How Yul Brynner avoided tipping off What's My Line? contestants

*whistle*! Vincent Price, another distinctive voice, took a different tack: singing. Muhammed Ali, of course, had no chance at all.

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steveboyett

Great stuff! I always liked Yul Brynner. One of my favorites is Salvador Dali on What’s My Line: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXT2E9Ccc8A
bcsizemo

Univac…nice.
DonnyMac

Regardless, a rather quick deduction.
- malindrome
  
  The hair question was a dead giveaway. Also, hilarious.
Walt Guyll

I love this show.
penguinchris

After watching that I watched a bunch more on youtube, and I think that Groucho Marx won this.
http://twitter.com/digitalArtform Joseph Francis

I was surprised that they had no need to disguise or hide Col Sanders, even though he already had 900 Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants.
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OAUXAA362EXWLYVMPJOKLFB5JQ Incipient Madness
  
  Was he wearing the bolo tie? Take the tie off and that’s enough of a disguise.
rattypilgrim

Miss Francis looks a lot like Martha Stewart and Mr. Dailey has a more complicated comb-back than Trump’s comb-forward. But all in all, very civilized.
brillow

If you notice, this episode was sponsored by Remington-Rand, who were advertising their UNIVAC line of computers. This was in 1957, and they used delay-line memory, basically keeping active data in the form of pressure waves inside tubes of mercury.
- Eark_the_Bunny
  
  Gee, too bad computers never caught on but I guess they were never very useful for anything.
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OAUXAA362EXWLYVMPJOKLFB5JQ Incipient Madness
  
  Pressure waves in tubes of mercury? That’s almost as bad as stone knives and bearskins.
http://instantaneousinstances.com/ Spieguh

Well, there went 2 hours of my night watching these fantastic clips. You find the best stuff, Rob!
Powell

I have never seen this show before, very cool
Jim Thomason

The great Buster Keaton, the silent film star went on there and affected a falsetto voice:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwc45RGUVG8

He normally had a deep raspy baritone which was very distinctive.
http://profile.yahoo.com/2SKYX7J6ALKQ3PKV56KXBEDPQA David

I’m addicted to these old What’s My Line clips on YouTube. For folks trying to fool the panel with accents see Debbie Reynolds, Robert Mitchum & Louis Jordan, for voices see Rosalind Russell Carol Burnett, & Cesar Romero, for great verbal sparring with the panel see Steve Allen, Tony Randall, Debbie Reynolds (same appearance) and Groucho, and for the panel just plain failing to come up with the right questions (which was rare), see Salvador Dali, Frederic March & Jesse Owens. And lastly, see Ed Sullivan, who put the audience into hysterics by simply wearing a moster mask.