What do you do if you're a movie star and the big roles aren't coming your way anymore? Why, you shill for a major corporation, of course. Here are some of my favorite commericials by actors just paying the rent.
Brenda Vaccaro for Playtex tampons:
Margaret Hamilton for Maxwell House coffee:
Bert Lahr for Lay's potato chips:
Martha Raye (feat. Rocky Graziano) for Polident:
There is no embeddable link to this but you can see it here.
and my all time favorite, Orson Welles for Paul Masson wines:
4 comments:
i love, love, LOVE that you did this. being a child of the 70s i knew vaccaro from those ads first and as an actress second. god, that voice. i didn't even know (or maybe i blocked out) the bert lahr.
but orson takes the cake. i watch those for fun often.
my friend makes me laugh so much when he imitates Brenda and her Tampax catchprase:
" make mine a double !"
(double absorbant tampons that is)
didn't they also end up in sid and marty coft Tv shows as well?
martha raye was on "the bugaloos" for example....
:)
if they were lucky they did. the unlucky ones got commercials.
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