Movies: Jimmy Durante

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

Unfinished pre-Code era film consisting of three sections with past performers from the stage and the vaudeville circuit, then-present-day performers and up-and-coming performers. Musical excerpts were later used in Broadway to Hollywood (1933), Ner...

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 lecherous landlord Mr. Furley on Three's Company, presents a series of side-splitting stand-up routines an...

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

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

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, nobody works, there's no money to pay taxes, and the country faces bankruptcy, leading the ruling prin...

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

Celebrating the repeal of Prohibition from sea to shining sea. Currently available as part of the Treasures of the American Film Archives boxed set....

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