What's My Line? - Steve McQueen; PANEL: Steve Allen, Helen Gurley Brown (Dec 18, 1966)

[Music] What's My Line brought to you by The Institute of life insurance on behalf of the life insurance companies in America and their agent trained to help you make the most of your policies and now let's all play What's My Line and now live from New York let's meet our What's My Line panel first the delightful star of the Broadway Smash Hit dinner at 8 Miss Arlene Francis and now a friendly gentleman who has just completed the musical score for a new picture called a man called dagger and he is the host of I've got a secret Mr Steve Allen thank you now I'd like to introduce a young lady with a great many strings to her bow she's an author of bestsellers editor of Cosmopolitan magazine B Vivant eminent vones medical Authority and all sorts of things here she is all three of her Helen Gurley Brown and this panelist is so many things he's a publisher an author a TV personality a lecturer and Time magazine's Christmas cover boy Mr Bennett Sur what the thean medical Authority business I don't know I didn't know it was me I'm hoping I'm going to get on the cover of cosmopolit I'm oh wonderful here is uh New York's best imitation of Santa Claus which will give you some idea of how hard up we are around here John Francis Chris cringle Daly I don't know I was full of the spirit of the season was going to say nice things about him too nice things I was going to say we did get a telephone call a little bit ago Bennett I didn't get who it was from but it was somebody calling from Columbus Georgia who'd read the cover story in the current time about you and the message sent was that people who ride a wave of prosperity are actually surfing don't get it huh I'll explain it to you afterwards really is quite good yes rather and may I say uh Miss Brown nice to have you here Steve it's a Christmas present for us to have an old and trusted and dear and valued friend like you back just before Christmas get you how's your cold my pleasure thank you how's your cold it's clearing up see Bennett didn't realize I know why you wanted that viese medical Authority there Steve's got a cold he wants a doctor to sit next to created my own well we've got some wonderful occupations for you to test your skills on tonight we'll have a famous mystery guest a little bit later in the program but now let's meet our first contestant will you enter and sign in [Applause] please Jan Wabba is that [Music] right I thank you I thought my Arabic was rather good too you have a very fine hand I might also thank would you tell us um is it Miss or Mrs Waba Miss Waba where you from Cairo Egypt from Cairo Ah that's a wonderful City I've been there several times and I must say it's a fascinating City full of life Spirit nice to have you with us miss Waba may I present the panel now would you join me over here please and uh we'll let the audience in the theater and the audience at home know exactly what your line is all right panel we can tell you that U Miss Waba is salaried and deals in a service and we'll begin things with Steve Allen John I've been on this program now man and boy about 16 years and I've never before done what I would classify as a Bennett surf type pun I'm going to do one right now you ready Bennett no I'll just put it this way Miss Wabba you're a doll a woba doll you see I have the genre down I think uh would your service uh be of equal interest to men and women Miss Wabba yes uh do you dress as you do now when you perform your service no one down and nine to go Miss Brown uh could it be said you wear some kind of costume when you're performing your service well costume or uniform yes we we use the terms interchangeably so that that would be fine uh do you work indoors sometimes is any of your work seasonal uh is it more performed in the winter than in the summer no no it's not seasonal two down a date to go Mr Sir M Waba do you work for a profit making Organization no you don't three down in 7 too Miss Francis then you work for some branch of the government yes uh is the um outfit that you wear uh an outfit that belongs to any of the armed service no four down in 60 go Mr Allen um Can people ever be made unhappy as a result of your professional function no down and five to go Helen Gurley Brown do you perform this service in the United States now no six down and four to go Mr Ser do you perform the service in Egypt Miss W yes uh has it got anything to do with tourism yes uh would it be anything in the line of guiding yes do I have to know where you guide people well then I would say in on the Nile or around the pyramids right that's what we were looking for very good very good very good M laa is a guide at the pyramids actually they have um sound and light magnificent sound and light performances at the three three best known pyramids and Miss Waba who uh is a a historian I guess we'd have to call you too you have to know a great deal about the history of Egypt to to do this have to be a University graduate you speak how many languages uh English French German and my Arabic yeah four four languages where's a a navy blue uniform Waba you should tell Mr Daly about that Sphinx that's there you know that never talks right next to the pyramid it did talk yes at the sound of light show the SP talk yeah at the sound of light show I've been over there Bennett you don't think I'd let that keep quiet while I'm around do you 70 days now no it is a very interesting work you must have met an awful lot of of well-known people yes uh from all different parts of the world and um like King Hussein of Jordan and macarius of cre and Mrs Gandy Mr K Mr American Mr you remember one of the Rockefellers one of the rock that's pretty good many that's pretty good you we have a lot of the Rockefellers here but if they get all the way to Cairo that must be one of the older ones and the on he done better would you say no I wouldn't think so well it sounds like fascinating work and and thank you very much for coming to visit us while you're in America it's nice to see you we'll have another contestant for you in just a moment after now will our next contestant um walk in and please sign the board Raymond ker is