Tupperware!
Tupperware!

Tupperware!

7.0(1 votes)
1994
0h 52m
History
Documentary

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.

Production

PBS

Cast

Kathy Bates

Kathy Bates

Narrator

Karen MacDonald

Karen MacDonald

Brownie Wise (voice)

Will LeBow

Will LeBow

Earl Tupper (voice)

Brownie Wise

Brownie Wise

Self (achive footage)

Earl Tupper

Earl Tupper

Self (achive footage)

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