The Star Made Me Buy It

Today's star is the long-forgotten Diana Lynn in an ad for Royal Crown Cola:

She was part of a clump of pert brunettes from the late 1940s and '50s - Debra Paget, Joanne Dru, Karen Sharpe, Audrey Dalton, Dianne Foster  - who played love interests, or second female leads in tons of B movies of the time.  

Most ended up guest-starring on tons of TV shows in the 1960s and '70s.

Ms. Lynn had more talent than most, having been a piano prodigy who began taking lessons at age 4.

Sadly she passed at the young age of 45 due to a stroke.