What's my Line? Julie London

[LetsGetPhysical561]

I am in love with miss Julie London.

[sweetluvinjc]

I want that dress!

[TheTubePortal]

It's soooooooo funny to hear Mr. Gabel call what is in our day common speech "this far out style" and not "normal speech". This was right at the start of the culture clash when the old stuffy Victorian ways were going bye bye for a newer, freer, more open and less sexually repressed society. Things were going to change drastically in the decade following this. We may not be as classy, but we gained a lot with gay rights, civil rights, women's rights, animal rights, and a clean earth movement.

[ProSportsForums]

I'd liked to have made Miss London's scene. She had a voice that could only be described as smoked velvet. When did we, as a society, become so unsophisticated?

[KeithHarperSF]

Oh, is she terrific or what? Great face, great jewels, great makeup.

[vampressanne011]

" like, yahh mann..." XD

[Moggridge1]

I'm sure it's not so, but when Ms.London sits down I think Mr.Daly is getting a good eyeful of her decolletage!

[SIMPFANN]

This is from 1959- Julie's 1957 appearance is also on YouTube. By any chance can you complete the trilogy by uploading her 1961 appearance on WML?

[ziggycat999]

I think Julie is an annoying contestant with her 'all too hip' banter.

[gabsylv]

@ziggycat999 it's obviously not her regular style of speech and her strategy fooled the panel

[wiguy3]

@ziggycat999 I think she was just trying to be clever. If she had ever seen the program, you would think she would ahve know that the accoustics very awful in this theatre. Someone should have told her ahead of time to speak up and not mumble.

[tomitstube]

seems the squares were trippin on the hip beat man.

[andybpiano]

She is soooo beautiful. And her voice.... MY GOD!

[MrWilliamtom]

Julie London...The best lady to know in case of an Emergency!

[7inga7]

I've always loved her!

[rogerstill71]

Julie London was perfection personified!

[waynebrasler]

Although her recording career came relatively late, she was well-known in the West Coast jazz community. She was an excellent technician and had impeccable taste in repertoire. Her albums were oh, so carefully planned and executed. Out of show biz a devoted mother, a rabid reader and a wonderful hostess. Long and happy marriage to Bobby Troupe.

[jg0582]

Julie London Sublimissime Pour Toujours ! 

[1122DLAN]

I'm a chick not a man, lol

[PatrickLHawkins]

Julie was an actress way before she was a singer. She married Jack Webb and gave up her acting career and after their divorce got into singing.

[PatrickLHawkins]

This was not! Julie London's normal way of speaking.

[TheInvincibleViolet]

Terrific !!!

[younghoss]

I only know her from Emergency! years later.

[TheBlueyedblond]

It just proves how utterly moronic the beatniks, and later hippies, sounded and were.

[doc1917]

@TheBlueyedblond you're a jackass man

[TheBlueyedblond]

@doc1917 Ya man, like, groovy man, like you're waaaayyyyyy out there man.....

GO SMOKE MORE DOPE YOU LIBERAL A-HOLE!

[DrBorisBalinkoff]

That was great! Dorothy stole the show and I love that Julie wishes she sounded like the great Pearl Bailey.

[Jeet27]

what year was this? i didnt think you had people saying 'mannnn' until like 1965 ish...?

[CodyKunLvsGackt]

@Jeet27 I think the Beatniks were 50's, and they originated a lot of what is now considered "hippie" culture

[JJJBRICE]

the panel did not seem to know julie london from their reaction at unmasking. they did not seem to know terry moore , gale storm or jackie gleason back in 1952

[63utuber]

@JJJBRICE No, can't be - she was a guest on the program years before, when Bennett guest-emceed the show.

[Scytale0facedancer]

noice......

[swooningtree]

hahaha julie london is so weird. i love her

[ameroux]

Bennett Cerf must be the squarest dude that ever lived!

[thatDonOguy]

Can't never get enough Julie! Funny, too!

