311     November 19, 1958
Bill, Peggy Cass, Henry, Betsy

[Lt Rodney Preston] in a space suit: “I will eat a turkey dinner through a tube”   

[Frances Leach]: “My husband knit the dress I am wearing”   

Special Guest Robert Evans holds a Cinderella-like contest for a woman out of the studio audience to replace Betsy Palmer on the panel next week.  Applicants literally try on one of Betsy’s shoes.  Betsy is scheduled to go to Hollywood to appear in the film The Last Angry Man (1959).  Confusion reigns momentarily because Betsy delayed her trip and intends to be on the show next week.  The winner of the contest, Mrs. Dorothy Ellington, would appear on the panel two weeks later ( E313 ) instead.  As an actor, Evans made only six pictures in the 1950s.  He would successfully transition to a career on the business end of show business, becoming a top movie producer of the 1970s and at one point running Paramount Pictures.  Through scandals and controversies, not to mention seven marriages, Evans would become a colorful, larger-than-life figure and the target of many spoofs and parodies.

This episode has not been reviewed.  Details come from alternate sources, including thumbnail descriptions of the episodes in GSN documentation.  Except where noted, “secrets” are not exact quotes.

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