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1940 USA / SHOWBIZ: Heatwave / 'Schnozzle' stars in hot news story
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1:00Now PlayingDate: 1st July 1940
Location: NEW YORK, U.S.A.
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
SLATE INFORMATION: 'Schnozzle' Stars in a Hot News Story
New York, U.S.A.: CU Thermometer rising and sun bursting. Air shot: & LV of crowded beach. SV Durante in bathing suit telling girls what he is going to do. LV Durante dives into pool and sinks, and comes up gasping. SV Girl carries chair and sits down. SV Durante in water shouting 'Help'. CU Girl picks up paper revealing Durante's face in sand under chair. Durante says 'I'd better get up the sun must have gone down'. Cu Durante under chair muttering 'I must have fallen asleep under a raft'.
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(SV Durante Talking to girls-) "..And now watch me do this - the arms and the curve of the hips and the posture of the limbs.
(CU) "I'd better get up the sun must have gone down" (sound of laughter) Durante: "Oh Boy did I fall asleep underneath a raft?!" (yawning)
Weather; Entertainment and Leisure; United States of America; Personalities - Performers; Jimmy Durante (1893-1980)
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