The High Point Coffee Gal

Like Betty Bacall would ever thank a doorman....

She did once, however, thank a door, man....

For putting me on the other side of it.

Both the doorman and chauffeur later said that between takes Miss Bacall threw cups of scalding High Point in their faces.

Poor dear...she sank low...

This is the worst one

FLAVA!

Really what else was she in?

Fancy Feast!

My favorite spokescreature after the Pillsbury Doughboy

The Sherry Vine parody.

Writing is a coffee lover's dream

Bacall threw a whole pot of scalding High Point at Bonnie Franklin during Applause rehearsals.

Like Michael Jackson and his Pepsi commercial, Bonnie suffered 2nd degree burns on her scalp, burning her hair off.

Bonnie threatened to sue, and Betty called her good friend Truman Capote, crying and begging for help-Bonnie threatened to take The Dakota apartment and Bogie’s old suits in the settlement.

Queen Capote, seizing on the opportunity to have leverage over a cunt like Lauren Bacall, called up his friends The Paleys and needled them for help.

Bill Paley signed Bonnie to a CBS contract, and had her sit on her bony ass for a couple of years, until he got fed up paying the evil dwarf for doing nothing, and forced Norman Lear to cast her on One Day At A Time.

Later, after the Paleys stopped speaking to the Paleys, and Babe Paley died, Bill Paley was overheard saying, “not only did that queer kill my wife, he forced me to give Bonnie Fucking Franklin a job.”

So next time a 600 post One Day at a Time thread appears here, blame Bacall and Capote.

PS-Bonnie’s hair didn’t grow back for several years, which is why she has that ugly mushroom cap hair in the first seasons of One Day at a Time-it’s a wig.

She was in The Fan.

I still possess the Arby’s winter tulip tumblers she sponsored during the Carter administration.

My favorite time of day is night.

“Selling out” in commercials = having an Only Fans today.

Betty's coffee career started opposite her hubby, Jason Robards

You'd expect someone like her to phone it in but she's actually trying really hard to sell that shitty coffee. She took the job seriously.

R18, no kidding, you can easily imagine the 18,000 different line readings she practiced in the mirror at home of "You're going to love it" before finally settling on the one where she goes up on the word love.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Emma Stone’s character reference these ads in La La Land?

A new high point for her fans: You can now buy her ring, whistle, and locket.

Since you all were of no help I used Google to confirm Emma’s High Point impression was actually in Crazy, Stupid, Love (one of her other films with Ryan Gosling)!

See 00:01:17 at the link…

R12

Wait. Wait. Is this true?

Betty just loved playing the thea-tuh star in that era! Shame that June Allyson stole the Depends commercials from her after drinking all that High Point!

R24 Hi, I’m June Allyson. While I’m talking to you, I’m takin’ a dump.

I would love any of those jewelry items up for auction. Who wants to buy me the heart locket with "Baby, here's my heart -Bogie" inscribed? Only $20K.

In life and in love, Lauren Bacall was never ashamed of prostituting herself to the highest bidder. You don’t see that kind of work ethic much these days.

Kawfee LOVAH!

I'm actually a little surprised her kids don't want to keep those wedding rings for sentimental reasons. I mean we know what an uber bitch she was, but by all accounts it seems she was a loving and somewhat devoted Mom to her childrens. I mean her career probably came first, but it usually did with actresses in those days.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't recall her kids ever claiming she was a horrible, abusive mother.

Are they so strapped for cash that they need to sell their parents wedding rings? I thought they inherited several million dollars? Is it gone already?

FlavAH!

I think we should all write to that address they give in the commercial for the free sample packets and see what happens!

Drag queens like the one at R10 really do ruin everything.

Don’t forget, she hawked Fords as well…

Well, the maintenance fees at the Dakota don’t pay themselves.

All that THEA-TUH talk and haughty 1930's mid-Atlantic accent she pulls off....... can you imagine the delicious camp fest it wouldda been if she had teamed-up with Phylicia Rashad for one of those High Point commercials? I think the overload would have created a new form of fusion energy that would have powered Humanity forever or just created a super massive black hole and sucked us all in.

Rashad and Bacall!

Share a moment with Lauren Bacall

PleasurAH

FlavAH

FlavAH

DecAFhnated

NumbAH one with me!

Was she just a commercial actress?

She also sang, r37.

R38 I don't think so

[quote] Was she just a commercial actress?

Oh, she made a few films, but not the kind that would be shown in polite company.

Then, I purrrrrrrrrr

OP the gal was actually Leonard Nimoy in a wig, a little known fact these days.

Nimoy couldn’t do a female voice, so they had Ernest Borgnine do a female voice and edited it in. Sales skyrocketed!

OH SHIT!

Arby's

Arby's makes feel INTENSE JOY!

I love my sixth cup of coffee

OP, she did a few promotional spots for us at one point.

Good taste is easy to recognize!

100% r23

I pour my rich High Point over my delectable Fancy Feast. You can't imagine the FLAVAH!

Bacall would have made a great Helen Lawson!

This little fella spoofed Betty Bacall's career "High Point" a dozen years ago... wonder if he's on DL now?!

She also sang sorta.

Fixed for R38

My favorite version. And he perfectly hits the :30 mark.

