Tuesday, September 27, 2016
CELEBRITY ADS: LUCILLE BALL
By the time Lucille Ball died in 1989, her voice was a raspy mess from years of cigarette smoking. She must have gotten a life time supply of Chesterfield cigarettes from doing this print ad for them while appearing in the RKO movie Easy Living (aka Interference) in 1949...
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It certainly seems that way! Nice vintage ad. Reminds me of Dean Martin, same thing happened with him from so many years of smoking.
ReplyDeleteA lot of smoking singers lost it. Sinatra himself didn't sound anything like himself in his last decade.
DeleteLucy smoked menthols
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