![Danny Kaye & Laurence Oliver
There are persistent rumors that Kaye was either homosexual or bisexual, and some sources claim that Kaye and Laurence Olivier had a ten-year relationship in the 1950s while Olivier was still married to Vivien Leigh.[72] A biography of Leigh states that the alleged relationship caused her to have a breakdown.[73] The alleged relationship has been denied by Olivier’s official biographer, Terry Coleman.[74] Joan Plowright, Olivier’s widow, has dealt with the matter in different ways on different occasions: she deflected the question (but alluded to Olivier’s “demons”) in a BBC interview [75]. However, in her memoirs Plowright denies that there had been an affair between the two men.[76]Producer Perry Lafferty reported: “People would ask me, ‘Is he gay? Is he gay?’ I never saw anything to substantiate that in all the time I was with him.”[53] Kaye’s final girlfriend, Marlene Sorosky, reported that he told her, “I’ve never had a homosexual experience in my life. I’ve never had any kind of gay relationship. I’ve had opportunities, but I never did anything about them.”[53] (.)
(Sidenote: Danny Kaye’s Wikipedia is an excellent read, at the very least so you can know about the special stove he installed on his patio to pursue his love of chinese cookery)](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvvddcdanh1r5xsw9o1_400.jpg)
Danny Kaye & Laurence Oliver
There are persistent rumors that Kaye was either homosexual or bisexual, and some sources claim that Kaye and Laurence Olivier had a ten-year relationship in the 1950s while Olivier was still married to Vivien Leigh.[72] A biography of Leigh states that the alleged relationship caused her to have a breakdown.[73] The alleged relationship has been denied by Olivier’s official biographer, Terry Coleman.[74] Joan Plowright, Olivier’s widow, has dealt with the matter in different ways on different occasions: she deflected the question (but alluded to Olivier’s “demons”) in a BBC interview [75]. However, in her memoirs Plowright denies that there had been an affair between the two men.[76]Producer Perry Lafferty reported: “People would ask me, ‘Is he gay? Is he gay?’ I never saw anything to substantiate that in all the time I was with him.”[53] Kaye’s final girlfriend, Marlene Sorosky, reported that he told her, “I’ve never had a homosexual experience in my life. I’ve never had any kind of gay relationship. I’ve had opportunities, but I never did anything about them.”[53] (.)
(Sidenote: Danny Kaye’s Wikipedia is an excellent read, at the very least so you can know about the special stove he installed on his patio to pursue his love of chinese cookery)
