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Wow. Makes you wonder. Instead of being thrilled that her dream came true, she's complaining that she has to be at work. What would she have said if she had a real eight hour a day type of job?

The Roswell balloon crash, unless UFOs are made out of tin foil and popsicle sticks.

This is one of those things that should be shown in acting classes. When she looks like she might pass out, I could actually feel it. She didn't show strong emotion until close to the end. Most younger performers today make the mistake of starting so high up, they have nowhere to go, and wind ...

I asked her for her autograph on her way in to the opening performance of a week of "Call Me Madam" at the St. Louis Muny in 1968. I got, "Not now, honey, I got a show to do!" ... However, a few nights later, she did stop and sign for two little girls, who must be over 50 by now. I wonder if th...

It wasn't the tiny Princess Theater ... it was the beloved Alvin Theater, on 52nd Street, today known as the Neil Simon. ... And I believe in addition to Dorsey, Goodman and Miller, Gene Krupa was on the drums.

@carolineorchange21 Yes, she was, but only for a few weeks. She got very ill and was replaced by her understudy. She later said she was unhappy with the show, anyway.

@Vitte4 Just because you never heard of her doesn't mean they never heard of her. In those days, she was very famous, not only from so many movies, but her show "December Bride" was in the Top Ten for four years (mainly because it followed "I Love Lucy" on Monday nights, but it was quite popular...

I like her, too, but she's phoney. I met her in 1966 -- she's NOTHING like this. It's all an act.

In the end, "Doctor Zhivago" was the second biggest picture of 1965, with "The Sound of Music" being first. ... Bennett Cerf had publishing deals with her grandfather, Eugene O'Neill. The name Martin Gabel dropped, Sydney Chaplin, was Geraldine's much older half-brother. ... Chaplin and O'Neill ...

@majorl31 Does that include snakes, poisonous spiders, rats and viruses?

Here's why Phyllis Newman asked if she was a French sex symbol. She knew people came on to plug movies, and a movie opened just the day before (12-18-65) called "Viva Maria!" which starred Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau. You don't get more French sex symbolic than that.

To the person who referred to Hayley as a "two trick pony" and that her sister Juliet was the bigger star. ... ROFLMAO ... Maybe you had to be there at the time. Well, I was. Hayley Mills was the MUCH bigger star! ... It wasn't just Disney films. There was also "The Chalk Garden," "The Trouble...

It's funny how these "perfect" crimes, like the Kennedy Assassination, were committed, and all the evidence was destroyed -- yet everyone knows the "truth" anyway! ... There comes a time when you have to face reality. In real life, there's almost always a "Deep Throat" type of guy who'll spill t...

I just wanted to commend tommary62 for what he/she said and for sticking to his/her guns. This business of fans saying they love "the person" instead of just the person's performances is one of my pet peeves. By every account I've read, even her biggest fan would have not liked being around Bet...

In "The Operetta" she was The Queen of the Gypsies. She used the same voice when she played the witch in the sixth season episode about Little Ricky's school play. I think that's why she calls it her "witch's voice." ... That night's 3 mystery guests were connected by Jerry Herman musicals: Ro...

Mystery guest is right. Was he famous that week or something? ... Be that as it may, I want to join the crowd who says, while the Mystery Guest segments are fun, interesting and even at times important, the game played with the regular occupations is almost always more interesting and funny. Wh...

Art Linkletter and his wife were married for 74 years and very sadly outlived three of their five children, including the son Jack they're talking about here, who died of cancer about a year and a half before his father passed away.

Why is it there were people like her THEN, and not NOW? It seems nowadays everyone's so afraid to be different.

Newley's greatest songs were in collaboration with Leslie Bricusse. How do you know who did what? Newley might have specialized on the lyrics. He wrote the lyrics for the title song of "Goldfinger," with John Barry providing the music.

Her show opened Tuesday, May 11, 1965, and this was Sunday, May 16. As Bennett Cerf said, they expected her to be the Mystery Guest, so that's how she was guessed so quickly. ... You can read in many books and Internet articles that Liza did NOT like it when her mother was in the audience, for v...

