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Post# 87284   10/5/2005 at 21:33 (6,770 days old) by davy1063 (Pennsylvania)        

Is there any list that anyone knows of regarding celebreties and thier personal appliances they own? I remember seeing an interview with Barbara Streisand and they did a tour of her house and remember seeing a KA dishwasher. Does any one else out there know of any?





Post# 87315 , Reply# 1   10/6/2005 at 01:39 (6,770 days old) by mattywashboy (Perth, Western Australia)        
The Osbournes

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I know the Osbournes have a Maytag set, both front loading with touch screen panels, i don't know the exact models but we get to see them on the Series ONe DVD in the special features, its only a quick glance but long enough to see what they were.

Matty :)


Post# 87320 , Reply# 2   10/6/2005 at 06:06 (6,770 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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On two different interview/news shows (20/20 I think) I saw in the mid to late 90s Carol Burnett had a Maytag Dependable Care and Dwight Yoakum had an older Maytag pair.

Post# 87358 , Reply# 3   10/6/2005 at 10:55 (6,770 days old) by maytagbear (N.E. Ohio)        
The late Erma Bombeck

had the LED Maytags.


Lawrence/Maytagbear


Post# 87368 , Reply# 4   10/6/2005 at 13:09 (6,770 days old) by tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

Davey, This might be information way older than your quest or interest, but from the end of WWII up through the 60s and 70s, ads in the so-called shelter magazines like Better Homes & Gardens, sometimes used celebrities to endorse products. Fred MacMurray (sp?) and his wife June used to pose with gas appliances, including the WP gas combo, even though on My Three Sons, in the good early days, the kitchen had a Frigidaire Custom Imperial range and a lower end of the line Frigidaire laundry pair.
Bing Crosby was pictured with something domestic at one time, but that was before his sons started committing suicide because of their abusive childhoods. After that, I don't think he was such a sure draw.
In an early 1950s issue of BH&G, the cover had a picture of Dinah Shore in the kitchen at her California home. She was married to the actor George Montgomery. She was photographed cooking on the weirdest electric cooktop I have ever seen. Actually the tour of a celebrity's home was a feature that regularly appeared in those magazines in the 50s and 60s. I always looked through them to see the kitchen appliances. I remember the home of Dennis Day. They had a bunch of little kids and had two Frigidaire spray tube dishwashers from the early-mid 60s. I believe that there was a place near the back of the issues where it was possible to find the names of the appliances and furnishings in the articles. For many years BH&G also had an index to advertisers and Appliances, Major was the first heading so you could see the wonderful ads for your favorite brand or category of appliances.


Post# 87373 , Reply# 5   10/6/2005 at 14:38 (6,769 days old) by jimmyb (Texas Y’all)        
Elton John's Amana W/D

A while back there was a listing on eBay for Elton Johns Amana washer and dryer. They were older full computer control panel. I believe they were in Chicago? someone had purchased them from a friend of a friend of Elton John?

Post# 87374 , Reply# 6   10/6/2005 at 14:53 (6,769 days old) by spiralactivator ()        

Jayne Mansfield had a pink 1965 Lady Kenmore set--according to a former Sears repairman who attempted to sell a wad of Jayne's pink dryer lint on eBay.

Post# 87379 , Reply# 7   10/6/2005 at 16:27 (6,769 days old) by hoover1060 ()        
don't forget Lucy and Hoover...

Lucille Ball's famous Hoover areodyne ad, as well as her using Hoover cleaners( a model 29 and 62) in the first season of "I love Lucy"
Lucy loved her Hoover!


Post# 87380 , Reply# 8   10/6/2005 at 16:36 (6,769 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area)        

Ozzie and Harriet were big advertisers of Hotpoint appliances in the early to mid 50's. There are lots of ads with them pitching Hotpoint washers and dryers. Also, Pearl Bailey did a series of ads for Westinghouse washers in the 70's, and before that Lucy and Desi were spokespeople for Westinghouse appliances in the late 50's. Jane Wyatt from "Father Knows Best" TV show did an early 70's ad for TOL Kenmore washer and dryer. The list goes on and on..........Im still nuts over the Snowy Bleach ads on TV that Phyllis Diller used to do........Those were a hoot!

