It was known as the Golden Age of Hollywood, a time when movies defined who we were and what we did. But it was also the golden age of tobacco sponsorship of the movies, a time when the tobacco companies paid the stars of the day thousands of dollars - as well as a year's supply of cigarettes - to promote their products, on and off-screen.
I don't know about you, but I do everything Joan Crawford tells me to do.
John Wayne, Lucy and Dezi, Ronald Regan, Fred Astaire
Bob Hope, Maureen O'Hara, Bing Crosby, James Stewart
Jack Benny, Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis, George Gershwin, Frank Sinatra
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