530     June 17, 1963 (Taped June 15)
Bill, Joan Fontaine, Henry, Bess

Fontaine is an Oscar winner for Hitchcock’s Suspicion (1941), part of a film career that spanned five decades.  She is the sister of Oscar-winner Olivia de Havilland, and their sibling rivalry was the stuff of Hollywood legend.   

Charles Spessard from Hagerstown, Maryland: “I’ve had the same wife and the same car for 50 years…They’re both in great shape”           The car is a 1910 Regal, and still has its original upholstery and top.  As of 1963, it is one of only three of its kind in the United States.  Both car and wife Addie appear onstage.   

Lt. Cmdr. Frank Coghlan from Los Angeles, California: “I was in the ‘Our Gang’ comedy movies…I played the sissy”                 
As Junior Coghlan, Frank was a popular juvenile actor in both silent and early sound films.  He made only a few Our Gang shorts, and was perhaps best known for playing Billy Batson in the Republic Pictures serial The Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941), the first time a comic book hero was presented on the big screen.  After a 23 year acting career, he spent another 23 years in the Navy.  After retiring from the military he would return to acting.  Later in life he made personal appearances on the basis of his rediscovered superhero fame.                   


Special guest Peggy Cass plays To Tell the Truth with Garry and the panel.  One of the panelists (Bill) visited the submarine base in New London, Connecticut.  Garry and Peggy question the panelists to determine which one it is.  Garry gets help from Lincoln Zonn, a lie-detector expert who wires the panelists up for Garry’s questions. (See E394 and E662)  Peggy is a regular panelist on TTTT, which appears immediately before I’ve Got a Secret on the CBS Monday night lineup.  Garry would host the long-running syndicated version of To Tell the Truth starting in 1969, with Peggy and Bill as regulars on the panel.                   

In a brief final segment, [“Mac” Murray] rips a phone book in half, then into quarters, eighths and sixteenths.  This is a nod to Bess’ stunt two weeks earlier ( E528 ).

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