The best Desi Arnaz’s music movies

Desi Arnaz

Desi Arnaz

02/03/1917- 02/12/1986
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Desi Arnaz’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Desi Arnaz.

Too Many Girls

Too Many Girls
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 08/10/1940
  • Character: Manuelito Lynch
Mr Casey's daughter, Connie, wants to go to Pottawatomie College and without her knowledge he sends four football players as her bodyguards. The college is in financial trouble and her bodyguards use their salary to help the college. The football players join the college team, and the team becomes one of the best. One of the football players, Clint, falls in love with Connie, but when she discovers he is her bodyguard, she decides to go back East. The bodyguards follow her, leaving the team in the lurch.

Four Jacks and a Jill

Four Jacks and a Jill
5.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusicRomance
  • Release: 23/01/1942
  • Character: Steve Sarto / King Stephan VIII of Aregal
Karanina "Nina" Novak, is befriended by Nifty, the leader of a four-piece orchestra, and in return, secures an engagement for them at the Little Aregal Cafe, with herself as the vocalist, by pretending she once knew the King or Aregal back in the old country. Steve shows up pretending to be the King of Aregal, and complicates the growing romance between Nina and Nifty. When Steve runs off with Opa, the real King of Aregal (also Steve) appears and complicates things again.

Cuban Pete

Cuban Pete
6/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 26/06/1946
  • Character: Himself
Unable to complete the deal by telephone, advertising executive Roberts sends his assistant Ann to Cuba to lure a Cuban band, led by Desi Arnaz, on to an American radio program. Attracted to Ann, Arnaz and his band come to New York but complications arise when the squeaky-voiced, addle-brained sponsor of the program decides she wants to be the vocalist on the program.

Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards

Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
7.8/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 07/08/2005
  • Character: Manuelito (segment "Too Many Girls")
Broadway royalty and Tony-winners Tommy Tune, Carol Channing, Robert Goulet, and Harvey Fierstein are your hosts for this third compilation of great musical performances from the archives of the Tony Award® broadcasts. Legendary stars from legendary shows strut their stuff in 23 performances that have become part of Broadway history.

Holiday In Havana

Holiday In Havana
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 14/10/1949
  • Character: Carlos Estrada
While working as a hotel busboy, aspiring bandleader Carlos Estrada (Desi Arnaz) tries to persuade singer Lolita Valdez to join him in a rhumba contest in Havana.

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