Jimmy Durante Filmes

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and...

Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club.

Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge.

Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house...

Joe Palooka is a naive young man whose father Pete was a champion boxer, but his lifestyle caused Joe's mother Mayme to leave him and to take young...

A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.

Based on the Hammett novel, this ultra-rare film—is nominally taken from the author's classic gang-war novel Red Harvest, which proved too...

An ex-GI falls for a bathing beauty.

A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.

The story of Jimmy Walker who became mayor of New York in the '20s.

A sailor helps two sisters start up a service canteen. The sailor soon becomes taken with gorgeous sister Jean, unaware that her sibling Patsy is...

A TV movie with intertwining music numbers and sketches.

A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.

Too bad for presidential hopes of banker T.K. Blair; his party feels he has too little flair for savoir faire. But at a medicine show, the party...

Wallingford is a con-man whose specialty is taking money from suckers. His partners are Schnozzle, a pickpocket and car thief; and Blackie, who has...

In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville headliners of the 1880s is eclipsed by their son.

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually...

Eddie Kane wanders round the studio back-lot, opening various doors to see which stars pop out.

Jimmy Durante asks popular song writing team Mack Gordon and Harry Revel to demonstrate some of their songs. There is interplay with impersonator...