JIMMY "SCHNOZZOLA" DURANTE - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 145370
Price: $750.00
JIMMY DURANTE
Black and white publicity photograph of Jimmy Durante wearing a suit and tie.
Photograph inscribed and signed: "To Sylvia/A Pleasure/Working/with you/Best
Wishes/Jimmy Durante". B/w, 8x10. Jimmy Durante (1893-1980), known to family, friends
and fans as "The Schnozzola", "Schnozzle" or simply "the Schnoz" because of his
Cyrano-sized nose, began his career as a piano player on the Lower East Side of New York
City. He and his partners, dancers Eddie Jackson and Lou Clayton, had become overnight
sensations on vaudeville, and Durante later lent his talents to films, radio and television as
well as being a popular performer in nightclubs and on stage. His act included telling jokes,
playing the piano and singing in his raspy voice. Two of his most popular songs were "Inka
Dinka Doo" and "Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey?", and Durante was also well known
for his trademark sign off line, "Goodnight, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are." An
active life member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, he often performed pro bono with the
proceeds that would have been his pay, going to the Children's Fund. All he asked in the way of
pay was that people, "Help Da Kids". Framed.
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