty Duke) has spent years unable to communicate, leaving her frustrated and occasionally violent. As a last chance before she is institutionalized, her parents (Inga Swenson, Andrew Prine) contact a school for the blind, which sends half-blind Annie Sullivan (Anne Bancroft) to teach Helen. Helen is initially resistant, but Annie gradually forms a bond with her and shows Helen ways of reaching others". both Bancroft and the the ten year old Patty Duke won academy awards for there parts as Sullivan and Keller as child. czcams.com/video/crV5q2j9DBI/video.html en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Italian_Americans www.google.com/search?q=Anne+Bancroft&num=20&newwindow=1&safe=off&site=webhp&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAWoVChMIvYaW0qvExwIVgRCSCh0FTwfJ&biw=1280&bih=644#imgrc=_XtAnej76xO_DM%3A
Mel Brooks... I was trying to remember her husband's name. She was in a movie, Torch song trilogy about her son who was gay. She played a great Jewish mother.
poetcomic1 Back then, middle-class people did not eat crabs. It was something you might eat on the shore as a novelty. Poor whites and blacks ate crab when they were in season.
1201NColombo As a child of the 60's, one of my fondest "middle class" memories is eating huge portions of "crab" at my Grandparents home @ family gatherings & holidays. It makes perfect sense that those living near either coast would enjoy this delicacy. EVERYONE ate seasonally, back then. When I die, I am going back to the 60's!
@@1201NColombo I don't know how you define the different classes but everyone in my town ate crabs. But eventually they got so expensive that the only poor people eating crabs were people who went out and caught them.
*_CRAB FISHERMAN_* *_DOES HUMAN BOMB ACT, BLOWING SELF UP WITH DYNAMITE_* Allen Ludden wore a wedding ring, but wasn't married. His first wife died in 1961. He married Betty White in June 1963.
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One of America's greatest actresses, charming, graceful, well spoken and just all around class. Mel was a lucky man.
Notice how Ms. Bancroft was using sign language while she was being questioned by the panel....so awesome!
What a powerful couple Anne Bancroft and Mel Brookes made! Such talent and intelligence from each one! She had an Italian ancestry. Mel Brookes must have kept her laughing.
Anne Bancroft is one of the best characters to ever come out of Hollywood!
Whenever Anne appeared onscreen one had the feeling that they were witnessing not only her physical beauty but also the beauty of her soul.
🙄
I went to Christopher Columbus High School in the Bronx, the same time she attended. I would see her walking down the school hallway and my heart would skip!..I never had the courage to speak to her. She was in many of the school plays which I of
course attended. Her name was "Anne Italiano" and of course I had a crush on her for the longest time!..She died much too
young!....
I can certainly understand being too intimidated to approach such a classic beauty, even when she was a teenager! :)
Salvatore Pedi how old are you?
@@ck_banana_noob7145 old as hell for sure
iraqi beast I am 15
@@ck_banana_noob7145 If he went to school with Anne he would be somewhere in his 80s
Anne is so extraordinary. Even her micro gestures and subtle expressions are captivating.
And she's especially pretty with that short hair style.
On second look, I see that it's not a short style. She has her hair put back and up.
My word, she has such an engaging on-screen presence in this show!
She was an extraordinary actress - gifted and insightful and brought to the screen and stage some of the most memorable and important female characters in our generation. She was also a lovely woman in real life
Donald Kramer I SECOND that!
Her husband thought so
Wholeheartedly agree! Anne was tops! 😍
And you know this (she was a lovely woman) how?
She was such a classy refined lady that Mel Brooks her lifetime husband was in awe of her. He relaxed when he knew her NY working class roots, her real name (Anna Italiano) and her passion for someone who could make her laugh.
i so admired Anne Bancroft in the film, The Miracle Worker. both her and Patty Duke. as a matter of fact, i relived the well scene just now as i was watching Ms. Bancroft, and sobbed my eyes out. it's amazing what Annie Sullivan did for Helen Keller. i am going to look up the movie right now and see if i can find it on-line so i can watch again soon.
