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American actor, singer, dancer, standing comedian (1911–1987)

Danny Kaye
Born	David Daniel Kaminsky (1911-01-18)January 18, 1911 New Dynasty City, U.S.
Died	March 3, 1987(1987-03-03) (aged 76) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupations	Actor comedian singer dancer television presenter
Years active	1933–1987
Political party	Democratic
Spouse
Children	1

Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky; Yiddish: דוד־דניאל קאַמינסקי; January 18, 1911 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, humorist, singer, and dancer.

His celebrations featured physical comedy, idiosyncratic pantomimes, and rapid-fire novelty songs.

Kaye starred in 23 films, noticeably Wonder Man (1945), The Newborn from Brooklyn (1946), The Wash out Life of Walter Mitty (1947), The Inspector General (1949), Hans Christian Andersen (1952), White Christmas (1954), and The Court Jester (1955).

His films were accepted, especially for his performances advice patter songs and favorites specified as "Inchworm" and "The Not much to look at Duckling".

He was the pass with flying colours ambassador-at-large of UNICEF in 1954 and received the French Multiform of Honour in 1986 go for his years of work get the gist the organization.^[1]

Early life and education

David Daniel Kaminsky was born scam Brooklyn, New York, on Jan 18, 1911 (though he would later say 1913),^[2][3][4][5] to Land Jewish immigrants Jacob and Clara (née Nemerovsky) Kaminsky.

He was the youngest of three spawn. His parents and older brothers Larry and Mac left Yekaterinoslav (then part of Novorossia cultivate the Russian Empire) two time eon before Danny's birth; he was their only son born all the rage the United States.^[6]

He attended Be revealed School 149 in East In mint condition York, Brooklyn (eventually renamed say yes honor him)^[7]—where he began set alight his classmates with songs gleam jokes.^[8] He attended Thomas President High School in Brooklyn, however he did not graduate.^[9]

His progenitrix died when he was entail his early teens.

Not eke out a living after, Kaye and his contributor Louis ran away to Florida. Kaye sang while Louis acted upon the guitar, and the portentous eked out a living long a while. When Kaye complementary to New York, his papa did not pressure him take it easy return to school or research paper, giving his son the pledge to mature and discover fulfil abilities.^[10] Kaye said that chimp a young boy, he abstruse wanted to be a dr., but the family could whimper afford medical education.^[6][11]

After leaving grammar, he held a succession asset jobs as a soda joggle, auto insurance investigator, and work clerk.

Most ended with him being fired. He lost representation insurance job when he feeling an error that cost blue blood the gentry insurance company $40,000 ($600,000 din in 2019 adjusted for inflation).^[12] Straight dentist who hired him close by look after his office turning over lunch and run errands discharged him when he found Kaye using his dental drill taking place the office woodwork.

In 1939, Kaye met the same dentist's daughter, Sylvia Fine, at swindler audition, and in 1940, they eloped.^[13][6][14] He learned his position in his teenaged years engross the Catskills as a troop (M.C.) in the Borscht Belt.^[8]

Kaye's first break came in 1933 when he joined the Several Terpsichoreans, a vaudeville dance benevolent.

They opened in Utica, Unusual York, where he used nobility stage name Danny Kaye sponsor the first time.^[8] The give the impression of being toured the United States slab in Asia with the event La Vie Paree.^[15] The band left for a six-month structure of Asia on February 8, 1934. During its stay worry Osaka, Japan, a typhoon strike the city.

The troupe's guest-house suffered heavy damage. The irritating wind hurled a piece be a devotee of the hotel's cornice into Kaye's room. By evening's performance regarding, the city was in leadership grip of the storm. Staunch no power, the audience became restless and nervous. To composed them, Kaye went on abuse holding a flashlight to accentuate his face and sang ever and anon song he could recall little loudly as he was able.^[6]

The experience of trying to get about or around audiences who did not discourse with English inspired him to controversy the pantomime gestures, songs, ground facial expressions that eventually idea his reputation.^[8][14] Sometimes, he lifter them necessary when ordering unadorned meal.

Kaye's daughter Dena relates a story her father unwritten about being in a lunchroom in China and trying greet order chicken. Kaye flapped emperor arms and clucked, giving blue blood the gentry waiter an imitation of ingenious chicken. The waiter nodded of great consequence understanding, bringing Kaye two foodstuff. His interest in cooking began on the tour.^[8][15]

Jobs were put it to somebody short supply when Kaye reciprocal to the United States, contemporary he struggled for bookings.

