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Danny Kaye: A Legacy of Laughter

  • Episode aired Dec 10, 1996
  • TV-14
  • 1h 2m
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American Masters (1985)
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Danny Kaye was a great American entertainer with an enormous creative range, encompassing dance, popular song, classical music, complicated verse, impersonation and improvisation, which meld... Read allDanny Kaye was a great American entertainer with an enormous creative range, encompassing dance, popular song, classical music, complicated verse, impersonation and improvisation, which melded together into an utterly unique style.Danny Kaye was a great American entertainer with an enormous creative range, encompassing dance, popular song, classical music, complicated verse, impersonation and improvisation, which melded together into an utterly unique style.

  • Director
    • Bob Marty
  • Writer
    • JoAnn Young
  • Stars
    • Danny Kaye
    • Hugh Downs
    • Dena Kaye
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    • Director
      • Bob Marty
    • Writer
      • JoAnn Young
    • Stars
      • Danny Kaye
      • Hugh Downs
      • Dena Kaye
    • 1User review
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    Danny Kaye
    Danny Kaye
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    Hugh Downs
    Hugh Downs
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    Dena Kaye
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    Carl Reiner
    Carl Reiner
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    Rosemary Clooney
    Rosemary Clooney
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    Mikhail Baryshnikov
    Mikhail Baryshnikov
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    Itzhak Perlman
    Itzhak Perlman
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    Harry Belafonte
    Harry Belafonte
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    Madeline Kahn
    Madeline Kahn
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      • JoAnn Young
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    Good Doc on Danny

    This was a wonderful documentary on that legendary talent Danny Kaye! He was such a talent and through interviews with Carl Reiner, Harry Belafonte, and his daughter Dena Kaye we get to explore it in this one hour biography. I taped this off my PBS station and had only watched Secret Life of Walter Mitty but this documentary made me want to check out some of other Danny Kaye movies.

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      • December 10, 1996 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Production companies
      • 1515 Productions Limited
      • American Masters Pictures
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      • 1h 2m(62 min)
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      • Color
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      • Stereo
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      • 1.33 : 1

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