Cigarette Girls on Film

[happyfilmluvguy]

I am wondering a bit if any of the loungers here know of a film or films that featured the classic cigarette girl. I am curious and am also on the search for a quote of one saying, "cigars, cigarettes....cigars, cigarettes". I know there were one or two Looney Tunes episodes than had this quote. But were there any films?

The only one I can think of is Betty Boop's appearance in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"

 

[hksj]

My Man Godfrey (1936)? The Lost Weekend (1945) has such a scene in a nightclub, as does the contemporary The Aviator (2004).

 

[The Wolf]

I think DuBarry Was a Lady had one in the nightclub as well.
It's worth watching anyway. It stars Gene Kelly, Red Skelton and Lucille Ball. I think Dorsey and his band plays in it, too.

Sincerely,
THE
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[Jack Scorpion]

The Sweet Smell of Success. -- Main Character uses a cigarette girl to bribe a columnist into saying something. Tsk tsk.

The Blue Gardenia. -- I'm pretty sure there are cigarette girls at the bar that Raymond Burr takes Ann Baxter to. Not 100% though.

 

[BegintheBeguine]

If you look for something you will start seeing it everywhere. In 2 out of 3 movies yesterday: White Christmas, and Orchestra Wives. I am wondering about how we knew what cigarette girls were: when we were children I made a box with a string and we'd pretend to be cigarette girls, saying Cigars, cigarettes, tiparillos... It must have been an old movie or in Mission Impossible or something and it stuck.

 

[Feraud]

I think there are scenes in Murder My Sweet and Dead Reckoning that take place in nightclubs with ladies hawking smokes.

 

[Quigley Brown]

In Woody Allen' Radio Days, set in the 40s, Mia Farrow plays a cigarette girl

 

[Girl Friday]

Doesn't Indy punch one in the beginning of the Temple of Doom?

 

[Marc Chevalier]

There was a cigarette girl that hit up on Dutch Schultz in the movie The Cotton Club.


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[katiemakeup]

In Woody Allen' Radio Days, set in the 40s, Mia Farrow plays a cigarette girl

That movie is great!

 

[Amy Jeanne]

It's not a Golden Era film, but Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) has a swanky cigarette girl, complete with Louise Brooks bob.

 

[tallyho]

I had a cigarette girl at my wedding. She asked me to dance at some point, we had Mora's Modern Rythmists as our band. anyway, when I was tossing her around, her strapless dress kept falling down and giving the band a show.
My new bride didnt appreciate it!

 

[Grace]

Not that this will help you at all, but I thought you might like to see it!

I thought the cigarette girl shown here was adorable! Taken at Viva, just after the car show:

 

[WH1]

Some Came Running, the scene in the nightclub in Terra Haute.

 

[jitterbugdoll]

I believe you can catch a brief glimpse of a cigarette girl in the movie The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer.

I thought it would be fun to post a photo of the 1940s uniform I wear when performing as a cigarette girl.

 

[Dixon Cannon]

Wow!

I believe you can catch a brief glimpse of a cigarette girl in the movie The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer.

I thought it would be fun to post a photo of the 1940s uniform I wear when performing as a cigarette girl.

I believe I shall start smoking again now! Phillip Morris, toots! Keep the change!

-dixon cannon

 

[tallyho]

In the "Big Sleep" there were a couple of them at Eddie Mars' gambling joint.

 

[Mike in Seattle]

I am wondering about how we knew what cigarette girls were: when we were children I made a box with a string and we'd pretend to be cigarette girls, saying Cigars, cigarettes, tiparillos... It must have been an old movie or in Mission Impossible or something and it stuck.

Actually, it was a series of TV commercials in the 60's, with Edie Adams. One of the jobs she took after Ernie Kovacs died and she felt obligated to pay the back taxes he'd refused to pay to our friends at the IRS. Those commercials ran for YEARS... Just checked - she was in their commercials for 19 years.

 

[Hondo]

Actually, it was a series of TV commercials in the 60's, with Edie Adams. One of the jobs she took after Ernie Kovacs died and she felt obligated to pay the back taxes he'd refused to pay to our friends at the IRS. Those commercials ran for YEARS... Just checked - she was in their commercials for 19 years.

Thanks for the info, I didn't recall it call, but Edie Adams was a fox, I remember those commercials on tv

 

[Hondo]

Compared

jitterbugdoll looks the part, the others are not bad but the tatoos are a bit much, Not to offend any one, but its not vintage cigarette girl look, more like circus performers.