 During the early 1930s, Durante alternated between Hollywood and Broadway.His early motion pictures included an original Rodgers & Hart musical "The Phantom President" (1932), which featured Durante singing the self-referential Schnozzola.He initially was paired with silent film legend Buster Keaton in a series of three popular comedies for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, "Speak Easily" (1932), "The Passionate Plumber" (1932), and "What!