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Foster Grant, or FosterGrant, is a brand of eyewear founded by Sam Foster in 1919. The FosterGrant brand is a subsidiary
Subsidiary

A subsidiary, in business matters, is an entity that is controlled by a bigger and more powerful entity. The controlled entity is called a company , corporation, or limited liability company, and the controlling entity is called its parent ....
 company of FGX International, a consumer goods wholesale
Wholesale

Wholesaling, historically called jobbing, is the sale of goods or merchandise to retailers, to industrial, commercial, institutional, or other professional business users, or to other wholesalers and related subordinated services....
r with headquarters in Smithfield, Rhode Island
Smithfield, Rhode Island

Smithfield is a town in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. It includes the historic villages of Esmond, Rhode Island, Georgiaville, Rhode Island, Mountaindale, Rhode Island, Hanton City and Greenville, Rhode Island....
, USA.

In 2002, FosterGrant Corporation and Darrin Weigle received national award recognition from APICS
APICS

APICS The Association for operations management, is a not-for-profit international education organization, offering certification programs, training tools and networking opportunities to increase workplace performance....
, Consumer Goods Technology Magazine, and Supply Chain Systems Magazine for ground-breaking excellence in the field of supply chain management
Supply chain management

Supply chain management is the management of a Supply chain network of interconnected businesses involved in the ultimate provision of product and service packages required by end customers ....
.

er Grant's 1960s sunglasses ad campaign "Who's that behind those Foster Grants?," by the Geer, Dubois advertising
Advertising

Advertising is a form of communication that typically attempts to persuade potential customers to Purchasing or to consume more of a particular brand of Product or Service ....
 agency
Agency

Agency may refer to any of the following:*Agency *Agency , the status of a person who acts for another person.*Agency *Agency , the capacity to make choices...
, included celebrities Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers

'Richard Henry Sellers', Order of British Empire, commonly known as 'Peter Sellers' was a United Kingdom comedian and actor best known for his roles in Dr....
, Louis Jourdan
Louis Jourdan

Louis Jourdan is a French film actor. He is known for his roles in several Hollywood films, including The Paradine Case , Gigi , The Best of Everything , and Octopussy ....
, Carroll Baker
Carroll Baker

Carroll Baker is a Golden Globe Award-winning and Academy Awards-nominated United States actor who has enjoyed popularity as both a serious dramatic actress and, particularly in the 1960s, a movie sex symbol....
, Claudia Cardinale
Claudia Cardinale

Claudia Cardinale is an Tunisia actor born in Tunis, Tunisia. Some of the most notable films she has appeared in include 8? and Once Upon a Time in the West ....
, Elke Sommer
Elke Sommer

Elke Sommer , born Elke Schletz, is a German-born actress, entertainer, and artist.Sommer was born in Berlin to a Lutheranism Minister and his wife....
, Anita Ekberg
Anita Ekberg

Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg is a Sweden model , actor and cult sex symbol....
, Vittorio Gassman
Vittorio Gassman

'Vittorio Gassman' , popularly known as 'Il Mattatore', was an Italy theatre and film actor and film director. He is considered one of the greatest Italian actors and is commonly recalled as an extremely professional, versatile, magnetic interpreter, whose long career includes both important productions as well as dozens of divertissement...
, Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn

Anthony Quinn was a two-time Academy Awards-winning Mexican-American actor, as well as a Painting and writer. He starred in numerous critically acclaimed and commercially successful films, including Zorba the Greek , Lawrence of Arabia , and Federico Fellini's La strada....
, Mia Farrow
Mia Farrow

Maria de Lourdes Villiers-Farrow , better known as Mia Farrow, is an United Statesn actress, singer and former Model . Farrow has appeared in more than forty films and won numerous awards, including a Golden Globe award , three British Academy of Film and Television Arts nominations, and a win for best actress at the San Sebastian Inter...
, Robert Goulet
Robert Goulet

Robert Gerard Goulet was a Canadian-United States Grammy Award- and Tony Award- winning entertainer. He rose to international stardom in 1960 as Lancelot in Lerner and Loewe's hit Broadway theatre musical Camelot ....
, Julie Christie
Julie Christie

Julie Frances Christie is a British actor. She was a pop icon of the "swinging London" era of the 1960s, and has won the Academy Award, Golden Globe, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and Screen Actors Guild Awards....
, Woody Allen
Woody Allen

Woody Allen is an Cinema of the United States film director, writer, actor, comedian, musician and playwright.Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to Screwball comedy film, have made him one of the most respected living American directors....
, Raquel Welch
Raquel Welch

Raquel Welch is a Golden Globe winning, American actress....
, Terence Stamp
Terence Stamp

Terence Henry Stamp is an Academy Award-nominated English actor. He is best known for having played the character General Zod in the Superman movie franchise....
, and Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave Order of the British Empire is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Emmy and Tony Award winning England actor. She is the most famous member of the Redgrave family, the world renowned theatrical dynasty....
.

