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Danny Kaye
Danny Kaye was an American actor, dancer, singer and comedian. His performances featured physical comedy, idiosyncratic pantomimes, and rapid-fire novelty songs.
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entertainment · American actor and singer (1911–1987) · actor · comedian · singer · dancer · stage actor · television actor · film actor · television presenter · writer · screenwriter · also Danny Kaye, David Daniel Kaminsky, Daniel Kaminsky, Kaye
Born 18 January 1913 · Died 3 March 1987 · Q213425
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
TV Guide: The Danny Kaye Show Season 3 Episodes
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2024· 1 entry
Yahoo: The Beloved Career of Danny Kaye — Take a Look at the Actor's Most Iconic Films
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2019· 2 entries
Released album “My Best (Remastered)”.
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Released album “Absolutely Christmas”.
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2018· 1 entry
Released album “Mommy, Gimme a Drinka Water”.
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2017· 1 entry
Released album “Hugs - Winter Love”.
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2015· 3 entries
Released album “The Very Best Of Danny Kaye”.
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Released album “Twinkle Twinkle Baby Girl”.
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Released album “For Little Princess”.
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2014· 2 entries
Released album “43 of His Essential Songs”.
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Released album “The Sounds of Christmas”.
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2013· 1 entry
During a 24-hour salute to Kaye on Turner Classic Movies in celebration of what TCM thought was his 100th birthday, Kaye's daughter Dena revealed to TCM host Ben Mankiewicz that Kaye's stated birth year of 1913 was incor
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2012· 2 entries
Released album “Danny Kaye - I'm Hans Christian Andersen”.
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Released album “Deluxe: Classics - Danny Kaye”.
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2011· 1 entry
Released album “Stories For Children”.
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2009· 2 entries
Released album “Essential Classics”.
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Released album “Just For Kids”.
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2008· 1 entry
Released album “Grimm's & Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales”.
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2006· 2 entries
Released album “The Great Danny Kaye”.
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Released album “Danny Kaye Vol. 2 - For Kids”.
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2004· 2 entries
Released album “20 Favourites”.
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Released album “Kid from Brooklyn”.
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2003· 1 entry
Released album “Danny Kaye”.
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2000· 2 entries
Released album “The Best of Danny Kaye”.
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Released album “Universal Legends”.
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1998· 1 entry
Released album “Entertainer Extraordinary”.
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1994· 2 entries
Released album “Hans Christian Andersen / The Court Jester”.
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Released album “Sings Your Favorite Songs”.
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1988· 2 entries
Kaye was posthumously inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame
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With a $1 million gift from Sylvia Kaye
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1987· 4 entries
Kaye was posthumously presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Ronald Reagan
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Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Ronald Reagan (1987).
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Died 1987-03-03.
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Kaye conducted an orchestra during a comical series of concerts organized for UNICEF fundraising
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1986· 2 entries
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1986).
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Kaye was crowned King of Brooklyn at the Back to Brooklyn Day Festival
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded Kennedy Center Honors (1984).
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1983· 1 entry
Kaye had quadruple bypass heart surgery and contracted hepatitis C from a blood transfusion
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1982· 2 entries
Awarded Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award (1982).
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Awarded Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (1982).
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1981· 2 entries
Awarded Peabody Awards (1981).
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Awarded Wateler Peace Prize (1981).
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1980· 2 entries
Awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (1980).
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Kaye hosted and sang in the 25th anniversary of Disneyland celebration and hosted the opening celebration for Epcot in 1982 (EPCOT Center at the time)
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1976· 1 entry
Played Geppetto in a television musical adaptation of Pinocchio with Sandy Duncan in the title role
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1973· 1 entry
Visited many wounded Israeli soldiers in hospitals
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1968· 1 entry
Was honorary chairman of the Las Vegas International Exposition of Flight, a show that used many facets of the city's entertainment industry while presenting an air show
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1964· 2 entries
When his right leg and foot were burned from a cooking accident
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Acted as television host to the CBS telecasts of MGM's The Wizard of Oz
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1960· 2 entries
Released album “Danny Kaye for Children”.
