Tupperware! (1994)

Tupperware!

1994

History Documentary

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Laurie Kahn-Leavitt

Cast

Brownie Wise as Self (achive footage)

Earl Tupper as Self (achive footage)

Karen MacDonald as Brownie Wise (voice)

Kathy Bates as Narrator

Will LeBow as Earl Tupper (voice)

Crew

Peter Stein (Cinematography)

Robert Hessman (Co-Producer)