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Beer In Ads #2561: My Beer Is Rheingold Says John Payne

February 24, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Saturday’s ad is for Rheingold, from 1949. In the 1940s and 1950s, Rheingold recruited a number of prominent celebrities to do ads for them, all using the tagline: “My beer is Rheingold — the Dry beer!” In this ad, it features American film actor John Payne. He is “mainly remembered from film noir crime stories and 20th Century Fox musical films, and for his leading roles in Miracle on 34th Street and the NBC Western television series The Restless Gun.” In the ad, Payne talks about visiting New York and being busy catching up with his many friends from when he used to live there. And usually, when he gets together with those friends, they sit down and share some Rheingold Extra Dry.

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

Beer In Ads #2560: My Beer Is Rheingold Says Hedda Hopper

February 23, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Friday’s ad is for Rheingold, from 1948. In the 1940s and 1950s, Rheingold recruited a number of prominent celebrities to do ads for them, all using the tagline: “My beer is Rheingold — the Dry beer!” In this 1948 ad, American actress and gossip columnist Hedda Hopper, boasts that she owns a staggering 739 hats, in part because hat fashion changes every year, while her favorite beer, Rheingold Extra Dry, does not.

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

Beer In Ads #2559: My Beer Is Rheingold Says Cedric Hardwicke

February 22, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Thursday’s ad is for Rheingold, from 1955. In the 1940s and 1950s, Rheingold recruited a number of prominent celebrities to do ads for them, all using the tagline: “My beer is Rheingold — the Dry beer!” In this 1948 ad, English stage and film actor Cedric Hardwicke, explains that the most unpredictable part of any performance is the audience, but contrasts that with the consistent positive reaction he gets when after a show he orders a round of Rheingold Extra Dry.

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

Beer In Ads #2558: My Beer Is Rheingold Says Jane Pickens

February 21, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Wednesday’s ad is for Rheingold, from 1945 and 1948. In the 1940s and 1950s, Rheingold recruited a number of prominent celebrities to do ads for them, all using the tagline: “My beer is Rheingold — the Dry beer!” In this 1948 ad, American singer on Broadway, radio and television Jane Pickens, explains that she’s a perfectionist that practices hours every day to perfect her music, and that carries over to her selection of beer, too, which for her is Rheingold Extra Dry.

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“She was the musical leader of the Pickens Sisters, a trio born on a Georgia plantation that reached national stardom in the 1930s with its own radio show, concert tours and records.” In this ad, from 1945, she talks about how sometimes she gets tired out from all the singing she does, and when that happens she likes to relax with a tasty Rheingold Extra Dry.

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

Beer In Ads #2557: My Beer Is Rheingold Says David Wayne

February 20, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Tuesday’s ad is for Rheingold, from 1956. In the 1940s and 1950s, Rheingold recruited a number of prominent celebrities to do ads for them, all using the tagline: “My beer is Rheingold — the Dry beer!” In this ad, American stage and screen actor David Wayne, explains that in acting, “the suit must fit the character,” just as your beer should fir the tavern you drink in, which in New York means Rheingold Extra Dry.

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

Beer In Ads #2556: My Beer Is Rheingold Says Ilka Chase

February 19, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Monday’s ad is for Rheingold, from 1951. In the 1940s and 1950s, Rheingold recruited a number of prominent celebrities to do ads for them, all using the tagline: “My beer is Rheingold — the Dry beer!” In this ad, American actress of stage, television and film, radio host and novelist Ilka Chase, talks about how much she’s a New Yorker, even naming her latest book “New York 22,” and preferring a New York beer, too, like Rheingold Extra Dry.

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

Beer In Ads #2555: My Beer Is Rheingold Says George McManus

February 18, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Sunday’s ad is for Rheingold, from 1944. In the 1940s and 1950s, Rheingold recruited a number of prominent celebrities to do ads for them, all using the tagline: “My beer is Rheingold — the Dry beer!” In this ad, American cartoonist George McManus, talks about enjoying cabbage as much as one of his characters from “Bringing Up Father” does, especially if it’s paired with Rheingold Extra Dry.

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

Beer In Ads #2554: My Beer Is Rheingold Says Jinx Falkenburg

February 17, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Saturday’s ad is for Rheingold, from 1940 and 1950. In the 1940s and 1950s, Rheingold recruited a number of prominent celebrities to do ads for them, all using the tagline: “My beer is Rheingold — the Dry beer!” In this 1940 ad, actress, expert swimmer and tennis star Jinx Falkenburg, spends a rigorous day modeling and is relieved when the day is finally over and she can enjoy a glass of Rheingold Extra Dry. Falkenburg was also the first Miss Rheingold, a very successful promotional contest Rheingold ran for twenty-five years in which a new model was chosen each year to me “Miss Rheingold” for the year and then Rheingold’s advertising for the subsequent year featured Miss Rheingold for that year, as well. Jinx Falkenburg was chosen as the first Miss Rheingold by the brewery, while every subsequent year she was picked by consumer voting. In one year as many as 23 million people voted to pick one Miss Rheingold.

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Falkenburg also did another ad ten years later, in 1950. In this ad, she appears with her husband Tex McCrary, who “was an American journalist and public relations specialist who popularized the talk show genre for television and radio along with his wife, Jinx Falkenburg, with whom he hosted the first radio talk show, ‘Meet Tex and Jinx’ as well as the radio show “Hi Jinx” and the television talk shows ‘At Home’ and ‘The Swift Home Service Club.'”

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

Beer In Ads #2553: My Beer Is Rheingold Says Guy Lombardo

February 16, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Friday’s ad is for Rheingold, from 1958. In the late 1940s and 1950s, Rheingold recruited a number of prominent celebrities to do ads for them, all using the tagline: “My beer is Rheingold — the Dry beer!” In this ad, Canadian-American bandleader and violinist Guy Lombardo, explains that the best way to go sailing is to get a good crew to do all the work and stock lots of Rheingold Extra Dry to drink while they sail.

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

Beer In Ads #2552: My Beer Is Rheingold Says Don Budge

February 15, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Thursday’s ad is for Rheingold, from 1946. In the late 1940s and 1950s, Rheingold recruited a number of prominent celebrities to do ads for them, all using the tagline: “My beer is Rheingold — the Dry beer!” In this ad, American tennis champion Don Budge, compares the consistency of a tennis player to that of Rheingold Extra Dry.

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

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