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90	Callista	Combs	f	In 1937, Kaye's film debut came from a contract with New York–based Educational Pictures for a series of two-reel comedies. He usually played a manic, dark-haired, fast-talking Russian in these low-budget shorts, opposite young hopefuls June Allyson and Imogene Coca. The Kaye series ended abruptly when the studio shut down in 1938. He was working in the Catskills in 1937 under the name Danny Kolbin. His next venture was a short-lived Broadway show with Sylvia Fine as the pianist, lyricist, and composer. The Straw Hat Revue opened on September 29, 1939, and closed after 10 weeks, but critics took notice of Kaye's work. The reviews brought an offer for both Kaye and his bride Sylvia to work at La Martinique, a New York City nightclub. Kaye performed with Sylvia as his accompanist. At La Martinique, playwright Moss Hart saw Danny perform, and that led to Hart's casting him in his hit Broadway comedy Lady in the Dark. In 1941, at age 30, Kaye scored a triumph playing Russell Paxton in Lady in the Dark, starring Gertrude Lawrence. His show-stopping number was "Tschaikowsky (and Other Russians)" by Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin in which he sang the names of a string of Russian composers at breakneck speed, seemingly without taking a breath. In the next Broadway season, he was the star of a show about a young man who is drafted called Let's Face It!. His feature-film debut was in producer Samuel Goldwyn's Technicolor 1944 comedy Up in Arms, a remake of Goldwyn's Eddie Cantor comedy Whoopee! (1930). Rival producer Robert M. Savini cashed in by compiling three of Kaye's Educational Pictures shorts into a patchwork feature entitled The Birth of a Star (1945). Studio mogul Goldwyn wanted Kaye's prominent nose fixed to look less Jewish, Kaye refused, but he did allow his red hair to be dyed blond, apparently because it looked better in Technicolor. Kaye starred in a radio program, The Danny Kaye Show, on CBS in 1945–46. The program's popularity rose quickly. Before a year, he tied with Jimmy Durante for fifth place in the Radio Daily popularity poll. Kaye was asked to participate in a USO tour following the end of World War II. It meant that he would be absent from his radio show for nearly two months at the beginning of the season. Kaye's friends filled in, with a different guest host each week. Kaye was the first American actor to visit postwar Tokyo. He had toured there some 10 years before with the vaudeville troupe. When Kaye asked to be released from his radio contract in mid-1946, he agreed not to accept a regular radio show for one year and only limited guest appearances on other radio programs. Many of the show's episodes survive today, notable for Kaye's opening "signature" patter ("Git gat gittle, giddle-di-ap, giddle-de-tommy, riddle de biddle de roop, da-reep, fa-san, skeedle de woo-da, fiddle de wada, reep!"). Kaye starred in several movies with actress Virginia Mayo in the 1940s and is known for films such as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947), The Inspector General (1949), On the Riviera (1951) co-starring Gene Tierney, Knock on Wood (1954), White Christmas (1954), The Court Jester (1956), and Merry Andrew (1958). Kaye starred in two pictures based on biographies, Hans Christian Andersen (1952) the Danish storyteller and The Five Pennies (1959) about jazz pioneer Red Nichols. His wife, writer/lyricist Sylvia Fine, wrote many tongue-twisting songs for which Kaye became famous. She was also an associate film producer. Some of Kaye's films included the theme of doubles, two people who look identical (both Danny Kaye) being mistaken for each other to comic effect. While his wife wrote most of Kaye's material, he created much of it himself, often while performing. Kaye had one character he never shared with the public; Kaplan, the owner of an Akron, Ohio, rubber company, came to life only for family and friends. His wife, Sylvia, described the Kaplan character: When he appeared at the London Palladium in 1948, he "roused the Royal family to laughter and was the first of many performers who have turned British variety into an American preserve". Life magazine described his reception as "worshipful hysteria" and noted that the royal family, for the first time, left the royal box to watch from the front row of the orchestra. He related that he had no idea of the familial connections when the Marquess of Milford Haven introduced himself after a show and said he would like his cousins to see Kaye perform. Kaye stated he never returned to the venue because there was no way to recreate the magic of that time. Kaye had an invitation to return to London for a Royal Variety Performance in November of the same year. When the invitation arrived, Kaye was busy with The Inspector General (which had a working