Jimmy Durante
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".
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
as Smiler GroganA group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about...
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Frosty the Snowman
as Narrator (voice)A discarded silk top-hat becomes the focus of a struggle between a washed-up stage magician and...
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And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self (archive footage)The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND...
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That's Entertainment!
as (archive footage)Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50...
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The Great Rupert
as Mr. Louie AmendolaShortly before Christmas, a family moves into an apartment where Rupert the squirrel lives in...
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That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time...
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Billy Rose's Jumbo
as Anthony ('Pop') WonderThe daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover spearheaded by the man...
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The Man Who Came to Dinner
as BanjoAn acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a...
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That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage)Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of...
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Two Sisters from Boston
as 'Spike'Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in...
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The Milkman
as Breezy AlbrightA dairy owner's son takes a job as milkman with a rival company.
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The Movie Orgy
as Self (archive footage)Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels,...
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Meet the Baron
as Joe McGooA charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.
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The Last Judgment
as The man with the large noseThe Last Judgement (Italian: Il giudizio universale) is a 1961 commedia all'italiana film by...
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It's Showtime
as Self (archive footage)A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.
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Strictly Dynamite
as MoxieA failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.
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Music for Millions
as AndrewsSix-year-old "Mike" goes to live with her pregnant older sister, Babs, who plays string bass in...
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Broadway to Hollywood
as JimmyIn this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife...
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Pepe
as Jimmy DuranteMario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood...
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Showbiz Goes to War
as (archive footage)While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World...
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Speak Easily
as JamesA professor gets mixed up with chorus girls in a Broadway musical.
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On an Island with You
as BuckleyA young navy lieutenant is brought in as technical adviser on a song-dance-and-swim film being...
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Palooka
as Knobby WalshJoe Palooka is a naive young man whose father Pete was a champion boxer, but his lifestyle...
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George White's Scandals
as Happy McGillicuddyReporter Miss Lee is looking for a story and approaches George White as he's assembling the...
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Hell Below
as Ptomaine' - Ships CookOn leave in Italy, Lt. Tommy Knowlton falls in love with Jean Standish, who's not only married,...
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Two Girls and a Sailor
as Billy Kipp / Julian KippA sailor helps two sisters start up a service canteen. The sailor soon becomes taken with...
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The Passionate Plumber
as Julius J. McCrackenParis plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony...
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The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
as Self - HostA TV movie with intertwining music numbers and sketches.
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they...
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Melody Ranch
as Cornelius J. CourtneyHis Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier...
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Beau James
as Jimmy DuranteThe story of Jimmy Walker who became mayor of New York in the '20s.
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Alice Through the Looking Glass
as Humpty DumptyAlice returns to Wonderland through the looking glass in this TV musical.
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Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
as Self (archive footage)Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC.
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What! No Beer?
as Jimmy PottsWhen Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against...
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New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
as SchnozzleWallingford is a con-man whose specialty is taking money from suckers. His partners are...
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American...
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It Happened in Brooklyn
as Nick LombardiDanny has been in the army for 4 years, yet all he thinks about is Brooklyn and how great it is....
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The Best of Bob Hope: 50 years of Laughter Volume 1
as Self (archive footage)This Bob Hope Special called “Highlights of a Quarter Century” begins his 26th year with NBC in...
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Hollywood Party
as Jimmy DuranteJimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake...
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Little Miss Broadway
as Jimmy ClaytonAn orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people....
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Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)The films, affairs and struggles of the iconic star of The Blue Angel as told by Rosemary...
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The Cuban Love Song
as O.O. JonesA guilt-ridden U.S. Marine returns to Cuba to try to find the woman he promised to marry.
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Hollywood Musicals of the 40's
as Self (archive footage)Highlights from the great musicals of the 1940s. Stars featured include Judy Garland, Mickey...
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Breakdowns of 1942
as SelfFlubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942.
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Start Cheering
as Willie GumbatzAfter retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have...
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This Time for Keeps
as Ferdi FarroAn ex-GI falls for a bathing beauty.
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Hollywood on Parade No. B-9
as SelfJimmy Durante asks popular song writing team Mack Gordon and Harry Revel to demonstrate some of...
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Student Tour
as Hank MermanA philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
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Carnival
as Fingers"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and...
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Blondie of the Follies
as JimmyNew York City tenement dwelling neighbors Blondie and Lottie are longtime best friends. When...
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The Phantom President
as Curly CooneyToo bad for presidential hopes of banker T.K. Blair; his party feels he has too little flair for...
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Sally, Irene and Mary
as Jefferson TwitchelManicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old...
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Roadhouse Nights
as Daffy (as Durante)Based on the Hammett novel, this ultra-rare film—is nominally taken from the author's classic...
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The Wet Parade
as Abe ShillingThe evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the...
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The Christmas Party
as Santa Claus (uncredited)In this holiday short, Jackie Cooper wants to throw a Christmas party for his friends on his...
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You're in the Army Now
as Homer "Jeeper" SmithIncompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge.
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Land Without Music
as Jonah J. WhistlerBelieving real life is an operetta, the citizens of the European country Lucco break into song...
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The March of Time
as SelfUnfinished pre-Code era film consisting of three sections with past performers from the stage...
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Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
as SelfEddie Kane wanders round the studio back-lot, opening various doors to see which stars pop out.
Movie pageThe Frank Sinatra Timex Show
as SelfThe first Timex Show from Frank Sinatra with friends Dean Martin, Bing Crosby and others.
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The Lucy Show
as Jimmy DuranteThe Lucy Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962–68. It was Lucille Ball's...
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What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery GuestFour panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while...
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The Bob Hope Show
as SelfThe Bob Hope Show hosted by Bob Hope, debuted on April 9, 1950. During the 1952-1953 season, NBC...
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The Colgate Comedy Hour
as SelfThe Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC...
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The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self - CameoThe Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC...
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The Ed Sullivan Show
as SelfThe Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June...
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The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self - SingerThe Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June...
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The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
as SelfThe Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on...
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The Hollywood Palace
as Self - SingerThe Hollywood Palace is an hour-long American television variety show that was broadcast weekly...
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The Mothers-in-Law
as Jimmy DuranteThe Mothers-in-Law is an American sitcom starring Eve Arden and Kaye Ballard as two matriarchs...
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The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
as uncreditedThe Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour is an American variety show starring American pop-singer Cher and...
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The Oscars
as SelfAn annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The...
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