Old Time Actors & Singers in Commercials (vanity)

10/19/2020 | self

[Buckeye McFrog]

Your post reminds me of how sad it was that Rosemary Clooney spent her latter years singing about toilet paper.

[Bullish]

Just TV actors anyway.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Joe Namath isn’t looking so good.

I kind of like Suzy Kolber because she could have destroyed Joe’s life after the drunken “kiss me” incident, but chose not to.

[RoosterRedux]

Shatner made millions on Priceline. Can’t blame him a bit.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Shatner was smart. He took an equity stake in the company.

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

My mom has a neighbor who’s husband died of a heart attack the reverse mortgage saved her from losing her home she has no house payment AND she continues to have her home I don’t think a reverse mortgage is a horrible thing!!!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Orson Welles and the peas commercial is roll on the floor funny.

And the Pinky and the Brain parody is the cleaned up version so is Safe For Work.

Also a good life lesson.

[dynachrome]

Vincent Price and the bug zapper commercials. Hilarious!

[apillar]

Shatner has been doing it for decades. He is a shameless self-promoter and will be the first to tell you so.

There is a self-effacing quality to his commercials, like the whole thing is one big wink at the camera, that really works.

Shatner told a story once about how back in the late 1990's this obscure little internet starup company approached him about doing commercials, but said they had no cash and could only pay him in stock. He said, "Why not?" and did the commercials, that company was priceline.com and in the early 2000's their stock shot over 50 times what it was worth when Shatner received it. At one time, on paper at least it was worth close to $350 million. Unfortunately Shatner said he held it too long and sold it after the value had dropped considerably, but he still ended up making more than he made from every single Star Trek movie and TV show he ever did.

[Mears]

Nothing sad about it,it’s capitalism———been going on for years.

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[Textide]

Nothing wrong with it. That's capitalism. Here are a few. It was pretty fun to watch some of these....

Reagan and Baraxo Hand Cleaner - 60s

Bob Hope - Texaco Commercial 1970

Paul Newman - Nissan/Datsun seatbelt commercial 1983

Jackie Gleason - (Family sized, lol) Pabst Blue Ribbon 1949

Here is the opposite; a non-actor appearing in a movie. Here's Donald Trump in Home Alone 2.

Home Alone 2 Donald Trump cameo

[gr8eman]

What is he hawking...drug rehab centers?

[Buckeye McFrog]

He appears in his dad’s commercial for a pharmacy discount app.

[DFG]

June Allyson did commercials for Depends for several years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm1Grxg6ags

[Empire_of_Liberty]

Have to see how it goes. It’s a “loan”, whatever they call it.

I know someone thrown out of her home (with an RM) after her husband died. It’s going to depend on the specifics.

You can bank on the fact that there wouldn’t be Sharks and the FedGov in this, if there wasn’t boatloads of cash in it. The cash is coming from the property owned by these seniors.

My bet is that the seniors get pennies on the dollar to convert their house into food.

[Dr. Sivana]

Your post reminds me of how sad it was that Rosemary Clooney spent her latter years singing about toilet paper.

That's only one step below Jane Russell talking about her girdle, addressing "Us full-figured gals."

[RayChuang88]

In fact, Tommy Lee Jones makes a LOT of money in Japan for Suntory's Boss brand of canned coffee--so much so he's a household name there (and even learned to speak Japanese fairly fluently).

[OttawaFreeper]

Well, there were these ads Juliet did. Did anyone here like these, lol?

[OttawaFreeper]

Barbara Eden did them as well, after I Dream of Jeannie and Harper Valley PTA.

[MCF]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL_63W0UvPU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6ZGro6c7p4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dCRsIfIBic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbHMZ6WSzlc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf7g-u72iKk