Monty Hall, Co-Creator and Host of ‘Let’s Make a Deal,’ Dies at 96
- 7 years ago
Monty Hall, Co-Creator and Host of ‘Let’s Make a Deal,’ Dies at 96
Monty Hall, the genial host and co-creator of “Let’s Make a Deal,” the game show on which contestants in outlandish costumes shriek
and leap at the chance to see if they will win the big prize or the booby prize behind door No.
Mr. Hall recalled it somewhat differently in 2013: The game changer, he said, was a woman carrying a sign
that said, “Roses are red, violets are blue, I came here to deal with you.”
Whatever it was that opened the floodgates, would-be deal makers were soon showing
up wearing live-bird hats, Tom Sawyer costumes or boxes resembling refrigerators.
A woman might sell Mr. Hall the contents of her handbag for $150, and then agree to trade
that $150 for whatever was behind a curtain, or in a big box, in the hope that it was something valuable — say, a $759 refrigerator-freezer stocked with $25 worth of cottage cheese and a $479 sewing machine.
Monty Hall, the genial host and co-creator of “Let’s Make a Deal,” the game show on which contestants in outlandish costumes shriek
and leap at the chance to see if they will win the big prize or the booby prize behind door No.
Mr. Hall recalled it somewhat differently in 2013: The game changer, he said, was a woman carrying a sign
that said, “Roses are red, violets are blue, I came here to deal with you.”
Whatever it was that opened the floodgates, would-be deal makers were soon showing
up wearing live-bird hats, Tom Sawyer costumes or boxes resembling refrigerators.
A woman might sell Mr. Hall the contents of her handbag for $150, and then agree to trade
that $150 for whatever was behind a curtain, or in a big box, in the hope that it was something valuable — say, a $759 refrigerator-freezer stocked with $25 worth of cottage cheese and a $479 sewing machine.