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PO Box 7
273 Lakeview Avenue
Valhalla, NY 10595 |
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| DANNY KAYE |
| Continue on Tecumseh; stop by the lake, on your left is the memorial to Danny Kaye and his wife, Sylvia Fine Kaye. Kaye was given the name David Daniel Kominski when he was born in Brooklyn on January 18, 1913 to Ukrainian immigrants. He adopted the name Danny Kaye in the 1930s when he started performing comedy and dance routines in Catskill hotels and in nightclubs across the U.S. It was during an engagement in the Orient that Kaye, when faced with a non-English speaking audience, developed the pantomimes and physical antics that soon became his trademark. Kaye returned to the U.S. in 1936 where he emerged as a Broadway star, followed by major success in motion pictures. He appeared in his first film in 1944, Up in Arms, and went on to star in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947), Hans Christian Anderson (1952) and White Christmas (1954), among other films. Kaye was known for playing multiple roles in many of his movies, but his basic screen persona, that of an awkward and clumsy man who emerges victorious in the end, rarely changed. He also starred in his own variety show on television during the 1960s. |
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