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Jimmy Durante
About the Book
From his humble beginnings as a Coney Island piano player, Jimmy Durante was one of America’s best-loved entertainers for nearly seven decades. Known for his distinctive “schnozzle” and raspy voice, the multitalented performer became a stage, screen and recording star.
Every aspect of Jimmy Durante’s career is covered here: his early vaudeville and Broadway days; the 38 movies he made; his radio appearances; the mixture of new and old material he brought to television in the late 1950s; and his work as a singer and composer.
About the Author(s)
David Bakish is an English professor at the City University of New York.
Bibliographic Details
David Bakish
Format: softcover (6 x 9)
Pages: 303
Bibliographic Info: 26 photos, discography, appendices, notes, bibliography, index
Copyright Date: 2007 [1995]
pISBN: 978-0-7864-3022-2
eISBN: 978-1-4766-0661-3
Imprint: McFarland
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Overview of a Career 3
2. Beginnings and Family Roots 7
3. Ragtime and Nightclubs 11
4. Vaudeville and Broadway 31
5. Movies 55
6. Radio 97
7. Television and Nightclubs—Recreating the 1920s 129
8. Conclusion 173
Notes 177
Appendices
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First Edition, First Printing. Signed presentation copy from Jimmy Durante to accomplished director and producer Joseph Santley. �For Joe Santley, Working with you is a pleasure and I hope we work together till the end. I love�s ya, Jimmy Durante.� Jimmy�Durante (1893�1980), the legendary American comedian, actor, singer, vaudevillian, and pianist whose distinctive gravely speech, Lower East Side accent, comic language-butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and prominent nose helped make him one of America's most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s and who often referred to his nose as the schnozzola (Italianization of the American Yiddish slang word schnoz, meaning "big nose"), making the word became his nickname. Joseph Santley (1890�1971), the noted American actor, singer, dancer, writer, director, and producer of musical theatrical plays motion pictures and television shows who staged or produced network television shows starring Jimmy Durante, Patti Page, Mickey Rooney and Pat Boone among others and directed more than 50 motion pictures including the Marx Brothers The Cocoanuts (1929) and the 1940 classic Melody Ranch with Gene Autry authored by Gene Fowler (1890�1960), the noted American journalist, author, screenwriter, and dramatist