Danny Kaye

Made guest appearance playing a dentist on "The Bill Cosby Show"

TV movie debut, "Skokie"

Played character part of ragpicker in final film, "The Madwoman of Chaillot"

Toured Vietnam war fronts with the USO

Starred on "The Danny Kaye Show" on TV

Signed with MGM to film a musical version of "Huckleberry Finn" co-starring Gene Kelly; film postponed, then project abandoned

Formed Dena Productions with Sylvia Fine

First performed at the London Palladium

Premiere of "The Danny Kaye Show" on CBS radio

Feature film debut in "Up in Arms"

Signed contract with Samuel Goldwyn who insisted he lighten his hair to blond; Sylvia Fine also signed by Goldwyn to write special material for husband

Gained first major notice for his high-speed novelty number, "Tchaikovsky" in the Kurt Weill-Ira Gershwin Broadway musical, "Lady in the Dark"

Headlined a vaudeville revue at the Palace Theater in NY

Rejected MGM contract at $3,000 per week

Starred in the Cole Porter musical "Let's Face It" on Broadway

Broadway debut in "The Straw Hat Revue", comprised of skit material from summer camp in Pennsylvania that he, Sylvia Fine, Max Liebman and Imogene Coca had worked in

New York stage debut, "Left of Broadway"

Performed in cabaret show at the Dorchester in London

Starred in "Getting an Eyeful" and "Cupid Takes a Holiday", short subjects for Educational Pictures; three shorts were later compiled into film titled, "The Danny Kaye Story/Birth of a Star" (1944)

Short film debut, "Dime a Dance" (two-reel short; produced by small independent film company, Educational Pictures)

Returned to Broadway as Noah in the Richard Rodgers-Martin Charnin musical "Two By Two"

Stage debut in a vaudeville revue that toured US and Asia, "La Vie Paris"

Toured with Abe Lyman's Band

Travelled to the Orient with A.B. Marcus Show

Worked as a performing busboy at Catskill summer camps; worked as a soda jerk between engagements