These don't feature movie starts, but are equally stupid:
...and my personal favorite:
I add these pictures just because they are fun:
Thank you, Dad.
Sunday, September 28, 2014
Cigarette Ads My Dad Saved
These are for you, Kirk, in response to your 'Doris Day On A Steamroller' post. Dad saved them to point out how stupid it was to use movie stars to promote the positive effects of smoking:
These don't feature movie starts, but are equally stupid:
...and my personal favorite:
I add these pictures just because they are fun:
Thank you, Dad.
These don't feature movie starts, but are equally stupid:
...and my personal favorite:
I add these pictures just because they are fun:
Thank you, Dad.
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Where on earth did you find these? Absolutely priceless.
ReplyDeleteCarolyn, you know I have a problem. I save everything, including the things our parents left behind.
DeleteThese are great. I am sure they all got what the cigs had to offer. I had some old calendars and was shocked when my daughter put them on ebay.
ReplyDeleteI'm wondering what you were shocked about? That your daughter valued the old calendars or that she would try to sell them???
DeleteThanks, Kass!
ReplyDeleteSome thoughts.
Grantland Rice may not have been a movie star, but he was a nationally syndicated sports writer at a time when such people were indeed celebrities, so it does count as a celebrity endorsement, at least among football fans who liked to smoke.
Read some of that small print. The selling point to those ads is that Lucky Strikes doesn't irritate your throat as much as other cigarettes. There's seems to be a general ignorance of the irritations to ones lungs.
I love old advertizing art, the one thing that redeems those ads. All that you've shown is from what is now referred to as "the Golden Age of Illustration" before photography took over. I especially like that picture of Katherine Hepburn. Notice she's the one star not smiling. Yet she's very attractive. I don't like that Mryna Loy so much. She looks almost, curiously, plain. I looked it up. The film MAN-PROOF is from 1938. Loy was at the height of her good looks at the time, so I don't get why the artist didn't capture that. Hepburn had the better illustrator.
Parsnip is right. I enjoyed your extra information.
DeleteHello Kass... Oh My Goodness love these !
ReplyDeleteWhen I saw these I knew that Kirk would really like these !
Plus wouldn't you know his comments add more information.
cheers, parsnip
You're right. Kirk is a gem of curiosity and information.
DeleteGlad you love these too.
Just saw you posted these -- fascinating. How glamorous it seemed! Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteWonderful art of the day. I was about 10 when my aunt got married and gave me all her old movie magazines from the 40s. Of course they are long gone but I remember following the stories of scandal - Van Johnson and Keenan Wynn's wife, just what every 10-year-old needs to know. The people who told us that Luckies were good for our throats also told us we could protect ourselves from nuclear blasts by lacing our fingers behind our necks. xo
ReplyDeleteWOW. Really glad your dad saved these. I'm catching up on episodes of Mad Men - right on topic!
ReplyDeleteThe artwork is beautiful, how glam indeed.
I was chatting to the local newsagent about the changing fashion of things, including smoking...
Isn't all this interesting and it wasn't all that long ago! I remember cigarette commercials on television. I even remember my pediatrician smoking while he examined me...for ASTHMA!
ReplyDeleteAustria has the highest cigarette consumption rate in Europe. Consumption is a good word because it is also a terrible disease. Until fairly recent times a tobacco firm sponsored a football (soccer) team called Austria Memphis. More people are killed by cigarettes than by terrorists, motorists and shootists combined. But I'll say this for the tobacco industry. Their artwork is good.
ReplyDeleteI forgot to mention there's a popular cigarette here called Hobby. Possibly it makes people a little hoarse.
ReplyDeleteGood one!
DeleteImagine finding my way back here after all this time.
DeleteCoincidentally I was just telling somebody there was many years ago a brand of cigarettes called Passing Clouds. They were on sale in England. They had good artwork. You can google it.
Gwil, I just googled it. Saw some charming ads and a tin.
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