The folks in this town will tell you she was a real person with a real name--and a fascinating story to boot. They claim that Mrs. Calabash was really a local woman named Lucille "Lucy" Coleman. In , Lucy was 28 years old and running a restaurant in Calabash, then a tiny seaside community bordering South Carolina. Durante and his touring entertainment troupe are said to have stopped in for supper one night. It may have been the genuine homespun friendliness of the young restaurant owner that prompted the gregarious Jimmy Durante to beckon Lucy over to his table for some short chitchat.
In fact, at that moment, she didn't even know who he was! Sheryl Hardee of Calabash maintains that it was her mother, Ella High. Others say she was a woman from Meridien, Connecticut. Some say she was his family's caretaker who nurtured him and brought him. Internet Movie Database says he was honoring his first wife, Jeanne Olsen, and supposedly, Calabash was an in-joke for the Chicago suburb they both loved.
Still others say it was a comic mispronunciation of Calabasas, California. But his loyal fans maintain Durante started using the "Mrs.
Calabash" line about the time his first wife died in And there are other theories, but you can see why this story needed clarity and a period at the end of the chapter.
He says that Durante finally revealed that it was indeed a tribute to his first wife. While driving across the country, they stopped in a small town called Calabash, which name she had loved. Calabash" became his nickname for her, and so he ended his radio program with "Good night, Mrs.
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