"What's My Line" panelist Sue Oakland

OP again. I found this from a 1966 TV Guide:

[quote]Since the death of Dorothy Kilgallen the previous November, the What’s My Line? crew from Goodson-Todman has been engaged in “The Great Woman Hunt,” a furious search for a permanent replacement for Kilgallen, who had been with the show since its inception in 1950. So far the seat has remained in the possession of a rotating cast of guest stars – everyone from Kitty Carlisle (a stalwart of Goodson-Todman’s To Tell the Truth) to Dr. Joyce Brothers, with magazine publisher Helen Gurley Brown, TV Guide critic Judith Crist, columnist Sheilah Graham, and actresses Joanna Barnes, Joan Fontaine and Dina Merrill thrown in. Even Muriel Davidson, the author of this article, has been considered for the list. It’s a tough gig, though, coming into a long-running show with a veteran cast – as host John Daly puts it, “If she doesn’t fit into our family, we’ll just freeze her out.”

[quote]At press time there are three clear contenders for the seat. There’s Phyllis Newman, another veteran of To Tell the Truth, married to legendary Broadway composer Adolph Green; charming, bubbly and very girlish (and I mean that as a compliment), always having to tilt her head upward slightly during the Mystery Guest segment so her mask wouldn’t fall off. Sue Oakland is a surprise finalist; married to TV producer Ted Cott (David Susskind’s cousin), she’s got both beauty and brains: “Besides being breath-takingly beautiful and gowned, she is a near-genius, with a Master’s degree in political science from Columbia University and with one lovely leg up on a Ph.D.* *Her Master’s was in the inside workings of the United Nations; her Doctoral dissertation was “The Function of Television on the Presidential Election Campaign of 1968."

Check out the link below from imdb, OP

Growing up in NYC in the 70s, I remember her as Sue Cott - she used to deliver the 3-minute editorials on WCBS that followed the 6 o'clock news.

I remember Phyllis Newman shilling for a lady supplement called Femiron.

She was a fuckin' lez you know

[quote] as host John Daly puts it, “If she doesn’t fit into our family, we’ll just freeze her out.”

He was a closeted asshole. I loved how his greatest accomplishment was his high school borading school. That's like being Natalie in a Blair world.

I once got into an argument with an aged Phyllis Newman (still alive I think) at a cabaret coat check. Something about her fur. She was not the least bit charming, bubbly or girlish.

Miss Newman is a star, R6, and you are a coat check girl.

Actually I always wondered who she was, because she just seemed to show up on talk shows and game shows.

I’ve met her son. He’s gay, smart and a nice guy.

I'm not the 2015 thread bump guy, but I was watching a slew of "What's My Line" shows and saw Sue Oakland. Never heard of her, so I Googled her and came to the linked article below. And the first comment in the article linked to this thread on Datalounge!