You're so right, Jim, this is Jimmy at his best! Such a crazy movie, and he fits right in!! Love Mary Wickes, too! Thanks so very much--another day brightener, for sure!! :))

Love this so much, reminds me of my mum, she loved schnozzle Durante, don't know why exactly

Two of the greatest scene stealers in film history Monty Woolley & Jimmy Durante, I purchased this film years ago for Bette Davis and ended up a lifelong fan of both these wonderful characters.

"Banjo" was based on Harpo Marx, who was a close friend of George S. Kaufman, who co-wrote the original play the film is based on.

@vincentsartain3061

5 жыл бұрын

Hiya, Barry, it's me, your fellow member of The Dead Comedians Society! Yes, an obvious take on Harpo -- except he's mute, while "Banjo" never shuts the heck up! 🤣🤣🤣

@Fozzymaple

2 жыл бұрын

Don't forget Harpo was also a close friend of Alexander Woollcott, on whom Sherridan Whiteside is based.

Jimmy is a darling😍😍😍

Probably the most beloved entertainer in showbiz history.

Possibly the most perverted-sounding line in all of the code-period pictures: "Come to my room in a half-hour, and bring some rye bread!"

@alg11297

5 жыл бұрын

Mostly cause it doesn't mean anything. It is just the sound. He could have easily said "some bread" and it still wouldn't work.

@julianbrown1092

5 жыл бұрын

I can’t figure out the rye bread reference. I’m so inartistic. Can you help?

@alg11297

5 жыл бұрын

@@julianbrown1092 It's a George Kaufman play that doesn't translate into modern times. Ever see "You can't take it with you". He is what bad tv sitcoms are today.

@julianbrown1092

5 жыл бұрын

alg11297 watched it again, this week!

@5610winston

2 жыл бұрын

@@alg11297 This was a representation of Harpo Marx, an actor whose real life made this play look like Ibsen. Harpo, you will remember, was a total madcap and he almost never spoke on screen because of some ill-considered words and a theater owner who took the opportunity to torch the place. His brothers decided it was safer if they didn't let him speak..

hahahaha I absolutely adore this movie!

@TheSharron

5 жыл бұрын

Me too,Lynsee...It's my favorite.

Listen to his heartfelt renditions of Gospel favorites on his "Songs For Sunday" album. Very moving.

I just adore Mary Wickes!

@kennetheugenejackakawolfma5756

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah She was a "Plain Jane and some Dame"! Couldn't help not the lover.

Thanx for uploading this, its GOLD "Did ya ever have the feelin that ya wanted to go..." Luuuuuv it

@nipstertunes

10 жыл бұрын

Wonderful scene from some very talented people from days gone by. Thank you so much for watching it and for your comments! Jim

@1888jayne

10 жыл бұрын

Always loved Jimmy, he was part of my childhood, his stuff was always hilarious to me and my brother I also remember the nurse in a few other movies, she was a legend in her own right, can't remember her name though. Didn't know the other guy Epic Entertainers in those days, no comparisons now, they're all one trick ponies compared with the greats

@tirebiter4009

4 жыл бұрын

@@nipstertunes I just posted on another Durante video about another comment I read years ago from someone who grew up in Hollywood in the 50s/60s. He remembered trick or treating in the celebrities neighborhoods. Mostly the candy was handed out by maids and butlers, but Jimmy Durante was always on his front porch all evening, giving candy to kids and telling jokes. Makes me think he really wasn't acting in the movies.

I see Kristen Schaal playing the nurse in a remake. Just my own casting.

Not to be outdone by Groucho in Animial Crackers as Captain Spaulding, singing "I must be going": I'll stay a week or two, I'll stay the summer through, But I'm telling you, I must be going. In Harpo's autobiography, he says he answered the door of his home one day and Oscar Levant barged in and didn't leave for 3 months. On the plus side, Levant would play anything on the piano that Harpo requested, at any time. So the uninvited but still enjoyable house guest theme was very popular at the time.