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With a one-hour special produced by Sylvia and sponsored by General Motors, with similar specials in 1961 and 1962
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1959· 2 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Me and the Colonel (1959).
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Released album “The Five Pennies”.
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1958· 3 entries
Kaye and partner Lester Smith formed Kaye–Smith Enterprises
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Saul Chaplin and Johnny Mercer wrote songs for Merry Andrew, a film starring Kaye as a British teacher attracted to the circus
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Released album “Merry Andrew / Music of the Big Top Circus Band”.
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1957· 1 entry
Released album “Danny at the Palace”.
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1956· 2 entries
Kaye signed a three-year recording contract with Capitol Records, which released his single "Love Me Do" in December of that year
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On the CBS show See It Now with Edward R
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1955· 3 entries
Awarded Academy Honorary Award (1955).
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And the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1982
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"for his unique talents, his service to the Academy, the motion picture industry, and the American people"
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1954· 4 entries
“Whatever she wants to be she will be without interference from her mother nor from me.”
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And received the French Legion of Honor in 1986 for his years of work with the organization
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Kaye said in a 1954 interview, "Whatever she wants to be she will be without interference from her mother nor from me." Dena grew up to become a journalist.
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Released album “Selections from Irving Berlin’s White Christmas”.
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1953· 3 entries
Awarded Special Tony Award (1953).
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Decca released Danny at the Palace, a live recording made at the New York Palace Theater, followed by Knock On Wood (Decca, 1954) a set of songs from the movie of the same name sung by Kaye, accompanied by Victor Young a
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Kaye started a production company, Dena Pictures, named for his daughter
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1952· 1 entry
Released album “Sings Selections From the Samuel Goldwyn Technicolor Production Hans Christian Andersen”.
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1951· 2 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for On the Riviera (1951).
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Released album “Danny Kaye With The Johnny Green Orchestra”.
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1950· 2 entries
Released album “Christmas Cheer”.
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A Decca single, "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts", was released, and became another chart hit for him
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1949· 3 entries
When one of the plane's four engines lost its propeller and caught fire
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And is described by the critic Bruce Eder as "a bit tamer than some of the stuff that Kaye hit with later in the '40s and in the '50s, and for reasons best understood by the public, doesn't attract nearly the interest of
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Kaye was flying home from London in 1949 when one of the plane's four engines lost its propeller and caught fire.
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1948· 1 entry
"roused the Royal family to laughter and was the first of many performers who have turned British variety into an American preserve
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1947· 4 entries
And 1948, when Kaye was involved with Eve Arden
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Kaye teamed up with The Andrews Sisters (Patty, Maxene, and LaVerne) on Decca Records, producing the number-three Billboard hit "Civilization (Bongo, Bongo, Bongo)"
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“Civilization (Bongo, Bongo, Bongo)”
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They were married for life, except for a separation in 1947 and 1948, when Kaye was involved with Eve Arden.
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1945· 1 entry
Kaye began hosting his own CBS radio program, in which he performed a number of hit songs, including "Dinah" and "Minnie the Moocher"
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1944· 1 entry
Released ep “Mairzy Doats / “Deenah” / The Fairy Pipers”.
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1942· 1 entry
By Columbia Records with songs performed to the accompaniment of Maurice Abravanel and Johnny Green
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1941· 2 entries
Aged 30, Kaye scored a triumph playing Russell Paxton in Lady in the Dark, starring Gertrude Lawrence
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From his Broadway musical Lady in the Dark, most notably "Tschaikowsky (and Other Russians)"
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1939· 2 entries
And closed after 10 weeks, but critics noticed Kaye's work
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Kaye met the same dentist's daughter, Sylvia Fine, at an audition, and in 1940, they eloped
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1937· 1 entry
Kaye's film début came from a contract with New York-based Educational Pictures for a series of two-reel comedies
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1933· 1 entry
When he joined the Three Terpsichoreans, a vaudeville dance act
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1913· 1 entry
Born 1913-01-18.
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1911· 1 entry
(though he would later say 1913), to Russian Jewish immigrants Jacob and Clara (née Nemerovsky) Kaminsky
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