What's My Line? (1950)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
John Charles Daly
Self - Moderator / Mystery Guest / Self - Panel Moderator
Arlene Francis
Self - Panelist
Bennett Cerf
Self - Panelist / Self - Moderator
Dorothy Kilgallen
Self - Panelist / Self - Mystery Guest
Johnny Olson
Self - Announcer / Announcer / Relieving Unit
Steve Allen
Self - Panelist / Self - Mystery Guest / Self - Contestant
Hal Block
Self - Panelist
Martin Gabel
Self - Panelist / Self - Mystery Guest
Chuck Dressen
Self - Mystery Guest
Ethel Barrymore
Self - Mystery Guest
Phil Rizzuto
Self - Panelist / Self - Mystery Guest
Herb Shriner
Self - Mystery Guest
Barry Fitzgerald
Self - Mystery Guest
Walter Winchell
Self - Mystery Guest
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
Self - Mystery Guest
Edward R. Murrow
Self - Mystery Guest
Charles Coburn
Self - Mystery Guest
Faye Emerson
Self - Panelist / Self - Mystery Guest
Billy Rose
Self - Mystery Guest
Roy Campanella
Self - Mystery Guest
Ava Gardner
Self - Mystery Guest
Cedric Hardwicke
Self - Mystery Guest / Self - Panelist
Eamonn Andrews
Self - Panelist / Self - Moderator
Gene Autry
Self - Mystery Guest
Frances Trocaine
Manager of Operations
Franklin Heller
Director
John Hodiak
Self - Mystery Guest
Helen Traubel
Self - Mystery Guest
Bob Bach
Production Coordinator
Gil Fates
Executive Producer
Andre Kostelanetz
Self - Mystery Guest
Fredric March
Self - Mystery Guest
Jeff Chandler
Self - Mystery Guest
Merle Oberon
Self - Mystery Guest
Elizabeth Taylor
Self - Mystery Guest
Melvyn Douglas
Self - Panelist / Self - Mystery Guest
Dale Evans
Self - Mystery Guest
Dean Martin
Self - Mystery Guest
Herbert Marshall
Self - Mystery Guest
Adolphe Menjou
Self - Mystery Guest / Self - Panelist
Lloyd Nolan
Self - Mystery Guest / Self - Panelist
Tony Curtis
Self - Mystery Guest
Fred Allen
Self - Panelist / Self - Mystery Guest
Dennis Day
Self - Mystery Guest
John L. McClellan
Self - Mystery Guest
Adolph Green
Self - Mystery Guest / Self - Panelist
Portland Hoffa
Self - Mystery Guest
Lily Pons
Self - Mystery Guest
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Self - Mystery Guest / Self - Panelist
Linda Hope
Self - Mystery Guest
Sugar Ray Robinson
Self - Mystery Guest
Margaret Truman Daniel
Self - Panelist / Self - Mystery Guest
Ted Lewis
Self - Mystery Guest
Garry Moore
Self - Panelist / Self - Mystery Guest
Roger Price
Self - Panelist
Carol Morris
Self - Mystery Guest
Ozzie Nelson
Self - Panelist / Self - Mystery Guest
Richard J. Daley
Self - Mystery Guest
Frederick Loewe
Self - Mystery Guest
Fulton J. Sheen
Self - Mystery Guest
Charlton Heston
Self - Mystery Guest
Walt Disney
Self - Mystery Guest
Jonathan Winters
Self - Mystery Guest / Self - Panelist
John Cameron Swayze
Self - Panelist
Burgess Meredith
Self - Panelist
Robert Q. Lewis
Self - Panelist / Self - Mystery Guest
Yul Brynner
Self - Mystery Guest
Robert Montgomery
Self - Mystery Guest
Tab Hunter
Self - Panelist / Self - Mystery Guest
Ernie Kovacs
Self - Panelist / Self - Mystery Guest
George Gobel
Self - Mystery Guest
Lillian Roth
Self - Mystery Guest
Robert Taylor
Self - Mystery Guest
Orson Welles
Self - Panelist
Gale Storm
Self - Panelist / Self - Mystery Guest
Dick Clark
Self - Panelist
Buddy Hackett
Self - Mystery Guest / Self - Panelist
Mark Goodson
Producer / Self - Panelist / Self - Mystery Guest
James Roosevelt
Self - Panelist
David Susskind
Self - Panelist
Hedy Lamarr
Self - Panelist / Self - Mystery Guest
Errol Flynn
Self - Panelist / Self - Mystery Guest
James Michener
Self - Panelist
Carol Channing
Self - Mystery Guest / Self - Panelist
Eunice Gayson
Self - Panelist
Dana Andrews
Self - Panelist
Stanley Kramer
Self - Panelist
Greer Garson
Self - Mystery Guest / Self - Panelist
George Sanders
Self - Panelist / Self - Mystery Guest
Jerome Hines
Self - Panelist
Woody Allen
Self - Mystery Guest / Self - Panelist
Mary Healy
Self - Mystery Guest / Self - Panelist
Dick Van Dyke
Self - Panelist
Gore Vidal
Self - Panelist
Robert Young
Self - Mystery Guest / Self - Panelist
Dirk Bogarde
Self - Panelist
William Bendix
Self - Mystery Guest / Self - Panelist
Frank Kingdon
Self - Panelist
Ralph Bellamy
Self - Mystery Guest / Self - Panelist
Joan Murray
Self - Panelist
William F. Quinn
Self - Panelist
Cyril Ritchard
Self - Mystery Guest
Cantinflas
Self - Mystery Guest
James Mason
Self - Mystery Guest / Self - Panelist
Walter Pidgeon
Self - Mystery Guest / Self - Panelist
Miyoshi Umeki
Self - Mystery Guest
Betty Hutton
Self - Mystery Guest
Fred Astaire
Self - Mystery Guest