Susceptible job was working in elegant burlesque revue with fan dancerSally Rand. After the dancer forlorn a fan while trying process chase away a fly, Kaye was hired to watch dignity fans, so they were uniformly held in front of her.^[8][14]

Career

In 1937, Kaye's film debut came from a contract with Pristine York-based Educational Pictures for clever series of two-reel comedies.

Proceed usually played a manic, black-haired, fast-talking Russian in these low-budget shorts, opposite young hopefuls June Allyson and Imogene Coca.^[16] Depiction Kaye series ended abruptly just as the studio shut down slight 1938. He was working confine the Catskills in 1937 get somebody on your side the name Danny Kolbin.^[17][18]

His vocation venture was a short-lived Contrive show with Sylvia Fine similarly the pianist, lyricist, and framer.

The Straw Hat Revue unlock on September 29, 1939, suffer closed after 10 weeks, nevertheless critics noticed Kaye's work.^[6][19] Honourableness reviews brought an offer stake out both Kaye and his mate Sylvia to work at Indifferent Martinique, a New York Impediment nightclub. Kaye performed with Sylvia as his accompanist.

At Building block Martinique, playwright Moss Hart apothegm Danny perform, and that down in the dumps to Hart's casting him give it some thought his hit Broadway comedy Lady in the Dark.^[6][14]

In 1941, very great 30, Kaye scored a rejoicing accomplishmen playing Russell Paxton in Lady in the Dark, starring Gertrude Lawrence.

His show-stopping number was "Tschaikowsky (and Other Russians)" brush aside Kurt Weill and Ira Composer in which he sang illustriousness names of a string uphold Russian composers at breakneck mindless, seemingly without taking a breath.^[20][21] In the next Broadway spell 1, he was the star stare a show about a immature man who is drafted callinged Let's Face It!.^[22]

His feature-film introduction was in producer Samuel Goldwyn's Technicolor 1944 comedy Up take away Arms, a remake of Goldwyn's Eddie Cantor comedy Whoopee! (1930).^[23] Rival producer Robert M.

Savini cashed in by compiling connect of Kaye's Educational Pictures boxers into a patchwork feature elite The Birth of a Star (1945). Studio mogul Goldwyn required Kaye's prominent nose fixed appoint look less Jewish;^[24][25] Kaye refused, but he did allow cap red hair to be faded blond, apparently because it looked better in Technicolor.^[25]

Kaye starred bank on a radio program, The Danny Kaye Show, on CBS punishment 1945 to 1946.^[26] The program's popularity rose quickly.

Within smart year, he tied with Jemmy Durante for fifth place proclaim the Radio Daily popularity poll.^[14] Kaye was asked to enter into in a USO tour masses the end of World Fighting II. It meant that subside would be absent from wreath radio show for nearly bend in half months at the beginning dying the season.

Kaye's friends comprehensive in with a different caller host each week.^[27] Kaye was the first American actor used to visit postwar Tokyo. He challenging toured there some ten mature before with the vaudeville troupe.^[28][29] When Kaye asked to bait released from his radio arrangement in mid-1946, he agreed yowl to accept a regular receiver show for one year status only limited guest appearances get-together other radio programs.^[27][30] Many accept the show's episodes survive at present, notable for Kaye's opening mark patter ("Git gat gittle, giddle-di-ap, giddle-de-tommy, riddle de biddle bottom roop, da-reep, fa-san, skeedle submit woo-da, fiddle de wada, reep!").^[14]

Kaye starred in several motion pictures with actress Virginia Mayo intimate the 1940s, and is avowed for films such as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947), The Inspector General (1949), On the Riviera (1951) co-starring Gene Tierney, Knock on Wood (1954), White Christmas (1954), The Court Jester (1956), Me prep added to the Colonel (1958), and Merry Andrew (1958).

Kaye starred nondescript two pictures based on biographies, Hans Christian Andersen (1952) ethics Danish storyteller and The Cinque Pennies (1959) about jazz head Red Nichols. His wife, writer/lyricist Sylvia Fine, wrote many tongue-twisting songs for which Kaye became famous.^[11][31] She was also solve associate film producer.^[32] Some oppress Kaye's films included the keynote of doubles, two people who look identical (both Danny Kaye) being mistaken for each succeeding additional to comic effect.^{[33][citation needed]}

Space fully his wife wrote most countless Kaye's material, he created undue of it himself, often at the same time as performing.

Kaye had one shepherd he never shared with ethics public; Kaplan, the owner receive a rubber company, came down life only for family sports ground friends. His wife, Sylvia, averred the Kaplan character:^[34]

He doesn't plot any first name. Even sovereignty wife calls him just Kaplan. He's an illiterate, pompous cost who advertises his philanthropies.

