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00:00...Buddy Hackett. Thanks for the laughs.
00:04Good evening. My name is, uh, oh boy, Steve Allen, and we have with us Miss, who is first here,
00:11Olivia de Havilland and Betty Davis, and they have a secret.
00:20From New York, here is I've Got a Secret, starring Steve Allen.
00:34Thank you. Why, it's the wrong woman. Good evening, and welcome to I've Got a Secret.
00:39I'll tell you right away, this young lady on my arm is Lorraine Bloy,
00:43and she is the young lady who was selected from our studio audience last week to be our guest
00:49panelist tonight, sitting in for vacationing Bess Meyers. So, Lorraine, when you're not being a
00:55panelist on I've Got a Secret, what do you do? I'm a stewardess for Pan American World Airways.
01:00I see. Well, uh, then let me formally introduce you to your fellow passengers on our little flight
01:05this evening. First, we have Henry Morgan, and then, uh, sitting in for Bill Cullen as the star
01:11of the Broadway hit, I Had a Ball, Buddy Hackett, and next to Buddy is lovely Betsy Palmer.
01:23Now, uh, that's our panel, Lorraine, and, uh, I just want you to sit right there now,
01:30and don't be a bit nervous, because if anything goes wrong, Buddy and Henry are on either side of
01:35you, and I'm sure they'll do what they can to help you out, right? Have no fear. Any time you
01:41figure you're stuck for an answer, kiss me, you'll give me a signal, you know that?
01:46Hi, Steve, you know what I found out? What's that, Buddy? That, you know, we picked Lorraine
01:51by slipping a slipper on her foot, and whoever had the best fit. If she didn't have the gout,
01:57she wouldn't have been on tonight. Well, we'll see how she does. So let's bring in our first
02:02contestant, please. Make yourself comfortable there, and would you tell us your name and
02:15where you're from? My name is Frank Paxton, and I am from New York City. All right, Mr.
02:21Paxton, if you'll whisper your secret to me, we'll show everybody just what it is.
02:29Well, sir, a little more to that, I understand. Uh-huh. My goodness, that's something.
02:42The panel, the clue to Mr. Paxton's secret concerns something that is happening, and we'll
02:49start the game with Henry Morgan. Something he can do? Something he can do that is happening
02:54while he does it. Huh? They decided it's something he can do, but it's also happening.
03:00It'll happen if he does it. You want to go first? Mr. Paxton, this thing you can do,
03:08you're going to do tonight, imagine? Right here. Right here. Marvelous. Do you use anything,
03:13any kind of equipment when you do it? No props at all. Barehanded, eh? Is it a physical thing that
03:19you do? No. Mental? Yes. Uh, do you answer questions? Yes. Of a particular kind? Yes. You're
03:28sort of a mental wizard. Right. Very good, Henry. Twenty dollars down, sixty to go. We go
03:34to Miss Bloy. Do you do this for a living? Yes. Do you, uh, have your business in New York?
03:43Yes.
03:44Yes. However, that, that might confuse you, because what he does he can do anywhere. Yes. Um,
03:53it's all right to faintly, and if you want to, you don't really have to ask all those questions. And
03:58you thought we got faint by nothing, didn't you? My hands are shaking so much, I think she's waving at
04:04me.
04:07It has to do with his mind. Well, does it have something to do with your mind? Yes.
04:14Very good, Lorraine. All right, there is apparently, uh, half the money, the other half remains. We go
04:19now to Buddy Hackett. This mind doesn't have something to do with it. Is that kept in your head?
04:27Yes. And there's no time we assume that this ever leaves the body.
04:31A reasonable assumption. You don't do any astral teleportation or anything like that, you know?
04:36No. Uh, uh, this, uh, thing that you do, you do it for a living. You do a mind-reading
04:41act?
04:41Not, not a mind-reading act. Oh, but you do, do you read minds? No. No. Oh, then you're, uh,
04:47you have some kind of a mental compulsion that you can do. That's the word, yes. You are a mental
04:52comp...
04:52Hey! What is this here? The light changed, uh, Buddy. Sixty dollars down and twenty to go,
05:00and now it's Betsy Farmer's turn. Mr. Paxton, by any chance, do you retain whatever you hear? Yes.
05:06If you concentrate on it? And are you going to repeat all the questions that we have asked you?
05:11No, I'm not going to try that tonight. You're not going to try...
05:12But you could do that. But I do, but I do, yes, I do think that.
05:15Well, you haven't heard people's names in the audience, have you? No.
