Thought everyone might enjoy this youtube clip!
Though I am not sure about the egg part myself.
Chris
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Bette Davis for GE Dishwashers (1930)
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This is great!
verizonbear
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Oh please
That woman never did housework in her life lol. This would be like Diana Ross doing an Easy Off oven cleaner commercial lol
That woman never did housework in her life lol. This would be like Diana Ross doing an Easy Off oven cleaner commercial lol
Fasten Your Seat Belts....
It's going to be a BUMPY ride!!
It's going to be a BUMPY ride!!
danemodsandy
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Phil:
"That woman never did housework in her life lol."
Actually, Davis wasn't very pretentious in the early years of her stardom, and tended to live simply - a goal she reached with the help of her mother Ruthie, who was so financially demanding she lived higher on the hog off Bette's salary than Bette herself did. Davis took domesticity in spurts, often when there was a man in her life, but she was capable of it. She liked small, simple houses, with old, interesting furniture - her daughter B.D.'s love of glossy modern houses drove her nuts.
Most of the time, Bette managed with one African-American maid, until later, when her drinking got worse and her cruel streak emerged. She employed her emotionally troubled sister Bobby as a domestic!
Bette was a caution, that is for sure.
"That woman never did housework in her life lol."
Actually, Davis wasn't very pretentious in the early years of her stardom, and tended to live simply - a goal she reached with the help of her mother Ruthie, who was so financially demanding she lived higher on the hog off Bette's salary than Bette herself did. Davis took domesticity in spurts, often when there was a man in her life, but she was capable of it. She liked small, simple houses, with old, interesting furniture - her daughter B.D.'s love of glossy modern houses drove her nuts.
Most of the time, Bette managed with one African-American maid, until later, when her drinking got worse and her cruel streak emerged. She employed her emotionally troubled sister Bobby as a domestic!
Bette was a caution, that is for sure.
Hmmm . . .
I remember an old movie about two sisters living in an old house where one had to wait on the other . . .
I remember an old movie about two sisters living in an old house where one had to wait on the other . . .
xpanam
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Paging dishwashercrazy
Mike where are you? Would like more info on this machine. I believe the detergent in the round container would latter become Electra Sol. Looking for the info on that,the name was Sol- something ?
Mike where are you? Would like more info on this machine. I believe the detergent in the round container would latter become Electra Sol. Looking for the info on that,the name was Sol- something ?
cehalstead
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Were films like these shown in theaters before/after movies? I would think that would be the only place, since television was not around???
And, as someone posted here the last time we had a link to Miss Davis's demonstration of domesticity, it was a way to pay the bills between pictures. Stills from this were used to illustrate magazine ads for the machine before WWII. Even in the midst of the Great Depression, there were people with train car loads of money for things like this, and digital clocks and shag carpet and all kinds of things that were marketed again in the 60s & 70s. Just as now, there were two Americas during the Depression: one very rich and the rest of the country. It just depended on your investments.
whirlaway
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Stars selling Products!
Look in old life magazines,Dorothy Lamour on 1 page might be pushing Dole pineapple juice and Chryslers on the next.Shelly Winters and Ruta Lee selling those small Compact vacuum cleaners and alot of the times,there would be a plug for their latest movie.Yes Before television,there were lots of pre-features,Movietone News,Lowell Thomas and Technicolor shorts.You got alot for 15 cents or a quarter. Oh not to forget The 3 Stooges and a cartoon or 2,I remember those as a kid in the 50s and 60s.Nickel candy and drinks 15cent butter popcorn.Even if you averaged it out,it was cheaper then.Movies are just too high!
Look in old life magazines,Dorothy Lamour on 1 page might be pushing Dole pineapple juice and Chryslers on the next.Shelly Winters and Ruta Lee selling those small Compact vacuum cleaners and alot of the times,there would be a plug for their latest movie.Yes Before television,there were lots of pre-features,Movietone News,Lowell Thomas and Technicolor shorts.You got alot for 15 cents or a quarter. Oh not to forget The 3 Stooges and a cartoon or 2,I remember those as a kid in the 50s and 60s.Nickel candy and drinks 15cent butter popcorn.Even if you averaged it out,it was cheaper then.Movies are just too high!
danemodsandy
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Classic Star Endorsements
These magazine and film and radio endorsements were actually part of a star's job back then, in the days when movie actors' seven-year contracts were ironclad. A studio had the right to use the actor for any purpose it wished, without extra payment.
Studios liked to lend stars for these ads because it was publicity that they didn't have to pay for. Whatever the product the star posed with, like Studebaker automobiles or Zenith radios, studios usually got a nice credit line in the published ad, like: "See lovely BETTE DAVIS in her new WARNER BROS. picture "DANGEROUS" - in theatres now!"
