What's My Line? - Richard Widmark; Victor Borge [panel] (Jan 31, 1954) [UPGRADE!]
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MYSTERY GUEST: Richard Widmark
PANEL: Dorothy Kilgallen, Steve Allen, Arlene Francis, Victor Borge
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This is one of the best episodes. The humor of Victor Borge is irresistible. I remember really looking forward to any of his performances.
🤢🤢🤮
A definite HOOT!😄😂FYI $50 then = over $500 now!
I was just a kid of 5 or 6 when my family sat down and watched What’s My Line. I wish I could remember if I laughed at the antics of the panel and John Daley with the guests. I certainly laughed heartily now! Thank you so much for airing these episodes of one of my family’s favorite tv shows.
Yes, Mr. Borge was a true comicl genius. His unique style an dry delivery were unmatched. Just sitting there, and not saying a word, for five minutes he has EVERYONE in stitches.
And how about being on stage with him on several occasions. I was so fortunate! Btw, he was a brilliant classical pianist in his prime.
Victor Borge has me rolling. Perfect idea sitting him beside Arlene. Classic.
The guy was an unfunny jerk.
boring man
Widmark was such a handsome, intelligent and refined man, in many ways the opposite he used to portray so well on the screen
Absolutely! He is one of my favorite actors just for the reasons you have stated here.
I've heard a very kind man
A wonderful, underrated, versatile actor, intelligent and refined, as you say, I concur wholeheartedly. Also one of my all time faves.
Tommy Udo
Yes!!!!!!!
I love Richard Widmark, he is one of my all time favorite actors. Also, in one of the best I Love Lucy episodes ever.
One of my favorite villains of old Hollywood .
One of the best villains to ever concern us. He DID play in a movie with a scene in a hospital; COMA. *We* knew one of his scenes took place there but apparently he did not. At that time.
COMA was made many years after this broadcast and it was a movie, not a play in a theatre as Dorothy asked.
I just watched him performs on 1950's racial melodrama film "No Way Out".
Which one
Widmark was my mum's favourite actor. He was very happily married, which was rare in Hollywood.
I wish they showed the audience more often. So cool we got this rare glimpse!
"Hell and High Water", the Richard Widmark picture which was mentioned on this episode, was the first screen credit of any kind for the actress introduced from the audience, Bella Darvi. I suspect that they took this unusual step to help her become more familiar to the American audience.
I was curious about Miss Darvi. By coincidence the night before I watched this episode, I watched an episode of Bonanza which included in the cast a child actress by the name of Andrea Darvi. They were not related, but I found that Bella Darvi had a fascinating rags to riches to tragedy life story.
Bella Darvi was born in Poland with the name Bayla Wegler. Of Polish and French descent, she miraculously survived the horrors of a concentration camp in her youth. In 1950 she married a businessman and divorced him in 1952. But the marriage brought her into the glitzy high life of Monaco. She got caught up in the lifestyle, drinking heavily and gambling heavily. Her life was spinning out of control when she met Darryl F. Zanuck and his wife Virginia Fox. They thought she had a foreign allure that would appeal to American audiences, so much so that Zanuck paid off her gambling debts, signed her to a contract in August 1953 and brought her to Hollywood to make her a star. He gave her second billing in her first picture, despite the fact that she had no previous experience or theatrical training. The last name "Darvi" was formed from the first names of her mentors.
While Zanuck's protege, his wife befriended Darvi and treated her like a beloved niece. In return for her friendship and kindness, Darvi began an affair with Zanuck. When Miss Fox learned of it, she packed Darvi's bags and sent her back to Europe. At first Zanuck followed her to Europe, but then had a change of heart for reasons that are NSFW. He and his wife never divorced but they were separated for years until his health started to fail.
Although "Hell and High Water" did well at the box office, by her third picture it was clear that Darvi was severely hampered by a lack of ability. Making it worse, she sometimes appeared slightly cross-eyed on screen, she had a thick accent and also a slight lisp, making her dialog extremely difficult for audiences to understand. Her meteoric rise had crashed and burned within two years of signing her contract.
