Clark Gable
Victor Albee Norman
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The Hucksters (1947) is a considerably sanitized version of the best-selling novel by Frederic Wakeman. Directed by Jack Conway, the film is a slick but still powerful, and at times darkly funny, indictment of the seamy side of advertising, radio, and big business.
Summaries. A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity. Victor Norman is just out of the service and looking for a job in advertising. By playing hard to get, he figures that he can get a good job and a large salary.
Rent The Hucksters on Prime Video, or buy it on Prime Video. Eager to reestablish his advertising career after the war, Vic Norman (Clark Gable) convinces an executive (Adolphe Menjou) that he...
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The Hucksters is a 1947 American comedy drama film directed by Jack Conway and starring Clark Gable and Deborah Kerr, her debut in an American film. The supporting cast includes Sydney Greenstreet, Adolphe Menjou, Ava Gardner, Keenan Wynn, and Edward Arnold. It was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
In Jack Conway: The 1940s. …a standard wartime romance, but The Hucksters (both 1947) was a satirical drama in which Gable starred as a no-nonsense advertising executive, with Deborah Kerr as his object of desire and Sydney Greenstreet as a loathsome client. Finally, there was Julia Misbehaves (1948), a playful comedy with Pidgeon and Greer….
70 % Written by CinemaSerf on July 7, 2022. Clark Gable ("Victor Norman") returns from WWII to rekindle his career in advertising. His cunning plan involves the glamorous war widow Deborah Kerr ("Kay"), nervous old ad agency boss "Mr. Kimberly" (Adoplhe Menjou), some considerable perspicacity and a whole load of soap.
The Hucksters. DRAMA. Academy Award winner Clark Gable stars with Deborah Kerr and Ava Gardner in this story of a war hero who comes close to losing his integrity for success as one of The Hucksters. When Victor Albee Norman (Gable) returns from World War II, he takes a job with an advertising agency.
