@LoneWolfStar99 And in many ways still currently enjoying the biggest success of her career, having most notably two years ago become the oldest-ever host of "Saturday Night Live."
It's still hard for me to see her as a brunette (but I know that was her natural back then). She seems like she got more popular after she went blonde.
It's so interesting seeing her here and seeing her on New Episodes of Hot In Cleveland... It's like looking through a time machine.... I wonder if Betty looks back at these old videos
It's crazy to think that she was already 37 years old when this was made way back in the 50's. What's even crazier is she looks almost the exact same except with white hair.
I'm impressed by the quality of the colour. So few color video tapes survive from the late-1950s, so it's always nice to see some excerpts from a surviving one. Hell, they should put the whole special on DVD for novelty value.
I love 0.52.. the girl has all her make up on and looks like shes just taken out a full set of curling rolls.. and now shes washing her hair. You know.. because, like, its just what you do after you've done your hair and make up.
@Imani1824 I washed my hair with egg, used mayonnaise for conditioner and beer for a rinse. They all are good for the hair. (When I used to have hair). Beer is very good on the hair. There used to be a shampoo called "Body on Tap" Had beer in the shampoo.
@CusterFlux There are many shows from the 50s still around Nick At Night and TVland proved that. At least some of these commercials were on the tape of The Milton Berle Show.
@carlsperr cool, but with this degree of preservation? I mean, this is un-real! In color, no banding from the 2" master, good sound: this is so good, it's seriously spooky - I mean, Betty White's a MILF!
Just "Bing" Richard Hudnut and you'll find that he sold his holdings to what is now Pfizer, and that he had a famous son-in-law: Rudolph Valentino. Info courtesy Wikipedia
@mkbell2003 LOL Of COURSE she was coiffed and pearled, every self-respecting white woman did her best to look pretty, presentable and feminine back then... not like these commie pinko lesbos that pass for women today, or scantily-clad sticks, that claim to be a real woman. I think they're just lumpy men, with boobjobs !
I'd like to see the entire show someday as well. The dark haired model using Lip-Quick reminds me of Lara Parker, it's not out of realm of possibility that she modeled back in the day.
Ms. Betty makes such a nice spokes women. A good voice and gentle style. I wish commericals were like this today. Just someone talking to us like in a conversation.
@JenniferRevived well hello???? you're on TV!!! I still don't get it people who are famous now don't care about their looks. Back then people cared how they looked and what kind of impression they left on people. Showing up on TV you wanted to look on yr best! Even though i'm from the 80/90s I still get it why they looked like that. I would look like that as well If I would know I would be on TV and being seen by millions of people.
JenniferRevived...Everyone looked perfect because people back then took PRIDE in what they looked like. It mattered to women that if a hair was out of place or her clothes were wrinkled, to correct it and take pride in their appearance. Men as well wanted to look their best. It showed they were upstanding citizens and not whimpy pieces of crap pussy-whipped by a dominating woman. It mattered to out-do those commie bastards and because Americans back then believed in what was right!
@kerryincolumbus Well Im not talking about there personallity or anything, I'm talking about there faces. They look TO perfect, then in 1960's and 1970's they don't look that perfect!
god i wish i could get shampoo and conditioner for those prices nowadays. last i saw, for some of the really good ones, they want as much as $15 a bottle. yikes.
this is awesome! i wasn't even thought up of yet in 1959 and my mother was only 6yrs old when this aired! i have to admit i wasn't familiar with betty white until 1985 when i was 5yrs old and the golden girls aired...i luv everything involving those 4 hilariously funny and talented women!
Richard Hudnut was an early cosmetics tycoon- his stepdaughter Winifred Hudnut was the second wife of Rudolph Valentino. She's better known under her nom de plume Natacha Rambova! BTW, doesn't Betty look great? Well, the secret's out: she's not a natural blonde!
"Back in St. Olaf, we had to perm our hair with herring juice. We looked gorgeous, but the birds landed on us all the time, so we liked to pretend to be living statues".
LOL, try as I might, I ain't yet a Golden Girls worthy writer! :P
Milton Berle had done an unsuccessful series for NBC in the 1958-59 season, but was still under a long-term contract to them; hence, this special.
