What's My Line?
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What's My Line?

Year:
Duration:
30 min (876 episodes)
Genres:
Comedy | Family | Game-Show
IMDB rate:
8.7
Director:
Paul Alter
Awards:
Won Golden Globe. Another 3 wins & 2 nominations
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1950-02-02
Filming Locations: CBS Broadcast Center, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Cast
Actor
Character
John Daly
Himself - Moderator / ... (839 episodes, 1950-1967)
Arlene Francis
Herself - Panelist / ... (793 episodes, 1950-1967)
Bennett Cerf
Himself - Panelist / ... (717 episodes, 1950-1967)
Dorothy Kilgallen
Herself - Panelist / ... (697 episodes, 1950-1965)
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Trivia
From 1950-1967 all episodes of "What's My Line" were recorded on kinescope (film). In 1959 videotape was first introduced as the method to prerecord episodes so Goodson Todman Productions could stockpile them for vacations that their employees and the show's performers could take in the future. The company reused the same Ampex videotapes over and over. The company paid CBS to make kinescopes of the prerecorded episodes as well as the live ones. Ampex videotape was too expensive to use as a permanent record of a broadcast. Its most important use was to allow people who worked on weekly game shows to take vacations in the summer and for Christmas and New Years Eve. As of 2009 an American basic cable channel called GSN telecasts ten episodes of the series every December. An astute viewer can use the Internet to identify the year that the episode aired live or was videotaped.
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Joey Heatherton, publicizing her upcoming tour of Vietnam, was the mystery guest the night that Dorothy Kilgallen was later found dead. When the blindfolded Dorothy had her first turn at questioning, she asked, "Is your real first name Norma ?" Evidently Dorothy had in mind Peggy Lee, whose real first name was Norma and who was scheduled to open a nightclub engagement at the Copacabana (in New York) on Thursday of that week. Lee had appeared before as a mystery guest.
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On the October 21, 1962 broadcast, a man named Emanuel Ress, who had appeared ten years earlier, returned and again stumped the panel with his line of making political campaign buttons. Since the mid-term elections were only a couple of weeks away, the producers thought it would be fun to have him back on the show. After he stumped the panel he presented each of the three panelists who were on the show when he first appeared (Arlene Francis, Bennett Cerf and Dorothy Kilgallen) buttons with their pictures on them as they looked ten years earlier. Arlene said, "I was a brunette then."
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Quotes
Steve Allen: Is it bigger than a bread box?
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