List of the best Danny Kaye movies: The Man From the Diner's Club(1963), The Court Jester(1955), The Five Pennies(1959), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty(1947), Hans Christian Andersen(1952), A Song Is Born(1948), The Inspector General(1949), Merry Andrew(1958), The Kid From Brooklyn(1946), On the Double(1961), Knock on Wood(1954), Me and the Colonel(1958) ... ...
7.9/10
Comedy
USA
1963
96 Minutes
Ernest Klenk
clerk mobster girlfriend fiancée boss madcap lighthearted winsome office spa mexico wedding fraud tax evasion faking death mix-up pursuit love underdog 1960s
A former prisoner of war is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.
7.9/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1955
101 Minutes
Executive Producer
Danny Kaye Norman Panama Glynis Johns Basil Rathbone Angela Lansbury Cecil Parker Mildred Natwick Robert Middleton Michael Pate Herbert Rudley Noel Drayton
carnival worker maid king princess jester witch lighthearted hilarious cheeky england forest castle woods hut courtyard royalty impersonation schemes magic father/daughter relationship
A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against an evil ruler who has overthrown the rightful King.
7.2/10
Musical
USA
1959
117 Minutes
"Red" Nichols
Danny Kaye Barbara Bel Geddes Bob Crosby Harry Guardino Susan Gordon Tuesday Weld Valerie Allen Ray Anthony Shelly Manne Bobby Troup Ray Daly
jazz musician wife louis armstrong daughter coworker bandleader spirited touching cool tender new york city san francisco los angeles jazz club family home red nichols jazz musicians polio father/daughter relationship
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 ... See full summary »
7.0/10
Comedy
USA
1947
108 Minutes
Danny Kaye Virginia Mayo Boris Karloff Fay Bainter Ann Rutherford Thurston Hall Konstantin Shayne Florence Bates Gordon Jones Reginald Denny Henry Corden
man fiancée mother beautiful woman villain criminal endearing amusing united states city household dreams imagination courage heroism crime adventure quest pursuit 1940s
A clumsy daydreamer gets caught up in a sinister conspiracy.
6.9/10
Kids & Family, Musical
USA
1952
120 Minutes
Hans Christian Andersen
Danny Kaye Zizi Jeanmaire Farley Granger Roland Petit John Qualen Joseph Walsh Philip Tonge Eric Bruhn John Brown Robert Malcolm George Chandler
writer ballerina choreographer child heartwarming dreamy spectacular theater small town copenhagen, denmark hans christian andersen struggle writing unrequited love fable discovery love 1830s
The opening scene of the movie describes it best: "Once upon a time there lived in Denmark a great storyteller named Hans Christian Andersen. This is not the story of his life, but a fairy tale about the great spinner of fairy tales."
6.9/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1948
113 Minutes
Professor Hobart Frisbee
Danny Kaye Virginia Mayo Benny Goodman Hugh Herbert Steve Cochran Felix Bressart Louis Armstrong Charlie Barnet Lionel Hampton Tommy Dorsey
professor music teacher musician janitor singer gangster amusing lighthearted college nightclub crime jazz college writing entertainment discovery rescue 1940s
With her gangster boyfriend under investigation by the police, a nightclub singer hides out in a musical research institution staffed by bachelor professors - one of whom begins to fall for her.
6.8/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1949
102 Minutes
Georgi
Danny Kaye Walter Slezak Barbara Bates Elsa Lanchester Gene Lockhart Alan Hale Walter Catlett Rhys Williams
government official gypsy police officer mayor idiot con artist charming cheeky amusing hilarious fictional country europe small town corruption mistaken identity politics extortion underdog rise escape
A town's corrupt officials think a fool is actually an investigator in disguise.
6.8/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1958
103 Minutes
Andrew Larabee
Danny Kaye Pier Angeli Noel Purcell Robert Coote Salvatore Baccaloni
teacher clown fiancée acrobat farmer amusing lighthearted sussex circus england archaeology entertainment love triangle discovery love 1950s
Downtrodden but creative English school-teacher (Danny Kaye) on archeological trip discovers joys of love and circus life with acrobat (Pier Angeli).
