Danny Kaye: The Goldwyn Years On DVD

Actor:           Danny Kaye, Dinah Shore, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen , Dana Andrews                                                                                                                      
Director:      Howard Hawks, Bruce Humberstone, Norman Z. McLeod, Elliott Nugent
Genre:          Comedy
Year:             N/A
Studio:          Warner/Allied Vaughn
Length:         429
Released:    November 13, 2013
Rating:          Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format:         DVD
Misc:              NTSC, Color
Language:    English
Subtitles  :    N/A

DESCRIPTION:

After conquering the Borscht Belt and Broadway, David Daniel Kaminksi (Danny Kaye) got the nod from maverick impresario Samuel Goldwyn and under his tutelage soon mastered the movies as well. Kaye makes his feature film debut alongside Dinah Shore in Up in Arms (1944) as a hypochondriac war hero. Virginia Mayo gets paired with Kaye for the first time in Wonder Man (1945), which features one of his signature cinema schticks – multiple roles in the same film. Kaye plays twins with a twist: one of them is a ghost! The Kid from Brooklyn (1946) sees Kaye playing a milquetoast milkman who masters the squared circle and romances a nightclub nightingale (Virginia Mayo). A Song is Born (1948) sees Howard Hawks re-envisioning his classic Ball of Fire as a superstar jazz musical, with Kaye in the Gary Cooper role and Mayo in the Barbara Stanwyck role as the moll who sweeps several professors off their feet.