I believe Berle got out of the deal (which would have run for thirty years) in 1966 (halfway through the deal) so he could host shows on other networks.
Shortly after getting out of his exclusive NBC deal, he began doing a variety show on ABC, but it only lasted about four months (the show had widely been expected to be a huge hit).
This is awesome. Seems like Betty was going through a slump during this time period. It is funny however that at 2:27 these big stars led into her infomercial. They are all dead now....and Betty has done more than any of these chaps would have if they would have lived.
I love the quality of video shot from an RCA TK-41 color TV Camera. The things were enormous and sometimes you can see a bit of bumpiness when the camera operator dollied about the studio or stage. CAN you please upload the entire Milton Berle TV Special??
If I hadn't checked the year n the description, I wold have thought these ads were from the 1970's. The quality of these 50's color videotapes are exquisite! :D
@JenniferRevived ,,,, of COURSE It doesn't sound expensive to us in 2012.. this was 1959. The average annual salary for a family-of-four, with only the father working was $6k. So, $1.10 in 1959 money is $9.00 today. That seems a bit expensive to me
My pleasure, 'quad'. In the fall of 1960, as part of his NBC contract, Berle became host of "JACKPOT BOWLING". That gig lasted one season, and Milton soon renegotiated his long-term contract with the network, allowing him to appear on other programs and specials other than NBC.
Milton Berle's "KRAFT MUSIC HALL" was seen only during the 1958-'59 season, 'quad'. When Perry Como became available for the fall of '59, Kraft dropped "Uncle Miltie". He was still under contract to NBC, though, and appeared in several specials on "SUNDAY SHOWCASE" during the 1959-'60 season...
This is stunning, but I'm curious--Berle was on "The Kraft Music Hall" at that time. Why commercials for another sponsor? Did the sponsors alternate, or are these from a rerun? Either way, many thanks for posting. Truly glorious color.
This was originally presented on NBC's "SUNDAY SHOWCASE", a weekly anthology series of "specials" {Milton Berle appeared in at least two of them, the other on film, with Lucy & Desi} that appeared opposite "THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW" on CBS at 8pm(et), for one season. Unfortunately, even though Sullivan was telecast in black and white, VERY few people had color sets to watch this {you had to spend at least $1000 for a moderately priced RCA Victor set; $2500 for a "top of the line" model}...
...and very few people HAD color sets in 1959- and there were VERY FEW color programs available, either on network or local stations [NBC was virtually the ONLY network to "push" color programming back then, on a limited basis]. This didn't change until the mid-'60s. As for Richard Hudnut, they also sponsored the final season of "THIS IS YOUR LIFE" on NBC in 1960-'61, and eventually disappeared from the Warner-Lambert corporate family.
Remarkable quality for a commercial (even digitally remastered) that was done in 1959.
WaltGekko 3 days ago
Oh God, i'm downloading this and putting it in my Fallout 3 game.
ThePixelFaerie 4 days ago
Betty White is a timeless, ageless treasure. She's beautiful no matter what her age.
LoneWolfStar99 6 days ago
@LoneWolfStar99 And in many ways still currently enjoying the biggest success of her career, having most notably two years ago become the oldest-ever host of "Saturday Night Live."
WaltGekko 3 days ago
0:30 ....Nooo bras :)
darkdream0464 1 week ago
richard hudnut is the name of betty white's pimp from 1958-1964
hithereimdan2 2 weeks ago
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philaman1972 2 weeks ago
WOW @ over 50 years ago.
justaguy12345 2 weeks ago
wow betty as a brunette
TheVladimere9 2 weeks ago
I don't know if it's Betty White or the simplicity of the commercial, but I seriously would buy one of those lipquicks lipstick!! :)
Shampoo Egg ain't nothing to me. My mom put mayonnaise in my hair to give it shine. :)
bubblinbrownsugar616 3 weeks ago
Spanking clean!
Kawyy 3 weeks ago
1.10 $ for shampoo....must have been a fortune back then...
Filmdude0 3 weeks ago
@Filmdude0 equivalent to about $10 bucks today that gets you the Paul Mitchel shampoo line in today's shops
daved1974 1 week ago
@daved1974 Thanks :) .....I wonder if that was a common price for shampoo back then.
