Promotional photo of Jimmy Durante c. 1964 from the television show, The Hollywood Palace. This photo was produced before 1978 and has no copyright markings. It can be dated by the ABC ...

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 ...

Jimmy Durante, a superstar of the 1930s radio era and the voice of an iconic rendition of “Frosty the Snowman,” put a national spotlight on Calabash with an enigmatic catchphrase: Durante ...

Those who have not heard Jimmy recount his morning adventures in a car pool have missed the funniest incident in the civilian war effort (Driver Durante, trying his best to keep proper control of ...

Forty-five songs are heard, whole or in part, including salutes by Jolson, Cantor, and Durante to "the man who owned Broadway," George M. Cohan. Guest artists include Maurice Chevalier ...

“Ms. Lucy Coleman. She’s the one Jimmy Durante called Mrs. Calabash.” The best known version of the Mrs. Calabash mystery is that Durante is referring to one of Calabash’s own native daugh ...