The Hucksters

The Hucksters is a 1947 MGM film directed by Jack Conway and starring Clark Gable that marked the debut of Deborah Kerr in an American film. The supporting cast includes Sydney Greenstreet, Adolphe Menjou, Keenan Wynn, Edward Arnold and Ava Gardner. The movie is based on the novel The Hucksters by Frederic Wakeman, Sr.

His appointment is at the Kimberly Advertising Agency, with Mr. Kimberly himself Adolphe Menjou. As the two size each other up, they are interrupted by a phone call from Evan Llewellyn Evans Sydney Greenstreet, the tyrannical, highvolume chief of the Beautee Soap company, the agencys biggest account. The call throws the staff into turmoil and derails Vics interview, so he offers to perform an unpleasant task for Kimberly recruit Mrs. Kay Dorrance Deborah Kerr for a Beautee soap campaign featuring New York socialites.At the elegant Dorrance townhouse he misrepresents himself as being from the Charity League and charms Kay into agreeing, but when they arrive at the photo shoot, the Beautee art director produces a layout featuring a loose and flouncy negligee. Vic overrules the concept and directs a dignified shoot of Kay, in an evening gown, flanked by her children. ........

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