What's My Line? (Alfred Hitchcock)

[rustyshepperd]

I wish that GSN would put this show, and the other good old black and white shows back on the air. I used to watch GSN every night back then, and now I hardly ever watch it. People and shows were classier and much more entertaining at that time. I'm only 36 and never watched them live, but I wish I could have.

[jevilscientist]

no actresses or actors could ever compare to the talent of lost era!!!!

[oct2258]

Watching these WML? clips is such great fun and also a bit sad. It makes me wish for times when there was wit and class on TV.

[kubrox91]

I wish we could have wittier people around today that aren't comedians in their profession. I really don't see any witty actors or directors.

[09201951ful]

@kubrox91 hahahahahah

[wholeNwon]

How well I remember that show. Really good entertainment for the whole family. Now what do we have? Now there are many more channels filled with lowest common denominator trash pandering to the intellectually bereft. NPR has provided occasional bright spots but, on the whole, our society has become both fat and stupid.

[CraigASilver]

Had no idea Hitch could draw his own caricature--or would want to. Check out my original song tribute "Here's To Alfred Hitchcock" (with accompanying montage). Just click on my name below or search CraigASilver.

[rawr91]

4:23 alfred is totally turned on by her quickness.

[onebaud1]

My god the fifties, when they could turn over a five dollar card on a celebrity like Alfred Hitchcock.

[calalilygirl]

Sorry Arlene didn't get in on this one.

[bullwinkle1989]

Love Hitchcock! Can't get enough of him. Love 'The Lady Vanishes'.

[youtuuberoxx]

haha that guy asked him if he made an epic motion picture set in egypt and hitchcock replied "heaven forbid"...obviously not a fan of grand biblical production movies that were all the rage back then

[SunshineFull]

brilliant

[unwell333]

I'm in love with Hitchcock!

[12ze34]

He looks like a mix of Churchill and Hitler.Go figur...

[Bouchon211]

What did you do about it? Awesome.

[tomkes100douchebag]

Someone please post Hitchcock's appearance from the syndicated version.

[IwillKillYourCereal]

His voice is sooooooo recognizable. I'm shocked they didn't get it right after he said "yesss" lol.

[Lee05211]

@IwillKillYourCereal I'm sure they did...they just went along to keep the show going.

[IwillKillYourCereal]

@Lee05211 Aww. That's so cheap, but it's understandable. I wonder why they didn't do the same with Liberace.

[chowbok]

@IwillKillYourCereal Well, this was before "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" was on TV, and he never spoke in his cameo appearances in his films, so his voice wasn't so well-known at the time.

[sexygayvampires]

@IwillKillYourCereal Luka Magnotta is the new Alfred Hitchcock.

[Radioeater]

I wish I sounded as intelligent as the people in this show. What the hell happened in 50~ years?

[zackhanscom]

@Radioeater more emphasis on book learning imo

[emaresea]

@Radioeater Anti-intellectualism, that's what happened.

[Tessmage]

@emaresea

I'll take it one further and say that it has been the systematic dumbing down of America by the Establishment. Ignorant people are easier to mislead and control. I realize that might sound paranoid to some people... but it isn't.

[luridlorea]

@Radioeater Baby Boomer's punishment for having kids (kidding! Kind of...)

[melkzee]

As defined by Bernstein, the object was to shake and humiliate the Germans. Shortly before his death he explained that Hitchcock's contribution was to help shape the way the material was presented. Hitchcock's concern was that "We should try to prevent people thinking that any of this was faked." Hitchcock took another little secret to his grave. His film 'Psycho', with that other famous shower scene, was released on Jan. 27 1960 -- exactly 15 years after the Russians liberated Auschwitz!

[illbelovingyoualways]

I loved the movie Rear Window - I thought it was wonderful

[tdstdstdss]

he was so awesome.

[IlanBoy2]

Love whoever posted this...... it's lovely to see the past stuck in amber

[Sage80]

he's hilarious

[romanvanpersie]

Absolute DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU­UDE!

[storrs19]

I loved his sense of humor that was so well done on his television program. Excellent.

[ajlee35]

he even wrote a children's mystery series which was very well done. and was my first introduction to him as a child. it was called The Three Investigators

[TheGenerationFilms]

Are You a Gentleman? "Sometimes"... :D

[elruchito]

Where is the interrogator's accent from?

[danman2424]

@elruchito He's American. Up until about the 1950s, many Americans spoke like that. Particularly those of the upper class. American accents used to be a bit less distinguishable from British accents and other english accents.

[elruchito]

@danman2424 I thought that he had a bit of the elmer fudd accent, and I was wondering what kind of regional accent that might be.