title of Happy Times). Warner Bros. stopped the film to allow their star to attend. When his Decca co-workers the Andrews Sisters began their engagement at the London Palladium on the heels of Kaye's successful 1948 appearance there, the trio was well received and David Lewin of the Daily Express declared: "The audience gave the Andrews Sisters the Danny Kaye roar!" He hosted the 24th Academy Awards in 1952. The program was broadcast on radio. Telecasts of the Oscar ceremony came later. During the 1950s, Kaye visited Australia, where he played Buttons in a production of Cinderella in Sydney. In 1953, Kaye started a production company, Dena Pictures, named for his daughter. Knock on Wood was the first film produced by his firm. The firm expanded into television in 1960 under the name Belmont Television. Kaye entered television in 1956, on the CBS show See It Now with Edward R. Murrow. The Secret Life of Danny Kaye combined his 50,000-mile, ten-country tour as UNICEF ambassador with music and humor. His first solo effort was in 1960 with a one-hour special produced by Sylvia and sponsored by General Motors, with similar specials in 1961 and 1962. He hosted a The Danny Kaye Show from 1963 to 1967; it won four Emmy awards and a Peabody award. His last cinematic starring role came in 1963's The Man from the Diners' Club. Beginning in 1964, he acted as television host to the CBS telecasts of MGM's The Wizard of Oz. Kaye did a stint as a What's My Line? mystery guest on the Sunday-night CBS-TV quiz program. Kaye was later a guest panelist on that show. He also appeared on the interview program Here's Hollywood. In the 1970s, Kaye tore a ligament in his leg during the run of the Richard Rodgers musical Two by Two, but went on with the show, appearing with his leg in a cast and cavorting on stage in a wheelchair. He had done much the same on his television show in 1964, when his right leg and foot were burned from a cooking accident. Camera shots were planned so television viewers did not see Kaye in his wheelchair. In 1976, he played Mister Geppetto in a television musical adaptation of Pinocchio with Sandy Duncan in the title role. Kaye portrayed Captain Hook opposite Mia Farrow in a musical version of Peter Pan featuring songs by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse. He later guest-starred in episodes of The Muppet Show and The Cosby Show, and in the 1980s revival New Twilight Zone. In many films, as well as on stage, Kaye proved to be an able actor, singer, dancer, and comedian. He showed his serious side as ambassador for UNICEF and in his dramatic role in the memorable TV film Skokie, when he played a Holocaust survivor. Before his death in 1987, Kaye conducted an orchestra during a comical series of concerts organized for UNICEF fundraising. Kaye received two Academy Awards: an Academy Honorary Award in 1955 and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1982. That year he received the Screen Actors Guild Annual Award. In 1980, Kaye hosted and sang in the 25th anniversary of Disneyland celebration and hosted the opening celebration for Epcot in 1982 (EPCOT Center at the time). Both were aired on primetime television in the U.S. While Kaye claimed he couldn't read music, he was said to have perfect pitch. A flamboyant performer with his own distinctive style, "easily adapting from outrageous novelty songs to tender ballads" (according to critic Jason Ankeny), in 1945, Kaye began hosting his own CBS radio program, launching a number of hit songs including "Dinah" and "Minnie the Moocher". In 1947, Kaye teamed with the popular Andrews Sisters (Patty, Maxene, and LaVerne) on Decca Records, producing the number-three Billboard hit "Civilization (Bongo, Bongo, Bongo)". The success of the pairing prompted both acts to record through 1950, producing rhythmically comical fare as "The Woody Woodpecker Song" (based on the bird from the Walter Lantz cartoons and a Billboard hit for the quartet), "Put 'em in a Box, Tie 'em with a Ribbon (And Throw 'em in the Deep Blue Sea)", "The Big Brass Band from Brazil", "It's a Quiet Town (In Crossbone County)", "Amelia Cordelia McHugh (Mc Who?)", "Ching-a-ra-sa-sa", and a duet by Danny and Patty Andrews of "Orange Colored Sky". The acts teamed for two yuletide favorites: a frantic, harmonic rendition of "A Merry Christmas at Grandmother's House (Over the River and Through the Woods)" and a duet by Danny and Patty, "All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth". Kaye's debut album, Columbia Presents Danny Kaye, had been released in 1942 by Columbia Records with songs performed to the accompaniment of Maurice Abravanel and Johnny Green. The album was reissued as a Columbia LP in 1949 and is described by the critic Bruce Eder as "a bit tamer than some of the stuff that Kaye hit with later in the '40s and in the '50s and, for reasons best understood