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)
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
("Isn't it a shame that Christmas comes but once a year" - uncredited)
1948On an Island with You
(writer: "I Can't Get Along Without Broadway" - uncredited, "I'll Do the Strut-Away In My Cutaway" - uncredited, "You Gotta Start Off Each Day with a Song" - uncredited / performer: "I Can't Get Along Without Broadway" - uncredited, "Takin' Miss Mary to the Ball" - uncredited, "I'll Do the Strut-Away In My Cutaway" - uncredited, "You Gotta Start Off Each Day with a Song" - 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" - uncredited / performer: "Hello, Hello, Hello" - uncredited, "There Are Two Sides to Ev'ry Girl" - uncredited, "The Firechief's Daughter" - uncredited, "G'Wan Home Your Mudder's Callin'" - uncredited, "Down By the Ocean" - uncredited)
1944Music for Millions
(writer: "Toscanini, Iturbi and Me" - uncredited, "Umbriago" - uncredited)
1944Two Girls and a Sailor
(writer: "Did You Ever Have the Feelin'?" - uncredited, "Inka Dinka Doo" - uncredited / performer: "Did You Ever Have the Feelin'?" - uncredited, "Inka Dinka Doo" - uncredited, "Who Will Be with You When I'm Far Away" - uncredited)
1941You're in the Army Now
(performer: "If You Own a Whirlaway" - uncredited, "I'm an Army Man" - uncredited / "I'm Glad My Number Was Called" - uncredited, "Happy Birthday to You" - uncredited)
1940Melody Ranch
(performer: "Vote For Autry" 1940 - uncredited)
1938Start Cheering
(writer: "When I Strut Away in My Cutaway" - uncredited / performer: "When I Strut Away in My Cutaway" - uncredited)
1934Hollywood Party
(performer: "Hello" 1934 - uncredited, "Reincarnation" 1934 - uncredited, "I've Had My Moments" 1934 - uncredited, "Inka Dinka Doo" - uncredited)
1934Strictly Dynamite
(writer: "I'm Putty in Your Hands" / music: "Hot Pattata")
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
(writer: "Inka Dinka Doo" - uncredited / "Inka Dinka Doo" - uncredited, "M-O-T-H-E-R, a Word That Means the World to Me" - uncredited)
1932The Phantom President
(writer: "SCHNOZZOLA" / lyrics: "ROBINSON CRUSOE" / performer: "SCHNOZZOLA" / "THE MEDICINE SHOW")
1932Speak Easily
(music: "Can Broadway Do Without Me?" 1929 - uncredited / lyrics: "Can Broadway Do Without Me?" 1929 - uncredited / performer: "Singin' in the Rain" 1929 - uncredited, "Can Broadway Do Without Me?" 1929 - uncredited / "Good Times Are Here Again" 1932 - uncredited)
1931The Cuban Love Song
(performer: "London Bridge is Falling Down" 1888 - uncredited / "Go to Sleep My Baby" - uncredited)
1930Roadhouse Nights
(music: "Everything Is On the Up and Up", "Hello, Everybody, Folks", "Everybody Wants My Girl")