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.

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.

After completing a dance number ( which was later aired on A & E Network's Biography episode about Miranda ), she fell to her knees, and Durante instinctively told the band to " stop da music !".

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.

Walter Chrysler was not especially interested in his remote ancestors ; his collaborative author Boyden Sparkes says that one genealogical researcher reported " that he had a sea-going Dutchman among his forebears ; one Captain Jan Gerritsen Van Dalsen ", but that " as to that, Walter Chrysler made it plain to me he was in accord with Jimmy Durante: ' Ancestors?

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

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.

He first played with his cousin, whose name was also " Jimmy Durante.

Durante was the only member not from New Orleans.

Durante was one of the cast on the show's premiere November 5, 1950.

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.

From 1950-51, Durante was one of four alternating hosts on NBC's comedy-variety series 4-Star Revue.

On August 4, 1955, The Jimmy Durante Show on NBC was the venue of the final performance by the famous Brazilian singer Carmen Miranda.

One theory was that it referred to the owner of a restaurant in Calabash, North Carolina, where Durante and his troupe had stopped to eat.

Another idea was that it was a personal salute to his deceased first wife, Jeanne ( Olsen ) Durante, who died in 1943.

At a National Press Club meeting in 1966 ( broadcast on NBC's Monitor program ), Durante finally revealed that it was indeed a tribute to his wife.

On August 15, 1958, for his charitable acts, Durante was awarded a huge 3 ft. high brass loving cup by the Al Bahr Shriners Temple.

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 was an active member of the Democratic Party.

Although Jimmy Durante was in the cast of both the stage musical and the film ( made nearly three decades later ), the two productions have very different plots utilizing much of the same score, and the characters ' names were changed in the film.

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

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.

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.

His routine of breaking into a song to deliver a joke, with band or orchestra chord punctuation after each line, became a Durante trademark.

Durante became a vaudeville star and radio personality by the mid-1920s, with a trio called Clayton, Jackson and Durante.

By 1934, he had a major record hit with his own novelty composition, " Inka Dinka Doo ," the lyrics of which were written by Ben Ryan to music that Durante himself composed.

A year later, Durante starred on Broadway in the Billy Rose stage musical Jumbo, in which a police officer stopped him while leading a live elephant and asked him, " What are you doing with that elephant?

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.

Miranda fell to her knees while dancing with Durante, who instinctively told the band, " STOP -- da music!

Durante also appeared on NBC's Club Oasis, another comedy / variety show broadcast in the 1957-1958 season, alternating first with The Polly Bergen Show.

A character in M-G-M cartoons, a bulldog named Spike, whose puppy son was always getting caught by accident in the middle of Tom and Jerry's activities, referenced Durante with a raspy voice and an affectionate " Dat's my boy!

The 1943 Tex Avery cartoon " What's Buzzin ' Buzzard " featured a vulture with a voice that sounded like Jimmy Durante.

Two examples are A Gruesome Twosome, which features a cat based on Durante and Baby Bottleneck, which in unedited versions opens with a Durante-like stork.

Smith was born in Charleston, South Carolina ; he started traveling with Medicine Shows when young and went into Vaudeville where he performed in an acts with Elmer Bowman and Jimmy Durante.

In 1916, a Polish American employee of Feltman's named Nathan Handwerker was encouraged by celebrity clients Eddie Cantor and Jimmy Durante to go into business in competition with his former employer.

After Durante broke up his band Frank Christian toured on Vaudeville with Gilda Gray and played in various theater and dance bands through the 1920s.

After discharge he led a band of his own and worked in the band of Jimmie Durante before returning to the O. D. J. B.

He was originally the leader of the band, but later it was agreed to turn leadership over to the band's extroverted pianist, Jimmie Durante.