List of the best Jimmy Durante movies: The Great Rupert(1950), Palooka(1934), Hollywood Party(1934), Strictly Dynamite(1934), Student Tour(1934), The Milkman(1951), Melody Ranch(1940), The Passionate Plumber(1932), Speak Easily(1932), Meet the Baron(1933), Little Miss Broadway(1938), Billy Rose's Jumbo(1962) ... ...
6.6/10
Other, Comedy
USA
1950
86 Minutes
Jimmy Durante Terry Moore Tom Drake Queenie Smith Frank Orth Jimmy Conlin Chick Chandler Sara Haden Hugh Sanders Don Beddoe
wife mother father vaudevillian landlord daughter amusing offbeat heartwarming new york city apartment attic christmas struggle family hard times vaudeville financial windfall mystery love
A little squirrel with lots of charm accidentally helps two poor, down-but-NOT-out families overcome their obstacles.
6.1/10
Comedy
USA
1934
86 Minutes
Knobby Walsh, Junior
Jimmy Durante Lupe Velez Stuart Erwin Marjorie Rambeau Robert Armstrong Mary Carlisle William Cagney Thelma Todd Franklyn Ardell Tom Dugan Guinn "Big Boy" Williams
Knobby discovers young hunk Palooka and trains him to fight the reigning champ, also drunken sot, Al McSwatt.
6.1/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1934
68 Minutes
Jimmy Durante Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy Lupe Velez Polly Moran Charles Butterworth Eddie Quillan June Clyde George Givot Jack Pearl Ted Healy
actor manager baron millionaire explorer frenetic amusing campy movie theater mansion party show business lions party dreams competition rivalry pursuit 1930s
Jimmy Durante is jungle star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. So when Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws a big ... See full summary »
5.8/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1934
71 Minutes
Jimmy Durante Lupe Velez Norman Foster William Gargan Marian Nixon The Mills Brothers Eugene Pallette Minna Gombell Sterling Holloway Leila Bennett Franklin Pangborn
A struggling writer finds success writing scripts for a radio comic at the expense of his high-brow ambitions.
5.3/10
Comedy
USA
1934
87 Minutes
Jimmy Durante Betty Grable Charles Butterworth Maxine Doyle Phil Regan Florine McKinney Nelson Eddy Herman Brix
A college rowing team's world tour is in jeopardy because a philosophy professor plans to flunk the entire crew. Ann, the instructor's niece, convinces him to tutor the team on the ocean ... See full summary »
6.9/10
Comedy
UK
1951
87 Minutes
Donald O'Connor Jimmy Durante Piper Laurie Joyce Holden William Conrad Henry O'Neill Paul Harvey Jess Barker Elisabeth Risdon Frank Nelson Charles Flynn
A boy steals a powerful magnet from a younger boy and gets him into all sorts of trouble.
6.3/10
Western
USA
1940
84 Minutes
Gene Autry Jimmy Durante Ann Miller Barton MacLane George "Gabby" Hayes Jerome Cowan Mary Lee Joe Sawyer
gene autry singer cowboy nemesis sheriff judge campy charming amusing torpedo, ariz. town celebration radio performers justice gunfight murder cowboys rivalry adventure 1940s
His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Celebration.
5.9/10
Comedy
USA
1932
73 Minutes
Buster Keaton Jimmy Durante Irene Purcell Polly Moran Gilbert Roland Mona Maris Maude Eburne Henry Armetta Paul Porcasi Jean Del Val August Tollaire
To make her lover jealous, a beautiful socialite passes off a bumbling plumber as her paramour.
5.8/10
Comedy
USA
1932
82 Minutes
Buster Keaton Jimmy Durante Ruth Selwyn Thelma Todd Hedda Hopper William Pawley Sidney Toler Lawrence Grant Henry Armetta Edward Brophy
A timid professor inherits a large sum of money and decides to fund a terrible musical.
5.6/10
Comedy
USA
1933
68 Minutes
Joe McGoo
Jack Pearl Jimmy Durante The Three Stooges ZaSu Pitts Ted Healy Edna May Oliver
The famous Baron Munchausen dumps two dimwits in the African jungle. A rescue team mistakes one of them for the missing Baron, and returns them to the US, where they're greeted as heroes. ... See full summary »
6.6/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1938
70 Minutes
Jimmy Clayton
Shirley Temple George Murphy Jimmy Durante Phyllis Brooks Edna May Oliver George Barbier Edward Ellis Jane Darwell El Brendel Donald Meek Patricia Wilder
orphan nephew band leader uncle landlady daughter winsome spectacular heartwarming new york city hotel stage courtroom broadway theater orphanage orphans musical performance rags to riches communal living family
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 wants the girl returned to the orphanage.
6.2/10
Musical
USA
1962
123 Minutes
Anthony "Pop" Wonder
Doris Day Stephen Boyd Jimmy Durante Martha Raye Dean Jagger Joseph Waring Lynn Wood Charles Watts James Chandler Robert Burton Norman Leavitt
circus performer daughter rival son emotional touching circus backstage role reversal love revenge family financial crisis deception rivalry sacrifice 1960s
A debt-ridden circus is saved by a well-meaning but inept publicity man.
5.9/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1932
80 Minutes
Curly Cooney
George M. Cohan Claudette Colbert Jimmy Durante
A presidential candidate is deemed to have a dull personality, thus a charismatic look-alike is hired as a front.