That famous ad campaign was reintroduced around the year 2000 with model Cindy Crawford
Cindy Crawford

Cynthia Ann "Cindy" Crawford is an United States actor and former Model . Known for her trademark Melanocytic nevus just above her lip, she has adorned more magazine covers than any model in history....
 and race car driver Jeff Gordon
Jeff Gordon

Jeffery Michael Gordon is a professional United States of America race car driver. He was born in Vallejo, California, raised in Pittsboro, Indiana, and currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina....
.

In 2007, FGX International launched a $7 million television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 media
Advertising

Advertising is a form of communication that typically attempts to persuade potential customers to Purchasing or to consume more of a particular brand of Product or Service ....
 campaign on national network
Television network

A television network is a distribution wiktionary:Network for television content whereby a central operation provides television program for many television stations....
 cable
Cable television

Cable television is a system of providing television to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through fixed optical fibers or coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional television broadcasting in which a television antenna is required....
.






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Foster Grant, or FosterGrant, is a brand of eyewear founded by Sam Foster in 1919. The FosterGrant brand is a subsidiary
Subsidiary

A subsidiary, in business matters, is an entity that is controlled by a bigger and more powerful entity. The controlled entity is called a company , corporation, or limited liability company, and the controlling entity is called its parent ....
 company of FGX International, a consumer goods wholesale
Wholesale

Wholesaling, historically called jobbing, is the sale of goods or merchandise to retailers, to industrial, commercial, institutional, or other professional business users, or to other wholesalers and related subordinated services....
r with headquarters in Smithfield, Rhode Island
Smithfield, Rhode Island

Smithfield is a town in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. It includes the historic villages of Esmond, Rhode Island, Georgiaville, Rhode Island, Mountaindale, Rhode Island, Hanton City and Greenville, Rhode Island....
, USA.

In 2002, FosterGrant Corporation and Darrin Weigle received national award recognition from APICS
APICS

APICS The Association for operations management, is a not-for-profit international education organization, offering certification programs, training tools and networking opportunities to increase workplace performance....
, Consumer Goods Technology Magazine, and Supply Chain Systems Magazine for ground-breaking excellence in the field of supply chain management
Supply chain management

Supply chain management is the management of a Supply chain network of interconnected businesses involved in the ultimate provision of product and service packages required by end customers ....
.

Advertising

Foster Grant's 1960s sunglasses ad campaign "Who's that behind those Foster Grants?," by the Geer, Dubois advertising
Advertising

Advertising is a form of communication that typically attempts to persuade potential customers to Purchasing or to consume more of a particular brand of Product or Service ....
 agency
Agency

Agency may refer to any of the following:*Agency *Agency , the status of a person who acts for another person.*Agency *Agency , the capacity to make choices...
, included celebrities Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers

'Richard Henry Sellers', Order of British Empire, commonly known as 'Peter Sellers' was a United Kingdom comedian and actor best known for his roles in Dr....
, Louis Jourdan
Louis Jourdan

Louis Jourdan is a French film actor. He is known for his roles in several Hollywood films, including The Paradine Case , Gigi , The Best of Everything , and Octopussy ....
, Carroll Baker
Carroll Baker

Carroll Baker is a Golden Globe Award-winning and Academy Awards-nominated United States actor who has enjoyed popularity as both a serious dramatic actress and, particularly in the 1960s, a movie sex symbol....
, Claudia Cardinale
Claudia Cardinale

Claudia Cardinale is an Tunisia actor born in Tunis, Tunisia. Some of the most notable films she has appeared in include 8? and Once Upon a Time in the West ....
, Elke Sommer
Elke Sommer

Elke Sommer , born Elke Schletz, is a German-born actress, entertainer, and artist.Sommer was born in Berlin to a Lutheranism Minister and his wife....
, Anita Ekberg
Anita Ekberg

Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg is a Sweden model , actor and cult sex symbol....
, Vittorio Gassman
Vittorio Gassman

'Vittorio Gassman' , popularly known as 'Il Mattatore', was an Italy theatre and film actor and film director. He is considered one of the greatest Italian actors and is commonly recalled as an extremely professional, versatile, magnetic interpreter, whose long career includes both important productions as well as dozens of divertissement...
, Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn

Anthony Quinn was a two-time Academy Awards-winning Mexican-American actor, as well as a Painting and writer. He starred in numerous critically acclaimed and commercially successful films, including Zorba the Greek , Lawrence of Arabia , and Federico Fellini's La strada....
, Mia Farrow
Mia Farrow

Maria de Lourdes Villiers-Farrow , better known as Mia Farrow, is an United Statesn actress, singer and former Model . Farrow has appeared in more than forty films and won numerous awards, including a Golden Globe award , three British Academy of Film and Television Arts nominations, and a win for best actress at the San Sebastian Inter...
, Robert Goulet
Robert Goulet

Robert Gerard Goulet was a Canadian-United States Grammy Award- and Tony Award- winning entertainer. He rose to international stardom in 1960 as Lancelot in Lerner and Loewe's hit Broadway theatre musical Camelot ....
, Julie Christie
Julie Christie

Julie Frances Christie is a British actor. She was a pop icon of the "swinging London" era of the 1960s, and has won the Academy Award, Golden Globe, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and Screen Actors Guild Awards....
, Woody Allen
Woody Allen

Woody Allen is an Cinema of the United States film director, writer, actor, comedian, musician and playwright.Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to Screwball comedy film, have made him one of the most respected living American directors....
, Raquel Welch
Raquel Welch

Raquel Welch is a Golden Globe winning, American actress....
, Terence Stamp
Terence Stamp

Terence Henry Stamp is an Academy Award-nominated English actor. He is best known for having played the character General Zod in the Superman movie franchise....
, and Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave Order of the British Empire is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Emmy and Tony Award winning England actor. She is the most famous member of the Redgrave family, the world renowned theatrical dynasty....
.

