Along with Orville Redenbacher, Marie Osmond, Phyllis Diller and Chubby Checker, Anita Bryant ranked as one of my first public figure interviews as a young reporter.

In a long campaign of television commercials, she sang “Come to the Florida Sunshine Tree” and offered the tagline: “Breakfast without orange juice is like a day without sunshine.” But her ...

Anita Bryant, a popular singer and product pitchwoman in the 1960s and ’70s who successfully destroyed both those aspect of ...

Anita Bryant ... notably for Florida orange juice. But in the late 1970s, her life and career began a dramatically new path. A lifelong Christian, Bryant led a successful campaign to repeal ...

Anita Bryant, the Florida orange juice promoter turned anti-gay rights activist who ... Ms. Bryant was born March 25, 1940, in Barnsdall, Oklahoma. After winning a singing contest on Arthur Godfrey's ...

The former Miss Oklahoma had been known as a booster of Florida orange juice, but her career took a turn after a campaign to repeal an LGBTQ ordinance Florida’s Miami-Dade County in the late ...

Anita Bryant, a former beauty queen and pop singer of the 1960s whose career led her to become a spokesperson for Florida oranges in the early ’70s and an evangelical crusader against gay rights later ...

Anita Bryant Dry, entertainer and anti-gay rights activist, died in December in Edmond, according to an obituary submitted by her family. She was 84.

The former beauty queen and spokeswoman for Florida orange juice ... an Anita Bryant concert. In Michael Moore’s documentary “Roger & Me” (1989), Ms. Bryant embodied forced optimism, singing ...

Anita Bryant, a former beauty ... for her appearances in commercials for Florida oranges that introduced the catchphrase “Breakfast without orange juice is like a day without sunshine ...