What's my Line? Dinah Shore & George Montgomery

[reno1uest]

Well can't you name the automobile manufacturer? LOL

[kittyvarina]

Dorothy looks so pretty in this episode.

[MARCBSTN]

Dinah's voice is like velvet. I could listen to it forever.

[CarlDuke]

Though it broke up eventually, George and Dinah had a long and good marriage. Dinah's sweet image was kidded by the great wit Oscar Levant. Levant was a diabetic and said his doctor forbade him from watching Dinah for that reason. Like Eddie Fisher, Dinah was discovered by Eddie Cantor and both were very fond of each other.

[songplugger]

@CarlDuke : George and Dinah remained close after they split. George was at Dinah's bedside when she passed away.

[Jeffrey751]

These stars seem more authentic than the stars of 2009.The odd crooked tooth seems to make them more folksy or is it the lack of close ups from the cameras. One must be Dentine perfecto to make it these these days, my darlings!

[jason60chev]

I can only hope and pray that I could have a wife with anywhere near the Grace, Charm, Beauty, Class and Elegance as Miss Dinah Shore. Was was certainly America's Sweetheart....and Chevrolet's.

[Imthecuteone]

lol Dorothy and Dinah talking a about clothes...how cute!!!

[Jasonstreamline]

Dinah Shore was the epitome of class and elegance. The celebrities of today could learn a thing from her. I wish someone would have the good sense of putting her Chevy Shows on dvd like what was done with the Dean Martin shows.

[jimmysudar]

wasn't the after-guessing banter unusally awkward? just a little it seemed to me.

[bigred997]

Mort Sahl, the thinking man's comedian.

[soulierinvestments]

Absolutely right. One of the greats. Early critic of the Warren Commission report if memory serves.

[zkzkzk]

Kind of embarrasing question about only one of them working. He had his sporadic westerns, but Dinah was the one working non-stop and was such a bigger star. By the way, they were divorced not too soon after this appearance..

[GoParkinson]

George does seem to be unusually touchy about the working/non-working thing. He had a great career, it wasn't Dinah's career, but you know, she was Dinah Shore. She was iconic. You think he just would've been happy being a big cowboy movie star who was married to a huge national monument of a star. That's a good life!

[soulierinvestments]

The producers of the Dinah Shore program had the foresight to preserve [live?] broadcasts. Being NBC they preserved it on color videotape. So somewhere on the shelves are all those programs awaiting a new audience. NBC started using color videotape in 1958; CBS didn't start using color videotape regularly until sometime in the late 1960s. So here we are with black and white WML

[jimmysudar]

actually, for me, the black and white helps the show maintain that mystique that made it one of a kind.

plus, color seemed to have done something to shows: compare b/w and color episodes of these shows: bewiched, beverly hillbillies, lost in space to name just a few. the b/w ones had a certain sophisticated subtly the color episodes lacked. any thoughts?

[GoParkinson]

This was very early color videotape and the shows were designed to showcase the color and from what I've seen of them, they're breathtaking. The shows you mentioned were filmed in B&W and designed to be seen that way. The B&W Dinah Shore Chevy Shows were kinescopes made from pointing a camera at a TV only to be shown once in another time zone, and then discarded, so it's a twice-removed throwaway process. In this instance, the color versions are far superior to the B&W. There's no comparison.

[jimmysudar]

interesting info, and stuff i never knew. now that you've informed me, i'm very curious to see the color versions you've mentioned. thanks for adding to my body of knowledge about the medium i've loved for so many years.

[quadvideotape]

@GoParkinson Actually WML wasn't color at this point, this is a b/w kine of a b/w show. Dinah's show was in color from almost the beginning--1954.

[MrCappy4]

@jimmysudar I agree-certainly the early colour of tv through the 70"s seems to lack the depth and striking contrasts of the black and white-really only till recent times when technology has allowed for greater depth of color contrast. Strange-but it does seem to give the b &w shows more,shall I say. charisma?

[weatdamal]

Thank you!!

[THEHUNGRYVEGETARIAN]

Another classic gem, from the classic show!!!