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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.
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The Hucksters: Directed by Jack Conway. With Clark Gable, Deborah Kerr, Sydney Greenstreet, Adolphe Menjou. 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.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Jack Conway
- 1947-08-27
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.
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- Clark Gable
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The Hucksters. 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...
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- Clark Gable
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After the World War II, the arrogant and self-confident Victor Norman returns to New York and seeks a job in the advertising agency of Mr. Kimberly. He is assigned to convince the widow Kay Dorrance to modeling to promote the flagship of the agency Beautee Soap.
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.
Other articles where The Hucksters is discussed: 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…
