Jimmy Durante

On stage 6 productions, 11 years

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Worked with more than once6 names

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In the literature8 passages

• Cast: Jimmy Durante, Paul Whiteman Orchestra, Donald Novis, Gloria Grafton, A. P. Kaye, A. Robins, Poodles Hanneford, Big Rosie, Tilda Getzeebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Cast: Jimmy Durante, Ethel Merman, Bob Hope, Polly Walters, Paul & Grace Hartman, Vivian Vance, Lew Parkerebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• “I thought he was an underrated actor. I once suggested he play Hamlet. He said, ‘I prefer New York to them small towns.’ ”—JOHN BARRYMORE on Jimmy Duranteebooks/Hadleigh, Boze/Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh.txt
• Jimmy Durante and Ethel were friends from the start. Jimmy’s father was a barber on the Lower East Side, where Jimmy was born, the youngest of four children, in 1893. His parents insisted that he study classical piano, but he saw himself as more the ragtime type, and by his teens he was playing for dances on the Lower East Side and out at…ebooks/Kellow, Brian/Ethel Merman_ A Life - Brian Kellow.txt
• Another audience favorite was Jimmy Durante’s duet with Mildred Natwick, “Terribly Attractive,” which they performed in a prop auto in front of a screen with a running film. As they raced through traffic, nearly driving off the cliff roads, members of the audience in the front row shrieked in terror; it was almost like an early example of…ebooks/Kellow, Brian/Ethel Merman_ A Life - Brian Kellow.txt
• C AST : Jimmy Durante, Ethel Merman (as “Nails” O’Reilly Duquesne), Bob Hope, Paul Hartman, Grace Hartman, Polly Walters, Prentiss Davis, Leo Shippers, Bernard Jannsen, Bill Bennerebooks/Kellow, Brian/Ethel Merman_ A Life - Brian Kellow.txt

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