Tupperware!

Tupperware!

52 mins | Documentary, History | Feb. 9, 1994

The remarkable story of Earl Silas Tupper, an ambitious but reclusive small-town inventor, and Brownie Wise, the self-taught sales-woman who built him an empire out of bowls that burped. Brownie was an intuitive marketing genius who trained a small army of Tupperware Ladies to put on Tupperware parties in living rooms across America in the 1950s. She rewarded her sales force with minks and modern appliances at extravagant annual jubilees which the company filmed. her saleswomen earned thousands, even millions, selling Tupperware. And the experience changed their lives.

Tupperware!

52 mins | Documentary, History | Feb. 9, 1994

Tupperware!
The remarkable story of Earl Silas Tupper, an ambitious but reclusive small-town inventor, and Brownie Wise, the self-taught sales-woman who built him an empire out of bowls that burped. Brownie was an intuitive marketing genius who trained a small army of Tupperware Ladies to put on Tupperware parties in living rooms across America in the 1950s. She rewarded her sales force with minks and modern appliances at extravagant annual jubilees which the company filmed. her saleswomen earned thousands, even millions, selling Tupperware. And the experience changed their lives.
Producers Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
Original title Tupperware!
Directors Laurie Kahn-Leavitt
Writers Laurie Kahn-Leavitt

Cast

Kathy Bates

as Narrator

Karen MacDonald

as Brownie Wise (voice)

Will LeBow

as Earl Tupper (voice)

Brownie Wise

as Self (achive footage)

Earl Tupper

as Self (achive footage)