That famous ad campaign was reintroduced around the year 2000 with model Cindy Crawford
Cindy Crawford

Cynthia Ann "Cindy" Crawford is an United States actor and former Model . Known for her trademark Melanocytic nevus just above her lip, she has adorned more magazine covers than any model in history....
 and race car driver Jeff Gordon
Jeff Gordon

Jeffery Michael Gordon is a professional United States of America race car driver. He was born in Vallejo, California, raised in Pittsboro, Indiana, and currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina....
.

In 2007, FGX International launched a $7 million television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 media
Advertising

Advertising is a form of communication that typically attempts to persuade potential customers to Purchasing or to consume more of a particular brand of Product or Service ....
 campaign on national network
Television network

A television network is a distribution wiktionary:Network for television content whereby a central operation provides television program for many television stations....
 cable
Cable television

Cable television is a system of providing television to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through fixed optical fibers or coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional television broadcasting in which a television antenna is required....
. The commercials were filmed in South Beach
South Beach

File:MiamiSouthBeachPanoramaEdit.jpgSouth Beach is the section of Miami Beach, Florida, Florida that encompasses the southernmost 23 blocks of an island separating the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay....
. The campaign updates the iconic "Who’s that behind those Foster Grants?" tagline introduced in the 1960s with the theme line "Who could you be?".

Pop culture


  • It is referenced in the song "Tomorrow's Woman" in Grey Gardens (musical)
    Grey Gardens (musical)

    Grey Gardens is a musical with book by Doug Wright, music by Scott Frankel, and lyrics by Michael Korie, based on the 1975 Grey Gardens about the lives of Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale by Albert Maysles and David Maysles....
      which opened on Broadway in November 2006. Lyrics: "...with a scarf in our hair, Foster Grants for the glare..."
  • It is referenced in the title track of The New Pornographers
    The New Pornographers

    The New Pornographers is a Canadian/American indie rock supergroup formed in 1997 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Their music is often described as power pop, with several critics likening their sound to that of Cheap Trick....
    ' album Mass Romantic
    Mass Romantic

    Mass Romantic is the debut album by the Canadian indie rock group The New Pornographers. It was released in 2000 by Mint Records, and re-released by Matador Records in 2003....
    . "Mass romantic fool wears Foster Grants..."
  • It is featured in the song "Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)" by Tom Waits
    Tom Waits

    Thomas Alan Waits is an United Statesn singer-songwriter, composer and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of Bourbon whiskey, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorpo...
     "...Dressed up in Purina Checkerboard slacks and Foster Grant wraparounds..."
  • It is referenced in the movie That Thing You Do!
    That Thing You Do!

    That Thing You Do! is a 1996 film, screenwriter and Director by Tom Hanks. Set in the summer of 1964, the movie tells the slightly altered story of Erie Pennsylvania's 7 Fabulous Epics, and their one hit wonder, "High School Girl" on the Warner Brothers label....
    , when drummer Guy puts on a pair of sunglasses and calls himself "Percussionist Foster Grant."
  • It is referenced in movie Midnight Run
    Midnight Run

    Midnight Run is a 1988 in film Cinema of the United States action film/comedy film/buddy film film starring Robert De Niro as a bounty hunter and Charles Grodin as his prisoner....
    , where Jack (Robert De Niro
    Robert De Niro

    Robert Mario De Niro, Jr. is a two-time Academy Award-winning United States actor, director and producer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors of all time....
    ) makes fun of the FBI agents' sunglasses, at one point calling Mosely (Yaphet Kotto
    Yaphet Kotto

    Prince Yaphet Frederick Kotto is an United States actor, known for numerous film roles, and his starring role in the NBC television series: Homicide: Life on the Street....
    ) "Agent Foster Grant."
  • It is referenced in the opening line of the song "Otis and Marlena" by Joni Mitchell
    Joni Mitchell

    Joni Mitchell, Order of Canada is a Canada musician, songwriter, and Painting.Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Western Canada and then busking on the streets of Toronto....
     on her album Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
    Don Juan's Reckless Daughter

    Don Juan's Reckless Daughter is a 1977 double album by the Folk music/Pop music/Rock music musician Joni Mitchell. It is unusual for its experimental style, expanding even further on the jazz fusion sound of Mitchell's Hejira from the year before....
    . "Marlena under Foster Grants, She's undercover from the dawn's advance..."
  • It is referenced in the movie Vietnam, Texas, where a detective makes fun of one of the characters: "What are you? A friggin' Foster Grant commercial?"


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