Dorothy Kilgallen

[quote] Anyone old enough to remember her from What's My Line?

This is DL. Of course there are posters old enough to remember her from What’s My Line. She’s practically a fixture here.

OP: Google "datalounge dorothy kilgallen" and you will find dozens (plural) of DL Dorothy Kilgallen threads. Everything you could possibly want to know is contained therein.

If I recall correctly, her fellow panelists didn't like her much.

I do believe she was murdered.

But r2, then OP would run the risk of being scolded for buming an old thread, especially if it was from 2015.

Ah...Tks R2. Just googled. First thing that came up was a thread about the book I just finished. Good posts there.

She was killed because her lack of a chin was too horrifying to be aesthetically acceptable.

lTony Randall commenting on the first guest's "robust physique." 🤔

Oh my, I remember the murder conspiracy"

I read the book and would love to read Lee Israel’s biography on Dorothy as well. She is my favorite panelist on What’s My Cunt?

I’ve seen the clips on YouTube...she seemed like an interesting and smart person

She was something of a right-wing witch.

[quote]This is DL. Of course there are posters old enough to remember her from What’s My Line

I loved those kids that made up the panels.

The guy she was with before she was killed was Ron Pataky who was a goodlooking theater editor at a Cleveland newspaper who was friendly with mob figures. He was romancing her in NYC and she spilled the news about her JFK info to him right before she was killed. He was the snitch, if not the killer. Was she a dyke? She stayed with her husband after she caught him in bed with another man, but moved out of the bedroom she shared. After she died the husband disowned the son she had with Ray, another queen. Dot and the Snitch below...

Weren't chin implants around in the 60s? A girl I knew he one put in when she had a nose job. Striking difference.

At the final show at Cal Neva Lodge, Frank Sintra announced to the audience, "If you see Dorothy Kilgallen in a car, run her over." MEOW!!

[quote] buming

She had a huge affair with Johnny Ray the singer. People say he was Bi and an alcoholic, and he was abusive to her, but she loooovvved him.

I had a book on old TV shows and the What's My Line? section referred to "pert Arlene Francis" and "quince-faced Dorothy Kilgallen".

[quote] A girl I knew he one put in when she had a nose job.

Come again? In English, this time.

Just put the word "had" in place of "he" and it will all make sense darling.

Oh. I thought it was "A girl he knew got screwed by her plastic surgeon after he gave her a nose job. "

Thanks for clearing that up R20.

Fuck off with your passive-aggressive "darling" bullshit, r20.

You were the one who was incoherent because of your sloppy typing.

R18, LOL I know how that is. I recall this cruel (but apt) description: “buttock-faced Child of the Corn Cameron Bright”

And of course, the legendary “short-fingered vulgarian”.

R3, she was disliked in part because, unlike her liberal co-panelists, she was a right-winger. And she was not killed, she died of an overdose. A hack sports talk show host in my town had heard the Kennedy connection to her death, but got it a bit confused & said JFK had her killed. A mean feat as he had been dead almost two years at the time of her death. But this theory is just as implausible as the belief she was killed for knowing too much. As if.

Unclench R22 !!

Arlene seemed like much more fun...

Poor Arlene. Some nasty mugger snatched that diamond heart off her neck when she was in her 90s!

She was younger than that when that happened.

That clip at r26 is hilarious! Did it go out live?

America’s favorite publisher, Random House’s Bennett Cerf, did not hold back in his critique of Ms Dorothy. One thing he and Dahl disliked was how their idle chatter in the green room would end up as an item in DG’s column the next day.

Do you mean Arlene Francis and Cerf. or Arlene Dahl? (R30)

I'm sure r30 meant Francis; but he should have checked what he had typed.

"What's My Line" panel after her death.

Mysterious death.

[quote] She had a huge affair with Johnny Ray the singer. People say he was Bi and an alcoholic, and he was abusive to her, but she loooovvved him.

Johnnie Ray was rumored to have a huge cock.

He was arrested in 1951 and again in 1959 for solicitation.