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TheTattletales curse

1970's game show, Tattletales, has a cancer curse. These celebs all appeared on the show:

Meredith MacRae: dead cancer Edward Mallory: dead cancer Bobby Van: dead cancer Barbara McNair: dead cancer Bert Convy (host): dead cancer

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by Anonymousreply 110April 3, 2019 11:16 PM

Barbara McNair. Now there's a name from the past I hadn't thought of recently. She was cool and sexy. Good voice too.

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by Anonymousreply 1June 20, 2015 1:06 PM

Cancer is a common cause of death unfortunately.

by Anonymousreply 2June 20, 2015 1:09 PM

Everyone who was on Match Game died of liquor.

by Anonymousreply 3June 21, 2015 2:10 PM

Interesting topic. Didn't most of the Bewitch cast die of cancer? I also remember hearing that most of the cast from Michael J Fox's first TV show has Parkinson's

by Anonymousreply 4June 21, 2015 2:17 PM

Poor Tina Yothers can't even say her own name.

by Anonymousreply 5June 21, 2015 3:15 PM

Everyone from China Beach died of volleyball breasts.

by Anonymousreply 6June 21, 2015 3:20 PM

Most of the cast on The Beverley Hillbillies died form smoking crawdads.

Bea Benaderet was the first to go, then her daughter Jethrine.

by Anonymousreply 7June 21, 2015 3:24 PM

It was probably the toxins in the shag carpeted set that did in all the Tattletales players.

by Anonymousreply 8June 21, 2015 3:25 PM

I loved that some of the Tattletales couples were bearding couples, like Fannie Flagg and Dick Sargent.

by Anonymousreply 9June 21, 2015 3:27 PM

I remember the show being deliciously risque for the time.

by Anonymousreply 10June 21, 2015 3:32 PM

r9 - And Mary Wickes (!) with some old queen.

by Anonymousreply 11June 21, 2015 3:33 PM

Meanwhile, the cast from "Our American Cousin" are all dead to me, too!

by Anonymousreply 12June 21, 2015 3:50 PM

What is this show Tattletales? Was is like the newlywed game for closeted celebrities who weren't even married? My question is sincere btw.

by Anonymousreply 13June 21, 2015 4:03 PM

Dead cancer is the [italic]worst[/italic] kind of cancer.

by Anonymousreply 14June 21, 2015 4:51 PM

R13, it was a 70s game show. They'd have celebrity couples on. One would be put in a soundproof room. The other would be asked a question. Then, the same question would be asked to the segregated partner. If the answers matched, they won. I'm sure there were some closeted gays on there, but it was such a taboo subject back then, that it was decades later before they were outed.

I was a kid at the time, watched it during summer vacation. I remember it being funny as hell and thinking Bert Convy was so handsome. He was also on a show called The Snoop Sisters. I really liked that one.

by Anonymousreply 15June 21, 2015 5:33 PM

Bert Convy!!!! Dick Gautier!!!!

by Anonymousreply 16June 21, 2015 5:46 PM

Dick Gautier was fucking hot to this at the time mid teenager.

by Anonymousreply 17June 21, 2015 5:53 PM

me too r17!!!

by Anonymousreply 18June 21, 2015 5:55 PM

The questions on Tattletales were far more risque than The Newlywed Games.

The couples were also very funny.

by Anonymousreply 19June 21, 2015 6:07 PM

Not just cancer, both Bert Convey and Meredith McRae died of brain tumors IIR...could be a cluster.

by Anonymousreply 20June 21, 2015 7:34 PM

I'm glad they're dead. No one likes a tattletale!

by Anonymousreply 21June 21, 2015 8:32 PM

These were people who were already adults 40+ years ago. Naturally many of them have died, and with smoking so prevalent back then many of them will have died of cancer. Not a curse, really.

by Anonymousreply 22June 21, 2015 8:50 PM

What is a weird coincidence was that Bert Convy started in Nine on Broadway. He and the other two leading men (Raul Julia and Sergio Frachi) all died young of cancer.

by Anonymousreply 23June 21, 2015 8:58 PM

Betty White & Allen Ludden (Cancer)

by Anonymousreply 24June 21, 2015 10:12 PM

The lovely Lynn Redgrave with her husband who went on to cheat on her and have a baby with their daughter in law. Then Lynn died of cancer.

