Jimmy Durante
Date of birth: 1893-02-09
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: James Francis Durante, The Schnoz , Jimmy 'Schnozzle' Durante, Durante, Джимми Дюранте, Джимми Дуранте
Biography
Comedian, composer, actor, singer and songwriter ("Inka Dinka Doo") Jimmy Durante was educated in New York public schools. He began his career as a Coney Island pianist, and organized a five-piece band in 1916. He opened the Club Durant with Eddie Jackson and Lou Clayton, with whom he later formed a comedy trio for vaudeville and on television. He appeared in the Broadway musicals "Show Girl", "The New Yorkers", "Strike Me Pink", "Jumbo", "Red Hot and Blue", and "Stars in Your Eyes". By 1936, he had appeared at the Palladium in London. Later he had his own radio and television shows, and was a featured headliner in night clubs. Biographer Gene Fowler wrote his biography, "Schnozzola". Joining ASCAP in 1941, he collaborated musically with Jackie Barnett and Ben Ryan, and his other popular song compositions include "I'm Jimmy That Well-Dressed Man", "I Know Darn Well I Can Do Without Broadway", "I Ups to Him and He Ups to Me", "Daddy Your Mamma Is Lonesome For You", "Umbriago", "Any State In the Forty-Eight", "Chidabee Chidabee Chidabee", and "I'm Jimmy's Girl".
Movie Credits
Blondie of the Follies
1932-09-01
New York City tenement dwelling neighbors Blondie and Lottie are longtime best friends. When Lottie
The Movie Orgy
1968-01-01
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloop
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963-11-07
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $
Palooka
1934-01-26
Joe Palooka is a naive young man whose father Pete was a champion boxer, but his lifestyle caused Jo
The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941-12-24
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwester
Frosty the Snowman
1969-12-07
A discarded silk top-hat becomes the focus of a struggle between a washed-up stage magician and a gr
Billy Rose's Jumbo
1962-12-06
The daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover spearheaded by the man she
Speak Easily
1932-08-13
A professor gets mixed up with chorus girls in a Broadway musical.
On an Island with You
1948-05-03
A young navy lieutenant is brought in as technical adviser on a song-dance-and-swim film being made
Little Miss Broadway
1938-07-29
An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The
This Time for Keeps
1947-10-17
An ex-GI falls for a bathing beauty.
The Great Rupert
1950-03-01
Shortly before Christmas, a family moves into an apartment where Rupert the squirrel lives in the at
It Happened in Brooklyn
1947-03-13
Danny has been in the army for 4 years, yet all he thinks about is Brooklyn and how great it is. Whe
Showbiz Goes to War
1982-12-31
While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War
Roadhouse Nights
1930-02-15
Based on the Hammett novel, this ultra-rare film—is nominally taken from the author's classic gang-w
Two Girls and a Sailor
1944-06-14
A sailor helps two sisters start up a service canteen. The sailor soon becomes taken with gorgeous s
What! No Beer?
1933-02-10
When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters
The Passionate Plumber
1932-02-06
Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagor
Pepe
1960-12-21
Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director b
Broadway to Hollywood
1933-09-15
In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville
The Cuban Love Song
1931-11-18
A guilt-ridden U.S. Marine returns to Cuba to try to find the woman he promised to marry.
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
1988-05-16
Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC.
Start Cheering
1938-03-03
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him e
The March of Time
1930-09-01
Unfinished pre-Code era film consisting of three sections with past performers from the stage and th
The Wet Parade
1932-03-26
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich
The Milkman
1950-10-17
A dairy owner's son takes a job as milkman with a rival company.
George White's Scandals
1934-03-15
Reporter Miss Lee is looking for a story and approaches George White as he's assembling the latest e
Meet the Baron
1933-10-20
A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.
