Victor Borge

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The Carpenters First Special was a performance of a variety of sketches with guest stars Victor Borge and John Denver.

"A Tribute Victor Borge" celebrates the life and work of the beloved international humorist and musician. Victor Borge was born in Copenhagen in 1909 into a musical family.He was a child prodigy and began his perfrming carreer at a very early age. For more than eight decades, he has never been out of the spotlight.

The Great Dane, Victor Borge, performs with friends at a theatre in Washington D.C. for an evening of laughs and music.

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Ms. Møller is a cashier in a large piano store and will soon be celebrating her 25th anniversary. She wants to help the sweet young Grete Holm in the packing room. In order for the poor and orphaned Grete to meet a rich young man, Ms. Møller invites her on a skiing holiday in Sweden. Grete finds herself a ski instructor, and it all goes wrong when Ms. Møller has all her savings stolen and is also accused by the piano company's director of having taken the cash herself. However, she manages to expose the real thief, and Grete's ski instructor turns out to be an engineer with his own company.

Victor Borge's unique combination as musician and humorist has long made him a legend. Affectionately know as "The Great Dane", he is an ambassador of goodwill for both his native Denmark and his adopted America. This special new home video captures the magic moments from some of his early movies and TV shows and from live performances taped at the Fox Theatre in Detroit.

Victor Borge: The Great Dane of Comedy"Victor Borge: The Great Dane Of Comedy" is a hilarious look at the comedy and music from the Borge vaults, featuring such classic comedy bits as "Count Fall-off-of", "Play Something On the Piano", "The Mozart Opera" and many more. Hailed as a child prodigy, Victor Borge began his performing career as a concert pianist in the 1920s. For eight decades he was never out of the spotlight. "The Great Dane", as the beloved international humorist and musician was known, was celebrated around world for his unique blend of comedy and music. Don't miss his one-liners, 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.

Christensen is the caretaker of a property in the inner city. He is a bachelor and has taken in a poor little girl. The house is inhabited by ordinary people, and the friendly caretaker is like a father to them. Up in the attic lives a whole colony of young artists: actors, dancers, writers and composers. They are poor, but they hold the flag high. They are confident that one day they will have their big breakthrough, and they are working diligently on a revue that their leader, a young musician and composer, has written.

A young, famous crime writer writes under the name Jess Clarck but is actually called Sven Hansen. He is married to a lovely woman who, in her warm, luxurious life, does not understand that her husband draws inspiration for his exciting books by diving in and mingling with the dregs of society. Jess Clarck and his wife have returned home to Denmark, and Clarck wants to write a crime novel for the first time, set in Copenhagen, but how will he find an environment in peaceful Denmark?

The noble knights of yesteryear - like the Three Musketeers - threw themselves carelessly into battle to save a lady's honor. The knights of our time are on motorcycles - and they are used for that. A young girl is to be married - but before the wedding she is pressured by an ex-boyfriend who wants to publish her letters to him. Four friends go on motorcycles to Stockholm to sort out the peas...

Known to his fans as the "Clown Prince of Denmark," or "Great Dane," the remarkably talented Copenhagen-native Victor Borge performs some of his funniest moments from a collection of his earliest television and film appearances on Victor Borge: Then and Now. The magic moments from "the Great Dane's" career are offered in this retrospective featuring performances of such numbers as "Clair de Lune," funny music-oriented stories and classic clips of Mr. Borge with Fozzie Bear, impersonating Franz Liszt for Mike Wallace, and playing "Yankee Doodle Dandy" for a smart baby. The 90-minute production also features some of the highlights from several performances filmed at the Fox Theatre in Detroit, MI, and serves as an informal retrospective on Borge's long and multifaceted entertainment career.

This DVD offers a collection of entertaining television moments from comedian/pianist Victor Borge that were thought lost. The disc contains a standard full-frame transfer. The English soundtrack does what it can with the limited quality of the source materials. This is an excellent disc for those who count themselves fans of Borge's singular style, as well as for people looking for a title the whole family can enjoy.

After the elections in 1929, where the Social Democrats are ahead, the work of rebuilding Danish society begins in earnest. A bold young man with faith in life, himself and the labor movement returns to the country, as legislation creates the opportunity to live abroad, where he feels at home. Ten years of struggle for work and democratic rule are experienced through living people. Stauning speaks before and after the film.

This program contains a collection of comedy and music by Victor Borge including such comedy bits as "The Timid Page Turner" and "Phonetic Punctuation." ~ Cammila Collar, Rovi

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This DVD offers a collection of entertaining television moments from comedian/pianist Victor Borge that were thought lost. The disc contains a standard full-frame transfer. The English soundtrack does what it can with the limited quality of the source materials. This is an excellent disc for those who count themselves fans of Borge's singular style, as well as for people looking for a title the whole family can enjoy.

Here is a daffy dozen of Victor Borge's most beloved routines from more than a half-century onstage. Whether he's providing hilarious accompaniment to some very confused singers or demonstrating "Inflationarhy Language," there is only one thing you can be sure of: When Borge is onstage, anything can happen!