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by Anonymousreply 25June 21, 2015 10:15 PM

I know Edie died of (presumably) cancer; did Steve?

by Anonymousreply 26June 21, 2015 11:30 PM

Steve is alive and presumably well, R26. He'll turn 80 in on July 8th.

by Anonymousreply 27June 21, 2015 11:42 PM

Did he live of cancer?

by Anonymousreply 28June 21, 2015 11:43 PM

Not so sure about that R22. Erin Moran was really young, she's dead.

And don't forget everyone's favorite announcer, Johnny 'Come On Down' Olson, who died a year or so after this taping.

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by Anonymousreply 29March 30, 2019 4:20 AM

Allen Ludden was on that show several times.

by Anonymousreply 30March 30, 2019 4:27 AM

I loved Tattletales. It’s on Buzzr

by Anonymousreply 31March 30, 2019 4:29 AM

And then there's smokin' hot Todd Curtis -- unbelievably good looking -- that is until a bad car wreck about a year later, basically ended his career.

Check him out 13 minutes into this clip.

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by Anonymousreply 32March 30, 2019 4:45 AM

Or was it the 70’s when men of that time smoked and drank excessively? Not to mention these people were middle-aged 40+ years ago! The average lifespan is 70 something. And finally, cancer? They all died of cancer? You mean the most common deadly disease there is?

by Anonymousreply 33March 30, 2019 5:04 AM

Mitzi McCall and Charlie Brill are still alive and together at ages 86 and 81 respectively. If there was a curse they’d be goners, because I swear that was the only job they ever had. Seriously though I think chemicals from the green shag carpet on the set may have been carcinogenic to less fortunate Tattle Talers.

by Anonymousreply 34March 30, 2019 5:32 AM

How the fuck did Bert Convey get his hair to DO THAT!?

by Anonymousreply 35March 30, 2019 5:47 AM

The walls of the soundproof room were made of asbestos!!!

by Anonymousreply 36March 30, 2019 5:51 AM

Patti Deutsch & Donald Ross: cancer

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by Anonymousreply 37March 30, 2019 6:16 AM

Fannie Flagg and Barbara Eden died on the same day of ovarian cancer. They never came out as a couple though.

by Anonymousreply 38March 30, 2019 6:27 AM

Barbara Eden is not dead, dumbass @R38. She was just on a live talk show last week.

by Anonymousreply 39March 30, 2019 6:39 AM

Barbara Eden and Fannie Flagg both died on October 28, 2011, Fannie was 55 and Barbara somewhat older. RIP.

by Anonymousreply 40March 30, 2019 6:42 AM

The luscious-to-the-end Chad Everett, dead cancer.

His wife, Shelby Grant, dead brain aneurysm.

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by Anonymousreply 41March 30, 2019 6:48 AM

Man! Can you just imagine Chad Evert sitting on your face?

by Anonymousreply 42March 30, 2019 8:52 AM

Both the host Bert Convy and Meredith Macrae died their mid 50s of brain cancer.

by Anonymousreply 43March 30, 2019 9:11 AM

My mother always thought, and still does, that the light bulbs that were used for films in the golden age of Hollywood and a little later, gave off chemical damaging elements on film sets. And of course she pointed out the factors of everyone smoked back then and most drank ,but not all got drunk caused cancer and a myriad of other health issues.

by Anonymousreply 44March 30, 2019 10:41 AM

In England we called this Mr & Mrs.

cos we is classy

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by Anonymousreply 45March 30, 2019 11:53 AM

I think Phyllis Diller and Rip Taylor were on as a couple.

by Anonymousreply 46March 30, 2019 12:27 PM

Juliet Prouse has been dead for 20 years hasn't she? Cancer I believe.