05:17No. No. There's something, though, that you've retained. Yes. Something that we...
05:22Yes, he has retained an attorney to sue all of you for not getting his secret. No, seriously,
05:26that blows the money, but Mr. Paxton is a vaudevillian who has spent the past 35 years
05:31touring this country with a really amazing act. He has committed to memory names of hotels,
05:36theaters, newspapers, and several other facts about almost every city in the United States. Isn't that something?
05:51Now, Mr. Paxton is obviously a very remarkable man. All of us in the studio have already discovered
05:56that because a little earlier today we were throwing names at him just at random, and we
06:00haven't been able to stick him yet. Maybe somebody can, but I don't think so. Buddy, let's start with
06:05you. Just pick any town. Let me explain one thing so you won't pick a little tiny village nobody ever
06:09heard of. It has to have maybe 20,000 people or so so that it will have a newspaper, have
06:13a couple
06:13of hotels, that sort of thing, but name any town and see how he does. Oh, what clubs can you
06:18play in
06:18Erie, Pennsylvania? Erie's very nice city. Yes, Erie. Erie City Times is the paper there, and buddy,
06:25if you were going to play the club, you would play the old press club. Is that the one you're
06:28thinking
06:29of? No. The press club? Well, that's the best one. The moose club is right there. No, it's right on
06:33the
06:33square there. Yes, the moose club is right on the square. I'll give you the hotel. There's a
06:41little club there, buddy, called the Lawrence. That's one of the United Hotel chains. I think
06:46that's one of the remaining hotels. And then where the Aldeac stays, the Rich Ford, right across the
06:52park there. There's a Warner Theater and a Shade Theater, the remaining theater. Wonderful. A lot of
06:57bowlers there. Erie City Boiler, Hammer Mill Bond. Actually, we have to say one thing, though. Yes.
07:04You can prove it with me, because I've never been there.
07:13Believe it or not. Do I have to play it? I don't want to go. Believe it or not, we
07:18actually have
07:18to slow Mr. Paxton down, because he can do 25 minutes about one city. Betsy, name another town. How
07:26is it? Well, it's East Chicago, Indiana. East Chicago, yes. That's near Gary. I can, it's the big steel mills
07:32are there, and everything. Gary, of course, has the steel mills there. But I'll give you the hotel.
07:37It's really the Elks Hotel. Yes, you're right. And that's really a tough one, too, the Elks Hotel.
07:41There you go. There you go. There you go. There you go.
07:43Hold on. Betty, Sinclair Refining Company. That's the big thing there, Sinclair Refining. That's right, it is.
07:49Yeah, I had to think of that. Sure. My gracious, that's amazing. Henry, let's see if you can stick Mr.
07:54Paxton.
07:54Uh, Mr. Paxton, name five cities that don't have a Hilton.
08:00What? That's a new game, Henry. Uh, Biloxi, Mississippi. Biloxi. Biloxi? That's the Shrimp Center. Yeah,
08:08the shrimp. Let me see. Buddy, the Herald, it comes over from the Gulf Board. It's right on the, uh,
08:15on the Gulf there. I'll give you the hotel, and I'll see if I get them right. Uh, the Buena
08:19Vista Hotel,
08:21and the, uh, White House Hotel, and the Tivoli Hotel. Very good.
08:33The fact that, uh, Ms. Bloy is a stewardess puts her in a good spot here to, uh, maybe
08:37stump Mr. Paxton. Try it. Well, I'll take my hometown, Long Beach, California. Oh, Long Beach,
08:43California. I have to keep up with the papers because there's a consolidation of papers there.
08:47The Independent and the Press-Telegram. Is that right? Yeah. Let me see the hotel. I think the
08:51Breakers International would be called. Now, New Pike is the amusement park there. I would have to
08:56give you some. I'll give you the theaters in a minute. Let me see what hotels are left. The Lafayette
08:59Hotel and the Blackstone Hotel and the Maryland Hotel are there. I know that. The Rob, the Robinson Hotel.
09:05Let me see how the theaters would run. The old Strand Theater used to play vaudeville. That's gone. I heard
09:09about that the other day. That would lead the Imperial Theater, the United Artists Theater,
09:13and the Crest Theater, and the Rick, and the Belmont Theater, the Tiny Theater, the Ridley Theater,
09:18and the Blackstone Theater. Do you have time for just one? All right. We, we were going to throw this
09:27out to the audience, but the clock man says we only have time now to ask one person out there.
