Clark Gable, Deborah Kerr, Sydney Greenstreet

Victor Norman is just out of the Service and is looking for a job in advertizing. By playing hard to get, he figures that he can get a good job and a large salary. The first thing he has to do is get ...( read more  read more... )a war widow to endorse Beautee Soap - a client of the Kimberly Agency. He meets with Kay Dorrance and gets the endorsement and Mr. Evans, the head of Beautee Soap is temporarily happy. Victors job is now to work with Mr. Evans, a man who is a strict and demanding client. Everything should be rosy, but Victor, a bachelor, finds himself more attracted to Kay, a widow, than young single Jean Ogilvie.

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Unrated, 115 min.

Directed by: Jack Conway

Release Date: August 27, 1947

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  • August 17, 2009
    It was fun to catch this oldie. The story was a bit weak to me but the cast made it up in cannonballs. A real good Gable, and Deborah Kerr... well, if she's ever less than excellent I've yet to see it. Also Ava Gardner still in her "discovery" days. Perfect flick for a lazy a...( read more)fternoon or late night.
  • June 9, 2009
    The Hucksters (1947)

    Victor Norman (Clark Gable) is a veteran, home from the war and anxious to get back to his work in the advertising game. One ad man, Mr. Kimberly (Adolphe Menjou) is interested in giving him a job but has Vic prove himself by getting a prominent war widow, ...( read more)Kay Dorrance (Deborah Kerr) to endorse a brand of beauty soap.

    The owner of the Soap company Evan Evans, (Sydney Greenstreet) is a difficult, ball buster of a client and has his own ideas how he wants to sell his soap. Evan wants to produce a radio comedy show, hosted by a second rate vaudevillian, Buddy Hare (Keenan Wynn) and Vic needs to do all of the work that this entails. Vic is sent off to Hollywood to do Evan's bidding. Will Vic sell his soul to the Ad game, or can he still be his own man?

    This is really a surprisingly good romantic comedy. Clark Gable's scenes with Eva Gardner are sizzling as are the ones with American new-comer, Deborah Kerr. This is well worth a look.
  • June 6, 2009
    Great cast, Ava is breath taking. One of Gable's better post war films.
  • September 8, 2007
    Interesting picture about Clark Cable who goes into advertising and ends up falling for the woman who is the object of his ad campaigns. Unlikely pairing but hey, worse things have happened in moviedom.
  • April 29, 2007
    Beauty Soap---Beauty Soap-----Commercial overkill before Television.
  • December 28, 2006
    Rather good...not one of the best of Clark Gable's films and Ava Gardener only features in this film, but amusing definately!

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