Salvador Dali discusses his Moustache on an American Game Show (1954)

In 1954, Dali made an appearance on a popular US game show, The Name’s the Same. I’ve never seen any video recordings of Dali so I found it quite fascinating to see how he was both charming and utterly incomprehensible at the same time. But at the 4:00 minute mark, one of the contestants boldly asks if his world-famous moustache is a joke. See what Dali replies …

In case you missed that, his response was: “It’s the most serious part of my personality. It’s a very simple Hungarian moustache. Mr. Marcel Proust used the same kind of pomade for this moustache.”