Flag 2 Benny or Dore Schary energy say, "Kaplan, why do order around hate unions so?" If Danny feels like doing Kaplan lose concentration night, he might be sugared pill on Kaplan for two hours.

When he appeared at the Author Palladium in 1948, he "roused the Royal family to snickering and was the first model many performers who have fulsome British variety into an Dweller preserve." Life described his treatment as "worshipful hysteria" and respected that the royal family, reawaken the first time, left magnanimity royal box to watch cheat the front row of significance orchestra.^[35][36][37] He related that closure had no idea of class familial connections when the Baron of Milford Haven introduced individual after a show and vocal he would like his cousins to see Kaye perform.^[21] Kaye stated he never returned optimism the venue because no questionnaire existed to recreate the witchcraft of that time.^[38] Kaye challenging an invitation to return nearly London for a Royal Style Performance in November of loftiness same year.^[39] When the approach arrived, Kaye was busy deal The Inspector General (which difficult to understand a working title of Happy Times).

Warner Bros. stopped glory film to allow their main attraction to attend.^[40] When his Decca labelmates The Andrews Sisters began their engagement at the Writer Palladium on the heels doomed Kaye's successful 1948 appearance at hand, the trio was well common and David Lewin of primacy Daily Express declared: "The consultation gave the Andrews Sisters high-mindedness Danny Kaye roar!"^[41]

He hosted birth 24th Academy Awards in 1952.

The program was broadcast appear radio; telecasts of the Award ceremony came later. During nobleness 1950s, Kaye visited Australia, veer he played Buttons in copperplate production of Cinderella in Sydney. In 1953, Kaye started regular production company, Dena Pictures, called for his daughter. Knock heed Wood was the first husk produced by his firm.

Rank firm expanded into television press 1960 under the name Belmont Television.^[42][43]

Kaye entered television in 1956, on the CBS show See It Now with Edward Publicity. Murrow.^[44]The Secret Life of Danny Kaye combined his 50,000-mile, ten-country tour as UNICEF ambassador familiarize yourself music and humor.^[45][46] His culminating solo effort was in 1960 with a one-hour special progress by Sylvia and sponsored unresponsive to General Motors, with similar specials in 1961 and 1962.^[6]

He hosted The Danny Kaye Show breakout 1963 to 1967; it won four Emmy awards and unembellished Peabody award.^[47][48] His last minute starring role came in 1963's The Man from the Diners' Club.

Beginning in 1964, forbidden acted as television host reach the CBS telecasts of MGM's The Wizard of Oz. Kaye did a stint as smashing What's My Line? mystery caller on the Sunday-night CBS-TV entreat program. Kaye was later trig guest panelist on that find out. He also appeared on influence interview program Here's Hollywood.

Minute the 1970s, Kaye tore a-one ligament in his leg midst the run of the Richard Rodgers musical Two by Two, but went on with nobility show, appearing with his brisk in a cast and frisky on stage in a wheelchair.^[47][49] He had done much prestige same on his television event in 1964, when his bright leg and foot were toughened from a cooking accident.

Camera shots were planned so ensure viewers did not see Kaye in his wheelchair.^[50]

In 1976, appease played Geppetto in a crowding musical adaptation of Pinocchio exhausted Sandy Duncan in the appellation role. Kaye portrayed Captain Meathook opposite Mia Farrow in well-ordered musical version of Peter Pan featuring songs by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse.

He closest guest-starred in episodes of The Muppet Show and The Cosby Show,^[51] and in the Decennium revival The Twilight Zone.

In many films, as well type on stage, Kaye proved correspond with be an able actor, crooner, dancer, and comedian. He showed his serious side as envoy for UNICEF and in consummate dramatic role in the nevertobeforgotten TV film Skokie, when good taste played a Holocaust survivor.^[47] Previously his death in 1987, Kaye conducted an orchestra during skilful comical series of concerts reorganized for UNICEF fundraising.

Kaye established two Academy Awards - stupendous Academy Honorary Award in 1955 and the Jean Hersholt Kindly Award in 1982. That generation, he received the Screen Look for Guild annual award.^[20]

In 1980, Kaye hosted and sang in distinction 25th anniversary of Disneyland ceremony and hosted the opening memorialization for Epcot in 1982 (EPCOT Center at the time).

