Best Danny Kaye movies

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Best Danny Kaye movies
Today we present the best Danny Kaye movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen ... and that you love! Let's go there with the best movies from Danny Kaye:

TOP 9:

Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen
Danny Kaye as: Hans Christian Andersen
Genre: Music, Romance, Family, Fantasy, History
Release: 1952
A small-town shoemaker with a knack for spinning yarns, Hans encounters happiness and heartbreak on his road to becoming a full-fledged writer.

TOP 8:

The Inspector General

The Inspector General
Danny Kaye as: Georgi
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Release: 1949
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. Fearing he will discover they've been pocketing tax money, they make several bungled attempts to kill him.


TOP 7:

A Song Is Born

A Song Is Born
Danny Kaye as: Professor Hobart Frisbee
Genre: Comedy, Music
Release: 1948
The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub singer Honey Swanson. But Honey's gangster boyfriend doesn't want to give her up.

TOP 6:

Knock On Wood

Knock On Wood
Danny Kaye as: Jerry Morgan
Genre: Action, Comedy
Release: 1954
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 two dolls become mean and jealous. Morgan's dollmaker Papinek is a member of a spy ring who has stolen the secret plans for the top-secret Lafayette airplane. Since Morgan is leaving for Zurich the same night, he decides to hide the secret plan in the heads of the dolls.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Jorge Luke movies?

TOP 5:

Wonder Man

Wonder Man
Danny Kaye as: Edwin Dingle / Buzzy Bellew
Genre: Music, Comedy, Fantasy
Release: 1945
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. Buzzy comes back as a ghost and summons his bookworm twin, Edwin Dingle, to Prospect Park so that he can help the police nail Jackson.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Vera-Ellen movies?


TOP 4:

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Danny Kaye as: Walter Mitty
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Release: 1947
Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. According to her, it contains the locations of the Dutch crown jewels hidden since World War II. Soon, Mitty finds himself in the middle of a confusing conspiracy, where he has difficulty differentiating between fact and fiction.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Adam Scott movies?

TOP 3:

And the Oscar Goes To...

And the Oscar Goes To...
Danny Kaye as: Self (archive footage)
Genre: Documentary, TV Movie
Release: 2014
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best George Chakiris movies?

TOP 2:

White Christmas

White Christmas
Danny Kaye as: Phil Davis
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Release: 1954
Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. In time they befriend and become romantically involved with the beautiful Haynes sisters who comprise a sister act.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Mary Wickes movies?


TOP 1:

The Court Jester

The Court Jester
Danny Kaye as: Hubert Hawkins
Genre: Music, Adventure, Comedy
Release: 1955
A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against a usurper who has overthrown the rightful king of England.


If you like the best Danny Kaye movies, then you will also like the best George Chakiris movies, where many of their films coincide.