Fuller Brush man

[Alex Colter]

I think of Groucho's wonderful scene from 'Animal Crackers'... "You...you
can sell fuller brushes"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpTJywtAqLc

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Examples of former employees include evangelist Billy Graham<http://us.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/wiki/Billy_Graham>,
> who became a Fuller Brush salesman during the summer after high school, and
> outsold "every other salesman in North Carolina";[12]<http://us.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/neo/#cite_note-time1954-11>
> More recently, Paul Reubens<http://us.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/wiki/Paul_Reubens>of Pee-wee
> Herman <http://us.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/wiki/Pee-wee_Herman> fame, worked as
> a Fuller Brush salesman while attending California Institute of the Arts<http://us.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/wiki/California_Institute_of_the_Arts>
> .[15] <http://us.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/neo/#cite_note-perplex-14>
> [edit<http://us.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/w/index.php?title=Fuller_Brush_Company&action=edit&section=10>
> ] In popular culture
> The company inspired two comedy films, *The Fuller Brush Man<http://us.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/wiki/The_Fuller_Brush_Man>
> *, a 1948 movie starring Red Skelton<http://us.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/wiki/Red_Skelton>and Janet
> Blair <http://us.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/wiki/Janet_Blair> and *The Fuller
> Brush Girl <http://us.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/wiki/The_Fuller_Brush_Girl>*, a
> 1950 movie starring Lucille Ball<http://us.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/wiki/Lucille_Ball>and Eddie
> Albert <http://us.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/wiki/Eddie_Albert>. Other examples
> include:
>
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