6.6/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1946
114 Minutes
Danny Kaye Vera-Ellen Virginia Mayo Walter Abel Eve Arden Steve Cochran Lionel Stander Fay Bainter Clarence Kolb Victor Cutler Charles Cane
milkman sister pretty woman boxer coach manager lighthearted playful amusing club alley apartment boxing ring gym warehouse publicity deception boxing brother/sister relationship drugs
After a timid milkman knocks unconscious a boxing champion who was accosting his sister, he decides to take up boxing himself in order to impress a beautiful nightclub singer.
6.5/10
Comedy
USA
1961
92 Minutes
Pfc. Ernie Williams
Danny Kaye Dana Wynter Wilfrid Hyde-White Margaret Rutherford Diana Dors Allan Cuthbertson Jesse White Gregory Walcott Terence de Marney Rex Evans Edgar Barrier
private lady wife valet colonel captain general corporal sergeant adolf hitler amusing confident engaging frenetic gripping gutsy hilarious intricate madcap patriotic
At the time of the Invasion of Normandy, an American soldier is asked to impersonate a British General in order to confuse the Nazi spies and assassins in London.
Comedy
1954
103 Minutes
Jerry Morgan, Papa Morgan, Clarence
Danny Kaye Melvin Frank Mai Zetterling Torin Thatcher David Burns Leon Askin Abner Biberman
ventriloquist manager fiancée repairman spy psychiatrist hilarious playful engaging paris stage shop airplane hotel car dealership ventriloquism mental breakdown secret plans espionage mistaken identity
A ventriloquist (Danny Kaye) with a rude dummy sees a London psychiatrist (Mai Zetterling) and winds up chased by spies.
Comedy
1958
110 Minutes
S.L. Jacobowsky
jewish refugee colonel fiancé nazi witty engaging profound paris castle england race relations invasion holocaust anti-semitism world war ii rivalry underdog love quest 1940s
An anti-Semitic Polish colonel (Curt Jurgens) and his French girlfriend (Nicole Maurey) escape Nazis, thanks to a wily Polish Jew (Danny Kaye).
Musical, Comedy
1945
98 Minutes
Edwin Dingle, Buzzy Bellew
Danny Kaye Virginia Mayo Vera-Ellen Donald Woods S.Z. Sakall Allen Jenkins Edward Brophy Steve Cochran Otto Kruger Natalie Schafer
librarian entertainer gangster girlfriend dancer thug witty madcap nightclub backstage city ghosts possession siblings murder performance investigation revenge love transformation
When a brash young nightclub entertainer is murdered, his ghost urges his studious twin brother to seek revenge.
7.6/10
Musical, Comedy, Other
USA
1954
120 Minutes
Phil Davis
Bing Crosby Danny Kaye Rosemary Clooney Vera-Ellen Dean Jagger Mary Wickes John Brascia Anne Whitfield Richard Shannon Grady Sutton Sig Ruman
singer sister general innkeeper veteran lighthearted amusing charming touching vermont inn battlefield new york city christmas financial crisis singing concert friendship rescue love
A successful song-and-dance team become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general.
Comedy
1938
17 Minutes
Charles Kemper Danny Kaye Sally Starr Clyde Fillmore Jack Squires Jack Hartley
6.1/10
Comedy
USA
1969
132 Minutes
Katharine Hepburn Charles Boyer Claude Dauphin Edith Evans John Gavin Paul Henreid Oscar Homolka Margaret Leighton Giulietta Masina Nanette Newman Richard Chamberlain
Nice, eccentric, idealistic and slightly mad Countess Aurelia, who believes that the good must prevail over evil, decides to stand up to corrupt powerful leaders of Paris by putting them on trial with 'unwashed masses' as the jury.
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