It's true that people’s public faces back then were more mannerly, but they were also more hypocritical, racist, sexist and class conscious. I know, as I was there. The pendulum swings, but there is good and bad at each end of the swing. I wouldn’t want to go back to the fifties, though.
This clip shows that Olivia de Havilland did have the charming smile of Melanie Hamilton Wilkes, whom she had played in Gone With The Wind almost two decades before. I somehow feel close to her as we share the same birthday: July 1. And she was born in Japan, where I have lived since I was born in 1975. She must have been in her early 40s in this clip. I am glad to realize she is still on the go in Paris. May we celebrate her centennial birthday in four years; I will be 40 then.
Today we have hardly any classy celebrities! What happened? I have no idea.! Standards just dropped into toilet. A real shame. Olivia was lovely. Still around! Great Lady!
.... Screenjims11, thank you for your very kind comments! :))
We are almost the same age, I am 56 -- and we both know times were way different when we were growing up, the contrast of behaviour is shocking between today and back then. Yes, the world is cold, nasty and selfish. I don't know how bad it will get in the future, but it doesn't look pretty. Truthfully, I am glad I am not a kid anymore in this society. Very best to you!
Back in those days, people dressed up and had pride in themselves in what they said, how they acted and what they wore. We can only look back in awe and admiration of how it once was. Sadly, manners and discipline have become obsolete virtues. Everyone in this clip is mannerly, and courteous to each other, without any vulgarisms or upstaging or bragging.
@cheeriosinabowl As a representative of a younger generation the reason for it is that we don't believe in hypocrisy. These celebrities of the past were just as foul, rude, immoral, and degraded as everybody today. They were polite to your face but insulted you behind the back. Papers and TV weren't digging dirt then either. Today the degradation is still there but the veneer is gone. We may be less refined, but we're more honest and less hypocritical.
... what you said has some truth. People are people. But today, there is no class, everything is blunt, even if it is true and upfront. I still prefer the manners and class of yesteryear, even if it was (somewhat) hypocritical. That's why we watch these shows from over 50 years ago. Nobody will watch today's shows 50 year down the road. My guess.
@cheeriosinabowl I appreciate your opinion, and do agree with you that everyone can use a little more class, courtesy, and politeness. Those days are probably gone forever, though. Not so sure about 50 years from now - in my view every generation looks back on the previous ones as superior. So, if society continues on its downward trend then Hollywood 50 years from now may be worse and things of today appear classy.
@cheeriosinabowl How so? Was there not rampant discrimination and racism at the time? Were non-whites not expected to "know their place?" Were women not expected to stay in the kitchen? I think you're yearning for a time that never was. Sure, people could use a lot more manners and courtesy these days. But at what cost? I wouldn't want to return to that time for any sum of money in the world. As a woman, it would severely hurt my quality if life.
... you are generalizing! There always was abuse and inequality, and there always will be abuse and inequality to varying degrees, be it women's rights/issue, racism or whatever. Only society's attitude to it has changed. I don't know how old you are, but not all women were confined to the kitchen pre 1970's.
@cheeriosinabowl There was a lot more abuse and inequality back then, plus much more acceptance (if not downright encouragement) of it than now. That really shouldn't be up for debate. The world we live in now is a much better one for women and non-whites than it was back then. It's not a generalization, it was the societal norm, for women to stay at home and for non-whites to be "separate but equal." For crying out loud, there are court cases about it.
.... you are entitled to your opinion, of course. Women want everything, are they or will they ever be satisfied? No, I say. They have been spoiled for the most part.
Now, the white guy is treated like crap in today's society, but he has no voice.
Crazy world, sad world, glad I am not a kid in it anymore ! :))))
@cheeriosinabowl If you want an opinion from someone of your generation, talk to my mother. She wanted to be an engineer, but the vast majority of women didn't have those sorts of jobs back then. It wasn't considered "respectable." Do you seriously think Neil DeGrasse-Tyson would have been an astronomer in 1955? Nope.
our next door neighbor passed away on Jan 13, 2010......at 96 years old.....she was friends with Mrs. de Havilland Olivia's mother here in saratoga california....Helen also knew Olivia as well and had a picture of her on her wall.....Our neighbor was as classy a woman and refined as Olivia is.......we miss our neighbor terribly and will always treasure her memory and forever realize how fortunate we were to have her also as our dear friend.....
