Josephine Hull was a Broadway actress
whose 50-year stage career included roles in three bona fide classics of
American theater: You Can’t Take It With
You (1936), Arsenic and Old Lace (1941) and Harvey (1944). She recreated her stage roles in the film
versions of the last two, winning an Oscar for Harvey (1950). Hull is 78
years old at the time of this, her only panel appearance.
Sarah Weiss from Brooklyn: “I graduated from
high school last month”
Weiss, an elderly woman, received her
diploma from Erasmus Hall Evening High School in January. She has a great grandson who will graduate in
June. The soft-spoken, Russian-born
Weiss intended to continue her education at Brooklyn College, majoring in
economics. Though not revealed on the
show, Weiss was 78 when she received her diploma.
Special Guest Jackie Gleason: “I was an
all-night disc jockey in 1939”
The Secret itself is less interesting
than what accompanies it. Gleason brings
in his own panel of questioners (four beautiful young models from his show) to
compete against the regular panel. It’s
all done for laughs, as Gleason himself controls the buzzer and doesn’t give
the home team any opportunity to ask questions.
Hull, who seems at first to be a bit
out of her element, ends with a terrific gag, pretending to mistake the name
“Garry Moore” with “Barrymore” and thinking him to be part of the “first family
of theater”.
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