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William James Durant
William James Durant 1885-1981, American historian and essayist, b. North Adams, Mass. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1917 and published his doctoral dissertation, Philosophy and the Social Problem, in the same year. This was followed by The Story of Philosophy (1926), an immediate best... Read more
Thomas Clark Durant
Thomas Clark Durant 1820-85, American railroad builder, chief figure in the construction of the Union Pacific RR, b. Lee, Mass. He was successful in building railroads in the Midwest, and, after the Union Pacific was organized (1862) by an act of Congress, John A. Dix was elected president and Du... Read more
vaudeville
vaudeville , originally a light song, derived from the drinking and love songs formerly attributed to Olivier Basselin and called Vau, or Vaux, de Vire. Similar to the English music hall , American vaudeville was a live entertainment consisting of unrelated songs, dances, acrobatic and magic ... Read more
Oakes Ames
Oakes Ames 1804-73, American manufacturer, railroad promoter, and politician, b. Easton, Mass. With his brother Oliver he managed the family's well-known shovel factory at Easton. The business grew under demands from the expanding Midwest frontier and the Western gold diggings. Active in founding t... Read more
Duran
Duran   Durand , or Durante , Jewish family of scholars. Profiat Isaac ben Moshe ha-Levi Duran, 1350-1414, called Efodi, was born probably in Perpignan, France, but he moved to Catalonia. In 1391, when widespread massacres of Spanish Jews resulted in mass conversions, Duran was one of th... Read more
John Adams Dix
John Adams Dix 1798-1879, American statesman, b. Boscawen, N.H. He served in the War of 1812, was later admitted to the bar, and practiced law in Cooperstown, N.Y. He held high state offices and served (1845-49) as Democratic U.S. senator from New York. In 1848 he ran for governor of New York on th... Read more
Christopher Dresser
Christopher Dresser 1834-1904, British designer, pioneer of modern industrial design, b. Scotland, He moved (1847) to London, where he studied (1847-54) at the Government School of Design. He began his career as a botanist, teaching and writing several books. Dresser contributed floral designs to O... Read more
antique collecting
antique collecting the assembling of items of aesthetic, historical, and often monetary value from earlier eras. The term antique initially referred only to the preclassical and classical cultures of the ancient world. It is now applied to old artifacts of all cultures. Legally and traditionally,... Read more
Jimmy Dorsey
Jimmy Dorsey (James Francis Dorsey), 1904-57, and his brother Tommy Dorsey (Thomas Francis Dorsey, Jr.), 1905-1956, both b. Shenandoah, Pa., American jazz musicians and bandleaders during the Big Band era. Jimmy Dorsey played the clarinet and alto saxophone, his brother the trombone. Toward the... Read more
Jimmy Connors
Jimmy Connors (James Scott Connors, Jr.), 1952-, American tennis player, b. East St. Louis, Ill. A volatile, controversial, and fiercely competitive player, Connors was known for his theatrical conduct on the court as well as for his powerful two-handed backhand, strong return of service, accurate ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to " Jimmy Durante"

Durante, Jimmy
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre Durante, Jimmy, see VAUDEVILLE, AMERICAN .
Durante, (James Francis) Jimmy
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre Durante, [James Francis] Jimmy (1893–1980), comedian...played the Palace . From the start Durante was the center of attraction, so...reunited for special appearances. Durante then appeared in Strike Me Pink...
Humor
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...corporate capitalism and celebrated the wisdom of the common folk. Radio comedians of the 1930s such as Jack Benny, Jimmy Durante, and the husband‐and‐wife team of George Burns and Gracie Allen
Alonso, Alicia
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...comedies Great Lady (1938), which only ran for 20 shows, and Stars in Your Eyes (1939), with Ethel Merman and Jimmy Durante and choreography by George Balanchine. Perhaps discouraged by this less-than-auspicious beginning, Alonso sent...
vaudeville
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...George M. Cohan , Harry Houdini , Eva Tanguay, W. C. Fields , Fay Templeton, Will Rogers , Ed Wynn, Eddie Cantor , Jimmy Durante, Irene Franklin, Fred Allen, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Bob Hope , Jack Benny , Edgar Bergen, and the Marx...
Richard Avedon
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...blurred as the subject engages in some characteristic activity: Marian Anderson sings, Louis Armstrong plays his horn, Jimmy Durante tips his hat. Later Avedon did away with blurring and soft focus. Instead, a strobe light illuminates every pore...
Jumbo
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre ...bankruptcy compound his problems. The money difficulties are solved when his unorthodox press agent, Claudius B. Bowers ( Jimmy Durante ), burns down Considine's house, allowing him to collect the insurance. And when the youngsters bring about a...
Milos Forman
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...language and few marketable ideas. He was unable to interest producers in a fanciful project that would have starred Jimmy Durante as a wealthy bear hunter in Czechoslovakia, or in an adaptation of Franz Kafka's scathing political satire, Amerika...
Eddie Cantor
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...singing contest in which he won $5.00. He subsequently became a singing waiter in a saloon in Coney Island in which Jimmy Durante played the piano. Cantor's first vaudeville appearance was in 1907 at the Old Clinton Music Hall in which he played...