I know Olivia and her sister don't get a long but they have the same mannerisms licking her lips, pursing them and crinkling her nose. Watch Joan Fontaine's clip of this and you'll see!
World War ll took away most of the aristocrats upon whom society was modeled. Once they were gone it became an aging game. As people of refinement aged we lost them but had no training ground for those who came after. I taught myself a way to change that. I look for people of higher standards and bring myself to match the best manners of those around me. They are rare but they exist. Without people like them we could de evolve in Paris Hilton.who has no refinement whatsoever.
There's a few more still living: ANN RUTHERFORD who played COREEN (SCARLETT' youngest sister), MARY ANDERSON who played MAYBELLE MERRIWEATHER.....................
@blaq7427 They had the same father, Walter de Havilland. When their mother re-married, Joan took her step-father's surname when she entered films so as not to trade on Olivia's success as a new star at Warner Bros. (at her mother's suggestion).
After Olivia moved to France she would return to Hollywood maybe once a year. All her fans knew that if you wrote a letter to her at her U.S. mailbox (which as I remember it was Box 1000, Beverly Hills, California), you would whenever she came back to the States get a warm, gracious and detailed handwritten reply. I remember writing her about "Lady In A Cage" and she responded with such an intelligent comment about that film.
Olivia de Havilland apparently disliked her sister Joan Fontaine from child hood. A sibling rivalry for a little sister getting all the attention when she was born, that she never got over. Refusing to talk too or even meet her as an adult.
I love Arlene (as well as Olivia).. but Arlene always quoted who really discovered the guest. When are we going to see these great performers again?? (NEVER!!!!)
How true! This show was a prime example of how a show could be funny & entertaining without indulging in sex, violence & profanity. Today's so-called "entertainers" could learn a lot from the stars of yesteryear. THANKS for your insightful comment! :)
@JubalCalif Sadly, Betty White was on the View, and Whoopie asked why the New Passwerd didn't make it and Betty said because of the the Demographic they were looking for (18-34)could not Think on their feet nor had the vocabulary, to understand the Show. Sad!
@xenafan234 As a school teacher, I BELIEVE it! When I tried to introduce my students to the classics, I was reprimanded by administrators. I had to give them other books that contained vampires and other strange characters. The government regulates our learning curriculum and we are being DUMBED DOWN!
@xenafan234 Yes I believe it. This first came to my attention when working at a state prison. I could not read the incident reports written by the CPO's.
@xenafan234 Unfortunately, our country has been DUMBED DOWN by the garbage that is being passed of as "Entertainment" by the media. Can you compare these lovely ladies to today's trash-mouths (Paris, Britney, Kim, etc.) Everything once good is now bad, and everything bad is now good. We have sunken LOW, Low, low...
@Taharah007 It's so sad, to see the trend of inserting Vampires,and ware-wolfs and other crap in to Alcott,Wilder and Austen's Novels. I am sure Bennett Serf is spinning in his grave. Yes the Government want's to dumb Everyone down, Orwell laid that out quite well, I am sorry we didn't see the writing on the wall 30 years ago.
@clash5j : why would you say that? Most of the African Americans were refined and decent in the 50's as well. People were in fact, kinder and more decent then.
@mmasny Ah, I see you think conducting ones self with Class and Dignity , while showing respect and having a good command of the English language are "Phony" and the Horrid mis-use of the English language, disrespect, utter lake of respecting each other, currently displayed as "truthful" , hum.......Well I need to say nothing more. That is my point, One The Mark. I was wrong to think it was America alone. It seems The Polish are sitting in the same bucket the US is wallowing in as well.
@xenafan234 Even I am convinced - although ashamed and dissapointed to acknowledge this - that the class and dignity in all the world has slowly come to be fading.
