What's My Line? - Bette Davis; Tony Randall [panel] (Mar 29, 1964)
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- Note that I've left in the GSN bumper in tribute to Arlene at the start and close of this program. This copy must have aired around the time of her passing.
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MYSTERY GUEST: Bette Davis
PANEL: Dorothy Kilgallen, Tony Randall, Arlene Francis, Bennett Cerf
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Bette didn't even have to speak. She could speak volumes with a couple of looks. She was magnificent!
One legend, Bette Davis, complements another legend, Barbra Streisand.
If Barbra has a tribute, that clip of Bette Davis speaking her praises would be great to put in!
I liked Bette Davis acknowledging the audience, something that very few celebrities did.
Time to remind people that Goodson/Toddman carefully SAVED and stored most of their iconic game shows, unlike many other producers and networks. All of the kinescopes (filmed TV broadcasts designed for later viewing) of the pioneering Du Mont network were destroyed. Almost all of Johnny Carson's Tonight Show before 1972 were erased or junked by NBC because they said they needed the storage space. Almost all day time drama/Soap Operas, save "Dark Shadows" was trashed. Most of television history, like silent film has been lost, and lives only in the memory of those that originally saw it. A special thank-you to Mr. Goodman and Mr.Toddman.
Really love Tony Randall's sincerity towards the show/game. He always tries his best,doesn't take himself too seriously & has very good synergy with the rest of the panel.
Randall exudes vulnerability, which is an aspect of charm. A trait lacking in men today.
I always look forward to episodes with Tony Randall. He was the best.
I love the way Bette Davis salutes the studio audience by throwing a kiss! Very classy!
+Tom S. i noticed that in the episodes she appeared in she makes a point to acknowledge the crowd which is a neat gesture on her part.
+Thomas Warfel: I think she understands the mutual relationship between a performer and the audience! They are nothing without each other.
That type of entertainer...the ones who appreciated and respected their audiences...no longer seems to exist.
Bette Davis was pure class in every way!!!!!
@Tom S. - I wonder if it was a bit easier back then for people who had done live theater to make the connection that they needed the audience in the theater or in the seats at their films to thrive since they had a talent to offer. Nowadays we have so many who are famous for being famous and really owe their success on several levels to broadcasters, columnists, and talk show hosts who create their fame instead of their creative or interpretive artistry making them of value to all.
I love Arlene Francis - she was wonderful
56 here looks great
Greatest actress ever. No one will ever take her place. Had such class. Miss Davis was greatly admired by many.
One can easily be forgiven for the guilty pleasure of watching her films repeatedly. She never disappoints!
@@luissantiago8446 Right! Davis always "delivered". The lady loved her work and boy, did it show
And yet only the men stood to greet her. Maybe she wasn’t a legend by 1964?
@@diedonner299 Oh, she was very much a legend by then.
I loved seeing Bette's praise of Barbra! Such class and generosity to take time in her segment to compliment a young performer.
Reluctant Dragon I know, I loved that too.
+Reluctant Dragon Authors have written, even her own daughter (accidentally, I'm sure) how Bette LOVED to compliment people. BD says when she took over the housework once, the silver had never been polished to such a bright shine, the dishes had never been so clean, etc. It was supposed to be one of her most endearing traits, and, frankly, I think I'd have LOVED Bette, temper and all!
Indeed!
+R.D. Dragon "Funny Girl" had just opened at the Winter Garden Theatre the previous Thursday, 26 March 1964.
R.D. Drago
I feel sad to think that all the regular panelist of what's my line are gone NOW.
May they all rest in peace
Bette Davis....CLASS ACT! I am a huge fan of Barbra Streisand, and it was wonderful to hear such high praise coming from Bette.
Me, too. Actually, I came here after watching a video of Barbra as the mystery guest; John told her about Bette's having raved about her a couple of weeks earlier.
Absolutely. Love Barbra and Bette...jaw dropped at her endearing call out.
@@AZdoberwoman Me too. 😀
Bette was always gracious to her fans and always acknowledged them warmly and sincerely
Miss Davis ALWAYS aknowledges her public ❤️👸
The greatest actress ever! Bette Davis!
Absolutely
Bette....you were one of the most genuine women. Your respect for the craft, as well as your peers....wonderful words. I hope you and Ms. Streisand remained friends.
Nice of Ms. Davis to pay such glowing tribute to a 'new' star, Barbara Streisand. Her prediction certainly came true.
I remember seeing an interview with Bette in which she was asked if she particularly liked any of the new young actresses. She replied, "Debra Winger. Because they say she's 'difficult,' and that means she cares."
