Famous Twins - Joan and Jayne BOYD
Original Doublemint Twins
BOYD, JOAN and JAYNE (SCHWARTZ)
models. Original Doublemint
Twins. In 1959, models 21-year-old
Jayne and Joan Boyd of Hammond, Ind.,
were chosen to bicycle, play
tennis and toboggan their way through 12 TV
commercials as Wrigley's high-energy
Doublemint twins. As the story
went, however, these twins
were not athletic. During one shoot they flew
over the handlebars of a tandem
bike.
Nearly 40 years after they
first appeared on TV, twin sisters Jayne and
Joan Boyd still are widely
known (and occasionally recognized) as the
sports-minded, gum-chewing
Doublemint Twins.
Their four-year "double your
pleasure" gig for Wrigley, a series of TV
commercials that was launched
in 1959, transformed the 21-year-old
models from Hammond, Indiana
into pop-culture icons. To this day,
Doublemint ads retain the
twins theme, and the Boyds' agent says the
original commercials may soon
appear again on the TV Land cable network
as "retromercials."
The twins stopped doing the
commercials in 1963, when Joan became
pregnant with the first of
her three children. "We went right from
'double your pleasure' to
changing diapers," recalls Jayne, who like her
sister has three grown children.
Today, the Boyd sisters, once
constant companions, live in separate
parts of the country. But
they still get together on holidays and check
in by phone several times
a week. Joan, now single, is a receptionist in
Chicago. Jayne, married to
TV producer Al Schwartz for 34 years, lives
in Beverly Hills, California.
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Karen from Ohio,USA
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