Tupperware!

The documentary film Tupperware! tells the remarkable story of Earl Silas Tupper, an ambitious but reclusive small-town inventor, and Brownie Wise, the self-taught saleswoman 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. Her saleswomen earned thousands, even millions of dollars, selling Tupperware. Brownie gave them recognition they rarely received elsewhere. And the experience transformed their lives.

Tupperware! traces the dramatic story of Brownie’s rise from a hardscrabble southern childhood to her spectacular fall in the glare of the national press.

Winner of the George Foster Peabody Award and numerous other awards, Tupperware! was broadcast on PBS nationwide, invited to film festivals worldwide, and broadcast in dozens of countries. The film is  frequently used around the world in high school and university classes about American history, 20th century technology, women’s history, and business. 

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