Kelloggs Corn Flakes with Superman and ZaSu Pitts

Dag, why is ZaSu freaking out?!? She's acting like a beat-downs coming!! She gets up to fix some off-screen guy she apparently had spent the night with upstairs a bowl of corn flakes for breakfast from an open box (with all the top flaps removed), discovers she's out of corn flakes ('Oh, it happened again', she says) and starts to panic!! She mentions Superman, and apparently his day is going kinda slow because he saves the day by bringing Ms. Pitts another box of open, flapless Corn Flakes!! I feel better, because there's no tellin' what that guy upstairs woulda done to her had she not whipped him up a bowl of Corn Flakes...

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Kelloggs
• Corn
• Flakes
• Zazu
• Pitts
• Superman
• commercial
• 50s

[jolsonstories]

One wonderful and UNIQUE clip for sure! BUT...PLEASE get this great star's name right: ZaSu!! It's shamefully wrong in the headline. Please correct!!

[weenielongus]

Thank-you, Jolsonstories, I stand corrected!!

[ednayarkspay]

ZaSu is hardly obscure! She was a dramatic actress in silent films (star of von Stroheim's all-time classic 'Greed'). When talkies arrived, she was discovered to have an impeccable comedic ability and landed her own film short series (opposite Thelma Todd) produced by Hollywood's greatest comedy producer, Hal Roach. She worked in films all her adult life and made the transition to television, appearing on everything from Perry Mason, Jackie Gleason, Kraft Television Theatre and Gale Storm Show.

[BeethovenAve]

ZaAu Pitts was the inspiration for Olive Oyl's voice in Popeye cartoons.

[cuebox53]

@MischiefMakerStudio1 What about the Bride of Frankenstein?

[JoeSonic5678]

This is actually pretty distrubing, like the dude upstairs was gonna beat her if she didn't have any corn flakes.

[siempremarisol]

ERA MARAVILLOSA

[siempremarisol]

@jolsonstories SHE WAS UNIQUE

[aleckscott]

From Wikipedia: "Her stock persona (a fretful, flustered, worrisome spinster) made her instantly recognizable and was often imitated in cartoons and other films." Apparently, this was her schtick.

[midiout]

It's just an old commercial, folks. For corn flakes. It wasn't meant for viewers sensibilities of 2011.

[hebneh]

I agree that I don't like the tone of this commercial, with a wife being scared and panicky because her husband always gets "SO mad" if they're out of corn flakes. In the '50s that was considered a joke about people who'd been married a long time, not an implication of spouse abuse.

[TheStanbabe]

This is before..The Hanna/Barbera tv cartoon characters promoted the hell out of Kellogg's cereals on the airways.

[Derek9859]

So Superman has been downgraded to delivery man...awww shucks

[Pittmail88]

Huge fan os Zasu and Thelma Todd. Popeye's Olive Oyl is a caricature of Zasu's voice and mannerisms. "Oh Dear". She kinda looks like her at times too, though much exagerated of course.