Warning: Smoking Stars May Be Hazardous To Your Health

JFK · Post by **JFK** » Sat Jul 07, 2012 12:35 am

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

JFK · Post by **JFK** » Sat Jul 07, 2012 12:45 am

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

JFK · Post by **JFK** » Sat Jul 07, 2012 12:55 am

"Reach For A Lucky..." John Gilbert weight loss suggestion

JFK · Post by **JFK** » Sat Jul 07, 2012 1:06 am

"My Favorite Cigarette"
Or The Road To Sloan Kettering

entredeuxguerres · Post by **entredeuxguerres** » Sat Jul 07, 2012 8:14 am

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?

CoffeeDan · Post by **CoffeeDan** » Sat Jul 07, 2012 9:37 am

entredeuxguerres wrote: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?"

JFK · Post by **JFK** » Sat Jul 07, 2012 10:37 am

LAUGH, MISS LOY!

CoffeeDan · Post by **CoffeeDan** » Sat Jul 07, 2012 11:32 am

JFK wrote:"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.

entredeuxguerres · Post by **entredeuxguerres** » Sat Jul 07, 2012 1:13 pm

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.

JFK · Post by **JFK** » Sat Jul 07, 2012 1:51 pm

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entredeuxguerres · Post by **entredeuxguerres** » Sat Jul 07, 2012 3:18 pm

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

JFK · Post by **JFK** » Sat Jul 07, 2012 4:15 pm

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

mndean · Post by **mndean** » Sat Jul 07, 2012 6:48 pm

Chesterfield, Camel, Lucky Strike, Spud?

JFK · Post by **JFK** » Sat Jul 07, 2012 7:11 pm

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_Gol ... er_Singles

CoffeeDan · Post by **CoffeeDan** » Sat Jul 07, 2012 8:04 pm

mndean wrote:Chesterfield, Camel, Lucky Strike, Spud?

"Cigars, cigarettes, cough syrup . . . "

entredeuxguerres · Post by **entredeuxguerres** » Sat Jul 07, 2012 8:57 pm

mndean wrote:Chesterfield, Camel, Lucky Strike, Spud?

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

mndean · Post by **mndean** » Sat Jul 07, 2012 9:23 pm

entredeuxguerres wrote:
mndean wrote: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.

Brooksie · Post by **Brooksie** » Sun Jul 08, 2012 11:51 am

No one's posted this one yet?

entredeuxguerres · Post by **entredeuxguerres** » Sun Jul 08, 2012 12:11 pm

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!)

JFK · Post by **JFK** » Sun Jul 08, 2012 1:17 pm

BESIDES THEIR KIDS,
THEIR SOLE SHARED INTEREST?

entredeuxguerres · Post by **entredeuxguerres** » Sun Jul 08, 2012 4:51 pm

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.

Post by **silentfilm** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 11:34 am

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

Bruce Long · Post by **Bruce Long** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 1:06 pm

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

JFK · Post by **JFK** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 1:46 pm

A CLUE AS TO WHAT KILLED THE PRIOR MRS BLUEBEARDS?

JFK · Post by **JFK** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 1:51 pm

JEAN HARLOW RECKLESS

JFK · Post by **JFK** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 1:57 pm

JFK · Post by **JFK** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 2:12 pm

ONE OF THE OBSTACLES FOR LUCY'S MAME SINGING COACH

mndean · Post by **mndean** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 3:07 pm

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

Salty Dog · Post by **Salty Dog** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 6:30 pm

mndean wrote: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.

Rollo Treadway · Post by **Rollo Treadway** » Sat Jul 14, 2012 9:49 am

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