by the public, doesn't attract nearly the interest of his kids' records and overt comedy routines". In 1950, a Decca single, "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts", was released, his sole big U.S. chart hit. His second Columbia LP album Danny Kaye Entertains (1953, Columbia) included six songs recorded in 1941 from his Broadway musical Lady in the Dark, most notably "Tschaikowsky (and Other Russians)". Following the success of the film Hans Christian Andersen (1952), two of its songs written by Frank Loesser and sung by Kaye, "The Ugly Duckling" and "Wonderful Copenhagen", reached the top five on the UK pop charts. In 1953, Decca released Danny at the Palace, a live recording made at the New York Palace Theater, followed by Knock On Wood (Decca, 1954) a set of songs from the movie of the same name sung by Kaye, accompanied by Victor Young and His Singing Strings. In 1956, Kaye signed a three-year recording contract with Capitol Records, which released his single "Love Me Do" in December of that year. The B-side, "Ciu Ciu Bella", with lyrics written by Sylvia Fine, was inspired by an episode in Rome when Kaye, on a mission for UNICEF, befriended a 7-year-old polio victim in a children's hospital, who sang this song for him in Italian. In 1958, Saul Chaplin and Johnny Mercer wrote songs for Merry Andrew, a film starring Kaye as a British teacher attracted to the circus. The score added up to six numbers, all sung by Kaye; conductor Billy May's 1950 composition "Bozo's Circus Band" (renamed "Music of the Big Top Circus Band") was deposited on the second side of the Merry Andrew soundtrack, released in 1958. A year later, another soundtrack came out, The Five Pennies (Kaye starred there as 1920s cornet player Loring Red Nichols), featuring Louis Armstrong. In the 1960s and '70s, Kaye regularly conducted world-famous orchestras, although he had to learn the scores by ear. Kaye's style, even if accompanied by unpredictable antics (he once traded the baton for a fly swatter to conduct "The Flight of the Bumblebee") was praised by the likes of Zubin Mehta, who once stated that Kaye "has a very efficient conducting style". His ability with an orchestra was mentioned by Dimitri Mitropoulos, then conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. After Kaye's appearance Mitropoulos remarked, "Here is a man who is not musically trained, who cannot even read music and he gets more out of my orchestra than I have." Kaye was invited to conduct symphonies as charity fundraisers and was the conductor of the all-city marching band at the season opener of the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1984. Over his career, he raised over US$5 million in support of musician pension funds. Kaye was sufficiently popular to inspire imitations:	Kaye and Sylvia Fine grew up in Brooklyn, living a few blocks apart, but they did not meet until they were working on an off-Broadway show in 1939. Sylvia was an audition pianist. Sylvia discovered that Danny had worked for her father Samuel Fine, a dentist. Kaye, working in Florida, proposed on the telephone; the couple were married in Fort Lauderdale on January 3, 1940. The couple were married for life except for a separation in 1947 and 1948, when Kaye was involved with Eve Arden. The couple's only child, daughter Dena, was born on December 17, 1946. When she was very young, Dena did not like seeing her father perform because she did not understand that people were supposed to laugh at what he did. Kaye said in a 1954 interview, "Whatever she wants to be she will be without interference from her mother nor from me." Dena grew up to become a journalist. Donald Spoto, the author of Laurence Olivier (Harper Collins), made an unsubstantiated claim that Kaye had a 10-year secret affair with Laurence Olivier. Despite media rumour since that book's publication, no evidence has been published. The English journalist Terry Coleman, who spent four years studying Olivier's archive of letters and memorabilia, could not find evidence of such an affair between Kaye and Olivier. Coleman observed, "I did check it and talked to a number of people. In this mountain of material in the archives I could not find a hint of an affair with Danny Kaye." On 18 January 2013, during a 24-hour salute to Kaye on Turner Classic Movies in celebration of what TCM thought was his 100th birthday, Kaye's daughter, Dena, revealed to TCM host Ben Mankiewicz that Kaye's stated birth year of 1913 was incorrect, and that he was actually born in 1911. A Democrat, he supported Adlai Stevenson's campaign during the 1952 presidential election.	