[bluebeetle585]

Dorothy's mask looks like a little brassierre

[Vitte4]

Interesting how Arlene & Bennett, at least, think all along that she's an African-American. This is where their sophistication and effete ways hinder them. Few who have circulated widely among black persons would ever confuse her disguised voice in that way. "Stepin Fetchit"? "Are you in Porgy & Bess"? "For a moment, I thought it was Pearl Bailey"? What a *laugh*!

[Pingeroo]

Thank you so much for posting this clip of Miss London on "What's My Line"! I have her other two appearances (1957 and 1962) on VHS, but I've never been able to track down this third one.

[ClassicShowbiz]

CERF YOU ARE SUCH A SQUARE!

[PatrickLHawkins]

I was just a little kid when I watched Julie on the 1970's show EMERGENCY. And I have become a huge fan of her music

[pickensj2]

I like Julie London but I'm not too sure what to think of her. My grandmother went to a concert of her's back in the 1950's and everyone was dancing and singing along while she was singing-like most people do at concerts. Apparently Miss London got upset and told them to stop. I guess because she didn't feel like they were paying enough attention to her.

[silentevil77]

this Rocks!!!

[Muffy2314]

Dorothy looks adorable here.

[KarinPluss]

Hahah, Dorothy's "Like, Puccini, man" is so funny! And she actually sound like a stoner when she says it. Great stuff.

Thanks for posting!

[soulierinvestments]

GSN rebroadcast this 1959 episode in February 2009. It illustrates what made WML great and featured

Alexander Akalovsky --- who Daly met when he traveled with the press corp reporting Nixon's 1959 journey in Russia --- the U.S. State Dept. Interpreter who translated for Vice President Nixon in Russia . He and Gabel had fun translating lines from "Hamlet."

a man from Sedgwick, Colorado who sold stainless steel dentures for cows

Julie London yeah man I'm hip. Groovy.

[soulierinvestments]

The theater had a reoccurring problem with flies in 1959 -1960.

As a teenager, I first encountered Julie London when she portrayed one of TV's more sexy nurses in Jack Webb's drama about early paramedics EMERGENCY! Her husband portrayed a doctor. I don't remember either one of them did a note of music.

[HowardOfOz3565]

wasn't Bobby Troup also a singer or a bandleader of some note?

[soulierinvestments]

song writer and jazz pianist . I bet they gave great parties what with her singing and his piano playing.

[HowardOfOz3565]

probably as fun as Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams...what a different and wonderful era....

[renofirvine]

he also wrote 'route 66'

[Pingeroo]

In the two-hour pilot/movie for "Emergency!", there is a party scene at Dixie McCall's apartment. When Dr. Brackett (Robert Fuller) shows up, Dr. Early (Bobby Troup) plays the piano and sings an impromptu, thirty-second ditty about him.

There's also an episode where, if memory serves correctly, the paramedics are planning a party of some sort (maybe a fundraiser) with entertainment. They approach Dixie and ask her, "Do you know anything about singing?" to which she replies, "A little".

[ClassicFilmFan]

Julie London! Her recordings are amazing, love her voice!!

Dorothy: "Like, from Puccini man!" LOL :D :D

[bigred997]

I'll never forget the Jack Benny episode where he had a dream sequence about her.

[soulierinvestments]

Julie London appeared as mystery guest that memorable night when Bennett Cerf sweated it out as substitute moderator.

Refer to

What's My Line? 1957 - Bennett Cerf & Julie London elbridgegerry

[HowardOfOz3565]

Julie London was hardly a teenager on Emergency which ran in the early 70's. She had long since been married to and divorced from Jack Webb at this point

[tjbnyc76]

Julie London... beauty, talent, humor, and nary a trace of the stage fright which supposedly crippled her. GREAT clip!

[soulierinvestments]

Note that in 2:44 > 3:21 when Dorothy Kilgallen grills her like a hipster District Attorney that Ms London's hand gestures about the neck and hair seem to indicate stage fright.

[saraismyname]

Haha that was hilarious, Dorothy's "I'm not a man, I'm a chick!" ;D