Back in Europe, her career quickly diminished to a small number of bit parts. Her life became occupied with drinking and gambling once again, plus another brief marriage. She fell deeply into debt once again, but this time there was no knight in shining armor to rescue her. She committed suicide a month and a half before her 43 birthday.
With appreciation
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vided. To sum it up:
"THE WAGES OF SIN
IS DEATH!"
@@loissimmons6558 Suicide: sadly this is not an unusual ending of a Hollywood career and life.
@@loissimmons6558 Wow, what a whirlwind story!
@@loissimmons6558 thanks
Richard Widmark....now he was a class act!
A true Gentleman
A remarkably handsome man and a superb actor...Richard Widmark...
Very handsome and distinguish.
Widmark started out as an acting teacher after finishing college. Perhaps his students prompted him to take up the profession.
Sreve asked Richard if he was over 40. He was actually 39. He died in 2008 at the age of 93.
Not only was Victor Borge great at comedy, he played piano brilliantly. Went to his concert in Los Angeles, at the Rose Bowel, half the concert was funny, half was pure amazing classic piano.
But when it's his turn on this show, the whole game stops and is sidetracked by him. Same with Groucho Marx.
@@damianop100 For whatever reason, though, Borge's domination of the program wasn't nearly as annoying as Marx's. Frankly I find Borge's humor every bit as formidable as Steve Allen's and it's a treat having them on the show together. Ironic that they were both comedians and both played piano.
@@briane173 What do you think: John Daly interrupted the guests too often and found it necessary to answer for them when it didn't appear at all necessary. I understand that he needed to keep pretty tight reins on the show which easily could have skidded out of control, but I think he often dominated too much.
@@damianop100 I agree with you and you enumerate the same reasons for it that I do. I've only gotten to 1954 but at some point I'd think they figured out how to squeeze three or four guests in without having to stopwatch it. And the time constraints placed on the program I'm certain is the reason why Daly felt he had to inject himself in the answers, in order to avoid wasting time or dead air.
He's a riot.
This is one of the funniest episodes ever. Love that Borge. TY so much for letting us see this classic show!
Borge’s business with the water and chair was the single funniest bit to date. Hilarious facial expressions!
How handsome Richard Widmark was.
Great show with the always funny Victor Borge! All the guests were enjoyable!
Mr. May has a high tech, for his time, hearing aid.
What a fantastic show this was! Victor Borge shredded me to pieces. Laughed till I was sick. Thank you so much for these shows. Also, the quality of this episode was great.
Widmark was my mum's favourite actor. Despite playing villains much of the time, he was a supporter of gun control and was also rare in Hollywood for being famously happily married for over 50 years..
Not sure where I heard this, but I heard that when John mentioned that the panel had 3 minutes to guess the MG or contestant's line, it was a cue to take tho them to take their time. I may have heard this on a CZcams interview with good ol' Bennett Cerf. I also look for John Daly tugging at his ear to signal the panelist to draw back from a racy conversation.
I don't contribute at all like most of the dedicated followers of this show. I definitely take more than I give to this channel, but I feel like a insider when I see these cues from Daly.
Thank you for making such a labor of love seem effortless to this grateful viewer.
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Yes, Bennett said the time warnings were really intended to make sure the show didn't end too early, in a talk he gave at a NYC authors' luncheon, which is posted to this channel. To be honest, though, I don't think he was very accurate in that statement based on the shows themselves. The 4th rounds were nearly always SO rushed as to be pointless. I can't recall any instances whatsoever where there was a risk of the show running out of "game" before it was over. Maybe this happened in the very early years, most of which is lost-- there were a few shows that even squeezed in a FIFTH contestant, but only once of these in the surviving run of shows. Bennett liked to tell an entertaining story more than he liked to tell an accurate story. :)
+What's My Line? No I do remember reading that in a previous episode and in watching that episode it did appear that they were taking their time…
Sal Bazaz Anything might have happened once or twice over the course of a series that ran as long as WML did. But Bennett was saying in very clear terms that when John Daly warned the panelists there was only three minutes left, it was meant as a warning not to go too fast, when it was at least NEARLY always the exact opposite. These final rounds were at least NEARLY always very rushed, questions being asked and answered very quickly with a minimum of banter.
