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2	->''"Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it."''
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4	Danny Kaye (real name: David Daniel Kaminsky; January 18, 1911 (Or 1913) – March 3, 1987), was a comedian, dancer, singer and actor in UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood. He specialized in physical comedy, pantomime and rapid-fire delivery of often nonsensical patter.
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6	He was born David Daniel Kaminski on January 18, 1911, in Brooklyn, New York. He started his show business career in [[{{Vaudeville}} vaudeville]], branching out later into film, Broadway, radio and television, achieving considerable success in each medium. His variety show on CBS won four Emmys and a Peabody award.
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8	Kaye was also a philanthropist. He became the first ambassador-at-large of UNICEF in the 1950s. Kaye also was the leader of the original ownership group of [[UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}} Major League Baseball's]] [[UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball Seattle Mariners]] (yes, ''[[Advertising/SeattleMariners those]]'' Mariners), though his group would sell out in 1980.
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10	On March 3, 1987, Kaye passed away at the age of 76. The cause of death was heart failure, as well as complications from Hepatitis C, which he had contracted a few weeks before his death.
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12	!!His films include:
13	* ''Film/{{The Secret Life of Walter Mitty\|1947}}'' (1947)
14	* ''Film/ASongIsBorn'' (1948)
15	* ''Film/TheInspectorGeneral'' (1949)
16	* ''Film/{{Hans Christian Andersen\|1952}}'' (1952)
17	* ''Film/WhiteChristmas'' (1954)
18	* ''Film/TheCourtJester'' (1956)
19	* ''Theatre/TheMadwomanOfChaillot'' (1969)
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21	!!His career provides examples of:
22	* HiddenDepths: While he was not a trained fencer, he was so quick and agile, and such a skilled physical mimic, that he proved an excellent improv swordfighter in ''Film/TheCourtJester'', so much that he wore out Creator/BasilRathbone, who was still one of Hollywood's greatest fencers at the age of 63, and even the fencing master brought in to double for the man supposedly asked him to take it easy on him! He was also an accomplished pilot and flew everything from the Piper Cub to the Boeing 747.
23	* IdenticalStranger: In ''On the Riviera'' he played Jack Martin and his double Henri Duran.
24	* {{Improv}}: Very much part of his act.
25	* MotorMouth: He was a grandmaster.
26	* PatterSong: [[MotorMouth Motor mouthing]] to music.
27	* PlayingTheirOwnTwin: In ''Wonder Man'' he played mild-mannered librarian Edwin Dingle and his more outgoing twin, comedian Buzzy Bellew.
28	* {{Slapstick}}: A staple of his routines.

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