Funt’s concept was to secretly film people on the street or other settings unwittingly thrust into strange circumstances—like boarding an elevator that moved sideways instead of up and down, or ...

Candid Camera is an American hidden camera/practical joke reality television series created and produced by Allen Funt, which initially began on radio as Candid Microphone June 28, 1947. After a ...

Joan Benedict, who starred on the original Steve Allen Show and Candid Camera and portrayed the tyrannical hotel queen Leona Helmsley in a one-woman stage show, has died. She was 96. Benedict died ...

Allen shortened the pen-chains at the desk to about two inches long so people could pick up the pen but couldn’t write with it. One person caught on camera that day happened to be on the FBI’s "10 ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. More than a decade after watching it, I still get twitchy thinking about “White Bear,” an early episode of Black Mirror that stands as one of the most ...

She also worked with Steve Allen and Elizabeth Taylor and played a jailed Leona Helmsley in a one-woman stage show. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Joan Benedict, who starred on the original Steve Allen ...