I would think that when he says there are three minutes left, he wanted to make sure and fill up those 3 minutes but when he said there was a minute or 30 seconds left, he wanted them to hurry up to avoid going overtime in this live show.
Does Apple really take its obsessive branding even into people's CZcams comments?
Richard Widmark was one of my favorites and one of the greatest actors of all time
Ms Kilgallen looks very lovely here.
Yes, she does. She suited a frace-framing style like this. Unfortunately, she was at the mercy of the whims of her hairdresser & the styles of the day.
TheUrszulat Alrene as well. But I notice that at this time women probably had setting lotion in their hair to keep it all in place. The result was nice but I bet it was a pain in the ass.
In regards that here chon is totaly missing and the whole lower jawline is to short and out of shape
The women of today have no idea of the pains women had to go to, just to get their hair to look a certain way and STAY that way all day in the 1970s and 80s! (And, I'm sure in all the other decades before!) Women today have NO IDEA!! Women of today just brush and go! If you disagree about the "hippie 70s", then just think of the late 70s and the demands of the Farrah Fawcett hairstyle! She had a monopoly on that!
Thank you so much for posting these WML? episodes. It's hard to believe there was a time when humor, intellect and decency were the norm. Again, thanks. (:
True but on the other hand the whiteness and sexism as viewed from today is apparent. Maybe call it "White's My Line?"
@@Scott_J_Tepper You just could not resist, to turn it in to a race thing! How pathetic! You do not have to watch it. It is on UTUBE, for goodness sake! Not on national TV
Marcello Genesi He can comment what he likes. It was extremely white and sexist.
lemoncrinckles Victor Borge. What a beautiful accent
@@Scott_J_Tepper What good does it do to view this show from today as if it caused the problems you mention? Why not recognize that IN ITS TIME it broke ground by showing women and minorities having jobs that the "white and sexist" (in your terms) culture of the times didn't expect? I can imagine that many viewers were enlightened to realize that an African American man might be the chair of a state parole board, that a Native American could be a jet fighter pilot, that a woman might be a judge or a dynamite expert or an orchestra conductor.
Widmark was at his best in Westerns - Warlock, The Last Wagon, Cheyenne Autumn, Two Rode Together, The Alamo, Yellow Sky, Garden of Evil, Broken Lance, Backlash
He loved horses and working outdoors. An intellectual who could be very physical in his movies, for example in "The Last Wagon".
Widmark did some great film Noir films as well and acted in some British movies. He was such a great actor!
@@GeneRogers-xl9um One of his best movies was 'The Bedford Incident"...
excellent movie...well ahead of it's time. !!!!
Also fantastic in The Bedford Incident
It's always fun to see timely references to things like the march of dimes in episodes, it reminds you just how old these episodes really are.
Hm? March Of Dimes still exists
Wearing the little Red Cross pins at school when you donated
It's rare to see a shot of someone in the audience.
After watching a lot of episodes I recall seeing shots from the audience two times. Everyone well dressed with suits and ties.
I just realized that I met Steve Allen in 2000, and saw Victor Borge in person twice in the 80's and 90's.
Are you the guy who hit him with the car ?
@@joeambrose3260 Uh.............no, but I met him in OKC just 9 months before he died. He made an appearance at a local bookstore. He was also in town to appear with the OKC Philharmonic.
Victor Borge was priceless with the water stuff he should have said "I pass" after that. Daly would die laughing.
@Mark Richardson He and Wally Cox could have had a fight to the death for that dubious distinction.
Richard Widmark (here) looks more like Tab Hunter's brother than Tommy Udo pushing an old lady down the stairs. Very intelligent guy, and an excellent actor.
Dorothy and Arlene looking beautiful in this episode.
So does Steve Allen
@@MrRwk314 Well, he was a beaut!
Steve Allen at 5:30 😂😂😂 His look of utter confusion is priceless! ❤️❤️❤️
John should have said no to wearing it around the neck (so as not to mislead). Usually, he would say it was possible, but not the primary function. John led Steve down the garden path in order to continue Steve’s gambit. Ho hum. 🥱😴
Victor Borge and Steve Allen were truly brilliant comedic wits.
Everyone on this Show is gone and sorely missed.
