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Oct 23, 2021 · According to legend in Calabash, comedian Jimmy Durante and his troupe passed through the little Brunswick County town sometime in the 1940s. While there, he made friends with a young...
Sep 4, 2013 · The most accepted came to be that it was a pet name for Jimmy’s first wife, Jeanne Olsen. Another was that it referred to the place where Jimmy and Jeanne lived, Calabasas, California. Perhaps the line refers to the owner of a restaurant in Calabash, North Carolina, where Jimmy and his troupe stopped once to eat.
1 day ago · Fried seafood is the main celebrity in Calabash, but the town’s mythology owes some of its fame to a star-kissed moment. Jimmy Durante, a superstar of the 1930s radio era and the voice of an ...
Goodnight Mrs. Calabash - The Jimmy Durante Show 1959. MisterStereo. 7.78K subscribers. Subscribed. 940. 153K views 14 years ago.
Rock Hill Herald via YahooJimmy Durante’s Mrs. Calabash helped put NC fishing village on the map. But who was she?
“Ms. Lucy Coleman. She’s the one Jimmy Durante called Mrs. Calabash.” The best known version of the Mrs. Calabash mystery is that Durante is referring to one of Calabash’s own native daughters ...
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Calabash, the world’s most famous seafood town, carries on as an iconic restaurant rebuilds
It should be cooked by the order.” In the 1940s, a chance drop-in from a celebrity and a mysterious catchphrase helped spread the Calabash gospel far and wide. Accounts differ on the exact restaurant ...
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Oct 12, 2021 · Early on in his use of, "The Good Night, Mrs. Calabash," line, Garry Moore asks Durante who Mrs. Calabash is during the post-show sequence.
For years, no one knew who Mrs. Calabash referred to, and Durante preferred to keep the mystery alive until 1966. One theory was that it referred to the owner of a restaurant in Calabash, North Carolina , where Durante and his troupe had stopped to eat.
He became known for a time as "Ragtime Jimmy". For years, he signed off his radio and television shows with "Goodnight Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are", but he would never divulge who she was. Some speculated it was a "code name" for a current or former lover, some doubted she ever existed.
Sep 17, 2021 · “According to legend in Calabash, N.C., comedian Jimmy Durante and his troupe passed through the little Brunswick County town sometime in the 1940s. While there, he made friends with a young restaurant owner.
Dec 5, 2021 · Good Night, Mrs. Calabash. Dec 5. According to Durante family lore, backed by childhood photos, Jimmy was an ugly kid, a runt with tiny pig eyes and a huge honker, from the day in 1893 when the midwife swaddled him on the kitchen table in their apartment at 90 Catherine Street on the Lower East Side. Where that house stood is now the site of ...
Jun 18, 2000 · The gravelly voiced comic Jimmy Durante used to end his radio programs with a wistful phrase, ''Goodnight, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are.'' Who was Mrs. Calabash?
