Jimmy Durante - Jimmy Durante James Francis "Jimmy" Durante (February 10, 1893 - January 29, 1980) was an American entertainer, one of the most popular and recognized personalities of the 1920s-1960s. Durante was a pianist, actor, comedian, as well as a singer with a distinctive hoarse voice with a strong working class New York City accent. He was noted for his large nose which he frequently made jokes about, which earned him the nickname Schnozzola. Jimmy Durante was born New York City. He dropped out of school in eighth-grade to play ragtime piano. In his youth Durante worked as pianist and entertainer in New York city, nickmaned "Ragtime Jimmy". About 1917 he joined one of the first jazz bands in New York, The Original New Orleans Jazz Band (all.
January 29 - - Allen Du Mont, television pioneer 1905 - Barnett Newman, painter (+ 1970) 1911 - Peter von Siemens, industrialist (+ 1986) 1913 - Peter von Zahn, journalist and writer 1915 - Victor Mature, actor (+ 1999) 1917 - John Raitt, actor, singer 1918 - John Forsythe, actor 1923 - Paddy Chayefsky, writer (+ 1981) 1924 - Luigi Nono, composer (+ 1990) 1927 - Edward Abbey, environmentalist (+ 1989) 1939 - Germaine Greer, writer, feminist 1950 - Jody Scheckter, South Africa racing driver 1945 - Tom Selleck, actor 1954 - Oprah Winfrey, actress, talk show host, producer, publisher 1960 - Greg Louganis, Olympics gold medalist in swimming 1968 - Edward Burns, actor 1970 - Heather Graham, actress 1970 - Sean Scullion, activist & author 1981 - Jonny Lang, musician 1982 - Arthur.
Jumbo - now commemorates that event. Jumbo's skeleton were donated to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Jumbo's hide was stuffed and traveled with Barnum's circus for a number of years. In 1889, Barnum donated the stuffed Jumbo to Tufts University, where it was displayed until destroyed by a fire in 1975. In honor of Barnum's donation, Jumbo became the Tufts mascot. Jumbo is also the title of a musical produced in 1935 by Billy Rose, with music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart and book by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, and directed by John Murray Anderson and George Abbott. It told the story of a financially-strapped circus. The play was performed at the Hippodrome Theatre, and starred Jimmy Durante. The more well-known songs from the.
June Foray - was doing regular radio voice work. Two years later she moved to Los Angeles, California, and soon became a popular voice actress on radio there, including on the national programs of Jimmy Durante and Danny Thomas. In the 1940s she began film work as well, including a few apperances acting in live action movies, but mostly doing voice overs for animated cartoons. For Walt Disney, she played "Lucifer the Cat" in the feature film Cinderella; she did a variety of voices in Walter Lantz's Woody Woodpecker cartoons; for Warner Brothers she was Granny, owner of Tweety and Sylvester, and, memorably, a series of witches including Witch Hazel for Chuck Jones. She appeared on the Smurfs, George of the Jungle, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas; she was the voice of the.
Italian-American - governor of New York Alfonse D'Amato Joe DiMaggio (1914-1999), Baseball Hall of Famer Peter Domenici Jimmy Durante (1893-1980) John Fante, novelist and screenwriter Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), physicist Geraldine Ferraro Annette Funicello James Gandolfini (born 1961), actor A. Bartlett Giamatti (1938-1989), academic, Major League Baseball commissioner Rudolph Giuliani (born 1944), Mayor of New York during 9/11 Ella Grasso, first woman to be elected governor of a state without succeeding her husband Rocky Graziano, boxer Fiorello LaGuardia (1882-1947) Nick LaRocca (1889-1961), self-proclaimed "inventor of jazz" Rocky Marciano, boxer, only heavyweight champion to retire undefeated Dean Martin, singer & actor Luis Monti, athlete Camille Paglia, post-feminist literary and cultural critic Al Pacino John Pastore Mike Piazza (born 1968), baseball star Louis Prima (1910-1978), musician & entertainer Mario Puzo (1920-1999), US Mafia.
