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Ann B. Davis Pitched Ford Fairlane

Before she was Alice, the housekeeper in the “The Brady Bunch” household, Ann B. Davis pitched Ford Fairlane in an ad touting "That Fairlane Feeling." In the spot, which aired in the 60s, she is suggestive and campy about the car and how she'd like to drive it to a lumber camp, or maybe to a Navy aircraft carrier, where men abound. The camera pans out at the end of the commercial to show Davis holding a car salesman like a baby. It closes with the tagline, “You’re ahead in a Ford.”

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