Filmdude0 1 week ago
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AtenRa 3 weeks ago
She's sooooo pretty!!!!
MsBlackbelt23 3 weeks ago
One of the first network color video tape recordings. Thanks!
scdevon 4 weeks ago
It's still hard for me to see her as a brunette (but I know that was her natural back then). She seems like she got more popular after she went blonde.
JoLeana76 4 weeks ago
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itsovermarch2012 4 weeks ago
she sounds exactly the same lol
LaurenAlexandra711 1 month ago
It's so interesting seeing her here and seeing her on New Episodes of Hot In Cleveland... It's like looking through a time machine.... I wonder if Betty looks back at these old videos
Jeffrizel1986 1 month ago
It's crazy to think that she was already 37 years old when this was made way back in the 50's. What's even crazier is she looks almost the exact same except with white hair.
jeremylew416 1 month ago
Great commercial, I was 11 months old at the time.
ladyfox250 1 month ago
I'm impressed by the quality of the colour. So few color video tapes survive from the late-1950s, so it's always nice to see some excerpts from a surviving one. Hell, they should put the whole special on DVD for novelty value.
MattTheSaiyan 1 month ago in playlist Commercials
if you listen to her voice really good you can hear the old Betty white in her lol
PhotoShop1012 1 month ago
What did lipstick do before that
rsownage957 1 month ago
aw, that was great! been a fan since the golden girls in the 80s, but never seen hear this young before :o)
playgirlc 1 month ago
Betty white is so sexy. That's right, I said IS and I meant it!
opcn18 1 month ago
Happy 90th Betty!
MerleOberon 1 month ago
omg shampoo for $1.10! :O
gussy1d5 1 month ago
@gussy1d5 that's $6.50 today... Who's the daffy dame with Milton?
irish89055 1 month ago
I love how everything worked better then
MsCooloreo 1 month ago
I love 0.52.. the girl has all her make up on and looks like shes just taken out a full set of curling rolls.. and now shes washing her hair. You know.. because, like, its just what you do after you've done your hair and make up.
passionate18 1 month ago
Eww! Shampoo with egg? They must've thought that it was good for your hair then.
Imani1824 1 month ago
@Imani1824 , still do. Egg-based shampoos are still widely available today. Google it.
Beejjjjjj 1 month ago
@Imani1824 I washed my hair with egg, used mayonnaise for conditioner and beer for a rinse. They all are good for the hair. (When I used to have hair). Beer is very good on the hair. There used to be a shampoo called "Body on Tap" Had beer in the shampoo.
rsvy913681 3 weeks ago 5
Shampoo WITH EGG?!
daimdar 1 month ago
she looks the same!
Baileyboo1805 1 month ago
where the hell did those prices go? i pay $3!
ThatFunnyGirlTaylor 2 months ago
@ThatFunnyGirlTaylor The dollar isn't worth anything today that's where they went.
carlsperr 1 month ago
Shampoo with EGG??? Also, I haven't seen a roll-on lipstick for a while.
MixedAddict 2 months ago
I wonder if they fought over who could be the "no odor" chicky?
rdmb57 2 months ago
she looks good for 37.
nognilk 2 months ago
@nognilk she also looks great for 90, which she will be
John19182004 2 months ago
Mind blowing time machine quality video ... most 2" masters are a complete mess - how the hell did this even survive?!?!?
CusterFlux 2 months ago
@CusterFlux There are many shows from the 50s still around Nick At Night and TVland proved that. At least some of these commercials were on the tape of The Milton Berle Show.
carlsperr 1 month ago
@carlsperr cool, but with this degree of preservation? I mean, this is un-real! In color, no banding from the 2" master, good sound: this is so good, it's seriously spooky - I mean, Betty White's a MILF!
CusterFlux 1 month ago
@CusterFlux I agree...the quality of video and audio is spectacular. The poster must have access to the originals and some professional equipment.
monoceros1222 3 weeks ago
Shampoo with egg? :o
whoiscraig 2 months ago
Just "Bing" Richard Hudnut and you'll find that he sold his holdings to what is now Pfizer, and that he had a famous son-in-law: Rudolph Valentino. Info courtesy Wikipedia
cr3861 2 months ago
Are these products still around??
