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About Victor Borge: Comedy In Music
Product Description Victor Borge up close and personal! This new Victor Borge television special features his recently rediscovered funniest and most memorable skits - a truly unparalleled collection of routines not to be missed. Included is rare archival footage from the Andy Williams Show and the Perry Como Show (not seen in more than 40 years!), a classic hilarious performance of Phonetic Punctuation with President Reagan and Speaker of the House Tip ONeill in the audience, and touching, heartfelt reminiscences by Borges five children of their favorite routines. New routines include: Victor Works with Andy Williams as a Salesman for the Borge Pianos. Beethovens Minuet in G, and More from the Hollywood Palace. An Early American Folk Song. The Classic Timid Page Turner Routine. Clair de Lune with Full Orchestra. Borge plays Born Free with a special guest! Don not miss his one-lines, falls, double takes, his mastery of piano variations and his outrageous stage antics. Victor Borge has been recognized as one of the funniest performers the world has ever known. Treat yourself to a big dose of laughter and side-splitting comedy routines. Bonus Routines: Dance of the Comedians. Eisenhower Inaugural Ball Routine. The Opera Singer. Inflationary Language. Review A smile is the shortest distance between people. --Victor Borge This is the kind of collection that will get a lot of repeat play. --DVDTown.com About the Actor Borges early career in Denmark began to blossom just as the Nazis were sweeping Europe and persecuting Jews. Borge had married Elsie Chilton, an American, in 1926, and this would help facilitate his asylum. When the Nazis invaded Denmark, Borge was performing in Sweden. He fled that country to Finland and sailed to America on the U.S.S. American Legion, hitting American soil on August 28, 1940. The perilous journey would make Borge one of many European composers to escape to the United States, along with Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, and Paul Hindemith. Legend, propagated by Borge, has it that he learned the English language from movies viewed in the days opulent movie palaces. Whatever the case, he put his multilingualism to use in pursuing a brand of musicomedy similar to that which he would done in Denmark. It did not take long for Borge to see some success in the new world--he quickly began earning money playing piano as a private entertainer in Hollywood. Having arrived with $20 dollars in his pocket, he was on his way to his own version of the American dream.
