The Star Made Me Buy It

Today's star is Dick Powell for Camel cigarettes...

                                            "Star of over 40 Hollywood musicals."

IMDB lists him in 57 movies, and a good chunk of those were detective movies and non-musical rom-coms, with a few dramas sprinkled in.  Maybe he starred in 30 or so musicals, but definitely not 40.  

I've seen only one of his movies, The Bad and the Beautiful, which Turner Classic Movies seems to run at least once a month.  

In the ad above, he claims that 'Camels - they agree with my throat.'

Camels also gave him throat and lung cancer, which killed him in 1963, at the age of 58.