I always thought the cash prize amounts that were divvied up "88" (just an estimate) ways per section was cheesy. If your couple only scored $150 you'd be issued a check for 1.70 and if you sat in the winning couple section with a total of $1450 you could leave 16.50 richer.

by Anonymousreply 47March 30, 2019 4:08 PM

If we all lived long enough, we would all get cancer eventually. It's a fact of life.

Tattletales was 45 years ago, so I am not at all surprised all these people are dead from it.

by Anonymousreply 48March 30, 2019 4:13 PM

[quote] Fannie Flagg and Barbara Eden died on the same day of ovarian cancer.

Is this some sort of unfunny joke? They are both alive.

by Anonymousreply 49March 30, 2019 4:14 PM

Bert Convy used to shop in my supermarket.

by Anonymousreply 50March 30, 2019 4:19 PM

Diller was on with her second husband, Warde Donovan -- who does look like Rip Taylor. After they divorced she said she hadn't known he was bisexual before they got married.

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by Anonymousreply 51March 30, 2019 4:19 PM

Did Lucy and Gary ever appear?

by Anonymousreply 52March 30, 2019 4:22 PM

R46, I thought so, too, that is was Phyllis Diller and Rip Taylor. It was actually Phyllis’s husband, Warde Donovan. He looked like Rip Taylor. Warde was bisexual, I heard. Go figure.

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by Anonymousreply 53March 30, 2019 4:25 PM

OP I dont think you realize just how many people get cancer. It's insanely common. Be afraid.

by Anonymousreply 54March 30, 2019 4:33 PM

[quote]After they divorced she said she hadn't known he was bisexual before they got married.

But Phyllis, I WASN'T bisexual before we got married.

by Anonymousreply 55March 30, 2019 4:55 PM

R45 - he looks like Pierce Morgan’s dad.

by Anonymousreply 56March 30, 2019 5:32 PM

I remember incredibly young Cheryl Ladd being on that show with her husband and she was touted as a singer, not an actress. I loved that show. And everyone is right, in the 70's you were contractually obligated to smoke and drink, of course these people got cancer.

by Anonymousreply 57March 30, 2019 5:54 PM

Not only did they smoke, they did it on camera.

by Anonymousreply 58March 30, 2019 8:13 PM

BRAIN cancer took Bobby Van, Meredith Macrae and Bert Convy. All were on Tattletales a lot (Convy as host of course). However weird as that is, I was floored by this: Conrad Bain's wife was given the question: "if you could live to 150 in good health would you?" She said no, I'm going at 86 - as though she KNEW it. Soooo... quick trip to wikipedia to look her up and - you guessed it - she died at 86!

by Anonymousreply 59March 30, 2019 8:20 PM

One more thing: Van, Macrae and Convy died fairly young of brain cancer - in their 50s. This is not the same thing as dying of cancer in old age like most of us will.

by Anonymousreply 60March 30, 2019 8:25 PM

[quote]it was a 70s game show. I'm sure there were some closeted gays on there, but it was such a taboo subject back then, that it was decades later before they were outed.

You’re telling me, honey.

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by Anonymousreply 61March 30, 2019 8:27 PM

Who was in the closet on Tattletales?

by Anonymousreply 62March 31, 2019 9:49 AM

Every gay person, r62. There wasn’t anyone “out” then as today.

While it was known a lot of them were gay, like Charles Nelson Reilly and Paul Lynde, it was certainly never discussed nor (back then, at least) did they ever come out and say “I’m gay.”

It was more handled with a wink and a nod.

by Anonymousreply 63March 31, 2019 12:20 PM

Game shows were full of 'stars' who had like one hit on B'way or something 20 years ago, and you didn't know who they were or why they were there.

I remember William Shatner and one of his wives on a lot, before Star Trek was re-booted into movie success.

by Anonymousreply 64March 31, 2019 12:37 PM

JP Morgan was a prime example of that.

by Anonymousreply 65March 31, 2019 12:42 PM

So were Bret Somers, CNR, Paul Lynde, etc.

