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DeSoto's have been featured in films, television shows, cartoons, and theatrical plays.
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Advertising
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DeSoto sponsored the popular television game show You Bet Your Life in which host Groucho Marx promoted the product by urging viewers to visit a DeSoto dealer with the phrase "tell 'em Groucho sent you". There was also a DeSoto Plymouth logo visible in the background all during the show.
The Cole Porter song "It's De-Lovely" was used in DeSoto advertising. "It's delovely, it's dynamic, it's DeSoto."
DeSoto in films
[edit]- Cars that are prominently featured
1946 DeSoto Deluxe Taxicab Skyview in the 1949 film On the Town.[1]
1949 DeSoto Custom in the 1960 film Classe Tous Risques (The Big Risk).[2]
1951 DeSoto Custom Convertible in the 1957 film Le Feu aux Poudres (Burning Fuse).[3]
1954 DeSoto Firedome driven by Albert Einstein (Walter Matthau) in the 1994 film titled IQ.[4] Four door in the beginning of the film and convertible by the end.
1956 DeSoto Fireflite Convertible in the 1957 Federico Fellini film Le Notti di Cabiria (Nights of Cabiria).[5]
1956 DeSoto Firedome driven by Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart) in the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock classic Vertigo.[6]
1956 DeSoto Fireflite Convertible in the 1958 film La Vie à Deux (Life Together).[7]
1957 DeSoto Fireflite four-door sedan demolition derby car driven by Gil Peterson in the 1967 film The Cool Ones.[8]
1958 DeSoto Fireflite four-door sedan was a fire chief's car in some 1958 drama with Frank Gorshin as a firebug who starts a fire in a national forest in a low-budget 1959 film I forgot the name of.
1959 DeSoto Firesweep Convertible in the 1991 film Mystery Date.[9]
1961 DeSoto 4-door hardtop early in the 1988 film Mississippi Burning, from which a body is thrown into the street.[10]
DeSoto in Comic strips and Comic books
[edit]- In the comic strip The Piranha Club, the character of Ernie Floyd drives a purple 1957 DeSoto Fireflite.
- In the comic strip Shoe, the main character, "Perfesser" Cosmo Fishhawk, drove a pink 1959 DeSoto.
- A 1960 DeSoto squad car serves as the main transportation for the comic book characters Sam & Max, and was also featured in the computer games Sam & Max Hit the Road, Sam & Max Season One and Sam & Max Season Two.
DeSoto in TV shows
[edit]- For the majority of the 1950s themed TV show Happy Days, Mr. Cunningham drove a navy blue 1946 DeSoto.[11]
- In the 1956-60 Desilu syndicated series "Sheriff of Cochise/ U. S Marshall," series star John Bromfield drove a DeSoto station wagon with bulletproof glass.
- In the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the character Spike drove a 1959 DeSoto during seasons 2 and 3. The car is often associated with the character in fan fiction, even though Spike did not drive it for the remaining 4 seasons of the series, opting usually for a motorcycle instead.
DeSoto in Popular songs
[edit]- In the "Weird Al" Yankovic song "The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota", he drives a 1953 DeSoto.
- In the Rascal Flatts song "Ellsworth", a DeSoto is mentioned in the first part of the song.
- The music video for the Velocity Girl song "Nothing" contains a scene with the band driving a 1960 DeSoto Fireflite[12], being chased by a 1950 Oldsmobile.