Danny Kaye 7 Royal Command Performance (1948)
Comedian, film star, singer Danny Kaye in action at Royal Command Performance 1948 London Palladium. Unedited footage, cuts, rushes, out takes. High angle shot panning over the audience standing for the National Anthem and applauding, looking up at the Royal Box in the theatre. Cut to Danny Kaye s entrance, with band playing jazz number behind him. When the applause dies down he makes a highpitched laugh and says he it is very nice to be back home again at the London Palladium. Cut to Danny performing song about native girls on a desert island ( not sure what title is). He does some comical conducting of the band, then runs back to the microphone and stomps about singing Tip Toe Through The Tulips Cut to Danny introducing a song about Terpsichore. Cuts of him talking in foreign accent and singing comical song about dancing and ballet. Danny sings part of Begin The Beguine, deliberately singing out of key very funny. Danny tap dancing and doing a fast, complicated step yellin
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