Catherine Boyle, usually billed as
“Katie”, is an Italian-born British actress and television personality. She would become a frequent game show
panelist on a variety of British programmes for decades, including their
1956 version of I've Got a Secret
, and would be best
known for hosting the popular Eurovision Song Contest four times between 1960
and 1974.
Florence Kelly from Milwaukee, WI: “I taught
Liberace to play the piano”
The flamboyant entertainer, a
household name in 1955, was a child prodigy, but was always quick to
acknowledge the efforts of his teachers.
Florence Bettray Kelly, an accomplished concert pianist and composer in
her own right, was his first professional teacher when Liberace was seven years
old. He would set aside a “seat of
honor” for Kelly whenever he would perform in Milwaukee.
[Johnny] Francis: “In ONE DAY on our
farm… 3 cows had calves…The mare had a colt…The sow had 11 pigs…The cat had 4
kittens…and I was born”
A clip from this secret was shown on the fourth anniversary show
[
E192
]. This secret is an exact quote. A Ripley's Believe It Or Not cartoon that appeared in newspapers in January, 1944 attributes the birth to a "Mrs Oscar Francis" but doesn't give a year. Another vintage newspaper article suggests it happened in 1921 in Franklin, Texas, making Mr Francis about 34 years old here, but that article does not identify the family by name.
Special Guest Elsa Lanchester is responding to
the panel’s questions using the same answers that Johnny Francis gave in the
earlier game
Another celebrity “Secret” that barely
made sense. Lanchester leapt to fame as
the title character in Bride of Frankenstein (1935) but that was just
one early role in a long and varied career, mostly in showy but smaller
supporting roles. She appeared in a
total of twelve films with her husband, Charles Laughton.
This episode has not been reviewed. Details come from alternate sources, including thumbnail descriptions of the episodes from GSN documentation and Gil Fates' handwritten notes. Secrets here are based on the Gil Fates notes and are believed to be accurate.
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