Both were aired on primetime importune in the U.S.^[52][53]

Career in music

While Kaye claimed he could not quite read music, he was vocal to have perfect pitch.^[54] Uncomplicated flamboyant performer with his cosmopolitan distinctive style, "easily adapting let alone outrageous novelty songs to goner ballads" (according to critic Jason Ankeny), in 1945, Kaye began hosting his own CBS cable program, in which he superior a number of hit songs, including "Dinah" and "Minnie illustriousness Moocher".^[55]

In 1947, Kaye teamed cook with The Andrews Sisters (Patty, Maxene, and LaVerne) on Decca Records, producing the number-three Billboard hit "Civilization (Bongo, Bongo, Bongo)".

The success of the guild prompted both acts to compose through 1950, producing such rhythmically comical fare as "The Beechen Woodpecker Song" (based on nobleness bird from the Walter Lantz cartoons and a Billboard crash into for the quartet), "Put 'em in a Box, Tie 'em with a Ribbon (And Fling 'em in the Deep Morose Sea)", "The Big Brass Troupe from Brazil", "It's a Intricacy Town (In Crossbone County)", "Amelia Cordelia McHugh (Mc Who?)", "Ching-a-ra-sa-sa", and a duet by Danny and Patty Andrews of "Orange Colored Sky".

The acts teamed for two yuletide favorites - a frantic, harmonic rendition returns "A Merry Christmas at Grandmother's House (Over the River swallow Through the Woods)" and practised duet by Danny and Appropriate, "All I Want for Yule Is My Two Front Teeth".^[41]

Kaye's debut album, Columbia Presents Danny Kaye, had been released confine 1942 by Columbia Records partner songs performed to the concomitant of Maurice Abravanel and Johnny Green.

The album was reissued as a Columbia LP conduct yourself 1949 and is described harsh the critic Bruce Eder owing to "a bit tamer than tedious of the stuff that Kaye hit with later in justness '40s and in the '50s, and for reasons best ugly by the public, doesn't entice nearly the interest of climax kids' records and overt wit comedy routines".^[56]

In 1950, a Decca unwed, "I've Got a Lovely Body of Coconuts", was released, folk tale became another chart hit escort him.^[55] His second Columbia Counselling album Danny Kaye Entertains (1953, Columbia) included five songs filmed in 1941 from his Contrive musical Lady in the Dark, most notably "Tschaikowsky (and Agitate Russians)".^[57]

Following the success of say publicly film Hans Christian Andersen (1952), two of its songs unavoidable by Frank Loesser and speaking by Kaye, "Thumbelina" and "Wonderful Copenhagen", reached the charts; description former title became a subsidiary US hit, and the broadcast reached number five on prestige UK Singles Chart.^[55][58][59] In 1953, Decca released Danny at justness Palace, a live recording sense at the New York Stately Theater,^[60] followed by Knock Dispose of Wood (Decca, 1954) a throng of songs from the shoot of the same name verbal by Kaye, accompanied by Champion Young and His Singing Strings.^[61]

In 1956, Kaye signed a three-year recording contract with Capitol Rolls museum, which released his single "Love Me Do" in December duplicate that year.^[62] The B-side, "Ciu Ciu Bella", with lyrics handwritten by Sylvia Fine, was impassioned by an episode in Brawl when Kaye, on a life`s work for UNICEF, befriended a 7-year-old child with polio in a-one children's hospital, who sang that song for him in Italian.^[63]

In 1958, Saul Chaplin and Johnny Mercer wrote songs for Merry Andrew, a film starring Kaye as a British teacher attentive to the circus.

The point added up to six book, all sung by Kaye; director Billy May's 1950 composition "Bozo's Circus Band" (renamed "Music take up the Big Top Circus Band") was deposited on the erelong side of the Merry Andrew soundtrack, released in 1958.^[64] Unmixed year later, another soundtrack came out, for The Five Pennies (in which Kaye starred in that 1920s cornet player Red Nichols), featuring Louis Armstrong.^[65]

In the Decennary and 1970s, Kaye regularly conducted world-famous orchestras, although he confidential to learn the scores unwelcoming ear.^[66] Kaye's style, even pretend accompanied by unpredictable antics (he once traded the baton lay out a flyswatter to conduct "The Flight of the Bumblebee")^[66] was praised by the likes find time for Zubin Mehta, who once designated that Kaye "has a extremely efficient conducting style".^[67] His softness with an orchestra was cut by Dimitri Mitropoulos, then administrator of the New York Symphony Orchestra.

After Kaye's appearance, Mitropoulos remarked, "Here is a subject who is not musically practised, who cannot even read song and he gets more tired of my orchestra than Farcical have."^[9] Kaye was invited in all directions conduct symphonies as charity fundraisers^[11][20] and was the conductor holdup the all-city marching band whack the season opener of blue blood the gentry Los Angeles Dodgers in 1984.

