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Thread Number: 42138
Bette Davis for GE Dishwashers (1930) |
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Post# 620445 8/26/2012 at 18:33 (4,254 days old) by NeptuneGuy27  (Baltimore,MD) |
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Thought everyone might enjoy this youtube clip!
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Post# 620446 , Reply# 1 8/26/2012 at 18:41 (4,254 days old) by Kenmore71 (Minneapolis, MN) |
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| Post# 620460 , Reply# 2 8/26/2012 at 19:54 (4,254 days old) by verizonbear (Glen Burnie ) | ||
Oh please  | ||
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Post# 620461 , Reply# 3 8/26/2012 at 19:56 (4,254 days old) by moparwash (Pittsburgh,PA ) |
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Fasten Your Seat Belts.... | ||
| Post# 620472 , Reply# 4 8/26/2012 at 20:32 (4,254 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
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. | ||
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Post# 620481 , Reply# 5 8/26/2012 at 21:34 (4,254 days old) by hydralique (Los Angeles) |
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Hmmm . . . I remember an old movie about two sisters living in an old house where one had to wait on the other . . . | ||
| Post# 620497 , Reply# 6 8/26/2012 at 22:31 (4,254 days old) by xpanam (Palm Springs California ) | ||
Paging dishwashercrazy | ||
| Post# 620551 , Reply# 7 8/27/2012 at 06:00 (4,253 days old) by cehalstead (Charleston, WV) | ||
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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??? | ||
| Post# 620649 , Reply# 10 8/27/2012 at 14:50 (4,253 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
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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. | ||
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Post# 620680 , Reply# 11 8/27/2012 at 17:03 (4,253 days old) by hydralique (Los Angeles) |
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I guess a Crawford must have originally been an RC (best pronounced "are-o-cee") and vodka, not Pepsi and vodka. | ||
| Post# 620689 , Reply# 12 8/27/2012 at 17:49 (4,253 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
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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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Post# 620824 , Reply# 13 8/28/2012 at 08:13 (4,252 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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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." | ||
| Post# 620829 , Reply# 14 8/28/2012 at 09:08 (4,252 days old) by Maytagbear (N.E. Ohio) | ||
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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 | ||
| Post# 620909 , Reply# 15 8/28/2012 at 18:35 (4,252 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
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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. | ||
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Comes to the Rescue!
Though I am not sure about the egg part myself.