Advertising
DeSoto sponsored the popular television game show You Bet Your Life from 1950 through 1958, in which host Groucho Marx promoted the product by urging viewers to visit a DeSoto dealer with the phrase "tell 'em Groucho sent you", and to "try a DeSoto before you decide". 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, with his permission, in DeSoto advertising between 1955 and 1957. The revised song lyrics: "It's delovely, it's dynamic, it's DeSoto."
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