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Jimmy Durante

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".

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Movies Starring Jimmy Durante (66)

Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast (2019)

In the late 1990s, iconic photographer Bruce Weber barely managed to convince legendary actor Robert Mitchum (1917-97) to let himself be filmed simply hanging out with friends, telling anecdotes from his life and recording jazz standards. ...

JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala (2017)

JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala (2017)

Documentary about the star-studded pre-inaugural gala that took place on January 19, 1961 to celebrate John F. Kennedy's election. ...

And the Oscar Goes To... (2014)

The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the indu ...

Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter (2011)

Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter (2011)

The beloved, Emmy-winning comic actor Don Knotts, best-known for his roles as the bumbling deputy Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show and the lecherous landlord Mr. Furley on Three's Company, presents a series of side-splitting stand-up routines and skit ...

Checking Out: Grand Hotel (2004)

Until 1932's Grand Hotel, never had there existed an all-star ensemble cast on film. Conceived by MGM's production genius Irving Thalberg, the film boasted names like Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery and John and Lionel Barrymore and went on to wi ...

Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song (2002)

The films, affairs and struggles of the iconic star of The Blue Angel as told by Rosemary Clooney, Roger Corman, Deanna Durbin and many more. ...

The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1 (2001)

This Bob Hope Special called "Highlights of a Quarter Century" begins his 26th year with NBC in 1975 (he began with NBC radio in 1937) celebrating 25 years of Bob Hope Specials and the many celebrities that appeared on them The clips begin with his very fi ...

Hollywood Musicals of the 40's (2000)

Highlights from the great musicals of the 1940s. Stars featured include Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Bing Crosby, Doris Day, Danny Kaye, Jimmy Durante and Frank Sinatra. ...

Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults (1997)

Documentary featuring more than one dozen musical outtakes from classic 20th Century-Fox films. ...

That's Entertainment! III (1994)

Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain. ...

Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC (1988)

Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC. ...

Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984)

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War. ...

Showbiz Goes to War (1982)

While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War II, the majority used their talents to rally the American public through bond sales, morale-boosting USO tours, patriotic war dramas and escapist film fare. ...

That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)

Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers. ...

It's Showtime (1976)

A collection of film clips profiling animal actors. ...

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975)

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression. ...

That's Entertainment! (1974)

Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history. ...

Frosty the Snowman (1969)

A discarded silk top-hat becomes the focus of a struggle between a washed-up stage magician and a group of schoolchildren, after it magically brings a snowman to life. Realizing that newly-living Frosty will melt in spring unless he takes refuge in a colde ...

The Movie Orgy (1968)

Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and ...

Alice Through the Looking Glass (1966)

Alice returns to Wonderland through the looking glass in this TV musical. ...

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)

A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself. ...

Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)

The daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover spearheaded by the man she loves. ...

The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers (1962)

A TV movie with intertwining music numbers and sketches. ...

The Last Judgment (1961)

The Last Judgement (Italian: Il giudizio universale) is a 1961 commedia all'italiana film by Italian director Vittorio De Sica. It was coproduced with France. It has an all-star Italian and international cast, including Americans Jack Palance, Ernest Borg ...

Pepe (1960)

Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe's boss. Pepe, determined to get the horse back (as he considers it his family), decides to take off to Hollywood. ...

The Frank Sinatra Timex Show (1959)

The first Timex Show from Frank Sinatra with friends Dean Martin, Bing Crosby and others. ...

Beau James (1957)

The story of Jimmy Walker who became mayor of New York in the '20s. ...

The Milkman (1950)

A dairy owner's son takes a job as milkman with a rival company. ...

The Great Rupert (1950)

Shortly before Christmas, a family moves into an apartment where Rupert the squirrel lives in the attic rafters. Just as it seems that the holiday will come and go without so much as a Christmas tree, Rupert acts as the family's guardian angel - not only s ...

On an Island with You (1948)

A young navy lieutenant is brought in as technical adviser on a song-dance-and-swim film being made by screen star Rosalind Reynolds. Having once done a number with her at a Forces show, the young lad somehow believes she should be his girl. Her boyfriend ...

This Time for Keeps (1947)

An ex-GI falls for a bathing beauty. ...

It Happened in Brooklyn (1947)

Danny has been in the army for 4 years, yet all he thinks about is Brooklyn and how great it is. When he returns after the war, he soon finds that Brooklyn is not so nice after all. He is able to share a place with Nick, the janitor of his old High School, ...

Two Sisters from Boston (1946)

Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house and is billed as High-C Susie. When her sister Martha comes for a visit, Abigail tries to hide the truth f ...