One of Anne Bancroft's most memorable roles was that of Mrs. Robinson in "The Graduate". Dustin Hoffman played the "young" college grad having an affair with an older lady that is friends with his parents. In real life she was only 6 years older than Hoffman. When the movie was released Hoffman was 30 and Bancroft 36. Fantastic performances by both
Jeff Vaughn;Yes it was a great movie
Really? Hm, I need to check that one out 🤣
Anyone watching this would know Mrs Robinson.
That was an eye-opening picture in its day.
Interestingly, I don't think she was nominated for an Oscar for that role.
What a group of class act people. That sophistication and intellectuality is so missed and lacking in todays world. Sadly would never be appreciated by an Apprentice era audience.
That's right !
Anne Bancroft was beautiful and talented. When she died in 2005, it was one of the saddest days of her husband Mel Brooks. He was heartbroken over her passing (Undoubtedly still is, too).
Bottom line: Anne Bancroft left this world way too soon.
Aritosthenes Now you know.
One thing I didn't know about her until now is that she was Italian-American. She was born to Italian immigrants as Anna Maria Louisa Italiano.
Vahan Nisanian One of the saddest days for America. And the world, perhaps?
I loved it when I heard part of an interview with her... she was asked “Why did you marry a guy like Mel Brooks.” She answered with “He makes me laugh!”
@@louismazzei5862 Who would ask such a stupid question?
@@kentetalman9008 I have no idea… it was an old interview someone did with her and I only heard that snippet. It seemed like a ridiculous question to me, but I liked her answer.
Anne Bancroft seemed to be a very down to earth woman in addition to being very talented. Thanks for the video.
Anne Bancroft was a remarkable person both onscreen and off. One of my favorite actresses.
What a wonderful voice she had!
That was her “screen voice.” Her actual speaking voice was about an octave lower, and when she wasn’t in front of a camera her voice was peppered with “Brooklynese.” In this compilation, you can hear her actual speaking voice:
czcams.com/video/XTujWe175Ts/video.html
Who? Mrs. Goggins?
Anne Bancroft, what a great actress and very beautiful woman.
I've always had an Anne Bancroft crush ever since first watching her on screen.
TBBMusicBlog Anne Bancroft and Ava Gardner. Two outstanding Ladies.
gordie eccles You need guts to take the role of an unpopular figure in a play. There is always the risk of being identified with the role, and not judged by your ability in acting. There has been a lot of actors/actresses who has become loved by the public because of several popular role-figures they have done, but they were not always beloved or nice in private matters. Anne Bancroft was a splendid actress in "the Graduate". :)
gordie eccles :D
The next time you watch DON'T BOTHER TO KNOCK (and you should watch that film at least once; it's very good!), which was Anne Bancroft's movie debut in 1952, keep in mind that she was only TWENTY years old when she played lounge singer Lyn Lesley. But she certainly looked and acted a lot older and more experienced - and quite well, too.
Amen.
What a genius Anne was. I loved all of her performances. And she's so sweet and humble here. So different from today's celebrities. Today, many of them are so full of them selves. And they can't even compare to the talent that existed back then. I was just a kid then. So, this is just my opinion. And I loved seeing Anne do sign language. I'm guessing she must have learned it for her role in the Miracle Worker. And I thought it was really adorable when Anne asked what the word Onerous meant. It showed that she didn't know everything despite who she was, and that she was humble enough to ask. Priceless. I really enjoyed seeing Anne here on What's my line. And I can see why Mel Brooks fell in love with Anne Bancroft. I would have too.
Yes indeed! The pumpkin eater is an extraordinary picture.
I would have to vote for The Graduate as my favorite Anne Bancroft film,
@@oliviafontaine8470 My first exposure to her, when they showed that on UK television. I wept and wept, and never stopped adoring her after that.
That was some kiss Cerf and Bancroft exchanged! LOVED her in one of the greatest movies ever made, The Graduate. She brings an immaculate grace to The Elephant Man too.
Right you are ! Hardly anyone speaks about The elephant man, I don't know why.