7b7Ben 2 months ago
@7b7Ben Yes, but they have changed there names to MAC, and Head & Shoulders.
JenniferRevived 2 months ago
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highway99blues 2 months ago in playlist betty white
@highway99blues wow thats a dumb comment xD
YoNiQe 2 months ago
Betty White was really white back in 1959. Coiffed and pearled when plugging Richard "Head Cunt" shampoo. LOL
mkbell2003 2 months ago
@mkbell2003 LOL Of COURSE she was coiffed and pearled, every self-respecting white woman did her best to look pretty, presentable and feminine back then... not like these commie pinko lesbos that pass for women today, or scantily-clad sticks, that claim to be a real woman. I think they're just lumpy men, with boobjobs !
kerryincolumbus 2 months ago
@kerryincolumbus Sucks to be you then champ. :P
KittyKandyKat 2 months ago
@kerryincolumbus God, so true. What happened to femininity?
immensecat 2 months ago
I'd like to see the entire show someday as well. The dark haired model using Lip-Quick reminds me of Lara Parker, it's not out of realm of possibility that she modeled back in the day.
64098 2 months ago
four words: inflation is a bitch!
keiwansaunt 2 months ago
Betty White used to be smoking!!! And still is BTW. Dimples for days.......
jasb673 2 months ago
Ms. Betty makes such a nice spokes women. A good voice and gentle style. I wish commericals were like this today. Just someone talking to us like in a conversation.
Buffalobigboy69 2 months ago
Why did everyone look so perfect in the 50's ?
JenniferRevived 2 months ago
@JenniferRevived well hello???? you're on TV!!! I still don't get it people who are famous now don't care about their looks. Back then people cared how they looked and what kind of impression they left on people. Showing up on TV you wanted to look on yr best! Even though i'm from the 80/90s I still get it why they looked like that. I would look like that as well If I would know I would be on TV and being seen by millions of people.
capcom23 2 months ago
@capcom23 I think it's called Plastic Surgery :)
JenniferRevived 2 months ago
JenniferRevived...Everyone looked perfect because people back then took PRIDE in what they looked like. It mattered to women that if a hair was out of place or her clothes were wrinkled, to correct it and take pride in their appearance. Men as well wanted to look their best. It showed they were upstanding citizens and not whimpy pieces of crap pussy-whipped by a dominating woman. It mattered to out-do those commie bastards and because Americans back then believed in what was right!
kerryincolumbus 2 months ago
@kerryincolumbus Well Im not talking about there personallity or anything, I'm talking about there faces. They look TO perfect, then in 1960's and 1970's they don't look that perfect!
JenniferRevived 1 month ago
@JenniferRevived .... oh.... ok.. maybe I DID rant a little bit.. SORRY
kerryincolumbus 1 month ago
Whoa! The color suddenly doesn't make it feel 1950s anymore.
It feels as if it's an alternative style of a modern advertisement. :S
SouthwesternEagle 2 months ago
What a sellout ha
Daazbee 2 months ago
Betty was a sexy woman, when she was young.
sweiland75 2 months ago
god i wish i could get shampoo and conditioner for those prices nowadays. last i saw, for some of the really good ones, they want as much as $15 a bottle. yikes.
mrpretzelcrisps 3 months ago
this is awesome! i wasn't even thought up of yet in 1959 and my mother was only 6yrs old when this aired! i have to admit i wasn't familiar with betty white until 1985 when i was 5yrs old and the golden girls aired...i luv everything involving those 4 hilariously funny and talented women!
munkeedragon 3 months ago
Richard Hudnut was an early cosmetics tycoon- his stepdaughter Winifred Hudnut was the second wife of Rudolph Valentino. She's better known under her nom de plume Natacha Rambova! BTW, doesn't Betty look great? Well, the secret's out: she's not a natural blonde!
Avatar610 3 months ago
Richard Hudnut- that's a funny name.
SEHANO 3 months ago
you go betty! You look exactly the same!