@xenafan234 Yes, they are refined. This show is from an era when people felt they had to be formally dressed to be on TV. Also notice how formal they are in referring to everyone as "Mr." and "Miss". It's all rather quaint by today's standards. Today, stars still have the capability of acting refined, but they save it for shows like the Academy Awards.
I liked seeing the opening animated titles and the introductions. I had never seen those before.
@xenafan234 "What happened to my country? Look at how refined and decent we USED to be, and look at what a bucket of Crap we have become!" - Bennett Cerf and his fellow travellers have ALL the answers to that question, wink wink.
They have single handedly F*cked up your once great country...
@xenafan234 I agree that the global society has become less refined and people tend to be far more rude than in past generations, but the celebrities of this time period were not any less foul than we are today. Their refinement was mostly a veneer. Just as many celebrities of yesteryear were involved in scandals as today, and the same ones even, sexual, financial, moral, etc... It's just that the papers didn't print them and they weren't mentioned on the news and the public was more naive.
@TheTubePortal It's True that there were celebrities that did have a sketchey life around them (not on screen) and that the papers and TV did not broadcast 24/7 their miss deeds, but as far a politeness and dignity and decorum, they were an example. Even vocabulary was better. I was purely speaking as to the way They conducted them selves as to how, today we conduct our selves. I was never speaking of, Politics or their own personal life.
@xenafan234 No, I do understand what you meant and do agree with you that today politeness and manners are sadly non-existent. But what occurs to me is that if the manners and classiness of the past generations was merely a veneer (as it mostly was) then it did not reflect their true character. In other words, they acted nice but were bad inside, while today they act bad and are bad inside. The former is hypocritical and the latter is honest, albeit crude. The true problem is poor character.
Oh she's just adorable! I wonder how old she is now, seeing that's she's one of the very few remaining actors who began their film careers in the mid 1930s. I do, love her! I was introduced to her through the films of the AMAZING Bette Davis and since then have loved "The Heiress" the most. Thank you for this :)
I'm surprised they guessed who she was so quickly! Amazing that Olivia is still alive & well over in France! Truly one of the great screen icons. Such a talented performer. Many outstanding performances....but my favorite is "The Heiress". Thanks so much for posting this!
Surprised me too when I read in the newspaper last year that she attended Charlton Heston's funeral! I assumed she was long since dead simply because I hadn't seen her on a talk show for a long time. Another centenarian movie star in the making.
A lot of the guests answered in a foreign language if they knew one - Linda Darnell spoke in Italian, and George Sanders answered in Russian. It was just another way to disguise their voices.
melly...sorry but thats melly imo i always like in hush hush sweet charlotte i was like naughty melly i always new she wasnt that nice!lol i love gwtw and her in it all of them in gwtw r amazing! erm i am loving that his birthday is a day before mine! lol
"Swoon with ecstasy at the mere mention of his name" I love it!! I have always posted that I think John Charles Daly is just adorable!! YEP! YAY now I have legitimate back up LOL! Watch on different clips where he laughs and crinkles his nose. ADORABLE!
It's true that people’s public faces back then were more mannerly, but they were also more hypocritical, racist, sexist and class conscious. I know, as I was there. The pendulum swings, but there is good and bad at each end of the swing. I wouldn’t want to go back to the fifties, though.
bruceboome 1 day ago
SHE IS GREAT!!!
ksairoredjo1 1 month ago
Dorthy's dress is a pip!
RImusclebear1 1 month ago
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Olivia de Havilland is one of the most classy and charming lady in Hollywood
andrebontemp 1 month ago
Olivia de Havilland is one of the most classy and charming person in Hollywood
andrebontemp 1 month ago
Class!!!!!!!!
NicoleCosta1 1 month ago
May 25th is Bennet's birthday
henrygrove100 2 months ago
This clip shows that Olivia de Havilland did have the charming smile of Melanie Hamilton Wilkes, whom she had played in Gone With The Wind almost two decades before. I somehow feel close to her as we share the same birthday: July 1. And she was born in Japan, where I have lived since I was born in 1975. She must have been in her early 40s in this clip. I am glad to realize she is still on the go in Paris. May we celebrate her centennial birthday in four years; I will be 40 then.