[classicchica39]

I love how in all the one's that I've seen whenever they guess the contenstant they say Mr. or Mrs It's just so classy

[WienerDogsOuterSpace]

Wiener dogs in outer space

[AuroraGreenleaf]

Wow, TV was classy in those days

[ManhattanMusician]

@tamerswan

Why not? They're worth money.

[STONECOLD1987]

Mr. Hitchcock is so cool, like his signature also. Greatest Director

[spidavenom4]

I had to come here after watching will smith mock him. haha

[R3APER24]

I would've known who it was the moment he opened his mouth.

[Possen93]

impossible signature!

[Gencturk92]

steven spielberg is nothing against Hitchcock

[Tonin41992]

8 people couldn't participate to this show with a French accent....

[MrSteed464]

sometimes i feel the panelists recognize the persons voice but play along to fill the time in

[ManhattanMusician]

I wish I owned these signatures

[nikonguy102]

Homo

[Tonin41992]

@nikonguy102 Dumbass

[edmame]

the skinny years!

[beatlesfreak89]

"If this is ham, I wish I had some of it." (5:13)

[lorrainewands]

He's quick.

[DDBB2012]

Hitchcock saying "what a pity, how annoying", was serious!

[teetee616]

My fav director ever!

[qwer58j]

I love ham.

[qwer58j]

She was clever.

[tomitstube]

i didn't know he had such a great sense of humor.

[packers95fl]

"Are you a gentleman?" "Sometimes." Rofl

[brtherjohn]

Even though Bennett Cerf was a New Yorker he sounds an awful lot like Robert Kennedy...

[SchmoozeMinkey]

What a lovely, personable gentleman it truly was. Who knew?

[daffydoug]

Can't beat ol' Hitch!

[NonExistentCodes]

Remember that twenty question toy? I've always wondered what would happen if I replied "sometimes" to a gender question. Glad to know I'm like Alfred Hitchcock.

[paulsamaniac]

Whatever you say Mr Hitchcock, there is no fooling a lady! - surprise surprise ;^)

[TendancyToFloatAway]

I believe he switches accents once or twice before the questions are over...

[thenewmodfather]

the greatest director ever

[cheyenne86]

love this guy.... best director ever

[MadisonxPxFitch]

I love how, when asked if he was a woman, he said "Sometimes". Hahah

[JustJokingYou]

Thumbs up if you think Alfred Hitchcock is and always will be the best, darn, movie director that ever lived.

[IBPsychExperiment]

@JustJokingYou haha...you're a fucking idiot...

[JustJokingYou]

@IBPsychExperiment And...Loving It!

[IBPsychExperiment]

@JustJokingYou ah, clever response. but doesn't really make up for your severely lacking judgement of directors.

[JustJokingYou]

@IBPsychExperiment Well, everybody has a different veiw of things. You may not think he's a great director, but I do. How does that make me an idiot? Just because I dont like the same things that you do? If everybody had the same views about things, boy, everything would be boring.

[IBPsychExperiment]

@JustJokingYou i'm not saying you aren't entitled to an opinion. i could say the twilight series is the greatest film series of all time. the opinion may be my own, but it would be entirely flawed, as well as ignorant and unintelligent. to say hitchcock is the "best director that ever lived" is quite the stretch, when there are true geniuses such as kubrick and coppola. come on, hitchcock didn't even take ACTING into consideration.

[JustJokingYou]

@IBPsychExperiment Well, I've got 117 people agreeing with me. What now???

[IBPsychExperiment]

@JustJokingYou do you really think that matters? how many people like twilight? or justin bieber? are you really taking into consideration the opinions of america's philistine masses? jesus kid, grow up. you're disillusioned as fuck.

[JustJokingYou]

@IBPsychExperiment OK, no offense, dude but you'r just making a big deal out of nothing.

[IBPsychExperiment]

@JustJokingYou actually, not whatsoever. all i've done is disprove every uneducated response you've made. it really annoys me when people make statements that are neither intelligent nor original. you've done both. this is not me making a big deal out of it. this is you being unable to handle the truth.

[JustJokingYou]

@IBPsychExperiment OK. Everywhere around us, there is difference. One of the things that make us different is what we are exposed to. For instance, up until recently, I have not been exposed to directors such as Martin Scorcesse. Now, before I had even heard of him, I had to make my best director proposition on people I HAD known. Now, what I am saying is, of all the directors I have been exposed to, I would pick Hitch as the best. You may not agree because you have been exposed to some I havent

[IBPsychExperiment]

@JustJokingYou martin scorcese, you mean? not really sure why you mention him, as i sure didn't. and what half-ass excuse is this? why not enlighten yourself by becoming familiar with truly talented directors? the gist of what you're saying is "I realize I'm ignorant and accept it."

