Edward G. Robinson--What's My Line

Edward G. Robinson as the mystery guest on the 15 January 1956 episode of WML.

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• G.
• Robinson
• What's
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• Line

[bookworm1818]

Edward G. what a guy. I love the accent he puts on, haha.

[HAZIDEAD]

This was one of the best ones. Wonderful Robinson is soooooo entertaining.

[Onlymusical]

A Chayefsky play! Wonder what it was.

[Onlymusical]

The art collection was largely gone by the time they filmed this, I think, since he'd had to sell some of it off while blacklisted and lost much of it in a divorce.

[Onlymusical]

Robinson could speak Italian and did in a movie while Cagney did the same with Yiddish. Oops, they all recognized his laugh and that's it. Frequently the case.

[slosh29]

@mythid12 The whole Blacklisting era still amazes me. I am not sure how much of it was driven by paranoia or self righteousness by a few people with ability. How many careers were destroyed by stupidity.

[mythid12]

@slosh29 On three occasions in 1950 and 1952, he was called to testify in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee and was threatened with blacklisting.[5] Robinson took steps to clear his name, such as having a representative go through his check stubs to ensure that none had been issued to subversive organizations.[6] He also gave names of Communist sympathizers and his own name was cleared, but thereafter he received smaller roles and even those less frequently.

[natethefighter]

ooo, paddy chayefsky!

[WHaven1994]

Magnificent! Why can't we have shows like this today????? We have become a VERY shallow nation when it comes to entertainment!

[buzzxr1]

@orangeblossom91 of course!!!

[Richard40171]

Did he mention the name of the play?

[ardvarkkkkk]

One of the greats.