Watching "The Last Movie Stars" and there is a clip of Joanne Woodward opening the freezer with a pull down door, looking for ice. On the left side there is an ice-maker, this was a typical rounded off design fridge from the '50s, just surprised to see an ice maker. Any idea of what the fridge was? Had WP already bought the patent?
Fridge in 1957 "No down Payment"
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I saw that too Matt. You know I believe it may be a Servel. I’ve read before that Servel was the first to come out with an ice maker and sold the patent to Whirlpool.
Eddie
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Whirlpool bought Servel outright about 1957 and that is how Whirlpool got Servel's ice maker design and how they also got into making gas refrigerators as well. PATRICK COFFEY
Whirlpool bought Servel outright about 1957 and that is how Whirlpool got Servel's ice maker design and how they also got into making gas refrigerators as well. PATRICK COFFEY
Well that could mean the fridge as a Servall. Film was shot either late '56 or '57 and WP would have not had time to integrate the icemaker into fridges.
“No Down Payment” was filmed from April 15, 1957 to June 1957 according to IMD. I still say that the fridge in the scene where JoAnne Woodward asks “where is the ice” is a Servel. I don’t think that Whirlpool would have put an ice maker in a single door model with a freezer compartment.
And thanks Patrick for the clarification about the patent. In effect Whirlpool did buy the patent by buying the whole company outright, so I was on the right track, just had the details wrong.
BTW, “No Down Payment” is a pretty good movie. For those of us that were raised in the 50’s it gives a pretty good picture of suburban life during the 50’s and the pitfalls that our parents had to deal with. Lots of marital infidelity and highballs before dinner.
Eddie
And thanks Patrick for the clarification about the patent. In effect Whirlpool did buy the patent by buying the whole company outright, so I was on the right track, just had the details wrong.
BTW, “No Down Payment” is a pretty good movie. For those of us that were raised in the 50’s it gives a pretty good picture of suburban life during the 50’s and the pitfalls that our parents had to deal with. Lots of marital infidelity and highballs before dinner.
Eddie
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Young Joanne Woodward
before she became Dr. Cornelia and to deal with Sybil and all her crazy personalities in 1976
before she became Dr. Cornelia and to deal with Sybil and all her crazy personalities in 1976
At one time, Servel, Seeger, and International Harvester all had refrigerator plants in Evansville, IN - known as the refrigerator capitol of the world. In 1955, Whirlpool bought Seeger and the IH refrigeration division. In January, 1958 the sale of Servel to Whirlpool was finalized.
There was also a Chrysler plant in Evansville, which closed when they opened the plant in Fenton, MO in roughly 1960.
