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  • They Hvanted him to play the Copacabana at 10 East Sixtieth Street in Manhattan, a new club that featured major adult-oriented performers, such as Jimmy Durante and Sophie Tucker.

    Sinatra The Man Behind the Myth Taraborrelli, J. R. 1997

  • Not so the experts, who basically echo the signature line of the late comedian, Jimmy Durante, "You ain't seen nothin' yet."

    Dan Dorfman: Risky Roadmap to $7 a Gallon Gas Dan Dorfman 2011

  • Featuring fine food and top entertainers on its elevated stage, the Theatrical was a favorite stop for visiting celebrities such as Eddy Duchin, Frank Sinatra, Lauren Bacall, and Jimmy Durante.

    Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011

  • Featuring fine food and top entertainers on its elevated stage, the Theatrical was a favorite stop for visiting celebrities such as Eddy Duchin, Frank Sinatra, Lauren Bacall, and Jimmy Durante.

    Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011

  • It's no coincidence that Nat King Cole started his career singing rhythmic novelties but gradually switched to romantic love songs; Jimmy Durante, at the end of his career, was crooning ballads rather than shouting "Umbriago!"

    Both Leading Man and Comic Relief Will Friedwald 2011

  • The National Portrait Gallery takes a dive into this often overlooked portion of Calder's career with "Calder's Portraits: A New Language," which includes depictions of John D. Rockefeller mid-golf swing, Jimmy Durante's distinctive nose and unruly eyebrows and a drawing of Jean-Paul Sartre with eddies for eyes.

    March arts: DCist photography show and BYT at the Newseum 2011

  • In this Hobert Henley-directed adaption, Hammett's story becomes an action-comedy starring sultry torch singer Helen Morgan, Charles Ruggles, Fred Kohler, and newcomer Jimmy Durante.

    Thomas Gladysz: Dashiell Hammett at Film Noir Festival Thomas Gladysz 2012

  • Not so the experts, who basically echo the signature line of the late comedian, Jimmy Durante, "You ain't seen nothin' yet."

    Dan Dorfman: Risky Roadmap to $7 a Gallon Gas Dan Dorfman 2011

  • Hijinks most definitely ensue, including a doctor who has written an imposing memoir about his career that he'd love Whiteside to read, a battle ax of a nurse suffering under Whiteside's unimaginative insults, wacky showbiz friends like Banjo Joseph R. Sicari doing his best Jimmy Durante whether you want him to or not, a bunch of convicts, a choir boy, local busybodies, and much more.

    Michael Giltz: Theater: Wiest and Turturro Lost In "Orchard;" Skip This "Dinner" Michael Giltz 2011

  • But mention the likes of Bob Hope , Jimmy Durante , even John Wayne ubiquitous on TV during my childhood, and most kids will draw a blank, beyond admitting they think they may have heard of them.

    U.S. Fashion's First Voice Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

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