Klementine (spokeswomen for Ariel) died this week in Germany.....

[passatdoc]

Ariel's longtime Lady Washing Machine Repairwomen ("Klementine von Washmaschindienst") died this week in Germany.

Her character was a direct rip off of Comet cleanser's Josephine the Plumber character, but Proctor and Gamble owned both products, so they were free to rip off the character, secure in the knowledge that few if any in Germany had ever seen American television.

http://www.badische-zeitung.de/nach...-aus-der-ariel-werbung-ist-tot--12288328.html

 

[passatdoc]

Josephine the Plumber

Jane Withers began appearing in black and white tv ads in the early 1960s. FYI for those outside North America, Comet is a kitchen cleansing powder. For use on sinks, counters, appliances, and sometimes floors. Not a detergent!!! However, the uniforms and concept (a woman in a repair occupation) were identical, except that Josephine did not speak German, let alone Klementine's dialect.

 

[foraloysius]

Just for the record, the article about Klementine is from March 4th 2009.

 

[petek]

Jane Withers

Other than her Josephine character she was great in Bright Eyes with Shirley Temple playing the precocious spoiled brat as a child.

 

[petek]

Hey that's my doll.. because I'm gonna kill her

here's a youtube of her...

 

[cleanteamofny]

For those who want to read article in english.

http://www.microsofttranslator.com/...-aus-der-ariel-werbung-ist-tot--12288328.html

 

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Was Johanna König well known in Germany outside of Ariel?

Jane Withers was fairly well known as a child actress for my parents' generation. She had a few roles in hit movies (example: "Vashti" in "Giant" with Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean) as an adult. But most children my age who saw the ads on tv in the 1960s did not realize that she was already famous to the older generations for her work as a child actress.

 

[panthera]

König,

for me - but I've only lived in Germany since the early '80 - was Klementine and nothing else.

Like the not-so-clueless hunk for Spee or their fox, she symbolized Ariel to me.

They're is really not a bit of difference between the two products, Persil and Ariel in cleaning, at least in my experience. I've always just preferred Persil.

 

[favorit]

ah, the fox !

so Spee it's our General. Here it is Henkel answer to store brand detergents