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Game 1: Jules Montenier (3/23/1895 - 8/20/1962) - His two overlay screens read: "Dr. Jules Montenier, Creator & Manufacturer of Stopette" and "Our Sponsor (For Past Six Years)" (as Mystery Guest #1 and the panel is blindfolded, but the regular questioning format is used; self-employed; in a thick French accent, he said that he loves the show and watches it each Sunday; John praised him for being a sponsor who did not interfere with the production of the series; more notes below)
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''Game 2: John Anderson (2/14/1899 - 2/15/1976) - "Captain of S.S. United States (World's Fastest Ocean Liner)" (salaried; John W. Anderson holds the rank of Commodore in the United States Lines; from Bergenfield, New Jersey; more notes below)
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''Game 3: Jayne Mansfield (4/19/1933 - 6/29/1967) (as Mystery Guest #2)
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''Game 2: John Anderson (2/14/1899 - 2/15/1976) - "Captain of S.S. United States (World's Fastest Ocean Liner)" (salaried; John W. Anderson holds the rank of Commodore in the United States Lines; from Bergenfield, New Jersey; more notes below)
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''Game 3: Jayne Mansfield (4/19/1933 - 6/29/1967) (as Mystery Guest #2)
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Arlene Francis
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ADD NOTES- WAYBACK PLAYBACK: This episode of the program was aired in the wee morning hours of December 16, 2010 on GSN as part of their new Wayback Playback feature. It was followed by an episode of I've Got a Secret featuring the parents of Neil Armstrong, the first human to set foot on the moon, as well as a young Paul Anka. Once again, GSN engaged in its curmudgeonly, crass and crude practice of crunching the closing credits for both What's My Line? and I've Got a Secret and will be forever haunted by three ghosts of Christmas. Edit
- (1) "WML?" SPONSOR AND PANEL WATCH: Tonight's main sponsor was Stopette; during the opening advertisement, a brief clip of this evening's first mystery guest, Dr. Jules Montenier, was shown. During the intros, Arlene humorously introduces Fred as "filling in for Desi Arnaz," last week's guest panelist. (2) THE DAYS DWINDLE DOWN: After tonight, Fred Allen has four more appearances on "WML?" before his death. (3) Dr. Montenier's appearance this evening came about a month and a half prior to the sale of his company, and products being offered, to Helene Curtis Industries, Inc. Both of the good doctor's overlays use a combination of capital letters and mixed case (upper and lower case) letters: "DR. JULES MONTENIER - Creator and Manufacturer of Stopette" (with the famous logo for his brand) and "OUR SPONSOR (For Past Six Years)" -- set, as predominantly during this period, in Kabel Heavy. His "hands-off" approach towards the production of the show differed markedly from co-sponsor Remington Rand, as would be most evident exactly six months from tonight's show, on the special Chicago-based EPISODE #323 of August 12, 1956, when that company's Chairman of the Board, General Douglas MacArthur, shot down a proposed mystery guest appearance by former President Harry S. Truman. Ironically, the main sponsor of that special show was Helene Curtis. (4) Aside from Dr. Montenier, the second contestant's overlay likewise had the same type of typesetting arrangement, and the same Kabel Heavy font: "CAPTAIN OF S. S. UNITED STATES (World's Fastest Ocean Liner)." Alas, the lower-third overlay for second mystery guest Jayne Mansfield was set in Futura Medium. (5) "THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT," OR "WILL SUCCESS SPOIL JAYNE MANSFIELD?": This was to be the first of four mystery guest appearances over the next ten years, five months and five days for actress and Playboy Playmate Jayne Mansfield. 