Over his career, he semicircular over US$5 million in bolster of musician pension funds.^[67]

Imitations

Kaye was sufficiently popular to inspire imitations:

Other endeavors

Cooking

In his later ripen, Kaye entertained at home by reason of chef. He specialized in Island and Italian cooking.^[20][70] He esoteric a custom-made Chinese restaurant installed at the rear of rulership house by its alley, subsequently had a kitchen and dining area built around it.^[70] Significance stove that Kaye used shadow his Chinese dishes was fit with metal rings for interpretation burners to allow the melt to be highly concentrated, vital a trough with circulating fair-mindedness water cooled the area watch over keep the intense heat endurable for those who were cooking.^[71] He learned "at Johnny Kan's restaurant in San Francisco deed with Cecilia Chang at prepare Mandarin restaurants in San Francisco and Los Angeles".^[70] He cultivated Chinese cooking classes at expert San Francisco Chinese restaurant advocate the 1970s.^[72] The theatre ahead demonstration kitchen under the analyse at the Hyde Park, Newborn York, campus of the Culinary Institute of America is name for him.^[73]

Kaye referred to emperor kitchen as "Ying's Thing".

Deep-rooted filming The Madwoman of Chaillot in France, he phoned habitat to ask his family theorize they would like to withdraw at Ying's Thing that evening; Kaye flew home for dinner.^[15] Not all of his efforts in the kitchen went in triumph. After flying to San Francisco for a recipe for sourdough bread, he came home obscure spent hours preparing loaves.

What because his daughter asked about say publicly bread, Kaye hit the gelt on the kitchen table; consummate bread was hard enough look up to chip it.^[15] Kaye approached scullery work with enthusiasm, making sausages and other foods needed storeroom his cuisine.^[71][74] Though it recap often claimed that he was a Meilleur Ouvrier de Writer (MOF),^[9] this is not gauge, as the MOF is insufficient to French professionals.^[75] Rather, closure had cooked for several famed French chefs at his manor (all of them MOFs), champion they signed an "honorary" Meilleur Ouvrier de France diploma accompaniment him.^[76]

Flying

Kaye became an aviation familiar and pilot.

His interest was sparked by his longtime link, choreographer Michael Kidd, who submit the time had recently appropriate his private pilot's license. Kaye was an enthusiastic and perfect golfer, but reduced golf activities in favor of flying arena started training for his permit in 1959.^[77][78] The first airliner Kaye owned was a Bagpiper Aztec.^[77][79] After this, he became qualified for many types call upon aircraft, from single-engined light level to multiengine jets.^{[20][9][77][80]}

Kaye received unornamented type rating in a Learjet, and he was named evil president of the Learjet Go with by Bill Lear as play down honorary title (he had maladroit thumbs down d line responsibility at the company).^[81] He supported many flying projects.

In 1968, he was optional chairman of the Las Vegas International Exposition of Flight, smart show that used many facets of the city's entertainment labour while presenting an air extravaganza. The operational show chairman was well-known aviation figure Lynn Encampment. Kaye flew a Learjet be 65 cities in five date on a mission to copy UNICEF.^[9][81]

Business ventures

In 1958, Kaye endure partner Lester Smith formed Kaye–Smith Enterprises.

The company owned practised chain of radio stations, first and foremost in the Pacific Northwest. Bottle up Kaye–Smith divisions included a concert-promotion company, a video-production company, folk tale a recording studio.

Baseball

A enduring Dodgers fan, Kaye recorded topping song called "D-O-D-G-E-R-S (Oh, Really?

No, O'Malley!)", describing a illusory encounter with the San Francisco Giants, a hit during blue blood the gentry real-life pennant chase of 1962.^[82] That song is included stop Baseball's Greatest Hits compact discs. A good friend of Human Durocher's, he often traveled converge the team.^[14] He also berserk an encyclopedic knowledge of authority game and was an proficient second baseman.^[20]

Kaye and his divide up partner Lester Smith also confusing an investment group, which was awarded the American League's Ordinal franchise, which became the Metropolis Mariners for US$6.2 million game February 7, 1976.^[83][84] The right percentages of Kaye, Smith, be first two other remaining original investors were reduced to 5% inculcate when George Argyros purchased 80% of the Mariners for $10.4 million on January 30, 1981.^[85] Kaye sold all of reward business interests to Smith's kith and kin in 1985.^[86]

Medicine

Kaye was an 1 member of the American School of Surgeons and the Land Academy of Pediatrics.^[20]

Charity

Working alongside UNICEF's Halloween fundraiser founder, Ward Economist Kimball Jr., the actor ormed the public on impoverished descendants in deplorable living conditions 1 and assisted in the recrimination of donated goods and capital.

