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On October 1, 1944, the show became The Lucky Strike Program
Starring Jack Benny, when American Tobacco's Lucky Strike cigarettes
took over as his radio sponsor, through the mid-1950s

Cigarette Magic:
Duke Smokes Camel;
Becomes A Little Hoarse...

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"My Favorite Cigarette"
Or The Road To Sloan Kettering

Where are my favorites, the Old Gold kick-line? "Not a cough in a car-load."

One of life's most inexpensive, inoffensive pleasures...gone with the wind. The most ubiquitous symbol I think there's ever been of, I believe the hackneyed phrase is, "our common humanity." Who, regardless of race, gender, nationality, religion, political persuasion, didn't (in that former age of innocence) partake of the Red Man's gift to civilization? Who would be so inhuman as to refuse their bitterest enemy, before blowing his brains out (as depicted, at least, in a thousand pictures), one last smoke?

Who would be so inhuman as to refuse their bitterest enemy, before blowing his brains out (as depicted, at least, in a thousand pictures), one last smoke?

Reminds me of the tagline of a PSA in the mid-'60s: "With what we now know about cigarettes, is the free offer of a cigarette truly an act of friendship?"

LAUGH, MISS LOY!

"My Favorite Cigarette"
Or The Road To Sloan Kettering

Lucky Strike cigarettes sponsored W. C. Fields in his own radio program circa 1939, and he would often tell stories about his son Chester and what he was up to -- until the Lucky Strike people caught on and made him quit.

No disrespect to Myrna, but "I'd rather fight than switch." Show me Norma Shearer's endorsement, however, & only a fight would stop me from switching.

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Now on sale at Kino for $10, along with a few other silents.

Cancer-9 Babe Ruth-0
And This Just In...
Heart Attack-7 Bill Bendix-0

Chesterfield, Camel, Lucky Strike, Spud?

OLD GOLD COMEDY THEATER
"The Old Gold Comedy Theater aired over NBC for one season, from October 29, 1944 to June 10, 1945. The Lennen and Mitchell ad agency wanted to produce a comedy series for Old Gold cigarettes, a brand of the Lorillard Tobacco Company. The show was patterned after the successful format used by the Lux Radio Theatre and Cecil B. DeMille. Preston Sturges, an up and coming director, was originally tapped to host the show, but was already committed elsewhere, and so suggested Harold Lloyd, a silent film star, with whom he had worked in the past. As this was his first radio program, Lloyd worked for many months to get over his fear of the microphone. Critics believed he was improving as the season progressed, and would have eventually mastered the art had the series lasted more than one season.
Though the adapted scripts and the actors were top-notch, the show eventually suffered from its 30 minute format, as too much had to be cut from the original movie scripts. Lennen and Mitchell pulled the plug on the show on May 28, 1945 when they announced Meet Me at Parky's would air in its place. Currently, there are 30 of the 32 episodes still in circulation -- 29 come from the estate of Harold Lloyd, in the original un-cut version, and one from the Armed Forces Radio Service. "

TO HEAR THE RADIO SHOWS
http://archive.org/details/OTRR_Old_Gold_Comedy_Theater_Singles

Chesterfield, Camel, Lucky Strike, Spud?

"Cigars, cigarettes, cough syrup . . . "

Chesterfield, Camel, Lucky Strike, Spud?

And, "desert." I'd buy the whole tray if that creampuff sits on my lap while I smoke them.

Chesterfield, Camel, Lucky Strike, Spud?

And, "desert." I'd buy the whole tray if that creampuff sits on my lap while I smoke them.

[sputtering] You'd say something pornographic about my...the unmitigated gall! Here is my card, sir, our duel is at 5am.

P.S. You'd have a better chance than the plug-uglies who star with her in that film.

No one's posted this one yet?

Thanks--never seen that one before! Considering the cost of a carton today (with oppressive state taxes added), only a movie star could afford to give so many away. But what a brilliant marketing idea! Wonder what one of those cartons would fetch on ebay today? (And I don't mean one signed by Ronnie!)

BESIDES THEIR KIDS,
THEIR SOLE SHARED INTEREST?

But don't you think, if we could make out the names on Ronnie's Christmas-card cartons, we'd find one marked "Jane"? Old smoking pals don't forget one another.

[silentfilm]

Here's a European Raymond Griffith cigarette card, which doesn't mention cigarettes on the card.

Chaplin:
http://archive.org/stream/photoplayvolu ... 0/mode/1up
Constance Talmadge:
http://archive.org/stream/photoplay3536 ... 4/mode/1up

A CLUE AS TO WHAT KILLED THE PRIOR MRS BLUEBEARDS?

JEAN HARLOW RECKLESS

AL JOLSON THE SINGING FOOL (TOO PUT IT MILDLY)

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ONE OF THE OBSTACLES FOR LUCY'S MAME SINGING COACH

One thing I want to know is, is there a star who endorsed a cigarette brand and was a nonsmoker in real life?

One thing I want to know is, is there a star who endorsed a cigarette brand and was a nonsmoker in real life?

Ronald Reagan did not smoke. That ad a few posts above had a cigarette airbushed in.