The High Point Coffee Gal
Christopher Lucas 
Let's discuss the High Point Coffee Gal. The Gal even did a special guest appearance in the Fancy Feast commercials, but have never seen her in anything before or after. That voice is so synonymous with High Point Coffee.
Does DL have any insight?
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 116 | January 13, 2024 3:33 PM |
Like Betty Bacall would ever thank a doorman....
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 5, 2023 4:17 AM |
She did once, however, thank a door, man....
For putting me on the other side of it.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 5, 2023 4:20 AM |
Both the doorman and chauffeur later said that between takes Miss Bacall threw cups of scalding High Point in their faces.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 5, 2023 4:22 AM |
Poor dear...she sank low...
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 4 | September 5, 2023 4:28 AM |
Really what else was she in?
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | September 5, 2023 4:31 AM |
My favorite spokescreature after the Pillsbury Doughboy
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | September 5, 2023 4:32 AM |
Writing is a coffee lover's dream
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 11 | September 5, 2023 4:40 AM |
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.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | September 5, 2023 4:46 AM |
I still possess the Arby’s winter tulip tumblers she sponsored during the Carter administration.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | September 5, 2023 5:04 AM |
My favorite time of day is night.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | September 5, 2023 5:19 AM |
“Selling out” in commercials = having an Only Fans today.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | September 5, 2023 5:22 AM |
Betty's coffee career started opposite her hubby, Jason Robards
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 17 | September 5, 2023 5:33 AM |
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.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | September 5, 2023 5:46 AM |
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.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | September 5, 2023 5:56 AM |
Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Emma Stone’s character reference these ads in La La Land?
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | September 5, 2023 6:00 AM |
A new high point for her fans: You can now buy her ring, whistle, and locket.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 21 | September 5, 2023 6:08 AM |
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…
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 22 | September 5, 2023 9:13 AM |
R12
Wait. Wait. Is this true?
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | September 5, 2023 10:03 AM |
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!
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | September 5, 2023 10:27 AM |
R24 Hi, I’m June Allyson. While I’m talking to you, I’m takin’ a dump.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | September 5, 2023 10:59 AM |
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.
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | September 5, 2023 12:04 PM |
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.
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | September 5, 2023 12:15 PM |
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?
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | September 5, 2023 1:40 PM |
I think we should all write to that address they give in the commercial for the free sample packets and see what happens!
| by Anonymous | reply 31 | September 5, 2023 2:27 PM |
Drag queens like the one at R10 really do ruin everything.
| by Anonymous | reply 32 | September 5, 2023 2:32 PM |
Don’t forget, she hawked Fords as well…
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 33 | September 5, 2023 2:34 PM |
Well, the maintenance fees at the Dakota don’t pay themselves.
| by Anonymous | reply 34 | September 5, 2023 2:39 PM |
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!
| by Anonymous | reply 35 | September 5, 2023 2:46 PM |
Share a moment with Lauren Bacall
PleasurAH
FlavAH
FlavAH
DecAFhnated
NumbAH one with me!
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 36 | September 5, 2023 4:50 PM |
Was she just a commercial actress?
| by Anonymous | reply 37 | September 5, 2023 4:51 PM |
[quote] Was she just a commercial actress?
Oh, she made a few films, but not the kind that would be shown in polite company.
| by Anonymous | reply 40 | September 5, 2023 4:57 PM |
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!
| by Anonymous | reply 42 | September 5, 2023 4:58 PM |
Arby's makes feel INTENSE JOY!
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 45 | September 5, 2023 5:08 PM |
I love my sixth cup of coffee
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 46 | September 5, 2023 5:12 PM |
OP, she did a few promotional spots for us at one point.
| by Anonymous | reply 47 | September 5, 2023 5:22 PM |
Good taste is easy to recognize!
| by Anonymous | reply 48 | September 5, 2023 5:32 PM |
I pour my rich High Point over my delectable Fancy Feast. You can't imagine the FLAVAH!
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 50 | September 5, 2023 6:23 PM |
Bacall would have made a great Helen Lawson!
| by Anonymous | reply 51 | September 5, 2023 6:24 PM |
This little fella spoofed Betty Bacall's career "High Point" a dozen years ago... wonder if he's on DL now?!
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 52 | September 5, 2023 6:28 PM |
My favorite version. And he perfectly hits the :30 mark.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 54 | September 5, 2023 6:29 PM |
[quote]Bacall would have made a great Helen Lawson!
And a fabulous Phyllis.
| by Anonymous | reply 56 | September 5, 2023 6:32 PM |
She was the inspiration for and almost the voice of Cruella de Vil
| by Anonymous | reply 57 | September 5, 2023 6:44 PM |
OT, but can anyone find the video of the two young boys acting out MOMMIE DEAREST?
| by Anonymous | reply 58 | September 5, 2023 7:55 PM |
If Agnes Moorehead passed on “Bewitched”, the equally witchy-looking Lauren Bacall would’ve been perfect in the role of Endora.
| by Anonymous | reply 59 | September 5, 2023 9:48 PM |
Royal Caribbean Cruise 1994
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 60 | September 5, 2023 9:52 PM |
Elders, did anyone actually try High Point Coffee? Was it really that good? Why was the brand discontinued so soon - was it a flop?
| by Anonymous | reply 61 | September 5, 2023 9:57 PM |
Spray n' Wash Gets Out What America Gets Into
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 62 | September 5, 2023 9:58 PM |
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?