Holy Cross Cemetery - Carey, actor Jackie Coogan, actor Bing Crosby, singer/actor Bobby Day, early Rock and Roll singer, sang Rockin' Robin Jimmy Durante, entertainer Vince Edwards, actor - Ben Casey Mary Frann, actress, Newhart Joe Flynn, actor John Ford, motion picture director Jack Haley, actor, The Tin Man in "The Wizard of Oz" Henry Hathaway, (Marquis Henri Leonard de Fiennes), film Producer and Director Rita Hayworth, actress Spike Jones, band leader, musicial satirist Mario Lanza, opera tenor Bela Lugosi, actor - Count Dracula Fred MacMurray, actor My Three Sons Audrey Meadows, actress Pat O'Brien, actor Louella Parsons, Hollywood gossip columnist ZaSu Pitts, actress Rosalind Russell, actress Mack Sennett, legendary director of silent movie comedies, including stars such as Charlie Chaplin Sharon Tate, actress, murdered by members of the Charles Manson cult Lawrence Welk, band.
Georgia Gibbs - with Me, Henry") and of LaVern Baker's "Tweedle Dee," and for her novelty number "The Hula Hoop Song," which was her last hit, in 1958. She acquired the nickname "Her Nibs, Miss Georgia Gibbs" from Garry Moore when she appeared as a regular on his and Jimmy Durante's radio show..
Grauman's Chinese Theater - actress Norma Talmadge unintentionally walked across a wet slab of cement, he came up with the idea to have other movie stars do the same. Thus, Norma was the first. Variations of this honored tradition are imprints of the cigar of Groucho Marx, the legs of Betty Grable, the fist of John Wayne, the knees of Al Jolson and the nose of Jimmy Durante. The theater was purchased in 1973 by Ted Mann, owner of the Mann's Theater chain and husband of actress Rhonda Fleming, who renamed it Mann's Chinese Theater. Thousands of people from all around the world regularly go through the famous forecourt looking at the foot and hand prints of the stars. Grauman's Chinese Theater is also a first-run movie theater where, for the price of a ticket,.
February 10 - Nelson Mandela would be released the next day. 1992 - In Indianapolis, Indiana boxer Mike Tyson is convicted of raping a Miss Black American contestant named Desiree Washington. 1996 - Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time. 1997 - The United States Army suspends Sgt. Major Gene McKinney, its top-ranking enlisted soldier, after hearing allegations of sexual misconduct. 1998 - A college dropout becomes the first person to be convicted of a hate crime committed in cyberspace. 1998 - Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon such a law. 1999 - Avalanches in the French Alps near Geneva kill at least 10. Births 1890 - Boris Pasternak, poet, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1958 (+.
1893 - the right to vote. Change of US presidency from Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893) to Grover Cleveland (1893-1897) First United States commemorative postage stamps issued for the Columbian Exposition The first World Parliament of Religions is held in Chicago Global financial panic (Panic of 1893) Physicist Wilhelm Wien composes Wien's Law France conquers Vietnam. Births January 5 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru January 12 - Hermann Göring, Nazi official (+ 1946) January 12 - Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi official (+ 1946) January 15 - Ivor Novello, actor, musician (+ 1951) January 22 - Conrad Veidt, actor (+ 1943) February 10 - Jimmy Durante, actor, singer, comedian, vaudevillean (+ 1980) February 11 - Johan Alberts Dutch literary figure. February 12 - Omar Bradley, general (+ 1981) February 21 - Andrés Segovia, musician (+ 1987) March.
