''The Danny Kaye Show'' is an American

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comedy-variety program starring

Danny Kaye Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky; ; January 18, 1911 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, comedian, singer, and dancer. His performances featured physical comedy, idiosyncratic pantomimes, and rapid-fire novelty songs. Kaye starred ...

. Broadcast on the

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radio network, it ran from January 6, 1945 to May 31, 1946.

Format

''The Danny Kaye Show'' featured singing, instrumental music, and various kinds of comedy sketches. In ''Nobody's Fool'', Martin Gottfried wrote about the program: "Everything about it was to be top drawer, beginning with Kaye's then record salary of $16,000 a week (compared to the $100 apiece he had been paid for three minor CBS radio shows in 1940)."

Personnel

In addition to Kaye, the cast included

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and

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as regulars, with the supporting cast including and Frank Nelson (playing sponsor Mr. Pabst in the premiere), Kenny Delmar,

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, Joan Edwards, and

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. Announcers were Ken Niles and

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. Music was under the direction of

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, Lyn Murray, David Terry, and Harry Sosnik. Dick Mack was the director. The producer was

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, described by Gottfried in ''Nobody's Fool'' as "radio's premier comedy writer, who had so estimable a reputation that even though the program would be broadcast from Los Angeles, he was able to insist on running it from New York." A behind-the-scenes influence was Kaye's wife, Sylvia Fine, a producer, composer, and lyricist in her own right. Gottfried wrote, "She demanded and won the right to approve the show's writers." She also wrote for the program, along with Ace and

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References

External links

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Logs

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Scripts

Streaming

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