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Danny Kaye

Kaye entertaining U.S. troops at Sasebo, Japan, 25 Oct 1945

Danny Kaye (January 18, 1911–March 3, 1987) was an American actor and comedian.

Born in Brooklyn as red-haired David Daniel Kaminski, Kaye became one of the world's best-known comedians. In 1941 he appeared in the Broadway show, "Lady in the Dark" and performed the famous number "Tchaikovsky," in which he sung the names of a whole string of Russian composers at breakneck speed seemingly without taking a breath. He starred in many films such as Hans Christian Andersen (1942), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947), The Inspector General (1949), White Christmas (1954), Knock on Wood (1954), and The Court Jester (1956). In many of his movies as well as on stage he proved to be an able actor, singer, dancer and comedian, often having his comedic talents showcased by special material written by his wife, Sylvia Fine Kaye. He showed quite a different and serious side as Ambassador for UNICEF, and in one of his few dramatic roles in the memorable TV-movie Skokie, in which he played a Holocaust survivor. Before he died in 1987 he also showed he could conduct an orchestra during a comical, but technically sound series of concerts organised for Unicef fundraising.

Starred in several movies with actress Virginia Mayo in the 1940's.

Joan Plowright, widow of the actor Laurence Olivier, claimed that Olivier had a long homosexual relationship with Kaye while Olivier was still married to his second wife, Vivien Leigh.

Kaye starred in two biopics, Hans Christian Andersen about the Danish story-teller, and The Five Pennies (1959), about jazz pioneer Red Nichols.

Kaye made his film debut in a very rare short comedy called Money On Your Life.

He also starred in "The Paladin of the Lost Hour", an episode of the 1980s revival of The Twilight Zone.

He received two Academy awards, an honorary award in 1955 and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1982.

Danny Kaye is interred in the Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, New York.


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Danny Kaye is interred in the Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, New York. Lorre has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 6619 Hollywood Boulevard. He received two Academy awards, an honorary award in 1955 and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1982. Peter Lorre died in 1964 and was interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California. He also starred in "The Paladin of the Lost Hour", an episode of the 1980s revival of The Twilight Zone. Lorre's caricature was frequently used in Warner Brothers cartoons, and his persona was used as the basis of the character Flat Top in the Dick Tracy cartoons. Kaye made his film debut in a very rare short comedy called Money On Your Life.. After the 1940s, Lorre began to gain weight and played lesser roles, with the exception of Skeeter the clown in the 1959 movie The Big Circus.

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Born in Brooklyn as red-haired David Daniel Kaminski, Kaye became one of the world's best-known comedians. When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, Lorre moved from Berlin to Paris and, eventually, Hollywood. Danny Kaye (January 18, 1911–March 3, 1987) was an American actor and comedian. None of his films were in Hungarian. Scenes from that film were re-used by the Nazi propaganda agencies in the anti-Semitic movie Der ewige Jude. Lorre became famous when Fritz Lang cast him as the child killer in M in 1931.

At age 21 he moved to Berlin and caught the attention of German playwright Bertolt Brecht. He began acting on stage in Vienna, Austria; Breslau, Germany; and Zürich, Switzerland. His parents were Alois and Elvira, and he was the eldest son in their German-speaking Jewish family. He was born Ladislav (László) Löwenstein in Rózsahegy/Rosenberg, Austria-Hungary, which is now Ruzomberok, Slovakia.

Peter Lorre (June 26, 1904 - March 23, 1964) was a Hungarian-American actor known largely for playing criminals. Die Verschwundene Frau. M. Bomben auf Monte Carlo.

Die Koffer des Herrn O.F.. Mann ist Mann. Fünf von der Jazzband. F.P.1 antwortet nicht.

Der Weisse Dämon. Stupéfiants. Schuss im Morgengrauen. Was Frauen träumen.

Unsichtbare Gegner. Les Requins du pétrole. Du haut en bas. The Man Who Knew Too Much.

Mad Love. Crime and Punishment. Secret Agent. Crack-Up.

Moto. Think Fast, Mr. Thank You, Mr. Moto. Nancy Steele Is Missing!.

Lancer Spy. Moto's Gamble. Mr. I'll Give a Million.

Mysterious Mr. Moto. Moto Takes a Chance. Mr. Moto's Last Warning.

Mr. Mr. Moto in Danger Island. Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation. Strange Cargo.

I Was an Adventuress. Stranger on the Third Floor. You'll Find Out. Der Ewige Jude.

Island of Doomed Men. District Attorney. Mr. They Met in Bombay.

The Maltese Falcon. The Face Behind the Mask. All Through the Night. In This Our Life.

Invisible Agent. The Boogie Man Will Get You. Casablanca. The Constant Nymph.

Background to Danger. The Cross of Lorraine. The Mask of Dimitrios. Arsenic and Old Lace.

The Conspirators. Passage to Marseille. Confidential Agent. Hotel Berlin.

Three Strangers. Black Angel. The Chase. The Verdict.

The Beast with Five Fingers. My Favorite Brunette. Casbah. Rope of Sand.

Quicksand. Double Confession. Der Verlorene. Beat the Devil.

Casino Royale. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Around the World in Eighty Days. Operation Cicero.

Meet Me in Las Vegas. Congo Crossing. Silk Stockings. The Story of Mankind.

Hell Ship Mutiny. The Sad Sack. The Buster Keaton Story. The Big Circus.

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. Five Weeks in a Balloon. The Raven. The Comedy of Terrors.

Muscle Beach Party. The Patsy.