Garry the Weatherman: "Thank you very much, that's a very warming sound on a very cold night here in New York City."
First appearance on the panel of Polly Bergen, who would hang around for another dozen or so consecutive episodes. In the game show world, Polly would become more famous for her association with To Tell The Truth a few years later.
[Rosemary Shear] from Astoria, Long Island: "I have the world's smallest dog in my purse"
It's a tiny but full-grown chihuahua. Garry admits that they didn't search the world for a tinier one, but that the Kennel Club accepts this one as the champ.
Reuben Bowen from Boston: "I'm going to 'chop off' Bill Cullen's head"
Bowen performs professionally as Kajar the Magician. Polly recognizes him from a TV variety show they did together. Once billed as "the world's most televised magician," Bowen's career seems to have run from the early forties until the mid-sixties. He never really achieved great fame. Fortunately for Bill, the guillotine trick goes off without a hitch.
Special Guest Merle Oberon: “The total cost of everything
I’m wearing is $9.94 including jewelry.”
The clothes came from Ohrbach’s, a
discount department store chain founded in 1923 that expanded greatly,
especially in New York and Los Angeles, following World War Two. The last of the stores closed in 1987. Two other stores with an even longer and richer history were the source for other times. The jewelry came from Woolworth’s, and the lingerie from Sears. Oberon was an exotic beauty who made many
films in the 30s and 40s. Her Oscar nomination for The Dark Angel (1935) was the first for an Asian-born actress, but no one in Hollywood knew it at the time. Fearing discrimination, Oberon hid the fact that she was born in Mumbai, India (what Westerners then called Bombay) and instead claimed to be from Tasmania, Australia.
This site was created with the Nicepage