Unidentified female contestant: "I have the world's smallest dog in my purse"
Magician Milbourne Christopher: "I'm going to chop off Bill Cullen's head"
Once again the Fates notes do not identify the contestant, but Christopher has already been established in the media as a popular television magician and as a favorite of Garry Moore. There's even a newspaper photo of him doing what appears to be this same trick a couple of years earlier using Garry's head. Finally, he was scheduled to be on Garry's morning show the next day. It really pretty much has to be him.
Special Guest Merle Oberon: “Everything
I’m wearing cost a total of $9.94… including the 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. The jewelry came from Woolworth’s,
another discount retailer with an even longer and richer history. 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 episode has not been reviewed. Information comes from alternate sources, including Gil Fates' handwritten notes. Quoted secrets are based on those notes and are believed to be accurate.
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