that right sir all right Mr ker where you from Shrewsbury Missouri shrewbury Missouri well now you see you've got a lot of Home Folks here with you so you've got a good um class going for you and the two of us could take the whole panel on anyway so don't worry about that Mr ker may I present the panel all right now will you come over here and join me and we'll let the audience at home and the audience in the theater know exactly what your line is all right panel we can tell you that Mr ker is salaried and he deals in a product and we will begin things with uh Bennett Ser Mr Caster I think uh they make the conop pipes in Missouri but may I eliminate conop pipes from this absolutely I can does the product that you make come from Missouri no you mean it it it originates there so you would identify it in Missouri immediately no you wouldn't Ben it that's one down and 9 to go Miss Francis do you work with your hands Mr ker in your job uh is the product um alive or has it ever been yes John was didn't know whether it was alive or not there for a minute well this is this is a problem because actually you know if we go down to to fundamentals everything has an element of life in it sooner or later if Mr ker doesn't mind only because I think it would tend to confuse you no it won't it won't you want to leave it stand as it is I'm not at all confused J all right you go ahead then is it a product that one would find in the home could is it a large product no that makes it two down at 8 to go at Mr Al then it must be smaller than a bread box yes has it any particular relationship with this time of year no sir three down and seven to go Helen gurle brown Mr ker is it made of wood or metal no that makes it for down in six to go Mr Sir might this product be defined as an article of apparel Mr C no five down and five to go Miss Francis would one see it in the house more than one would Out of Doors yes is it uh when it is in the house is it uh visible would or would you have it out where people could see it yes would it be considered uh does it have anything at all to do with the decor of a house the way Warehouse looks you mean as a specific element of its of its decoration n all right I'll give you a no anyway that's six down and four to go Mr Allan could it be purchased retail at a supermarket no sir nope s down and three to go Miss Brown does it come in various colors uh yes is it a useful product yes does it come in contact with a human body no well there is I could I think with Mr custers and we'll agree that it could it is not it's not unreasonable that if the product and you were in proximity uh you you might have contact with it but it is not absolutely necessary does one feel better after uh being in contact with this product is it I would think so yes well I think it depends on how you contacted it [Laughter] myself um does it have is it powered in any way no by a motor no Motors of any kind two to I don't believe we've gotten around to whether this product can be eaten or emed we haven't can it no n doubt Wonder to go Miss Francis if one had this product would it be on the floor rather than on a wall yes well on the floor rather than on the wall is pro but it shouldn't be either place so I'm going to give you no that stand down no more to go wouldn't be on the ceiling would it no it it has to be on something yeah actually this is a real tough one and you didn't get into the area which I think might have led you to it because Mr CER makes billiard balls and Mr ker makes you know the really Championship kind he's with a uh a Aid company AE Schmid company any and been in the business for since 18 for 116 years and I've been with him 40 years 1850 then you've been with him for 40 years and he hand makes Ivory billiard balls which you know the best best folks they age the ivory what is what kind of ivory do you get then a bar from uh Africa Africa and then what you AG after it's roughed out all year to two years before we can put them on the for use but the thing it interested me most looking this up Mr ker affirms that is you use them they tend to become oval-shaped so you have to send them back they send them back to you and then he he makes them round again Mr C you a pool balls beneath your contempt yeah you don't make pool balls no we don't make those that's I bet it don't be bad I don't feel un happy I'll find somebody who does yeah I'd like you to donate this uh money I want to the Boys Town of Missouri of St James Missouri or the Christmas and i' also have two Ivory rings that I would i' like to present to the Mrs Brown and will you go right ahead and thanks very much for being with us sir we'll meet tonight's mystery guest in just a moment but first this message and now the special feature of our program the appearance of our mystery Challenger for which the panel is always BL blindfolded as you know the blindfolds in place panel yes sir good will you enter mystery Challenger and sign in please all right panel you will remember the different form of questioning one question at a time in turn moving clockwise and and we will begin with um Ali Francis would your name be found in the theatrical pages of the newspaper where it's your possibility Mr Allan it's a possibility he said uh are you better known for your work in Motion Pictures than for your work in television rcking show Miss Brown said I reckon so better known in in most pictures than in television are you an emotion picture that's going to be opening in New York this coming week yeah Mr surf is it a great big spectacular the picture that you're going to open in you been a little question about Miss Francis are you Steve McQueen that was a great voice I was I just waiting for somebody to go off the track on it yeah you open uh tomorrow is it tomorrow night or Tuesday night well we have the premiere Tuesday night yeah the night yeah the sand peers sand PE that was n months in the orient had a little trouble making that PCT you didn't you well we uh we had a few weather interferences wind from mansury and the tides went out and uh 1500 extras wearing wrist watches in a in a period pce other than wait wa you mean that you you shot a scene and you had 1500 ex extras wearing wrist part