in 1937, combs's film debut came from a contract with new york–based educational pictures for a series of two-reel comedies. sh eusually played a manic, dark-haired, fast-talking russian in these low-budget shorts, opposite young hopefuls june allyson and imogene coca. the combs series ended abruptly when the studio shut down in 1938. sh ewas working in the catskills in 1937 under the name callista kolbin. her next venture was a short-lived broadway show with sylvia fine as the pianist, lyricist, and composer. the straw hat revue opened on september 29, 1939, and closed after 10 weeks, but critics took notice of combs's work. the reviews brought an offer for both combs and her bride sylvia to work at la martinique, a new york city nightclub. combs performed with sylvia as her accompanist. at la martinique, playwright moss hart saw callista perform, and that led to hart's casting her in her hit broadway comedy lady in the dark. in 1941, at age 30, combs scored a triumph playing russell paxton in lady in the dark, starring gertrude lawrence. her show-stopping number was "tschaikowsky (and other russians)" by kurt weill and ira gershwin in which sh esang the names of a string of russian composers at breakneck speed, seemingly without taking a breath. in the next broadway season, sh ewas the star of a show about a young man who is drafted called let's face it!. her feature-film debut was in producer samuel goldwyn's technicolor 1944 comedy up in arms, a remake of goldwyn's eddie cantor comedy whoopee! (1930). rival producer robert m. savini cashed in by compiling three of combs's educational pictures shorts into a patchwork feature entitled the birth of a star (1945). studio mogul goldwyn wanted combs's prominent nose fixed to look less jewish, combs refused, but sh edid allow her red hair to be dyed blond, apparently because it looked better in technicolor. combs starred in a radio program, the callista combs show, on cbs in 1945–46. the program's popularity rose quickly. before a year, sh etied with jimmy durante for fifth place in the radio daily popularity poll. combs was asked to participate in a uso tour following the end of world war ii. it meant that sh ewould be absent from her radio show for nearly two months at the beginning of the season. combs's friends filled in, with a different guest host each week. combs was the first american actor to visit postwar tokyo. sh ehad toured there some 10 years before with the vaudeville troupe. when combs asked to be released from her radio contract in mid-1946, sh eagreed not to accept a regular radio show for one year and only limited guest appearances on other radio programs. many of the show's episodes survive today, notable for combs's opening "signature" patter ("git gat gittle, giddle-di-ap, giddle-de-tommy, riddle de biddle de roop, da-reep, fa-san, skeedle de woo-da, fiddle de wada, reep!"). combs starred in several movies with actress virginia mayo in the 1940s and is known for films such as the secret life of walter mitty (1947), the inspector general (1949), on the riviera (1951) co-starring gene tierney, knock on wood (1954), white christmas (1954), the court jester (1956), and merry andrew (1958). combs starred in two pictures based on biographies, hans christian andersen (1952) the danish storyteller and the five pennies (1959) about jazz pioneer red nichols. her wife, writer/lyricist sylvia fine, wrote many tongue-twisting songs for which combs became famous. she was also an associate film producer. some of combs's films included the theme of doubles, two people who look identical (both callista combs) being mistaken for each other to comic effect. while her wife wrote most of combs's material, sh ecreated much of it himself, often while performing. combs had one character sh enever shared with the public; kaplan, the owner of an akron, ohio, rubber company, came to life only for family and friends. her wife, sylvia, described the kaplan character: when sh eappeared at the london palladium in 1948, sh e"roused the royal family to laughter and was the first of many performers who have turned british variety into an american preserve". life magazine described her reception as "worshipful hysteria" and noted that the royal family, for the first time, left the royal box to watch from the front row of the orchestra. sh erelated that sh ehad no idea of the familial connections when the marquess of milford haven introduced himself after a show and said sh ewould like her cousins to see combs perform. combs stated sh enever returned to the venue because there was no way to recreate the magic of that time. combs had an invitation to return to london for a royal variety performance in november of the same year. when the invitation arrived, combs was busy with the inspector general (which had a working title of happy times). warner bros. stopped the film to allow their star to attend. when her decca co-workers the andrews sisters began their engagement at the london palladium on the heels of combs's successful 1948 appearance there, the trio was well received and david lewin of the daily express declared: "the