Jimmy Durante
Comedian, Musical Artist
1893 – 1980
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Who was Jimmy Durante?
James Francis "Jimmy" Durante was an American singer, pianist, comedian, and actor. His distinctive clipped gravelly speech, New York accent, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and large nose helped make him one of America's most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s. His jokes about his nose included referring to it as a Schnozzola, and the word became his nickname.
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- Born
- Feb 10, 1893
Brooklyn - Also known as
- James Francis Durante
- Ragtime Jimmy
- The Schnoz
- The Great Schnozzola
- Schnozzola
- Durante
- Jimmy 'Schnozzle' Durante
- James Francis "Jimmy" Durante
- Parents
- Spouses
- Jeanne Olsen
(1921/06/19 - 1943/02/14) - Margie Little
(1960/12/14 - 1980/01/29)
- Jeanne Olsen
- Children
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Ethnicity
- Italian American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Jan 29, 1980
Santa Monica - Resting place
- Holy Cross Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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