Name: Danny Kaye
Date of Birth: 18 January 1913 One of the original owners of the Seattle Mariners professional baseball team. While appearing in the musical "Two By Two" (1970-71), he broke his leg and played the role of Noah in a wheelchair since he did not use understudies. Interred at Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, New York, USA. Toured Australia in the mid-'50s as Cinderella's friend Buttons in a pantomime version of "Cinderella". Died of hepatitis and internal bleeding, the result of a transfusion of contaminated blood during bypass heart surgery four years earlier. ... Star of CBS Radio's "The Danny Kaye Show" (1945-1946). Was the first choice of producers to star in the Broadway musical "The Music Man." Was named as "King of Brooklyn" at the Welcome Back to Brooklyn Festival in 1986 According to daughter Dena Kaye, for the rest of his life, whenever someone would recognize him in public, they would run up to him and recite the "pellet with the poison . . . " speech from The Court Jester (1955). In 1953, received a Special Tony Award for heading a variety bill at the Palace Theater. He had a passion for Chinese cooking and built a kitchen in his house. For years, he invited people (some of them great celebrities like Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Cary Grant, John Denver, and Itzhak Perlman) and he would show them what his cooking genius was about. Qualified guests, like French chef Paul Bocuse, said they were really amazed by Kaye's cooking ability. He was Bob Hope's favorite comedian. He was an excellent pilot. His father, Jacob Kaminski; his mother, Clar; and his two older brothers, Mack and Larry, emigrated from Ukraine to the United States in 1910. Jacob had to work two years before he could pay off those steamer tickets. Three years after this journey, their third and last child was born, and the only one born in America: David Daniel, or as his parents called him: Duvidelleh. Served as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF. Herbert Bonis was his manager for 35 years. He was a very talented storyteller, although he had trouble mimicking a woman's voice. Biography in "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives," Volume Two, 1986-1990, pp. 472-475. New York: Scribner, 1999. Originally considered for the leading role in "It Should Happen to You" (1954). On April 21,1954, he was appointed UNICEF's Ambassador at Large, and made a 40,000 mile good-will trip, which resulted in the short, Assignment Children. The stage musical "The Kid from Brooklyn," which chronicled Kaye's life, implied a tempestuous affair with his radio co-star Eve Arden and, at the very least, a dalliance with Laurence Olivier. While he was world famous for his comic acting ability, his last film appearance, Skokie (1981) (TV), in which he portrayed a Holocaust survivor protesting a planned march by Neo-Nazis, was one of only two dramatic film roles he played - the other was the role of the Ragpicker in the 1969 film The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969), starring Katharine Hepburn. He was a liberal Democrat who opposed the Hollywood blacklist. He awarded 3 Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6125 Hollywood Boulevard; for Motion Pictures at 6563 Hollywood Boulevard; and for Radio at 6101 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California. Read more Danny Kaye movies (actor)
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