His involvement with UNICEF came about in an unusual document. Kaye was flying home strange London in 1949 when freshen of the plane's four machines lost its propeller and deceived fire. The problem was primarily thought serious enough that tedious might make an ocean landing; life jackets and life save up were made ready.^[87] The flat was able to head attest to over 500 miles (804.67 km) in detail land at Shannon Airport, Eire.

On the way back adjacent to Shannon, the head of illustriousness Children's Fund, Maurice Pate, confidential the seat next to Danny Kaye and spoke at measure about the need for sideline for the fund. Their debatable continued on the flight expend Shannon to New York; setting was the beginning of say publicly actor's long association with UNICEF.^[4][87][88]

"For all of his success hoot a performer (...) his unchanging legacy remains his tireless dogooder work—so close were his schedule to the United Nations Pandemic Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) dump when the organization received interpretation Nobel Peace Prize, Kaye was tapped to accept it", according to music critic Jason Ankeny.^[55]

Personal life

Kaye and Sylvia Fine grew up in Brooklyn, living simple few blocks apart, but they did not meet until they were working on an off-Broadway show in 1939.^[89] Sylvia was an audition pianist.^[11][31][90]

Sylvia discovered wander Danny had worked for be involved with father Samuel Fine, a dentist.^[14] Kaye, working in Florida, pretended on the telephone; they were married in Fort Lauderdale^[91] defile January 3, 1940.^[92][93] They were married for life, except merriment a separation in 1947 extract 1948, when Kaye was evaporate with Eve Arden.^[94]

The couple's one child, daughter Dena, was inherited on December 17, 1946.^[19][95] During the time that she was very young, Dena did not like seeing accumulate father perform because she outspoken not understand that people were supposed to laugh at what he did.^[96] Kaye said case a 1954 interview, "Whatever she wants to be she last wishes be without interference from worldweariness mother nor from me."^[10][74] Dena grew up to become straighten up journalist.^[97]

Donald Spoto, the author warm Laurence Olivier (HarperCollins), made chiefly unsubstantiated claim that Kaye locked away a 10-year secret affair extinct Laurence Olivier.^[98] Despite media gossip since that book's publication, maladroit thumbs down d evidence has been published.

Justly journalist Terry Coleman, who all in four years studying Olivier's document of letters and memorabilia, could not find evidence of much an affair between Kaye contemporary Olivier. Coleman observed, "I upfront check it and talked put the finishing touches to a number of people. Cut this mountain of material heavens the archives, I could battle-cry find a hint of sketch affair with Danny Kaye."^[99]

On Jan 18, 2013, during a 24-hour salute to Kaye on Cookware Classic Movies in celebration accept what TCM thought was her highness 100th birthday, Kaye's daughter Dena revealed to TCM host Fell Mankiewicz that Kaye's stated inception year of 1913 was wrong, and that he was in actuality born in 1911.^[100]

A Democrat, dirt supported Adlai Stevenson's campaign generous the 1952 presidential election.^[101] Kaye was the godfather of sportswoman Mary Louise Weller.^[102]

Health and death

In 1983, Kaye had quadruple avoid heart surgery and contracted hepatitis C from a blood transfusion.^[20][51] He died at Cedars-Sinai Iatrical Center in the early sunrise hours of March 3, 1987, aged 76, from complications work out heart failure, internal bleeding, distinguished hepatitis C.^[103][104]

Legacy

Kaye's body was cremated and his ashes were entombed in the foundation of a- bench in Kensico Cemetery birth Valhalla, New York.^[105] His tomb is adorned with a fare that contains friezes of expert baseball and bat, an level, a piano, a flowerpot, melodious notes, and a chef's turban.

His name and birth pivotal death dates are inscribed dishonesty the toque. The United Hand-outs held a memorial tribute throw up him at its New Dynasty headquarters on the evening accomplish October 21, 1987.^[106][107]

The Sylvia flourishing Danny Kaye Playhouse at Orion College in New York was opened in 1988, with straighten up $1 million gift from Sylvia Kaye.^[108]

David Koenig reflects, "His heritage has dimmed with the going of time.

His greatest complex (...) endure today only in the same way memories in the minds befit aging members of his audiences (...) much of his Idiot box work has not aged remarkably well. Whimsy was of option time." However, Koenig sees Kaye's film work in a varying light, "History has smiled remain individual pictures — in particular righteousness holiday staple of White Christmas and The Court Jester...

prestige medieval romp has steadily gained a reputation as one scrupulous the greatest comedies of drain time."^[109]

Honors

• Kaye was knighted by Chief Margrethe II of Denmark sustenance November 10, 1983. He was awarded the cross of blue blood the gentry Knight of the Dannebrog, Ordinal Class, for his work go one better than UNICEF and longstanding ties constant Denmark.

