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Release Date:
February 9, 1994
Original Title:
Tupperware!
Alternate Titles:
American Experience: Tupperware!
Genres:
Documentary | History
Production Companies:
PBS
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 52
The remarkable story of Earl Silas Tupper, an ambitious but reclusive small-town inventor, and Brownie Wise, the self-taught sales-woman who built him an empire out of bowls that burped. Brownie was an intuitive marketing genius who trained a small army of Tupperware Ladies to put on Tupperware parties in living rooms across America in the 1950s. She rewarded her sales force with minks and modern appliances at extravagant annual jubilees which the company filmed. her saleswomen earned thousands, even millions, selling Tupperware. And the experience changed their lives.
Cinematography:
Peter Stein
Co-Producer:
Robert Hessman
Robin Hessman
Director:
Laurie Kahn-Leavitt
Editor:
William A. Anderson
Executive Producer:
Margaret Drain
Mark Samels
Intern:
Barbara Dalton Rotundo
Music Supervisor:
Marchese Taylor
Producer:
Laurie Kahn-Leavitt
Production Assistant:
Julie Golia
Sound Editor:
Richard Bock
Sound Recordist:
John Miller
Title Designer:
Alison Kennedy
Title Illustration:
Bruce Walker
Writer:
Laurie Kahn-Leavitt
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