Here's Who Originally Hosted The Price Is Right

Believe it or not, Drew Carey isn't the first bespectacled host for this daytime television show. "The Price is Right" got its start back in 1956 with TV personality Bill Cullen as its original host (via IMDb.) Game show hosts usually know how to work a crowd. They have a voice and personality that draw people in. Bill Cullen checks all of the above and that's what landed him this gig of a lifetime as the first frontman of "The Price is Right." 

Cullen got his start in radio (via BillCullen.net.) His buttery-smooth, radio-perfect voice got him noticed by many up-and-coming shows, including a radio game show called "Winner Takes All." In 1946, Variety wrote a derisive opinion piece detailing how the current host Ward Wilson put on a "vaudeville" performance during the show. They wrote, "The whole gag was not only poor radio, but pure corn." Ouch! Poor Ward Wilson. But this turned out to be the big break Bill Cullen needed. He was the announcer for the show, but when Ward left, Cullen became the new host of the quiz show. 

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