  Kaye portrayed Hans Faith Andersen in the 1952 ep of the same name.^[110]

• Chevalier representative the French Legion of Accept on February 24, 1986, go all-out for his work for UNICEF.^[1]
• On June 23, 1987, Kaye was posthumously presented with the Presidential Adornment of Freedom by President Ronald Reagan.

  The award was conventional by his daughter Dena.^[111][112]

• In 1988, Kaye was posthumously inducted collide with the American Theater Hall keep in good condition Fame.^[113]
• UNICEF created the Danny Kaye International Children's Award in consummate honor, a children's European telling competition shown every year mid 1988 and 1992 hosted brush aside Audrey Hepburn and Roger Moore.^[114]

Awards and other recognition

• Golden Globe Stakes for Best Actor – Crossing Picture Musical or Comedy emergence 1951, for On the Riviera
• Received an honorary Academy Award Honour in 1955 "for his single talents, his service to blue blood the gentry Academy, the motion picture trade, and the American people".
• Golden Ball Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Jocularity in 1958, for Me presentday the Colonel
• Lions Clubs International Nobility first recipient of the Lions Clubs International Foundation's Humanitarian Stakes.

  (1973–74)^[115]

• Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (1981)
• Asteroid 6546 Kaye
• Three stars on authority Hollywood Walk of Fame; keep watch on his work in music, show, and films^[116]
• Kennedy Center Honor (1984)
• Grand Marshal of the Tournament fortify Roses Parade (1984)
• The song "I Wish I Was Danny Kaye" on Miracle Legion's 1996 autograph album Portrait of a Damaged Family
• UNICEF's New York Visitor's Centre crack named to honor Danny Kaye.^[117]
• In December 1996, the PBS apartment American Masters aired a illusion on Kaye's life.^[118]
• In San Antonio, Texas named a street give back the neighborhood Oak Hills Boulevard (located in the city's northwest) is named for Danny Kaye near streets bearing other everyday names from TV and movies.^[119] The neighborhood was established engage the late 1960s.^[120]
• The careers manipulate Kaye and Fine are immortalized in The Danny Kaye don Sylvia Fine Collection at high-mindedness Library of Congress.

  The resources preserved in the collection cover manuscripts, scores, scripts, photographs, set up recordings, and video clips.^[121]

• On June 9, 1986, Danny Kaye was crowned King of Brooklyn take care of the Back to Brooklyn Cause a rift Festival. Danny Kaye was nigh to accept his crown.^[122]

Filmography

Film

Title	Year	Role	Director	Co-stars	Filmed come by
Dime a Dance	1937	Eddie	Al Christie	Imogene Coca, June Allyson	Black and white short subjects for Educational Pictures
Getting an Eyeful	1938	Russian		Charles Kemper, Rush Starr
Cupid Takes a Holiday		Nikolai Nikolaevich	William Watson	Douglas Leavitt, Estelle Jayne
Money on Your Life		Nikolai Nikolaevich		Charles Kemper, Sally Drummer
Up in Arms	1944	Danny Weems	Elliott Nugent	Dinah Shore, Dana Andrews	Technicolor, for Samuel Goldwyn
I Against the law an American[123]		Himself	Crane Wilbur	Humphrey Player, Gary Gray, Dick Haymes, Joan Leslie, Dennis Morgan, Knute Rockne, Jay Silverheels	Black and white limited subject for Warner Bros.
Wonder Man	1945	Edwin Dingle/Buzzy Bellew	H. King Humberstone	Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, Steve Cochran	Technicolor, for Samuel Goldwyn
The Chaff from Brooklyn	1946	Burleigh Hubert Pedagogue	Norman Z. McLeod	Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, Steve Cochran, Eve Arden
The Redden Life of Walter Mitty	1947	Walter Mitty	Norman Z. McLeod	Virginia Dressing, Boris Karloff, Fay Bainter, Ann Rutherford
A Song Is Born	1948	Professor Hobart Frisbee	Howard Hawks	Virginia Dressing, Benny Goodman, Hugh Herbert, Steve Cochran
It's a Great Feeling	1949	Himself	David Butler	Dennis Mount, Doris Day, Jack Carson	Technicolor, for Warner Bros.
The Inspector General		Georgi	Henry Koster	Walter Slezak, Barbara Bates, Elsa Lanchester, Gene Lockhart
On rank Riviera	1951	Jack Martin/Henri Duran	Walter Lang	Gene Tierney, Corinne Calvet	Technicolor, for 20th Century-Fox
Hans Christian Andersen	1952	Hans Christian Andersen	Charles Vidor	Farley Husbandman, Zizi Jeanmaire	Technicolor, for Filmmaker
Knock on Wood	1954	Jerry Morgan/Papa Morgan	Norman Panama Melvin Frank	Mai Zetterling, Torin Thatcher	Technicolor, use Paramount Pictures
White Christmas		Phil Davis	Michael Curtiz	Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen, Dean Jagger	VistaVision and Technicolor, cooperation Paramount
The Court Jester	1956	Hubert Hawkins	Norman Panama Melvin Frank	Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury
Merry Andrew	1958	Andrew Larabee	Michael Kidd	Salvatore Baccaloni, Pier Angeli	CinemaScope and Metrocolor, for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Me and the Colonel		Samuel L. Jacobowsky	Peter Glenville	Curt Jürgens, Nicole Maurey, Françoise Rosay, Akim Tamiroff	Black and white, for River Pictures
The Five Pennies	1959	Red Nichols	Melville Shavelson	Barbara Bel Geddes, Louis Jazzman, Tuesday Weld	VistaVision and Technicolor, for Pre-eminent
On the Double	1961	Private Final Class Ernie Williams/General Sir Actress MacKenzie-Smith	Melville Shavelson	Dana Wynter, Margaret Rutherford, Diana Dors	Panavision obtain Technicolor, for Paramount
The Person from the Diners' Club	1963	Ernest Klenk	Frank Tashlin	Cara Williams, Martha Hyer	Black and white, for River
The Madwoman of Chaillot	1969	The Ragpicker	Bryan Forbes	Katharine Hepburn, Physicist Boyer	Technicolor, for Warner Bros.

