Jimmy Durante
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".
Acting (66 movies)
Blondie of the Follies
1932
The Movie Orgy
1968
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963
Palooka
1934
The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941
Frosty the Snowman
1969
Billy Rose's Jumbo
1962
Speak Easily
1932
On an Island with You
1948
Little Miss Broadway
1938
This Time for Keeps
1947
The Great Rupert
1950
It Happened in Brooklyn
1947
Showbiz Goes to War
1982
Roadhouse Nights
1930
Two Girls and a Sailor
1944
What! No Beer?
1933
The Passionate Plumber
1932
Pepe
1960
Broadway to Hollywood
1933
The Cuban Love Song
1931
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
1988
Start Cheering
1938
The March of Time
1930
The Wet Parade
1932
The Milkman
1950
George White's Scandals
1934
Meet the Baron
1933
The Phantom President
1932
Give a Man a Job
1933
Strictly Dynamite
1934
Hollywood Party
1934
Alice Through the Looking Glass
1966
Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
1932
Land Without Music
1936
Melody Ranch
1940
Music for Millions
1944
Hell Below
1933
Student Tour
1934
New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
1931
Sally, Irene and Mary
1938
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984
Two Sisters from Boston
1946
The Christmas Party
1931
The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
1962
Hollywood on Parade
1932
That's Entertainment!
1974
Beau James
1957
Carnival
1935
You're in the Army Now
1941
The Last Judgment
1961
That's Entertainment! III
1994
Hollywood on Parade No. B-9
1934
Hollywood Musicals of the 40's
2000
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
2002
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
1936
It's Showtime
1976
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1
2001
The Frank Sinatra Timex Show
1959
Breakdowns of 1942
1942
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019
Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
1997
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988
The All-Star Christmas Show
1958
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