Probably the greatest TV Game Show of all time.🎯🎯🎯💯
Borge ruined many shows. He was about as funny as a cancer diagnosis.
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Is there any episode of the show WML with Gregory Peck (as mystery guest) ?
thevbm thelord No, unfortunately, he was never on WML.
It was (and it is) my favourite game show. But I don't know whether WML had any episode with any of the following stars (as mystery guest) - Burt Lancaster, Sir Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy, Alec Guinnes, Sir Peter O'toole, Sir Peter Sellers, Omar Shariff
thevbm thelord Nope, none of the above.
Bogart once played Duke Mantee, but that's as close as he got to being knighted as he was an American. Sir Alec Guinness was knighted, Peter Sellers (CBE) was not.
How it hurts when you realise every people you've watched in the past 25 minutes are now dead.
Thomas Scquothnicquy - Are you ever right. It is existentially really disconcerting. How fleeting is youth and beauty.
What really hurts that some of the people commenting on this show may be dead. 😪
Ghosts....they appear before you but are no longer alive.
Is that really necessary!!
Some of us are actually here to ENJOY the show and not be morbid jerks!!
@@jt414 Not necessary, but interesting. Do not read the comments.
Sophisticated entertainment. I always liked Richard Widmark from boyhood watchings of some war movie about the Gobi desert. Steve Allen was always a favorite too from his afternoon talk show in the 60's. And the rest of the panel and John Daly were what I aspired to be some day when I got older.
RW was definitely was soooo handsome and debonair!
Many thanks for posting these wonderful videos.
I love the "Tiny Dancer"; a real Cutie Pie"....
What a lively episode. Thanks!
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Mrs. Greer and her husband brought Hugo The Gorilla back to the USA in 1951. Hugo died in 1977.
Loved this episode! It was so funny!
At 14:49, Dorothy asked, “Is it usually larger than a breadbox?” (35th occurrence)
Steve said “good night, boys” for the 15th time.
First episode with a view of the audience.
RW had a badly perforated eardrum which kept him out of WWII. Twice here you can see that Daly wants to whisper something to Widmark, and RW has to turn his head and present his right ear close to Daly, to be able to understand what the game show host was whispering.
Similar in fact to the first guest
i always liked Richard Widmark and felt he was one of the most underrated actors. He should have gotten an honorary Oscar at least for his body of work.
Mr. Borge was a master of slapstick comedy. Obviously not everyone's cup of tea.
The same way some people felt Lucille Ball was ridiculous while others felt she was brilliant.
It's all a matter of personal preference.
Juanette Butts Victor Borge’s definitely my cup of tea! I count on him to make me laugh.
@Juanette Butts - I would say, as a theater comedy professional myself, that it is only a matter of personal preference as to whether you enjoy someone's work or not. I think Ball and Borge were both brilliant in their forms of comedy and recognized as such by others in the field as performers and academicians. The works they did were classics of their genres. However, I think Borge was not well-suited to be on the panel of this show because he spent too much time crapping around with his shtick and they had a tight schedule to keep. They had to get on with it. There were people waiting in the wings. He was among those comics who did not do well on the panel because he did not realize the show was not about him. It may have made him better known to folks, but it was not about him. But everyone as a viewer, consumer has the right to have their own taste in funny. It is just not up for dispute as to whether someone was an accomplished artist or not. There are talented people whose work I simply cannot abide, though it is classic.
You folks may be correct in the technical sense, but in the end you end up overanalyzing something that benefited my heart and soul along with millions of others who saw this; a good hearty laugh. And THAT is ALWAYS a great cup of tea, circumstances and/or preferences be damned.
Michael .Wise You are so wise!
Yes, we all have different tastes. I found him very juvenile and couldn’t understand why people would laugh at a grown man pouring water on himself and asking a MG if a product was involved. I even preferred Bennett’s puns.
Hooray for the actor that portrayed James Bowie! He was a class act!!
Richard Widmark was a great actor & a very good looking man 👨💙❤️
The winning formula of this show was the composition of the panel. Ok it’s fun to have some horsing around from guest panelists (Borge etc) but the real thrill is when Dorothy Kilgallen gets on a roll and narrows it down and down and down until she’s certain.
