The Hucksters

We continue with the adventures of Philip Marlowe, created by Raymond Chandler and starring Van Heflin.

who appears by arrangement with Metro-Golden-Mare, producers of The Hucksters, starring Clark Gable.

The Lion Act was going on when I arrived at the circus grounds and practically ran to Glory Ann's tent.

She was in her tights and cloak ready to go on.

I hope that people support this so that we can get more of these Andy Hardys.

Well, next we have The Hucksters.

What can you tell us about this 1947 film?

It was very different.

We've got an MGM short called Give Us the Earth and a very famous Tom and Jerry cartoon, Saltwater Tabby.

And something really cool that I added here, which I don't believe was on the DVD.

In my travels going through all the MGM pre-recordings from my days in producing soundtrack CDs, I went through the Hucksters musical recordings, you know, underscore and whatnot.

But I found, since it's all about selling beauty soap, that's the primary product that is dealt with in the advertising plot of the movie, I found some radio jingles that Kay Thompson, who was this brilliant vocal arranger, who later went on to be a nightclub star with the Williams Brothers, and also was in the movie Funny Face, which is the MGM musical made at Paramount, Kate Thompson's radio jingles for Beauty Soap were amongst the recordings for the Hucksters.

And it's clearly a lot about his, uh, talents as a dancer and a singer, uh, He's got energy, no matter what you think of his execution.

Now, other movies that were in the theaters that summer, Great Expectations, Black Narcissus, Copacabana, Crossfire, Possess, The Hucksters, and Whistle Stop.

Now, this is a podcast about John Dahl, and when we last left him, he had returned to the stage in The Hasty Heart, a story about a character named Lachie McLachin, not even kidding, and the camaraderie of a group company of soldiers in a British hospital in Burma.

So...