Cameos

When Ogilvy and Mather was tasked with evolving the credit card giant’s upscale image, the agency wisely cast Jerry Seinfeld in a series of ads for the American Express Green Card in 1992.

Then just fifteen-year-old Shields had already risen to stardom as a young actress and model by the start of the eighties when she was infamously recruited by designer Calvin Klein to appear in a series of overtly sexy print and television ads.

In October 1979, America discovered that all “Mean” Joe Greene needed after a hard game was a Coke to make him smile.

Before she was the other ‘Charlie’s Angel’, model-turned-actress Shelley Hack was the chic, independent blonde bombshell that launched Revlon’s Charlie perfume.

At one time in American history, there was a war on margarine…we’d argue that it was former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt’s endorsement that allowed it to win the hearts and minds of everyday Americans.

In 1951, Chevrolet signed a deal to sponsor The Dinah Shore Show on NBC, during the height of her career as one of America’s most popular singers and television personalities.

There was a time when every American kid knew that if he ate his Wheaties and worked hard, maybe one day he could be just like Michael Jordan. Or Jackie Joyner. Or Billie Jean.

A true pioneer, a fearless adventurer – and a good sport. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, and the face of Lucky Strike cigarettes, even though she wasn’t a smoker…

Perhaps the most famous commodity brand campaign in history, “Got Milk?” launched its first spot in 1993. The ad featured a hilarious storyline involving a Hamilton-Burr history buff who couldn’t answer a Hamilton-Burr radio contest question because his mouth was full of PB&J. If only he had a glass of milk!

From 2001-2002, Clive Owen teamed up with BMW to take action packed chase scenes to a whole new level of bad-assary. The Hire, a series of 8 short films designed to subtly highlight the auto brand’s features, was perhaps the earliest successful example of a brand producing video content specifically for internet release.