Fuller Brush man

[Mark Kohut]

Examples of former employees include evangelist Billy Graham, who became a Fuller Brush salesman during the summer after high school, and outsold "every other salesman in North Carolina";[12] 
More recently, Paul Reubens of Pee-wee Herman fame, worked as a Fuller Brush salesman while attending California Institute of the Arts.[15]
[edit] In popular culture
The company inspired two comedy films, The Fuller Brush Man, a 1948 movie starring Red Skelton and Janet Blair and The Fuller Brush Girl, a 1950 movie starring Lucille Ball and Eddie Albert. Other examples include:
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