I was impressed that Anne Bancroft was not ashamed to admit that she did not know what onerous meant.
SaveThe TPC She was not very educated her real name is Anna Italiano and she is from a lower class Italian family. her elegance was natural.
@@poetcomic1 I think the Italian background is irrelevant here, Bancroft could have been her real name regardless of the degree of her education, I know you meant well given your comment about her elegance but the post makes it sound that just became her real name is what it is, then it explains her lack of vocabulary.
@@sdkelmaruecan2907 Shanty Irish, Back of the Yard Polish, my own low class Jewish back ground. NO apologies whatsoever for people being who they are and certainly no insult intended.
Anne was no snobby that's why!
@@poetcomic1 well she is an actress not a scholar, who says onerous or riveting or esoterical in a movie?!!!!
Last week, I celebrated my 60th birthday. I have fond memories of Ann Bancroft’s movies, she truly was a great actress. It’s easy to watch her movies multiple times!
Classic Italian beauty------timeless, classic, & gorgeous! ----------------------Wolfsky9, 71 y/o
She's so beautiful!!!
Was 😪
I adored this woman! She was completely amazing in Garbo Talks. Her monologue at the end was so beautiful.
This show is pure class.
Pure corn, actually.
@@LANCSKID I disagree. It was devoid of the loudness, raunchy humor, and overly casual wardrobes of today's quiz and talent show celebrities.
@@nassauguy48 OK, then …sweet corn, and more than a little contrived at times.
Those WML names defined in full:
Cerf - (i) An overbearing and rather pompous person who makes creepy remarks to females. (ii) A Pisstaker (iii) A Smartarse.
Daly - (i) An extremely verbose fellow. (ii) Mildly creepy, especially around beautiful young women (iii) A corn merchant.
Anne Bancroft gave the best Oscar-winning performance ever given by an Actress in a Leading Role even ahead of Meryl Streep's magnificent performance in "Sophie's Choice".
Anne was so kind and Humble, almost have tears, we need this kind of person and Talent Today !
The kitchen Scene in The Miracle Worker was one of the most powerful ever put on film. It leaves you exhausted. Also, Anne Bancroft's performance in the very depressing, but highly dramatic, The Pumpkin Eater is equally impressive.
Anne Bancroft was such a class act. I loved her in everything from The Miracle Worker to 84 Charing Cross Road. And she was married to the comedy genius Mel Brooks!
What joy to see her after a remarkable, no doubt strenuous performance of Miracle Worker. She is miraculous!
I don't like many of the movies from the 60's, but Miracle Worker was an exception. Both she and Patty Duke knocked it out of the park!
RIP Anne Bancroft. One of the greatest actresses
She was radiant.
Anne is one of the greatest actress A great talent who married another talent Mel brooks
They were both great in, To Be Or Not to Be. A more than credible remake of the Carole Lombard/Jack Benny classic
One of America's all-time greatest actresses who left us bereft and all too soon.
The Miracle Work is an EXTRAORDINARY film. Five Stars.
I agree wholeheartedly!!!
She was, and always will be, a beautiful woman and a class act...
A natural beauty and what a talent!
Miss Bancroft reminded me so much of Callas in this appearance.
meh....
Ahaha same
An underrated actress. Theatre-trained like Geraldine Page, she packs a punch on the screen. Star quality truly.
She's one of the few actresses who had won an Emmy, an Oscar and a Tony. I would not call that "underrated".
one of the greatest actresses of all time! and so beautiful!
Every time I see Anne Bancroft I always remember that heartbreaking and tragic movie 'Night Mother'.
Broadcast FIVE days after our family escaped from CUBA and arrived in Miami! ♥
What a signature! I can hardly look at her, she is so beautiful. How I miss her. Life is so unfair.
My all time favorite actress. And her marriage to Mel Brooks always seemed like a match made in heaven, as bizarre as it might have initially struck people on the surface.
What's My Line? She was my favourite very time I saw her! What a beautiful creature, inside & out, she was. 🌹
Love Anne Bancroft. If you want to see two amazing actors. At the very top of their game. Watch " prisoner of 2nd avenue" Jack Lemon and Anne Bancroft are spectacular in it!!!!