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 63 | September 5, 2023 10:01 PM |
R17 Dick and Laura Petrie had nothing to worry about from those two
| by Anonymous | reply 64 | September 5, 2023 10:20 PM |
Why was her1985 signature perfume Cuntress a flop?
| by Anonymous | reply 66 | September 5, 2023 10:24 PM |
It smelled like Fancy Feast r66
| by Anonymous | reply 67 | September 5, 2023 10:27 PM |
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.
| by Anonymous | reply 68 | September 5, 2023 10:32 PM |
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?
| by Anonymous | reply 69 | September 5, 2023 10:58 PM |
Guess Betty didn't have the financial security to pick and choose... probably one of the reasons she was so prickly and bitter...
| by Anonymous | reply 71 | September 5, 2023 11:24 PM |
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.
| by Anonymous | reply 72 | September 5, 2023 11:54 PM |
The voice:
1/3 Mid Atlantic
1/3 Lifelong Smoker
1/3 Not Giving Two Fucks About Anything but Herself
| by Anonymous | reply 73 | September 5, 2023 11:56 PM |
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.
| by Anonymous | reply 74 | September 6, 2023 1:10 AM |
Javi the Botox queen who at 31 thought he was so old looking got Botox and looks exactly the same.
| by Anonymous | reply 75 | September 6, 2023 1:20 AM |
It's okay. Movies and stage work aren't for everyone
| by Anonymous | reply 76 | September 6, 2023 1:37 AM |
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.
| by Anonymous | reply 77 | September 6, 2023 1:39 AM |
I think she did some movie with Marylin Monroe and Bettie Gable.
| by Anonymous | reply 78 | September 6, 2023 1:51 AM |
“After lunch, I head upstairs…to the HEALTH SPA”
| by Anonymous | reply 79 | September 6, 2023 1:55 AM |
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.
| by Anonymous | reply 80 | September 6, 2023 2:01 AM |
[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!
| by Anonymous | reply 82 | September 6, 2023 4:12 PM |
Does the spa have flavAH?
| by Anonymous | reply 83 | September 6, 2023 4:25 PM |
Please post more commercials with her! I haven't found any new ones
| by Anonymous | reply 84 | September 6, 2023 9:47 PM |
That accent is NOT mid-Atlantic…🫣
| by Anonymous | reply 85 | September 7, 2023 2:47 AM |
That’s not a Ford, r33, it’s the new FAWD FAAHRMONT FEWCHURAH! It has flavAH!
| by Anonymous | reply 88 | September 7, 2023 4:18 AM |
R89 are you sure? She looked like she lived off ciggies and High Point.
| by Anonymous | reply 91 | September 7, 2023 4:24 AM |
R91 what's wrong with that?
| by Anonymous | reply 92 | September 7, 2023 4:52 AM |
R92, I can only imagine how frequently her toilet had to be cleaned...
| by Anonymous | reply 93 | September 7, 2023 5:04 AM |
R88, please also note that it's a FAWD FAWDAW.
| by Anonymous | reply 94 | September 7, 2023 1:02 PM |
So, what happened to her???
| by Anonymous | reply 95 | September 11, 2023 1:20 AM |
Well, OP, this terrible thing happened to her granddaughter...
| by Anonymous | reply 96 | September 11, 2023 1:32 AM |
Her reading in the Ford commercial was surprisingly unaffected
| by Anonymous | reply 97 | September 11, 2023 1:34 AM |
High Point is now Folgers Decaf
| by Anonymous | reply 98 | September 11, 2023 1:52 AM |
R98 No. High Point is now Caffeine Free Diet Dr. Pepper
| by Anonymous | reply 99 | September 11, 2023 2:02 AM |
Meth is the new High Point.
| by Anonymous | reply 100 | September 11, 2023 2:03 AM |
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.
| by Anonymous | reply 101 | September 11, 2023 2:04 AM |
Someone from DL has been at the High Point Wikipedia.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 102 | September 11, 2023 2:36 AM |
R102 that's hilarious. It is written like that Betty Bacall ending her endorsement ruined the product.
| by Anonymous | reply 103 | September 11, 2023 2:47 AM |
so, what is she really doing now??????
| by Anonymous | reply 104 | September 20, 2023 6:32 PM |
She's fine. She sends her love.
| by Anonymous | reply 105 | September 20, 2023 8:42 PM |
...and Broadway musical remakes on the horizon?
| by Anonymous | reply 106 | September 20, 2023 9:41 PM |
What did she do to gain such a highly coveted position?
| by Anonymous | reply 107 | September 20, 2023 9:43 PM |
Didn't Dixie Csrter also do a fancy feast and coffeemate commercial? Or was that Bacall I mistook for DC.
| by Anonymous | reply 110 | September 21, 2023 11:54 PM |
ONLY on DL would a post about the "High Point Coffee Gal" achieve 111 responses.
| by Anonymous | reply 112 | January 13, 2024 3:48 AM |
R11 This one here had to be improvised
| by Anonymous | reply 113 | January 13, 2024 3:50 AM |
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.
| by Anonymous | reply 114 | January 13, 2024 4:17 AM |
Pretty sure she did a voiceover ad for Disneyworld around 1985-86.
“Walt Disney World! Surprised?”
| by Anonymous | reply 115 | January 13, 2024 4:28 AM |
