Uploaded July 2015 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
This was Melinda's last appearance on YBYL. Though you'd never be able to tell from what's on screen, she wasn't very happy being pushed into the spotlight this way by her father (just as Groucho wasn't very happy being pushed into show business by his mother). Here she does a charming duet of "Put on a Happy Face" with Broadway song-and-dance star (and later game show host) Bobby Van.
Bobby Van: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Van
COUPLE #1: Lydia Valenzuela, wife of a diesel mechanic / Alexander Von Mirbach, Russian nobleman
COUPLE #2: Melinda Marx / Bobby Van
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Episode identification and basic description based on "Tell 'em Groucho Sent You", © 1997 by Mark Petty. Used by permission.
This was Melinda's last appearance on YBYL. Though you'd never be able to tell from what's on screen, she wasn't very happy being pushed into the spotlight this way by her father (just as Groucho wasn't very happy being pushed into show business by his mother). Here she does a charming duet of "Put on a Happy Face" with Broadway song-and-dance star (and later game show host) Bobby Van.
Bobby Van: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Van
COUPLE #1: Lydia Valenzuela, wife of a diesel mechanic / Alexander Von Mirbach, Russian nobleman
COUPLE #2: Melinda Marx / Bobby Van
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Click here to subscribe to the YBYL channel, where you'll find well over a hundred complete episodes you can't find anywhere else, as well as some rare Burns and Allen material that doesn't really belong there:
youtube.com/channel/UCUIbTdEI7D1AMyLATIdKq5w?sub_confirmation=1
New Facebook group for You Bet Your Life! If you've already been sucked into the Facebook vortex, you might as well check it out, right? facebook.com/groups/1643223392577688/?ref=bookmarks
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Episode identification and basic description based on "Tell 'em Groucho Sent You", © 1997 by Mark Petty. Used by permission.
![You Bet Your Life #59-11 Tor Johnson [Incomplete] (Chair, Dec 3, 1959)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2_XO0_iDPDE/mqdefault.jpg "You Bet Your Life #59-11 Tor Johnson [Incomplete] (Chair, Dec 3, 1959)
For reasons I will never understand, this episode has been impossible to find. Its not a lost show Ed Wood aficionados have apparently been passing this episode around for years but all Ive been able to get my grubby little hands on is this incomplete copy in horrific video quality. Im still grateful to have it, though prior to this, all that was available from this show was a 3 minute clip. At least we get to see (sort of) the full Tor Johnson segment here, including the quiz!
If anyone has a complete and/or better quality copy of this one, please let me know!
COUPLE #1: Gail Van Der Most / Mike Dini [NOT INCLUDED]
COUPLE #2: Tor Johnson / Stassa Damascus
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New Facebook group for You Bet Your Life! If youve already been sucked into the Facebook vortex, you might as well check it out, right? https://www.facebook.com/groups/1643223392577688/?ref=bookmarks
Episode identification and basic description based on Tell em Groucho Sent You, © 1997 by Mark Petty. Used by permission.")
