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The staff at White Roe, Livingston Manor, New York, summer of 1935.
A Young Danny Kaye
Born David Daniel Kaminsky in Brooklyn on January 18, 1911, the future Danny Kaye had a long road ahead of him to become the internationally recognized star of film, stage, and television. From an early age Kaye molded himself into a performer. As a teenager, he and friend Lou Eisen performed songs and comedy on New York street corners as "Red and Blackie." In 1929 the duo was hired as part of the entertainment staff at White Roe, a summer resort in the Catskill Mountains. There, and later at similar venues in the "Borscht Belt" (a term used for summer resorts in the Catskill Mountains), Kaye, like many Jewish entertainers of the time, developed his trade as a singing, dancing, and acting comedian. |