Arlene Francis
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Arlene Francis was an American game show panelist, actress, and radio and television talk show host. She was a pioneer for women in television, and is best known for her long-running role as a panelis
Francis c.1950
Francis 1958
The What's My Line? panel in 1952. From left: Dorothy Kilgallen, Bennett Cerf, Francis, and Hal Block; newscaster John Daly was host of the show.
Francis (left) with Cerf, Kilgallen, and Daly on What's My Line? in 1965
What's My Line?
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What's My Line? is an American panel game show that originally aired on CBS from 1950 through 1967, and which had subsequent revivals. The game uses celebrity panelists to question contestants in orde
Arlene Francis
…talk show host. She was a pioneer for women in television, and is best known for her long-running role as a panelist on the television game show What's My Line?, on which she appeared regularly from 1950 to 1975. Francis was born on October 20, 1907, in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughter of Leah (née Davis…
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Host John Charles Daly's 1950 CBS publicity photo for What's My Line?