What's my Line? Phil Rizzuto

[MegaObserver1]

I wonder if Phil rushed out of the studio to cross the GW Bridge? That's an inside joke for Yankees fans.

[soulierinvestments]

2:55 Bruner is correct technically at this point. I don't remember Phil as a mystery guest other than this appearance and in Feb 1950. Arlene and Phil did sit on the WML panel together a few times in the late 1950s when Phil appeared as a guest panelist. He played the game pretty well.

[khtx]

Watching nearly every WML clip in black/white I´m a growing fan of Arlene and I don´t like her beeing older.

And she doesn´t fit in this young group.

[msmunkietime]

@khtx I don't know about her not belonging. She may not be as young, but she certainly holds a certain place on that pannel. To me, she's kind of like the mom with whom you'd want to hand out and play these kinds of games. She displays an elegant youth rather than a playful one. i don't want to know what it would be like without her. (Although, holy cow was she a siren in B&W!)

[proken58]

The "Scootah"! Harry Carey always claimed Rizzuto stole his "Holy Cow!" line, but Rizzuto said he never even heard of Carey when Rizzuto started broadcasting for the Yankees in 1958.

Many non-baseball fans remember Rizzuto for his national TV ads for "The Money Store" and his faux play-by-play on the Meatloaf song "Paradise By The Dashboard Lights."

[perlster]

The very first WML episode with [guess who] as the mystery guest has been posted.

[mantle64]

Love ya Scooter!!!!

[mamamurray]

The only place I ever heard of Phil Rizzuto before was on a Billy Crystal comedy album from around 1985 when he imitates Mr. Rizzuto doing a Money Store commercial. I didn't know who he was, but I'm glad to see him here, so I now know who he is and what he looks like.

Thanks.

[bigred997]

very regional- you had to be a ny person to know him, what he did and his voice.

only because he was from an older generation. if he was a ballplayer from the 60's and on, more people would know him.

also bert convey- i wonder if the fact he was gay made it tough for him to be in even a minor league locker room. lots of guys never adjusted and quit athletic asperations.

[missnauticaqueen]

Bert Convy wasn't gay. He was married twice, both times to women.

[spagandtuna]

@bigred997 Do you make this shit up as you go along? Bert Convy gay? You HAD to be a NY person to know Rizzutto?

[XMLarry]

What an announcer he was!

[soulierinvestments]

YouTube features some 1956 WML clips where the producers tested him as a possible panelist to replace the late Fred Allen. I remember him best on his CBS radio evening broadcast. What a voice he had.

[soulierinvestments]

First week of February 1970 -- the twentieth anniversary taping session of What's My Line.

Phil, incidentally, looks as dashing in 1970 as he did in 2 Feb 1950 first WML broadcast.

Arlene appeared on the second WML broadcast and thereafter. Richard Hoffmann, Louis Untemeyer, Dorothy Kilgallen, and Harold Hoffmann sat on the first broadcast.

Hello 1970 -- a pink shirt, a yellow shirt, a blue shirt and a collar on Arlene that could fly an airplane.

[wmbrown6]

Ironically, the very first "WML?" had the moderator and panelists decked out in "street clothes," only their attire was considerably more conservative than on here.

[a12548]

At 0.10 Soupy Sales whispers "Phil Rizzuto" to the other contestant. Another crooked game show I guess.

[mavivirgie]

@a12548 I SAW THAT WHAT A LOAD OF BULLSHIT

[weatdamal]

Thank you!