What's My Line?
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What's My Line? is a panel
game show which originally ran in the United
States on the CBS Television Network from 1950 to 1967,
with several international versions and subsequent U.S. revivals. The game tasks
celebrity panelists with questioning contestants in order to determine their
occupations. It is the longest-running U.S. primetime network television
game-show (51st show). Moderated by John Charles Daly and with panelists
Dorothy Kilgallen, Arlene Francis, and Bennett Cerf, What's My Line? won three
Emmy Awards for "Best Quiz or Audience Participation Show" in 1952,
1953, and 1958 and the Golden Globe for Best TV Show in 1962.
After its cancellation by CBS
in 1967, it returned in syndication as a daily production which ran from 1968
until 1975. There have been several international versions, radio versions, and
a live stage version.
In 2013, TV Guide ranked it
#9 in its list of the 60 greatest game shows ever.
What’s my line?
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Duke Ellington on
"What's My Line?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS4wjBCS3q4
Whats my line? - Alfred
Hitchcoch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouwiC63Igo0
WML?-Frank Sinatra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYfQiHLSQg0
WML? Opera star
Leontyne Price
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7XmOLcd1cw
John Daly,the 100th
Birthday Anniversary
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Date of Birth.20 February 1914 , Johannesburg, South Africa
Date of Death.24 February 1991 ,Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA
(cardiac arrest)
Birth Name John Charles Patrick Croghan Daly
Height 6' 1" (1,85 m)
Mini Bio,
John Daly was born on
February 20, 1914 in Johannesburg,
South Africa as
John Charles Patrick Croghan Daly. He was an actor, known for What's My Line?
(1950), America's
Town Meeting (1948) and We Take Your Word (1950). He was married to Virginia
Warren and Margaret Criswell Neale. He died on February 24, 1991 in Chevy Chase, Maryland,
USA.
Spouse (2)
Virginia Warren,(22
December 1960 - 24 February 1991) (his death) (3 children)
Margaret Criswell Neale,(7
January 1936 - 1960) (divorced) (3 children)
Trivia,
Was son-in-law of former US
Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren.
He was a war correspondent in
Italy
in August 1943 covering Gen. George S. Patton at the time of the infamous
"slapping" incident.
Many people first heard about
the attack on Pearl Harbor when John Daly came
on the air at 2:25 PM (EST) with the news report on CBS radio.
In the 1950s, he worked for
several years at ABC Television as Vice President in charge of News, Special
Events and Public Affairs. During this period, he received three Peabody
Awards: 1954 - Personal Award for Radio-Televison News. Partial quote from
citation: "John Charles Daly is primarily a reporter-and a good one. His
versatility as a radio and television personality has not diluted his basic
talent as a competent and discerning journalist." 1956 - Institutional
Award for Television News Coverage of the National Political Conventions.
Partial quote: "Last summer, the American Broadcasting Company, with
department head John Daly and a carefully picked team, covered the Democratic
and Republican national conventions. The result was a perfect example of how an
important news event should be brought home to a television audience."
1957 - Prologue '58. Partial quote: "ABC's handling of the news,
consistently authoritative and imaginative throughout 1957, hit a new high with
its year-end roundup and forecast for the months to come
'Prologue '58.' The credit
goes equally to John Daly and his staff.."
He was one of the featured
reporters on CBS Radio's "You Are There" (1947-1950).
Enrolled as a child at the Tilton School
in New Hampshire;
he eventually became the Chairman of the Board of the school and an alumni
award was established in his name after his death.
Although he spent most of his
career in radio and television news, he is best-known to TV viewers as the
moderator of one of the most successful quiz shows of all time, "What's My
Line." In its first, and most popular version, it ran in prime time on CBS
from 1950 to 1967. He was the show's only moderator.
His two sons with his first
wife, Margaret Criswell Neale, were John Charles Daly (born 1937) and John
Neale Daly. They also had a daughter, nicknamed Buntsie, born in 1945.
His first wife, Margaret
Criswell Neale, was nicknamed Kit.
In the 1950s, Daly and his
family resided in Rye, New York.
Pets: In 1955, John and
family had a female Scottish terrier named Bonnie.
In August, 1955, John was
appointed constable of Harrison, New York in Westchester
County.
When it came to his golf
game, said of himself, "I'm the original 110 for 18 holes man."
Biography in: "The
Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume 3, 1991-1993, pp.
121-123. New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001.
When What's My Line went off
the air in 1967, John Daly was appointed the director of the Voice Of America.
His appointment was a contributing factor in deciding to end the show's long
run.
Personal Quotes (1)
The art of conversation lies
not only in saying the right thing at the right time, but in leaving unsaid the
wrong thing at the tempting moment.
What's My Line?
debuted on
Thursday February 2, 1950 at 8:00 p.m. ET
Produced by Mark Goodson and
Bill Todman for CBS Television, the show was initially called Occupation
Unknown. before deciding on the name What's My Line?
The original series, which
was usually broadcast live, debuted on Thursday February 2, 1950 at 8:00 p.m.
ET. After airing alternate Wednesdays, then alternate Thursdays, finally on
October 1, 1950 it had settled into its weekly Sunday 10:30 p.m. ET slot where
it would remain until the end of its network run on September 3, 1967.
The show was produced at CBS
Studio 52 and, towards the end of its run,at CBS' Studio 50 (now the Ed
Sullivan Theater) in Manhattan.
The original series was
hosted (called the moderator at that time) by veteran radio and television
newsman John Charles Daly. Clifton Fadiman,Eamonn Andrews, and Bennett Cerf
substituted on the four occasions Daly was unavailable.
The show featured a panel of
four celebrities who questioned the contestants. On the initial program of
February 2, 1950, the panel was former New
Jersey governor Harold Hoffman, columnist Dorothy
Kilgallen, poet Louis Untermeyer, and psychiatrist Richard Hoffmann
Whats my line? - Eleanor
Roosenvelt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX0wmS3gV0I
Whats my line? - Ronald
Reagan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5D6RnMbfHI
Whats my line? - Ava Gardner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2hy6fyheIA
Elizabeth Taylor on What's My
Line?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gR-vU44gd4
Whats my line? - Kirk Douglas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPJ9PH1Rs3o
What's My Line? Mahalia
Jackson (1961)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oaka7dQhy2A