Bluejeans0701 2 months ago
Today we have hardly any classy celebrities! What happened? I have no idea.! Standards just dropped into toilet. A real shame. Olivia was lovely. Still around! Great Lady!
billyfuryfan64 3 months ago
@billyfuryfan64 WHAT? WHAT?? You mean to say Brittany Spears isn't a class act? You are so right!
RImusclebear1 1 month ago
@screenjims11
.... Screenjims11, thank you for your very kind comments! :))
We are almost the same age, I am 56 -- and we both know times were way different when we were growing up, the contrast of behaviour is shocking between today and back then. Yes, the world is cold, nasty and selfish. I don't know how bad it will get in the future, but it doesn't look pretty. Truthfully, I am glad I am not a kid anymore in this society. Very best to you!
cheeriosinabowl 3 months ago
I loved her in Robin Hood, she was just lovely.
franklindavid 3 months ago
Bennett turned 60 on this show.
observer9670 4 months ago
Back in those days, people dressed up and had pride in themselves in what they said, how they acted and what they wore. We can only look back in awe and admiration of how it once was. Sadly, manners and discipline have become obsolete virtues. Everyone in this clip is mannerly, and courteous to each other, without any vulgarisms or upstaging or bragging.
cheeriosinabowl 4 months ago 8
@cheeriosinabowl As a representative of a younger generation the reason for it is that we don't believe in hypocrisy. These celebrities of the past were just as foul, rude, immoral, and degraded as everybody today. They were polite to your face but insulted you behind the back. Papers and TV weren't digging dirt then either. Today the degradation is still there but the veneer is gone. We may be less refined, but we're more honest and less hypocritical.
TheTubePortal 4 months ago
@TheTubePortal
... what you said has some truth. People are people. But today, there is no class, everything is blunt, even if it is true and upfront. I still prefer the manners and class of yesteryear, even if it was (somewhat) hypocritical. That's why we watch these shows from over 50 years ago. Nobody will watch today's shows 50 year down the road. My guess.
cheeriosinabowl 4 months ago
@cheeriosinabowl I appreciate your opinion, and do agree with you that everyone can use a little more class, courtesy, and politeness. Those days are probably gone forever, though. Not so sure about 50 years from now - in my view every generation looks back on the previous ones as superior. So, if society continues on its downward trend then Hollywood 50 years from now may be worse and things of today appear classy.
TheTubePortal 4 months ago
@cheeriosinabowl True, it was a grand time...unless you were non-white and/or a woman.
Pixiesnix 1 week ago
@Pixiesnix
.... I don't agree with you on the 2nd half of your post. Overgeneralized statement.
cheeriosinabowl 1 week ago
@cheeriosinabowl How so? Was there not rampant discrimination and racism at the time? Were non-whites not expected to "know their place?" Were women not expected to stay in the kitchen? I think you're yearning for a time that never was. Sure, people could use a lot more manners and courtesy these days. But at what cost? I wouldn't want to return to that time for any sum of money in the world. As a woman, it would severely hurt my quality if life.
Pixiesnix 4 days ago
@Pixiesnix
... you are generalizing! There always was abuse and inequality, and there always will be abuse and inequality to varying degrees, be it women's rights/issue, racism or whatever. Only society's attitude to it has changed. I don't know how old you are, but not all women were confined to the kitchen pre 1970's.
cheeriosinabowl 4 days ago
@cheeriosinabowl There was a lot more abuse and inequality back then, plus much more acceptance (if not downright encouragement) of it than now. That really shouldn't be up for debate. The world we live in now is a much better one for women and non-whites than it was back then. It's not a generalization, it was the societal norm, for women to stay at home and for non-whites to be "separate but equal." For crying out loud, there are court cases about it.
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@Pixiesnix
.... you are entitled to your opinion, of course. Women want everything, are they or will they ever be satisfied? No, I say. They have been spoiled for the most part.
Now, the white guy is treated like crap in today's society, but he has no voice.