[JustJokingYou]

@IBPsychExperiment OK. "I realize you are ignorant and I accept it." Why cant you just embrace the fact that I have a different view point than you? Just so you know, there are people on my end of the computer that agree with me that your just wasting your time trying to make me change my opinion. In the words of HAL 9000: "I'm sorry, Dave. This conversation can no longer hold any purpose. Good Bye."

[IBPsychExperiment]

@JustJokingYou *you're

[AlexEmbers]

@IBPsychExperiment Mate you're SUCH a bellend

[1bardh1]

@JustJokingYou well.... stanley kubrick is at the same level as he is, actually in my opinion, the best directors are arranged like this:

1: Hitchcock, Kubrick

2: Chaplin, Orson Welles

then the rest

[libertines24]

@1bardh1 no martin scoreses?

[1bardh1]

@libertines24 well, Martin Scorsese, F.F. Coppola, Brian DePalma, Milos Forman and Steven Spielberg are amazing directors, but the people i mentioned, they are pioneers, and almost every other director is inspired by them.

[libertines24]

@1bardh1 I tend disagree I think Martin inspired just as many people that any other of those directors did.

[JustJokingYou]

@1bardh1 Well, I have only seen 2 Kubrik movies, The Shining and 2001 a space oddessy

[grimreap93]

@1bardh1 john carpenter wes craven george romero then the rest

[FetaCheese222]

@grimreap93 Yes, because there's only one genre of movies.

[grimreap93]

@FetaCheese222 well when you like a certain genre of movies you purposly fail to mention other directors

[DNesij]

@1bardh1 I agree but:

Nothing compares to Orson Welles for me... ;)

[kubrox91]

@1bardh1 what about socrsese? kurosawa?

[WanderLink]

@1bardh1

Chaplin? WTF? That's an odd choice for great director let alone second greatest. I say

1. Stanley Kubrick

2. Fritz Lang

3. Orson Welles

4. Alfred Hitchcock

5. Akira Kurosawa

[GEVMM]

@WanderLink and Billy Wilder.

[Woody615]

@WanderLink No, Chaplin deserves to be in the top 5 though I would be hard pressed to name who I would remove from your fine list. Watch "City Lights". It's a heck of a lot harder to act when you can't speak lines.

[Trekiefreak777]

@JustJokingYou Meh, I think Steven Spielberg is better, but this guy is just a teeny bit behind Spielberg.

[Ovidius89]

I just found out about this show, how awesome !!

[hcvang]

oh wow, he draws a silhouette of his face in his signature... damn... that's cool.

[MessyJatador]

Oui.

[KnucklesTheEchidna37]

Classic shows, much better than 21st century bullshit

[JubalCalif]

@KnucklesTheEchidna37

I second that emotion!  Great shows like this from yesteryear prove that a program doesn't have to wallow in the gutter of profanity, violence & sex to be entertaining. Not all of today's stuff is schlock, but most of the time I prefer watching classic shows like this.

[DaniHarmerTV]

''What did you do about it?'' lol

[MrCaveman366]

the world will never produce an equal to this director!

[Kitsua]

What a delightful and extraordinary fellow he was.

[recardo9]

I have to say Dorothy Kilgallen & Arlene Francis are so beautiful and have such an intoxicating presence. They are so huba hub.

[DRUMMERMAN77]

he DID NOT APPEAR IN LIFEBOAT but a picture of him did

[SpaceCowboy641]

@DRUMMERMAN77 Yah! And his best achievement ever was to put my beloved Goddess of the American South, Miss Tallulah Brockman Bankhead, in this lifeboat, and prevented so her from oblivion !!! Thank you, Hitch !!!

[Highbudget]

Man im loving this show. why cant their be something like this now. And i really need to get into some Alfred Hitcock movies

[EmiLovey10]

I love that he did the sketch as well as his name. :)

[chunterr39]

he looks like a classy kyle gass

[wmlfan9]

"Have you ever been in Harry's Bar in Venice?" Only Dorothy asked questions like that - bless her.

[ricarleite]

Hitchcock was genius

[lottarm]

anyone know what he says at 2:56?

[hoopyfrood1976]

@lottarm goodness forbid

[lottarm]

@hoopyfrood1976 thank you!

[aLilLadyBug]

what year was this aired?

[cgnabod]

@aLilLadyBug 1954...September 12 to be exact :)

[DINOLOVER6717]

He has such a huge dent in his upper lip i thought he had a hitler 'stache. He seems like a really funny dude.

