Desi

The Plot Thickens

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Tv & Film, Film History

4.8 • 4.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Forced from his native Cuba by violent revolution, 17-year-old Desi Arnaz is a stranger in a strange land. Armed with an appetite for girls and gambling, Desi sparks a dance craze in the nightclubs of Miami and sweet-talks his way into New York society. After a syphilis scare threatens his Broadway debut, his ambition leads him to Hollywood, where his head is turned by an older actress named Lucy.

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0:00.0	What are you going to say, Mommy?
0:02.0	What are you going to say when you meet my mother?
0:04.0	Oh, uh, bonus dies, Maydry.
0:07.0	There's this one episode of I Love Lucy, where Ricky Ricardo brings Lucy home to Cuba to meet his family for the first time.
0:16.0	On the plane to Havana, he coaches her on some basic Spanish phrases.
0:20.0	Oh, honey.
0:22.0	Wait a minute.
0:24.0	What's the deal?
0:26.0	I don't think that's very nice making fun of my Spanish.
0:30.0	Why'd you been making fun of my English for 15 years?
0:34.0	Plus, different Spanish is a foreign language.
0:38.0	Well, English is a foreign language to me.
0:42.0	Well, the way you speak it is to me too.
0:46.0	Ricky and Lucy came from opposite worlds.
0:50.0	They spoke different languages.
0:52.0	Quite literally.
0:54.0	The show mined these differences for laughs, especially Ricky's accent.
0:58.0	The real life Ricky Ricardo was, of course, one desi d'edio, Alberto Arnez, either atcha the third.
1:06.0	Better known to us as desi Arnez.
1:10.0	Desi had a few things in common with his TV alter ego.
1:14.0	They were both Cuban, both band leaders, and both trying to make it an America.
1:18.0	Alongside a sparky redhead named Lucy.
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