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[selenak]

On a note of "some scenes from very old quiz shows can be oddly compelling", two clips from What's My Line, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Brian Epstein (= manager of the Beatles, non-Beatle-people *g*) as the people whose identies have to be guessed by the panelists. Both entertaining, though for different reasons. The Elizabeth Taylor bit is funny and adorable, and demonstrates that a) Elizabeth Taylor can do a great disguise voice and b) must have a superb sense of humour (about herself as much as anything else). After watching the clip I was wondering why she didn't do more comedies. She also looks gorgeous, at the height of her youthful beauty, and quizmaster/moderator Daly after the reveal is visibly starstruck.

Brian Epstein, otoh, also looks very handsome indeed (did anyone ever some "best looking managers of pop stars" statistics? Brian must have been high up if so), but hardly gets to speak. Daly is incredibly condescending after the reveal, calling him "Barry" Epstein, looks up "Epstein" every time he addresses him, and one of the panelists (male) even asks a somewhat hostile question re: Brian's clients. (Otoh, another panelist (female) counters this by declaring her love.) (Also, there is bonus Paul Anka, looking very young and answering to the question whether Brian manages him with a funny "I wish" gesture.) It's a 1964 clip, must have been during that first American tour, and shows something of the initial hostility from the middle-aged establishment towards what they regarded as the latest teenage fad:

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[onyxlynx]

Michael Wilding was her 2nd husband. I keep forgetting how old that show is.

She is a hoot.

[selenak]

Yes, I had to look that up; little did that panel know about the husbands to come.:)

That sense of fun is really irresistable!