The Phantom President
1932-09-23
Too bad for presidential hopes of banker T.K. Blair; his party feels he has too little flair for sav
Give a Man a Job
1933-01-31
A three-minute short made in conjunction with the National Recovery Administration that urges employ
Strictly Dynamite
1934-05-11
A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.
Hollywood Party
1934-05-24
Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lio
Alice Through the Looking Glass
1966-11-06
Alice returns to Wonderland through the looking glass in this TV musical.
Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
1932-10-20
Eddie Kane wanders round the studio back-lot, opening various doors to see which stars pop out.
Land Without Music
1936-10-07
Believing real life is an operetta, the citizens of the European country Lucco break into song at ev
Melody Ranch
1940-09-15
His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Ce
Music for Millions
1944-12-18
Six-year-old "Mike" goes to live with her pregnant older sister, Babs, who plays string bass in José
Hell Below
1933-06-08
On leave in Italy, Lt. Tommy Knowlton falls in love with Jean Standish, who's not only married, but
Student Tour
1934-10-05
A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter
2011-04-09
The beloved, Emmy-winning comic actor Don Knotts, best-known for his roles as the bumbling deputy Ba
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
2004-02-03
Until 1932's Grand Hotel, never had there existed an all-star ensemble cast on film. Conceived by MG
New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
1931-10-03
Wallingford is a con-man whose specialty is taking money from suckers. His partners are Schnozzle, a
Sally, Irene and Mary
1938-03-04
Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984-01-01
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were
Two Sisters from Boston
1946-06-06
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New
The Christmas Party
1931-12-17
In this holiday short, Jackie Cooper wants to throw a Christmas party for his friends on his footbal
The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
1962-01-06
A TV movie with intertwining music numbers and sketches.
Hollywood on Parade
1932-06-05
A short featuring many stars
That's Entertainment!
1974-06-21
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year hi
Beau James
1957-06-07
The story of Jimmy Walker who became mayor of New York in the '20s.
Carnival
1935-02-15
"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves
You're in the Army Now
1941-12-25
Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge.
The Last Judgment
1961-10-26
In Naples, a voice from the skies announces one morning that the final judgment will be at 6 p.m. on
That's Entertainment! III
1994-07-01
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Hollywood on Parade No. B-9
1934-04-28
Jimmy Durante asks popular song writing team Mack Gordon and Harry Revel to demonstrate some of thei
Hollywood Musicals of the 40's
2000-09-01
Highlights from the great musicals of the 1940s. Stars featured include Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney,
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975-08-06
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American ent
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976-05-16
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time includi
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
2002-03-21
The films, affairs and struggles of the iconic star of The Blue Angel as told by Rosemary Clooney, R
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
1936-09-11
Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Fr
It's Showtime
1976-03-31
A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1
2001-02-22
This Bob Hope Special called “Highlights of a Quarter Century” begins his 26th year with NBC in 1975
The Frank Sinatra Timex Show
1959-10-19
The first Timex Show from Frank Sinatra with friends Dean Martin, Bing Crosby and others.
JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala
2017-05-23
Documentary about the star-studded pre-inaugural gala that took place on January 19, 1961 to celebra
Breakdowns of 1942
1942-12-31
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942.
Murder at N.B.C.
1966-10-19
A comedy classic whodunit with an amazing comedic ensemble group. An hour comedy special in which Bo
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019-02-27
In the late 1990s, iconic photographer Bruce Weber barely managed to convince legendary actor Robert
Prohibition Newsreel No. 7
1933-01-01
Celebrating the repeal of Prohibition from sea to shining sea. Currently available as part of the T
Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
1997-11-18
Documentary featuring more than one dozen musical outtakes from classic 20th Century-Fox films.
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988-09-19
Famous Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
The All-Star Christmas Show
1958-12-01
This 1958 Christmas spectacular was produced by the USO for the entertainment of troops stationed ov
Brasileiros em Hollywood
1970-01-01
Plumber in love
1932-12-30
This is the French-language version of Buster Keaton's The Passionate Plumber (1932). This film is p