09:31Uh,
09:31we could do this all night. He could. I mean, what do I mean? We, uh, let's see. Johnny Olsen,
09:36just pick anybody at random, and would you give the name of any town, miss, please? Richmond,
09:39Virginia. Richmond, Virginia. Richmond, Virginia. Richmond, Virginia,
09:41News Leader, Times, the Spats, the Paper League, Hotels, the John Marshall Hotel, the Jefferson
09:45Hotel, the theaters there, Lowe's and the National Theater there. For every tobacco center in the
09:49world is also University of Richmond in the state capital. How's that?
09:52Yeah!
09:53Thank you so much.
10:07He ought to have his own show. It's a pretty wild idea. Anyway, we'll be right back again
10:12in just a moment. But first, let's watch this. Stay tuned. You're doing a wonderful job. Let's
10:17see how you do with our next group of contestants. Here they come.
10:29Gentlemen, make yourselves comfortable there. And, uh, would you tell us your names and where
10:34you're from? Uh, Robert Jordan, Marwa, New Jersey. Robert Jordan, New Jersey. And you, sir? Robert
10:39Jordan from Washington Township, New Jersey. Again, Robert Jordan. Well, panel, despite the fact that these
10:44gentlemen are both named Robert Jordan, and they live only a few miles away from each other in New
10:48Jersey, they never met, nor did they know about each other. Uh, and then one day, about a week ago,
10:54a remarkable coincidence brought them together. So, gentlemen, uh, did you two, uh, Robert Jordans,
11:00how did you two Robert Jordans finally meet each other? That's our secret. Just as I thought. Okay,
11:04if you'll whisper that to me, we'll, uh, let the audience at home know what's up.
11:08Uh-huh. Now, what were you doing there? I see.
11:22Panel, the clue to Robert Jordan's secret, and also Robert Jordan's secret, uh, concerns the
11:30circumstances under which they met. And we'll start the game this time with Buddy Hackett.
11:35Montreal, Canada. Right. Then you, oh, I thought they'd get things too hard. Oh. Now, as your,
11:44your secret has got some, if I know where you met, would I have a pretty good idea of what
11:48your secret
11:48is? Indeed. Oh, I would say, just taking a rough guess, that you both wives were expecting babies,
11:54you met in maternity hospital, and you saw opposite children, and you were switched kids on you,
11:59and you saw the wrong kids. Each one showed you, one had a boy, one had a girl, and they
12:03brought you
12:03the boy, and they brought him to jail. Is that right? And that concludes our program this evening,
12:09ladies and gentlemen. That's almost it. Did I guess it? I didn't guess it? Then I quit. I don't want
12:18to
12:19You've just about got it, Buddy. Uh, however, not quite. So, that's $20 down, the $60 to go. And,
12:25Betsy? Well, I'm so confused. I too thought, maybe because of the lady's reaction in the audience,
12:30when they went, ah, that these gentlemen did meet in a maternity ward. Now, is it that you both have
12:35the same, like, uh, triplets or, uh, twins? Oh, yes. Yes, yes. That's good.
12:44Oh, bring out another group. It's really fast work. Panel, uh, Robert Jordan over here, uh, went to,
12:53uh, the Pascak Valley Hospital last week to visit his wife, who had just, uh, presented him with twins,
13:00and, uh, that is where he met, uh, this Robert Jordan, who was at the Pascak Valley Hospital visiting
13:05his wife, who, as you've already guessed, Betsy had presented him with twins. I thought I'm making
13:10up a fantastic tale. Well, I don't think any two gentlemen could meet under more pleasant
13:16circumstances. Your wives had rooms right across the hall from each other, is that right? That's
13:20right. I see. And did you know each other, I mean, did you get to know each other before the
13:23babies were
13:23born? Never knew each other. I see. Was there a lot of confusion around the hospital about having all these
13:28little Jordan babies all of a sudden? Well, slightly, but they coped with the situation
13:32quite well. I see. Well, we have, excuse me, we have a newspaper picture here, which we borrowed
13:37from the paper. I'll have to have Mr. Paxton come back and tell me what paper, I guess. Uh, and
13:41it
13:41shows the proud fathers, uh, and their children. Uh, who's who here, and what's what? Uh, this is I,
13:48and I am holding, uh, my son in my right. That's Scott Robert and my daughter, Sandra Rose.
14:00Being I have two girls, I'll make a guess. This is Roberta and Angela. I see.