I love the way she works out Richard Widmark.
Richard Widmark ~ swoon ❤️
Great episode!
Loving the girl who called herself Shorty lol. The panel were so funny!
Both Arlene and Dorothy look gorgeous tonight! Love their hair, too!
Deborah Olsen - I think that the hairstyles then were kind of flat in the back and fuller on top. How they have evolved through the years.
This episode had perfect timing and balance in that the panel guessed two and lost one, and the mystery guest segment ended the show. When a 4th contestant comes on for the final minutes, it seems unfair on him or her and on the panel - a waste of everybody's time in fact. John Daly was also very sensitive in helping Mr May the parking ticket man who was hard-of-hearing but without drawing attention to his hearing aid or to his impairment. Mr Julius L May never did say what the L it stood for!
Omg they NEED to do a re-run of this show!!! I have been binge-watching this channel, so many laughs! I love this show.
Dane Irwin Sadly, all those people are dead now. TV personalities now are mostly snarky, political, and crude. Back then they were polite and mannerly and kind. It’s the people who made this show great.
While contestants sign their name, John announcing an initial when it is written and/or announcing each syllable as it is written reminds me of Les Nessman announcing the writing on the helicopter's banner in the WKRP 'Turkey Drop' episode (google the youtube video if you have never heard it - it is not uncommon for radio stations to include some portions of that show's soundtrack at some point a day or so before Thanksgiving).
"Does she raise or train them?"
"She sells them?"
"She buys them?"
"She eats them?"
Love this episode!
I love this show but 65 years ago a "gorilla hunter" was passed off as a a decent job. When today we know that that is God awful cruel. Tearing apart primate bands. Children from from mothers etc. I may be the only one but it reeks in 2019. But this show as well as being entertaining, and tasteful in its day, (I mean panelists getting down to the floor to shake a short woman's hand - that wouldn't go unscathed today) is a piece of history. Everyone we see here died of old age years ago. Dorothy Kilgallen, I love her, but she passed in 65, that's longer ago today than the entire span of her life. No doubt prime time TV today will look weird in 2084!
The segments with lines like "Gorilla Hunter" or "Whale Hunter" or "Bull Fighter" are indeed difficult for a lot of us to find entertaining now-- but one of the most valuable aspects of WML, beyond the fact that it remains (generally) wildly entertaining so many decades later, is that it provides a window into our past with respect to what was considered acceptable back then. The wolf whistles from the audience at any attractive female guest, and the relatively frequent casual jokes about overweight guests, are also in this category, completely unacceptable behavior today.
Yes. And they had no problem with furs or mink farms, monkey breeding for labs big game hunters. 😢. Monkeys and dogs are still abused in labs today, 2022.
How awful and this was in 50s and 60s on WML. ! 🙈
I knew when I heard what she did I would be distressed, she might as well been hunting a human. So sad. Maybe she was trying to make up for her short stature. So sad
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I almost skipped this segment, but decided to watch it knowing that I wouldn't be able to enjoy it. You were spot on.
I may be incorrect on this but I think gorilla hunters procure gorillas for zoos don't they? David Attenborough used to hunt animals for London zoos at the beginning of his career. Now he is a noted conservationist.
A show from 1954. Obviously our views have changed about the trapping and caging of animals for zoos or other institutions. They are best left to live in their natural habitat and only interfered with when absolutely necessary for there preservation. Most importantly is the need to preserve and protect their habitat. When I saw this panelist's occupation the first thing I thought was that she took people out on safari type hunts to hunt and kill Gorillas. I hope I was wrong. I am surprised no one on the panel asked her.?? Whatever the reason she hunted Gorillas can't have been a good thing.
@@jackrobinson5974 we have taken 1 step forward and 10 steps back.
To pick one thing from the past that offends you and ignore the horrors that are commonplace, common, and indeed lauded today is the height of myopia.
@@thesweeples3266 William Shakespeare...."You thinketh too much".
He was one of the best actors 💙💜❤️
Richard Widmark what a great actor!
Really liked Widmark in Judgement at Nuremberg
Many, many actors sought to appear in that prestige picture. It is hard to think of anyone who did not rise to the occasion -- even Clift, who could barely function in life at that point, gave a memorable performance.