They were famous for being on game shows, not really for anything else, in our minds anyway.

by Anonymousreply 66March 31, 2019 12:45 PM

I loved TattleTales. They had a lot of interesting couples appear when they brought it back in the 80s, but many of those episodes aren’t rerun much.

Fannie Flagg is not dead. Joan Collins is not dead, either. William Shatner and Marcy Lafferty Shatner are both still alive and they were on both versions a lot. Orson and Carolyn Bean are still alive as well.

by Anonymousreply 67March 31, 2019 1:20 PM

R66 Fuck off, I was married to TV's "Quincy".

by Anonymousreply 68March 31, 2019 4:26 PM

It's Barbara Eden who died in 2011, from ovarian cancer. She was Fannie Flagg's girlfriend. Fannie had it too, but she survived. She is now involved with Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio.

by Anonymousreply 69March 31, 2019 4:27 PM

Why do you keep posting that crap, r69?

by Anonymousreply 70March 31, 2019 5:53 PM

[quote]JP Morgan was a prime example of that.

Hardly.

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by Anonymousreply 71March 31, 2019 5:53 PM

The most famous example of this sort of thing is the mid-1950s film The Conqueror, starring Susan Hayward and John Wayne as Genghis Khan. Original filming was done downwind of nuclear test sites and tons of contaminated soil were moved from the original site to Hollywood sets so the colors would match for further filming. A huge proportion of those involved eventually died of cancer, even if years later. It's discussed on the film's Wikipedia page.

And the film is considered a terrible camp classic.

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by Anonymousreply 72March 31, 2019 7:31 PM

R69, you're not funny. Stop it.

by Anonymousreply 73March 31, 2019 7:56 PM

James Brolin was on with his first wife Jane Cameron (Josh's mom); Jane was killed in a car accident the day after Josh's 27th birthday.

by Anonymousreply 74March 31, 2019 7:59 PM

Did the whore, Fannie, give Eden the OC?

by Anonymousreply 75March 31, 2019 8:13 PM

I remember hearing about that, r72.

by Anonymousreply 76March 31, 2019 9:04 PM

Barbara Eden is not dead, upthread idiot. She was just on Live with Kelly and Ryan last week (or maybe it was the week before). Stop your bullshit.

by Anonymousreply 77March 31, 2019 9:58 PM

How is being on LIve with Kelly and Ryan proof that Barbara Eden is not dead? I heard she died of ovarian cancer in 2011.

by Anonymousreply 78March 31, 2019 10:48 PM

Wow r77. Um, thanks for the info, but we settled that probably about, hmmm, three minutes after it was posted. And that was about 36 hours ago.

Good job, though. 👍

by Anonymousreply 79March 31, 2019 10:59 PM

It bears repeating though, r79, since the Barbara Eden troll brought it back up again at r69. I read that and assumed he had meant Barbara Feldon had been Fannie’s ex who died. I had to look her up but, she’s still alive too. I don’t think either Barbara was involved with Fannie Flagg, and I’m sure the poster meant to write Mary Stuart Masterson instead of Mary Elizabeth Mastroantoino, though I can’t find any evidence either dated Ms, Flagg or appeared on Tattle Tales.

by Anonymousreply 80March 31, 2019 11:12 PM

I heard that while the women had the headphones on during taping of tattletales there would be a lesbian eating the women out while they were giving their answers. Is this true??

by Anonymousreply 81March 31, 2019 11:33 PM

Where are the gay couples?

Persons of color?

by Anonymousreply 82March 31, 2019 11:36 PM

I didn't like Bert Convy, he wasn't funny but was forced to try to be funny, and his idea of that was incessant jokes about gays. He couldn't imagine anything more hilarious than someone being a homosexual. Chevy Chase was also just like that.

by Anonymousreply 83March 31, 2019 11:55 PM

F&F for the Fannie Flagg troll.

by Anonymousreply 84March 31, 2019 11:59 PM

Fannie Flagg doesn't have a troll. May she rest in peace.

by Anonymousreply 85April 1, 2019 12:04 AM

Fannie Flagg, who is very much alive, appeared several times on TattleTales with closeted Bewitched actor Dick Sargent, who is very much dead. They fooled middle America into thinking they were a married couple.

by Anonymousreply 86April 1, 2019 12:15 AM

R26, EYDIE was 84 years old when she died. Cause of death wasn't given, but she was 84. Dying at 84 for any reason is normal.

