Jimmy Durante
Gender: Male
Born: 10th February 1893
Died: 29th January 1980
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: The Colgate Comedy Hour, Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters, The Jimmy Durante Show
Movies: Hell Below, The Wet Parade, The Phantom President, Melody Ranch, The Great Rupert, Hollywood Party, Speak Easily, What! No Beer?, The Passionate Plumber, Hollywood on Parade, Palooka, It Happened in Brooklyn, You're in the Army Now, Billy Rose's Jumbo, This Time for Keeps, Start Cheering, Meet the Baron, New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford, Two Sisters from Boston, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Little Miss Broadway, Alice Through the Looking Glass, On an Island with You, Roadhouse Nights, That's Entertainment!, It's Showtime, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Milkman, Music for Millions, Two Girls and a Sailor, Sally, Irene and Mary, Student Tour, George White's 1934 Scandals, Strictly Dynamite, Carnival, The Cuban Love Song, Music for Millions, Give a Man a Job
James Francis "Jimmy" Durante (February 10, 1893 – January 29, 1980) was an American singer, pianist, comedian and actor. His distinctive clipped gravelly speech, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and large nose helped make him one of America's most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s. His jokes about his nose included referring to it as a "Schnozzola", and the word became his nickname.
Durante was born on the Lower East Side of New York City. He was the youngest of four children born to Bartolomeo Durante and his mail-order bride Rosa, both of whom were immigrants from Salerno, Italy. Bartolomeo was a barber, and his wife Rosa was the sister of a woman who lived in the same boarding house. Jimmy Durante served as an altar boy at Saint Malachy's Roman Catholic Church, known as the Actor's Chapel.
Durante dropped out of school in eighth grade to become a full-time ragtime pianist. He first played with his cousin, whose name was also "Jimmy Durante." It was a family act, but he was too professional for his cousin. He continued working the city's piano bar circuit and earned the nickname "Ragtime Jimmy," before he joined one of the first
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