The Hucksters

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The Hucksters

film by Conway [1947]

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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…
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…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…
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Clark Gable
Gone with the Wind, tragedy, and later films of Clark Gable
With the possible exceptions of The Hucksters (1947) and Mogambo (1953), the best of Gable’s later films were those he made near the end of his career, including Band of Angels (1957), a Civil War potboiler in which he played a plantation owner; Run Silent, Run Deep (1958), a tense…
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With the possible exceptions of The Hucksters (1947) and Mogambo (1953), the best of Gable’s later films were those he made near the end of his career, including Band of Angels (1957), a Civil War potboiler in which he played a plantation owner; Run Silent, Run Deep (1958), a tense…
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Deborah Kerr
…play opposite Clark Gable in The Hucksters later that year.
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…play opposite Clark Gable in The Hucksters later that year.
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