What are some of your favorite vintage TV commercials featuring celebrities?

The sexist Enjoli ads.

Who is that woman in the Enjoli ad?

^ it’s Shelley Hack, Rose!

Margaret Hamilton for Folgers. No wait, Laurent Bacall for High Point!

R2, Pam Huntington, who played Blair Warner's mom on "Facts of Life."

a Sheaffer Snorkel pen, with the most complicated filling system

evidence Vivian Vance hated William Frawley

I can't find the actual commercial, but looks like someone made a little compilation - I remember thinking how beautiful Belinda Carlisle was in her Agree shampoo commercials

Buster Keaton and Milky Way candy bar

I always loved seeing a strange-looking Herman Munster selling floor tile:

Kim Basinger in a Chanel No. 5 ad directed by Ridley scott

As a teen, I thought you could put Farrah shampoo on your hair and it would puff out like that. I'm a guy, btw.

Orson Welles for Paul Masson wine...while plastered.

Miss Brenda Vacarro

[quote]it’s Shelley Hack, Rose!

That was Charlie, Retard.

I like how this has the feel of her General Hospital appearances.

Zsa Zsa Gabor for Studebaker!

Joan Collins for Scoundrel.

Are we making a distinction between people who were already celebrities and used their celebrity to endorse a product, or people who were nobodies at the time the commercial was made but later achieved fame?

R10 - that's not Kim Basinger, but Ricky Schroder is the kid in the Wessonality spot.

Mark Harmon for Coors Beer.

This razor ad with Angie Everhart

Most of these are from the 70's and 80's and that's ME!! You mean I am Vintage now?!! Am I really that old?!!

Brenda Vacarro's first ad for tampons, discontinued immediately after its disastrous initial airing during an episode of Charlie's Angels.

How very soon you bitches forget me.

Another good one...Reba's Fritos commercials. I had a friend growing up who swore he wasn't gay, and he could reenact this whole commercial. He even had a Reba cardboard stand-up from this advert campaign. Almost 30 years later, he's married and has a son...I really thought Reba made him gay.

This one, of course.

The other day I all of a sudden remembered the Jean Nate stuntwoman commercial. Had to look it up on the YouTubes.

Jimmy Nelson, Danny O'Day, Farfel--Nestle's Cocoa Commercial, 1956

(Skip to about 1:00 for the actual commercial.)

Eve Arden for Scope

Loretta Lynn sure used to like Crisco!

R10 A masterpiece of a commercial, but the woman who plays "Catherine" is not Bassenger. She was the model and socialite Carolina Gramm.

Who cleans their drapes? Maybe she wanted to get the stank of Bing out of them.

Nancy Sinatra for RC Cola. These would've been the precursor to the Pepsi commercials featuring the pop diva of the moment (Britney, Beyonce, Cardi B).

Wash your dishes like Ethel Merman does!

Ann Miller for Great American Soups!

This just isn’t as fun with the YouTube postings showing up gray, and how are some posting fine with pics?

R34 Just like she probably never washed a dish, it's hard to imagine The Merm pulling up to a Texaco station and pumping her gas either

Betty White for Snickers

r37 No one pumped their own gas back then.

I love this one featuring the inimitable Grace Jones for Citroen:

I love the way he says, “One calorie!”

[quote] No one pumped their own gas back then.

Some of us did

Here's an idea, Let's not only have a cigarette company sponsor a cartoon program, let's actually show the cartoons characters smoking

[quote]Betty White for Snickers

And Liza and Aretha too.

[quote]R10 Kim Basinger in a Chanel No. 5 ad directed by Ridley scott

that model’s name was Carolina Gramm.

In the Chanel ads she does look like Kim Basinger... but she’s not : )

Miss Gramm, close up

Diane Keaton for deodorant.

Dana Delaney and the gorgeous Tom McBride in this 1986 Wisk detergent commercial.

Nobody’s mentioned Ann Blyth for Hostess Snackcakes?

‘Freshness nevah tasted so good!’

R22

Miss Ghurl, yes you are *old*. Hahahaha

1980's was forty years ago , and 1970's was fifty... Don't ask about 1960's........

Friend who graduated HS in 1980 got an invitation to his 40th class reunion. He picked up a several bottles of gin and some tonic water on way home and spent entire weekend boozing and lamenting his now long gone youth.

Farrah Fawcett and Joe Namath for Noxema shave cream.

Judy and Liza for Cream of Wheat

James Garner & Mariette Hartley for Polaroid

Wilford Brimley for Quaker Oats

I'm Rula Lenska!

Jackson Five for Alphabets Cereal

Cybill Shepherd for Preference By L’Oreal

That coffee tasted like shit, it had no fuckin flavah! I did it for the fuckin money!

June Allyson for Depends

Robert Young for Sanka

Annette Funichello for Skippy Peanut Butter

James Garner and Mariette Hartley selling Polaroid cameras. They were so great together, people thought they were married.

Sorry, R53, didn't realize I was repeating your post.

[quote] James Garner and Mariette Hartley selling Polaroid cameras. They were so great together, people thought they were married.

See R53

Helen Lawson for Immodium

Miss. Jane Russell for Playtex bras and girdles.

