By: megan

megan — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:28:56 +0000

I came across this post while searching for info on the poster i have. I think i have the poster you are refering to with you and the washboard. I was trying to see what value it has. How can i contact you?

By: Alison

Alison — Sat, 28 May 2011 20:37:56 +0000

That is incredible! Can’t believe you were in the commercial.

By: Zora Margolis

Zora Margolis — Sat, 28 May 2011 17:31:18 +0000

I played “Mary Patrick” in the above ad–getting kicked off the train into the snow, for smoking. I appeared in several Virginia Slims print ads in the late 60′s and early 70s, when I was an actress in New York, in my early 20′s. I’ve been searching the internet today for the first time, to see if I can find any of them. I can’t seem to find the first one I did–scrubbing clothes on a washboard in an old-time kitchen. That ad was the first of the “Drudgery Series” in 1970, and was hugely popular at the time it came out. It was in Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, posters in NY subway cars, and highway billboards. They used the image, and some others I did, in their “Book of Days” calendars for years afterward. Too bad I never got any royalties. I was rehearsing a “feminist” musical at the New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater at the time it came out, and some of my feminist friends accused me of selling out. But, I was just trying to support myself as an actress.

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