Music for Millions (1944)

Six-year-old "Mike" goes to live with her pregnant older sister, Babs, who plays string bass in José Iturbi's orchestra. And the orchestra is rapidly turning completely female, what with the draft. As the orchestra travels around the country, Babs' fellow ...

Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)

A sailor helps two sisters start up a service canteen. The sailor soon becomes taken with gorgeous sister Jean, unaware that her sibling Patsy is also in love with him. ...

Breakdowns of 1942 (1942)

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942. ...

You're in the Army Now (1941)

Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge. ...

The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941)

An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family. ...

Melody Ranch (1940)

His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Celebration. ...

Little Miss Broadway (1938)

An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage. ...

Sally, Irene and Mary (1938)

Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club. ...

Start Cheering (1938)

After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled. ...

Land Without Music (1936)

Believing real life is an operetta, the citizens of the European country Lucco break into song at every blink of an eye. Since everybody's singing, nobody works, there's no money to pay taxes, and the country faces bankruptcy, leading the ruling princess t ...

Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) (1936)

Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) (1936)

Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Frank McHugh plays with his children; a visit to the West Side Tennis Club affords glimpses of many stars. ...

Carnival (1935)

"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides o ...

Student Tour (1934)

A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour. ...

Hollywood Party (1934)

Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. When Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws him a big Hollywood star-studded party so that he might use the lions in ...

Strictly Dynamite (1934)

A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian. ...

Hollywood on Parade No. B-9 (1934)

Jimmy Durante asks popular song writing team Mack Gordon and Harry Revel to demonstrate some of their songs. There is interplay with impersonator Florence Desmond, Ben Turpin, Rudy Vallee and many others. ...

George White's Scandals (1934)

Reporter Miss Lee is looking for a story and approaches George White as he's assembling the latest edition of his famous revue. ...

Palooka (1934)

Joe Palooka is a naive young man whose father Pete was a champion boxer, but his lifestyle caused Joe's mother Mayme to leave him and to take young Joe to the country to raise him. ...

Meet the Baron (1933)

A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school. ...

Broadway to Hollywood (1933)

In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville headliners of the 1880s is eclipsed by their son. ...

Hell Below (1933)

On leave in Italy, Lt. Tommy Knowlton falls in love with Jean Standish, who's not only married, but is the daughter of his submarine's commander. Friction between the two officers becomes intolerable once at sea and after Commander Toler is forced to aband ...

What! No Beer? (1933)

When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters. ...

Give a Man a Job (1933)

Give a Man a Job (1933)

A three-minute short made in conjunction with the National Recovery Administration that urges employers to hire the unemployed. ...

Hollywood on Parade No. A-3 (1932)

Eddie Kane wanders round the studio back-lot, opening various doors to see which stars pop out. ...

The Phantom President (1932)

Too bad for presidential hopes of banker T.K. Blair; his party feels he has too little flair for savoir faire. But at a medicine show, the party bosses find Blair's double: huckster Doc Varney. Of course, they scheme to make Varney T.K.'s public spokesman; ...

Blondie of the Follies (1932)

New York City tenement dwelling neighbors Blondie and Lottie are longtime best friends. When Lottie makes the cast of the Follies and moves up in the world, she arranges for Blondie, as well, to join the cast and gain the advantages. But the friendship goe ...

Speak Easily (1932)

A professor gets mixed up with chorus girls in a Broadway musical. ...

Hollywood on Parade (1932)

A short featuring many stars ...

The Wet Parade (1932)

The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton family. ...

The Passionate Plumber (1932)

Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagorce jealous. With the help of his friend Julius J. McCracken and through the high society contacts he has made through Patricia, Elmer hopes to find financin ...

The Christmas Party (1931)

In this holiday short, Jackie Cooper wants to throw a Christmas party for his friends on his football team but doesn't know how to go about it. His fellow stars at MGM help him out. ...

The Cuban Love Song (1931)

A guilt-ridden U.S. Marine returns to Cuba to try to find the woman he promised to marry. ...

New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford (1931)

Wallingford is a con-man whose specialty is taking money from suckers. His partners are Schnozzle, a pickpocket and car thief; and Blackie, who has played the game for years. ...

Movies Made By Jimmy Durante (1)

Frosty the Snowman (1969)

A discarded silk top-hat becomes the focus of a struggle between a washed-up stage magician and a group of schoolchildren, after it magically brings a snowman to life. Realizing that newly-living Frosty will melt in spring unless he takes refuge in a colde ...

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