Bernadette Peters for Playtex bras, circa 1960

Stanley Tucci for Levi's 501 jeans.

Thanks R1. That is my favorite ad of the period.

A young John Travolta in the locker shower room with a couple of other naked guys. John is telling us how great Band-Aids stick even when wet.

I think that might be Terri Garr in the commercial as well.

1950s IVORY SNOW COMMERCIAL - Jean Stapleton

Dolores Roberts for Glade Solid air freshener....

That woman made a career along with sizable fortune playing same sort of character.

Read in an interview Ms. Roberts stated she bought her first NYC (Manhattan) apartment with money she earned from that Glade commercial. Am guessing that included residuals.

Sorry, wrong link.

This site needs an edit button to allow correction of posts.

Wrong NAME, too, dear.

DORIS Roberts.

TY...

D for Doris, Dolores, Diana.... it's all the same after a few gin & tonics.....

Orville Redenbacher and his grandson. I had a crush on the grandson. I was a kid with strangely bad taste.

Orson Welles for Paul Mason wine. Shelley Hack for Charlie perfume.

Viki Sleestak for Sunsweet!

I still cringe when I think of Megan Mullally hawking margarine

Margaret Hamilton (with David Caruso) for Maxwell House coffee.

When you have to get away in a hurry.

I loved Helen Lawson’s Depend commercials.

“Thanks to Depends I can plant my own tree — and go to the bathroom — on my own time”

"Cheap corporate spokeswhore" Catherine Zeta Jones for Sprint, Chili's and World of Discount Michael

Discount Mattresses, rather ^^^ I'm sorry, Michael

Here's a great find with Paul Sorvino. Sadly, I've been unable a sweet one with Carmine Caridi from the '69/'70 as a tough guy preening every time he passes a mirror. Still vividly remember it.

[quote] Margaret Hamilton (with David Caruso)

Two people I never thought would be in the same sentence, let alone the same commercial

I remember Helen Lawson's commercial for Playtex crotchless panties.

I loved when Helen would deliver the tagline, with a wink right after: "Because every gal needs a little fresh air.... down there" *wink*

Not celebrities but I think the decaffinated coffee here is made from....shrooms!

R40 Makes me miss the 80s. Here she is with Adam Ant:

[quote]R61 Annette Funichello for Skippy Peanut Butter

I think the one with the dog was pulled from broadcast.

[quote]Annette Funichello

Oh, dear.

The Rod Stewart subaru commericals from Japan. I used to live there and they are etched into my memory for some reason.

Looking at Mark Harmon's package in that Coors commercial reminded me of David Naughton swing his for Dr Pepper.

DL icon Viv Vance shilled Maxwell House better than the Wicked Witch.

Before Farrah, Swedish model Gunilla Knutson urged men "to take it all off."

You tell em, Dali Baby!

FINE COREENTHEAN LEATHUR

The classic "I don't like wrinkled fruit" prune ad written by Stan Freberg.

Another Freberg ad for Banquet Frozen TV Dinners. The unknown actress reminds me of Jan Hooks.

Another classic Freberg ad for Jeno's Pizza Rolls. It parodies a cigarette commercial at the time that used the William Tell overture and asked people to show their Lark cigarette pack.

Levi 501s

Lyons Tea

Pubic Service Safety AD

Hamlet cigars.

Rula Lenska owns this thread. No one...I repeat...No one...knew who the hell she was!

"Five minutes, Miss Lenska!" She had the most glamorous life. How I longed to be one of the friends from America whom Rula was showing around London.

I loved the Christmas Budweiser ads with the Clydesdales pulling the beer truck. Got to see it up close a few years ago. Massive, gorgeous animals living like royalty on the road too.

Sorry, R55. I did not see that you posted Rula Lenska. Here's a gal who can make Rula flip her wig:

Rula Lenska, who was Pia Zadora before Pia was Pia.

Patricia Neal croaking "That's good coffee!" for Maxim, about 1973. Still haven't found the kinetoscope.

[quote]Patricia Neal croaking "That's good coffee!" for Maxim, about 1973. Still haven't found the kinetoscope.

"My husband is a WRI-TAH!"

Patricia Neal was also fond of FLA-VAH!

R4, as others have since pointed out, Margaret Hamilton did not shill for Folgers. That long-running series of commercials featured Mrs. Oleson, a Swedish busybody who apparently knew hundreds of young married couples.

Also, remember the soap-opera-ish commercials featuring the Tasters Choice couple?

But the ones I looked forward to were soap or deodorant ads which showcased hunky guys that were Zestfully Clean or scrubbing with Irish Spring.

Peggy Fleming for Trident Sugarless Gum. Bitch makes her kids swim to the bottom of the pool for a nasty piece of gum.

Martha Raye for Polident! Years ago, David Letterman introduced a commercial calling her "Martha Raye, actress and condom-user."

Lil' Romeo for ICDC College.

Mountain Dew commercial featuring Mrs. Alfred Steele.

Dan Aykroyd selling Bass-o-matic

Before she was on "Charlie's Angels", Jaclyn Smith was a Breck Girl.