The lost Lauren Bacall High Point ad

I preferred the version where at the end she threw a scalding cup of coffee at her assistant.

how is this old bag doing, BTW?

She's been a crotchety old cunt for the last 30 years.

Mmmmmmmm deep brewed flavah.

OMFG! Here's a 5 year-old pre-queen doing a great parody of Bacall... must be seen.

Why do you say this ad was "lost", OP? I remember seeing this on air back in the day. Was this one any more obscure than the others that have circulated on you tube? Held back?

I love how she sits/lays herself down on the chaise lounge without spilling a drop.

I prefer her Fancy Feast commercials

Oh, yeah, honey--we all like to be brewed DEEP.

[quote]I love how she sits/lays herself down on the chaise lounge without spilling a drop.

I bet the cup is empty in that long shot. We never (nevah!) see the brown elixir after she gets up from her chair.

How did a girl from the NYC burroughs end up speaking like that? (She was trained.)%0D %0D Pretentious. In life, LB is not pretentious- she is a flinty, unpleasant woman with a major chip on her shoulder. Never have understood that- I mean- if you look at what she came from and where she ended up you would think she would be greatful.

Frank, you are OBSESSED with this advertisement!

Burroughs?

Do you think she's a mole?

If anyone gets R6 in next year's DL Secret Santa, please think about getting her a sense of humor. Jesus fucking CHRIST.

[quote]how is this old bag doing, BTW?%0D %0D %0D %0D %0D %0D Michael Musto reported in his column that Bacall was moved to the Westchester Jewish Home. The kids will figure out what to do with the apartment.%0D %0D %0D What happened to the dog?

borough, is that right R13? Must be special being able to correct spelling- Such talent- insight and wit.

Give up flavah? NEVAH!

She sounds like a proud graduate of the Arlene Francis School of Piss Elegance for Television Spokes-models.

Is that you Billy?

I always loved when, after declining caffeine, she would interject, with the biggest attitude ever "I'm active enough thank you...'

R5's clip made me pee with howls of delight!!!!

"I have HIGH standards for myself!"

R6, it was 'lost' because it was the only one that hadn't shown up on YT yet a few years back when we first started mocking these out.%0D %0D That little boy clip is adorable.%0D %0D Here's someone's tweaked version of the first ad. Hilarious!

I think the only lost one now is one at a rehearsal :

"around here, we don't like coffee, we love it!"

She sounds and acts like Kathleen Turner. I guess we know where Kathleen got the schtick

She didn't grow up in the "boroughs" (I guess you mean the outer boroughs). She grew up on Columbus Avenue.

Turner once met Bacall and said "I'm the young you." I'm sure Bacall was delighted to hear that.

[quote]Turner once met Bacall and said "I'm the young you." I'm sure Bacall was delighted to hear that. Mmmmm. That's RICH.

well if they hadn't been at the precinct already I am sure Bacall would have decked Kathleen for saying that.

Actually the way she speaks is pretty characteristic of people from mid-Atlantic states. My grandmother who was from southeastern Pennsylvania spoke very much the same way.

So did the older Barrymores

"I think this looks good on me!"

The accent is characteristic of immigrants from Warnerbrothersland, actually.%0D %0D

Did you know that bitchiness...I mean tension...can sometimes show on your face?

The kid in [r5]'s clip NAILS it!!!

is he really FIVE?

[quote]She sounds and acts like Kathleen Turner. I guess we know where Kathleen got the schtick%0D %0D I was in college with Kathleen (Southwest Mo. State in Springfield, Mo.) She sounded like that... way back then.

She decides who tops!

I can watch this commercial over and over, and I want to try High Point. Why? It has...

I hope old batty betty is having a good new year.

Don't forget her Arby's commercial.%0D %0D Is there anything this broad didn't shill for?

Klassy Betty loves a Ford Fairmont Futura!

"Caffeine sometimes makes me tense -- and tension can show on yoah FACE!"

So will 50 years of chain smoking, Betty.

R41, "for elegance I spaih NO expense!"

OMG you guys here's another one!!! Sort of a hybrid between the rehearsal onstage Broadway one and what's supposed to be a film set.

So this makes: 1) Apartment - 'my favorite time of day is night'

2) In the car - 'rushing for an 8 pm curtain'

3)writing a book - 'writing is a coffee lover's dream'

4) Broadway rehearsal - 'it's lively'

5) on set (this one, linked below)

Will there be more?

So does she spend her days cruising around in a Ford Fairmont while eating Arby's and Fancy Feast (not sure which one is worse--neither bears a passing resemblance to meat) and washing it down with High Point coffee?

Here's one she did with Jason Robards in the 60s

I prefer Sanka.

This raises the question -- what ever happened to all of those heavily advertised instant coffee brands? Beside High Point, there were (off the top of my head) Brim, Taster's Choice, Nescafe, Folgers Crystals, Sanka, and I'm sure a lot more that I'm forgetting. When was the last time you saw a commercial for instant coffee?

i was shocked and delighted when emma stone did an impression of this commercial in that movie with ryan gosling. i couldn't believe it, it was hilarious

When I was little I thought Lauren Bacall was the height of sophistication. She did commercials for Fortunoff's so I assumed that was an elegant store (it wasn't.). But her High Point commercials made me want to live in NYC, especially the one where she's going to her theater performance and the one where she draws the drapes revealing a NYC skyline.

THANK YOU, r45!

The joy I feel is equivalent to that of a musicologist if a "lost" Beatles song reappeared.

We are kindred spirits R52! I will be watching this over and over again -- and did you see someone's even done a mashup remix of all the commercials?

"Don't forget her Arby's commercial. Is there anything this broad didn't shill for?"

Bitch deserved an Oscar for trying to convince us that those Arby's cups were "elegant"

G

Wow, r53: That mashup was a BIG disappointment.

Betty & High Point deserve better.

There's another one on YouTube with then husband Jason Robards for Maxwell House Coffee, in which she takes viewers into their kitchen to show them how to make a perfect cup, as if she knew where the kitchen was.

Here she is posing in her Dakota living room.

She was also the first celeb to do the What Becomes a Legend Most? ad for Blackglama.

Circa 1980, Bacall was riding high on the success of her autobiography, filming "The Fan" and preparing for a Broadway return in Woman of the Year. At age 56, I'm sure she was trying to sock away as much $$$ as possible for her old age. She turns 90 in September.

I'm delighted to see these every time

One of the truly legendary greats.

Cute puppy at r58!

"Full of life" no more. RIP, Miss Thang.

Wow, that really showcases her gunt and completely flat ass.

Mediocre actress, but "How To Marry A Millionaire" was fun.

Speaking of millions- was there any money left? Or was she gnoshing on her lifetime supply of Fancy Feast?

[quote]When was the last time you saw a commercial for instant coffee?

I'm guessing drip coffee makers put a big dent in the market for instant coffee. In the sixties most Americans made coffee in electric percolators that took a lot longer than "Mr. Coffee"-type machines to brew a pot. Who needs the lousy taste of instant coffee when it takes no more time to make a small pot of drip coffee than it takes to boil the water for instant?

RICH!

[quote] "I'll tell you a secret. Caffeine sometimes makes me tense..."

No fucking kidding, Betty.

She was pushing instant coffee in the 1960s. It was Maxwell House then.

I loved her on Dame Edna - she was so funny.

Should have stayed lost.

I love that r6's rigid cuntiness has been preserved for eight years!

R73=R6