JakeZelmore 3 months ago 12
Richard Hadnut Cosmetics eh...? With a name like that, it's surprising that the brand isn't around today!
mmmfloorpie 3 months ago
Richard Hudnut was a division of Warner-Lambert by the mid-'50s, 'samthor'. By the '60s, it disappeared.
fromthesidelines 3 months ago
amazing! so much pink!
eyeshadow 1 color from lashes to brow.
I wonder if the rainbow on the curtain was added on.
shampoo with egg, I haven't seen that in years!
wattever333 3 months ago
these ads r hilarious!!!!
PLLVDgirl03 3 months ago
I find it hilarious how they even used the same marketing techniques those days as they do now
ProphetofGod 3 months ago
sexy betty - wow
joedoys 3 months ago
Reminds me so of Doris Day selling "Happy Soap".:-)))
Arwen1964 3 months ago
She is BEAUTIFUL!!!
MultiEbutuoy 3 months ago 2
"Back in St. Olaf, we had to perm our hair with herring juice. We looked gorgeous, but the birds landed on us all the time, so we liked to pretend to be living statues".
LOL, try as I might, I ain't yet a Golden Girls worthy writer! :P
traod8 3 months ago 30
@traod8 Not half bad! LOL!!
FM897 3 months ago
Even if Betty wasn't on TV, she could have worked as voice talent. She has a fabulous, clear speaking voice
brettsomers 3 months ago
more importantly, whatever happened to Richard Hudnut?
samthor 3 months ago
Betty is great at doing commercials.
maleficentdiva 4 months ago
I'd give almost anything to be able to go back to those times :(
greenrefrigerator 4 months ago
Yoh! When tv commercials used to go on for five minutes at a time!
GraceMartini 4 months ago
This is funny stuff. Anyone else thinks she looks like Nanette Fabray?
oldertvshowswerebetr 4 months ago
Shampoo bottle look so modern
jamesstenbeck1977 4 months ago
avon at your door
THISISNIDDY 4 months ago
Milton Berle had done an unsuccessful series for NBC in the 1958-59 season, but was still under a long-term contract to them; hence, this special.
I believe Berle got out of the deal (which would have run for thirty years) in 1966 (halfway through the deal) so he could host shows on other networks.
Shortly after getting out of his exclusive NBC deal, he began doing a variety show on ABC, but it only lasted about four months (the show had widely been expected to be a huge hit).
altfactor 4 months ago
Wow!!! that's so cool!! where in the hell did you find this vid?
cutiekiska 4 months ago
So, she was really a brunette?
VASINGER 4 months ago
This is the reason YouTube exists.
dannyboylee 4 months ago 19
Color videotape courtesy of Ampex and RCA
ohger1 4 months ago 2
1959?!? Looks more like 1972 to me!
TaurusWrangler 4 months ago 2
betty white was hot.and still is......
dafirenze117 4 months ago
spanking clean...?
Matze010787 4 months ago
SHAMPOO. $1.10. I AM DYING
:O
KaiserFailed 4 months ago
@KaiserFailed haha, my grandma had a candy bar from idk how long ago and it was for 2 cents. (but kinda untasteful looking)
wheels0503 4 months ago
@wheels0503 You mean to tell me...that your grandmother saved this candy bar for however long? lol or was it the candy's wrapper or something?
KaiserFailed 4 months ago
@KaiserFailed she said when she was little she liked to buy and hide candy bars and this one she found randomly in her safe
wheels0503 4 months ago
i wish i lived then!
BubbleGumDexter23 5 months ago
She was beautifulllll (:
justrixx 5 months ago
.98 cents!! for conditioner! man i wish i was around haha
cookiecake333 5 months ago 4
Betty was a hotty.
patriotim12 5 months ago 3
SHAMPOO AND CONDITIONER FOR UNDER $2!
extremeXjapanophile 5 months ago 3
This is awesome. Seems like Betty was going through a slump during this time period. It is funny however that at 2:27 these big stars led into her infomercial. They are all dead now....and Betty has done more than any of these chaps would have if they would have lived.
BrentAudi 5 months ago
WHAT IS WAVING. WHAT IS THIS.
IpodChan 5 months ago
BEAUTIFUL! GOD! LOVE BETTY!
