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Jimmy Durante. James Francis Durante ( / dəˈrænti / də-RAN-tee, Italian: [duˈrante]; February 10, 1893 – January 29, 1980) was an American comedian, actor, singer, and pianist.
James Francis "Jimmy" Durante (February 10, 1893 – January 29, 1980) was an American singer, pianist, comedian, and actor. His distinctive clipped gravelly speech, New York accent , comic language butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and prominent nose helped make him one of America's most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through ...
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.
Jimmy Durante. Actor: It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. First wife Jeanne died in 1943. Wed second wife, Marjorie Little after 16 year courtship when she was 39 and he 67 Marjorie Little had been the hatcheck girl at the Copacabana.
James Francis "Jimmy" Durante (February 10, 1893 – January 29, 1980) was an American comedian, actor, singer, and pianist. His famous nickname was The Great Schnozzola (a reference to his big nose ). He was also known for his deep raspy voice when he said "Ha-Cha-Cha-Cha-Cha-Chaaaaa!".
Jun 28, 2024 · Jimmy Durante (born Feb. 10, 1893, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Jan. 29, 1980, Santa Monica, Calif.) was an American comedian whose career in every major entertainment performance medium spanned more than six decades.
Nov 16, 2020 · But for the past 27 years one entertainer has gloried in his ugliness. That man, of course, is Jimmy Durante, who has frequently boasted, “Dere’s a million good-lookin’ guys, but I’m a novelty!” Durante is the proud possessor of an ugly, oversized nose. He is short, almost entirely bald, recessive-chinned, weasel-eyed, and sloping-headed.
May 31, 2024 · James Francis ‘Jimmy’ Durante was a famous American performer/entertainer, pianist, comedian, actor and singer. His flawless comic timing, the implicit use of comic language and jazzy melodious songs made him the most famous and loved stage, television, silver screen and radio artist in America.
Jan 30, 1980 · Jimmy Durante, the Lower East Side youngster who parlayed a raspy voice, a nose that tickled a nation's funnybone and a talent for bringing down the house into triumph as one of America's...
Nov 18, 2023 · Biography. Before Jimmy Durante became one of the most famous and lovable entertainers of the Twentieth Century, he was a hot piano player and bandleader. Durante was greatly influenced by Scott Joplin and had his first success in show business as a Ragtime piano player starting around 1911.
