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DANNY KAYE

In the 50's Danny Kaye was a superstar. I lot of people today haven't even heard of him and it is sad. True Kaye's humour has not really aged well but I still think that if you watched The Secret Life of Water Mitty or Wonderman (my favourite Kaye movie) that you couldn't fail to see the charm in Kaye and understand why he was so popular. Kaye may be known to modern audiences for work that he did later in his life on The Crosby Show. But it is the movies that he made in the beautiful technicolour world of the 50's that Kaye will always be remembered for and rightly so. No-one could do what Kaye did so well, and together with his wife Sylvia Fine they were a very talented team, now that is was an unusual marriage. They lived apart and yet neither of them ever divorced the other and it was not because of a genuine like of each other for all accounts they could be quite brutal to each other at times. He left his estate to his daughter Dena but only on the understanding...