Sabrina's Advertisements
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contributor. One must admit Sabrina was a surpassingly physical drawcard. Even blind men could see when Sabrina pointed to merchandise... even when she didn't use her fingers.
Eyes would be guaranteed to be fixated on whatever was in front of Sabrina, and that made admen salivate.
Hereunder, please find some delicious examples of the Power of Sabrina's Pointing at Products...
Of course the ultimate advertisement is Sabrina's TV ad for Caltex!
View the entire trouser-punishing 1961 Caltex Ad
This ad has since appeared on Australian TV on The Golden Years of Television (1986), The Gruen Transfer, and Commercial Breakdown Adults Only (3 Aug 2010)
21 April 1959 - "Figures don't Lie," says Sabrina. You'll get more out of a Morris from Peter Lloyd's."
6 June 1959
There's still time to see the Caltex Stan Freberg Show on Astor. Australia's First TV Choice!
See this 1.75 hour long, side-splitting show that you'll remember for ages... brought to you by CALTEX. The show was recorded on miracle Video Tape at ATN before Stan Freberg returned to the United States... you'll see Sabrina too, in startling dimension and crystal clarity on your new Astor TV... the set more people buy!
21" Taper-Line Lowboy, model D8K - 189 guineas.
1959
An historic advertisement featuring Sabrina in Photo Digest, 1959
I love the sneaky and cheeky
"Sabrina demonstrates the world's finest projection equipment"
I love this one. Meet the 1957 Sabrina caravan! As
the ad says, it's "the van for the family man with three children." More
like - it's the van for the man when the wife and three children are out
of town!
What does SABRINA do when the cameras aren't looking?
Alas, this pic from eBay was as close as I could get to this charming ad. I lost the auction.
Even Photoshop and various fractal enlarging plugins couldn't tweak the text enough to make it readable.
But with the sheer power of Brainwork and Beer ™, staring at the normal-sized image yielded this...
"For goodness sake don't ever go and wear
nylons when you're painting," laughs Sabrina.
"If you do though, be sure you make
them Morley nylons - they take rough treatment better
than any others."
Eighteen-year old Sabrina's a busy girl. With the
film 'Stock Car' already behind her she's now
televising and topping variety bills all over Britain.
For everyday glamour Sabrina chooses
"Favourite" 131 gauge, 15 derniers from Morley's wide
range of nylons. "I love their
peach blossom sheerseam," she says.Morley nylons stand the strain beautifully.
"Take it from a girl on the go", says Sabrina.
"Morley make the best natural(?) nylons of all"
I'd appreciate help with the missing bits if your eyes or beer supply are better than mine.
15 Feb 2009 - Peter D and his eagle-eyed wife (who knows a thing or two about nylons too) helped clarify the bolded mysteries above. It's good to see Sabrinastudies can still bring families together in wholesome academic research.
On 1 June 2009, Derek of Denmark wrote:
In the search for some advertising materials I came across your excellent site - fascinating! I wonder if you can help me to help a friend, here's the background.... I'm an honorary member of a motorcycle club in Denmark. The club has its own clubhouse and they have recently refurbished the bar. You can probably imagine that Carlsberg and Tuborg beers feature heavily. They collect old advertising materials for these beers and display them in the bar.
My best friend, and chairman of the club, Jan J, recently told me about a newspaper clipping he has found (see image above). It features Norma Sykes/Sabrina. Because of our firm Danish/English links he is very interested to discover whether Sabrina was involved in any advertising for Tuborg (or Carlsberg), the clipping suggests she was/may have been. If she was, he would dearly love to be able to obtain copies of those advertisements to display in the bar. He asked me if I could do some research for him and of course, I found your site.
I imagine that if Sabrina had made adverts for Tuborg or Carlsberg you would probably know about it. I wonder, would you be able to tell me whether Sabrina appeared in any advertising for either of these beer brands? If she did, if you were able to tell me roughly when that would have been - and if you have any other details - that would help me trace copies of the adverts. If you happened to have copies of any Tuborg/Carlsberg advertisements featuring Sabrina I would welcome the opportunity of discussing how we might obtain copies for the club - they would be delighted and proud to display them. I hope that you may be able to help me and I thank you for your time and assistance. Best regards. Derek
And a few days later he added...
Here's some news from Denmark..... Jan tells me (I don't know his source, I think it is his summary of the news items I'm about to give you)... "She had advertised for Tuborg and Tuborg Gold but not in Denmark, only in England. She was to sexy for the Danish :-(" The sad face is his, appropriate, addition. Having lots of knowledge of such things, Jan tells me that in this clipping Sabrina is holding a Tuborg Gold glass.
The caption below the picture reads... "Norma Sykes was nothing before Tuborg found her in London. Now she is famous as Sabrina." I think we can see a bit of Tuborg PR journalistic licence there! (also, having looked it up the word "ingenting" means 'nothing, a mere trifle', but I think that's a bit harsh, perhaps 'unknown' (as is unknown to the Danes) would be a fairer translation). Jan also sent me this scan. It is the source of the clipping shown above....
I'm not sure where in the article it appears, but Jan tells me that, in the above article, the copy that relates to Sabrina reads... "And then there was Norma Sykes. She was only used in England. The Danish beer people were not happy to use the unknown girl. She was a bit too sexy. She was in English television, where she behaved as another Jayne Mansfield. Recently she has moved to Hollywood. Today here name is Sabrina." The article is from a Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet, 25 of June 1962. Jan's translation may not be completely literal, but it presents the gist and it seems to me they felt that a young lady, so sexy, but relatively unknown in Denmark may not have been quite what they were looking for for their local advertising (I guess people make mistakes ;-)
I hope this is of interest. It seems that Sabrina may have appeared in Tuborg advertising in England, but so far Jan and I have not been able to track it down (hence, asking for your help). It would be great to find it, both as an addition to the clubhouse advertising collection and, it would seem, as an interesting addition to your impressive site. Happy hunting! Best regards Derek
A couple of weeks later, good news arrived...
We have a development! Jan has been in contact with the Carlsberg brewery (now owners of Tuborg) and his contact unearthed a copy of the advertisement where Sabrina is promoting Tuborg. Apparently, she only made the one advertisement for them. Unfortunately we don't have a note of the year, but we do have an image of the ad...... Best regards Derek
And here it is! Thanks to Jan and Derek...
Special Offer!
200 Large Glossy Sabrina Photos!
8x10", 5x7" and 4x5"
Only $1*
*Offer closes December 1958. From
'Picture Scope' September 1958.
Curses! Only missed it by 44 years...
Sabrina demonstrates
6th Feb 1957 - Some publicity (for once not focused on herself) that challenges Sabrina with coffee, ink and tomato sauce on her dress. Soon the highly paid London model will no longer have any need of that!* No, Sabrina is demonstrating here dresses made from a novel cotton product manufactured in Lancashire that is water and stain resistant.
Picture shows: Sabrina demonstrates dresses made of a water-resistant cotton material. Mary Dunkin (left) and Marigold Russell put the new material through a test with tomato sauce, ink and coffee.
Thanks to Herr David for the translation of the caption. The meaning of the second sentence is rather cryptic!
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