George Stevens on What's My Line?

Film director George Stevens appears as a mystery guest on the long-running CBS television program "What's My Line?" Dated September 30th, 1956.

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• Francis
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• Daly

[GoblinGirl]

One of the things I like most about this video is the host is speaking intelligently and very articulately. Most game show hosts nowadays come across as illiterate buffoons.

[Fenhalls]

Thanks very much for this great clip, DickFaulkner. George Stevens is one of my very favourite film directors. However, I didn't expect him to be so shy. It's as if he couldn't wait to get out of there. Daly had to almost physically restrain him to hang around for just a few moments. Indeed, his whole demeanor seemed to be very retiring - a very unusual trait for a film director.

[Ulysses61]

I want to see more of James Mason!

[timothyissohot]

Do you have the rest that James Mason was on, either as a guest panelist or as a mystery guest? I just love to see his TV appearances.

[dogshy61]

Notice that Arlene '' we of the theatre'' Francis gives Stevens a begrudging handshake at the end. She always puts on superior airs when movie folk are on the show; in her arrogant condescending New York way. Could this attitude have anything to do with the fact that her own shot at Hollywood stardom in the early 1930s was a dismal disaster? Hmmmmm could be!

[jenjenten]

Anyone else notice that GIANT, which George Stevens was about to release, was James Dean's last movie and this episode aired on September 30, 1956, exactly 1 year to the day after James Dean died?

[13loomisst]

The great George Stevens.

[henrygrove100]

@Fenhalls Yes I noticed he didn't want to stay around and chat. I'm wondering if he's hiding something???

[63utuber]

Arlene really has it at "producer" - since this is NOT a mystery guest, identifying the line, not the game is the goal.

[panhead1219]

@GoblinGirl  That's because today, the majority of the listening audiance ARE illiterate buffoons, and don't understand intellgence and articulation. :)

[Webfoot5]

Interestingly, this appeared on TV exactly one year after James Dean, one of the stars of Giant, was killed in an automobile accident in central California.