Danny Kaye Movie Rankings
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Danny Kaye scores a combined 3.4453 out of 4 stars for Court Jester
3.4453
While the infant King of England is awaiting his rightful spot to the throne, the regent, Roderick (Cecil Parker) defies royal law and crowns himself King. To regain the throne the baby king must obtain the key to a secret tunnel that allows them passage to the castle. ... more about Court Jester
Actor Awards
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Comedy/Musical
DVD from $3.90 
(4 sellers)
2
Danny Kaye scores a combined 3.2836 out of 4 stars for White Christmas
3.2836
This classic Christmas movie takes place at the end of WW II where two performing Officers, Bob Wallace (Bing Crosby) and Phil Davis (Danny Kaye), return from war and team up with to performing sisters Betty Haynes (Rosemary Clooney) and Judy Haynes (Vera-Ellen). ... more about White Christmas
DVD from $6.25 
(2 sellers)
3
Danny Kaye scores a combined 2.7464 out of 4 stars for Kid from Brooklyn
2.7464
Shy milkman Burleigh Sullivan accidentally knocks out drunken Speed McFarlane, a champion boxer who was flirting with Burleigh's sister. The newspapers get hold of the story and photographers even catch Burleigh knock out Speed again. ... more about Kid from Brooklyn
Not Available on DVD
4
Danny Kaye scores a combined 2.5467 out of 4 stars for Five Pennies
2.5467
Loring "Red" Nichols is a cornet-playing country boy who goes to New York in the 1920s full of musical ambition and principles. He gets a job playing in Wil Paradise's band, but quits to pursue his dream of playing Dixieland jazz. ... more about Five Pennies
DVD from $5.97 
(5 sellers)
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Danny Kaye scores a combined 2.4474 out of 4 stars for Up in Arms
2.4474
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted into the army and makes life miserable for his fellow GIs. He's also lovesick when it comes to pretty Mary Morgan, unaware that she's in love with his best friend Joe. ... more about Up in Arms
Not Available on DVD
6
Danny Kaye scores a combined 2.3843 out of 4 stars for Knock on Wood
2.3843
Ventriloquist Jerry Morgan has failed with another love affair. The reason: when the relationship reaches the point when it is time to discuss marriage, his doll Clarence becomes mean and jealous. ... more about Knock on Wood
Not Available on DVD
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Danny Kaye scores a combined 2.3035 out of 4 stars for Wonder Man
2.3035
Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten Grand Jackson. One night, two of Jackson's thugs kill Buzzy and dump his body in the lake at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. ... more about Wonder Man
DVD from $110.97 
(0 sellers)
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Danny Kaye scores a combined 2.2907 out of 4 stars for Hans Christian Andersen
2.2907
A completely fabricated biography of the famous Danish fairytale writer Hans Christian Andersen featuring several of his stories and a ballet performance of "The Little Mermaid". ... more about Hans Christian Andersen
Actor Awards
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy
DVD from $4.75 
(5 sellers)
9
Danny Kaye scores a combined 2.2396 out of 4 stars for Inspector General
2.2396
An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector general whom they think is traveling in disguise. ... more about Inspector General
DVD from $1.75 
(3 sellers)
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Danny Kaye scores a combined 1.5159 out of 4 stars for Song Is Born
1.5159
Gangster's moll Honey Swanson goes into hiding when her boyfriend is under investigation by the police. ... more about Song Is Born
Not Available on DVD
12
Danny Kaye scores a combined 0.9132 out of 4 stars for Secret Life of Walter Mitty
0.9132
Walter Mitty, a daydreaming comic book writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine himself as a hero experiencing great adventures. His dream becomes true when he accidently meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. ... more about Secret Life of Walter Mitty
DVD from $149.82 
(0 sellers)
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Danny Kaye scores a combined 0.8136 out of 4 stars for On the Riviera
0.8136
Jack Martin (Danny Kaye), an American entertainer working cabarets on the French Riviera, does an impersonation of philandering industrialist Henri Duran (Kaye, again) so convincingly that even Duran's beautiful wife (Gene Tierney) is fooled by it. ... more about On the Riviera
Actor Awards
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Comedy/Musical
Not Available on DVD
15
Danny Kaye scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Cupid Takes a Holiday
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Because his family has a history of insanity that breaks out when a family member hasn't married by the time they are 25 years old, Nikolai Nikolaevich (Danny Kaye) visits a matrimonial firm searching for a bride. ... more about Cupid Takes a Holiday
Not Available on DVD
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Danny Kaye scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Dime a Dance
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June Allyson is a cashier in a dance hall and her friend Imogene Coca wants to get a job there as a dance hostess. June advises her she needs to first make herself attractive to men,and gives her a book on the subject. ... more about Dime a Dance
Not Available on DVD
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Danny Kaye scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Me and the Colonel
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Danny Kaye, a Jewish refugee flees from the Nazis with an aristocratic anti-semitic Polish officer (Curd Jurgens) trying to get papers to England. ... more about Me and the Colonel
Actor Awards
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Comedy/Musical
Not Available on DVD
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Danny Kaye scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Merry Andrew
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Downtrodden but creative English school-teacher (Danny Kaye) on archeological trip discovers joys of love and circus life with acrobat (Pier Angeli). ... more about Merry Andrew
Not Available on DVD
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Danny Kaye scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for On the Double
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American GI Ernie Williams, admittedly weak-kneed, has an uncanny resemblance to British Colonel MacKenzie. Williams, also a master of imitation and disguise, is asked to impersonate the Colonel, ostensibly to allow the Colonel to make a secret trip East. ... more about On the Double
Not Available on DVD
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Danny Kaye scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Screen Snapshots Series 27
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Hollywood was always a big sports town, until it actually got some professional sports franchises, and many of the actors around town--- ex-jocks,would-be-jocks or just sports fans---belonged to and played on summer amatuer baseball or softball teams for ... more about Screen Snapshots Series 27
Not Available on DVD
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Danny Kaye scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Beauty
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Ralph Staub attends a Friars Club dinner in Hollywood, where Bob Hope, George Burns, Jack Benny and other stars are in attendance, and he later visits Rhonda Fleming at the studio and she talks of her plans as a member of a singing group with (not shown) ... more about Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Beauty
Not Available on DVD
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Danny Kaye scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Screen Snapshots: Hula from Hollywood
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Patrica Medina is Ralph Staub's guest in this Screen Snapshots and he takes her to Don the Beachcomber's Hollywood club where they see some of Hollywood's married couples (John Huston and Evelyn Keyes, Kay Kyser and Georgia Carroll, Phil Harris and Alice ... more about Screen Snapshots: Hula from Hollywood
Not Available on DVD
 
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Danny Kaye
Birthdate:
January 18, 1913
Death date:
March 3, 1987

Danny Kaye

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Career Span:

Decade
# Movies
Movie Score
1930s
4
No Reviews
1940s
7
total ranking of 2.2904  2.2904
1950s
12
total ranking of 2.7268  2.7268
1960s
3
total ranking of 0.7634  0.7634
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score:
2.3047
Danny Kaye is ranked overall as 2.3047 of of 4 stars
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