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Portrait of Commander Edward Whitehead #867245

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Portrait of Commander Edward Whitehead #867245
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Commander Edward Whitehead, an actual World War II veteran of the South Pacific campaign in His Majesty's Navy, starred as the refined bearded gentleman who pushed Schweppes Tonic Water with the bubbly "Schweppervescence" at a variety of cocktail parties. "Schweppervescence! Of course!", commented Whitehead were "Those remarkable little bubbles that last the whole drink through." Joan Alexander played the woman whose face was never seen but whom the Commander was always talking to and trying to remember where he last met her..."Now wait, don't tell me. Was it Hong Kong? Beirut, Cairo, perhaps?" The "Was it Paris?" campaign was created by Ogilvy & Mather Agency in 1955 and ran through the 1960s. Commander Whitehead made such a hit in the Schweppes print campaign that Ogilvy put him in TV commercials. Whitehead was a slightly overeager performer (note the mad gleam in his eyes as he pronounces Schweppes "curiously refreshing"), but he did resemble a British gentleman, and in a medium then distinguished by chimpanzee co-hosts and boisterous vaudeville, this proved a powerful point of distinction. Ogilvy had a problem, however, finding appropriately toney co-stars for the Commander. It was decided that fashion models would serve better than actresses, director Newt Mitzman recalls, so for one Schweppes spot "we hired a top model of the day named Carmen. She was beautiful and she was glamorous, but she also had a voice that could shatter glass, and had to be completely ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Good overal condition.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:c. 1970</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:United Kingdom</td></tr>
<tr><td>Maker:Bernard Hailstone (1910-1987)</td></tr>
<tr><td>Height:40</td></tr>

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<tr><td>Title:Portrait of Commander Edward Whitehead</td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:Modern</td></tr>

<tr><td>Type:Oil on canvas</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:london uk</td></tr>
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