1956 was also the year she "broke out" in films, with her appearance as "Jerri Jordan" in "The Girl Can't Help It" (the title song of which was performed by Little Richard). Former mystery guest Tom Ewell was the star, and among those appearing in the movie was future mystery guest Julie London, who performed her best-known hit "Cry Me a River." The film's director was Frank Tashlin, who went on to direct Miss Mansfield the following year in the celluloid version of "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?," whose star, Tony Randall, had at that point begun a long run as the second most-prolific guest panelist in the history of "WML?"; the ultimately most prolific guest panelist, Martin Gabel, had been in the Broadway version which was playing at the time of tonight's show. (6) "WML?" CREDITS CRUNCH WATCH: After the travel arrangements plug for American Airlines, the end credits cut off after the "In Association with the CBS Television Network" art card. And like clockwork, GSN's August 31, 2008 airing of this episode was once again witness to the cable and satellite channel's self-indulgent "crunching" of the screen during such sequence. (7) GSN's August 31, 2008 airing of tonight's show was followed by the August 4, 1953 edition of "The Name's the Same," hosted by Robert Q. Lewis, with the panel of Carl Reiner, Joan Alexander and Bill Stern, and Gloria DeHaven as the celebrity guest. It should be noted that in 1969, less than sixteen years after her "TNTS" appearance here, Miss DeHaven began a stint as host of "Prize Movie," a morning movie show that aired in that form to the early 1970's on WABC-TV (Channel 7), the New York flagship station of ABC which ran "TNTS" from 1951 to 1955. - W-B (2008) Edit
- Jayne Mansfield has been called the light-weight top-heavy Cleavage Queen who used a slight film career and an ample publicity campaign to challenge Marilyn Monroe's title as reigning Sex Goddess of the late 1950s to early 1960s. Jayne won the Golden Globe as the Most Promising Newcomer of 1957. Unfortunately, audiences in the 1960s never accepted her as the serious actress she longed to become. Surprisingly, she also played the violin. One talent that she managed to hide quite well was her intelligence - some biographies credit her with an IQ of 163. This writer first saw her in the 1963 movie "Promises, Promises," which was memorable only in that it displayed an amazing amount of Miss Mansfield's flesh. As an underage high school junior at the time, your correspondent saw things (two in particular) he will never forget, even with the limitations imposed by black and white cinematography. Her measurements were reported to be an inspiring 40 - 21 - 35.5 and her response to her curvaceous frame was simple: "If I didn't have a large bosom, people would talk about my small one. So, what's the difference? I'm glad I have a large one." Sex appeal was, in her words, "just knowing what to do and then doing it with a lot of naiveté ... if a girl has curviness, exciting lips and a certain breathlessness, it helps, and it won't do a bit of harm if she has a kittenish, soft cuddly quality. Men want women to be pink, helpless and do a lot of deep breathing." (From "Jayne Mansfield and the American Fifties.") Mr. Blackwell put her on his Worst-Dressed List in 1962, and in fact created a new category for her, Worst Undressed. She was a Playboy Playmate in February 1955, showing off her biggest assets. Her husband at the time, Paul Mansfield, filed for divorce because he was upset over the exposure of the Playboy photos. Her subsequent Playboy appearance in 1958 was the magazine's biggest-selling issue to date. Her 1963 nude scenes in "Promises, Promises" led to a famous Playboy pictorial in what was the magazine's biggest seller to that time, and she appeared in Playboy every February from 1957 to 1964 as their "Valentine Girl." After two more failed marriages (Mickey Hargitay and Matt Cimber) she lost her life in a horrific traffic accident in 1967 at the age of 34. - Lee McIntyre (2005) Edit
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ADD QUOTES- Dorothy Kilgallen: Uh, you work for a profit-making organization, so it can't be congressman or senator, can it? John Daly: That's a good presumption. Arlene Francis: If they're making profit, we'd better learn about it right now. Edit
- Arlene Francis: Will you renew, Dr. Montenier? Edit
- Arlene Francis: (regrding Jules Montenier's appearance on the show) Well, you have to give it to both parties, so one week we to have Remington on now. That's what they say. Fred Allen: Well, not on... You can't have Remington on Lincoln's birthday, with that beard, I mean... Edit
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