List of the best Desi Arnaz movies: Forever Darling(1956), Four Jacks and a Jill(1941), The Escape Artist(1982), Father Takes a Wife(1941), Too Many Girls(1940), Bataan(1943), The Navy Comes Through(1942) ... ...
Comedy
USA
1956
96 Minutes
Producer
Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz James Mason Louis Calhern John Emery John Hoyt Natalie Schafer Mabel Albertson Ralph Dumke Nancy Kulp Willis Bouchey
chemist wife angel cousin father boss madcap campy playful endearing family home yosemite valley movie theater woods unhappy marriage career vs. love angels reconciliation camping infatuation
Susan and Lorenzo have been married for over five years and they are starting to drift apart. So into her life comes an angel, which only Susan can see, to tell her that there will be ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1941
68 Minutes
Ray Bolger Desi Arnaz Dawn O'Day June Havoc Eddie Foy Jr. Jack Durant Henry Daniell Fritz Feld
singer immigrant bandleader mobster cab driver nightclub owner amusing charming new york city nightclub deception show business music industry organized crime transformation quest 1940s
Four struggling musicians lose their vocalist at the insistence of her gangster boyfriend. They find a replacement in an innocent young woman being courted by a cabbie pretending to be a king.
Drama
USA
1982
94 Minutes
Mayor Leon Quiñones
Griffin O'Neal Raul Julia Desi Arnaz Teri Garr Joan Hackett Gabriel Dell John P. Ryan M. Emmet Walsh Elizabeth Daily Jackie Coogan
vaudevillian magician mayor cop aunt uncle suspenseful brooding crafty cleveland prison small town father/son relationship grief ambition escape fame transformation quest 1980s
Teenager Danny Masters, the son of the late Harry Masters, considered the second best escape artist in history, wants to follow in his father's footsteps, he already a skilled but untested ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1941
79 Minutes
Carlos Bardez
Adolphe Menjou Gloria Swanson Desi Arnaz John Howard Helen Broderick Florence Rice Neil Hamilton Grady Sutton George F. Meader Mary Treen Ruth Dietrich
Frederick Osborne, Junior is slightly agitated because his father, Senior, is acting more like a college student than the president of a huge merchantile fleet. Senior reveals that he is ... See full summary »
Musical
USA
1940
85 Minutes
Manuelito Lynch
Lucille Ball Richard Carlson Desi Arnaz Ann Miller Eddie Bracken Frances Langford Hal LeRoy Libby Bennett Harry Shannon Douglas Walton Chester Clute
heiress football player father friend playwright lighthearted amusing playful new mexico small town college football field college life wealth football romance father/daughter relationship escape adventure 1940s
A young lady goes to College and, without her knowledge, her father sends four football players as her bodyguards, who eventually join the college team and turn it into one of the best, while one of the players falls in love with her.
War
USA
1943
115 Minutes
Felix Ramirez
Robert Taylor George Murphy Thomas Mitchell Lloyd Nolan Lee Bowman Robert Walker Desi Arnaz Barry Nelson Phillip Terry Roque Espiritu Kenneth Spencer
soldiers captain pilot sargeant enemy gritty powerful philippines bridge bataan horrors of war honor code abandonment world war ii daunting task sacrifice underdog 1940s
In 1942, in the Bataan peninsula of the Philippines, a ragtag American unit commanded by Sergeant Bill Dane attempts to blow-up a bridge in order to slow the Japanese advance.
War
USA
1942
82 Minutes
Pat Tarriba
Pat O'Brien George Murphy Jane Wyatt Jackie Cooper Carl Esmond Max Baer Desi Arnaz Ray Collins Lee Bonnell Frank Jenks John Maguire
gunner sailor ex-girlfriend violinist nazi patriotic rousing ship naval base world war ii navy naval warfare redemption love pursuit adventure transformation 1940s
A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis.