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Sean Connery on What's My Line? (1965)

AlexanderWaverlyAlexanderWaverly
edited August 2011 in Bond Movies Posts: 2,115


for trivia related to the appearance:

http://hmssweblog.wordpress.com/2011/08/21/1965-sean-connery-tries-to-stump-the-whats-my-line-panel/

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  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    Hilarious find @AlexanderWaverly! I love seeing Sean bring out his funny side. I can't believe he pulled off such a voice. :-))
  • KerimKerim Istanbul Not Constantinople
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    Great find. What's My Line was one of the great early US Game Shows.

    Loved how Sean pulled off that high pitched voice.

    I'm also amazed how that one lady pulled the Connery question out of nowhere.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    Posts: 28,694
    Great find. What's My Line was one of the great early US Game Shows.

    Loved how Sean pulled off that high pitched voice.

    I'm also amazed how that one lady pulled the Connery question out of nowhere.
    Easy @Kerim. At the time Connery was causing a huge scene in NYC with swarming fans all over the city. He was there filming and dropped by the show. Any New Yorker and anyone in town knew of his arrival.
  • thelordflasheartthelordflasheart
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    Incredible clip! I can't conceive of a star as huge as Connery was at that time appearing on a game show now...fantastic to see him clearly enjoying himself, although he got rather quiet once the host started asking him some questions.
  • AlexanderWaverlyAlexanderWaverly
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    A few notes about What's My Line?:
    1. The original version, 1950-1967, ran live (at least most of the time) at 10:30 p.m. on Sundays on CBS. Major stars went on as the mystery guest, usually when a movie was about to premier or if they were about to star in a Broadway play. They included the likes of Henry Fonda, Charlton Heston, James Stewart, William Holden and, apparently, John Wayne (somebody commented in a YouTube posting of a WML segment they wish somebody would post the Wayne appearance). You can see clips of Fonda (at least twice), Heston, Stewart and Holden on YouTube of their WML appearances.

    2. Bennett Cerf, the publisher of Random House (and whose son co-authored the Bond novel parody Alligator) was a regular panelist (though he absent for Connery's appearance). In an audio interview that was posted on YouTube, he said panelists prepped for the show by checking what movies or new Broadway plays were about to open.

    3. Martin Gabel appears to be saying, "Hello Sean, how are you?" after guessing it was Connery. They had worked together in Marnie. Gabel was also the husband of Arlene Francis, another regular panel member, so he was a frequent guest panelist.
  • PrinceKamalKhanPrinceKamalKhan Monsoon Palace, Udaipur
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    for trivia related to the appearance:

    http://hmssweblog.wordpress.com/2011/08/21/1965-sean-connery-tries-to-stump-the-whats-my-line-panel/
    That was fun. Thanks for posting, Mr. Waverly.
  • thelordflasheartthelordflasheart
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    Yes, Mr. Waverly, fantastic.
  • barryt007barryt007
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    Good find,although Sean looked a bit shy and uncomfortable,as he always does when he is out of his comfort zone.
  • 007JamesBond007JamesBond
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    Yeah great find. Really good to watch. However, gotta agree with @barryt007. He does look uncomfortable, especially when being asked the questions after they guess him correctly.
  • AlexanderWaverlyAlexanderWaverly
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    Ursula Andress and Woody Allen also appeared on What's My Line? to promote the 1967 Casino Royale. This would have been near the end of the show.
  • LudsLuds MIA
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    Good find,although Sean looked a bit shy and uncomfortable,as he always does when he is out of his comfort zone.
    And it seemed obvious that he also wanted to let out that he was sick of Bond already wasn't it?
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    edited August 2011 Posts: 28,694
    I agree @Luds. Connery is quite enthusiastic about getting a break. And you can see his waning feelings about the films, as he begins to see that it is overshadowing all his other work. I would have gotten a little tired of it too. He was on the schedule of a film a year up to YOLT and I'm sure it was more than overwhelming. I wonder how much he wanted to branch out and how much he had to pass up for Bond while still doing other projects. Even now, sitting retired, Connery's Bond work is the most renowned of anything he's done, and he won an Osar for The Untouchables! He has given so much to cinema and Bond is always first and foremost. In interviews Bond was always spoke of. He was the true first film Bond and the classic best. The character has hung over his entire career, and though it is a positive kudos, I truly think that makes him angry.
  • KerimKerim Istanbul Not Constantinople
    edited August 2011 Posts: 2,629
    Ursula Andress and Woody Allen also appeared on What's My Line? to promote the 1967 Casino Royale. This would have been near the end of the show.
    By any chance do you have a clip of it?

    Edit: Never mind. Should have scrolled down further on the main page first.
  • timmertimmer
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    Good find,although Sean looked a bit shy and uncomfortable,as he always does when he is out of his comfort zone.
    And it seemed obvious that he also wanted to let out that he was sick of Bond already wasn't it?
    I noticed this too. He was already getting restless post GF. I guess Sean really wanted his suddenly very successful career to not be typecast. Seems that creatively he had accomplished what he wanted to get done with Bond. It was probably just the cash that kept him going beyond GF and maybe the chance to work with Terrence Young again for TB. At least we got his best years but too bad he couldn’t have been more like Rog or Broz and happy to play Bond as long as he could.

  • barryt007barryt007
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    He may well have been OK to play Bond for longer if he had (as per Roger and Pierce) a 2-3 year break between films so he could do other projects as they both did.
    The fact it was every year meant he could do nothing else except Bond constantly,which would obviously lead to a burn out or need for change.
  • timmertimmer
    edited August 2011 Posts: 4,622
    He may well have been OK to play Bond for longer if he had (as per Roger and Pierce) a 2-3 year break between films so he could do other projects as they both did.
    The fact it was every year meant he could do nothing else except Bond constantly,which would obviously lead to a burn out or need for change.
    This may be true but he quit after YOLT, just as the two year break between films had been established. I think he simply wearied of Bond. And he didn't seem crazy about the less grounded outer-space direction YOLT had taken. It was the series first major departure from Fleming and I'm not sure he liked that either.
    But the film a year pace, might have left him feeling a little caged in and burned out after GF, hence his comments on What's My Line. Plus he had TB coming up while trying to squeeze in these other films, he talks about in the clip ( A Fine Madness and The Hill).

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