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It was a family act, but he was too professional for his cousin. Happiness always, Al Bahr Temple, August 15, 1958."
Jimmy's love for children continued through the Fraternal Order of Eagles children, who among many causes raise money for handicapped and abused children. Earlier that same year, the team appeared in the movie Roadhouse Nights, ostensibly based on Dashiell Hammett's novel Red Harvest.
Also, Jimmy Durante was the first white bandleader to feature black musicians in his live band, as Achille Baquet, a light-skinned black clarinetist who could pass as white, played and recorded in Durante's Original New Orleans Jazz Band (1918-1920). In 1934, he starred in Hollywood Party, where he dreams he is 'Schnarzan'—a parody of 'Tarzan', who was extremely popular at the time due to the Johnny Weissmuller films.
He also performed the Ron Goodwin title song to the 1968 comedy-adventure Monte Carlo or Bust (titled Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies in the U.S.) sung over the film's animated opening credits. An associate once remarked of Durante, "You could warm your hands on this man."
Early career
Durante was born in New York City, the third of four children born to Mitch and Margaret Durante.
He was also one of the most beloved people within the entertainment industry. According to Coleman’s daughter, Clarice Holden, and others, it was Durante’s anonymous tip of the hat to her mother, who died in 1989.
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Jimmy Durante. Miranda laughed again and quickly pulled herself together, finishing the show. The series lasted for one season (1969–1970). Durante wrote, "Before I can say gaziggadeegasackeegazobbath, we're at his luxurious office." After reading the material Hyman had compiled for the book, Durante commented on it, "COLOSSAL, GIGANTIC, MAGNANIMOUS, and last but not first, AURORA BOREALIS.
In 1920 the group was renamed Jimmy Durante's Jazz Band. This comedy bit, also reprised in his role in Billy Rose's Jumbo, likely contributed to the popularity of the idiom the elephant in the room. Credit is due under the terms of this license that can reference both the New World Encyclopedia contributors and the selfless volunteer contributors of the Wikimedia Foundation.
A Durante-like voice (originally by Doug Young) was also given to the father beagle, Doggie Daddy, in Hanna-Barbera's Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy cartoons, Doggie Daddy invariably addressing the junior beagle with a Durante-like "Augie, my son, my son", and with frequent citations of, "That's my boy who said that!" The 1945 MGM cartoon Jerky Turkey featured a turkey which was a caricature of Durante.
The former number appeared on the film's best-selling soundtrack. [Capitalization Durante's] Four little words that make a sentence—and a sentence that will eventually get me six months."
Durante contributed numerous catch-phrases to popular vernacular: "Dat's my boy dat said dat!"; "Dat's moral turpentine!"; "It's a catastastroke!" (for "catastrophe"); "Everybody wants ta get inta the act!"; "Umbriago!"; "Ha-cha-cha-chaaaaaaa!"; "I got a million of 'em"; "Surrounded by assassins!" [citation needed]
Durante retired from performing in 1972 after he became a wheelchair user following a stroke.
Beginning in the early 1950s, Durante teamed with sidekick Sonny King, a collaboration that would continue until Durante's death.
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He received Roman Catholic funeral rites four days later, with fellow entertainers including Desi Arnaz, Ernest Borgnine, Marty Allen, and Jack Carter in attendance, and was interred at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City.[11]
Animation
[edit]Jimmy Durante is known to most modern audiences as the character who narrated and sang the 1969 animated special Frosty the Snowman.
He was the youngest of four children born to Rosa (Lentino) and Bartolomeo Durante, both of whom were immigrants from Salerno, Italy.[1] Bartolomeo was a barber, and his wife Rosa was the sister of a woman who lived in the same boarding house.[2][3] Young Jimmy served as an altar boy at Saint Malachy's Roman Catholic Church, known as the Actor's Chapel.[4]
Early career
[edit]Durante dropped out of school in seventh grade to become a full-time ragtime pianist.