Post# 87385 , Reply# 9   10/6/2005 at 17:26 (6,769 days old) by polkanut (Wausau, WI )        

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And don't for get that Ronald Reagan was also a spokesman for GE in the early-mid'50's too. In fact, GE built a home for him in which everything was electric.

Post# 87387 , Reply# 10   10/6/2005 at 17:52 (6,769 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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Mary Tyler Moore was "Happy Hotpoint", dancing around on a Hotpoint range-top.


Post# 87402 , Reply# 11   10/6/2005 at 20:00 (6,769 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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The 1964 and onward Ozzie & Harriet had the same Norge Pair our family had. An episode of DesiLu Playhouse had Tellulah with Hotpoint washer, dryer, dishwasher, cooktop, and double oven.

Post# 87404 , Reply# 12   10/6/2005 at 20:14 (6,769 days old) by pulsator (Saint Joseph, MI)        

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Wow, I feel young, all I know is that Mariah Carey has a Frigemore set!!! lol!

Post# 87405 , Reply# 13   10/6/2005 at 20:18 (6,769 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions)        

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Phyllis Diller and Snowy,I had forgotten all about those!
What detergent had the towels in them,that Porter and Dolly used to advertise? Was it Breeze?

kennyGF


Post# 87416 , Reply# 14   10/6/2005 at 20:46 (6,769 days old) by maytagbear (N.E. Ohio)        
And then there were the Kenmore ads

Various celebrities, and associates did print ads for Kenmore in the 70s...


Mrs Dave Brubeck did a Lady Kenmore laundry ad.

Rosemary Bowe (Mrs. Robert Stack) did a Kenmore sewing machine ad.

Jean Kerr did a Kenmore eye-level range ad.


I think there may have been a few others, but those are the ones I remember.

The rubric was along the lines of: " '______ ________' can afford any______ s/he wants. S/he has a Kenmore."


Lawrence/Maytagbear


Post# 87465 , Reply# 15   10/7/2005 at 07:20 (6,769 days old) by tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

How did Jayne get a pink Kenmore pair in 1965? It was not stock.

Post# 87466 , Reply# 16   10/7/2005 at 07:34 (6,769 days old) by magic clean ()        
an Infamous former star

OJ Simpson, in his Brentwood California abode, had an early 1980's electronic Lady Kenmore set.

Post# 87468 , Reply# 17   10/7/2005 at 07:36 (6,769 days old) by gyrafoam (Wytheville, VA)        
Kenny-----

I think "Breeze" had the towels and "Duz" had the dishes.

Post# 87485 , Reply# 18   10/7/2005 at 09:29 (6,769 days old) by appliguy (Oakton Va.)        
Kenmore ads

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Rosemary Clooney did an ad for Lady Kenmore washers and dryers

Eve Arden did an ad for Kenmore Eye Level self cleaning ranges

Anne Baxter did an ad for The Coldspot sxs fridge

FYI Earlier it was mentioned that Erma Bombeck had Maytags, while that may be true I happen to know that in the 70's she was partial to GM Frigidaire because in one column she tells had she had to pay a washer repair man $25 to retrieve one of her kids class rings from under the pulsator (her words) of her washer and in another she mentions that washer was pulsating. Also I have a 1971 Life article on her that shows her leaning up against the washer in her utility room and although you can see the control panel the cabinet looks very much like that of a 1-18. I think the reason she may have been partial to GM Frigidaire is because she is from Dayton Ohio and her mother worked for years in a GM plant.


Post# 87491 , Reply# 19   10/7/2005 at 10:23 (6,769 days old) by westingcan ()        
Westinghouse Ads

Betty Furness along with Lucy and Desi did Westinghouse ads in the 50's and helped coin the phrase "You can be sure...if it's Westinghouse" and I believe Barbara Hale continued on with a few ads in the 60's.

Pearl Bailey continued on with White-Westinghouse. "Honey, at White-Westin'house, we build em like we used to!"



