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Too Many Girls (1940) - You're Nearer

In the movie where they met off-screen, Desi Arnaz (as "Manuelito") and Lucille Ball (as "Connie") meet on screen, her dad (Harry Shannon) greeting, Desi and buddies swooning as she sings (dubbed vocal) Rodgers & Hart's You're Nearer, in Too Many Girls, 1940.

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