Mr Daly's personal space was the narrowest I've never seen. :-) Almost noone seemed to mind however. Same with the cigarette smoke. People would feel extremely uncomfortable by these today. He also grabbed everyone's hand which I actually like, I believe it was an act of soothing kindness. Oh and his obsession with everyone's shoes. :-) He was wonderful!
I lived down the street from Victor Borge in my youth in a little town in Ct. Southbury. Ran into him a couple times in stores.
Fun episode!
Victor Borge is a comedian. He succeeded here!
He had everybody in stitches for almost a full minute without saying a word.
Victor Borge - "She eats them!". I just lost it.
Well, someone would somewhere in the chain of souvenir to flesh. Although, usually, the souvenirs were cut off, bagged, and the carcass remained, and if there were babies, they were taken for sale to wealthy people. So, really, this lady contributed to the endangerment of gorillas.
Not only were the cast members dressed formally, but apparently so were the audience members. Back in the early days of TV, this sort of show was regarded as a Big Deal.
Plus, there was a party in a glamorous place after the show for participants.It was a more formal time: gloves,hats, dresses.
It was the norm. When I was a child in the 1950s-1960s a lady would not leave the house without hat and gloves. Even going to the grocery store, a lady dressed.
For over 13 years, Richard Widmark was Father-in-law, to person who many experts consider to be the greatest pitcher of all time once he reached his peak. Widmark was married twice but fathered only one child, his daughter Anne with his first wife, Jean Hazlewood (who died in 1997 after 55 years of marriage to Richard).
On New Year's Day 1969 before a small gathering at the home of Richard Widmark, Anne Heath Widmark married Sandy Koufax. The wedding was two days after Sandy's 33rd birthday: one more than the number he wore and that the Dodgers eventually retired. It was his first of three marriages. Anne was 23 on her wedding day. She never became part of the show business world. She made her career as an artist and author.
But by the beginning of 1969, Sandy's career had already been finished for two years, brought to a premature close by severe traumatic arthritis in his left (pitching) elbow and fear of permanent loss of use of his arm. By the end of his final season, his left arm was bent at a 22.5º angle and the bone spurs were nearly ¼" long. But he never missed a turn, including the second game of a doubleheader on the last day of the regular season when a loss in game one meant he had to go out on short rest to clinch the pennant for the Dodgers. It would be his 27th victory, his career high for a season, and his last in the major leagues.
Sandy Koufax and Anne Widmark Koufax were divorced in 1982 after 13 years of marriage. Anne was living in Santa Fe, New Mexico at the time of her father's death in 2008. Koufax, who still looks trim enough to pitch, belying is age of 81, continues to show up at spring training for the Dodgers and assist in coaching the pitchers in the Dodgers organization.
A picture of Anne & Sandy Koufax on their wedding day:
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+gcjerryusc
You are mostly likely talking about the 1963 World Series. It was a glorious World Series with the Dodgers sweeping their old nemesis, the Yankees, in four straight games. Sandy won the first game at Yankee Stadium, 5-2 against another future hall of fame left hander by the name of Whitey Ford (both also NYC natives), and set a new World Series record for strikeouts in a single game with 15, breaking the record of 14 set by former teammate, Carl Erskine. (Bob Gibson broke Sandy's record a couple of years later.) Johnny Podres, returning to the scene of his World Series clinching 7th game victory to give the Dodgers their first World Championship in 1955, won game two, 4-1 against future Dodger Al Downing. He needed Ron Perranoski to come in with one out in the ninth inning to nail down the victory when he tired. It was the only relief pitcher the Dodgers needed in the entire series, a far cry from what we see these days in major league baseball, especially the post season.
Then the series moved to Los Angeles. Don Drysdale (more on him in a moment) outdueled Jim Bouton (who wrote "Ball Four" a few years later), 1-0. And then Koufax came back to win the fourth and final game, 2-1, striking out 12 more batters. The Dodgers offensive stars in the series were Bill Skowron who had been traded to the Dodgers from the Yankees the previous winter and exacted some measure of revenge, Frank Howard who hit two long drives off of Ford, one for a double to the deepest part of Yankee Stadium and one that almost went out of Dodger Stadium, and Johnny Roseboro who hit a key 3-run home run in Game 1 that gave the Dodgers momentum in the Series that they never surrendered. And veteran Jim Gilliam scored the winning run in the last three games.
