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Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky; Yiddish: דוד־דניאל קאַמינסקי; January 18, 1911 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, comedian, singer, and dancer. His performances featured physical comedy, idiosyncratic pantomimes, and rapid-fire novelty songs .
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- Sylvia Fine
Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky; January 18, 1911 – March 3, 1987) [2] was an American actor, comedian, singer, and dancer. He hosted his own television show, The Danny Kaye Show. He has also starred in many movies. Kaye died in Los Angeles, California from heart failure. He was aged 76.
- 1933–1986
- March 3, 1987 (aged 76), Los Angeles, California, US
- David Daniel Kaminsky, January 18, 1911, Brooklyn, New York, US
- Sylvia Fine (m. 1940–1987; his death) 1 daughter
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For a while after Kaye's return to Brooklyn, he worked at a series of uninspired positions. These included soda jerk, office boy, and insurance appraiser. While none of the jobs lasted, he did have some rather spectacular failures, including being fired from his insurance job as a result of math errors that allowed a claimant a tidy $36,000 extra i...
After a successful nightclub run in 1940 at New York City's La Martinique, Kaye finally made a real mark on Broadway in the Moss Hart/Kurt Weill/Ira Gershwin musical, Lady in the Dark, in 1941. He stopped the show—and supposedly enraged its star, Gertrude Lawrence—with "Tchaikovsky," a Fine composition that required Kaye to spit out 50 names of Rus...
Perhaps unsurprisingly for a man with such whimsical wit and boyish charm, Kaye had a deep love and respect for children. That interest led him to be the first celebrity spokesperson for the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), and he served as that organization's goodwill ambassador from 1954 until his death in 1987. As...
Some found Kaye a thorny man, demanding and temperamental. He was, for instance, famously particular about punctuality, believing that being late indicated a lack of respect for the other person's time. His relationship with his wife was allegedly turbulent as well, although Fine met that supposition with wry wit in a 1953 New York Herald Tribune i...
For all his absorbing outside activities and pastimes, Kaye's greatest legacy was as a performer. His ability to connect with an audience and bring people into his world was unparalleled. Not coincidentally, his sense of responsibility to the public was equally great. One example of this was his return to Broadway in the 1970 Richard Rogers musical...
Contemporary Heroes and Heroines,Volume 4, Gale Group, 2000. Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Volume 2: 1986-1990,Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
Seattle Times,December 23, 1996. Sunday Times(London, England), January 8, 1995. Time,March 16, 1987. Times(London, England), March 4, 1987. Town & Country,August, 2003. UN Chronicle,June, 1983.
"Danny Kaye," UNICEF Web site,http://www.unicef.org/people/people–danny–kaye.html (December 20, 2004). John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Web site,http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/index.cfm?fuse action=showIndividual&entitY;–id=3748&source;–type=A (December 20, 2004).
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Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky; Yiddish: דוד־דניאל קאַמינסקי; January 18, 1911 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, comedian, singer, and dancer. His performances featured physical comedy, idiosyncratic pantomimes, and rapid-fire novelty songs.
Apr 8, 2013 · In the middle of the last century Kaye was one of the country’s biggest stars, working his nimble, quick-tongued brand of comedy into a career that bridged eras and genres: radio, stage, film,...
Biography. Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky; January 18, 1911 – March 3, 1987) was a celebrated American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian. His best known performances featured physical comedy, idiosyncratic pantomimes, and rapid-fire nonsense songs.
