Biography: Desi Arnaz |
A musican, singer, songwriter, actor and television producer, Arnaz came to the US from Cuba when he was sixteen and became a professional bandleader of popular Latin music. He married actress Lucille Ball in 1940 and, in 1951, costarred with her in... more
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Cast: James Mason
Tags: Heavenly Comedy Comedy Romance
Length: 91min
When Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz beat the odds against TV stars succeeding on the big screen in The Long, Long Trailer (1954), MGM contracted America's favorite couple for a second theatrical feature. Forever Darling casts Desi as Lorenzo Xavier Vega,...
Cast: Lucille Ball Vincente Minnelli
Tags: Comedy Romantic Comedy Slapstick
Length: 97min
At the height of their TV fame, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were contracted by MGM to make two theatrical films. The first of these, The Long, Long Trailer, stars Lucy and Desi as an upwardly mobile couple who decide to buy a trailer so they can live...
Cast: Desi Arnaz
Tags: Musical Comedy Musical Romance Comedy Musical
Length: 73min
Desi Arnaz's bandleader career was in decline when he starred in Columbia's Holiday in Havana. Arnaz essays the difficult role of a Cuban bandleader, named not Ricky Ricardo but Carlos Estrada. His romantic vis-a-vis isn't Lucille McGillicudy but a...
Length: 61min
This Universal B-musical casts Desi Arnaz as himself: a Cuban bandleader making it big in the United States. Shawnee (Joan Fulton) schemes to draw Arnaz from his homeland and transform the Havana musician into a star in New York City by having him...
Cast: Jackie Cooper Pat O'Brien George Murphy Jane Wyatt Jackie Coogan
Tags: Combat Films
Length: 81min
A combat picture was virtually a license to print money in 1942, and RKO Radio's The Navy Comes Through was no exception (net profit: 542,000). Most of the film takes place on the ramshackle old merchant-marine freighter, skippered by Captain McCall...
Cast: Ray Bolger
Tags: Romance Drama Musical Drama
Length: 68min
This quickie RKO musical is the second retread of Street Girl (1929); the 1937 musical That Girl from Paris was the first remake. This time around, the four jacks are musicians Nifty (Ray Bolger), Happy (Eddie Foy Jr.), Nat (Jack Briggs), and Eddie...
Cast: Gloria Swanson
Tags: Comedy
Length: 79min
Silent screen queen Gloria Swanson returned to films after a seven-year absence in RKO Radio's Father Takes a Wife. Adolphe Menjou costars as a middle-aged widowed shipping magnate known as Senior, who falls in love with celebrated actress Leslie...
Cast: Ann Miller
Tags: Parody/Spoof Comedy Musical
Length: 85min
Now immortalized as the film on which Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz met, Too Many Girls is a faithful adaptation of the Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart-George Abbott Broadway musical hit. The light-as-a-feather plotline finds four football players hired to...
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