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She admitted that she used to control Danny, even from the piano. She pushes too hard. 'My family took one look at him,' said Sylvia, 'and thought I had lost my mind.' 'Her father,' said Danny, 'recognized me as the boy who had worked in his dental office and thought his daughter was making a terrible mistake.' (March 26, 1944) To satisfy their parents, Danny and Sylvia were remarried in a synagogue on February 22, 1940.

They were "used to a more refined style of entertainment," as one article put it. In the course of becoming successful professionally, our marriage relationships got a little lost." (pg 145)

Sylvia: "Danny and I talked things over for a week, so I cannot say he walked out on me in a sudden mood.

Danny is such a nice kid, and she is a strong woman—too strong. In 1975 she was executive producer for a television special, "Danny Kaye: Look In at the Met."

She produced and edited "Assignment Children," a UNICEF film that starred her husband." In the last three years of her life, she had been writing an autobiography, Fine and Danny, about her life with Kaye for Knopf Books.

Fine and Kaye had a daughter, Dena (born December 17, 1946), and they remained married, although estranged from circa 1947 on, until his death in 1987.

Sylvia Fine Kaye died of emphysema at the age of 78 in her Manhattan apartment in 1991.

Since Gottfried’s book is so well-known and Singer’s is quite rare, I’d like to share Singer’s version of the split with you in the following biographical summary, in hopes that you, too, will have a new view of Danny and his wife. Sylvia’s “untempered frankness, her aggressive behavior on the set, her unwanted discussions with Mr. Goldwyn, and her occasional impolite attitude toward directors, technicians and stagehands.” (pg 129) Danny also often felt that Sylvia was his mother more than his wife.

Max Liebman urged both Danny and Sylvia to join “his "Straw Hat Revue"at Camp Tamiment in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvannia.” Both agreed. Star of the show was Danny . (Jewish Women's Archives, The Danny Kaye Story pg 73) At the reception, Sylvia’s father drew the couple aside and asked Sylvia where she had met Danny.

I think he has a guilty feeling toward her for all she does. Finally Danny had enough of the constant whispers about his success and career not being possible without Sylvia. While he doesn't come right out and say that, one is left with a lot of negative impressions. And nowadays so does Danny. (The Danny Kaye Story pg 69)

Kurt Singer describes it like this in The Danny Kaye Story: "The two young artists spent the hours rehearsing, planning, creating, composing, singing and laughing." As the months passed, the two developed a friendship.

Recipient of a Peabody Award for Musical Comedy Tonight I (1979), based on her courses at the University of Southern California and Yale University, she endowed the Sylvia Fine Chair in Musical Theater at Brooklyn College, which granted her an honorary doctorate (1985). Sylvia, along with the club's publicity manager, Eddie Dukoff (who later became Danny's manager), gave Danny a pep talk.

(The Danny Kaye Story pg 140) Singer explains that Danny realized their marriage had not been fixed; the problems still existed. "[Danny] had let his hair grow long because he thought he looked funnier for his stage parts that way. In 1947, the Kayes separated briefly, thereafter seldom inhabiting the same domicile (in New York and Beverly Hills).