And very funny film !
ADORE and own that film! ♥♥♥♥
The clarity of image on the panellists faces around the 14 to 16 minute mark is extraordinary.
That's because this was originally shot in 35mm, which is the highest definition format other than 65mm, although of course they were originally broadcast in sub-HD format then; some of the prints are better preserved in digital copies than others.
Thanks for posting. Awesome viewing for an '80's kid like me. Love it!
Anne Bancroft was on again less than a year later (April '63) the night before she won her Academy Award.
Mel Brooks and Anne are an example of what a relationship could be.
Mel Brooks would come by the yogurt shop I use to work at and he was the nicest customer I had ever served. He would bring his wife Anne and Carl Reiner with his wife. One time I told her I just watched Don’t Bother To Knock with Marilyn Monroe and Ann Bancroft and the only problem was I didn’t know who to look at,her or Marilyn. She just smiled.
So good to watch this wonderful show.
When Mel Brooks first met Anne Bancroft he was immediately smitten. But he did not want to appear too eager and scare her off. She was leaving and he bribed her maid to tell him where she was going. He then showed up at the nightclub she was at and acted all surprised and happy to run into her.
I loved Anne Bancroft! She died too soon. She and Patty Duke originated their parts in The Miracle Worker on Broadway and starred in the great film version, both actreses won Oscars for their performance.
I can see why Mel Brooks chased Anne Bancroft. God rest her soul. A great actress and a wonderful human being. So humble and real. Not like today’s celebrities who get so full of themselves.
Love she signed as ASL would be part of our school curriculum. It’s unbelievable we cannot communicate and still shun millions of deaf citizens and those who suffer from vocal loss.
Another wonderful performanceshe gave was in The Pumpkin Eater a British art house film for which she received a nomination Julie Andrew's who won that year for Mary Poppins because she was not cast in My Fair Lady stated years later in one of her autobiographies that she felt that Anne really deserved it
i've been binge-watching this show over a period of weeks and thoroughly enjoy sampling the general kindness and esprit de corp of the panel members. what a very different time it was. it has to be said, though, that John Daly's hostility, at times, is unprofessional and dismaying. it's remarkable how the usual panel members can keep a smile going.
It's funny that in the early 1960's so many people did not associate Crabs with eating or with Baltimore or even as being a well known shellfish. They seemed to hit every shellfish in the book before they got to it.
Today, whenever a sports event with a national audience such as the Preakness or an Orioles or Ravens game is broadcast, the commentators invariably make it a point to let the viewers know how much they enjoyed the crabcakes they had for dinner the night before.
She had the most BEAUTIFUL Face! ♥️
Anne Bancroft. Stunning Actress.
Allen Ludden was a handsome man.
G. Green Betty thought so, too!! Adored them both.
@gcjerryusc I believe it was all for comic effect. She truly loved him, and never married again after he died
The people who appeared on this show, in that era were so incredibly polite and poised. What in God's name happened to recent generations?
Crewel Perle They're on their best behaviour for TV. Off camera I bet they swore like troopers.
I’m with you Crewel. Class acts the like of which we will never see again.
@@davidsanderson5918 Maybe, but they kept it off camera.
I believe you are right Crewel. Manners, class, taste, and decorum are in short supply in these times!
Social media destroyed people.
one of the best actresses ..
Anne Bancroft is beautiful & so expressive.
Anne is one classy lady.
Loved Anne Bancroft
How beautiful you are, Mrs. Robinson.
Anne Bancroft was absolutely beautiful. Classy woman.
What a gorgeous, sweet woman!
I was eleven when I first saw the beautiful, classy Anne Bancroft on this show. I'll always remember her, in Point of No Return (1993,) delivering the line, "I never did mind about the little things."
I like that Bancroft, Daly and the panel talk a bit with her instead of the celebrity most of the time jumping up and leaving with out a 30 second interview.
