TV Guide: Jimmy Durante

Video: ICYMI: Creed Back in His Hippie Daze

Best Week Ever — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Sure, we;ve all fallen in love with The Office;s breakout character, Creed Bratton, the sticky-fingered, sprout-munching 82-year-old hobo who manages to stay just below the Scranton radar. He;s one of the few characters (if not the only one) whose real life persona is perfectly blended with his character;s, making it difficult to draw the line on fiction and reality. Creed the character was a guitarist in The Grass Roots, a band that remained on the Billboard charts for 307 straight weeks in the 60s and 70s. Well, thanks to reader Danielle B., video proof that Creed was in the band (and, in fact, a young man) exists! So check out this clip of The Grass Roots live (introduced by Jimmy Durante), and see if you can spot the toner-headed miscreant in the band. Hint: He;s wearing a striped sweater and lovely neckerchief.

Video: Billy Rose's Jumbo

iTunes — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500

The daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover spearheaded by the man she loves in this Oscar-nominated musical. Oscar-nominee and Golden Globe-winner Doris Day ("Pillow Talk"), Oscar- winner and Emmy-nominee Martha Raye (TV's "Alice in Wonderland") and Jimmy Durante ("It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World") star in this fun and lively production.

Video: It Happened in Brooklyn -- (Movie Clip) From the Heart

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Wise old Nick (Jimmy Durante) exhorts Danny (Frank Sinatra) into a spirited performance of Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne's "The Song?s Gotta Come from the Heart" in It Happened in Brooklyn, 1947.

Video: Hollywood Party - (Original trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500

A movie star's gala celebration creates chaos. Starring Jimmy Durante, the Three Stooges, Laurel & Hardy, Mickey Mouse and many others.

Video: This Time for Keeps - (Movie Clip)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Jimmy Durante sings the lullaby "Little Big Shot" in this deleted scene from This Time For Keeps (1947).

Video: This Time for Keeps - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500

A famous singer's son falls for a swimming star in This Time For Keeps (1947) starring Esther Williams and Jimmy Durante.

Video: Wimmin Hadn't Oughta Drive / Puttin' on the Act / Popeye Meets William Tell

Amazon Video on Demand — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500

There's plenty of excitement when Popeye takes Olive Oyl out for a driving lesson. She commits every blunder in the book and Popeye and his trusty spinach have to come to her rescue. / Olive Oyl announces the news that "vaudeville's coming back." Swee'pea, Popeye and Olive rehearse their old-time routines. In a series of celebrity impersonations, Popeye enacts some humorous impressions of Jimmy Durante, Stan Laurel and Groucho Marx. / Popeye has need of his spinach when he poses as William Tell's son for the big apple-shooting contest, especially when he finds that the old man's aim isn't what it used to be!

Video: House of Spirits

Amazon Video on Demand — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Jason, Grant and the TAPS team head to New England to answer a call from a terrified family plagued by mysterious apparitions. During their investigation, TAPS uncovers some shocking evidence of paranormal activity in the home. From there, they take on claims at the Palace Theater in Manchester, NH, a former vaudeville stop that hosted performances by Bob Hope, the Marx Brothers, Jimmy Durante and Harry Houdini. Today, staff at this historic playhouse report endless paranormal claims, ranging from apparitions to the sounds of footsteps and slamming doors.

Video: As Time Goes By

Amazon Video on Demand — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500

As Time Goes By in the style of Jimmy Durante

Video: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

iTunes — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500

It's a mad, mad, mad mad farcical return to the days of the Keystone Cop comedies, on an Ultra Panavision scale, in this star-studded extravaganza. A multitude of people have been given a clue by a dying man (Jimmy Durante) as to the location of $350,000 in stolen bank money that he has buried. They cannot come to an agreement to seek out the loot as a cooperative unit, so they set out separately in a mad race to get to it first. They do not know that the state police are on to them and are simply allowing the loot-seekers to lead them to the stolen bucks. The loot-chasers are ruthless, devious, crackpot and very often dimwitted in their frantic, hilarious race. Stanley Kramer took an intermission from socially conscious subjects to direct this riotous comedy. Photography by Ernest Laszlo.

Video: Great Rupert

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

The Great Rupert is sci-fi pioneer George Pal's first feature film. Starring Jimmy Durante in one of his most memorable screen performances, "The Great Rupert" is the heart-warming tale of a loveable trained squirrel, a puppet animated through Pal's Academy Award-winning Puppetoon technique, who inadvertently helps a family of vaudeville performers who are down on their luck.

Video: Great Rupert

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500