Sylvia Fine

Sylvia Fine (born August 29, 1913 in Brooklyn , New York , † October 28, 1991 in New York) was an American composer and film producer .

Life

Fine was the youngest daughter of a dentist. She attended Thomas Jefferson High School and then began studying music at Brooklyn College . Already during her studies she distinguished herself with several compositions; u. a. she set some poems by the poet Robert Friend to music .

She met the actor Danny Kaye , her future husband, while working on a small Broadway show. Although they grew up close together in Brooklyn and Danny Kaye had even worked for her father once, they had never met before.

In 1954 and 1960 she was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Song category. In 1976 she won a Daytime Emmy Award .

They married in New York on January 3, 1940 and a small honeymoon took them to Fort Lauderdale ( Florida ). Both had a daughter (* 1946).

In the last few years Fine wrote her autobiography Fine & Danny , which was previously unpublished (2013).

Fine died of emphysema on October 28, 1991 and was buried next to her husband in Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla , Westchester County .

Honors

• 1980 Peabody Award for the show Musical Comedy Tonight

Works (selection)

• Pavlova - The hero of the day . 1946
• Anatole of Paris - The double life of Mr. Mitty . 1947.
• The Moon Is Blue - clouds are everywhere . 1953 (with Herschel Burke Gilbert )
• Knock on Wood - The Laughing Bomb . 1954.
• You'll never outfox the Fox - The Court Jester . 1956 (together with Sammy Cahn ).
• The Five Pennies - Five Pennies . 1959.

literature

• Martin Gottfried: Nobody's fool. The lives of Danny Kaye . Simon & Schuster, New York 1994, ISBN 0-671-86494-7 .

Web links

• Sylvia Fine in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• William Grimes: Sylvia Fine, 78, songwriter. A proponent of musical theater . In: The New York Times, October 29, 1991.