Tony Curtis

857, The American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act. Jimmy Durante died in Santa Monica, California of pneumonia, and was interred at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City. The relevant bill is H.R. Durante had a nationally broadcast radio variety show; in the 1950s he had a television show as well. He continued making movie appearances through 1963 and television appearances until 1970. Curtis and actress-activist Bo Derek met with Representative Jack Kingston (R-GA) in Washington, D.C., in May 2004 to discuss protecting horses. He was featured in a series of comedy motion pictures paired with Buster Keaton. Other notable roles include:. In the show, a policeman stops him while leading a live elephant and asks "What are you doing with that elephant?" Durante stopped the show by saying "Elephant? What elephant?".

He is probably best known for his role in the 1959 film Some Like It Hot, co-starring with Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe. In 1935 he starred in Billy Rose's spectacle, "Jumbo". His earliest credited role is in the 1949 film City Across the River. He had big hit in 1934 with his composition Inka Dinka Do, a novelty number he sang and played piano on, and which became his signature song. He was also married to actress Christine Kaufmann in the 1960s. In the mid 1920s he became a star on Vaudeville and radio with his music & comedy trio Clayton Jackson & Durante (with Lou Clayton and Eddie Jackson); despite third billing Durante was the star of the act. He has been married five times; his first wife was actress Janet Leigh, with whom he fathered actress Jamie Lee Curtis. About 1917 he joined one of the first jazz bands in New York, The Original New Orleans Jazz Band (all other musicians were from New Orleans). Durante's outgoing personality and ability to "sell" a number to the audience started attracting greater attention, and by 1920 the band was renamed Jimmy Durante's Jazz Band.

Curtis has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and received the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1995. In his youth Durante worked as pianist and entertainer in New York city, nickmaned "Ragtime Jimmy". Since at least the early 1980s Curtis has had a second career as a painter. He dropped out of school in eighth-grade to play ragtime piano. Curtis has also appeared frequently on television; he co-starred with Roger Moore in the TV series The Persuaders. Jimmy Durante was born New York City. June 3, 1925 in the Bronx, New York), an actor who has appeared in over 100 films since 1949. He was noted for his large nose which he frequently made jokes about, which earned him the nickname Schnozzola.

Tony Curtis is the stage name of Bernard Schwartz (b. 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. a stunt man in The Great Race (1965). 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. Ferdinand Waldo Demara, the title role of The Great Impostor (1962); and. appearing as Antoninus in Spartacus (1960);.

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