Crazy world, sad world, glad I am not a kid in it anymore ! :))))
cheeriosinabowl 3 days ago
@cheeriosinabowl If you want an opinion from someone of your generation, talk to my mother. She wanted to be an engineer, but the vast majority of women didn't have those sorts of jobs back then. It wasn't considered "respectable." Do you seriously think Neil DeGrasse-Tyson would have been an astronomer in 1955? Nope.
Pixiesnix 3 days ago
I love her in The Heiress...
bubblybabs 4 months ago
Jesus Christ, Bennett.
detahdomo 7 months ago
Why was Bennett always doing so much travelling? In those days, airline flight must have been a pain the butt.
thesocialpet 7 months ago
our next door neighbor passed away on Jan 13, 2010......at 96 years old.....she was friends with Mrs. de Havilland Olivia's mother here in saratoga california....Helen also knew Olivia as well and had a picture of her on her wall.....Our neighbor was as classy a woman and refined as Olivia is.......we miss our neighbor terribly and will always treasure her memory and forever realize how fortunate we were to have her also as our dear friend.....
henry12397 8 months ago 2
I know Olivia and her sister don't get a long but they have the same mannerisms licking her lips, pursing them and crinkling her nose. Watch Joan Fontaine's clip of this and you'll see!
ollie3613 9 months ago
Where do you get these clips? Is there a DVD?
omgbygollywow 9 months ago
Classy! Thanks for uploading! omg...how fast they got her!!! :)
cloudidogz 9 months ago
World War ll took away most of the aristocrats upon whom society was modeled. Once they were gone it became an aging game. As people of refinement aged we lost them but had no training ground for those who came after. I taught myself a way to change that. I look for people of higher standards and bring myself to match the best manners of those around me. They are rare but they exist. Without people like them we could de evolve in Paris Hilton.who has no refinement whatsoever.
stematfisnyc 11 months ago 3
@stematfisnyc AMEN!
xenafan234 11 months ago
she is really good with accents
KURISUCHRIS99 1 year ago
The last of the Gone with the Wind cast - even Cammie King (Bonnie Butler) is gone now.
gtlfb 1 year ago
@gtlfb
Olivia is still alive !
missEloise97 1 year ago
@gtlfb
There's a few more still living: ANN RUTHERFORD who played COREEN (SCARLETT' youngest sister), MARY ANDERSON who played MAYBELLE MERRIWEATHER.....................
Keltster 11 months ago
I love Olivia's dress. What a classy, classy lady.
classicsfan10 1 year ago
Are you watching these vids because of Dorothy too?
mmasny 1 year ago
Did you catch the bit at 5:48? 38?? He's closer to twice that in age lol. Olivia didn't seem to be in on the joke.
SoaringTrumpet 1 year ago
Imagine Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul, and co. trying to introduce each other like that. Jesus.
DiscoverPeace 1 year ago
like the irving berlin song ...'there were never such devoted SISTERS...'
VTMCompany 1 year ago
When she's in profile, she looks EXACTLY like her sister, Joan Fontaine!
markedwardindc 1 year ago
@markedwardindc de havilland and fontaine look nothing a like. I think they probably had different fathers
blaq7427 1 year ago
@blaq7427 They had the same father, Walter de Havilland. When their mother re-married, Joan took her step-father's surname when she entered films so as not to trade on Olivia's success as a new star at Warner Bros. (at her mother's suggestion).
erroldoyle 1 year ago
When she's in profile she looks EXACTLY like here sister, Joan Fontaine!
markedwardindc 1 year ago
After Olivia moved to France she would return to Hollywood maybe once a year. All her fans knew that if you wrote a letter to her at her U.S. mailbox (which as I remember it was Box 1000, Beverly Hills, California), you would whenever she came back to the States get a warm, gracious and detailed handwritten reply. I remember writing her about "Lady In A Cage" and she responded with such an intelligent comment about that film.
waynebrasler 1 year ago
@waynebrasler no one these days bothers with their fans. shame
chilvari 1 year ago
Her hat looks like one of those ones that Ricky used to get mad at Lucy for buying.