Koufax also won two games in the 1965 World Series when the Dodgers beat the Minnesota Twins in seven games. That was the year he didn't pitch the opening game because it was Yom Kippur. (Don Drysdale started and was hit so hard that when Manager Walt Alston came out to the mound to take him out, Drysdale quipped, "I bet you wish I was Jewish, too.) Koufax pitched well in Game Two, but lost because the Dodgers only scored one run. But behind Claude Osteen, a resurgent Drysdale and Koufax (who won Games Five and Seven, the last by a shutout on short rest when he only had a good fastball), the Dodgers came back and won the World Series.
Drysdale is probably the heavy set pitcher you are thinking of. He is also a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame and for a number of years held the record for the most consecutive scoreless innings during the regular season (broken in 1988 by another Dodger, Orel Hershiser). Like "Big John" of the song, he stood 6'6" and while he was slender when he came up to the major leagues at age 19, he filled out as he got older, and I think he even surpassed Big John's "245".
Drysdale was a contestant on You Bet Your Life during the winter of 1958-59, so he would have been about 22 or 23 years old at the time and you can see what he looked like then. (It's episode 58-23 of YBYL, and you can watch it on another of Gary's great channels.) Groucho kids Drysdale about the horrible season the Dodgers had the year before, their first in Los Angeles when they finished seventh, their worst finish since 1944. The Dodgers and Drysdale would have the last laugh in 1959. however. They won the NL pennant when they beat the Milwaukee Braves in a playoff because they tied for first at the end of the regular schedule. And then they beat the Chicago White Sox in six games to bring the first baseball World Championship to the West Coast. Drysdale started and won Game Three at the Los Angeles Coliseum, 3-1 putting the Dodgers ahead in the Series for the first time. Koufax started Game FIve (it was the first World Series starts for both Koufax and Drysdale), but lost 1-0. The big pitching star of that World Series was Larry Sherry, a rookie, who won two and saved the other two victories by the Dodgers.
And for all of you who have wondered about my memory for such things, the only thing I looked up in this entire thread was the episode number for Drysdale's YBYL appearance.
@@loissimmons6558 Great post. At 71, I remember a lot of those things, too. I grew up a Tigers fan and have fond memories of 1968 and 1984, but I always watch the World Series no matter who's in it. I remember that '65 Series very well.I was rooting for the Twins because they had been the old Washington Senators before moving to the Twin Cities. Washington was never in a Series after 1933 and hadn't won one since 1924.
Lois Simmons - You have a phenomenal memory. And are a serious baseball fan. I've always really liked the Dodgers (sh.. and hated the Yankees. Who knows why?) I think for the Dodgers they were/are my hometown team. Your history is really interesting. It's good to hear of the long past players, how they fared in trying to bring pennants and World Series championships home.
@@shirleyrombough8173 I guess you could say that the Dodgers were my dad's hometown team. He was born and raised in the Ridgewood neighborhood on the Brooklyn-Queens border. My mom, an Ohio transplant, became a Dodger fan by listening to Red Barber broadcast the Dodger games on radio a couple of years after my parents were married so she could tell my dad what happened in the game while my dad was at work. And so my brother and I became Brooklyn Dodger fans, too (although we were raised in Queens, not Brooklyn). And it was natural for a Dodger fan to hate the Giants (and also the Yankees, even if we only played them in the World Series).
My brother eventually gave up and started rooting for the Mets. I still root for the Dodgers.
Arlene Francis was such a beautiful and charming person.
such a great actor
Was he ever nominated for oscar? If Hollywood had its gem actors, one of them was Richard Widmark
Yes, for his first roll as Tommy Udo in Kiss of Death. He didn't win, I think he took home a golden globe. I loved him in Panic in the Streets.
He was great in Night and the City with Gene Tierney. He should’ve won a nomination for it.
What a fun episode.
One of the few shows where we get a view of the audience. I can't recall, offhand, seeing that before.
How many times has the camera turned to the audience?
