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".
77 movies · 18 shows
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019·5.0
JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala
2017·0.0
Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter
2011·0.0
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
2004·7.0
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
2002·6.5
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1
2001·0.0
Hollywood Musicals of the 40's
2000·0.0
Vaudeville
1997·8.0
Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
1997·7.7
That's Entertainment! III
1994·7.0
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988·0.0
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
1988·6.0
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984·9.0
Showbiz Goes to War
1982·10.0
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
1976·0.0
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976·7.0
It's Showtime
1976·7.5
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975·6.3
That's Entertainment!
1974·7.4
Brasileiros em Hollywood
1970·0.0
Frosty the Snowman
1969·6.9
The Movie Orgy
1968·6.7
Alice Through the Looking Glass
1966·6.2
Murder at N.B.C.
1966·0.0
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963·7.0
Billy Rose's Jumbo
1962·6.0
The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
1962·7.0
The Last Judgment
1961·6.5
Pepe
1960·6.3
The Frank Sinatra Timex Show
1959·0.0
Sunday Showcase
1959·0.0
The All-Star Christmas Show
1958·6.0
Beau James
1957·5.4
The Milkman
1950·7.0
The Great Rupert
1950·5.8
On an Island with You
1948·5.9
This Time for Keeps
1947·5.8
It Happened in Brooklyn
1947·5.9
Two Sisters from Boston
1946·6.3
Music for Millions
1944·6.7
Two Girls and a Sailor
1944·5.8
Breakdowns of 1942
1942·6.0
You're in the Army Now
1941·4.4
The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941·7.0
Melody Ranch
1940·6.2
Little Miss Broadway
1938·6.5
Sally, Irene and Mary
1938·6.8
Start Cheering
1938·6.9
Land Without Music
1936·6.5
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
1936·6.0
Carnival
1935·8.0
Student Tour
1934·6.7
Hollywood Party
1934·5.7
Strictly Dynamite
1934·6.5
Hollywood on Parade No. B-9
1934·0.0
Hollywood on Parade No. B-10
1934·0.0
George White's Scandals
1934·5.4
Palooka
1934·3.6
Meet the Baron
1933·5.3
Broadway to Hollywood
1933·5.0
Hell Below
1933·6.0
What! No Beer?
1933·5.7
Give a Man a Job
1933·4.5
Prohibition Newsreel No. 7
1933·0.0
Plumber in love
1932·9.0
Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
1932·10.0
The Phantom President
1932·6.5
Blondie of the Follies
1932·6.3
Speak Easily
1932·5.7
Hollywood on Parade
1932·6.5
The Wet Parade
1932·6.2
The Passionate Plumber
1932·6.1
The Christmas Party
1931·5.4
The Cuban Love Song
1931·4.8
New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
1931·6.0
The March of Time
1930·7.0
Roadhouse Nights
1930·6.0