Too Many Girls

Arnaz also starred in the 1940 film adaptation of the musical, and it was on that set where he met and began a turbulent relationship with Ball. They wed in 1940, but their marriage was soon strained by Arnaz’s drinking and alleged infidelity. During this period he appeared in several…

…Five Came Back (1939), and Too Many Girls (1940), in which she starred and which also featured the popular Cuban bandleader and actor Desi Arnaz, whom she married in 1940. For 10 years they conducted separate careers, he as a bandleader and she as a movie actress who was usually…