“Danny Kaye Voluntarily Fading Out of TV Picture”
The Milwaukee Sentinel – Mar. 9, 1967
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Danny Kaye is hoping to revive a long dormant movie career after winding up four years on TV. He has been called the one star who cancelled himself because he was tired of what he was doing. He discussed it freely at Arthur where he sat with his collar open beside his wife, Sylvia Fine, and Sen. And Mrs. Jacob Javits.
“I’ve got three more to do, and it’s been wonderful—I see those people I work with more than I see my wife,” Danny said.
Sylvia, here working on a Broadway play, nodded to that.
“But it’s too easy,” Danny explained. “The reason I decided to do TV”—after long resistance to it—“was to take my life and shake it up.
“And that’s what I’m doing again, taking my life and shaking it up. I could stay on and fall into a groove but every groove becomes a rut. I should go back and make some movies. The last one I made was ‘The Man From the Diner’s Club.’”
Danny flies in April to Chichester, England, to rehearse for his starring role in “The Servant of Two Masters”—a theatrical classic for which he’ll receive $210 a week, or $1,050 for the 5 weeks he’ll work. “I turned down $700,000 worth of work to do it,” Danny said.