+Susan Ouimette I heard her answer the same question in an interview "Carol Kane" ....mentioning that Miss Kane bore a resemblance to herself @ a younger age....& complimented her acting talent!
+wiguy
The only issue that I could take with Bette Davis's highly complimentary remarks about Barbra Streisand is that Barbra HAD acted before "Funny Girl." She had played Miss Marmelstein in "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" in the original Broadway production, which ran almost 9 months (300 performances) through most of 1962. That said, she was, indeed, a relative newcomer to the stage; she was only 21 years old when "Funny Girl" opened.
Bette was right when she said about Barbra Streisand, "someday they will be doing (biographies of) her life!"
One of the greatest actresses of all time with class, talent, beauty and everything a fabulous person has never ever to ever be forgotten never a complete wonderful lady.!!!!!
Very nice to say of Mrs Davis! & i agree
Betty Davis the Class act she is will never forgotten.She is a Legion !
I sure love the evening wear worn by the ladies.
17:54 "...Some people have no hearts *at all.* " Boy, he got *that* right. (Love Tony Randall. ❤)
I love him, too! I once saw him live on Broadway, and I'm always happy to see him on the panel!
I would love to see this back on TV, but there never duplicate this show,it's panel,and it announcer! I love it when I was a kid,and now. I love for one of the shows every night !
Nice of GSN to pay tribute to Arlene in 2001.
I realize that it has been 13 years since Arlene died. I knew when I started watching these episodes several months ago that Arlene was long gone. I knew when I read her memoirs this summer that I was reading about someone who had died a long time ago. Yet, when I saw the tribute at the beginning of this episode this morning, it made me cry.
SaveThe TPC I'm sorry. . .should I have edited out the tribute?
What's My Line? No, no, no. Do not edit it out.
***** I didn't mean to make anyone *cry* though. . .
What's My Line? *****
I totally agree with Vahan -- No, no, no! I didn't break down and bawl or anything, but it did bring tears to my eyes -- in kind of a good way, though. I highly appreciate the tribute.
What class! Love Bette Davis.
Aw, who can not love Bette? Her March 1964 tribute to Barbra Streisand was wonderful and heartfelt. Judy would also give a grand shout-out to Barbra, about six months later, at her famous London Palladium concert (with Liza) in November 1964. In a solo moment, Judy mentioned "Funny Girl" and sang a song from that show, "I Know He's around." Judy was still learning the lyrics, but her tribute to Barbra was sweet, and Garland certainly recalled Streisand appearing on her television show a full year earlier.
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Bennett Cerf always made it obvious that he appreciated the good looking ladies, especially the blondes. I enjoy watching these old WML shows.
+Vickie Harris And always made an ass of himself with his patronizing remarks & sexist compliments! What a bore!
+Jason Wilson: Or perhaps he is someone who isn't afraid to say the emperor has no clothes and lacks the quality of respectfulness!
Bette's got her gloves on. Love this woman.💚💜💙💛❤
ARLENE WAS SO GOOD ON THIS SHOW
My Grandfather passed on just 3 days before this show. I remember this episode as well.
Arlene was a class act. Loved her...
The timing is better in this 1964 show because there isn't a 4th challenger after the mystery guest. I think John Daly engineered that by allowing the astrologer to talk about her job and by letting Bette Davis talk about her time in New York. It gives the episode the feeling if a chat show as well as a game show, and in my view it's better and more respectful to the challenger and the mystery guest that way.
I think having a 4th challenger on the show depended on how quickly the panel solved the first two challengers. IIRC, on the episode a couple of weeks later, featuring Barbra Streisand, there *was* a challenger afterwards because the panel (actually, Cerf) solved the first challenger's profession extremely fast. I imagine that the 3rd (after-the-mystery-guest) challenger was normally "waiting in the wings" to go on the show if necessary, but would always have been told that he or she might not make the show that evening.
Someone with more expertise may correct me, but that's my observation.
I'm not a huge movie buff, other than WESTERNS, but her performance in WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE was incredible.
I loved Bette! In my two favorite movies of hers, she played twins. Dead Ringer and A Stolen Life. Excellent! Seen them both dozens of times.
"What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" was her BEST film in her career ‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼
I always Love those little sideways glances that John gives to Bennett after one of his 'groaner' introductions.
To the uploader: you have made my next few days as I binge-watch this time capsule of my very young childhood (and the years just before I showed up in the world).
B Davis was so right about Streisand. She saw her future
Not related specifically to this episode, but my mom was Arlene Francis in personality... she passed in 1988 long before I got know Arlene from these WML shows..I love her mix of civility, intelligence and bawdiness....my mom had the same traits!
