Over the course of time, Jimmy Durante went from enthusiastic hokum in the 1920s with songs like “If Washington Needs Me, I’ll Answer the Ca...

Everybody wants ta get inta de act! Including Jimmy Durante’s parakeet. United Press International’s Hollywood reporter wrote a three-parte...

Jimmy Durante was loved because he came across as a sincere guy, who rose from poverty through hard work to become someone. People love that...

He moved to Hollywood in 1932 but Jimmy Durante never lost that 1920s New York speakeasy entertainer atmosphere about him, even four decades...

Blizzards, downpour, lightning, twisting wind. It all hits the Aleutians, Isles of Enchantment, in a 1945 cartoon starring Private Snafu. A...

Many people tried to solve the mystery surrounding Jimmy Durante’s Mrs. Calabash. Only one person—Durante—knew the answer, and he wasn’t tel...

Milton Berle. Ed Wynn. Abbott and Costello. Ken Murray. Jack Carson. They all had early success on television. And they were all gone after...

From all of here at the Tralfaz blog, here’s a cheery holiday song from one of the greats of show biz.

“Ya gotta start out each day widda song!” Jimmy Durante (“In poy-sun!”) enthusiastically belted out when he made his entrance on his radio s...

Things happened to Jimmy Durante that never happened to any one else. If anyone else told you the story, you’d swear it was made up, that it...

Jimmy Durante used to start off his radio show musically growling “Ya Gotta Start Out Each Day With a Song.” It’s an enthusiastic, optimisti...

Jimmy Durante’s career was reborn on March 25, 1943. That’s when he teamed for the first time with Garry Moore on radio. The two were an ove...

There are two things you’ll notice in any newspaper interview with Jimmy Durante—all the quotes are in Durante dialect, and he launches into...

From all of here at the Tralfaz blog, here’s a cheery holiday song from one of the greats of show biz.

It is impossible to dislike Jimmy Durante. Durante’s act was, at times, corny and old-fashioned, but it was easy to ignore that. He was hav...

Garry Moore can owe much of his success to three things—his own talent, a sponsor that could pull network strings and an unlikely teaming wi...

It may not be the greatest comedy of all time, but “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” (1963) may be one of the most fun, thanks to the hammy ...

Hollywood made a couple of movies about Al Jolson and one about Eddie Cantor. It’s a shame it didn’t do the same thing with Jimmy Durante. ...