User:DanTD/Sandbox/DeSoto automobiles in popular culture

DeSoto's have been featured in films, television shows, cartoons, and theatrical plays.

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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

 * Cars that are prominently featured

1946 DeSoto Deluxe Taxicab Skyview in the 1949 film On the Town. 1949 DeSoto Custom in the 1960 film Classe Tous Risques (The Big Risk).

1951 DeSoto Custom Convertible in the 1957 film Le Feu aux Poudres (Burning Fuse).

1954 DeSoto Firedome driven by Albert Einstein (Walter Matthau) in the 1994 film titled IQ. 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).

1956 DeSoto Firedome driven by Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart) in the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock classic Vertigo.

1956 DeSoto Fireflite Convertible in the 1958 film La Vie à Deux (Life Together).

1957 DeSoto Fireflite four-door sedan demolition derby car driven by Gil Peterson in the 1967 film The Cool Ones.

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.

1961 DeSoto 4-door hardtop early in the 1988 film Mississippi Burning, from which a body is thrown into the street.

DeSoto in Comic strips and Comic books

 * 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

 * For the majority of the 1950s themed TV show Happy Days, Mr. Cunningham drove a navy blue 1946 DeSoto.
 * 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

 * 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, being chased by a 1950 Oldsmobile.