Lucky you...
Arlene and Dorothy look especially beautiful here.
True talent recognized true talent!
Bette Davis looked very good. Classy as they come.
Davis was only one of the many icons that recognized Streisand's potential during the early stage of her phenomenal career.
What a marvelous woman.
Which one? Miss Palmer? Miss Davis? Or both?
No one of her caliber will ever replace her.
She is just wonderful. I could watch The Letter every month and never get bored.
Total Class Act!
Arlene is Amazing!
Bettte Davis was a great actress
+Kasandria Millo It's wonderful to see such an apparently younger person who may still appreciate a great actress of the past. I'll bet you are able to enjoy black and white, as well color films; something film studios and TV networks refuse to believe.
Anyway, good luck with your life, and may you always enjoys great films (and excellent television, such as the original "What's My Line?").
gymnastix
Thank you for your kind words. I do enjoy black and white films and watch them quite often. I find they have a charm films today often lack. I watched the last episode of WML a few weeks ago and just started over, this time with my mom. I'm so thankful that they are available on CZcams.
All the best,
Cassidy
Bette Davis is the BOMB !!!!!
She's got Bette Davis eyes ;)
Tony's question as to whether this animal had "seasonal connotations" is perfectly valid and should have been answered. It might have, right and there ended the game, but that would have been fair.
Sunday night's 10pm must have been a magical time in the USA for everyone 😀❤😀
Oh, that's why I have so few memories of this show... it was well past my bedtime!
Women dressed so beautiful then. My how we have changed. I wish we could all go back to those times. Bette is one of my very favorite actresses. She was made any movie she was in great. Now Voyages and Jezebel just 2 of my favorites.
Bette Davis looks awesome :D
"I put all sorts of things in my mouth, John." 😂😂
Love her comment about Barbra Streisand!
Great actress Bette Davis
Bette looked very good here, the dress and hair and makeup were all on point. Dorothy was being diplomatic when she called Bette's daughter beautiful.
That’s cruel. And unfair because it’s not true. Look at photos of B.D. in 1964. She was quite beautiful when she was young. As are most people.
Bette was in good form and looks great!
It's a crying shame that Davis didn't look like this in *Dead Ringer* : she really looks great here.
A great segment of "To Tell the Truth with Bud Collyer featuring Bette Davis.
Bette Davis on 'To Tell The Truth'
A true legend!
Rest in peace.
This is the third episode I have watched recently with Davis as the mystery guest. I think all three had the usual three panel members on.
Davis compliments Streisand = EPIC
A TRUE LEGEND!
What a wonderful show!
how wonderful of Bette to take time to openly praise Barbra --- though Barbra is brilliant
Kinda surprised they didn't get Bette earlier. You could nearly tell it was her from the first answer. I wonder, did Bennett think it was Debbie Reynolds?
No, he thought she was the raspy-voiced Tammy Grimes, who starred in the Broadway original of "The Unsinkable [not Indestructible] Molly Brown."
Thanks!
I agree; her first "Yes" sounded *very* Bette Davis!
Bette Davis had three enormously successful pictures that year. DEAD RINGER, released on February 19th, WHERE LOVE HAS GONE, released on November 2nd and HUSH...HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE, released on December 15th. All released in 1964. :)
She was so proud of her daughter......
I love her. Trying to watch everything she has appeared in. Anyway, no one has sung yet about Bette Davis’ laugh? 🥰
She IS my favorite, with Kathryn Hepburn second . and how good must Barbara felt after that kind of praise coming from her !
linda boyce It's spelled KATHARINE Hepburn...
And it's also BARBRA Streisand.
+jmccracken1963
As I recall, she pointed that out with the title of one of her early record albums.
@@jmccracken1963
“ I don’t care what they say about me as long as they spell my name wrong!”
Greatest actress of all time !
I've been watching WML all night, and suddenly the ladies' hairstyles are scraping the skies! It's as if 1964 = 1984 in coiffure terms.
“Yes sir” 🤣 ah she is brilliant!
Arlene Francis - a wonderfully intelligent person; wonderful actor, too. Incidentally, the look of disdain on the face of the panel when the astrologer appeared suggests that they really weren't that dumb.....
Arlene Francis was born in 1907
And Bette in 1908
I've never seen Arlene attired so "cocktail-ey, as opposed to her usual formal/ball gowned. But that continued with she and Dorothy as the 1960's got underway. Lovely.
CLASS = Bette Davis
Bette definitely has Bette Davis eyes.
What a beehive on Miss Palmer!
Bette is wearing her Dead Ringer hair do.
