#Jimmy Durante

[adventuresofalgy]

And so, to please the woodpecker – and some of his friends on tumblr who expressed a wish to see him do the tap-away (and who Algy rather suspected thought he couldn't do it…) – Algy hopped up onto a branch as night was falling, and commenced to tap away by the light of his magical pumpkin lantern, singing:

“I just flapped away And I tapped away I went this-a-way A bit up-a-way And then that-a-way. I spent half the day Over there a way; So the folk all heard ’Bout the fluffy bird And came this-a-way Doing the tap-a-way…"

[Algy is singing - and performing – a passage from his children's chapter book The Magical Midwinter Star, which will be reissued with a new cover in paperback this coming weekend, 14th/15th December 2024 and is currently available as a Kindle e-book.]

For further details of the tap-away please see Algy's previous adventure.

[friendlessghoul]

Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante The Passionate Plumber (1932)

[hotvintagepoll]

Jimmy Durante (It Happened in Brooklyn, The Man Who Came To Dinner, Land Without Music)—Anybody whose nickname was 'Schnozzle' is a Scrungly Little Guy. He leaned into his scrungliness and became everyone's favourite Little Guy With A Big Heart. He even sounds scrungly.

Agnes Moorehead (Citizen Kane, Pollyanna)— she’s just walking around saying things. being insane. not at all glammed up. what’s scrunglier than vaguely off putting muttering

This is round 1 of the contest. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. If you're confused on what a scrungle is, or any of the rules of the contest, click here.

[additional submitted propaganda + scrungly videos under the cut]

Jimmy Durante:

Agnes Moorehead:

She's who you cast if you want some scrungle! who better as a foil to Hailey Mills in Pollyanna? sometimes you need some vinegar to cut through the sweetness and that is what Agnes brings

[skullislandproductions]

Happy Birthday, Tyke! The little pup Tyke, of Spike & Tyke fame debuted in the “Tom & Jerry” cartoon “Love That Pup,” released on October 1st, 1949.

[citizenscreen]

Robert Mitchum on the "The Jimmy Durante Show" in 1956.

[duranduratulsa]

Up next on my Christmas 🎄 movie marathon...Frosty The Snowman (1969) #tv #television #Christmas #frostythesnowman #jimmydurante #billydewolfe #jackievernon #PaulFrees #JuneForay #60s #DVD #merrychristmas2024 #merrychristmas

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Jimmy Durante (left) , Eddie Jackson, and Lou Clayton were a singing comedy trio who performed in nightclubs (shown here, in 1927) and vaudeville.

Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images/Fine Art America

[technicolor-times]

Buster Keaton , Thelma Todd , and Jimmy Durante

Speak easily (1932)

[timetravelphotobooth]

Jimmy Durante

[adventuresofalgy]

Algy spent a peaceful night, high up in a tree near the edge of the forest, happy to know that he was not alone, for a small herd of red deer were moving about below him, browsing for such food as they could find in the snow, even in the darkness.

But when he woke up in the morning, Algy felt disconsolate and discouraged. He had lost the alluring comforts of the enchanted woodland, and had also lost his way home. He was altogether lost!

Flying over to a tumbled spruce in a clearing nearby, Algy perched on the soft needles with his magic pumpkin by his side, pondering glumly what he should do next, for he had no idea which direction to take when he left the forest. Suddenly, he heard a tap, tap, tap, tap, tapping sound.

"Who's there?" he called, and received an odd sort of answer:

“I can see what’s wrong with youse,” rapped the bird. “Youse needs to get yersel’ up and do the tap-a-way.” “The what away?” said Algy. “The tap-a-way,” rapped the bird. “Why, at any kind of a ceilidh, or when I’m feeling a wee bitty glumshie, I just gets up and does my tap-a-way.” The strange bird jumped down on to one of the fallen tree trunks, just a short distance in front of Algy, and tapped on the rotting wood a few times. Then, lifting one foot in the air, it started to do a crazy sort of dance, hopping and flapping about on the huge mossy log, all the while rapping a song in its hoarse voice, and bending down frequently to tap loudly against the wood with its beak. It rapped: “I just tap away, Then I flap away; I will hop away Till I stop a way Over there a way. Then I’ll peck a bit, While I think of it, Doing the tap-a-way Just in this-a-way: It’s a holiday! I can tap all day, In my happy way, And I’ll skip and dance – You should see me prance! As I tap away. Feeling low today? And the sky’s all grey? Don’t just sit around On the icy ground: Do the tap-a-way! You will feel so good If you tap on wood, Doing the tap-a-way Just in this-a-way: It’s a holiday!”

[Algy is hearing a passage from his children's chapter book The Magical Midwinter Star, which will be reissued with a new cover in paperback this coming weekend, 14th/15th December and is currently available as a Kindle e-book.]

[wildoute]

[friendlessghoul]

Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante What-No Beer? (1933)

[womansfilm]

Grand Hotel (1932) / Blondie of the Follies (1932) dir. Edmund Goulding

[stone-cold-groove]

Let’s roll.

[citizenscreen]

Donald O'Connor, Piper Laurie, Jimmy Durante, and Joyce Holden for Charles Barton’s THE MILKMAN (1950)

[busterkeatonsociety]

This Day in Buster…August 13, 1932

Buster Keaton shows how to outdo Jimmy Durante in just one minute- it got Ed Brophy laughing.  "Speak Easily" opens in the U.S.