SOLE2SOUL 1 year ago 2
Olivia De Havilland is one of my all time favorite actresses. She is truly one very classy lady.
rickram1961 1 year ago 10
Olivia de Havilland apparently disliked her sister Joan Fontaine from child hood. A sibling rivalry for a little sister getting all the attention when she was born, that she never got over. Refusing to talk too or even meet her as an adult.
binaway 1 year ago
Olivia de Havilland is amazing
WiltatKansas 1 year ago 7
From the side, when she turns profile, she looks EXACTLY like her sister, Joan Fontaine!
markedwardindc 1 year ago
i never realised what a beauty odh was until i saw her here. what a stunner!
nuipret 1 year ago 2
Fellow Dubliner Eamon Andrews, I didn't expect to see him there!
Kenmorfdublin 1 year ago
I love Arlene (as well as Olivia).. but Arlene always quoted who really discovered the guest. When are we going to see these great performers again?? (NEVER!!!!)
MANUELFARINELLI 1 year ago 5
What happened to my country? Look at how refined and decent we USED to be, and look at what a bucket of Crap we have become!
xenafan234 1 year ago 131
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@xenafan234
Piss off twatfucker.
kives1985 1 year ago
@xenafan234
How true! This show was a prime example of how a show could be funny & entertaining without indulging in sex, violence & profanity. Today's so-called "entertainers" could learn a lot from the stars of yesteryear. THANKS for your insightful comment! :)
JubalCalif 1 year ago 5
@JubalCalif Sadly, Betty White was on the View, and Whoopie asked why the New Passwerd didn't make it and Betty said because of the the Demographic they were looking for (18-34)could not Think on their feet nor had the vocabulary, to understand the Show. Sad!
xenafan234 1 year ago
@xenafan234 As a school teacher, I BELIEVE it! When I tried to introduce my students to the classics, I was reprimanded by administrators. I had to give them other books that contained vampires and other strange characters. The government regulates our learning curriculum and we are being DUMBED DOWN!
Taharah007 1 year ago
@xenafan234 Yes I believe it. This first came to my attention when working at a state prison. I could not read the incident reports written by the CPO's.
Taharah007 1 year ago
@xenafan234 Unfortunately, our country has been DUMBED DOWN by the garbage that is being passed of as "Entertainment" by the media. Can you compare these lovely ladies to today's trash-mouths (Paris, Britney, Kim, etc.) Everything once good is now bad, and everything bad is now good. We have sunken LOW, Low, low...
Taharah007 1 year ago
@Taharah007 It's so sad, to see the trend of inserting Vampires,and ware-wolfs and other crap in to Alcott,Wilder and Austen's Novels. I am sure Bennett Serf is spinning in his grave. Yes the Government want's to dumb Everyone down, Orwell laid that out quite well, I am sorry we didn't see the writing on the wall 30 years ago.
xenafan234 1 year ago
@xenafan234 Not to be a troublemaker but I think African Americans would disagree that we were refined and "decent" in the 50's
clash5j 1 year ago
@clash5j : why would you say that? Most of the African Americans were refined and decent in the 50's. People were kinder then.
miladyfencer 1 year ago
@clash5j : why would you say that? Most of the African Americans were refined and decent in the 50's as well. People were in fact, kinder and more decent then.
miladyfencer 1 year ago
@clash5j I was not Speaking politically, rather how people conducted them selves.
xenafan234 1 year ago
@xenafan234 It is called liberalism.
alex42135 1 year ago
@xenafan234 It is called liberalism and the erosion of our schools.
alex42135 1 year ago
@alex42135 Yes! exactly.
xenafan234 1 year ago
@alex42135 It has nothing to do with liberalism and everything to do with class.
heula1 1 year ago 3
@xenafan234 Very true. Add to that how we are selling off our country to China and it does not look good for the future.
jvolstad 1 year ago
@xenafan234 you were a bunch of phonies and you've become truthful
mmasny 1 year ago
@mmasny Ah, I see you think conducting ones self with Class and Dignity , while showing respect and having a good command of the English language are "Phony" and the Horrid mis-use of the English language, disrespect, utter lake of respecting each other, currently displayed as "truthful" , hum.......Well I need to say nothing more. That is my point, One The Mark. I was wrong to think it was America alone. It seems The Polish are sitting in the same bucket the US is wallowing in as well.
xenafan234 1 year ago 2
@xenafan234 There are more in the sinking boat than you might assume: the Brits and the Bulgarians are def in there too. Shame!
peperudi 1 year ago 2
@peperudi I guess so, it's a shame.
xenafan234 1 year ago
@xenafan234 Even I am convinced - although ashamed and dissapointed to acknowledge this - that the class and dignity in all the world has slowly come to be fading.
