Word: ricardo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midstory, the film creakingly moves to Brazil and is taken over by the Rio de Janeiro chamber of commerce. In between plugs for the heady Brazilian climate, Lund falls off polo ponies and Lana exchanges passionate glances with Ricardo Montalban, who plays a bare-chested rancher with a coyly devilish grandfather (Louis Calhern). Since the plot offers no clear reason why the movie should run 104 Technicolored minutes, Scenarist Isobel Lennart has thrown in such extraneous items as a funnyman from the U.S. Embassy (Archer MacDonald), a brace of psychoanalysts (fast replacing mothers-in-law as Hollywood's stock...
Sombrero (M-G-M), an excessively picturesque romantic drama with a Mexican setting, seems to have just about everything in it except Quetzalcoatl and Pancho Villa. Among its ingredients: three love stories involving three sets of dashing caballeros (Ricardo Montalban, Vittorio Gassman, Rick Jason) and beautiful señoritas (Pier Angeli, Yvonne de Carlo, Cyd Charisse), a bullfight, a cockfight, a feud between two villages, bastardy, incurable illness, a fiesta, a beauty contest, a contested will, gypsy witchcraft...
Secret Gimmick. Almost everything in radio & TV needs a gimmick, and the memo had one. It was called "The Secret Gimmick about the Baby's Sex." This, too, required an inviolate pledge of secrecy until the release date this week: "The Ricardo baby will be a boy regardless of the sex of the actual Arnaz baby. Of course, if the Arnaz baby does happen to be a boy, then all writers and editors can assume that the producers of I Love Lucy are clairvoyant and possessed of sheer genius. If it happens to be a girl, the story...
...phone the news to him, since he will be expecting the phone call. When he is alerted, he is to be told nothing of the gimmick but, when he receives the phone call, and not before, he will be given the story of Desi's thinking concerning the Ricardo baby. Of course, the news of the Arnaz baby will be given out simultaneously to Louella, Hedda, Johnson, Graham, all the wire services and all the local dailies. But the story of the gimmick as released to the other outlets will be a follow-up . . . to give Walter an edge...
This week, Lucille Ball got around to doing her part. As television's Lucy Ricardo she was rushed off to the hospital to give birth to Ricky Ricardo Jr. As Lucille Ball Arnaz, she entered Hollywood's Cedars of Lebanon Hospital and gave birth to another boy. His weight: 8 lbs. 9 oz. His name: Desiderio Alberto Arnaz...