Posted on 05/26/2014 6:27:16 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Meet the original Gerber baby: Ann Turner Cook, now 87, on how a drawing turned her into the most iconic baby in history
The woman whose face inspired the Gerber baby drawing has opened up about what it has meant to be such an iconic symbol for nearly nine decades.
Ann Turner Cook, now 87, was just a few months old in 1928 when a charcoal sketch of her was selected in a contest to represent Gerber baby food.
Little did she know just how important that drawing would be, both for the company and for her. 'I can't think of anything nicer than to be a symbol for babies,' the retired English teacher told CBS News. 'And that's what I think I became.'
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Mrs Cook, now a great-grandmother, still has the same cheerful grin and sparkling eyes that she had as a baby when artist Dorothy Hope Smith, her neighbor in Connecticut, decided to sketch her.
'I always had that expression with my mouth hanging open,' laughed Mrs Cook. 'Kind of a quizzical expression!'
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Than she was as an infant. (?!) That's a little sick ...
His early career was that of a model beginning in 1913 at the age of 5. His face was used on the large box of Sun Maid raisins along with the slogan, "I Spent my Nickel for Little Sun Maid Raisins".
He was also the model for an enormously famous American calendar photo of a young boy with fishing pole and dog that Americans took to heart in a more innocent era.
Yesterday's models were the cute Sun Maid Raisins and Cracker Jack boys and the Gerber baby girl. Today's most familiar advertising model is a creepy green lizard!
Leni
Bring back the "Bud" "Wise" "Er" frogs!
It's been a long time since buying jars of baby food so we've missed out on a few "trends"...
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That is just LOL funny. Thank you!
Another legend is that Maud drew/painted the Gerber baby. That's not true either, although Maud Bogart was a successful commercial artist.
Source: I've been a massive Bogart fan since high school, and Bogie's birthdate really was December 25. That wasn't made up by a movie studio trying to soften Bogie's image because of his frequent early appearances as a gangster.
Thanks for explaining that! He must have been a lovely Christmas present for his mom.
My dad met Bogart, when my dad worked at Abercrombie & Fitch back in the day when it was, at least in part, a sporting goods store. He sold him fishing rods or something like that.
I’ll bet your dad has some great stories from working at A&F back in the days when they outfitted big game hunters for safaris.
I’ll bet your dad has some great stories from working at A&F back in the days when they outfitted big game hunters for safaris.
Er, at 89.
Like Ben Franklin!!!
I often wonder what he’d think about how that “brand” was totally changed. Well, I know he would think the girls were cute, he was always a fan of models - knew their names when nobody else did.
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