Noted entertainers who performed for detained aliens and for U. S. and allied servicemen at the island included Rudy Vallee, Jimmy Durante, Bob Hope, and Lionel Hampton and orchestra.

He became known for his beautiful singing voice and in 1754 was sent to the Conservatorio di S. Onofrio at Naples, where he studied under Francesco Durante, and eventually became assistant master.

When the New Orleans Jazz style swept New York by storm in 1917 with the arrival of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, Jimmy Durante was part of the audience at Reisenweber's Cafe on Columbus Circle when ODJB played that venue.

Durante was very impressed with the band and invited them to play at a club called the Alamo in Harlem where Jimmy played piano.

Durante had his friend, Johnny Stein, assemble a group of like-minded New Orleans musicians to accompany his act at the Alamo.

Jimmy Durante served as an altar boy at Saint Malachy's Roman Catholic Church, known as the Actor's Chapel.

Durante married his second wife, Margaret " Margie " Little, at St. Malachy's Catholic Church in New York City on December 14, 1960.

One of the projects built using money from the Durante Fund was a heated therapy swimming pool at the Hughen School in Port Arthur, Texas.

Durante wrote, " Before I can say gaziggadeegasackeegazobbath, we're at his luxurious office.

Book Revue shows the well-known ( at that time ) 1924 Edna Ferber novel So Big featuring a Durante caricature on the cover.

Merman was hired as a torch singer at Les Ambassadeurs, where the headliner was Jimmy Durante, and the two became lifelong friends.

Cajemé's body was given to Tomás Durante, leader of the Yaqui people residing at Cócorit, and those Yaqui loyal to Cajemé reverently buried him at Cócorit.

The hesitations and light-hearted style of comic piano, a vaudeville approach to piano made well known by Chico Marx and Jimmy Durante, are evident at rehearsal 22.

A 13th century sonnet by one Durante ( xcii. 9-14 ) says that he was executed at Orvieto: " a ghiado it fe ' morire a gran dolore, Nella corte di Roma ad Orbivieto.

Piccinni was born in Bari, and educated under Leonardo Leo and Francesco Durante, at the S. Onofrio Conservatory.

Again, he would hold a paper cup in his mouth and over his nose to perform a brief impersonation of Jimmy Durante, singing, ' Sitting at my pianna the udder day ...'

One of his earliest paying jobs was doubling as a waiter and performer, singing for tips at Carey Walsh's Coney Island saloon, where a young Jimmy Durante accompanied him on piano.

He produced Jumbo, starring Jimmy Durante, at the New York Hippodrome Theatre.

He received his first musical education from his father, and afterwards studied under Francesco Durante at the Conservatorio di Santa Maria di Loreto at Naples.

Other centers of 16th century wares in the Duchy of Urbino were at Gubbio and Castel Durante.

Among the jobs he had while at college was as a photographer for comedian Jimmy Durante.

* Durante, Dianne, Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan: A Historical Guide ( New York University Press, 2007 ): description of the Nathan Hale at City Hall Park, Manhattan.

Clockwise from top left: Mindy Carson, Jimmy Durante, Tallulah Bankhead, Fred Allen and Ethel Merman

This 90-minute variety program was hosted by Tallulah Bankhead and featured a rotating cast that included some of America's and the world's greatest entertainers, including Fred Allen, Groucho Marx, Jimmy Durante, Joan Davis, Bob Hope, Louis Armstrong, George Jessel, Ethel Merman, José Ferrer, Ed Wynn, Lauritz Melchior, Ezio Pinza, Édith Piaf, Ginger Rogers, Ethel Barrymore, Phil Silvers, Benny Goodman, and Danny Thomas.

The greatest names in the entertainment industry graced the Copa Room Stage ( the showroom at the Sands, named after the famed Copacabana Club in New York City ) including Judy Garland, Lena Horne, ( she was billed at the Sands as " The Satin Doll "), Jimmy Durante, Pat Cooper, Shirley MacLaine, Marlene Dietrich, Tallulah Bankhead, Shecky Greene, Martin and Lewis, Danny Thomas, Bobby Darin, Rich Little, Louis Armstrong, Robert Merrill, Wayne Newton, Red Skelton, and along with " The Copa Girls ".

Clockwise from top left: Mindy Carson, Jimmy Durante, Tallulah Bankhead, Fred Allen and Ethel Merman

Hosted by legendary stage actress and personality Tallulah Bankhead, The Big Show began November 5, 1950 on NBC with a stellar line-up of guests: Fred Allen, Mindy Carson, Jimmy Durante, José Ferrer, Portland Hoffa, Frankie Laine, Russell Knight, Paul Lukas, Ethel Merman, Danny Thomas and Meredith Willson.

To make sure no one missed the launch, NBC ran in Sunday newspapers across the country an illustrated advertisement displaying headshots of Allen, Bankhead, Carson, Durante and Merman.

He collaborated with many of the big name entertainers visiting Portland, among the most recent being Jimmy Durante and Phil Silvers.

The " so big " refers to his nose, and as a runaway criminal turns the corner by the book, Durante turns sideways using his nose to trip the criminal, allowing his capture.

A boy soprano named Dixon Boyd sang a Durante solo motet and a few other passages enchantingly.

Before Kaye had been on the air a year, he tied with Jimmy Durante for fifth place in the Radio Daily popularity poll.

* See Dianne Durante, Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan: A Historical Guide ( New York University Press, 2007 ), with a discussion of the Verrazzano.

Marcello Durante links " Homeros " to an epithet of Zeus as " god of the assemblies " and argues that behind the name lies the echo of an archaic word for " reunion ", similar to the later Panegyris, denoting a formal assembly of competing minstrels.

* 1980 – Jimmy Durante, American actor and comedian ( b. 1893 )

* 1967 – Anthony Durante, American wrestler ( d. 2003 )

She was also a regular on NBC's Jimmy Durante Show.

Paramount Pictures ' Bob Hope was Caught In The Draft, Warner Brothers told Phil Silvers and Jimmy Durante You're In The Army Now, Columbia Pictures put Fred Astaire in the army declaring You'll Never Get Rich, Hal Roach gave his new comedy team of William Tracy and Joe Sawyer Tanks a Million and 20th Century Fox had the former Hal Roach team of Laurel & Hardy going Great Guns.

* February 10 – Jimmy Durante, American actor, singer, and comedian ( d. 1980 )

* August 13 – Francesco Durante, Italian composer ( b. 1684 )

* March 15 – Francesco Durante, Italian composer ( d. 1755 )

In the same year, the Cotton Club Orchestra appeared on stage for several months in Florenz Ziegfeld's Show Girl, along with vaudeville stars Jimmy Durante, Eddie Foy, Jr., Al Jolson, Ruby Keeler, and with music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Gus Kahn.

On 4 August 1955, Miranda suffered a heart attack during a segment of the live NBC television series, The Jimmy Durante Show.

" Dat's OK, honey, I'll take yer lines ", Durante replied.

Top comedy talents surfed the airwaves for many years: Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Victor Borge, Fanny Brice, Billie Burke, Bob Burns, Judy Canova, Jimmy Durante, Phil Harris, Bob Hope, Groucho Marx, Jean Shepherd, Red Skelton and Ed Wynn.

James Francis " Jimmy " Durante ( February 10, 1893 – January 29, 1980 ) was an American singer, pianist, comedian, and actor.