Word: pachadoim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jumbo. Broadway's elephantasy of 1935, pumped full of Metrocolor, comes to the screen as a "pulchatoobinous pachadoim" of a picture-anyway, that's the way Jimmy Durante says it, and in this picture Jimmy himself is 100% right. Martha Raye is 99% right. And Doris Day is Doris...
Jumbo. Broadway's elephantasy of 1935, pumped full of Metrocolor, comes to the screen as a "pulchatoobinous pachadoim" of a picture-anyway, that's the way Jimmy Durante says it, and in this picture Jimmy is 100% right. Martha Raye is 99% right. And Doris Day is Doris...
...wondering why he isn't hitting anybody. But as a comedian Jimmy is not in the least confused: he is the master of a style much subtler than it seems. Superficially, he is merely a matchless Mr. Malaprop -who but Jimmy could describe an elephant as a "pulchatoobinous pachadoim" and really seem to mean it? But look deeper. His comedy is grounded in an innocence as perfect as a baby's-or a saint's. Not since the late Harry Langdon of the silent days has the screen shown a comedian who, caught tiptoeing past...
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