“I am a wife-made man.”

—  Danny Kaye

Referring to the contributions that his wife Sylvia Fine's songs made to his career
[Halliwell, Leslie, Who's Who in the Movies, 2001, HarperCollins Entertainment, ISBN 0002572141, p. 242 (of 593)]

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