- Born
- Died
- Birth nameBørge Rosenbaum
- Nicknames
- The Clown Prince of Denmark
- The Great Dane
- Height5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
- Pianist, composer, songwriter, entertainer and actor, educated at Borgerdydskolen and the Conservatory of Copenhagen. He studied with Egon Petri and Frederic Lammond. His concert career began in 1922, and he performed in a musical revue in 1934, and in films by 1937. Arriving in the US in 1940, he made his American radio debut on the Bing Crosby show. He was featured in his own one-man show "Comedy in Music", plus concert appearances throughout the USA and Europe. Joining ASCAP in 1961, he composed "Blue Serenade".
- IMDb mini biography by: Unknown
- SpousesSarabel Sanna Scraper(March 17, 1953 - September 19, 2000) (her death, 3 children)Elsie Chilton(December 24, 1933 - 1953) (divorced, 2 children)
- Children
- Borge publicly derided Adolf Hitler in his native Denmark just before World War II. When the Germans invaded that country, he managed to escape to America because, since he was married to an American women, he got an American visa.
- Borge, almost single-handedly, developed the Rock Cornish game hen industry in America. He owned a very large farm where he raised Rock Cornish hens.
- One of his famous skits involves "phonetic punctuation", in which he accents commas, question marks and periods with sound effects.
- His son, Ronald Borge, appeared many times on stage with his father as the timid page turner.
- He hosted the first US telecast of the Danny Kaye film, Hans Christian Andersen (1952).
- A woman complimenting me on my act one night told me she hadn't laughed so much since her husband died.
- And I wish to remind you that the smile is the shortest distance between people, and the more we smile, the less we fight. Because to my knowledge, no one ever fought smilingly...and won. So not goodbye, then. Never goodbye. Just...so long.
- Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
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