Dictionary entries related to " Jimmy Durante"

Durante, Jimmy
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers DURANTE, Jimmy Nationality: American. Born: James...x2013;56—host of The Jimmy Durante Show on NBC-TV, based on nightclub...Night, Mrs. Calabash: The Secret of Jimmy Durante, New York, 1963. Parish, James Robert...
Raft, George
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...touring on the Orpheum and Keith Circuits; also dancer at Jimmy Durante's Club Durante and Texas Guinan's El Fey Club; 1925...Foy) (as gigolo) 1931 Quick Millions (Brown) (as Jimmy Kirk) 1932 Hush Money (Lanfield) (as Maxie); Palmy...
Brown, Nacio Herb
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Edwards (in a rainstorm and accompanied by a dancing chorus) in The Hollywood Revue of 1929. Then in the 1930s, Jimmy Durante sits at his piano and scat-sings to its rhythm. Next, during the 1940s, Judy Garland sings it in her own inimitable...
Sullivan, (Sir) Arthur (Seymour)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...written in 1877 on the death of his brother and given a further lease of fame by the Amer. comedian Jimmy ‘Schnozzle’ Durante in his song ‘The guy who found the Lost Chord’). But in the Savoy operettas...

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Akron's Eddie Jackson was comedian Jimmy Durante's sidekick.
Newspaper article from: Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, OH); 8/14/2006; 700+ words ; ...he used to tread the boards as Jimmy Durante's sidekick, the world was full...belonged to New York. He was Jimmy Durante's sidekick, after all. In...The Ed Sullivan Show and The Jimmy Durante Show. "Everybody says I'm...
The one and only: maybe he died 20 years ago, but Durante and his `Ink a dinkadoo' still charm TV watchers. (Television).(Jimmy Durante remembered)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 2/8/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...show. It was the one and only Jimmy Durante. Live and in person! Somehow...star reporter Murray Shumach, Jimmy Durante died the day before. His parish...and we'll shut up and put Jimmy Durante back on." "The Great Schnozzola...
Analysis: Remembering 2001 with Jimmy Durante's "As Time Goes By"
Transcript from: Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR); 12/29/2001; ; 383 words ; ...Analysis: Remembering 2001 with Jimmy Durante's As Time Goes By Host: SUSAN...Soundbite of As Time Goes By ) Mr. JIMMY DURANTE: (Singing) You must remember...lovers as time goes by. STAMBERG: Jimmy Durante, with a song by Herman Hupfeld...
BARNEY FRANK: JIMMY DURANTE.(my matinee idol)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Nation; 4/2/2001; 566 words ; ...made me likeliest to want to see it. For me, it was Jimmy Durante. What I want most out of entertainment is humor, and I found Jimmy Durante to be the funniest actor around. That is, with his...
Sonny King, long-time Jimmy Durante sidekick, dies
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 2/6/2006; 258 words ; ...Sonny King, a longtime sidekick of entertainer Jimmy Durante and a veteran Las Vegas lounge singer, died...to his older brother. He was 83. King was Durante's partner for 28 years until Durante died in 1980. They appeared together on Ed...
Lift Financial has leased 1,640 square feet of office space at 2010 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Suites 205 and 206, in Del Mar.(LEASES)(Turner & Associates P.A.)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: San Diego Business Journal; 7/6/2009; 672 words ; Lift Financial has leased 1,640 square feet of office space at 2010 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Suites 205 and 206, in Del Mar. The two-year lease had a value of $92,900. Joe Anderson of Grubb & EllisIBRE...
Platforms are look alike; "Everybody wants to get into the act!" Jimmy Durante.(Opinion & Editorial)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 12/1/2003; 700+ words ; AT the end of the day, it is not the party platforms that voters remember but the amounts that they had received from the ward leaders or barangay captains. Sad to say, this culture of paid votes will continue to govern Philippine politics until such time as the population growth rate stops
AN ABSURD, SENTIMENTAL 'DURANTE'
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 8/29/1989; ; 700+ words ; ...a variety of sources including Jimmy Durante and Peppiatt, Aylesworth and...Mrs. Calabash" well before Jimmy Durante gets the chance in the new musical...perhaps too easily "beloved" Jimmy Durante (1893-1980). As told by Frank...
Durante's old pal caters to the crowd
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 10/28/1990; ; 466 words ; ...Skelton. But his longest engagement was with comic Jimmy Durante. "While I was working at the Copacabana in New York City, where I was a bit of a hit, Jimmy Durante heard me sing and told me he detected I had a funny...
Jimmy's auctions off 81 years of memories.(Business)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 1/8/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...customers brought in photos taken at Jimmy's during the 1940s and 1950s...restaurant. "One woman told us that Jimmy Durante sang `Happy Birthday' to her...dry eye in here." Bidders at the Jimmy's Harborside auction must make...