you had to do it all over again well we had a problem because uh there were three different dialects there and we only had one interpreter and it was in 1924 so the 1500 extras had to be in Period clothes you see and they would constantly wear the wristwatches they wouldn't take them off you know so they'd be flashing them up in the camera like this you know we had to stop take it off you know did you say you spent nine months out there we spent uh 4 and and a half months in Taiwan and fosa and kilong tamsui places where actually people hadn't seen a movie you know and then we did uh we did about 4 months uh in uh 3 and a half months in callon in the new territories oh yes about 2 months two miles from the Communist border and uh that last two months was really uh you know was a little scary yeah that's exciting up there but now when you go out and work you had 1500 of the native population the indigenous population is extras yes not in all scenes some of the scenes we had where the gunboat is coming in we had uh 1500 extras yeah all all the Wardrobe that we brought from Hollywood some we made there dressed them up so they would look the part you see and do they they take Direction readily this I'm just interested you have to work with such a massive people who you had Communications problems and speech and yet they they they they can get the feel of what you're trying to do and do it with well it was a bit difficult but we had Bob wise so we uh we kind of had it made we had an awful good director and producer but uh we had there were three dialects there was uh the Cantonese Chinese and Taiwanese now we had one interpreter who perhaps spoke Cantonese so he would give the orders to the extras you know to do this and the other ones didn't understand you know and there would be fighting about well why don't we have an interpreter and we keep going and going and going that's what well it's a it's an exciting story and I'm sure it's made a great movie thanks for giving us to Sunday night when you're here in New York my pleasure good to have you well I must congratulate your panel on doing rather well with some tough subjects tonight we'll have another contestant after this word and now to meet a final contestant will you enter and sign in please [Applause] Peter Hayes right sir right Mr Hayes where are you from Newark New Jersey Newark New Jersey nice to have you come across the river may I present the panel Mr Hayes now will you join me here and we'll let the audience in the theater and the audience at home know exactly what your line is all right panel we can tell you that Mr Hayes is salaried and deals in a service and we'll begin things with um Helen gurle brown now this one must have something to do with Christmas um do you work for a profit making organization yes do you deal with men and women in this particular service with with human beings as opposed to animals I'll say no one down a n to go Mr surf Mr Hayes I just want to be sure you're no relation of Peter Hayes is married to that gloriously beautiful Mary Healey is that correct that's correct but you but you do have something to do with animals is that correct that's correct is that a tie up no tie up whatever uh are the animals alive when you're dealing with them yes are they uh what might be considered domestic animals no uh let us have a small confence Mr Hayes agrees that you use the word domesticated and we're taking it that you mean this um on a universal basis and we will agree that there there are instances or there are um areas in which the animal in question is domesticated yes is it a four-legged animal Mr is it a rather large animal yes is it a very very large animal what is a very very large animal an elephant an elephant is a very very large I ask an elephant but you ask me was a large animal and I described a large animal as an elephant but now what else would you describe as a large a hippopotamus a rhinoceros so that you're inff in that context all right well I I think just so that you're not Mis we'll agree it's a large animal yes is it an animal that is sometimes found in the wilderness you mean out in the v yeah the wide the wide wide Bel wide wide Bel yeah you find it out in the wide wide Bel right yeah might this animal be found in Africa yes uh is it sometimes dangerous this animal can be yes it could be if aroused but then even you're dangerous when you're AR around right uh can I eliminate lion and tigers yes can I eliminate the cat family leopards and animals of that sort yes can I eliminate giraffes yes can I eliminate elephants yes and rhinoceri and hippopotami you certainly can that out there and it's a four-legged animal right I'll [Laughter] pass you've left me with nothing but the gorilla um is it an animal we see in a zoo y yes we're running out of time Ali I'm running we've run out of animals too could it be reindeer or camel camel is oh camel very good Mr hay win actually Mr Hayes handles the camel in the Christmas stage show show at Radio City Music Hall that's his special he employed by an outfit called Animal Scouts and he's in the show and handles his own camel through it and that's a Lucky Strike if I ever saw one and thank you very much for being our guest on watch is my love nice to see you miss Helen and Steve again nice to have you with us and Christmas is coming up so Merry Christmas and Merry Christmas and happy New Year and all that sort of thing and good night Arlene Francis thank you John good night dear Steve my best to Jane thank you same to Marty good night Helen GLE Brown night Steve good night Bennett night for Christmas John I'm going to sing you Winchester Cathedral good night well I'd rather you did it for Christmas because it'd be a terrible way to start a new year that's all I got to say and thanks to all of you for being with us on What's My Line

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Keywords: What's My Line? (TV Program), Episodes (TV Program), Game Show (TV Genre), John Charles Daly, Arlene Francis (Author), Bennett Cerf, Steve McQueen (Film Actor), Steve Allen (TV Writer), Helen Gurley Brown (Author)

Id: _HNhESE8qeA

Length: 24min 52sec (1492 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 20 2015