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JMFabiano

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« on: October 07, 2009, 11:58:22 AM »
OK I am going nuts trying to remember something.  I recall Rue McClanahan appearing on some game show, had to be during the run of "The Golden Girls."  Anyway she was asked where she got her first name from and she told the story that most fans of TGG and of Rue, period, all know.  

My question is, which show?  For some reason I thought it was Pyramid ($25K or $100K, obviously).  But I have not seen any indication of her being on those incarnations.  And IMDB is no help, as it only lists her '70s appearances on HS and Cross-Wits.
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« Reply #1 on: October 07, 2009, 02:14:30 PM »
[quote name=\'JMFabiano\' post=\'227966\' date=\'Oct 7 2009, 10:58 AM\']I recall Rue McClanahan appearing on some game show ... she told the story that most fans of TGG and of Rue, period, all know.[/quote]
For those of you who don't know, it's a shortened form of a portmanteau of her parents' first names.

Kevin Prather

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« Reply #2 on: October 07, 2009, 03:20:29 PM »
[quote name=\'dale_grass\' post=\'227982\' date=\'Oct 7 2009, 11:14 AM\'][quote name=\'JMFabiano\' post=\'227966\' date=\'Oct 7 2009, 10:58 AM\']I recall Rue McClanahan appearing on some game show ... she told the story that most fans of TGG and of Rue, period, all know.[/quote]
For those of you who don't know, it's a shortened form of a portmanteau of her parents' first names.
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That's how her actual first name, Edda, came about. Rue is just short for her middle name, Ruth.

dale_grass

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« Reply #3 on: October 08, 2009, 05:45:27 PM »
[quote name=\'Kevin Prather\' post=\'227985\' date=\'Oct 7 2009, 02:20 PM\'][quote name=\'dale_grass\' post=\'227982\' date=\'Oct 7 2009, 11:14 AM\'][quote name=\'JMFabiano\' post=\'227966\' date=\'Oct 7 2009, 10:58 AM\']I recall Rue McClanahan appearing on some game show ... she told the story that most fans of TGG and of Rue, period, all know.[/quote]
For those of you who don't know, it's a shortened form of a portmanteau of her parents' first names.
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That's how her actual first name, Edda, came about. Rue is just short for her middle name, Ruth.
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Yep, that's it.  And wasn't it hyphenated?

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« Reply #4 on: October 08, 2009, 05:47:24 PM »
Not according to her Wikipedia, FWIW.

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« Reply #5 on: October 08, 2009, 09:59:46 PM »
I know she was on Battlestars. Maybe that was it?

JMFabiano

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« Reply #6 on: October 12, 2009, 12:00:07 PM »
[quote name=\'Walrus5241\' post=\'228091\' date=\'Oct 8 2009, 09:59 PM\']I know she was on Battlestars. Maybe that was it?[/quote]

Nah...as I said, I think it was while Golden Girls was on the air.  I keep seeing the '80s Pyramid in my mind's eye, but found no evidence that that was the case.
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« Reply #7 on: October 12, 2009, 12:42:15 PM »
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« Reply #8 on: October 12, 2009, 12:46:27 PM »
This may be off the map, but I remember her appearing on the short-lived panel game 3rd Degree.  

Could that have been it?

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« Reply #9 on: October 12, 2009, 05:08:01 PM »
[quote name=\'colonial\' post=\'228357\' date=\'Oct 12 2009, 12:46 PM\']This may be off the map, but I remember her appearing on the short-lived panel game 3rd Degree.[/quote]
Rue was on it.

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Matt Ottinger

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« Reply #10 on: October 12, 2009, 05:27:40 PM »
The Great Big Book of Credits says she did Tattletales, Rhyme and Reason, Hollywood Squares and The $20,000 Pyramid, all in her Maude days.  She also did Animal Crack-Ups.
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« Reply #11 on: October 12, 2009, 05:33:02 PM »
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'228385\' date=\'Oct 12 2009, 05:27 PM\']The Great Big Book of Credits says she did Tattletales, Rhyme and Reason, Hollywood Squares and The $20,000 Pyramid, all in her Maude days.  She also did Animal Crack-Ups.[/quote]

Wow, they omitted Break The Bank.

Matt Ottinger

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« Reply #12 on: October 12, 2009, 05:59:49 PM »
The GBBoC (officially Performers' Television Credits, 1948-2000 by David M. Inman in three large volumes) is notoriously incomplete when it comes to game show credits, but on the other hand, it also lists a lot of GS credits that we might not otherwise know about.  Inman probably just cross-referenced mountains and mountains of printed listings, and as we all know, not nearly every celebrity game show got its stars listed in TVG and the like.

So yes, he didn't mention Break the Bank (or 3rd Degree or Battlestars or probably a few others).  That doesn't make what he DID find any less accurate, or useful.
« Last Edit: October 12, 2009, 06:01:09 PM by Matt Ottinger »
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