Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Classic Stars Match Play #17 - Danny Kaye vs Jerry Lewis

Welcome back to the second match focusing on film comedians this week. As W.C. Fields and Groucho Marx began their battle on Monday, let's get going with Danny Kaye and Jerry Lewis. The match begins today and will run thru Sunday 2 pm EST. Good luck to both gentlemen.

DANNY KAYE
Danny doing his pre-routine match play dance.....


Name: David Daniel Kaminski
Birth Date: January 18, 1913 (Brooklyn, New York City)
Height: 5' 11"
Academy Awards: Honorary Award (1955)
Monties: none so far, but I haven't reached his peak period yet
My favorite Danny film: Wonder Man and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Match play record: 0-1 (had the unfortunate luck of facing William Holden in the first round of the
50's ear of the favorite classic actor tournament 2011 and got crushed 41-5..ouch)

CLASSIC STARS MATCH PLAY

JERRY LEWIS
I'm coming for you Danny, my boy...

Name: Joseph Levitch
Birth Date: March 16, 1926 (Newark, New Jersey)
Height: 6'
Academy Awards: Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (2009)
Monties: none so far

My favorite Jerry film: The Ladies Man (1961)
Match play record: 0-1 (Lost to Robert Redford in the first round of the 60's era of
the favorite classic actor tournament 2011)

3 comments:

  1. Danny Kaye for me.

    I appreciate Jerry, but I laugh more at/with Kaye.

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  2. Jerry introduced me to old Hollywood, so I'll have to go with him.

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  3. Monty, as far as I'm concerned, Danny Kaye is The Man! :-)

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