14:10We unfortunately have no pictures of the proud mothers because we didn't want to bother them in
14:13the hospital with photographers. But gentlemen, it was an amazing coincidence. Uh, sorry you weren't
14:18out here longer. Our panel was just too smart for us tonight. But congratulations to you and to your
14:22wives. Thanks for joining us. Thank you very much.
14:31Stay tuned. There we go again, our special guests for tonight, two of America's most
14:36distinguished actresses. Movie goers will soon have the rare pleasure of seeing both of them
14:41starring in one movie. It's the new motion picture called Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte.
14:45Here now are Ms. Betty Davis and Ms. Olivia de Havilland.
15:02A lot of folks get a hand, but that was an ovation, ladies, and I know you, uh, appreciate that.
15:13Now it's,
15:14um, something quite interesting is going to happen, panel. Now that, uh, you ladies have had a look at
15:20the panel and the panel has had a good look at you, I'm going to ask the panel to put
15:23on blindfolds.
15:25You'll find them right in front of you, panel. There you are.
15:28Why didn't we put on blindfolds when the fellas were here?
15:33Look at the girls.
15:35Now, everybody in the dark over there? Okay. Now, Ms. Davis and Mr. Havilland, if you'll, uh,
15:39whisper your secret to me, we'll show it at the same time to our audience at home.
15:46Ah-ha.
15:49Well, I, uh, I think I see what you have in mind and we'll, uh, see how it goes. Ladies,
16:02uh, panel, the clue to, uh, Betty Davis and Olivia de Havilland's secret concerns
16:07something that is happening and we'll start the questioning with, uh, Buddy Hackett.
16:12Something that is happening right now?
16:14Mm-hmm.
16:15Am I allowed to look?
16:17Uh, not just yet. Oh.
16:19You can ask, uh, put your questions to either one of our guests.
16:22Well, Ms. Davis, if I wasn't wearing a blindfold, would I then, uh, be able to know what it was
16:30that was happening?
16:31Yes.
16:33Well, that certainly helps me a lot.
16:36And, um, uh, this thing that, uh, is happening now, is this something that you've done before?
16:46Well, no, it isn't, but I do enjoy it.
16:52It sounds, uh, it sounds very different to me now. Uh, this thing that, uh, you enjoy, would I enjoy
17:01doing that?
17:02Probably.
17:05All right, 20 dollars down, 60 to go.
17:07I didn't need to find out anything and the horn came.
17:09Betsy?
17:10Uh, Mr. Havilland, are you doing the same thing as Ms. Davis?
17:14Yes.
17:16Uh, Ms. Davis, is it something physical that's happening to you?
17:20No.
17:23Uh, was that Ms. Davis or Ms. DeHavilland?
17:25Well, that was Ms. DeHavilland, I'm sorry.
17:26That was Ms. DeHavilland?
17:26Yes, you asked me.
17:27Ms. Davis, is anything physical happening to you?
17:30No.
17:31Uh, is anything, uh, mental happening to both of you?
17:36No.
17:37No.
17:38Uh, is anything, you are doing something, Ms. DeHavilland?
17:45It's Hank, of a physical nature.
17:48All right, the panel's quite mystified here, there goes half the money, we go now to Henry
17:52Morgan.
17:52No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
17:54Hey, Betty, you've mixed me up a lot.
17:56Betty, I'll Betty.
17:59Your turn, Hank.
18:01You'll mix me up plenty with them.
18:05Henry.
18:05But.
18:06Oh, yes.
18:07It's dark in there, doesn't it?
18:11Mike.
18:13Um, Ms. Davis, are you performing any function?
18:20No, I'm not.
18:22Mr. Havilland, are you doing something?
18:26No.
18:27Is something happening to you?
18:31No.
18:32Now, that's odd.
18:33So far, we've covered that it's not physical.
18:38It's not metal.
18:39You know, nobody's doing anything to anybody.
18:43And nobody's doing anything to you.
18:45Nobody's doing anything to you either, Henry.
18:47So, it's even Steven.
18:49Not inside my head, that's for sure.
18:52Just a little bit of money left.
18:54Ms. Bloy, let's see how you do.
19:00Does this have something to do with the voices which are changing, Ms. Davis?
19:06Yes.
19:08Huh.
19:09I got it.
19:11You got it, it matters.
19:13Well, just follow what you're doing.
19:13Keep going.
19:14You're quite right.
19:15Um, I don't know what to ask now about the voices.
19:19Well, how did you like the first question?
19:20Now, remember what you just said.
19:23Remember what you just said.
19:24Oh, um, are you switching voices?
19:28Um, does, uh, Misty Havilland?
