Jimmy Durante Trailers
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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".
Most Popular Jimmy Durante Trailers
Total trailers found: 78
18 December 1944
Six-year-old "Mike" goes to live with her pregnant older sister, Babs, who plays string bass in José Iturbi's orchestra.
05 June 1932
A short featuring many stars
18 November 1997
Documentary featuring more than one dozen musical outtakes from classic 20th Century-Fox films.
17 October 1947
An ex-GI falls for a bathing beauty.
07 June 1957
The story of Jimmy Walker who became mayor of New York in the '20s.
03 October 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.
17 October 1950
A dairy owner's son takes a job as milkman with a rival company.
08 June 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.
19 October 1966
A comedy classic whodunit with an amazing comedic ensemble group. An hour comedy special in which Bob Hope plays a mad scientist who invents a nuclear chemical that is capable of shrinking the United States.
07 October 1936
Believing real life is an operetta, the citizens of the European country Lucco break into song at every blink of an eye.
03 March 1938
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
22 February 2001
This Bob Hope Special called “Highlights of a Quarter Century” begins his 26th year with NBC in 5
01 January 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.
13 March 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.
06 January 1962
A TV movie with intertwining music numbers and sketches.
15 September 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.
18 November 1931
A guilt-ridden U.S. Marine returns to Cuba to try to find the woman he promised to marry.
01 September 1930
Unfinished pre-Code era film consisting of three sections with past performers from the stage and the vaudeville circuit, then-present-day performers and up-and-coming performers.
03 February 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 win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
20 October 1932
Eddie Kane wanders round the studio back-lot, opening various doors to see which stars pop out.
06 December 1962
The daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover spearheaded by the man she loves.
06 February 1932
Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagorce jealous.
07 November 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.
11 May 1934
A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.
06 August 1975
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
13 August 1932
A professor gets mixed up with chorus girls in a Broadway musical.
27 February 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.
01 January 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 societal ills attacking American cities.
15 February 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.
31 March 1976
A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.
07 December 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.
26 January 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.
06 June 1946
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York.
20 October 1933
A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.
01 September 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.
06 November 1966
Alice returns to Wonderland through the looking glass in this TV musical.
01 March 1950
Shortly before Christmas, a family moves into an apartment where Rupert the squirrel lives in the attic rafters.
21 December 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.
15 March 1934
Reporter Miss Lee is looking for a story and approaches George White as he's assembling the latest edition of his famous revue.
31 December 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.
19 October 1959
The first Timex Show from Frank Sinatra with friends Dean Martin, Bing Crosby and others.
03 May 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.
31 December 1942
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942.
24 December 1941
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.
26 October 1961
In Naples, a voice from the skies announces one morning that the final judgment will be at 6 p.m. on that day.
21 March 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.
28 April 1969
Sequel to "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines". This time an international car rally from England to Monte Carlo provides the comedic farce.
10 February 1933
When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters.
25 December 1941
Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge.
16 May 1988
Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC.
16 May 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.
21 June 1974
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
24 May 1934
Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions.
01 July 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.
11 September 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.
29 July 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.
15 September 1940
His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Celebration.
14 June 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.
23 September 1932
Too bad for the presidential hopes of banker T.K. Blair; his party feels he has too little flair for savoir faire.
05 October 1934
A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
