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Article: Her heart belongs to daddy: a daughter reminisces.(Danny Kaye)(Biography)
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- Town & Country
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- August 1, 2003
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Imagine Robin Williams, Tommy Tune and Tony Bennett all on the same stage, at the same time, and you'll have an idea of what it was like to see Danny Kaye perform solo.
Kaye, who died in 1987, had his heyday in the forties and fifties--on the stage (he got his big break in Lady in the Dark in 1940) and in the movies (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Inspector General, The Court Jester, White Christmas, to name a few).
Danny Kaye could do anything: dance like a dream, sing liltingly and wittily (his specialties were the musical tongue twisters written by his wife and chief collaborator, Sylvia Fine) and act in both dramas and comedies. He was a man of ...