Van Doren’s family had a proud literary standing at the time of the scandal. He said he had been tempted to take a consulting fee from the producers, but his wife talked him out of it. He also disclosed that he eventually did watch “Quiz Show” and laughed at an insulting reference that a character made about him. In light of the large profits the rigged game shows were making, he added, “why would they?” “People who knew the entertainment business didn’t have much doubt about what was going on, although they didn’t speak out,” he wrote. Van Doren broke his silence in 2008, writing an account of his downfall in The New Yorker and how he finally had publicly admitted a half-century earlier that he was “foolish, naive, prideful and avaricious.” Fiennes later told People magazine that after Van Doren brushed him off, he knocked on his door pretending to be lost so he could observe Van Doren’s movements and speech patterns. Van Doren refused to cooperate in the movie’s making and declined to meet with actor Ralph Fiennes, who portrayed him in the film.
They did some teaching but largely lived in semi-seclusion, refusing to grant interviews and even leaving the country for several weeks when Robert Redford’s film “Quiz Show” was released in the fall of 1994. He retreated to his family’s home in rural West Cornwall after telling a congressional committee in 1959 that he was coached before each segment of the show.Īfter spending much of the 1960s and ’70s in Chicago, Van Doren and his wife, Geraldine, returned to Connecticut, residing for years in a small brown bungalow on the family compound.
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