Barbara McNair??? Barbara was married to the mob, surprising she'd go on an idiot game show with one of her mafioso husbands.

by Anonymousreply 87April 1, 2019 12:23 AM

AIDS victim

by Anonymousreply 88April 1, 2019 12:34 AM

AIDS victim Amanda Blake appeared with her date a few times but not the guy who gave her AIDS

by Anonymousreply 89April 1, 2019 12:35 AM

I wanted Dick Gautier in me quite deeply. Still do.

by Anonymousreply 90April 1, 2019 12:37 AM

I’d say head over to Forest Lawn r90, but Dick was cremated.

by Anonymousreply 91April 1, 2019 1:24 AM

My barely a teen self thought Charlie Brill was hot in the 70s.

by Anonymousreply 92April 1, 2019 1:41 AM

Wow R79. Um, some asshat keeps bringing up this false info that BE is dead so I corrected his dumbass again. But thanks for commenting, obviously without reading the thread. Good job! Thanks again!

by Anonymousreply 93April 1, 2019 4:47 AM

Snitches get stitches.

by Anonymousreply 94April 1, 2019 4:53 AM

Who is the Barbara Eden death denyer? It's not like she died yesterday. There's been plenty of time to get over it. Get over it. She and Fannie found happiness for a time and their love made them brave. A beautiful legacy.

May her memory (and your bottle) be a comfort to you R93.

by Anonymousreply 95April 1, 2019 4:55 AM

R95 is too stupid for words....

by Anonymousreply 96April 1, 2019 5:02 AM

Formaldehyde.

by Anonymousreply 97April 1, 2019 5:20 AM

Zsa Zsa Gabor and Jack Ryan: DEAD, I tell you.

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by Anonymousreply 98April 1, 2019 5:29 AM

Zsa Zsa outlived Barbara Eden by 5 years, but she wasn't having a great time at her last few birthdays.

by Anonymousreply 99April 2, 2019 3:17 AM

R95, you must be new here.

by Anonymousreply 100April 2, 2019 3:23 AM

R95 is sexy as fuck. When he arrives - it's just in time.

by Anonymousreply 101April 2, 2019 3:36 AM

R96 and R100 - when you miss a llittle, you miss a lot

by Anonymousreply 102April 2, 2019 7:21 AM

We should also mention the What’s My Line curse - all the regulars from that show are ALSO dead

by Anonymousreply 103April 2, 2019 7:23 AM

Yes R103. They are all dead. In a blink. Strange.

by Anonymousreply 104April 2, 2019 7:58 AM

Yeah but my ghost ish here to torment you bishes.

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by Anonymousreply 105April 2, 2019 12:53 PM

All that cheap polyester must have been carcinogenic.

by Anonymousreply 106April 2, 2019 1:43 PM

Yes, R106, I was going to suggest it was all the toxins in the shag carpeting that killed off the participants.

by Anonymousreply 107April 2, 2019 5:15 PM

Everyone at Ford’s Theatre the night of the Lincoln Assassination is also dead. Cursed? I think so.

by Anonymousreply 108April 3, 2019 3:25 AM

[quote]Everyone at Ford’s Theatre the night of the Lincoln Assassination is also dead. Cursed? I think so.

Yes, they said “damn! Some asshole shot the motherfuckin’ President!”

by Anonymousreply 109April 3, 2019 3:53 AM

[quote]Everyone at Ford’s Theatre the night of the Lincoln Assassination is also dead.

Not so fast ...

by Anonymousreply 110April 3, 2019 11:16 PM
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