DropoutDesigns 1 year ago 17
@DropoutDesigns I wonder how we all got this way.
xenafan234 1 year ago
@DropoutDesigns Slowly? Since the late 60's our nation has been on a fast, and ever-accelerating downslide.
LowRising89 2 months ago
@xenafan234 Amen, brother.
librarybob1958 1 year ago
@xenafan234 Remember that this is just TV.
Arinator74 8 months ago
@xenafan234
I know its repulsive.
lizzyvance 8 months ago
@xenafan234 Every generation thinks that.
tifo316 7 months ago 2
@tifo316 Yes, and they were right.
xenafan234 7 months ago
@xenafan234 Or delusional.
tifo316 7 months ago
@tifo316 humph, I think that they were right. So this was the 60's then we went trough the 70's ,80's90' and now..............
xenafan234 7 months ago
@xenafan234 Yes, they are refined. This show is from an era when people felt they had to be formally dressed to be on TV. Also notice how formal they are in referring to everyone as "Mr." and "Miss". It's all rather quaint by today's standards. Today, stars still have the capability of acting refined, but they save it for shows like the Academy Awards.
I liked seeing the opening animated titles and the introductions. I had never seen those before.
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@xenafan234 "What happened to my country? Look at how refined and decent we USED to be, and look at what a bucket of Crap we have become!" - Bennett Cerf and his fellow travellers have ALL the answers to that question, wink wink.
They have single handedly F*cked up your once great country...
Kenmorfdublin 6 months ago
@xenafan234 It's fault of commercial advertising
Francesko263 6 months ago
@xenafan234 Sad but true, that's what happens to an anything goes society I'm afraid.
TheVaughan5 4 months ago
@xenafan234 Every generation thinks the next is declining when, in fact, education is going up and teenage pregancies, for example, are going down.
247giantsrule 4 months ago
@247giantsrule
Actually, in some states teen pregnancies are increasing, as are high school drop-out rates.
direfranchement 4 months ago
@xenafan234 I agree that the global society has become less refined and people tend to be far more rude than in past generations, but the celebrities of this time period were not any less foul than we are today. Their refinement was mostly a veneer. Just as many celebrities of yesteryear were involved in scandals as today, and the same ones even, sexual, financial, moral, etc... It's just that the papers didn't print them and they weren't mentioned on the news and the public was more naive.
TheTubePortal 4 months ago
@TheTubePortal It's True that there were celebrities that did have a sketchey life around them (not on screen) and that the papers and TV did not broadcast 24/7 their miss deeds, but as far a politeness and dignity and decorum, they were an example. Even vocabulary was better. I was purely speaking as to the way They conducted them selves as to how, today we conduct our selves. I was never speaking of, Politics or their own personal life.
xenafan234 4 months ago
@xenafan234 No, I do understand what you meant and do agree with you that today politeness and manners are sadly non-existent. But what occurs to me is that if the manners and classiness of the past generations was merely a veneer (as it mostly was) then it did not reflect their true character. In other words, they acted nice but were bad inside, while today they act bad and are bad inside. The former is hypocritical and the latter is honest, albeit crude. The true problem is poor character.
TheTubePortal 4 months ago
Haha!
I had to laugh@ 5:02 when the bewildered Dorothy asked how Bennet knew she was going to Atlanta for the first time since GWTW
he proceeds to tell her out loud right as John in speaking with Olivia
Lol!
andeaver1937 2 years ago 2
Arlene Francis is rocking that headband.
Hahaha
Olivia de Havilland is a class act, love her movies.