5.9/10
Musical
USA
1947
105 Minutes
Ferdi Farro
Esther Williams Lauritz Melchior Jimmy Durante Johnnie Johnston Dame May Whitty Sharon McManus Dick Simmons Mary Stuart Ludwig Stossel Dorothy Porter Nella Walker
soldier synchronized swimmer opera singer suitor bodyguard parent lighthearted amusing emotional theater swimming pool city michigan island show business synchronized swimming father/son relationship determination love rivalry
Expected to follow his opera star father into the business, but discontent with his life; a young man pursues a career in popular music and romances the aquatic-ballet dancer he met during his time in the service.
Musical
1931
80 Minutes
O.O. Jones
Lawrence Tibbett Lupe Velez Jimmy Durante Ernest Torrence Karen Morley Hale Hamilton Mathilde Comont Philip Cooper Louise Fazenda
A Marine (Lawrence Tibbett) loves a peanut vendor (Lupe Velez) in Cuba and goes back with a buddy (Jimmy Durante) after the war to find her.
7.5/10
Comedy, Adventure
USA
1963
175 Minutes
Smiler Grogan
Spencer Tracy Edie Adams Milton Berle Jimmy Durante Jonathan Winters Buddy Hackett Ethel Merman Mickey Rooney Dick Shawn
thief cop dentist friend owner furniture mover suspenseful madcap california desert car airplane basement santa rosita state park death treasure surveillance betrayal traffic jam quest
A group of motorists hear about a crook's hidden stash of loot, and race against each other across the country to get to it.
6.6/10
War
USA
1933
105 Minutes
Ptomaine - Ship's Cook
Robert Montgomery Walter Huston Madge Evans Jimmy Durante Eugene Pallette Robert Young Edwin Styles John Lee Mahin David Newell Sterling Holloway Charles Irwin
In 1918, U.S. Navy Lt. Tommy Knowlton participates in dangerous submarine missions, disobeys orders, gets court-martialed and romances a married woman who happens to be his C.O.'s daughter.
6.5/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1947
105 Minutes
Nick Lombardi
Frank Sinatra Kathryn Grayson Peter Lawford Jimmy Durante Gloria Grahame Marcy McGuire Aubrey Mather Tamara Shayne
singer clerk songwriter schoolteacher veteran janitor lighthearted amusing charming brooklyn, n.y. music store neighborhood music love triangle show business ambition new life love adventure 1940s
Danny has been in the army for 4 years, yet all he thinks about is Brooklyn and how great it is. When he returns after the war, he soon finds that Brooklyn is not so nice after all. He is ... See full summary »
6.3/10
Drama
USA
1930
68 Minutes
Daffy
A boozing newsman (Charles Ruggles) woos a singer (Helen Morgan) while spying on her bootlegger boyfriend (Fred Kohler).
6.1/10
Musical, Romance
USA
1948
107 Minutes
Buckley
Esther Williams Peter Lawford Ricardo Montalban Jimmy Durante Cyd Charisse Leon Ames Kathryn Beaumont Dick Simmons Marie Windsor Arthur Walsh Nina Ross
movie star lieutenant assistant director actor dancing girl orchestra conductor winsome playful rousing hawaii movie set deserted island romantic dilemma filmmaking dancing kidnapping love triangle dream vs. reality pursuit rivalry
While shooting on location in the South Pacific, a movie star is pursued by a handsome Naval officer who is convinced she is the girl for him.
Musical, Comedy
1946
112 Minutes
Spike
Kathryn Grayson June Allyson Lauritz Melchior Jimmy Durante Peter Lawford Ben Blue Isobel Elsom Harry Hayden
singer sister pianist father mother opera singer cheery amusing lighthearted playful boston new york city bowery beer garden opera house singing ambition family sister relationship class distinctions
Boston socialite Abigail Chandler dreams of singing with the Metropolitan Opera but secretly takes a job singing at a beer hall in the Bowery in order to pay for voice lessons.
Musical, Romance
1944
124 Minutes
Billy Kipp
Van Johnson June Allyson Gloria DeHaven Jimmy Durante Tom Drake Henry Stephenson Henry O'Neill Ben Blue Frank Sully Donald Meek Lena Horne
singer sister wealthy man sailor vaudevillian amusing spectacular charming emotional nightclub apartment backstage canteen new york city warehouse world war ii home front sibling rivalry sister relationship love triangle
A sailor (Van Johnson) from a rich family meets a nightclub-singing sister act (June Allyson, Gloria DeHaven) in wartime New York.
7.4/10
Comedy
USA
1941
112 Minutes
Banjo
Monty Woolley Bette Davis Ann Sheridan Richard Travis Jimmy Durante Billie Burke Reginald Gardiner Elisabeth Fraser Grant Mitchell George Barbier Mary Wickes
radio host assistant host reporter actress lighthearted witty charming brash playful ohio family home celebrities upper class social life houseguest transformation discovery 1930s
A frustrated city girl disguises herself as a youngster in order to get a cheaper train ticket home. But little "Sue Sue" finds herself in a whole heap of grown-up trouble when she hides out in a compartment with a handsome Major.
6.5/10
Comedy
USA
1932
90 Minutes
Jimmy
Marion Davies Robert Montgomery Billie Dove James Gleason Jimmy Durante ZaSu Pitts Sidney Toler Douglas Dumbrille Sarah Padden Louise Carter
showgirl young woman friend performer boyfriend father emotional spirited amusing new york city theater tenement house stage speakeasy family home show business friendship relationships love triangle career aspirations
Two young women find their friendship strained when one wins a role in a Broadway show, and the other's boyfriend begins to fall for her.
6.3/10
Drama
USA
1932
120 Minutes
Walter Huston Lewis Stone Dorothy Jordan Neil Hamilton Emma Dunn Frederick Burton Reginald Barlow John Larkin Gertrude Howard Robert Young Jimmy Durante
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family.
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