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Title: Car and Dolls #18 - Brenda Frazier / Studebaker Land Cruiser
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 04, 2012, 03:49:39 AM
Tell me who this young lady was, and with which car she was most readily associated.

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Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: Manuel on May 05, 2012, 05:22:50 PM

Looks like a pre war/B & W movie star. The face looks familiar. She had a high pitched voice I think. Can't remember the name @ the moment.
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 06, 2012, 02:30:11 AM
Hmmm...
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 10, 2012, 04:18:13 AM
Up
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: streamliner on May 10, 2012, 11:32:06 PM
Could she be a very young Jane Russell?
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 11, 2012, 04:54:16 AM
No, not her.
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: Tackitt on May 11, 2012, 05:14:52 AM
Ann Blyth and Ford?
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 11, 2012, 05:26:21 AM
No, not her.

Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: RayTheRat on May 11, 2012, 08:43:07 AM
Claudette Colbert, Dodge?
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 11, 2012, 09:43:56 AM
No, not her. Also looking for more specificity on the automobile (not just a brand, in other words)

Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: Tackitt on May 11, 2012, 10:13:02 AM
I was looking at a commercial the other day that had an Ann Somebody (sound miscue. Either accidental or deliberate) shilling the 1954 Kaiser Manhattan.
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 11, 2012, 10:18:07 AM
No, not her.
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: Tackitt on May 11, 2012, 11:38:10 AM
I think I have figured who and the brand. Now I am trying to figure out what the specifics are you want.
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: Tackitt on May 11, 2012, 11:44:36 AM
Okay. Are we talking about Gale Storm and the Oldsmobile Rocket 98?
And not the fact that she was in one episode of the Ford Television Theatre?
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 11, 2012, 01:48:54 PM
No, not her.
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: streamliner on May 12, 2012, 04:22:08 AM
Was she photographed with the puzzle car when she was blonde?
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 12, 2012, 04:30:54 AM
I've not seen her in the same photo with the car. There's probably a good reason for that.  ;)

I've only seen this young woman with dark hair, which was part of her trademark look..

Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: RayTheRat on May 12, 2012, 11:26:56 AM
Could she be Ruth Ford?
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 13, 2012, 04:13:21 AM
No, not her.

But you've hit upon something about her name. Her last name is similar to the name of a car brand, though not the one you mentioned.
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: Tackitt on May 13, 2012, 04:58:10 AM
American?
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 13, 2012, 05:17:01 AM
The doll, or the car? ;)
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: Tackitt on May 13, 2012, 05:30:52 AM
The car.
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 13, 2012, 05:51:33 AM
Yes, the car is American
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: Tackitt on May 13, 2012, 06:08:57 AM
Ok. How about the woman? American?
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 13, 2012, 06:12:01 AM
Not born is the US, but born to American parents who lived elsewhere when she was born.
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: RayTheRat on May 13, 2012, 03:56:10 PM
Is/was she an actress?
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 14, 2012, 04:18:35 AM
No
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: Tackitt on May 14, 2012, 05:34:36 AM
A question to clarify:
Her name, that is similar to that of a car brand, is, or is not the name of the car that she is most associated with?
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 14, 2012, 05:52:02 AM
Her name is similar (not identical) to that of a car brand. The brand of car with which she is associated is a different one.
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: Tackitt on May 14, 2012, 06:06:40 AM
Is her name similar to an American car brand?
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: Tackitt on May 14, 2012, 06:07:30 AM
One last question and then I am through asking questions.
Was she a singer or a model?
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 14, 2012, 07:06:52 AM
Quote from: Tackitt on May 14, 2012, 06:06:40 AM
Is her name similar to an American car brand?


Yes; she and the automobile brand are both long-since expired.
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 14, 2012, 07:07:20 AM
Quote from: Tackitt on May 14, 2012, 06:07:30 AM
One last question and then I am through asking questions.
Was she a singer or a model?

No
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: streamliner on May 16, 2012, 06:42:28 PM
Was the puzzle car named in her honor after her death?
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 17, 2012, 03:02:25 AM
Not at all.
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: streamliner on May 17, 2012, 03:32:42 AM
Was the puzzle car a work of her fiction?
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 17, 2012, 03:38:35 AM
It was a real car, available to the masses at their local _____________ dealer. 
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: Tackitt on May 17, 2012, 11:16:53 AM
Anna Hope Dale Biddle and the car was R. Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion!
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 17, 2012, 12:54:39 PM
No, but the answer you had typed and deleted was very close - the last name was misspelled, but it was otherwise correct.
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: Tackitt on May 18, 2012, 03:38:43 AM
I have spelled this name a dozen different ways and still have nothing but the original picture.
I will continue to perservere.
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 18, 2012, 04:31:29 AM
I'm not sure why you're stuck on that name. Oh well...

Say, what's she smokin', Joe?
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: Tackitt on May 18, 2012, 10:13:29 AM
Is her name more similar to Lozier than Mercer?
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 18, 2012, 10:49:43 AM
Somewhat.

I though my previous clue was a knockout.  :shiner:
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: Tackitt on May 18, 2012, 11:34:08 AM
Your clue was a knockout and I was too punchdrunk to see it coming. Sometimes you can just get too close.

We are talking socialite Brenda Frazier and her Studebaker Land Cruiser!
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 18, 2012, 01:22:17 PM
That's it!
Title: Re: Car and Dolls #18 - Brenda Frazier / Studebaker Land Cruiser
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 19, 2012, 04:01:06 AM
Oddly, it is said Ms. Frazier couldn't drive. Famous for being famous, Brenda later became a depressed recluse.

Here's a clearer shot of the ad, from happier times.