Word: arnaz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suspense (Thurs. 9 p.m., CBS). The Redheaded Woman, with Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz...
...picture's message is that the Navy is not just a lot of equipment, but the men who man it. The trouble is that in this show the men are mostly a crew of waterlogged cinemactors. There is a gallant young Cuban (Desi Arnaz) who recites: "Your contry made my contry free, now I make your contry free." There is a comedy gob, his mouth all corners, who keeps tuning in on the Dodgers, though any radio aboard would have been sealed* before the Sybil Gray sailed. There is a radio-tinker on whose set the Nazi code...
...well-worn I Didn't Know What Time It Was and the new You're Nearer, also gets the affections of Richard Carlson, whose crew haircut makes him the first genuine-looking Princeton undergraduate in cinema history. Ann Miller, Hal LeRoy and a Cuban, Desi Arnaz, a terpsichorean Rudolph Valentino who was in the stage show, make you wish there were more time for dancing; Eddie Bracken that there were more for comedy...
...with strict hands-off contract) for Lucille Ball, the hardest woman to handle since Lucretia Borgia. She and Frances Langford carry the torch songs while P. U., playing against Columbia, Pitt, and even Cornell, becomes the highest team in America in points scored--for and against. Fourth Horseman Desi Arnaz, an argentine, prairie wolf, shows possibilities of becoming the greatest threat to American womanhood since the fourteen-day diet. And Harvard's quarterback, Eddie Bracken, (who knocked down more passes in 1939 than any American except Ginger Rogers) does the Crimson proud...
Dance La Conga (Columbia). Four-disc set of congas played by the orchestra of Desi Arnaz, the supple Latin glamor boy of Broadway's Too Many Girls. An accompanying set of instructions by Arthur Murray is intended to show purchasers how to conga almost as well as Señor Arnaz...