New Year's Eve 1950--What's My Line (part 2 of 4)

[bobandrayfan1]

A brunette Arlene Frahncis...

[WintersWar]

wow, these really are the early days. daly is talking at a fast clip and sprier than I've ever seen.

[ipmoic]

I think Betty Furness could have been a very good, long-term panelist.

Obviously, Gary Moore became a big star in the '50's.

[wiguy3]

@ipmoic I must agree. Also, had not Betsy Palmer or Bess Meyerson been so sucsessful on I've Got a Secret, they would have been excellent panelists here. I am glad thought that Dorothy Killgalen came along.

[calalilygirl]

Great

[senoramariposa]

I've never seen Betty Furness so young!

[Bigwave2003]

I find the panelist Untemeyer really annoying. His long-winded questions, the I'll keep talking until I say something clever attitude, and at times he seems to be reading (or trying to remember) quips he wrote down earlier.

[jmccracken1963]

@Bigwave2003 Quite fortunate, then, I suppose, that Mr. Untermyer's involvement with left-wing organizations (some of them Communist fronts) led CBS to insist on his removal from the panel just a few months later - and his replacement (as it turned out, for the remainder of the series' run on CBS) was Bennett Cerf.

[soulierinvestments]

The walk by with requests got way out of control really early. Siilllyy! Thank heaven the producers toned down the embarrassing questions and requests eventually and finally got rid of the whole thing all together.

[ParkerAllen2]

I agree. It's fun to see the early more primitive days, but I'm glad they refined it over the next few years.

[SOLE2SOUL]

@soulierinvestments I ran across the episode recently where Arlene invited viewers to write in and urge the producers to eliminate the walk by so they could get in another guest. I don't think the date was posted but I always wondered when they got rid of it.

[soulierinvestments]

@SOLE2SOUL The producers got rid of the walk c 1955.

[bigred997]

Interesting to see John smoking a cigarette during the questioning.

[mikejaysmith]

The gameplay is a little bit different in those early years. Nut, I like it better the way they did in the later years!