Betsy
is out, but she’s not far. She’ll be performing
on the US Steel Hour production of “Game of Hearts,” live, immediately
after this show.
Victor Steele from New York City: “I’m holding Garry Moore in the air”
Steele himself is suspended upside
down in the air and lifts Garry on a seat that he holds. Steele made it his life's work to extol the health benefits of hanging upside down with weights, even if only for a few seconds each day. Naturally, he marketed a device he calls the Gravity Gym that would allow you to do this in your own home, though he doesn't get a chance to promote it in this segment. Steele would continue to make TV appearances into the 1980s.
Wanda Tropp from Berrien Springs, Michigan: “I have 5 brothers and
sisters backstage…they’re all taller than I am”
Wanda is 6’1” tall. Brother Richard is the tallest at 6’6”. In between are Robert, Patricia, Marie and
Joyce. That’s four sisters all over six feet.
Three of them won the Miss Berrien Springs pageant at various times, Pat
in 1956, Joyce in 1957 and Wanda in 1959.
Special Guest Jane Wyman brings a
series of aptitude tests to challenge each panelist rather than a traditional
Secret. Wyman was an Oscar winner for Johnny Belinda (1948) and a popular box
office draw in the 1950s, remembered mostly today for being the first wife of
Ronald Reagan (1940-1948). Later, she
would play the devious matriarch Angela Channing in the prime time soap opera Falcon Crest (1981-1990).