Jimmy Durante
13 titles
Filmography
13 results

Frosty the Snowman
(1969)Discover how everyone's favorite happy, jolly soul came to life one day in the original holiday special, Frosty the Snowman!

The Great Rupert
(1950)The family of an out-of-work vaudeville performer is pushed into homelessness but their luck changes when a crafty squirrel unearths a stash of cash.

Palooka
(1934)Raised in the country by his boxer single father, young Palooka is discovered by a comic-strip fight manager and trained to take on the reigning champ.

The Passionate Plumber
(1932)To make her lover jealous, a beautiful Parisian socialite passes off a bumbling plumber as her paramour.

Speak Easily
(1932)Bookish without much in the way of street smarts, a professor believes he’s become the heir to a fortune and throws it away on a bad Broadway show.
What! No Beer?
(1933)Two of comedy's greatest masters – Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante – appear together in this effervescent and irreverent slapstick about a couple of regular guys trying to cash in on the end of Prohibition. Durante is a barber who talks Keaton, his dim-bulb taxidermist buddy, into spending his life's savings on a brewery. Determined to be first, they start making beer before Prohibition is actually over. That makes their "competition" bootlegging thugs – something they didn't count on! Then, Buster falls for one of the gangster's molls, the cops get into the act, and Keaton and Durante have to figure out how to get out of the beer business before they're done in! From a story by Robert E. Hopkins (Anita Loo's screenwriting partner on San Francisco), this timely farce, directed by veteran Edward Sedgwick, was called "one solid riot of laughs…Rowdy and hoodlum fun" (The New York American).

Little Miss Broadway
(1938)Entertaining musical comedy, starring the famous child actress. Story takes her from an orphanage to a happy foster home.
Hollywood Party
(1934)It was all a dream... But imagine, Laurel and Hardy, The Three Stooges, Latin spitfire Lupe Velez, Mickey Mouse, Jimmy Durante and Arthur Treacher all together for one big Hollywood Party. He-man jungle movie star Schnarzen the Conqueror's (Durante) movies are starting to slip at the box office because his tigers look anemic. To woo Baron Munchausen (Jack Pearl) into selling him some more aggressive tigers, Schnarzen throws a star-studded bash. But when Liondora (George Givot), Schnarzen's archrival learns of the plan, he crashes the party disguised as a Greek baron. So sit back, the fun's about to begin because the party's just getting started in this wacky celebrity free for all!

Melody Ranch
(1940)When radio star Autry visits his hometown for a celebration, he faces childhood enemies who became local gangsters and decides to clean up the town.

Music for Millions
(1944)José Iturbi does Chopin -- but Jimmy Durante does Durante! A wartime morale booster and symphonic showcase centered on the women in a touring orchestra. With Margaret O’Brien.

On an Island with You
(1948)Esther Williams, Peter Lawford, Ricardo Montalban, Jimmy Durante, Cyd Charisse, and bandleader Xavier Cugat star in this highly successful musical comedy. Actress Rosalind Rennolds is shooting a song-and-dance film in Hawaii when a young Navy lieutenant is brought onto the production as a technical advisor. Having once performed a number with her in an Armed Forces show, the young officer is convinced he and Rennolds should be together--so he spirits her away to a desert island.

The Man Who Came to Dinner
(1941)After an accident, a literary critic recovers at the home of the family he was visiting, but his unplanned stay turns their lives upside down.

Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter
(2011)Laugh along at the classic stand up routines and timeless skits featuring the beloved American comedian known for his work on The Andy Griffith Show.