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Sylvia Fine Kaye (August 29, 1913 – October 28, 1991) was an American lyricist, composer, and producer. Many of her compositions and productions were performed by her husband, comedian Danny Kaye. [2] [3] [4] Fine was a Peabody Award-winner and was nominated for two Academy Awards and two Emmys during her career. She won an Emmy award in 1976 ...
Sylvia and Danny Kaye, 1945. Kaye and Sylvia Fine grew up in Brooklyn, living a few blocks apart, but they did not meet until they were working on an off-Broadway show in 1939. [89] Sylvia was an audition pianist. [11] [31] [90] Sylvia discovered that Danny had worked for her father Samuel Fine, a dentist. [14]
The Inspector General is a 1949 American Technicolor musical comedy film directed by Henry Koster and starring Danny Kaye, Walter Slezak, Barbara Bates, and Elsa Lanchester. Original music and lyrics are by the associate producer Sylvia Fine, who was married to Danny Kaye, with Johnny Green credited for
The Danny Kaye Show is an American variety show, hosted by the stage and screen star Danny Kaye, which aired on Wednesday nights from September 25, 1963, to June 7, 1967, on the CBS television network. [1] Directed by Robert Scheerer, it premiered in black-and-white. It switched to color broadcasts in the fall of 1965.
Danny Kaye almost wasn't in the 'White Christmas' cast Kaye is maybe most known to the public at large for his role in White Christmas, but it almost wasn’t his. In fact, it was written with ...
Kaye's personal writer/composer, Sylvia Fine, who also happened to be Kaye's wife, refused to take part in any more of his projects because Kaye had recently left her for actress Eve Arden. Kaye didn't want anyone else writing songs for him, so he did not perform any songs in the film.
The Five Pennies is a 1959 American biographical music drama film in VistaVision and Technicolor starring Danny Kaye as jazz cornet player and bandleader Loring "Red" Nichols. Other cast members include Barbara Bel Geddes, Louis Armstrong, Harry Guardino, Bob Crosby, Bobby Troup, Susan Gordon, and Tuesday Weld. The film was directed by Melville ...
Knock on Wood is a 1954 American comedy thriller film starring Danny Kaye and Mai Zetterling.Other actors in the film include Torin Thatcher, David Burns, and Leon Askin.The film was written and directed by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, with songs by Kaye's wife, Sylvia Fine.