Talk:Queen for a Day

Citing source and opinion in article
The article fails to cite it's sources and also contains opinion that should be sourced to someone notable or removed. --Cab88 08:34, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Jack Bailey's sister was a sometime co-host. I'm trying to think of her name. Hoping someone out there might remember.71.64.110.161 22:52, 16 May 2007 (UTC) Pkakes2000@aol.com

I believe his sister was Rosemary De Camp. She is the only regular woman that I can remember on that show. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.155.110.74 (talk) 14:13, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

The only female regular of Queen for a Day, apart from the models, I remember was Jeanne Cagney, sister of actor Jimmy Cagney. She did the fashion part of each show.--Susan Nunes 12 December 2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.228.62.139 (talk) 22:13, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

The article has this sentence: Dick Curtis hosted a short-lived attempt to revive the show in 1969. However, the link to Dick Curtis shows he died in 1952. Was it a different Dick Curtis? Pdesser1 (talk) 01:23, 12 December 2008 (UTC)


 * That would be this guy http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0193319/ about whom I know nothing else. Someone up to writing an article? Snezzy (talk) 15:29, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 11:29, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

important points overlooked
First, the winner would usually receive something she or a family member badly needed -- such as a hearing aid or refrigerator. There might have been other prizes, but the intent was to actually help the person with their specific need.

Second, my understanding is that the show went off the air because, as the years passed, peoples' problems became increasingly terrible, to the point where the idea that the losers left without any meaningful assistance seemed, at the least, callous.

Regardless, this article strikes me as a rather shallow. WilliamSommerwerck (talk) 14:00, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Moved from front page
22:23, 16 September 2009 user:Kennpear added this material:


 * In researching material for a personal short story titled Queen for a Day I found my way to this Wiki-page. In the late '50s, my mother actually applied to Queen For A Day. She had to go to LA, for an interview, regarding my little brother’s heart condition. He was born with a small hole in his heart and given a short time to live, subsequent to the hole growing as his body grew. At 11 years, his condition was becoming critical, and the risky operation was too much of a challenge for military surgeons to attempt and too expensive to afford civilian doctors. While she was passed through on the initial interview, it came down to her and one other woman; the other woman’s son also needed expensive surgery, but his chances of surviving the surgery were much greater than my brother’s , so the other woman was selected for the show, and my mother went home to wait for her 11-year old to die; he did so, within the year.

I moved it here to the talk page. Jim.henderson (talk) 03:07, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Incosistency in the article regarding hosts
In the summary box, it shows that Jack Bailey did not become host until 1956. However, in the history section the article states that a few months after April 1945 the show moved to Hollywood with Jack Bailey as host. Clearly these two items are contradictory. It appears the box is correct and not the text, since the UCLA film archive shows that Ken Murray hosted the earliest preserved television episode, that of August 21, 1953. Also, it would appear that the 1951 film spoof of the show starring Jack Bailey as the host was produced long before Jack Bailey became the actual host of the television program. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.231.249.141 (talk) 18:19, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

worst in history
Mark Evanier has it right. The opening of the Jerry Springer show boasts that Springer was "voted the worst show in the history of television" which proves that the voters had never seen Queen for a Day. Paul (talk) 09:15, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Proffer session
Does anyone know why Queen for a Day is associated with a proffer session with prosecutors?WhoresNwhiskey (talk) 18:41, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Have a look at this: http://www.wisenberglaw.com/Articles/Queen-For-A-Day-The-Dangerous-Game-of-Proffers-Proffer-Agreements-and-Proffer-Letters.shtml Siberian Husky (talk) 21:20, 9 December 2017 (UTC)