R54 You made my day!😂

[quote]Bacall would have made a great Helen Lawson!

And a fabulous Phyllis.

She was the inspiration for and almost the voice of Cruella de Vil

OT, but can anyone find the video of the two young boys acting out MOMMIE DEAREST?

If Agnes Moorehead passed on “Bewitched”, the equally witchy-looking Lauren Bacall would’ve been perfect in the role of Endora.

Royal Caribbean Cruise 1994

Elders, did anyone actually try High Point Coffee? Was it really that good? Why was the brand discontinued so soon - was it a flop?

Spray n' Wash Gets Out What America Gets Into

How many commercials did this woman do?

She was bought by Maxwell House, High Point Coffee, Ford, Spray n' Wash, Arby's, Royal Caribbean Cruise, and what else?

R17 Dick and Laura Petrie had nothing to worry about from those two

*Rob

Excuse me

Why was her1985 signature perfume Cuntress a flop?

It smelled like Fancy Feast r66

R29 her son wrote a pretty good memoir about trying to learn about his father (Bogart). She comes across as brittle, harsh and judgey but not a bad mother. He seems to get a kick out of her in spite of her sourness. She’s with him on many of his excursions to research Bogart. Can’t remember the name of the book and too lazy to look it up. It’s worth a read, though. Son’s name if Steven, I think.

For someone who tried to present herself in a sort of patrician manner, she sure hawked a lot of downmarket brands.

Instead of Arby’s, Ford and Tuesday Morning, couldn’t her agents have gotten her more upscale products, like Perrier, Bloomingdales and Audi or something?

The Dakota ain't cheap.

Guess Betty didn't have the financial security to pick and choose... probably one of the reasons she was so prickly and bitter...

R71 no shit. That’s how she came across when she walked up to me and said that’s MY Oscar after the show. I told her bitch they’ll have to give you an honorary one because you’re not getting this one. Now go have some High Point and learn to accept defeat graciously.

The voice:

1/3 Mid Atlantic

1/3 Lifelong Smoker

1/3 Not Giving Two Fucks About Anything but Herself

I believe the kid at R52 and R53 grew up to be a regular straight guy, though raised by a gay couple. I can't find the more recent videos of him now, though.

Javi the Botox queen who at 31 thought he was so old looking got Botox and looks exactly the same.

It's okay. Movies and stage work aren't for everyone

Are you bitches for real? "That High Point Gal" is a legend.

But you can't have her. Stay away! She's mine. And I have all the necessary equipment to make her very happy.

I think she did some movie with Marylin Monroe and Bettie Gable.

“After lunch, I head upstairs…to the HEALTH SPA”

Too bad Miss Bacall never found time to do a "Love Boat": their "health spa" included the option to snort lines of coke off Gopher's dick while Speedo-clad Isaac served Irish coffees.

FlavAH!

[Quote] After lunch, I head upstairs…to the HEALTH SPA

^^What a sloven statement!

I go to THE HEALTH SPA after breakfast. In the AM!

Does the spa have flavAH?

Please post more commercials with her! I haven't found any new ones

That accent is NOT mid-Atlantic…🫣

Mid-East River?

Jewish New York?

That’s not a Ford, r33, it’s the new FAWD FAAHRMONT FEWCHURAH! It has flavAH!

A gal's gotta eat.

Was the coffee good?

R89 are you sure? She looked like she lived off ciggies and High Point.

R91 what's wrong with that?

R92, I can only imagine how frequently her toilet had to be cleaned...

R88, please also note that it's a FAWD FAWDAW.

So, what happened to her???

Well, OP, this terrible thing happened to her granddaughter...

Her reading in the Ford commercial was surprisingly unaffected

High Point is now Folgers Decaf

R98 No. High Point is now Caffeine Free Diet Dr. Pepper

Meth is the new High Point.

The ghost of Bonnie Franklin showed up at the Dakota one night and suffocated the old bitch with a Tuesday Morning accent pillow r95.

And High Point is now an extra strength degreaser marketed under the Formula 409 label.

Someone from DL has been at the High Point Wikipedia.

R102 that's hilarious. It is written like that Betty Bacall ending her endorsement ruined the product.

so, what is she really doing now??????

She's fine. She sends her love.

...and Broadway musical remakes on the horizon?

What did she do to gain such a highly coveted position?

She had flavAH!

Deep BARITONE flav-AH!

Didn't Dixie Csrter also do a fancy feast and coffeemate commercial? Or was that Bacall I mistook for DC.

Cathouse

ONLY on DL would a post about the "High Point Coffee Gal" achieve 111 responses.

R11 This one here had to be improvised

Love how she needs this full coffee service set up in her car when the distance between the Dakota and the theater district is about two - two and a half miles.

Pretty sure she did a voiceover ad for Disneyworld around 1985-86.

“Walt Disney World! Surprised?”

deCAFinated

She was even partially spoofed on SNL this weekend

Partially spoofed?

Maya was channeling Bacall throughout that entire segment.

I kept waiting for Maya to say, "Fla-VAH"

Clearly there is a DataLounger on the SNL writing staff, because that segment was pure DalaLounge!

R118 And Faye Dunaway