1980 - Changes to the Swedish Act of Succession creates Victoria of Sweden, Crown Princess over her younger brother January 5 - Hewlett-Packard announces release of its first personal computer January 7 - President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out Chrysler Corporation. January 11 - Nigel Short, 14 years old, is the youngest chess player to be awarded the degree of International Master. January 22 - Andrei Sakharov is arrested in Moscow January 26 - Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations February 2 - Abscam: Reports surface that FBI personnel were targeting members of the United States Congress in a sting operation. February 4 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini names Abolhassan Banisadr as president of Iran February 23 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran's parliament would decide.
1949 in music - Top hit records "Some Enchanted Evening" by Perry Como "That Lucky Old Sun" by Frankie Laine "Mule Train" by Frankie Laine "Slippin' Around" by Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely "Cruising Down the River" by Blue Barron, also Russ Morgan "Riders In the Sky" by Vaughn Monroe "Forever and Ever" by Russ Morgan "A Little Bird Told Me" by Evelyn Knight "You're Breaking My Heart" by Vic Damone "A You're Adorable" by Perry Como "The Fat Man", by Fats Domino, first record with back beat all the way through Published popular music "Again" w. Dorcas Cochran m. Lionel Newman "Bali Ha'i" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers "Bamboo" w. Buddy Bernier m. Nat Simon "Beyond The Reef" w.m. Jack Pitman "Blame My Absent-Minded Heart" Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne "Bloody Mary" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers.
1944 in music - plane went down somewhere over the English Channel, although many alternate theories have been suggested. December 1 - Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra is premiered in Boston, Massachusetts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Serge Koussevitzky Top hit records "Besame Mucho" by Jimmy Dorsey "Don't Fence Me In" by Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters "A Hot Time In the Town of Berlin" by Bing Crosby & theAndrews Sisters "I Love You" by Bing Crosby "I'll Get By" by Harry James "Mairzy Doats" by Merry Macs "San Fernando Valley" by Bing Crosby "Shoo-Shoo Baby" by The Andrews Sisters "Swinging On a Star" by Bing Crosby "You Always Hurt the One You Love" by The Mills Brothers Published popular songs "Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive" w. Johnny Mercer m. Harold Arlen "All Of A.
1929 in music - Con Conrad "Bilbao Song" w. (Eng) Johnny Mercer w. (Ger) Bertolt Brecht m. Kurt Weill English lyrics 1961 "Black And Blue" w. Andy Razaf m. Thomas "Fats" Waller "Bolero" m. Maurice Ravel "Broadway Melody" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown "Can Broadway Do Without Me?" w.m. Jimmy Durante "Can't We Be Friends?" w. Paul James m. Kay Swift "Chant Of The Jungle" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown "Corrine, Corrina" w. J. Mayo Williams & Bo Chatman "Cross Your Fingers" w. Arthur Swanstrom & Benny Davis m. J. Fred Coots "Cryin' For The Carolines" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Harry Warren "Daddy Won't You Please Come Home?" w.m. Sam Coslow "Dear Little Cafe" w.m. Noel Coward "Deep Night" w. Rudy Vallee m. Charlie Henderson "Do Something" w. Bud Green m. Sam H. Stept "Do What You Do" w. Ira Gershwin &.
1928 in music - Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson "Can't Help Loving Dat Man" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern "Carolina Moon" w. Benny Davis m. Joe Burke "Cherry" w.m. Don Redman "Chiquita" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Mabel Wayne "C-O-N-S-T-A-N-T-I-N-O-P-L-E" w.m. Harry Carlton "Coquette" w. Gus Kahn m. Carmen Lombardo & John Green "Cow Cow Blues" m. Charles Davenport "Crazy Rhythm" w. Irving Caesar m. Joseph Mayer & Roger Wolfe Kahn "Dance, Little Lady" w.m Noel Coward "Diga Diga Doo" w. Dorothy Fields m. Jimmy McHugh "Doin' The New Low-Down" w. Dorothy Fields m. Jimmy McHugh "Doin' The Raccoon" w. Raymond Klages m. J. Fred Coots "Don't Look At Me That Way" w.m. Cole Porter "Dusky Stevedore" w. Andy Razaf m. J.C Johnson "Empty Bed Blues" w.m. J. C. Johnson "Fancy Our Meeting" w. Douglas.