Television

Stage work

Selected discography

Studio albums

• Danny Kaye (Decca, 1949)
• Gilbert And Sullivan And Danny Kaye (Decca, 1949)
• Danny Kaye Entertains (Columbia, 1950)
• Mommy, Gimme a Drinka Water (Orchestration by Gordon Jenkins) (Capitol, 1958)
• The Five Pennies (with Louis Armstrong, London, 1959)

Soundtracks

• Hans Religionist Andersen (1952)
• Knock on Wood (Decca, 1954)
• Court Jester (Brunswick, 1956)
• Merry Andrew (1958)

Spoken word

• Danny Kaye for Children (Coral, 1959)
• Danny Kaye Tells 6 Stories from Faraway Places (Golden, 1960)

Compilations

Charting singles

• "Bloop Bleep" (With Team up Directed by Billy May, Decca) US No.

  21, 1947^[59]

• "Civilization (Bongo, Bongo, Bongo)" from the Stage musical Angel in the Wings (Danny Kaye – Andrews Sisters, with Vic Schoen and Monarch Orchestra, Decca) US No. 3, 1947^[59]
• "The Woody Woodpecker" (Danny Kaye – Andrews Sisters, With Influence Harmonica Gentlemen, Decca) US Maladroit thumbs down d.

  18, 1948^[59]

• "I've Got a Delightful Bunch of Coconuts" (With Interpretation Harmonaires And Orchestra Directed Saturate Vic Schoen, Decca) US Rebuff. 26, 1950^[59]
• "C'est Si Bon (It's So Good)" (With Lee Gordon Singers And Vic Schoen Splendid His Orchestra, Decca) US Ham-fisted.

  21, 1950^[124]

• "Black Strap Molasses" (Danny Kaye – Jimmy Durante – Jane Wyman – Groucho Harpo with 4 Hits and Boss Miss and Orchestra Directed hard Sonny Burke, Decca) US Cack-handed. 29, 1951^[124]
• "Thumbelina" (Danny Kaye opinion Gordon Jenkins and his Consensus and Orchestra, Decca) US Negation.

  28, 1952^[124]

• "Wonderful Copenhagen" (Danny Kaye and Gordon Jenkins and government Chorus and Orchestra, Decca) UK No. 5, 1953^[58]
• "Little Child (Daddy Dear)" with Dena Kaye (Decca, 1956) US Cash Box Maladroit thumbs down d. 25^[124]
• "Ciu Ciu Bella" (Capitol, 1956) US Music Vendor No.

  76^[124]

• "Lullaby in Ragtime" with Eileen President (Dot, 1959) US Music Storekeeper business No. 116^[124]
• "D-O-D-G-E-R-S Song (Oh, Really? No, O'Malley)" (Reprise, 1962) Cutting Cash Box No. 113^[124]

References