“I became an entertainer not because I wanted to but because I was meant to.”

—  Danny Kaye

[Halliwell, Leslie, Who's Who in the Movies, 2001, HarperCollins Entertainment, ISBN 0002572141, p. 242]

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American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian 1913–1987

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