[Twilight257]

why is Alfred Hitchcock such a hard ass. He looks like a completely boring person.

[ABALLAM3]

Rear Window is my favourite Hitchcock film and Hitchcock is my favourite director of them all. So many great pieces of work!

[CrazyDictator23]

Is that couect ? Bjodway 

[ragemanchoo82]

Rear Window was 1958, right?

[ABALLAM3]

@ragemanchoo82 It was from 1954.

[AutumnSweetwater]

you are a gentlemen yes? ... sometimes . LOL

[Kidzilla99]

He should have just drawn a giant silhouette of his face.

[HarpoonTorpedo]

@Kidzilla99 thats what he did, its the drawning next to his signiture.

[manubanu]

Notice how he has more respect for the men than the women. He stays 1.5 seconds infront of the males and 0.5 seconds in front of the girls. Maybe he was gay, or considered women as slaves, i'm just saying!

[SoaringTrumpet]

"And last night...I met Ms. Grace Kelly..." "What did you do about it?"

Cheeky!

[ThePassionaria]

Il Maestro...

[tedGEGI]

Hitch was the master of mystery and suspense---brilliant film maker---love all his work----and,lucky devil, got to bang the beautiful Grace Kelly too

[hisunand]

the meaning of suspense died with him now a days movies forgot the word's meaning

[spepper]

haha ladies NEVER get up to greet the guest... come on!

[MrWilliamtom]

@spepper

Watch the What's My Line? episodes with Eleanor Roosevelt and Bishop Sheen. See how fast the ladies got up to greet the guests.

[sweethaert12]

omg he did the famous HITCHCOCK SYMBOL!! ahahaahah

<3 hitchcock

[Robo1415]

No,I mean when the show originally ran,I was very young.I'm almost 54 now.Thanks for thinking i was young:)

[skylight1952]

Motion Pictures,...Consumate Director!

[wtfreddy]

Alfred Hitchcock is my movie making idol(: <3

[theanonymy]

Charming!!

[maa222c]

masonic handshake

[bobshark123]

@maa222c yes

[Robo1415]

This was such a classy show...now it takes 2 seconds before they become crass and vulgar...

[sweiland75]

@Robo1415 Indeed. That's why I prefer this show over any popular game show today. GSN only temporarily brought back Black and White Overnight which is unfortunate.

[Robo1415]

@sweiland75 I'm sorry they are not showing it anymoire.I was too young to appreciate it when it first ran.

[sweiland75]

@Robo1415 You are too young to stay up that late?

[catholicpriest1]

Dorothy is such a show off.

[KatsuDe]

"You ain't Marilyn Monroe ?" "It is imbossibble" :D haha i love him :D

[the1musiclad]

If you look at all the people who appeared on this show it reads like a who's who of the 20th century. Take people like Walt Disney, Salvador Dali, Groucho Marx, Bette Davis (don't forget Joan Crawford :/), Jimmy Stewart, Frank Sinatra, Ronald Reagan, of course Alfred Hitchcock and even Donald Duck! These people will be known for centuries to come. Incredible.

When will a DVD of this show be released. It's long overdue.

[puck30]

@the1musiclad Until then thank God for youtube!

[Robo1415]

@the1musiclad It was an  excellent show with real sophistication and class.

[Aerodynamic14]

clever woman

[CinemaTouretteGuy]

When he was alive he had the same condition as me. He was the best but did he let idiots get in his way? No he didn't.

[celticghirl88]

Was the host of this show always such a spoilsport? He was the same with Peter Ustinov. The looks the guests give him when he answers the questions, especially Hitchcock here (2:46) , is almost pure evil lol!

[levanyzzuf]

How could they NOT have figured it out the first instant he spoke?

[shabyyy]

"Are you a gentleman is that correct?"

"Sometimes"

lol!

[juliurashima]

@shabyyy I laugh a lot when he said that!!!!!

[cocktail4luv1294]

He's so charming and witty! Probably one of my fav episodes of What's my line?

"What did you do about her?" sooooooo funny =))

I just loveee him <3 His signature is so cool too!

[kittycathappy]

lol. i love this guy!

[tracytcb111111111111]

great show hitch was a very clever man imagine what type of movies he could of made today with comptues in birds they used fishing line in some sence and that turned out to be a great movie love rear window to

[vagtirourirou]

"it is impossible" loooooool

[BoyNamedSue4]

One of the all time greats.

[meryldepp]

Well naturally ! lol what a funny guy

[MARCBSTN]

Truly, one of the greats. 

[STU676]

what a handwriting

[Smithfilmproductions]

Hitch was freakin awesome.

[MrDeCorey]

This is a great show they had great shows in the 1950's.