Gorgeous & Talented.
CarlyIsAGangster 2 years ago 4
She does rock that headband. And Arlene had some great dos (hairdos) through the years.
Olivia de Havilland had a beautiful signature.
xander7ful 2 years ago
The panel asked Olivia about a movie she's in, "The Proud Rebel." Never heard of it, never watched it, I'll have to check it out. :]
scriptum60 2 years ago
Wow how'd they figure that out so quick, no fair! :P
ShawDAMAN 2 years ago
I wonder why they took her signature on the blackboard away. at the end when she walks past it, its gone.
andeaver1937 2 years ago
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TomBarristerX 2 years ago
It wasn't a blackboard. They were heavy black signature cards, and each was saved. Collectors have paid good amounts of money for these cards.
TomBarristerX 2 years ago
what a remarkable lady...in every sense of the word. she acts like a queen.
lotsandlotsofbubbles 2 years ago 6
Ms. DeHavilland is now 93 years old (as of October 8, 2009). She is 41 years old here.
markedwardindc 2 years ago 3
Oh she's just adorable! I wonder how old she is now, seeing that's she's one of the very few remaining actors who began their film careers in the mid 1930s. I do, love her! I was introduced to her through the films of the AMAZING Bette Davis and since then have loved "The Heiress" the most. Thank you for this :)
je3rowe 2 years ago
shes 93 now
oboe726 2 years ago
What an adorable accent!!
Bpothik 2 years ago 3
shes so cute...:)
notouchi 2 years ago 4
"That Blithe Spirit" Dorothy Kilgallen!
44032 2 years ago 2
I'm surprised they guessed who she was so quickly! Amazing that Olivia is still alive & well over in France! Truly one of the great screen icons. Such a talented performer. Many outstanding performances....but my favorite is "The Heiress". Thanks so much for posting this!
JubalCalif 2 years ago
Surprised me too when I read in the newspaper last year that she attended Charlton Heston's funeral! I assumed she was long since dead simply because I hadn't seen her on a talk show for a long time. Another centenarian movie star in the making.
MisterEvasion 2 years ago
Hahaha, I love her response to "are you legitimate?"
vanityfair713 2 years ago
Aww shes lovely. Happy Birthday Bennet cerf, funny I landed on this video just after 12..
CoffeeAddictLaura 2 years ago
I noticed Silvana Mangano answered in French too, was it common at the time ?
ChiudiLaPorta 2 years ago
A lot of the guests answered in a foreign language if they knew one - Linda Darnell spoke in Italian, and George Sanders answered in Russian. It was just another way to disguise their voices.
MissLizaMay 2 years ago
too beautiful
it makes me angry
mayitpleasethecourt 2 years ago 2
SHE'S BEAUTIFUL....
IsabellaAmyBeth 3 years ago 2
melly...sorry but thats melly imo i always like in hush hush sweet charlotte i was like naughty melly i always new she wasnt that nice!lol i love gwtw and her in it all of them in gwtw r amazing! erm i am loving that his birthday is a day before mine! lol
26mae1987 3 years ago
It's Melly :-)
UofLCardFan08 3 years ago 3
"Swoon with ecstasy at the mere mention of his name" I love it!! I have always posted that I think John Charles Daly is just adorable!! YEP! YAY now I have legitimate back up LOL! Watch on different clips where he laughs and crinkles his nose. ADORABLE!
SueBeaWho 3 years ago
Hollywood Royalty....
HowardOfOz 3 years ago 3
Arlene is beautiful here. I love the introductions :)
BethBetteJulie 3 years ago 39
I've love watching these, i like the Errol Flynn and Maureen O'Hara ones too. I've never seen this before thanks for posting!
Cader1dris 3 years ago
Wow hear those loud applause for De Havilland......awesome.long life for you Miss Olivia De Havilland.
python130 3 years ago 9
Thanx for posting the introduction as well as the mystery game.
soulierinvestments 3 years ago
what did B. Cerf say,"I cry at card tricks?"
bitterchew 3 years ago
"I cried through the whole picture; but I cry at card tricks." LOL
torchkit 3 years ago