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    Danny Kaye delivers "the vessel with the pestle" and plenty of laughs in his most famous role as The Court Jester (1956).

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Court Jester, The - (Original Trailer)
Court Jester, The
Court Jester, The - (Original Trailer)
Danny Kaye delivers "the vessel with the pestle" and plenty of laughs in his most famous role as The Court Jester (1956).>
Court Jester, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip)...
Hawkins (Danny Kaye), posing as Italian Giacomo, arrives at...
Court Jester, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Incomparable Giacomo
Hawkins (Danny Kaye), posing as Italian Giacomo, arrives at the castle, missing the signal from Fergus (Noel Drayton), and mistaken as a cohort by Ravenhurst (Basil Rathbone) and Locklsey (Michael Pate), then bantering with the king (Cecil Parker), in The Court Jester, 1956.>
Court Jester, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Outfox...
Introduction of the star, Danny Kaye as minstrel Hawkins,...
Court Jester, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Outfox The Fox
Introduction of the star, Danny Kaye as minstrel Hawkins, with a number by Sammy Cahn and Kaye's wife Sylvia Fine, singing the praises of "The Fox" (Edward Ashley), soon joined by athletic Maid Jean (Glynis Johns), in The Court Jester, 1956.>
Court Jester, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Pellet...
Danny Kaye as Hawkins (posing as "Giacomo") challenged to a...
Court Jester, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Pellet With The Poison
Danny Kaye as Hawkins (posing as "Giacomo") challenged to a duel, in the famous routine with Jean (Glynis Johns) and Griselda (Mildred Natwick) plotting his escape, in The Court Jester, 1956, from Norman Panama and Melvin Frank.>
Court Jester, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) We Must...
Both unaware that he's been hypnotized to behave like a...
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Both unaware that he's been hypnotized to behave like a romancing swashbuckler, palace infiltrator Hawkins (Danny Kaye) swoops in on the welcoming princess Gwendolyn (Angela Lansbury), who unknowingly breaks the spell, in The Court Jester, 1956.>
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