Mickey Rooney
Self - Mystery Guest / Self - Panelist
Dorothy Lamour
Self - Mystery Guest
Kathryn Grayson
Self - Mystery Guest
Peter Lind Hayes
Self - Panelist / Self - Mystery Guest
Mort Sahl
Self - Panelist / Self - Mystery Guest
Maria Schell
Self - Mystery Guest
Jack E. Leonard
Self - Panelist / Self - Mystery Guest
Johnny Mathis
Self - Mystery Guest
Fred MacMurray
Self - Mystery Guest
Cornelia Otis Skinner
Self - Mystery Guest
Dick Powell
Self - Mystery Guest / Self - Panelist
Jeanne Crain
Self - Mystery Guest
Claudette Colbert
Self - Mystery Guest
George Montgomery
Self - Mystery Guest
Dinah Shore
Self - Mystery Guest
Gary Cooper
Self - Mystery Guest
Victor Borge
Self - Panelist / Self - Mystery Guest
Harry Belafonte
Self - Mystery Guest
Peter Lawford
Self - Mystery Guest / Self - Panelist
Joanne Woodward
Self - Mystery Guest
Van Cliburn
Self - Mystery Guest / Self - Panelist
Maureen O'Hara
Self - Mystery Guest
Arthur Murray
Self - Mystery Guest
Richard Boone
Self - Panelist / Self - Mystery Guest
Peter Lorre
Self - Mystery Guest
Nelson Eddy
Self - Mystery Guest
Charles Laughton
Self - Mystery Guest
Robert Cummings
Self - Mystery Guest / Self - Panelist
Jerry Lewis
Self - Mystery Guest / Self - Panelist
Evanna Lien
Self - Mystery Guest
Mary Susan Locke
Self - Mystery Guest
Lauri Peters
Self - Mystery Guest
Marilyn Rogers
Self - Mystery Guest
William Snowden
Self - Mystery Guest
Joseph Stewart
Self - Mystery Guest
Alan King
Self - Panelist / Self - Mystery Guest
Kitty Carlisle
Self - Panelist / Self - Mystery Guest
Myrna Loy
Self - Mystery Guest
Dina Merrill
Self - Mystery Guest
Gordon MacRae
Self - Mystery Guest / Self - Panelist
Robert Preston
Self - Panelist / Self - Mystery Guest
Jesse Owens
Self - Mystery Guest
Red Skelton
Self - Mystery Guest
Frankie Laine
Self - Mystery Guest
Art Linkletter
Self - Mystery Guest / Self - Panelist
John Wayne
Self - Mystery Guest
Joan Collins
Self - Mystery Guest / Self - Panelist
Maurice Evans
Self - Mystery Guest
Nancy Kwan
Self - Mystery Guest
Stephen Boyd
Self - Mystery Guest
Jack Lemmon
Self - Panelist / Self - Mystery Guest
Peter Ustinov
Self - Mystery Guest / Self - Panelist
Herb Alpert
Self - Mystery Guest
Nick Ceroli
Self - Mystery Guest
Tonni Kalash
Self - Mystery Guest
Robert Edmondson
Self - Mystery Guest
John Pisano
Self - Mystery Guest
Lou Pagani
Self - Mystery Guest
Pat Senatore
Self - Mystery Guest
Vince Lombardi
Self - Mystery Guest
Media.
Details.
Release DateFebruary 2, 1950
StatusCanceled
Seasons1
Episodes876
Running Time30m
Content RatingTV-G
Genres
Wiki.
What's My Line? is a panel game show that originally ran in the United States, between 1950 and 1967, on CBS. The game show started in black and white and later in color, with subsequent U.S. revivals. The game uses celebrity panelists to question contestants in order to determine their occupation. The majority of the contestants were from the general public, but there was one weekly celebrity "mystery guest" for which the panelists were blindfolded. It is on the list of longest-running U.S. primetime network television game-shows. Originally moderated by John Charles Daly and most frequently with regular 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 Awards for Best TV Show in 1962.More than 700 episodes exist as kinescope recordings, filmed in 16mm, which was the only way moving pictures and sound from spontaneous, unscripted television shows could be preserved on a long-term basis prior to the emergence and subsequent widespread use of videotape. Many early episodes were lost because of economic decisions made by CBS executives between 1950 and 1952. Every episode between July 1952 and September 1967 existed for a long time in the archive of producers Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, but some of the episodes were lost in 1975.After the Sunday night series' cancellation by CBS in 1967, it returned in a syndication package for local television stations that committed to airing it five days a week. This version originally was hosted by Wally Bruner and later by Larry Blyden. It was seen by viewers from 1968 to 1975. There have been a dozen international versions, radio versions, and a live stage version. Revivals in the U.S. were proposed several times, but all of them failed to go past the planning stages. New episodes have not been created for American television since December 12, 1974.In 2013, TV Guide ranked it ninth on its list of the 60 greatest game shows ever and Time ranked it as one of the 100 "All-Time" TV shows ever.