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Danny Kaye - what members say

White Christmas review by A customer from Scotland

Very enjoyable 5 October 2004
...If you like old musicals, then this is a great film! Danny Kaye and Bing Crosby are excellent as always, and the music is just SOOOO good.... Read customer review

The Inspector General review by A customer from Birmingham, England

The Ultimate Danny Kaye experience 15 July 2004
...A Pleasant film that has Danny Kaye at his farsical best. Rest of the cast do the film justice with some good performances from both Gene Lockhart(the Mayor) and Walter S... Read customer review

Hans Christian Andersen review by tottrhys from Huntingdon

Wonderful, wonderful 9 May 2009
...c that hasn't already been said. Fabulous songs and, most importantly, fabulous Danny Kaye. It may be old but it still feels fresh and I was amazed at how well I knew the... Read customer review

Danny Kaye - filmography

Skokie on DVD (1981)
Starring: Danny Kaye, John Rubinstein
Director: Herbert Wise
Certificate:
Powerful story about a Chicago suburb with a large Jewish population, where a Nazi organiser decides to hold his next political rally.

53% from 81 members

Man from the Diners' Club (1963)
Starring: Danny Kaye, Cara Williams, Martha Hyer
Director: Frank Tashlin
Certificate:
An employee at Diner's Club issues a credit card to a well-known mobster and has to retrieve it in order to keep his job.

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The Five Pennies on DVD (1959)
Starring: Danny Kaye, Barbara Bel Geddes, Louis Armstrong
Director: Melville Shavelson
Certificate:
Loring "Red" Nichols is a cornet-playing country boy who goes to New York in the 1920s full of musical ambition and principles. He gets a job playing in Wil Paradise's band, but quits to pursue his dream of playing Dixieland jazz.

74% from 275 members

The Court Jester on DVD (1956)
Starring: Danny Kaye, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury
Director: Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
Certificate:
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 rebel leader The Black Fox (Edward Ashley) ..read more »

74% from 936 members

White Christmas on DVD (1954)
Starring: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney
Director: Michael Curtiz
Certificate:
Director Michael Curtiz (CASABLANCA, CAPTAIN BLOOD, MILDRED PIERCE) changes directions with this holiday classic. Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. The film includes a veritable treasury of Irving Berlin classics: "Sisters," "..read more »

73% from 3,407 members

White Christmas - Blu-ray (1954)
Starring: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney
Director: Michael Curtiz
Certificate:
Director Michael Curtiz (CASABLANCA, CAPTAIN BLOOD, MILDRED PIERCE) changes directions with this holiday classic. Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. The film includes a veritable treasury of Irving Berlin classics: "Sisters," "..read more »

76% from 129 members

Hans Christian Andersen on DVD (1952)
Starring: Danny Kaye, Farley Granger, Zizi Jeanmaire
Director: Charles Vidor
Certificate:
Musical biography of the famous Danish storyteller.

72% from 1,036 member

The Inspector General on DVD (1949)
Starring: Danny Kaye, Walter Slezak, Elsa Lanchester
Director: Henry Koster
Certificate:
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Set in the 1800s an illiterate stooge, from a travelling show, wanders into a strange town in Russia and is mistaken for the dreaded Inspector General. As they are unwilling to admit to tax dodges, they try to get him out of the way by killing him...

59% from 397 members

A Song Is Born (1948)
Starring: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Benny Goodman
Director: Howard Hawks
Certificate:
Gangster's moll Honey Swanson goes into hiding when her boyfriend is under investigation by the police. Where better to hide than a musical research institute staffed entirely by lonely bachelors? She gets more than she bargained for when the head of the institute Professor Hobart Frisbee starts to ..read more »

65% from 4 members
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
Starring: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Virginia Mayo
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Certificate:
Walter Mitty, a mild-mannered mouse who spends his time imagining himself as a number of daredevil heroes - an RAF pilot, a seafaring swashbuckler, a riverboat gambler. But then Walter meets a ravishing blonde, who draws him into a real-life adventure involving a band of cut-throats and a cache of ..read more »

72% from 38 members
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Wonder Man (1945)
Starring: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Virginia Mayo
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone
Certificate:
Danny Kaye plays a dual role in this comedy spotlighting his multitude of talents in singing, dancing and physical comedy. Just before he's about to testify against the mob, the fast-living nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew is slain. But Buzzy's ghost promptly proceeds to haunt his rather reserved,..read more »

70% from 11 members
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Comedy Greats - Chaplin Chaplin / Buster... (3 discs) on DVD (1928)
Starring: Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Danny Kaye
Director: Buster Keaton, Charles Reisner, Mack Sennett
Certificate:
Features: Charlie Chaplin: Tillie's Punctured Romance Charlie Chaplin' stars with the Keystone Cops in the first feature-length comedy ever made. Chaplin plays a con artist who talks Tillie, an innocent country lass, into taking her father's savings and running off to the city with him Buster ..read more »

49% from 21 members

Danny Kaye facts

5 most recent films

Skokie - 2.5 stars
Man from the Diners' Club - 3 stars
The Five Pennies - 3.5 stars
The Court Jester - 3.5 stars
White Christmas - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

White Christmas - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Five Pennies - 3.5 stars
The Court Jester - 3.5 stars
White Christmas - 3.5 stars
Hans Christian Andersen - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Man from the Diners' Club - 3 stars
Comedy Greats - Chaplin Chaplin / Buster Keaton / Danny Kaye - 2.5 stars
A Song Is Born - 3.5 stars
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - 3.5 stars
Wonder Man - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Virginia Mayo - 3 times - show films
Vera-Ellen - 3 times - show films
Gene Lockhart - 2 times - show films
Anne Whitfield - 2 times - show films
Bing Crosby - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Michael Curtiz - 2 times - show films
Henry Koster - 2 times - show films
Buster Keaton - 1 times - show films
Herbert Wise - 1 times - show films
Melvin Frank - 1 times - show films