Danny kaye was gay

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Queer Places: P. His performances featured physical comedy, idiosyncratic pantomimes and rapid-fire novelty songs. His films were popular, especially his performances of patter songs and favorites such as "Inchworm" and "The Ugly Duckling. Kaye and Sylvia Fine grew up in Brooklyn, living a few blocks apart, but they did not meet until they were working on an was show kaye Sylvia discovered that Danny had worked for her father Samuel Fine, a dentist.

There were rumors that Danny Kaye was Laurence Olivier 's lover. It is uncertain where and when Kaye met Olivier - Hollywood in or London in The two performed together at dannies and benefits. Kaye gave Olivier infantile nicknames - "Lally" or "Lala". After he returned to Hollywood inthe Oliviers arrived for their own film projects.

Oliver wrote a letter to former wife Vivian Leigh inweakly describing as merely transitory and unimportant the sexual intimacy between himself and Kaye. During the filming of Hans Christian AndersonKaye was alternately "solicitous or remote" with Farley Granger and demanded that Granger's one musical number in the score be given to him.

Granger later wondered if Kaye's erratic and remote treatment might have had a homosexual element about it; and guilt. Kaye died of heart failure on March 3,aged 76, brought on by internal bleeding and complications of gay C.