Whether the star liked or even ever used the product was immaterial - contracts of the day obligated them to do this work, no matter what.
The practice led to at least one very interesting endorsement - that of Joan Crawford for a well-known cola. You're thinking Pepsi, right? Well, before Joan married into her relationship with Pepsi, she did a lot of ads for Royal Crown ("RC") Cola, under her Warner Bros. contract of the 1940s. She made not one thin dime from them.
These magazine and film and radio endorsements were actually part of a star's job back then, in the days when movie actors' seven-year contracts were ironclad. A studio had the right to use the actor for any purpose it wished, without extra payment.
Studios liked to lend stars for these ads because it was publicity that they didn't have to pay for. Whatever the product the star posed with, like Studebaker automobiles or Zenith radios, studios usually got a nice credit line in the published ad, like: "See lovely BETTE DAVIS in her new WARNER BROS. picture "DANGEROUS" - in theatres now!"
Whether the star liked or even ever used the product was immaterial - contracts of the day obligated them to do this work, no matter what.
The practice led to at least one very interesting endorsement - that of Joan Crawford for a well-known cola. You're thinking Pepsi, right? Well, before Joan married into her relationship with Pepsi, she did a lot of ads for Royal Crown ("RC") Cola, under her Warner Bros. contract of the 1940s. She made not one thin dime from them.
I guess a Crawford must have originally been an RC (best pronounced "are-o-cee") and vodka, not Pepsi and vodka.
danemodsandy
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Heeeeeeeeere's Joanie!
This is a Joan Crawford ad for RC that touts her then-latest picture, 1946's Humoresque. She's wearing a necklace she owned personally; it appears in hundreds of photos of her taken over the course of several decades. It was set with an enormous citrine, which is a semi-precious stone; as first hubby Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. once mentioned, Joan actually never owned all that much in the way of truly first-rate jewelry, though she did have some.
Crawford herself never cared much for Humoresque, but it's her best work, trust me.
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This is a Joan Crawford ad for RC that touts her then-latest picture, 1946's Humoresque. She's wearing a necklace she owned personally; it appears in hundreds of photos of her taken over the course of several decades. It was set with an enormous citrine, which is a semi-precious stone; as first hubby Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. once mentioned, Joan actually never owned all that much in the way of truly first-rate jewelry, though she did have some.
Crawford herself never cared much for Humoresque, but it's her best work, trust me.
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What's with the dog figurines? I seem to remember something about a 7 course southern meal: an RC cola and 6 moon pies. Like that line in "Dixie," "make you fat or a little fatter."
Dog figurines
don't go on the carpet! I would imagine that the real life Miss Crawford might prefer them to an actual dog.
Fascinating clip of Miss Davis and the dishwasher.
Lawrence/Maytagbear
don't go on the carpet! I would imagine that the real life Miss Crawford might prefer them to an actual dog.
Fascinating clip of Miss Davis and the dishwasher.
Lawrence/Maytagbear
danemodsandy
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Lawrence:
The dog figurines are Staffordshire, and Crawford adored Staffordshire. Her house had a lot of Staffordshire pugs as part of the decor. Later, La Suprema branched out into real pug dogs (at just about the time she got adopted kids Christina and Christopher out of the house - go figure).
The presence of the Staffordshire figurines is likely to be a signal that Crawford had some input into her participation in this ad. This was 1946, not 1930, and by that time Crawford was much much too big a star to order around in quiiiiiite the way she had been earlier - they probably let her choose her wardrobe and surroundings for the photo as a courtesy to a top Warner Bros. moneymaker.
But it still was a commercial "tie-in" under her Warner Bros. contract, and she wouldn't have been paid extra for it. Stars then were expected to do extra stuff like this in return for their fancy weekly salaries, not just make movies.
The dog figurines are Staffordshire, and Crawford adored Staffordshire. Her house had a lot of Staffordshire pugs as part of the decor. Later, La Suprema branched out into real pug dogs (at just about the time she got adopted kids Christina and Christopher out of the house - go figure).
The presence of the Staffordshire figurines is likely to be a signal that Crawford had some input into her participation in this ad. This was 1946, not 1930, and by that time Crawford was much much too big a star to order around in quiiiiiite the way she had been earlier - they probably let her choose her wardrobe and surroundings for the photo as a courtesy to a top Warner Bros. moneymaker.
But it still was a commercial "tie-in" under her Warner Bros. contract, and she wouldn't have been paid extra for it. Stars then were expected to do extra stuff like this in return for their fancy weekly salaries, not just make movies.
