During this period Merman also began appearing in nightclubs, first hired by Jimmy Durante's partner Lou Clayton.

In 1920, the group was renamed Jimmy Durante's Jazz Band.

A highlight of the show was Durante and Thomas, whose own nose rivaled Durante's, in a routine in which Durante accused Thomas of stealing his nose.

Durante's radio show was bracketed with two trademarks: " Inka Dinka Doo " as his opening theme, and the invariable signoff that became another familiar national catchphrase: " Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are.

" Help da kids ," was Durante's reply.

A complete collection of Durante's works, consisting almost exclusively of sacred music, was presented by Selvaggi, a Neapolitan art collector, to the Paris library.

Ben Ryan was also the co-writer with Jimmy Durante of Durante's signature song, " Inka Dinka Doo " in 1933 and was, as well, a film actor and screen writer.

He returned to New York for work in Jimmie Durante's band, then with the Jean Goldkette Orchestra in 1927, returned to his home town to play with Leon Prima, to Los Angeles, California to work with Larry Shields.

"-a take on Jimmy Durante's famed call, used more sparingly than other expressions.

His weekly repetition of " I'm feeling mighty low " on Jimmy Durante's radio show made it a national catchphrase.

They recorded the same two numbers a couple of months later for Gennett under the name of Original New Orleans Jazz Band, and in 1920 the same group recorded again for Gennett as Jimmy Durante's Jazz Band.

Lou Clayton and Eddie Jackson, Durante's closest friends, often reunited professionally.

Durante's comic chemistry with the young, brushcut Moore brought Durante an even larger audience.

Beginning in the early 1950s, Durante teamed with sidekick Sonny King, a collaboration that would continue until Durante's death.

The television work also included a series of commercial spots for Kellogg's Corn Flakes cereals in the mid 1960s, which introduced Durante's gravelly growl and narrow-eyed, large-nosed countenance to millions of children.

The album became a best-seller and provided Durante's re-introduction, to yet another generation, almost three decades later.

From the Jimmy Durante's Way of Life album, came the gravelly interpretations of " As Time Goes By " which accompanied the opening credits of the romantic comedy hit, Sleepless in Seattle, while his version of " Make Someone Happy " launched the film's closing credits.

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He then proceeds with Durante's famous " Ha-cha-cha-cha " call.

In a 1993 episode of The Simpsons titled " Lady Bouvier's Lover ", after Grampa cries out, " Good night, Mrs. Bouvier, wherever you are ," the blue-haired lawyer announces himself in charge of Jimmy Durante's estate and therefore puts a halt to Abraham Simpson's " unauthorized imitation " of Durante.

The imperial library of Vienna also preserves a valuable collection of Durante's manuscripts.

Nevertheless, Hasse protested against Durante's being described as the greatest harmonist of Italy, a title which he ascribed to Alessandro Scarlatti.

At this point Mrs. Frances Cupply, one of Wright's handsome daughters by his first wife, came from the house and tried to calm Miriam as she tore down a no visitors sign and smashed the glass pane on another sign with a rock.

Before being daughter, wife, or mother, before being cultured ( a word now bereft both socially and politically of the sheen you children of frontiersmen bestowed on it ), before being sorry for the poor, progressive about public health, and prettily if somewhat imprecisely humanitarian, indeed first and foremost, you were a lady.

Hearst saw his wife and child, sent a joyful message to his mother in California, and soon returned to Washington, where on April 22, for the first time, he opened his mouth in Congress.

His son Thomas, aged fifteen when he entered Oxford in 1582, married as his first wife Margaret, sister of Sir Edward Greville.

Having ( through my unflagging effort and devotion ) achieved stardom, a fortune and a world-renowned wife at an age when most young men are casting their first vote, Letch proceeded to neglect them all.

These are the poems Hardy wrote after the death of his first wife ; ;

One thing should be clear to both husband and wife -- neither pain nor profuse bleeding has to occur when the hymen is ruptured during the first sex act.

Palfrey told his wife of his intentions for the first time, and left for New Orleans apprehensively invoking a special blessing of Providence that he might be allowed to see his family again.

Jen Nelson, as Thea, his first wife, managed to make that short role impressive.

When the husband drops the case and returns to his wife, both seem sorry they brought the matter up in the first place.

After all, his wife had written most of his letters for him in those first lean days of Partlow Products.

He was the third son of the writer and schoolmaster Leonard Huxley and his first wife, Julia Arnold, who founded Prior's Field School.

In 1946, van Vogt and his first wife, Edna Mayne Hull, were co-Guests of Honor at the fourth World Science Fiction Convention.

He was a son of king Alaric II and his first wife Theodegotho, daughter of Theodoric the Great.

By the first wife he had Mustafa III and by the second wife he had Abdul Hamid I.

According to the accounts given by Pindar and the tragedians, Agamemnon was slain in a bath by his wife alone, a blanket of cloth or a net having first been thrown over him to prevent resistance.

Agesilaus was the son of Archidamus II and his second wife, Eupoleia, brother to Cynisca ( the first woman in ancient history to achieve an Olympic victory ), and younger half-brother of Agis II.

Agrippina was the wife of the general and statesman Germanicus and a relative to the first Roman Emperors.

She became Tiberius's first wife and was the mother of his natural son Drusus Julius Caesar.

Vipsania Marcella was the first wife of the general Publius Quinctilius Varus.

Livia was the first Roman Empress and was Augustus ’ third wife ( from Livia ’ s first marriage to praetor Tiberius Nero, she had two sons: the emperor Tiberius and the general Nero Claudius Drusus.

After the death of her first husband, Agrippina tried to make shameless advances to the future emperor Galba, who showed no interest in her and was devoted to his wife Aemilia Lepida.

Ajax is the son of Telamon, who was the son of Aeacus and grandson of Zeus, and his first wife Periboea.