Julia Meade Kunz (December , â€" May , ) was an American film and
stage actress who was a frequent pitch person in live commercials in
the early days of television in the s.Meade was born in Boston on
December , ; her father sold typewriters and her mother was Caroline
Meade, who was "the leading lady with Walter Hampden from to ."She
moved with her family to Ridgewood, New Jersey when she was years old
and later graduated from the Yale School of Drama. Meade went to New
York City and was hired as a model in .Meade came to public attention
in as the public face of the Lincoln division of the Ford Motor
Company. She did live commercials on The Ed Sullivan Show for such
products as Kodak cameras and Life magazine for years, earning
recognition from TV Guide as the "favorite salesgirl" of the program's
host. Meade told Life magazine in that "I tackle commercials as
though I were playing the queen in Hamlet". Meade's pitch work
involved doing live commercials that ran for up to five minutes,
becoming most closely associated with her promotions of Lincoln
automobiles, with her work for the car company described by Gerald
Nachman as "part auto dealer, part chic sexpot".
stage actress who was a frequent pitch person in live commercials in
the early days of television in the s.Meade was born in Boston on
December , ; her father sold typewriters and her mother was Caroline
Meade, who was "the leading lady with Walter Hampden from to ."She
moved with her family to Ridgewood, New Jersey when she was years old
and later graduated from the Yale School of Drama. Meade went to New
York City and was hired as a model in .Meade came to public attention
in as the public face of the Lincoln division of the Ford Motor
Company. She did live commercials on The Ed Sullivan Show for such
products as Kodak cameras and Life magazine for years, earning
recognition from TV Guide as the "favorite salesgirl" of the program's
host. Meade told Life magazine in that "I tackle commercials as
though I were playing the queen in Hamlet". Meade's pitch work
involved doing live commercials that ran for up to five minutes,
becoming most closely associated with her promotions of Lincoln
automobiles, with her work for the car company described by Gerald
Nachman as "part auto dealer, part chic sexpot".
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