17 Facts About Sylvia Fine

Sylvia Fine Kaye was an American lyricist, composer, and producer.

Sylvia Fine won an Emmy award in 1976 for a children's special.

Sylvia Fine was born in Brooklyn, New York, the youngest of three children of a Jewish dentist, and raised in East New York.

Sylvia Fine attended Thomas Jefferson High School and studied music at Brooklyn College, where she wrote the music for the school's alma mater, with lyrics from the poet Robert Friend.

Sylvia Fine was working as an audition pianist when she met Danny Kaye; both were working on a short-lived Broadway show, The Straw Hat Revue.

Dr Sylvia Fine had fired his future son-in-law for doing woodworking with his dental drills.

Sylvia Fine proposed on the telephone while working in Florida; Fine was in New York.

Sylvia Fine made the trip to Fort Lauderdale where they were married on January 3,1940.

Sylvia Fine took a direct role in managing her husband's career and wrote many of his songs for him, both in film and recordings.

Sylvia Fine was an associate producer of some of the films.

Sylvia Fine received a Peabody Award in 1980, and during her career she was nominated for two Oscars and two Emmys.

Sylvia Fine began working in television production with her husband's 1960s television shows.

Sylvia Fine began teaching musical comedy at the University of Southern California in 1971 and at Yale in 1975.

Sylvia Fine produced and narrated the course as a 90-minute PBS program Musical Comedy Tonight, earning her a Peabody Award in 1979.

Sylvia Fine produced and edited Assignment Children, a UNICEF film that starred her husband.

Sylvia Fine Kaye died of emphysema at the age of 78 in her Manhattan apartment in 1991.

Sylvia Fine is buried with her husband at Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York.