MultiEbutuoy 6 months ago
Amazing how good color was then....
MerleOberon 6 months ago
I WANT SHAMPOO FOR 98 CENTS!!!!!
FLYINGCOOKIEMONSTERS 6 months ago
Yes, Betty While will outlive us all....
tomservo56954 7 months ago
I love the quality of video shot from an RCA TK-41 color TV Camera. The things were enormous and sometimes you can see a bit of bumpiness when the camera operator dollied about the studio or stage. CAN you please upload the entire Milton Berle TV Special??
NP4Mayans 7 months ago 7
If I hadn't checked the year n the description, I wold have thought these ads were from the 1970's. The quality of these 50's color videotapes are exquisite! :D
jlhabitan50 7 months ago 5
How would you like to have that fir a name. Dick Hudnut... Lol geesh
Turkeydoodlers 7 months ago
Wow.. what a difference from young to old.. Betty White and the commercial.
performingsys 8 months ago
Betty White is so hot looking back then.
yogafan6500 9 months ago 2
$1.10 and $0.98 was actually kind of expensive back then.
frow9405 10 months ago 12
@frow9405 How? Dosent sound exspensive...
JenniferRevived 2 months ago
@JenniferRevived $1.10 would be about $8.20 today considering inflation.
frow9405 2 months ago
@JenniferRevived ,,,, of COURSE It doesn't sound expensive to us in 2012.. this was 1959. The average annual salary for a family-of-four, with only the father working was $6k. So, $1.10 in 1959 money is $9.00 today. That seems a bit expensive to me
kerryincolumbus 2 months ago
NBC Living Color! RCA TK-41 in the house! This is sparkling.
micmac99 10 months ago 3
@micmac99 - And for the slides, TK-26 film chain/slide scanner.
wmbrown6 10 months ago
Great commercial!!! Betty looks terrific!
stlgtrace 11 months ago 2
My pleasure, 'quad'. In the fall of 1960, as part of his NBC contract, Berle became host of "JACKPOT BOWLING". That gig lasted one season, and Milton soon renegotiated his long-term contract with the network, allowing him to appear on other programs and specials other than NBC.
fromthesidelines 11 months ago
Milton Berle's "KRAFT MUSIC HALL" was seen only during the 1958-'59 season, 'quad'. When Perry Como became available for the fall of '59, Kraft dropped "Uncle Miltie". He was still under contract to NBC, though, and appeared in several specials on "SUNDAY SHOWCASE" during the 1959-'60 season...
fromthesidelines 11 months ago
@fromthesidelines Aha! Thanks for clarifying.
quadvideotape 11 months ago
This is stunning, but I'm curious--Berle was on "The Kraft Music Hall" at that time. Why commercials for another sponsor? Did the sponsors alternate, or are these from a rerun? Either way, many thanks for posting. Truly glorious color.
quadvideotape 11 months ago
It's a treat to see ANY surviving color VTR footage from this era - thanks for sharing!
jcice3 11 months ago 30
It's so strange seeing these 50s style ads on color video tape.
antoniod 11 months ago 35
This was originally presented on NBC's "SUNDAY SHOWCASE", a weekly anthology series of "specials" {Milton Berle appeared in at least two of them, the other on film, with Lucy & Desi} that appeared opposite "THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW" on CBS at 8pm(et), for one season. Unfortunately, even though Sullivan was telecast in black and white, VERY few people had color sets to watch this {you had to spend at least $1000 for a moderately priced RCA Victor set; $2500 for a "top of the line" model}...
fromthesidelines 11 months ago
...and very few people HAD color sets in 1959- and there were VERY FEW color programs available, either on network or local stations [NBC was virtually the ONLY network to "push" color programming back then, on a limited basis]. This didn't change until the mid-'60s. As for Richard Hudnut, they also sponsored the final season of "THIS IS YOUR LIFE" on NBC in 1960-'61, and eventually disappeared from the Warner-Lambert corporate family.
fromthesidelines 11 months ago
Keep 'em coming!!! I'm lovin' this early color videotape stuff you are posting! Er, what OTHER 2" masters are you dusting off (I hope!) ????
musicom67 11 months ago 5