William Joseph Smith III yes, The Margarat Delorca wig!! Too funny...
I think it was her most flattering 'do.
Bette Davis…..one classy lady
Arlene looks fetching tonight...56 years old. I DO like that dress on her. I would say that I...never mind.
“Bette Davis we love you” M
I like that k forward to meeting you, Ms Davis, when I am finally rescued
Happy New Year 2023 to Ms Bette Davis & Friends from December 31st, 2022
Pure class.
The cameraman held the camera a little differently when the guests signed in on this episode.
Bette Davis is one of my favorites and I have seen her on WML at least 3 times. Does anyone know which celebrity holds the record for the most WML appearances as a mystery guest, ( not a panelist) ?
Lucille Ball, with 6 appearances.
Tom Lowery No, actually Crawford only appeared 5 times. In fact, there were 19 mystery guests who appeared 5 times over the years-- but Lucy has the record with 6!
Tom Lowery I'm never talking about the syndicated show. We don't even have complete log info available for the syndicated series, let alone the actual episodes, and I've never had much interest in the syndicated series in the first place. There's not much point in including the syndicated series in this kind of discussion, e.g., about the frequency of a person's appearances when the info just isn't available on the syndicated series. If you counted the syndicated series, it's possible someone other than Lucille Ball holds the record.
But really, they were two entirely separate shows with different styles, different casts (except Arlene), different production methods, and different broadcast models (weekly network broadcasts vs weekday syndication). I don't lump the two together.
Tom Lowery Bennett was an occasional guest, that's all. And there IS a complete log for the CBS series, in fact more than what should ever be described as just a log-- incredibly detailed information even on the lost episodes can be found at tv.com. Just because you're not aware of it doesn't mean it doesn't EXIST.
Untermeyer hadn't been on WML since 1951. I'm not clear why you're even bringing him into this conversation.
And you're perfectly entitled to love the syndicated series as much as you want to, but there were more than "a few differences". The huge number of people who love the CBS series-- and Arlene Francis-- yet have no interest in the syndicated series is a pretty clear indication that they were NOT basically the same show.
Regardless, all I was trying to do here was clarify that when we're speaking about the number of mystery guest appearances by any person, we're speaking only of the CBS series-- because the info just isn't available for the syndicated series even if we wanted to include it.
+What's My Line
En route to looking up something else, I found what purports to be a listing of key information about the syndicated WML?, including taping dates, air dates, panelists, and Mystery Guests for each week of the show. The link is:
www.markgoodson.wikia.com/wiki/What%27s_My_Line%3F_(1968)/Episode_Guide
I appreciate how they phased it "makes up" horoscopes
That's what I thought: "Makes up" horoscopes!
Not to pull a Zach Horan here, but GSN hadn't started doing Black & White Overnight at that point, so this had to have aired June 3rd, 2001 as that was the closest Sunday to Arlene's death.
The women on this episode had big poofy hair. The women of that era were very elegant.
The hair was "teased". Then sprayed.
They looked like they were wearing helmets.
That's the freshest, best dressed, best made up Arlene yet since 1950. Right here. 8:00
She must be really enjoying the New York World Fair or something??
Arlene was 10 years younger than Cerf?
They were both about 10 years older than they looked during the show's run.
BTW - Yonkers IS a comedy.
God she looks damn good !!!
Who?
Love you. Love, Don xoxo
Tony Randall was right, the was a good voice disguise, Betty Davis was doing.
My parents were children during World War II. Rabbit butchers (or "Rabbitohs") were common here in Australia during this time, because eating rabbit was cheap, they told me, and more easily accessible than beef or pork, for example, in financially lean times.
I don't think I could do it myself, but they didn't have the luxury of being sentimental. They had to eat.
Bette was wrong about Streisand never really been a performer before. She had already received a Tony nomination for Wholesale, recorded several albums, and performed for a number of years in clubs and on tv, including Judy Garland's show. Still, it was generous to devote her airtime to praise her.
OMG Arlene Francis was 56 here?!!?
I think many of the early sages and prophets in religion believed in astrology (and alchemy for that matter)
Horoscope lady - that is some big hair!
"Makes Up Horoscopes"
Was that shade?
Her daughter was stunning !!!
And her daughter wrote a tell-all book (to try and capitalize on the success of Mommie Dearest) that was released while Bette was in the midst of battling breast cancer. B.D. might have been stunning on the outside but was ugly AF on the inside.
I love Arlene when she's naughty. She puts all sorts of things in her mouth. Even in 1964 people would immediately think of lollipops and fried chicken. Wow, the times, they were a'changin'!