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That's My Line

Notable moments included voice artist Mel Blanc having a contest with an audience member on who does voice acting the best (the "audience member" being his son Noel) and magician James Randi contesting James Hydrick's psychic abilities.


Alfred Gruenther

After retiring from the Army, he served as president of American Red Cross from 1957 to 1964 and was a member of the Draper Committee, even appearing as a guest on February 10, 1957's successful TV quiz show What's My Line.

Charlotte Whitton

In 1955 she appeared on the American game show and television series What's My Line.

Continental League

Appearing in that capacity as a guest on the live network broadcast of What's My Line on Sunday, September 13, 1959, he pronounced the new league as “Inevitable as tomorrow morning.”

Desmond Tester

As television broadcasting began in Australia, Tester soon found work with Channel Nine's What's My Line and in a variety of children's programmes including Kaper Kops with Reg Gorman and Rod Hull.

Helene Curtis Industries, Inc.

These two products were advertised on television during such shows as What's My Line? and The Gale Storm Show, helping to make Stopette the best selling deodorant on the market, a position it maintained for several years.

Iris Faircloth Blitch

Within days of her 1954 election, Blitch appeared on the American television show What's My Line.

James Hagerty

Hagerty appeared on the TV panel show What's My Line in March 1957 during his tenure as Press Secretary.

James Hydrick

Following a nationally televised demonstration of his abilities on the American reality show That's Incredible!, he was unable to prove his supernatural abilities on a subsequent television show That's My Line, hosted by Bob Barker, and Hydrick subsequently confessed the fraud to an investigative reporter.

Jonathan Levinson

Writer/directors David Greenwalt and Marti Noxon both stated in the DVD commentaries for "Reptile Boy" and "What's My Line", respectively, that Danny Strong was the actor that they would call on whenever they needed a good victim, both citing his good "victim face".

Larry Ferrari

It was there, while idly passing the time during leave by playing the organ, that he came to the notice of his Commanding Officer as a likely person to put on the "Soldier Parade" with Arlene Francis (later of What's My Line? fame).

Lilly Daché

So famous, in fact, that she was a mystery guest on an August 28, 1955 episode of the sophisticated television game show What's My Line? (panelist Arlene Francis eventually guessed her identity).

Louise M. Tesmer

She appeared on the popular television gameshow What's My Line? in 1966, with Betty White and Allen Ludden as guest panelists.

Mary Healy

In addition, the couple were regular substitute hosts on Arthur Godfrey's television programs and were frequent guest panelists on What's My Line? In 1960, they co-starred in their radio show The Peter Lind-Mary Healy Show.

Miss Universe 1959

Miss Norway appeared on What's My Line during her trip to the United States for the pageant.

Peter Donald

Donald was the host of two early television series, The Ad-Libbers (1951) and Masquerade Party (1954-1956), and he made numerous TV guest appearances as a comedian (The Colgate Comedy Hour, The NBC Comedy Hour) and panelist (Pantomime Quiz, What's My Line?, To Tell the Truth).

Peter Gabel

As a teenager he worked as a guide for the 1964 New York World's Fair, a fact he revealed on the game show What's My Line?, where he appeared as a guest and stumped the panel, including his mother, Arlene Francis.

Peter West

He presented many BBC programmes that were not connected with sport, including the original version of Come Dancing (1957–72), What's My Line? and presented Get Ahead (1958–62), about business entrepreneurs.

Robert Lembke

Lembke was, from 1961 to his death in 1989, game show host of What's My Line? (with Hans Sachs, actress Marianne Koch, Annette von Aretin and Guido Baumann).

Spice Williams-Crosby

Her more notable roles include the Klingon officer Vixis in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, and the assassin Patrice in Buffy the Vampire Slayer story "What's My Line".

The Body Beautiful

Kilgallen, known primarily at the time for her appearances as a panelist on TV's What's My Line, and her fellow panelists made mention of The Body Beautiful on various episodes of the game show during this time period.

The Lieutenant Wore Skirts

Sheree had also appeared on a few television series like Shower of Stars and What's My Line?

William Schuman

William Schuman appeared as the opening guest on the CBS game show, What's My Line? on September 30, 1962 (episode No. 632).


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