Jimmy_Durante_Show_-_471105_Jimmy_Sings_With_Bing_Crosby

James Francis Durante (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">/dəˈrænti/</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">də-RAN-tee</a>, Italian: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Italian" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">[duˈrante]</a>; February 10, 1893 – January 29, 1980) was an American comedian, actor, singer, and pianist. His distinctive gravelly speech, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_East_Side" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Lower East Side</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_accent" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">accent</a>, 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 (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italianization" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Italianization</a> of the American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiddish" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Yiddish</a> slang word schnoz, meaning "big nose"), and the word became his nickname.

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James Francis Durante (/dəˈrænti/ də-RAN-tee, Italian: [duˈrante]; February 10, 1893 – January 29, 1980) 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 (Italianization of the American Yiddish slang word schnoz, meaning "big nose"), and the word became his nickname.

James Francis Durante&nbsp;(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English" rel="noopener noreferrer">/dəˈrænti/</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" rel="noopener noreferrer">də-RAN-tee</a>,&nbsp;Italian:&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Italian" rel="noopener noreferrer">[duˈrante]</a>; February 10, 1893&nbsp;– January 29, 1980) was an American comedian, actor, singer, and pianist. His distinctive gravelly speech,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_East_Side" rel="noopener noreferrer">Lower East Side</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_accent" rel="noopener noreferrer">accent</a>, 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&nbsp;the schnozzola&nbsp;(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italianization" rel="noopener noreferrer">Italianization</a>&nbsp;of the American&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiddish" rel="noopener noreferrer">Yiddish</a>&nbsp;slang word&nbsp;schnoz, meaning "big nose"), and the word became his nickname.

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