Danny Kaye: Last News

“White Christmas” star Anne Whitfield — who played Susan Waverly in the 1954 holiday film — has died. She was 85.

Anne Whitfield, who appeared at age 15 in the 1954 Hollywood Christmas chestnut White Christmas and went on to a prolific career in episodic TV throughout the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, died February 15 at a hospital in Yakima, Washington. She was 85.

Norman Frederick Jewison, acclaimed and incredibly versatile director of In the Heat of the Night, Fiddler on the Roof and Moonstruck, died peacefully Saturday, January 20, 2024 at home at the age of 97.

William Shatner has no regrets over skipping his Star Trek co-star Leonard Nimoy's funeral. The 91-year-old sparked controversy when he decided to keep his prior commitment to attend a Red Cross fundraising event in Florida instead of going to his co-star's funeral in Los Angeles in March 2015. During an interview with Variety, Shatner was asked about the backlash and if he regretted not attending the service.

William Shatner is getting vulnerable about mortality.

William Shatner is aware of his mortality.

Marsha Hunt, one of the last surviving actors from Hollywood’s so-called Golden Age of the 1930s and 1940s who worked with performers ranging from Laurence Olivier to Andy Griffith in a career disrupted for a time by the McCarthy-era blacklist, has died. She was 104.

Comedian and actress Pat Carroll, a television pioneer and an Emmy, Drama Desk and Grammy winner, died at her home on Cape Cod, Massachusetts on July 30, while recovering from pnuemonia.

His success, he said in a 2013 interview, was inspired by the “vacuum” of a loveless upbringing.Speaking to the Daily Express, he said: “I had always been the song-and-dance man of the family.“I remember my father referring to me as ‘Our little Danny Kaye’ when I was about seven.“That was the only remotely positive comment I remember from them.“They never praised me or acknowledged a gram of talent.“Their way was to mock, ‘When are you going to finish with this acting lark?’ That sort of thing.”The Queen, he explained, helped heal the scars of his upbringing when she awarded him a knighthood in 2002 for services to the British film industry.He said: “Any kind of embrace was totally absent from my life.“So to be embraced by Her Majesty, I felt like stopping people in the street, saying ‘My mum loves me, you know’.“Because that’s what it felt like, to me.The filling of a vacuum in the universe.”Speaking separately to the BBC at the time, he said: “I told the Queen that winning an Oscar pales into insignificance — this is insurmountable.“I've been nominated for an Academy Award but I will be sitting there, in Los Angeles, thinking I'm a knight bachelor.”He added: “I feel that I am a storyteller and to receive a knighthood is really recognition of that.”He heartbreakingly admitted that, rather than being proud, his mother had been “very jealous” of his immense success.Sir Ben, married four times, has four children and is hugely proud of each of them.He told the Express: “In contrast to my parents their ribs are in danger of being crushed.”Sir Ben has largely cut ties from his past, having changed his name in the Sixties.On the impact of adopting an English-sounding name, he told the Radio Times in 2020: “As soon as I changed