Talk:You Bet Your Life
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As I recall, The Groucho Show was not exactly a continuation of You Bet Your Life -- it sometimes contained other elements, such as a picture being flashed up for something like one-thirtieth of a second and then the contestants being called upon to name as many of the items shown in it as the could recall. This is really taxing my memory as it goes back to my earliest childhood. Can anyone help me on this?
Also, I have encountered this on "The Straight Dope" site:
The show in question was the one for November 17, 1947. This is the supposed transcript of the exchange upon learning that the contestant, a Mrs. Story, had twenty (not nineteen) children:
Groucho: Why do you have so many children?
Mrs. Story: Well, because I love children, and I think that's our purpose here on Earth, and I love my husband.
Groucho: I love my cigar, too, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while.
Supposedly the only reason that this survives it that it was included on a album of outtakes that the DeSoto Automobile Company, then Groucho's sponsor, sent out to its dealers in 1950 as a Christmas present, and that none of the rest of the show survives, which seems to be the case of many of the shows, especially the eariler ones. Whether the reaction to this was the source of big laughs used later on to "sweeten" laughter in subsequent shows is not stated, but is one of those legendary "facts" that seems plausible. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rlquall (talk • contribs)
[edit] Contestant Relations
I removed the section suggesting that the contestants were never couples. The first two episodes of season two of the radio show featured a pair of newlyweds and some dating youngsters.
[edit] Jerry Fielding
Jerry Fielding was one of the early musical directors of the show. He contributed to the book "The Secret Word is Groucho" :1976 (Groucho Marx/Hector Arce) a book about Groucho's quiz show. He tells how he was forced off the quiz show as bandleader due to the 50's Red Scare of the time (he was mentioned in the book "Red Channels"). Groucho sucummed to sponser's pressure to his regret. He apolgised to Fielding in the aforementioned book but was too overcome by shame to tell Fielding in person. Fielding later became a prolific film and TV composer ("Hogan's Heros","The Wild Bunch"). See Hector Arce biography "Groucho". M Bateman-Graham 203.171.196.113 14:39, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