Post# 87496 , Reply# 20   10/7/2005 at 11:05 (6,769 days old) by veg-o-matic (Baltimore, Hon!)        

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Shall we assume that Barbara Hale had a Radarange?

Fashion designer Bonnie Cahsin did an ad for the Kenmore sewing machine.

Someday when I'm famous, I want to do one of those ads. "Veg-o-matic can afford any washer he wants. He chose a Kenmore."



Post# 87505 , Reply# 21   10/7/2005 at 11:37 (6,769 days old) by maytagbear (N.E. Ohio)        
Erma had the Maytags

after she moved to Arizona, I saw them on 20-20.


Lawrence/Maytagbear


Post# 87509 , Reply# 22   10/7/2005 at 12:35 (6,769 days old) by hoover1060 ()        
Phyllis Diller...

Also did print ads for InSinkErator disposals in the 60's, and legend has it she was presented a gold plated Kirby vacuum from the Kirby company...

Post# 87512 , Reply# 23   10/7/2005 at 13:30 (6,769 days old) by spiralactivator ()        

Jayne could've gotten her LK custom colored. She took the name of her home--the Pink Palace--VERY seriously.

Post# 87513 , Reply# 24   10/7/2005 at 13:33 (6,769 days old) by spiralactivator ()        
Another Sears ad

Why does Anne Baxter, who could afford any washer she wanted, choose a Kenmore from Sears?

Because she stole it from Bette Davis.


Post# 87523 , Reply# 25   10/7/2005 at 14:37 (6,768 days old) by appliguy (Oakton Va.)        
Erma's Maytags replaced her Frigidaires

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I believe you MaytagBear, when you say you saw that Erma had Maytags...but I am sure they replaced Frigidaire 1-18's because the article I have was done on her AFTER she and her family moved to Paradise Valley Arizona (which they did in June of 1971. PATRICK COFFEY

Post# 87534 , Reply# 26   10/7/2005 at 15:58 (6,768 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions)        

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Always remember,"You get more,from the Kenmore,'cause the Kenmore has so much more to give!"

Post# 87545 , Reply# 27   10/7/2005 at 16:58 (6,768 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area)        

We are forgetting one of the most famous ad series of the 50's. Crosley! Margaret Lindsey (Warner Bros starlet from the movie "Jezebel" with Bette Davis) did a series of wonderful ads printed in pink promoting the fabulous Crosley line of appliances...........

Post# 87556 , Reply# 28   10/7/2005 at 20:03 (6,768 days old) by angus (Fairfield, CT.)        

I recall that Robert Goulet and Carol Lawrence had an avocado LK set. (from the ads of course..)

Post# 87588 , Reply# 29   10/7/2005 at 22:52 (6,768 days old) by davy1063 (Pennsylvania)        

does anyone have these ads that we could post?

Post# 87825 , Reply# 30   10/9/2005 at 07:47 (6,767 days old) by mayken4now (Panama City, Florida)        

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When I was a boy, sitting with my grandmother for the 1/2 hour soap opera of As the World Turns in the 1976-1979 era, there used to be a commercial on TV about the 1-18. It was shown washing an almost Maxi load. Who did that commercial?

Steve


Post# 89045 , Reply# 31   10/15/2005 at 21:52 (6,760 days old) by hoover1060 ()        
1976 Frigidaire TV Commercial

Steve,
I remember a Frigidaire commercial too from this same time, 1976 or maybe 1977. It showed a Frigidaire machine washing a full load and how fast the clothes rolled over, -VS- the Kenmore, which at the time was just introducing the Dual-Action agitator. The ad showed the Frigidaire washing a full load, and a single gym sock was added which quickly disappeared because of the fas rollover. I can only assume the other sock from the pair was the one tossed in the Kenmore, and how s-l-o-w-l-y it was incorporated into the wash by the Kenmore's ratchety dual action agitator.
Kenmore's TV commercial at the time was the "Fill 'er up, Fill 'er don't worry fill 'er up set to the tune of "Buckle Down Winsocki"



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