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Beer In Ads #1473: Count Me In, Says Dorothy Dandridge

February 21, 2015 By Jay Brooks


Saturday’s ad is for Rheingold, from 1960. Another Rheingold ad from this time period featuring a celebrity, this time it’s Dorothy Dandridge, an American actor and singer, and the first African-American to be nominated for an Academy Award, in this case for her performance in the 1954 film “Carmen Jones.”

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Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, History



Comments

  1. moepeppers says

    February 22, 2015 at 11:19 pm

    Look at the mugs of beer.They look like they’ve been airbrushed in. ???

  2. Beerman49 says

    February 23, 2015 at 12:17 am

    As was some of Dorothy’s face airbrushed over to make her look even whiter than she really was. Like the great Lena Horne, she was a light-skinned black of mixed parentage. Beautiful lady who died 5 yrs after that ad was shot.

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