Carol Channing on "What's My Line?"

The Cosmopolitan magazine Helen Gurley Brown it's a great pleasure for me to introduce a man who is witty charming sexy a fabulous actress of diction mr. Martin Gable uh as I have been so described I'm rather timid about introducing the lady on my left but you all know her Arlene Francis analysis Bennett is vacationing in California I have a pleasure that seldom Falls to me and that is of introducing our moderator one of the most attractive and ableist men both on and off television mr. John Charles Daly I must say mrs. Arlen you got to give it to Bennett two Sundays we head in a row with the snow howling and screaming around and where is he today he's in California a little work and play will do him some good blindfolds in place yes right will our mystery Challenger enter and sign in please as you know patent a different form of questioning one question at a time in turn moving clockwise and we will begin with modern Gable I don't have to ask if you're female I know that missiles so I'll go on to say are you an actress when I shoot only hope so did to deplete and don't cope of course yeah yes this practice it is an actress yes um are you playing on Broadway at the present time I am not one doubt at 9:00 to go mr. Randall claim so fearful knock on door what there's some whispering going on that might be from the audience no no aah are you uh when we said Brooklyn when the question about Broadway was asked I presume that meant the Broadway stage are you uh are you in a movie that is about to be seen or is now being seen in this area no I'm not I'm going to make one but it's not made yet yeah go mrs. prom are you by any chance appearing in the nightclub engagement here in New York no that's three down and seven to go mr. Gable do you sing songs miss Branson just to my why do you say I take a guess why are you surely May are you Pearl Bailey that's poor doubted six to go with prejudice it was a dull party well since there was such an enormous laugh or on on our guests answer about her singing may I assume that that is not primarily for what our guest is known know very well known as this very well known job I've got him five to go mr. Randall I think I've got may I take a stab yeah Rosie Clooney ah six down and four Oh are you more known for a popular kind of singing as opposed to operatic singing yeah yeah yeah yeah ah mr. Gable inclined have you appeared in Broadway musicals in the past yes yes miss ah I gotta give you a no on that name was dropped in seven down and three to go miss Frances oh well why don't you just you mean no one marry me no no no on Merman or is it no on Merman yeah sometimes that's very sneaky that wasn't no yeah they got me know that we gave an army um have you altered a book no eight down and two to go mr. Randall are you a regular on television you mean weekly and I know I meant the commonly seen on television often seen on television yes yeah hmm this is bra did you say earlier that that you are a roadway performer you have been in show before that was discretion mr. Gable a oh yes you have well this is the last question than isn't it now we have two more um you're not on Broadway now have you been in a Broadway show during the last year yeah mr. Gable I pass to my wife miss Francis why did you do that last year in a musical it's Carol Channing back in town I think if we'd raced her though Carol she might have changed her mind with the applause anyway yeah I just flew in from Chicago you in the wrong you in for whickering Hello Dolly in Chicago what I thought yeah are you doing here yeah it's very the outfit well it's Blizzard you have a dress on oh it's very cold I came in to see old friends like you Arlene and Mauro and new friends and to tell all of my friends are all of my friends like you folks at home I wanted to tell you something very special is going to happen on this very Network you do no job yeah yeah yeah on February the 18th it's going to be at 8:30 at night that's a week from this Friday my very first time that I'm ever doing a television special yes it's with my dear friend my beloved friend David McCallum and my old friend George Burns my lifelong friend and 75 other type friends you hope all you friends will be listening because then I will all be happy together and he can color too before before she leaves could she tell us anything else about what I wanna know is why did Carol fly in Chicago going to tell you about how this is on February 18 I'll be flying to Washington just to watch it with other friends in Washington did you know John I do know you're going to watch the news oh lucky for all of us Carol that's February 18th isn't it I waited well however eat 7:30 at night a Central Standard they wait a min had to be fair you know I told you we played some tricks and you've got to admit we played a trick on you we did ask Carol if she would fly in from Chicago where she's doing dolly and you'd have no idea of anybody like Carol Channing would be in New York and we hope to hang you completely with it we came pretty close eight to two it was nice of her to do it you wrote me a letter while I was in Chicago Arlene wrote me a letter she did I wish to I was so homesick and I would go glad to gates written I don't see why you were homesick I went to San Francisco at the end of the year and you had been there and Lou Laurie told me that he's never been so embarrassed in his life everybody what a tickets you haven't had an empty seat anywhere you better and not one isn't it lovely and I've been and we played to 6,000 people a night in Oklahoma City and I've been made an Indian I made an Indian yogi what's in there and the Oh Toto try my name is princess Bokashi Dakin which means blazing star ladies but right now they're all all my tribe is gonna watch on February the 8th this marvelous Indian chief and we could he could be my father's tall and that he's going to be watching to Washington and Denver and the Johnsons are friends too just like you and I are and bun Co watchin Lexi would watch for sure that's his daughter you know he has two daughters I haven't conversed with his John what John Carroll and I went to school together and it's always been hard to get her to talk Frankie week I don't suppose you all remember this although I said something last week about it next week is our 16th anniversary and guess who's gonna be on the panel ooh Ginger Rogers who's playing Hello Dolly here in New York and the other surprise there's no surprise I hear educators who wait mark Goodson who with bill Todman started all this you know 16 long years ago always wanted to be on the panel he plays it in the office and we got him on the panel next week so brace yourself February 18th was that yes Saturday okay what you've done very well panel I think considering we played trade and Washington betrays nations that so we'll all be back after this

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Views: 231,425

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Keywords: Carol Channing, What's My Line, John Charles Daly, Arlene Francis, Tony Randall, Helen Gurley Brown, Martin Gabel

Id: Mgg2VPHB6PY

Length: 10min 20sec (620 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 18 2009