From Out of the Past

Holland Imaginarium

Celebrating Classic Hollywood (and Then Some) with A Guy in The Trenches Season 1: William Goldman Season 2: The Year Before Disneyland

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From Out of the Past

Episodes (28)

Mar 31st 305 La Conga
Mar 24th 304 The Queen of the Bs
Mar 17th 303 A Clown with Glamour

From Out of the Past

Mar 31, 2026
1½ hours
57 MB

Chapter 5 has us going back in time to share Desi Arnaz’ road to Hollywood; which, if you don’t know, is more than a little surprising. And scary. And sad. And then more than a little hopeful as “picking oneself up by the bootstraps” is an understatement. From growing up in Cuba, surviving the 1933 Revolution, playing in rumba bands including with Xavier Cugat, drinking Bacardi rum with Bing Crosby, introducing the conga to Miami and New York, rubbing elbows with debutantes and Al Capone, to playing THE Latin footballer in Rodgers’ and Hart’s ‘Too Many Girls,’ that Broadway hit becoming an RKO m...

From Out of the Past

305 La Conga

Holland Imaginarium

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