Jimmy Durante Movies

A short featuring many stars

"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His...

Unfinished pre-Code era film consisting of three sections with past performers from the stage and the vaudeville circuit, then-present-day performers...

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

The beloved, Emmy-winning comic actor Don Knotts, best-known for his roles as the bumbling deputy Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show and the...

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.

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...

A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.

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

In this holiday short, Jackie Cooper wants to throw a Christmas party for his friends on his football team but doesn't know how to go about it. His...

A TV movie with intertwining music numbers and sketches.

Believing real life is an operetta, the citizens of the European country Lucco break into song at every blink of an eye. Since everybody's singing,...

The first Timex Show from Frank Sinatra with friends Dean Martin, Bing Crosby and others.

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

In an alternate universe, the loveable snowman you know turns evil and wreaks havoc across a small town.

Celebrating the repeal of Prohibition from sea to shining sea. Currently available as part of the Treasures of the American Film Archives boxed set.

A three-minute short made in conjunction with the National Recovery Administration that urges employers to hire the unemployed.