My mother called the “real” dining room “a vestigial remnant circa B.C., Before Chinese.”A nine-course Chinese meal was my father’s tour de force. She also created a media room when she winterized a solarium next to the living room. First of all, the invitations went out by Western Union. a successful writer.
It was no big deal the night when, as a teenager, I answered the front door, dwarfed by an oversized bath robe, my hair up in large rollers and Clearasil on every pore, to find myself facing Cary Grant. Eat it!” Would that I could still hear that command.Our website, archdigest.com, offers constant original coverage of the interior design and architecture worlds, new shops and products, travel destinations, art and cultural events, celebrity style, and high-end real estate as well as access to print features and images from the AD archives.Entertainer Danny Kaye's daughter, Dena Kaye, fondly recalls life at the wisteria-covered house in Beverly Hills, CaliforniaThe front entrance of the house. In 1937, he signed with New York–based Educational Pictures for a series of two-reel comedies. "I really had a normal childhood," Dena Kaye told Miller. Rosemary Clooney gets in on the act.Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen and Bing Crosby in "White Christmas" (1954).In 1954, Danny Kaye was named a goodwill ambassador-at-large for the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF).
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Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine had one daughter, born on December 17, 1946 in New York.âA Portrait of Danny Kaye,â a special feature from 20âDanny Kaye: A Joy to the World,â a special feature on Paramountâs Many might wonder if Dena is in the entertainment business since both her parents
As a lit tle girl, I dreamed of living on a street with sidewalks like the ones I saw in My parents rented the house in 1949 and bought it a year later from the director Lewis Milestone, whose well- known films included Above all, it was the home of a family that I always thought was not unlike many others in America, where we sometimes ate dinner in silence in front of the television and opened presents Christmas morning in pajamas. If you were late, God help you. She is an actress, known for Danny Kaye: Nobody's Fool (1994), Danny Kaye: Joy to the World (2009) and Danny Kaye International Children Award for Unicef (1992).
Black tie was out; in fact all ties were. In our house, you didn’t have to straighten out the cushions each time you got up.The music room played a minor role in the swell dos my mother “produced” in the fifties. Sylvia Fine wrote or co-wrote many of Danny Kaye's songs, including "Knock on Wood," "(You'll Never) Outfox the Fox," and "The Five Pennies. "He was always just silly, always wanting to entertain people," his daughter, Dena Kaye, told correspondent Michelle Miller.In 1941 he got his big break: a role in the Broadway play, "Lady in the Dark," in which he performed what became one of his signature songs, a ditty about Russian composers. He found traditional lanterns in Chinatown and mixed them with modern ones from Copenhagen. The guest lists were vintage Hollywood. "On the Riviera" (1951) starred Danny Kaye along with Gene Tierney, Corinne Calvet and Marcel Dalio.Danny Kaye entertains the troops of the 5th RCT, 24th U.S. Infantry Division, during a USO Show near Kumsong, Korea, November 6, 1951. With Barbara Bates (left).Danny Kaye with Elsa Lancaster (left) and Barbara Bates in "The Inspector General" (1949).
Danny Kaye's 1995 musical-comedy "The Court Jester" (1955), also starred Glynis Johns and Angela Lansbury. Some of his last roles were also his most memorable, such as an intense Holocaust survivor in Skokie (1981) and as a kind … The film was based (loosely) on a play by Nikolai Gogol. He was a high school dropout who spent his summers performing for vacationers at resorts in the Catskills, eventually adopting the stage name Danny Kaye. Audrey Hepburn said it was like watching a great ballet dancer. This is a three-part interview, which includes song clips throughout.
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It was relaxed, warm and inviting, with cushy furniture in earth tones, a TV ( hi-fi, bar and black leather tables designed by my parents’ good friend Fanny Brice. At an audition in 1940, Kaye met fellow Brooklyn native, musician and songwriter Sylvia Fine.
Sylvia Fine Kaye died of emphysema at the age of 78 in her Manhattan apartment in 1991. John S. Douerfel of Oklahoma, at a military unit at Tachikawa Air Base, Japan in 1961.Danny Kaye as the Danish storyteller in the musical "Hans Christian Andersen" (1952). The program's popularity rose quickly. Kaye's 1956 film, "Assignment Children," documented the work of UNICEF in Asia. My father’s Chinese kitchen was his private theater; he was the same entertainer at the stove as he was on stage. He usually played a manic, dark-haired, fast-talking Russian in these low-budget shorts, opposite young hopefuls June Allyson and …