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He was co-owner of the Seattle Mariners Baseball Club. Received the Knight's Cross of the First Class of the Order of Danneborg by the Danish Government. Sign In The Court Jester (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Danny Kaye.

Stream songs including 'Overture', 'Life Could Not Better Be' and more. Made Chevalier in the Legion of Honor by French government 1986) Listen to The Court Jester (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by Danny Kaye on Apple Music. He was awarded the Wateler Peace Prize from the Carnegie Foundation in 1981. Honorary member of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Honorary member of the American College of Surgeons. He received a honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the Colgate University. UNICEF'S ambassador-at-large for 34 years. He received the UNICEF'S first award for Distinguished Service from the United Nation's Children's Fund. Original last name alternately spelled Kominiski and Kominsky in various sources.ĭonald Spoto in 'Enchantment: The Life of Laurence Olivier' (1992) alleges that Olivier had a passionate 10-year affair with Danny Kaye and had written about it for his autobiography but Olivier's wife Joan Plowright ordered the reference deleted. 'I was a wife-made man.'-Danny Kaye (quoted in 'Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion', 9th edition, 1988).

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He also won a Special Academy Award in 1954 for 'his unique talents, his service to the Academy, the motion picture industry, and the American people.' His film career came to a virtual halt as he focused on his Emmy winning TV variety show, 'The Danny Kaye Show' (1963-67) and his work with UNICEF in the 1960s and often performed with symphony orchestras as guest conductor. Among his most beloved classic films are 'Wonder Man' (1945) 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' (1947), 'The Inspector General' (1949), 'Hans Christian Andersen' (1952) and 'The Court Jester' (1956).īy the early 1950s Kaye was actively involved with UNICEF and made a short film called 'Assignment Children' (1954) for the United Nations.

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With clever songs and special material tailored to showcase his comedic gifts and light sweet voice written by Sylvia Fine (whom he married in 1940) and the backing of Samuel Goldwyn with whom he signed in 1943, Kaye starred in a series of evergreen comedies with music, often playing befuddled innocents who act with surprising heroism and ultimately get the girl. Gifted, energetic and immensely charismatic comedic entertainer who honed his skills as a rapid-fire patter singer, a comedian and a master of fractured foreign accents and mimicry on the 'Borscht Belt' circuit of Catskill resorts and in vaudeville, before moving to Broadway and films in the early 1940s.

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