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Knock on Wood is a 1954 film starring Danny Kaye as "Jerry Morgan." The leading lady is played by Mai Zetterling. Others in the film are Torin Thatcher, David Burns and Leon Askin. Download high resolution version (2550x3300, 1272 KB)Poster from Knock on Wood File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Download high resolution version (2550x3300, 1272 KB)Poster from Knock on Wood File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Kaye entertaining U.S. troops at Sasebo, Japan, 25 Oct 1945 Danny Kaye (January 18, 1913 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, singer and comedian. ... Mai Zetterling (May 24, 1925-March 17, 1994) is an actress; she was born in Sweden and died in the United Kingdom from cancer, and lived for a time in Australia. ... David Burns was born on Mott Street in New York Citys Chinatown on June 22, 1902. ... Leon Askin (left) and Paulus Manker in a café in Vienna. ...

The movie is written and directed by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama. Norman Panama (21 April 1914 – 13 January 2003) was an American screenwriter and film director born in Chicago, Illinois. ...

Danny plays a ventriloquist with problems causing him to always lose out on love. Just when his relationship with a woman gets around to marriage, his puppet, Clarence, turns jealous. Mai is his psychiatrist, Ilse Nordstrom. Ventriloquism is an act of deception in which a person (ventriloquist) manipulates his or her voice so that it appears that the voice is coming from elsewhere. ...

Songs for the movie were written by Kaye's wife, Sylvia Fine. Sylvia Fine (1913-1991) was a American lyricist and widow of the comedian Danny Kaye. ...

One of the funny scenes is Kaye's impersonation of a British car salesman demostrating a new convertible with loads of bells and whistles.

"Knock on wood" is also a superstitious act and phrase one uses to ward off bad luck and jinxes by knocking on a wooden object. See also: Knocking on wood Knocking on wood, and the spoken expression knock on wood or touch wood are used as a charm to bring good luck or to avoid tempting fate after making some boast or similar statement. ...

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Knock on Wood is also a song in the movie, "Casablanca," with music by M.K. Jerome and lyrics by Jack Scholl. It is performed by Dooley Wilson ("Sam") and orchestra. Casablanca is a 1942 movie set during World War II in the Vichy-controlled Moroccan city of Casablanca. ...