ONE OF THE REAL AND TRUE GREATS OF ALL TIME ... SIMPLY MAGNIFICENT AND ABSOLUTELY MARVELOUS IN EVERYTHING HE EVER APPEARED IN ...FOR THOSE WHO ARE UNAWARE, MRS. CALABASH WAS HIS NAME FOR HIS DECEASED FIRST WIFE, JEANNE OLSEN.
When young, school kids made terrible fun of his nose, from what I have read. He took a "negative," changed the perspective on it, and made people love him, in part, because of his particular physical characteristic. What a great lesson. Nobody in show business had a bad word to say about James Francis Durante.