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...See full bio »
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Give My Regards to Broadway
(1959)
(performer: "That's Entertainment" - uncredited, "Together, Wherever We Go" - uncredited, "You Gotta Have Heart" - uncredited, "Waltzing Matilda" - uncredited, "Everybody Likes My Girl", "If You're Young at Heart" - uncredited, "Yankee Doodle Dandy" - uncredited, "Mary Is a Grand Old Name" - uncredited, "Harrigan" - uncredited, "Give Me Regards to Broadway" - uncredited)
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Episode #2.23
(1956)
(performer: "Las Vegas Style" - uncredited, "I'm The Ballet Master, Who Can Turn Much Faster" - uncredited, "Every Street's A Boulevard In Old New York" - uncredited, "The Second Boy From The Right" - uncredited)
1950The Milkman
(writer: "NOBODY WANTS MY MONEY" / performer: "NOBODY WANTS MY MONEY", "IT'S BIGGER THAN BOTH OF US", "THAT'S MY BOY")
1950The Great Rupert
(writer: " Isn't it a shame that Christmas comes but once a year" - uncredited)
1948On an Island with You
(writer: "I Know Darn Well I Can Do Without Broadway" 1929 - uncredited, "I'll Do the Strut-Away In My Cutaway" 1944 - uncredited, "You Gotta Start Off Each Day with a Song" 1944 - uncredited / performer: "I Know Darn Well I Can Do Without Broadway" 1929 - uncredited, "Takin' Miss Mary to the Ball" 1948 - uncredited, "I'll Do the Strut-Away In My Cutaway" 1944 - uncredited, "You Gotta Start Off Each Day with a Song" 1944 - uncredited)
1947This Time for Keeps
(writer: "I'm the Man Who Found the Lost Chord" - uncredited, "A Little Bit This and a Little Bit That" - uncredited, "Inka Dinka Doo" - uncredited / performer: "I'm the Man Who Found the Lost Chord" - uncredited, "A Little Bit This and a Little Bit That" - uncredited, "Inka Dinka Doo" - uncredited)
1946Two Sisters from Boston
(writer: "Hello, Hello, Hello" 1946 - uncredited / performer: "Hello, Hello, Hello" 1946 - uncredited, "There Are Two Sides to Ev'ry Girl" 1946 - uncredited, "The Firechief's Daughter" 1946 - uncredited, "G'Wan Home Your Mudder's Callin'" 1946 - uncredited, "Down By the Ocean" 1946 - uncredited)
1944Music for Millions
(writer: "Toscanini, Iturbi and Me" 1940 - uncredited, "Umbriago" 1944 - uncredited / performer: "Toscanini, Iturbi and Me" 1940 - uncredited, "Umbriago" 1944 - uncredited)
1944Two Girls and a Sailor
(writer: "Did You Ever Have the Feelin'?" 1942 - uncredited, "Who Will Be with You When I'm Far Away" 1929 - uncredited / music: "Inka Dinka Doo" 1933 - uncredited / performer: "Did You Ever Have the Feelin'?" 1942 - uncredited, "Inka Dinka Doo" 1933 - uncredited, "Who Will Be with You When I'm Far Away" 1929 - uncredited)
1942The Man Who Came to Dinner
(writer: "Did You Ever Have the Feeling That You Wanted to Go?" - uncredited / performer: "Did You Ever Have the Feeling That You Wanted to Go?" - uncredited)
1941You're in the Army Now
(writer: "Vacuum Cleaner of the Day" 1941 - uncredited, "I'm an Army Man" 1941 - uncredited / performer: "I'm Glad My Number Was Called" 1941 - uncredited, "Vacuum Cleaner of the Day" 1941 - uncredited, "I'm an Army Man" 1941 - uncredited, "Happy Birthday to You" 1893 - uncredited)
1940Melody Ranch
(performer: "Vote For Autry" 1940 - uncredited)
1938Little Miss Broadway
(performer: " I Wish I Was in Dixie's Land" 1860 - uncredited)
1938Start Cheering
(writer: "When I Strut Away in My Cutaway" 1937 - uncredited / performer: "When I Strut Away in My Cutaway" 1937 - uncredited)
1934Hollywood Party
(performer: "Hello" 1934 - uncredited, "Reincarnation" 1934 - uncredited, "I've Had My Moments" 1934 - uncredited, "Inka Dinka Doo" - uncredited)
1934Student Tour
(writer: "I Say It With Music" / performer: "I Say It With Music")
1934Strictly Dynamite
(writer: "I'm Putty in Your Hands" 1933 - uncredited, "Hot Pattata" - uncredited / performer: "I'm Putty in Your Hands" 1933 - uncredited, "Hot Pattata" - uncredited)
1934George White's Scandals
(performer: "Cabin in the Cotton and The Cotton in the Cabin", "My Dog Loves Your Dog", "Every Day Is Father's Day With Baby")
1934Palooka
(lyrics: "Inka Dinka Doo" 1933 - uncredited / performer: "Inka Dinka Doo" 1933 - uncredited, "M-O-T-H-E-R, a Word That Means the World to Me" 1915 - uncredited)
1932The Phantom President
(writer: "SCHNOZZOLA" / lyrics: "ROBINSON CRUSOE" / performer: "THE MEDICINE SHOW", "SCHNOZZOLA")
1932Speak Easily
(music: "Can Broadway Do Without Me?" 1929 - uncredited / lyrics: "Can Broadway Do Without Me?" 1929 - uncredited / performer: "Good Times Are Here Again" 1932 - uncredited, "Singin' in the Rain" 1929 - uncredited, "Can Broadway Do Without Me?" 1929 - uncredited)
1931The Cuban Love Song
(performer: "London Bridge is Falling Down" 1888 - uncredited / "Go to Sleep My Baby" - uncredited)
1931New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
(writer: "Did You Ever Have the Feeling That You Wanted to Go?" - uncredited / performer: "Did You Ever Have the Feeling That You Wanted to Go?" - uncredited)
1930Roadhouse Nights
(music: "Everything Is On the Up and Up", "Hello, Everybody, Folks", "Everybody Wants My Girl" / lyrics: "Everything Is On the Up and Up", "Hello, Everybody, Folks", "Everybody Wants My Girl")
Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone?
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Trivia:
In
Blondie of the Follies. in which he had a starring role, Marion Davies--playing Blondie--addresses Billie Dove's character as "Lurlene Calabash". Durante often ended his TV, radio and nightclub appearances with "Goodnight Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are".
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Trademark:
Rumpled hat, patter songs ("Inka Dinka Doo") and, of course, his huge proboscis.
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