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Victor Borge: Denmark January
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Victor guested Toast of the Town, hosted by Ed Sullivan, several times during 1948, and became a naturalized citizen of the United States of America the same year. He started the Comedy in Music show on The Golden Theatre in New York City on October 2, 1953. After divorcing his wife Elsie, he married Sarabel Sanna Rodgers (daughter of Richard Rodgers) in 1953. Comedy in Music became the longest running one-man show, with 849 performances when he stopped January 21, 1956, being accepted into the Guinness book of world records.
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Victor Borge (pronounced Bor-ga) just celebrated his 91st birthday. [This was written at the beginning of January, 2000.] Only a month earlier he was honored at Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center, a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors.
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Borge died in Greenwich, Connecticut, after more than 75 years of entertaining. He died peacefully, in his sleep, the day after returning from a concert in Denmark and was interred at Putnam Cemetery in Greenwich. A replica of the Danish icon The Little Mermaid sits on a large rock at the gravesite. "It was just his time to go," Frederikke Borge said. "He's been missing my mother terribly."
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Once grown and educated... Borge preferred music halls and comedy to concert venues. In the 1930s, he got a lot of laughs imitating Adolf Hitler--until Hitler invaded Denmark. Borge fled to the U.S.
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Borge often made Adolf Hitler a butt of his jokes, and he was fortunate to be in Sweden when the Nazis invaded Denmark in 1940. Soon after, he and his American wife, Elsie, left for the United States, arriving with nothing but their Scottish terrier.
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