"You know what the prizes are, but you have to make up the dialogue. "You're in the pit with the people," he says describing the challenge of his Deal-making gig. It's clear this man loves to entertain, even for an audience of one. With him is his wife of 60 years, Marilyn, a producer and former radio actress who, like her husband, was born in Winnipeg.
Sitting at the dining room table of his elegant, traditional house in Beverly Hills, the former Monte Halparin – still dapper and boyish even with white hair at age 88 – is spinning yarns about his early struggles and eventual fairy-tale success. This week, it has been resurrected in the form of an hour-long weekday CBS morning show produced in Las Vegas, with Wayne Brady as host. Critics attacked it as a glorificaction of greed, but Hall always said he was in the entertainment business, and clearly a lot of people were entertained.ĭeal went off ABC in 1977 but returned fitfully in various forms until 1991, by which time Hall had hosted 4,700 episodes. A year later, it made its debut on NBC (before moving to ABC) and changed the history of daytime television, becoming an integral part of popular culture, watched by 12 million people.
The show taking shape was called Let's Make a Deal, with Hall as host. for 16 women who belonged to the Latter Day Saints knitting society in the Valley." "During the tryout phase, we would call people who had clubs and offer to provide entertainment. `We had prizes and doors, but no scripts," says Monty Hall, recalling those heady days back in 1963 when he and his partner went about the risky business of creating a game show that would hook one of the three big U.S.
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