Screenland Plus TV-Land (Nov 1952 - Oct 1953)

program's biographical notes, learned that the newcomer was one Danny Kaye, alumnus of the Summer camp theatres, whose sole previous stage engagement had been with a short-lived musical production called, "Straw Hat Revue," two years earlier. Since the "Lady In The Dark" hit, of course, Kaye's name has become internationally famous by virtue of the eight motion pictures he has made in Hollywood beginning with "Up In Arms" just ten years ago. His current success, "Hans Christian Andersen," is his most ambitious performance on the screen to date. The years before he was acclaimed on the New York stage were anything but "golden." He learned his trade the hard way. During a rehearsal for his current Palace Theatre appearances in New York, he waxed nostalgic and admitted he had personally selected January 18th for his Opening Night at the famous vaudeville house so that it would coincide with his 40th birthday. Anniversaries of special dates and events are of major importance to the sentimental screen star. Every January 3rd is a Red Letter day for Kaye. On this date, in 1940, he married Sylvia Fine, daughter of a well-todo Brooklyn dentist. It was Sylvia who wrote — and still does — the music and lyrics for the special material introduced by Danny in the years he labored for recognition. The talented star has always been aware that clean material is an asset; 90% of his success, he will tell you, is due to the "impeccable taste" of Sylvia Fine Kaye. Before his Palace Theatre first night, it was Max Liebman, Danny's original idea man and manager (now producer of TV's "Show Of Shows"), who reminded him of another Danny Kaye premiere back in 1935 when the inimitable comedian headed a musical comedy unit called, "A. B. Marcus' La Vie Paree," which began a tour of the Orient in Tokyo. During the first performance, Japanese radicals who objected to American entertainment broke up the show, but it was Danny who quelled the mob, and the show settled down for a record-breaking nine weeks run. In Osaka, they were all but wiped out by a typhoon but managed to get to Shanghai, Hong Kong, Bangkok and Singapore to complete the tour. It is to this year's experience, playing to audiences which understood no English, that Kaye attributes his skill in pantomime. The oddest thing about Danny Kaye is that he always wanted to be — and still wants to be — a surgeon! Watching operations even now is his favorite pastime. Forsaking Each Other: Singer-turnedactor, Roger Dann, featured in Alfred Hitchcock's "I Confess," the Montgomery Clift-Anne Baxter thriller, has popped THE question to lovely Nina Foch, who as yet hasn't said yes or no — Nina won't even say "maybe." Intimates of both insist the blonde actress will wait until her latest films, "Sombrero" and "Fast Company," are shown in New York, before deciding upon any marital venture. Although Roger has keen competition from another actor, Bob Pastene (he's Patricia Neal's leading man in "The Children's Hour," Broadway stage play), the FochDann duo are a nightly "attraction" at various night spots, hand-holding and dancing cheek-to-cheek to further confound the skeptics. To make it seem more like a movie plot, it was Roger who escorted Nina Foch to the Broadway premiere of "The Children's Hour" and they were the first to rush backstage to congratulate Bob Pastene and Pat Neal. Next night out, it was Pat Neal being wined and dined by Dann at Maud Chez Elle, while Bob Pastene was picking up the tab for his dinner date at the Versailles — with Nina Foch! Hollywood's Best Dressed Man of the Month in Manhattan: Bill "Hopalong Cassidy" Boyd, spotted at Bruno's Pen & Pencil, where he dined with his beautiful wife, the former Grace Bradley, whom he introduced to host Bruno as "Skipalong Cassidy." Doffing his traditional ten gallon white felt hat, the silver thatched cowboy star wore a singlebreasted navy blue serge suit (three-buttons), white shirt, spread collar, French cuffs, with a dark blue and pale pink striped silk tie knotted in Windsor fashion. Navy blue leather cowboy boots trimmed in white, completed his "off screen" attire. Hollywood's Least Glamourous Visiting Film Star of the Month in Gotham: Lizabeth Scott, prancing through her hotel lobby, the staid, elegant Plaza where casual clothes and manners are frowned upon, wearing faded blue denim dungarees, scuffed loafers, pink bobby soxer socks, matching wool turtleneck sweater and wrinkled trenchcoat. 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