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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TV Series
The Colgate Comedy Hour
6.8
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
6.5
The Lucy Show
7
The Hollywood Palace
4.5
The Don Knotts Show
0
Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters
0
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
6
The Steve Allen Show
5.6
The Oscars
7
Summer Playhouse
0
The Jimmy Durante Show
0
Four Star Revue
6.667
The Ed Sullivan Show
6.8
The Pearl Bailey Show
0
What's My Line?
6.9
The Bob Hope Show
7
The Colgate Comedy Hour
6.8
The Mothers-in-Law
5.8
The Bob Hope Show
7
The Jerry Lewis Show
7
Movies
Blondie of the Follies
6
The Movie Orgy
6.5
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
6.971
Palooka
3
The Man Who Came to Dinner
6.9
Frosty the Snowman
6.955
Billy Rose's Jumbo
5.6
Speak Easily
5.81
On an Island with You
5.6
Little Miss Broadway
6.6
This Time for Keeps
5.2
The Great Rupert
5.6
It Happened in Brooklyn
6
Showbiz Goes to War
10
Roadhouse Nights
4.5
Two Girls and a Sailor
5.7
What! No Beer?
5.4
The Passionate Plumber
6
Pepe
6.2
Broadway to Hollywood
4.6
The Cuban Love Song
4.3
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
6
Start Cheering
7
The March of Time
0
The Wet Parade
5.8
The Milkman
8
George White's Scandals
5
Meet the Baron
4.3
The Phantom President
5.5
Give a Man a Job
2
Strictly Dynamite
5.3
Hollywood Party
5.8
Alice Through the Looking Glass
6
Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
0
Land Without Music
6
Melody Ranch
5.8
Music for Millions
6
Hell Below
6.3
Student Tour
5
Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter
0
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
7
New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
5
Sally, Irene and Mary
6
Going Hollywood: The '30s
10
Two Sisters from Boston
6
The Christmas Party
4.929
The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
7
Hollywood on Parade
3
That's Entertainment!
7.3
Beau James
5.7
Carnival
0
You're in the Army Now
3.6
The Last Judgment
6.417
That's Entertainment! III
6.973
Hollywood on Parade No. B-9
0
Hollywood Musicals of the 40's
0
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
5.7
That's Entertainment, Part II
6.855
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
6.444
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
6
And the Oscar Goes To...
6.991
It's Showtime
7
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1
0
The Frank Sinatra Timex Show
0
JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala
0
Breakdowns of 1942
6
Murder at N.B.C.
0
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
4.25
Prohibition Newsreel No. 7
0
Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
7