As I noted a while back, I just love, love watching old videos of the secret guests on What's My Line? It's from such a different era that they would regularly get such remarkable famous people who, today, you would never, ever get anywhere near a game show. But then, being on television was such a novelty that I guess that helped draw them. I've wasted...er, used up so many hours watching these. And from time to time, I like posting some of my favorites. This one may be their best celebrity guest of all, to appear on a game show -- albeit an adult, erudite one. It's Eleanor Roosevelt. She doesn't do a whole lot -- her voice is too familiar, and she's not actress enough to carry off a fake one at length. But it's Eleanor freaking Roosevelt, and just seeing her there is enough for me. Besides, later on, she does participate more. My favorite moment may be at the very end when she goes to greet the panelists -- and you can see that she brought her purse with her!
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5/25/2013 01:09:17 am
This material is DANGEROUS - WAY too addictive! I got caught up in a loop of my historic favorites and couldn't get out!
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Robert Elisberg
5/25/2013 01:43:03 am
Oh, my, trust me, do I ever know that. It's not uncommon for me to look at one late at 11 PM and say, "Just one, and then I'm done." And when it finishes, you see there's one with Buster Keaton. Well, how can you pass up Buster Keaton? And you watch and that's it...but there's now one with Rodgers & Hammerstein. And Ted Williams. And Jimmy Durante. And the cast of "Beyond the Fringe" and Joe Dimaggio and...and then it's 1 AM.
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