Jimmy Duranty is so funny. I used to watch his TV show. Sweet man

It's goin' strong, in south Chicago. That's the dance called the Umbriago!!

@YCSMusic2 Old Masters is a good description Steve! I love these old films. Thanks so much for watching! Jim

"Don't be afraid of my hot, Spanish blood!"

My aunt was Mary Wickes’ exact lookalike. She had looked equally dumbfounded to be welcomed that way.

@azw596 A one of a kind performer, for sure! He always made me laugh. Thanks so much for watching! Jim

My dear😍😍😍

@adriangarcia543

3 жыл бұрын

Funny

@LoveTheOConnor Hi Heather! Yes, that scene in the film just cracks me up every time I see it! Who else but Mr. Durante could pull that one off! Ha! Great Stuff! Thank you so much for watching and I am so glad that it brightened your day! Jim

''Come to my room in a half hour, and bring some Rye bread''

Come to my room in a 1/2 hr and don’t forget the rye bread

@nipstertunes

Жыл бұрын

Yes, only Durante could come up with that line. Ha! Thanks for watching.

G'wan Home, Yer Mudder's Callin'

I see this scene in my stepmother is alien movie

@GenericWhiteBitch1980

3 жыл бұрын

That’s how I discovered it when I was a kid

@adriangarcia543

3 жыл бұрын

@@GenericWhiteBitch1980 how cool is that

@seanconnolly5968

Жыл бұрын

@@GenericWhiteBitch1980 Me too! 🙂

Not an actor/comedian alive that could keep up with Jimmy Durante

@Lockemeister

11 ай бұрын

Jimmy Durante always gives it at least 110%

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 That raspy voice and his big nose

How times have changed. The wonderful Durante's first entrance coupled with a sexual assault, all played for laughs. This play is just about unproduceable today.

@eguirald

2 жыл бұрын

As are any normal human beings…

@Shadowman4710

2 жыл бұрын

It was revived on stage a few years back starring Nathan Lane as Whiteside...and no it didn't quite work. The film holds up for what it is but it only still works as a window into a different time.

@seanconnolly5968

Жыл бұрын

Back when people still had a sense of humor and fun.

*** "The Man Who Came to Dinner" does not deny its origins. Based on a comedy playwrights George S. Kaufman of and Moss Hart, the film is almost a filmed theater. Most of the scenes takes place on the premises of the residence of the Stanley family, where the man who came to dinner (Monty Woolley) bedevils the secretariat of life (Bette Davis) and residents. The early stages of the plot are very interesting, because of the personality of the renowned Sheridan Whiteside (Monty Woolley), whose arrogance is not combines with its image of beloved celebrity and admired by all. The character would have been based on Alexander Woollcott, an American critic. The rudeness that Whiteside shoots in all directions collide and cause laughter in the audience, but become tiresome over the 112 minutes of plot. In my view, the theatrical environment and excess dialogues end up compromising the pace of the film. Bette wanted to make a minor role imagining star opposite John Barrymore, but the great actor going through a period of decadence due to alcoholism and not considered appropriate to take a complex character who appears in almost all sequences of production.

Is that Kristen Schaal's grandmother?

Inka Dinka Doo (theme)

Put that women down, that's my nurse you mental delinquent!

Bum-bumps?

Can you imagine Durante sweeping a woman off her feet like that now? She'd have him in Court the next day suing for assault.

@kennetheugenejackakawolfma5756

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah some Women wouldn't be grateful, they wouldn't be grateful if a Man would paid them some attention weather it is was spontaneous or not!

@Mxyzptlksac

3 жыл бұрын

It was aggressive but she held her own against him.

He is literally film noir personified

@kevinwachs5905

10 ай бұрын

Film noir? How so?

@hxhdfjifzirstc894

2 ай бұрын

No, that's not what film noir means. Jimmy D. would be more like 'screwball comedy', personified.

@mrmosty5167

2 ай бұрын

YOU'RE SCREWBALL COMEDY PERSONIFIED!