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Lot # 587: The Jimmy Durante File (150+)

Category: Movies

Starting Bid: $100.00

Bids: 1 (Bid History)

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Item was in Auction "Summer/August 2006 Catalog",
which ran from 7/30/2006 12:00 AM to
8/28/2006 9:00 PM



Massive file of material includes everything you always wanted on the Schnozz but was afraid to ask. There are over 150 images here including stills going back to the early 1930's. He is shown with many of the great actors and personalities of America: Wallace Beery, Gary Moore, Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor, Walter Pidgeon, Joe E. Lewis, Phil Silvers, Flipper, Claudette Colbert and George M. Cohan, Ethel Barrymore, Milton Berle, Dean Martin, Ray Bolger, Carmen Miranda, Liberace, Danny Kaye, Edward G. Robinson, Tallulah Bankhead, Mario Lanza, Richard Nixon, Bob Hope, Donald O’Connor, Jerry Lewis, Burl Ives, Joan Blondell, Lupe Velez (3), Myrna Loy, radio’s Aunt Jemima (Tess Gardel), Martha Raye, Dick Van Dyke, and Casey Stengel. Plus, there is some amazing stuff of Durante showing his incredible personality and talent. There is even his nose getting cast in cement at Grauman’s Chinese Theater and him dressed as a Beatle. Overall EX and 7x9".

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