Hollywood Party (1934 film)
Hollywood Party, also known under its working title of The Hollywood Revue of 1933 and Star Spangled Banquet, is a 1934 American pre-Code musical film starring Laurel and Hardy, The Three Stooges, Jimmy Durante, Lupe Vélez and Mickey Mouse. It was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Each sequence featured a different star with a separate scriptwriter and director assigned.
Theatrical release poster
Laurel and Hardy with Lupe Vélez in a scene from the movie
James Francis Durante was an American comedian, actor, singer, and pianist. His distinctive gravelly speech, Lower East Side accent, comic language-butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and prominent nose helped make him one of the United States' most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s. He often referred to his nose as the schnozzola, and the word became his nickname.
Durante in 1964
Buster Keaton, Thelma Todd and Durante in Speak Easily (1932)
With Garry Moore in the "Durante-Moore Show" (1943–1947)
Durante on The Jumbo Fire Chief Program, 1935