I agree, and trying to fit in another contestant, with which they're always short of time anyway.
Ok. The two most beautiful talented and brilliant women who ever lived on one stage! Dorothy and Anne!
How wonderful to see Ms ANNE BANCROFT -Great actor-wish we have a time machine-the 60s-70s-thank-you- greetings from England 2021
Anne Bancroft absolute knockout
She was BEAUTIFUL inside and out
Johnny Olsen....can't forget that voice ever.
Yes, ridiculous and extremely irritating.
If you ever get the chance, I guarantee you will enjoy Anne Bancroft’s dramatic performance
in ‘The Pumpkin Eater’.
RIP to two beautiful, wonderful actresses, Anne Bancroft & Patty Duke.
Both dead n their 60's too young.
😢😢😢
@@stumack9755 Patty was 69 and Anne was 73 when they passed.
Anne Bancroft is so lovely! ⚘
John Daly was in the middle of explaining how the bomb act worked, and they cut him off! So the explosion creates a vacuum and then what?? The metal plate is sucked up? She pops out? Guess we'll never know. Interrupting can be good, but it can also be stupid!
During the late 1970's and early 1980's I worked in Feeding Hills, Mass. Every morning, on the way to work, I would drive past the Anne Sullivan Memorial Park and the birthplace of Anne Sullivan a short distance down the street.
For me, one lovely lady . Miss Anne Bancroft .
She was so so beautiful.❣️
What an elegant beauty!
Who? Mrs. Goggins?
Oh Mel you lucky dog !
Saw Anne Bancroft in the theater Miracle Worker and was in love with her.
A boy of 6 and Mel you stole her.
Anne Bancroft was so beautiful!
look at Anne...oh wow
"Throw that bomb out go here !!!" I laughed out loud. Daly implied that joke was a bomb. Funny.
Bennett's first couple of questions were absolutely on the money!
Yes, he remembered what he had been told to say on this rigged show.
@@LANCSKID why have you left so many comments hating on a show that aired over 60 years ago, get a life, lol 😂
@@JD_13 Because I fail to understand all of the unwarranted adulation and sycophancy that is attached to this ‘show’ and the phoniness of the panel made up of self-regarding ‘sophisticated people.’ The show is blatantly rigged for the most part and the contestants are subjected to insufferable patronising. What you describe as ‘hating’, I regard as criticism with a satirical edge. When the show aired is of little or no relevance.
@@LANCSKID when it aired IS relevant. It was so long ago, that your displeasure will have no effect whatsoever on this programme or the people involved, or their place in history. You just want to tell people you hate the show, even people who were here leaving a light hearted comment two years ago. That is really sad.
The only thing that will come of this is people today see you have misplaced anger issues, and spend way to much energy commenting to people who only take these old videos on a whimsical light entertainment face value. Its not that serious!
@@JD_13 You seem intent on overlooking the fact that it is effectively being broadcast again and that as a result it generates a peculiar nostalgia wallow complete with irrelevant comments … “I was only two years old when this first aired,” “This episode date coincided with my parent’s wedding anniversary…” etc. Worse still, the vast majority of comments unleash a veritable tsunami of adulation for the (so-called) ‘mystery guest’. My issue is not so much one of hatred for the show (although I do think it is insufferably corny and weighed down with its artifice) but the fact that many people fail to see through its vacuity and phoniness but instead, actually enjoy it. I am not a lone voice with ‘misplaced anger issues’, but I am a serious student of post WW2 American and European ‘culture’, undertaking research possibly for a book in due course. What’s My Line? My line is straight - none of us are the jobs we do, and when such considerations become our measure, they are also that which contain us.
Helen Keller was the greatest ambassador from the state of Alabama encouraging us all to never let our inabilities to hold us back. If she could overcome hers surely we can also.
