# Gene Tierney, rubella, and the obsessed fan **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 23, 2009, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gene-tierney-rubella-and-the-obsessed-fan/504022 "2009-07-23T18:06:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 53
**Author:** ![Promethea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Promethea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Promethea)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2009, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gene-tierney-rubella-and-the-obsessed-fan/504022/53 "2009-08-01T18:22:15Z")
I bring progress from the thread on this on the snopes message board. Several people added info but pride of place probably goes to poster **Bonnie** who, as usual, has dug up a very impressive set of cites and makes a compelling case for the story being true, really. Or at least more plausible than I thought previously. [Link to snopes](http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?p=1013227#post1013227) Some key things discovered: [ul] [li]The story was reported as early as 1958 in Time Magazine and widely reported in 1959 in, amongst other papers, The Washington Post.[/li][li]German Measles quarantining was a regular occurrence in the 1940s and indeed it was something of a raging epidemic.[/li][/ul] The link to the thread contains cites for the above and much more. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gene-tierney-rubella-and-the-obsessed-fan/504022)._