And what was the thing that kids did to imitate Richard Widmark?
8:35
I Love the Look of Comical, if not Hysterical Introspection ..
😂😂😂🤣😂
I just watched O. Henry's Full House. Both Widmark and Fred Allen were in it. The commentator mentioned that Widmark was on What's My Line. Interesting how the Widmark on WML was the opposite of the character he played in Full House - The Cop and the Anthem. Fred Allen, though, in Ransom of Red Chief would be instantly recognizable, even with no picture on the screen. I got the DVD from Netflix.
I wonder if they ever saved all those autographed chalkboards ?
Probably not... but that would be quite a collection.
Yes, someone saw some for ale on eBay
Interesting, Widmark was 39 and one month at the time of the show. Just under 40.
Thank God...Dorothy didn't ask her dumb "have you ever lost your address book on a helicopter" question. And Victor Borge's questions.....ughhhhh.
One of the better episodes, I'd say...
Great great actor
He is so Handsome and humble
i love how casual victor was after that catastrophe XDD
Did Lucy Ricardo ever sneak into your house?
Dorothy was so sweet and smart
Victor Borge, one of a kind! 😂
I have enjoyed these programs since childhood in the 50s, but it is rather sad that none of Dorothy's friends ever questioned her death or the bogus coroner's report, which was controlled at the time by the mafia.
Born January 1953. So much of this airing was before my awareness of it, but the class and respect given to each other seems so natural and right to me even now at the end of 2020. We have come so far and at the same time have fallen back Into some really bad habits. What is going on?
Creeping Marxism. Like. Poison Ivy
Were hearing aids still that big by 1954? I thought by then we had slenderized them somewhat.
No
What was Richard Widmark's characteristic kids mimicked?
Ha! I don't think a Gorilla Hunter would be welcome on a modern-day version of WML!
I almost got sick seeing this.
im very unhappy to see this.
Robert Hanlen
As well they shouldn't be! Just because this was acceptable in the past (though I'm sure even then there were people upset by it) doesn't mean it should be tolerated today.
Kerithanos What a filthy human being you are.
I'm sorry, Adam, but it is the various species of vermin you apparently adore who are filthy, literally and figuratively - not me. I long for the Earth to be cleansed of these disease-ridden parasites who crawl out of the swamps and jungles and deserts of the world, and there are more and more people every day who are realizing that this is an issue that must be dealt with aggressively. This is why we have elected our great President, and why he said, "We have to get much tougher. We have to get much smarter. And we have to get much less politically correct."
Americans are growing less patient every day. We will soon no longer tolerate people like you, with your perverse fetish for the most abhorrent creatures you can find. Your sick, demented suicide cult will be ended, by whatever means necessary.
Loved Ricard wWidmark in The last Wagon
Rumor has it, John Chas. contemplated getting himself a pet lion and naming it "Wot" just so that he could say .. (wait for it) ... "Wot's my lion."
Is this the first time we get to see the audience?
Última carroça, amei❤,
Dorothy's 'Betty Boop' chin leaves her marginally short of being beautiful
Baskerville22 When I was a child, I was in love with Ms. Kilgallen because of her refined looks.
No comments on the 4 legs?I forgot its America
What movie did Richard Widmark “push an old lady down the stairs”?
'Kiss of Death', his first movie role. His character ties an old woman into a wheelchair and pushes the chair down some stairs.
@@overlydramaticpanda One of the most memorable villians of all time.
@@CottonO Agreed. Widmark's performance is by far the best thing about that film. He had a real talent for playing "love to hate" villains; what makes it even more remarkable is the fact that in real life he was, by all accounts, one of the most stand-up guys in Hollywood at that time.
Where's Mr. Cerf?
Vacation
Is there an audience camera thats always rolling for each show? There’s no way they randomly pulled up a camera at the last second to broadcast the audience
They rarely showed the audience, so it would not have made sense to keep a camera focused on the audience. In this episode, there obviously was a pre-arranged camera focused on the actress Bella Darvi in the audience in anticipation of Richard Widmark's mention of her name, since she appeared on screen immediately. This camera would probably be focused on the panelists most of the time.
Steve Allen was the best! ❤
Richard Widmark, one smooth MFer.