I love her so much ❤... I just fell in love with her when I watched the graduate
Coo Coo Ca Choo
They need some Chesapeake education... YES, there are clams in the Bay! And hard-shell crabs and soft-shell crabs are the same crab... they become soft shell when they molt/shed their hard shell. Lobsters... exist in the Bay, but not well known. Funny how it took them a while to get to crabs, I guess they hadn't reached such popularity in the early 60s. I'm a Maryland-raised crab snob, LOL.
the great actress Anne Bancroft appears about 18:45. She looks so pretty in that short or pulled back hairstyle. almost all actors until recently chose a stage name. Ms. Bancroft's full birth name is Anna Maria Louisa Italiano, and yes she was a full blooded Italian american. At that time Italian actors were still usually and unfairly stereotyped and typecast into mafia, dancing, singing, and making great pasta. It is depressing that most movies about Italians or Italians in roles are of the same stereotype. stupid simple minded americans still desire to see these stereotypical portrayals of Italian Americans. most of us italian americans hate the mafia, etc. here's a beginners list of Italian Americans who were great inventors, writers, physicists, writers, etc. Ms Bancroft died at the age of 75 in 2005 of uterine cancer. She is a much better actor than robert dinero imho. She won an academy award in 1960 called the miracle worker.
"Blind and deaf after suffering a terrible fever as a baby, young Helen Keller (Patty Duke) has spent years unable to communicate, leaving her frustrated and occasionally violent. As a last chance before she is institutionalized, her parents (Inga Swenson, Andrew Prine) contact a school for the blind, which sends half-blind Annie Sullivan (Anne Bancroft) to teach Helen. Helen is initially resistant, but Annie gradually forms a bond with her and shows Helen ways of reaching others".
both Bancroft and the the ten year old Patty Duke won academy awards for there parts as Sullivan and Keller as child.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Italian_Americans
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+John Doe I may be wrong but I thought Miss Bancroft is of Jewish Faith.
+Edwin Rivera Yes, you're wrong. She was Italian. (And while there is such a thing as an Italian Jew, she wasn't one of them).
Thank you for the information... It dos not matter to me. I love her and in everything she is in.
Edwin Rivera Mel Brooks, her husband for 51 years till she passed away, was Jewish. That's probably where the confusion comes from.
Mel Brooks... I was trying to remember her husband's name. She was in a movie, Torch song trilogy about her son who was gay. She played a great Jewish mother.
What a beautiful and charming lady!
Who? Mrs. Goggins?
when she's asked to spell What's My Line at 22:56, i'm reading the letters she signs as Y W A T E S - M Y - L Y N E
she gets a pass for being sweet
Great expectation the movie
Steve P good catch.
Anne almost reminds me of Aneta Corsaut with her hairstyle, both lovely women. ;)
Arlene is a living Doll.
Oh? Is her name Rhoda? (lol)
@@jmccracken1963 Arlene is a doll, as was Arlene Dahl...and Arlene Dahl is still with us at the age of 95!
Agree. Anyone looks good next to Dorothy, but Arlene’s beauty and class competes with mystery guests
What a stunning beauty.!!!
Anne Bancroft, born Anna Maria Itsliano and happily married for many years Me Brooks. Now there's a combination
Elegant lady
ErwinWoodedge;Yes she is
Mrs Goggins?
Can't believe there was a time when Maryland wasn't generally known for its famous crabs.
poetcomic1 Back then, middle-class people did not eat crabs. It was something you might eat on the shore as a novelty. Poor whites and blacks ate crab when they were in season.
1201NColombo As a child of the 60's, one of my fondest "middle class" memories is eating huge portions of "crab" at my Grandparents home @ family gatherings & holidays. It makes perfect sense that those living near either coast would enjoy this delicacy. EVERYONE ate seasonally, back then. When I die, I am going back to the 60's!
poetcomic1 i had a lover from Maryland. she gave me a painful case of crabs
@@1201NColombo I don't know how you define the different classes but everyone in my town ate crabs. But eventually they got so expensive that the only poor people eating crabs were people who went out and caught them.
*_CRAB FISHERMAN_*
*_DOES HUMAN BOMB ACT, BLOWING SELF UP WITH DYNAMITE_*
Allen Ludden wore a wedding ring, but wasn't married. His first wife died in 1961. He married Betty White in June 1963.