Kaye Stevens

If ever there was a call for the I don’t know her troll...

Honestly, I have never heard her sing, but she was possibly the single most annoying panelist on Match Game.

Her mugging for the camera was bad enough, but she wouldn't shut up when the camera was off her.

Love her hair.

I hated her, she was after my husband.

I didn't know who she was until I saw her on Match Game. I agree she was as annoying as hell on that show - not many and acting like she was on something - she probably got drunk in the green room. You could tell the rest of the panel hated her. Her theatrics on MG made me wonder how she ever became a "star."

I guess she was best known for her DOOL work?

She was equally obnoxious on TattleTales where she appeared with her "companion" Tom Lindstrom, a tall and very much younger man who seemed gay to me.

R5

You're pretty spot on about her being on something.

IMDB states alcoholism damaged her career and she then became a born again Christian.

We used to scissor at the Lezbo bar.

I wonder why she was popular?

I did love Charlie Brill and Mitzi McCall on TattleTales.

She was a loud-mouthed nightclub singer and comedienne who liked to tell naughty jokes on talk shows in the early 60s. She tried hard to be outrageous. She once told Johnny Carson that she was disappointed dating Joe Namath because he had a "quick release" as she mimed throwing a football. She got a good laugh with that.

She also scored with a comedy-relief role in the movie The Interns, a surprise hit about young doctors' love lives. She was also in the sequel. Then nothing. She was washed up by the time she appeared on Match Game. It must've been a mercy booking.

Was she an alcoholic or druggie. Sometimes her demeanor was very strange on ‘The Match Game’

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IMDB mentions her alcoholism wrecked her career and ended her marriage.

No drug addictions mentioned.

She traded her alcoholism for religion and started a ministry....

She seemed to have the hots for Richard Dawson.

It didn't appear mutual. He usually kept his back to her on air.

Clearly she was on ‘something’ during Match Game with her manic over reaching laugh. She was too much, just too much.

I bet she was popular.

She looks like an off-brand Lee Garlington

Scissoring aint all it’s cracked up to be.

I saw her in a stock production of MAME. She was terrific as Auntie Mame. She worked a lot and was everywhere in the 1960s, though she never became a huge star.

Susan Hayes punched her in the face in the ladies' room at NBC Burbank.

Or so legend has it.

She was no Jaye P. Morgan.

Kaye

Jaye

OP, you're funny. I'm home sick and was watching Match Game this morning and wondered who the hell she was.

Here's Kaye!

Man, these people cannot sing. You add celebrity to their name and they think they can do anything. Uhm no, she is not a singer.

R24 I stand corrected R25 she can sing.

R26 No she can't.

Go back to party city where you belong!

She's no Ray Stevens.

Or CONNIE Stevens!

No, I certainly wasn't a fan. Didn't she beard for Joe Namath?

Or Shay Stevens!

Or Stella Stevens!

She got fired from Days after taking a billboard sized ad that was lewd, in an effort to get an Emmy nom. Betty Corday came to hate her. She was an unabashed Ronald Reagan supporter when he was gov of CA. Nancy got a kick out of her after she blasted Jane Wyman, saying how crazy was Jane to let Ronnie go.

As I watched Kaye as a teen, I just kept saying "lesbian...lesbian...lesbian..."

Kaye at 2:10....

She's no Risë Stevens......

This thread inspired me to search for old episodes of the Match Game. I haven't watched it in years. Anyway, discovered there is a whole youtube channel dedicated to this fine show.

If Bret or Charles were not in a episode of Match Game it was nearly unwatchable.

R39 I thought the same thing.

Well, give her this, girls: she DID come up with the absolute, hands-down, all-time GREATEST answer in Match Game history.

Rayburn: "Cleopatra lost her (blank) on the Nile."

Stevens: "Asp!"

R41 truth, you are correct.

The 70s were a bawdy time.

Who was she and what was she famous for?

R 44 Match Game ‘74

I saw her on Match Game the other day and she came across as very slutty and forward with men. When she nonchalantly placed her hand on Richard Dawson's back, I wondered if she had ever tried to seduce a man that was turned off by her aggressiveness. I sure was, but I'm gay. Do straight men like aggressive women?

Her Wikipedia page states that she was somewhat religious and did Christian focused work only in her later years. Oh oh

r47 Maybe she was trying to repent for her slutty younger days? Vanity (Prince protege) was the same way. She became very religious and anti-drug in her older years.

Didn't she do Molly Brown in summer stock? Seem to recall her doing "I Ain't Down Yet" on the Ed Sullivan show. She tried to style her red hair like Tammy Grimes did in that role. She was as "talented" as Shani Wallace who was always doing "As Long As He Needs Me" on variety shows in the 60s.

She was always 'on'. She showed up at one of those early soap fests in the mid 70's and was introduced as Kaye Stevens, the star of Days of our Lives. I think it was in Greensboro and Ruth Warrick was one of the other 'stars' there yet the host gushed over Kaye and asked her how it felt to go from starring in prime time and film to doing daytime and Kaye said the show needed her and she was being paid the highest salary of any woman in daytime. She was something else.

She was pretty/ugly.

[quote] She was as "talented" as Shani Wallace who was always doing "As Long As He Needs Me" on variety shows in the 60s.

Shani Wallis (not Wallace) starred (with Juliet Prowse) in the famed Long Beach production of DL's favorite musical, "Follies."

[quote]If Bret or Charles were not in a episode of Match Game it was nearly unwatchable.

It was pretty unwatchable even with them, especially camera hog Brett.

It’s on GSN every day and has a devoted following in 2019.

Well she was no Cat Stevens.

And certainly no Inger Stevens.

Not to mention Craig Stevens.

R44, Kaye Stevens was a singer-comic, worked mostly in night clubs and TV. Goofy like Carol Burnett but not as good in comedy, a better vocalist. Match Game was a side job.

R46, you imbecile, that's the "I'm desperate" kind of comedy she did, Carol Burnett did it too - very dated and not that much funny then either.

I bet you enjoy shitting!

Shani Wallis played Nancy, the female lead in the movie version of Oliver. She was appealing, but I puked when Oliver Reed beat her up and then she went out and sang "As Long as He Needs Me."

As game show personalities went, she was no Shadoe Stevens.

Did you eat my pussy yet?

And don't even THINK about Justice John Paul Stevens!

And then there's comedian Brody Stevens, who just committed suicide. (I saw it on another DL thread.)

Closeted all her life and tried to pray away the gay near the end with all those christian freaks.

^ that sounds right

R61 that song is really another version of "My Man" isn't it? Odes to masochism.

I liked her better when she was living.