1933 in music - Waterfall" w. Irving Kahal m. Sammy Fain "Carioca" w. Gus Kahn & Edward Eliscu m. Vincent Youmans "Coffee In The Morning, Kisses In The Night" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren "The Day You Came Along" w.m. Arthur Johnston & Sam Coslow "Did You Ever See A Dream Walking?" w. Mack Gordon m. Harry Revel "Dinner at Eight" w. Dorothy Fields m. Jimmy McHugh "Doin' The Uptown Lowdown" w. Mack Gordon m. Harry Revel "Don't Blame Me" w. Dorothy Fields m. Jimmy McHugh "Down The Old Ox Road" w. Sam Coslow m. Arthur Johnston "Easter Parade" w.m. Irving Berlin "Everything I Have Is Yours" w. Harold Adamson m. Burton Lane "Experiment" w.m. Cole Porter "Flying Down To Rio" w. Edward Eliscu & Gus Kahn m. Vincent Youmans "Forty-Second Street" w. Al.
1980 in television - (1977-1984) The Tonight Show (1954-present) WKRP in Cincinnati (1978-1982) The Waltons (1972-1981) Wheel of Fortune (1975-present) Ending this year Angie (1979-1980) Barnaby Jones (1973-1980) Love of Life (1951-1980) The Rockford Files (1974-1980) Births October 17 - Justin Shenkarow, voice actor ("Harold Berman" from Hey Arnold) Deaths January 29 - Jimmy Durante, actor, singer February 13 - David Janssen, actor March 5 - Jay Silverheels, actor April 29 - Alfred Hitchcock, film director and TV host.
Billy Rose - Store)", and "It's Only a Paper Moon." He went on become a night club owner, Broadway producer, and theatre owner. He produced the large-scale spectacle "Jumbo," starring Jimmy Durante at the New York Hippodrome Theatre. For Fort Worth Frontier Days he constructed the huge elaborate dinner theatre, "Casa Manana," featuring stripper Sally Rand and the world's largest revolving stage. At the 1939 New York World's Fair, "Billy Rose's Aquacade" starred Olympian Eleanor Holm in what the fair program called "a brilliant 'girl' show of spectacular size and content." He married Holm shortly thereafter, divorcing his first wife,comedienne Fanny Brice. In 1943, he produced Carmen Jones with an all-black cast. An adaptation of George Bizet's opera Carmen, the story was transplanted to World War II America by lyricist and librettist Oscar Hammerstein.
Catch phrase - sportscaster Stuart Scott on ESPN "Come up and see me some time..." - Mae West "D'oh!" - Homer Simpson "Did I do that?" - Steve Urkel "Drat and double drat!" - Dick Dastardly in Wacky Races "Dy-no-mite!" - Jimmie Walker "Eat my shorts!" Bart Simpson "Fascinating." - Mr. Spock in Star Trek "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead..." - Chevy Chase, on the TV show Saturday Night Live "Go ahead. Make my day."* - Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan in Sudden Impact "Good Grief!" - Charlie Brown "Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are!" - Jimmy Durante "H'Arsenal!" - Eric Morecambe (originally a quiz answer disguised as a cough, thereafter a random interjection) "He could go all the way!" - Howard Cosell; later Chris Berman in a parody of Cosell's distinctive.
Melody Ranch - his hometown to restore order when his former childhood enemies take over the town. It stars Gene Autry, Jimmy Durante, Ann Miller, Barton MacLane, Barbara Jo Allen, George 'Gabby' Hayes and William 'Billy' Benedict. The movie was written by Ray Golden, F. Hugh Herbert, Sid Kuller and Jack Moffitt. It was directed by Joseph Santley. In 1950, Gene Autry brought his singing cowboy persona to television in a series which was alternately called The Gene Autry Show and Melody Ranch..