Louisville's not on the western end of Kentucky. It's north-central, on the Ohio river. I'm totally mystified by Arlene's comment. "It's not on the mechanical. It's like Louisville, Kentucky, it's just the far end." ... Could it be referring to an earlier guest that evening? One of them was...

I remember reading that when Marlo Thomas wanted to become an actress, she nagged her rich father into paying for a nose job. Let's not be naive about "beauty." ... George Jessel wasn't even two full months older than Bennett Cerf. They both looked darn good. ... George Jessel's second wife was...

The nerve of Bennett Cerf to refer to John Daly as old. He was 16 years older than him, and only 10 years younger than Maurice Chevalier.

You know how old Maurice Chevalier was? He was born when Jack the Ripper was ... well, ripping. The murders positively attributed to Jack the Ripper occurr...

Wow, didn't Alan Arkin look like a lot of fun? ... Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson, married 62 years, one of the longest show biz marriages. ... Eli Wallach, who'll turn 95 in December, is still acting! He'll be given an honorary Oscar in November at the 2d Annual Governors Awards.

@hajune It was Ronald Colman who played Jack Benny's neighbor, not James Mason. Understandable -- they both had similarly distinctive ways of speaking. Ronald Colman won the Oscar; James Mason never did.

@Indygoguy Listen, I love Arlene Francis. I wish people still behaved the way she did. Even the very words that describe her have gone out of style, words like "class" and "charm." ... That's exactly the point! I was shocked when I saw she had to have been pregnant when she married Martin Gab...

This is January 3, 1965. My handy-dandy Internet inflation calculator tells me that $3,000 in 1965 is the equivalent of $20,000 today.

@proken58 That play about Lincoln and Douglas, "The Rivalry," was on Broadway in early 1959. This was December of 1964. It's amazing that Leonard would mention it at that late date.

LOL ... Doesn't Joan look thrilled to be sitting there when John Daly tells that long, boring story about Bob Hope mentioning Bennett Cerf? ... What an ass. He didn't even let her plug that movie she said would be coming out in July. (That would be "I Saw What You Did," if anyone's interested.)

@Impowers Not that I'm fans of them, or care one way or the other, but I think Jack Nicholson and Robert DeNiro, and maybe even Dustin Hoffman, would be ranked higher than James Garner as "America's most brilliant living actor."

@SueBeaWho I think technically, what was called the maxi-skirt (a reaction to the mini-skirt) came along about six years later, in 1970 (this was 1964). Actually, Kilgallen is dressed here kind of in the style of 1810.

Kilgallen's constant repetition of name-dropping, "inside" type questions was so irritating. ... If you listen closely, Tony Bennett did kind of sound like Allan Sherman there! It's not far-fetched that Anka would think so. ... Tony Bennett has always been one of the nicest guys in show biz -- ...

John Daly's math stunk. This episode was taped on June 7, 1964 and scheduled to be shown on August 30, 1964 (which is why John says it's August.) He then says her father was on in 1952, 14 years ago! Well, that would be 12 years ago -- unless he meant to say her father was on in 1950.

Very odd ... "Do you work on, in or beneath the water?" "No." ... Why in the world would Martin Gabel ask, "Do you work on the water?" Why in the world would Daly think that was logical? .... I'm thinking they both thought Arlene had asked, "Do you work on, in AND beneath the water?" But she ...

What I never understand is this: Very often, the Mystery Guest fails to hear the question, and turns to Daly -- who proceeds to repeat it, verbatim. Why is it Daly could always hear everything perfectly?

In its later years, in the summer, WML? ran episodes that had been taped earlier in the year. This episode was actually taped on May 10, 1964, so Steve Lawrence was still 28, definitely within the age range mentioned by Yeager. He could have protested, but decided to let it go. Maybe he didn't...

@dfcvda This was July 19, 1964.

I'm wondering about those blank name plates ... His real name was Thomas Terry Hoar-Stevens, but his stage name was Terry-Thomas -- no last name, like Ann-Margret. The WML? name plates were last names only: Mr. Daly, Miss Francis, Mr. Cerf, etc. ... What could they put for Terry-Thomas? Mr. Th...