19:31I beg your pardon.
19:32Misty Havilland, are you switching voices?
19:34No.
19:36Is there, there isn't another person on the stage outside, the two of you, Steve Allen?
19:46All right, panel.
19:49That, uh, that substantially is it.
19:51You may now remove your blindfolds.
19:53How did somebody do their voices?
19:54Young lady, will you tell the panel, will you tell the panel what the secret is?
19:59Well, the secret is that they haven't opened their mouths and I'm doing,
20:02I'm doing all the talking for them.
20:04Yes.
20:05It's been a gag.
20:12Actually, it can only happen, and I've got a secret here.
20:15We have Betty Davis and Olivia de Havilland, uh, two marvelous actresses,
20:18and we don't let either one of them open their mouths.
20:20It's a miracle you accomplished it.
20:25Of course, I'm sure just about everybody recognizes the brilliant comedian
20:28who plays Christine Clam on the, uh, Jackie Gleason Show, Miss Barbara Heller.
20:37You did a wonderful job, uh, Barbara.
20:43Uh, Betty, do you think she captured you?
20:45Barbara has been doing me for many years, and I think it's really extraordinary imitation.
20:50I really do.
20:50Indeed it is.
20:51Mr. Havilland, has anyone ever done you before?
20:53Not that I know of, and I have trouble doing myself.
20:57Well, Barbara, I congratulate you on a brilliant job, which you always turn in,
21:01and thank you so much for helping us fool the panel tonight.
21:05Well, I know that, uh, everybody's looking forward, ladies,
21:14to the opening of your new, uh, motion picture, Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte,
21:17which I understand opens in New York this week.
21:19Is that correct?
21:20And, uh...
21:21Wednesday, I believe.
21:22That's the capital, I believe.
21:23Very good.
21:24All right.
21:25Well, now we believe it, too.
21:26And I'm sure that you're all, uh, you're both, I should say, very excited about all the
21:30Academy Award nominations the picture's received, huh?
21:32Seven.
21:33Seven.
21:34That's seven.
21:34Seven.
21:35That's wonderful.
21:35We are thrilled, of course, we're thrilled to death for Agnes Moorhead,
21:38for the supporting woman, you know, and needless to say, she will have our vote.
21:43Ah, wonderful.
21:44Olivia, what, uh, role do you play in the picture?
21:47Well, I do not play Hush, Hush, contrary to Biddy.
21:51Uh-huh.
21:52I play a mysterious cousin, Miriam, of Charlotte.
21:57I see.
21:57And you can guess who Charlotte is.
21:58I see.
21:59By the process of elimination, yes, I can.
22:01Uh, Betty, is it true that you sing in this movie?
22:04Well, I, I do, uh, um, uh, a song, uh, that my lover, who died when I was very young,
22:12left to me, of his love for me, and I sing it one night in, in, in, in the room
22:17alone,
22:17remembering him.
22:19I see.
22:19How does she do, Olivia?
22:20I think she sings it most effectively.
22:23Why did you ask her to do it now?
22:25Well, as a matter of fact, we, uh, we are, uh, we are going to be that presumptuous.
22:36In fact, we've overconfidently, perhaps, asked the band to sneak around and get in the center
22:40of our stage.
22:41So, Betty, if you'll help yourself to our microphone.
22:43Our stage.
22:44And our, uh, orchestra.
22:46This is, uh, something quite rare in television.
22:55Hush, hush, sweet Charlotte.
22:59Charlotte, don't you cry.
23:03Hush, hush, sweet Charlotte.
23:06I'll love you till I die.
23:11Oh, hold me, darling, please hold me tight.
23:15And brush that tear from your eyes.
23:20You weep because you had a dream last night.
23:27You dream that I said goodbye.
23:34Hush, hush, sweet Charlotte.
23:37Charlotte, Charlotte, don't you cry.
23:43Hush, hush, sweet Charlotte.
23:58The red rose tells you of my passion and the white rose, my love so true.
24:15And every night after I shall die, yes, every night when I'm gone, the wind will sing to you this
24:29lullaby.
24:32And the red rose, my love so true.
24:41And the red rose, my love so true.
24:53And the red rose, my love so true.
25:02It sure has been a wild show, it sure has been a wild show.
25:06I hope to turn the audience down with my, with my act.
25:08Ain't it a gas?
25:09I mean, ain't it a flick?
25:11Now, whose voice is that?
25:12Barbara Hiller.
25:19This program was pre-recorded.
25:21This is John Cannon speaking.
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