Inimitable, multi-talented entertainer Danny Kaye first gained fame on Broadway by upstaging the great... (Learn more)
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"I was a wife-made man."--Danny Kaye (quoted in "Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion", 9th edition, 1988).
Donald Spoto in "Enchantment: The Life of Laurence Olivier" (1992) alleges that Olivier had a passionate 10-year affair with Danny Kaye and had written about it for his autobiography but Olivier's wife Joan Plowright ordered the reference deleted.
Given the Scopus Laureate in 1977.
He received a honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the Colgate University.
He received the UNICEF'S first award for Distinguished Service from the United Nation's Children's Fund.
He was awarded the Wateler Peace Prize from the Carnegie Foundation in 1981.
He was co-owner of the Seattle Mariners Baseball Club.
Honorary member of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Honorary member of the American College of Surgeons.
Made Chevalier in the Legion of Honor by French government 1986)
Original last name alternately spelled Kominiski and Kominsky in various sources.
Received the Knight's Cross of the First Class of the Order of Danneborg by the Danish Government.
UNICEF'S ambassador-at-large for 34 years.
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