Jimmy Durante Movies

New York City tenement dwelling neighbors Blondie and Lottie are longtime best friends. When Lottie makes the cast of the Follies and moves up in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marion Davies

Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Goodman Ace

A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is...

Genre: Action

Cast: Spencer Tracy

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...

Genre: Music

Cast: Jimmy Durante

An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bette Davis

A discarded silk top-hat becomes the focus of a struggle between a washed-up stage magician and a group of schoolchildren, after it magically brings...

Genre: Family

Cast: Jackie Vernon

The daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover spearheaded by the man she loves.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Doris Day

A professor gets mixed up with chorus girls in a Broadway musical.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Buster Keaton

A young navy lieutenant is brought in as technical adviser on a song-dance-and-swim film being made by screen star Rosalind Reynolds. Having once...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Esther Williams

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shirley Temple

An ex-GI falls for a bathing beauty.

Genre: Music

Cast: Esther Williams

Shortly before Christmas, a family moves into an apartment where Rupert the squirrel lives in the attic rafters. Just as it seems that the holiday...

Genre: Family

Cast: Jimmy Durante

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frank Sinatra

While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War II, the majority used their talents to rally the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bud Abbott

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helen Morgan

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...

Genre: Music

Cast: June Allyson

When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Buster Keaton

Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagorce jealous. With the help of his friend Julius J....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Buster Keaton

Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe's boss....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Cantinflas

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.

Genre: Music

Cast: Alice Brady

A guilt-ridden U.S. Marine returns to Cuba to try to find the woman he promised to marry.

Genre: Music

Cast: Lawrence Tibbett

Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bob Hope

After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jimmy Durante

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

Genre: Music

Cast: Bing Crosby

The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dorothy Jordan

A dairy owner's son takes a job as milkman with a rival company.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Donald O'Connor

Reporter Miss Lee is looking for a story and approaches George White as he's assembling the latest edition of his famous revue. As it turns out, she...

Genre: Music

Cast: Rudy Vallee

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Pearl

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George M. Cohan

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

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Cast: Jimmy Durante

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jimmy Durante

Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. When Baron Munchausen comes to town with real...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Stan Laurel

Alice returns to Wonderland through the looking glass in this TV musical.

Genre: Music

Cast: Judi Rolin

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

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,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Jimmy Durante

His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Celebration.

Genre: Western

Cast: Gene Autry

Six-year-old "Mike" goes to live with her pregnant older sister, Babs, who plays string bass in José Iturbi's orchestra. And the orchestra is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Margaret O'Brien

On leave in Italy, Lt. Tommy Knowlton falls in love with Jean Standish, who's not only married, but is the daughter of his submarine's commander....

Genre: Romance

Cast: Robert Montgomery

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

Genre: Music

Cast: Jimmy Durante

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Don Knotts

Until 1932's Grand Hotel, never had there existed an all-star ensemble cast on film. Conceived by MGM's production genius Irving Thalberg, the film...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tom Kane

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William Haines

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.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alice Faye

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Preston

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kathryn Grayson

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...

Genre: Family

Cast: Jackie Cooper

A TV movie with intertwining music numbers and sketches.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jimmy Durante

A short featuring many stars

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Baby Peggy

Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Fred Astaire

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bob Hope

"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...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Lee Tracy

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jimmy Durante

The Last Judgement (Italian: Il giudizio universale) is a 1961 commedia all'italiana film by Italian director Vittorio De Sica. It was coproduced...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alberto Sordi

Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: June Allyson

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Moe Howard

Highlights from the great musicals of the 1940s. Stars featured include Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Bing Crosby, Doris...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Frank Sinatra

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Laverne Andrews

Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Fred Astaire

The films, affairs and struggles of the iconic star of The Blue Angel as told by Rosemary Clooney, Roger Corman, Deanna Durbin and many more.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Burt Bacharach

Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Frank McHugh plays with his children; a visit to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bette Davis

The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Anjelica Huston

A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Rin-Tin-Tin

This Bob Hope Special called “Highlights of a Quarter Century” begins his 26th year with NBC in 1975 (he began with NBC radio in 1937)...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bob Hope

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

Genre: Music

Cast: Frank Sinatra

Documentary about the star-studded pre-inaugural gala that took place on January 19, 1961 to celebrate John F. Kennedy's election.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Phylicia Rashād

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alan Baxter

Ten Musical Yuletide treasures featuring the voices of Fred Astaire, Jimmy Durante and Burl Ives. Create A tuneful new family tradition with this...

Genre:

Cast: Fred Astaire

A comedy classic whodunit with an amazing comedic ensemble group.

Genre:

Cast: Bob Hope

In the late 1990s, iconic photographer Bruce Weber barely managed to convince legendary actor Robert Mitchum (1917-97) to let himself be filmed...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bruce Weber