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Tuesday, August 9, 2011

My Favorite Cugat

In the early days of the show, My Favorite Husband, husband-wife George and Liz were known as the Cugats.  Later they became the Coopers.

Although I have not read this anywhere, I happen to *think* the name Cugat was an homage to Desi Arnez's friend Xavier Cugat to whom he was sometimes compared.

Both Xavier and Desi were from Havana and were very good friends. 

Anyone know anything different?  Is this a plausible theory?

©Jimbo 2010/2011

2 comments:

  1. My wife thought she heard that the Cugat family objected to their using the name Cugat. So they changed the last name to Cooper. The show was based on a noval with the name Cugat was used.

    An article of Wiki : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Favorite_Husband

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  2. Ah well, there you go! Nice detective work by the Mrs!

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