Miss...Arlene...Francis...and her ilk - the Data Lounge
2017年12月25日 · The charms of Arlene Francis were beyond me as a child of the 1950s, getting to stay up late (10:30 PM) on Sunday nights, though I was always weirdly fascinated by Dorothy Kilgallen. However, watching all the WML youtube reruns in recent years I find I'm totally besotted by Arlene and appreciate now just how witty and charming and spontaneous ...
ARLENE FRANCIS GIVES A PARTY - the Data Lounge
2022年9月26日 · The "Miss Arlene Francis versus Mrs. Martin Gabel" was only an option for celebrity women with their own careers. Up until the 1970s most style manuals required married women to be identified as "Mrs. Martin Gabel or "Mrs Martin Gabel (nee Francis)".
Dorothy Kilgallen was a snob - the Data Lounge
2015年11月23日 · Goodson-Todman did a syndicated version on a hideous set, dropped the honorifics ("the lovely star of stage and television, Miss Arlene Francis" was now just ARLENE), shortened the games in favor of having contestants demonstrate their jobs, added the awful Soupy Sales to the panel, and the star quality of the Mystery Guests became hit-or-miss.
Was Arlene Francis considered a character actress? - the Data …
2021年10月14日 · I believe Arlene's casting in 123 originated with Billy Wilder telling his casting people he wanted an "Arlene Francis type'" for Cagney's wife. I think Arlene had something of a Broadway hit in the mid-60s with a glamorous all-star revival of DINNER AT EIGHT in which she played the Marie Dressler role.
I don't think the other members of the What's My Line panel, liked ...
2024年2月17日 · But not movies, r91, until Billy Wilder told his casting people that he wanted an "Arlene Francis type" to play James Cagney's wife in One, Two Three! and he wound up casting Arlene. And then, Arlene was cast as the dubiously pregnant wife …
"What's My Line" panelist Sue Oakland - the Data Lounge
2015年2月27日 · Arlene Francis clearly could not stand her -- she usually had fun with other women on the panel, but never acknowledged Sue Oakland's existence five feet away (that I've ever seen). Does anyone know who Sue Oakland was?
Bennett Cerf - the Data Lounge
2020年5月4日 · When Arlene Francis's son, Peter, and Bennett's son, Chirstopher, graduated from college they became roommates. Peter went on to be president of a small college in California. Chris was later the head of New Jersey's Department of Education. Strictly roommates, neither was gay.
Kitty Carlisle - the Data Lounge
2023年7月18日 · R117 I became obsessed with WML after recent DL threads about Arlene Francis and WML. I've now watched all the episodes on YouTube from 1950 to mid-1963 and plan to continue to the end of the original series in 1967. Although I'm old enough to have watched original airings in the mid-1960s as a kid, I didn't recall much detail about the shows.
Helen Lawson's Infamous What's My Line Appearance - the Data …
2020年10月10日 · Bennet started coughing and Arlene started giggling so hard it's no wonder Helen slapped her! In the kinescope I have you can clearly see Niven mouthing, "I told you she was a cunt," to Dorothy as the camera cuts away to a test pattern and the announcer says they are having technical difficulties.
Strangest gay rumors you ever heard - the Data Lounge
2017年5月1日 · [quote] [R13] J Edgar Hoover was a total queen. He lived with the same man his entire adult life. The first time I read 'confirmation' of this was in an interview Ethel Merman did with the San Francisco Examiner while plugging her autobiography in 1978.