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Inimitable, multi-talented entertainer Danny Kaye first gained fame on Broadway by upstaging the great Gertrude Lawrence in Lady in the Dark in 1941 with an unforgettable rendition of the "Tchaikovsky," in which he rapidly fired off the names of 54... more
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Cast: Danny Kaye John Rubinstein Herbert Wise Carl Reiner Brian Dennehy   
Tags: Docudrama Courtroom Drama Political Drama Drama 
Length: 121min
Skokie is the true story of a critical test of Constitutional rights in Illinois. In 1977, a small band of American neo-fascists calling itself the National Socialist Party of America plans to stage a swastika-dominated demonstration and rally. Their...

Here Comes Peter Cottontail (1971)
Cast: Vincent Price Danny Kaye Jules Bass Arthur Rankin, Jr. Paul H. Frees   
Tags: Animated Musical Family Holiday Film 
Length: 53min
Arthur Rankin and Jules Bass have produced such animated holiday classics as Rudolph's Shiny New Year, Frosty the Snowman, and Santa Claus Is Coming to Town. The holiday cheer continues with this video. Screenwriter Romeo Muller has adapted the...

Cast: Danny Kaye Margaret Rutherford Harry Stradling Wally Westmore Diana Dors   
Tags: Comedy 
Length: 92min
Danny Kaye headlines this lively WW II-era comedy. He plays a foot soldier who with his fellow troop is preparing for D-day. Trouble begins when he is caught pretending to be the most important generals in England, a man he closely resembles. The two...

The Man from the Diners' Club (1963)
Cast: Danny Kaye Frank Tashlin Telly Savalas Martha Hyer George Kennedy   
Tags: Slapstick Comedy Crime 
Length: 96min
Heavy on slapstick and light on the more subtle forms of humor, this standard comedy by Frank Tashlin is still an amusing junket with Danny Kaye at the forefront as Ernie Klenk, a bumbling employee of the Diner's Club credit card company. Ernie has...

Cast: Danny Kaye Basil Rathbone Angela Lansbury John Carradine Cecil Parker   
Tags: Adventure Comedy Slapstick Parody/Spoof Satire Musical Comedy 
Length: 101min
Danny Kaye spoofs medieval swashbucklers in this classic musical comedy. While the infant King of England awaits his rightful place as leader of the British Empire, his rule is usurped by Roderick (Cecil Parker), an evil pretender to the throne. Brave...

Cast: Danny Kaye Tuesday Weld Bob Hope Harry Guardino Bob Crosby   
Tags: Drama Showbiz Drama Musical Musical Drama Biopic 
Length: 117min
The Five Pennies is the life story of influential jazz cornetist Red Nichols, played here by a remarkably straight-faced Danny Kaye. The somewhat romanticized screenplay chronicles Nichols' rise from obscurity, annotates the many future bandleaders...

Cast: Danny Kaye Noel Purcell Robert Coote Anna Maria Pier Angeli Saul Chaplin   
Tags: Musical Comedy Comedy Musical 
Length: 103min
Though Merry Andrew is more subdued than earlier Danny Kaye efforts, it's still a lot of fun. Kaye is cast as Andrew Larabee, a mild-mannered but highly unorthodox archeology professor at a British boy's school. While on an expedition in Italy, Andrew...

Cast: Danny Kaye Bing Crosby Michael Curtiz Vera-Ellen Rosemary Clooney   
Tags: Romantic Comedy Musical Comedy Musical Showbiz Comedy Holiday Film 
Length: 120min
White Christmas, Paramount's belated follow-up to the 1942 hit Holiday Inn, was the studio's first VistaVision production. A veritable warehouse full of oldie-but-goodie Irving Berlin tunes are woven into the film's simplistic plotline, along with a...

Cast: Danny Kaye Akim Tamiroff Françoise Rosay Alexander Scourby Nicole Maurey   
Tags: Military Comedy War Drama Comedy War 
Length: 105min
In this drama, a Jewish refugee finds himself stranded in Paris just as the Nazi invaders arrive. Desperate to escape, he commanders the car of a Polish colonel who hates Jews. In order to save himself, the colonel helps the fellow escape. En route,...

Cast: Danny Kaye Henry Bumstead Torin Thatcher Mai Zetterling Leon Askin   
Tags: Action Comedy Spy Film Action Comedy Thriller 
Length: 103min
With the exception of the brilliant The Court Jester, Knock on Wood must rank as the best of Danny Kaye's movie vehicles. Capitalizing on the star's recent successful engagement in London, the film casts Kaye as a neurotic American ventriloquist...
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