Jimmy Durante
Jimmy Durante
Jimmy Durante was an American comedian, actor, singer, and pianist whose gravelly speech and prominent nose helped make him one of America's most popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s. Durante is known for The Phantom President (1932), the Buster Keaton comedies Speak Easily (1932), The Passionate Plumber (1932), and What! No Beer? (1933), Meet the Baron (1933), Hollywood Party (1934), Start Cheering (1937),
Melody Ranch (1940) with Gene Autry, The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942), Ziegfeld Follies (1945), Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962), and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963).
