You Bet Your Life #56-06 C.S. Forrester, author of Horatio Hornblower ('Name', Nov 1, 1956)

You Bet Your Life featured many famous authors as contestants over the years, most likely due to Groucho's admiration for writers. Here we have the veddy, veddy British C.S. Forrester, author of the wildly popular Horatio Hornblower series, as well as the novel "The African Queen", which director John Huston turned into a Oscar winning classic film. COUPLE #1: May Buzzell / C.S. Forrester, famous novelist COUPLE #2: Eileen Thomas, secretary for Hollywood stars Tyronne Power, Ava Gardener and Eddie Fisher / Elmer "Slim" Von Schaible, who raises Siberian Huskies for rescue work ----------------------------------- 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:    / @grouchomarx-youbetyourlife7476   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? https://www.facebook.com/groups/16432... ---------------------------------- Episode identification and basic description based on "Tell 'em Groucho Sent You", © 1997 by Mark Petty. Used by permission.