Sylvia Fine

Sylvia Fine ( born August 29, 1913 in Brooklyn, New York, † 28 October 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 to study music at Brooklyn College. During her studies, she was distinguished by a few compositions; inter alia, she set some poems of the poet Robert Friend.

The actor Danny Kaye, her future husband, she learned while working on a small Broadway show know. Although they were together grew up near in Brooklyn and Danny Kaye even had once worked for her father, she had never seen each other before.

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

On January 3, 1940, they married in New York and a small honeymoon led the two to Fort Lauderdale ( Florida). Both had a daughter ( born 1946 ).

In recent years, Fine wrote in her autobiography Fine & Danny, which remained unpublished but so far ( 2013).

Fine died on 28 October 1991 from emphysema and found their final resting place next to her husband at the Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, Westchester County.

Honors

Works (selection)

• Anatole of Paris - The Double Life of Walter Mitty. In 1947.
• The moon is blue - clouds are everywhere. 1953 ( together with Herschel Burke Gilbert )
• Knock on Wood - The Laughing bomb. In 1954.
• You'll never outfox the Fox - The Court Jester. 1956 ( along with Sammy Cahn ).
• The five pennies - The Five Pennies. In 1959.