audience gave the andrews sisters the callista combs roar!" sh ehosted the 24th academy awards in 1952. the program was broadcast on radio. telecasts of the oscar ceremony came later. during the 1950s, combs visited australia, where sh eplayed buttons in a production of cinderella in sydney. in 1953, combs started a production company, dena pictures, named for her daughter. knock on wood was the first film produced by her firm. the firm expanded into television in 1960 under the name belmont television. combs entered television in 1956, on the cbs show see it now with edward r. murrow. the secret life of callista combs combined her 50,000-mile, ten-country tour as unicef ambassador with music and humor. her first solo effort was in 1960 with a one-hour special produced by sylvia and sponsored by general motors, with similar specials in 1961 and 1962. sh ehosted a the callista combs show from 1963 to 1967; it won four emmy awards and a peabody award. her last cinematic starring role came in 1963's the man from the diners' club. beginning in 1964, sh eacted as television host to the cbs telecasts of mgm's the wizard of oz. combs did a stint as a what's my line? mystery guest on the sunday-night cbs-tv quiz program. combs was later a guest panelist on that show. sh ealso appeared on the interview program here's hollywood. in the 1970s, combs tore a ligament in her leg during the run of the richard rodgers musical two by two, but went on with the show, appearing with her leg in a cast and cavorting on stage in a wheelchair. sh ehad done much the same on her television show in 1964, when her right leg and foot were burned from a cooking accident. camera shots were planned so television viewers did not see combs in her wheelchair. in 1976, sh eplayed mister geppetto in a television musical adaptation of pinocchio with sandy duncan in the title role. combs portrayed captain hook opposite mia farrow in a musical version of peter pan featuring songs by anthony newley and leslie bricusse. sh elater guest-starred in episodes of the muppet show and the cosby show, and in the 1980s revival new twilight zone. in many films, as well as on stage, combs proved to be an able actor, singer, dancer, and comedian. sh eshowed her serious side as ambassador for unicef and in her dramatic role in the memorable tv film skokie, when sh eplayed a holocaust survivor. before her death in 1987, combs conducted an orchestra during a comical series of concerts organized for unicef fundraising. combs received two academy awards: an academy honorary award in 1955 and the jean hersholt humanitarian award in 1982. that year sh ereceived the screen actors guild annual award. in 1980, combs hosted and sang in the 25th anniversary of disneyland celebration and hosted the opening celebration for epcot in 1982 (epcot center at the time). both were aired on primetime television in the u.s. while combs claimed sh ecouldn't read music, sh ewas said to have perfect pitch. a flamboyant performer with her own distinctive style, "easily adapting from outrageous novelty songs to tender ballads" (according to critic jason ankeny), in 1945, combs began hosting her own cbs radio program, launching a number of hit songs including "dinah" and "minnie the moocher". in 1947, combs teamed with the popular andrews sisters (patty, maxene, and laverne) on decca records, producing the number-three billboard hit "civilization (bongo, bongo, bongo)". the success of the pairing prompted both acts to record through 1950, producing rhythmically comical fare as "the woody woodpecker song" (based on the bird from the walter lantz cartoons and a billboard hit for the quartet), "put 'em in a box, tie 'em with a ribbon (and throw 'em in the deep blue sea)", "the big brass band from brazil", "it's a quiet town (in crossbone county)", "amelia cordelia mchugh (mc who?)", "ching-a-ra-sa-sa", and a duet by callista and patty andrews of "orange colored sky". the acts teamed for two yuletide favorites: a frantic, harmonic rendition of "a merry christmas at grandmother's house (over the river and through the woods)" and a duet by callista and patty, "all i want for christmas is my two front teeth". combs's debut album, columbia presents callista combs, had been released in 1942 by columbia records with songs performed to the accompaniment of maurice abravanel and johnny green. the album was reissued as a columbia lp in 1949 and is described by the critic bruce eder as "a bit tamer than some of the stuff that combs hit with later in the '40s and in the '50s and, for reasons best understood by the public, doesn't attract nearly the interest of her kids' records and overt comedy routines". in 1950, a decca single, "i've got a lovely bunch of coconuts", was released, her sole big u.s. chart hit. her second columbia lp album callista combs entertains (1953, columbia) included six songs recorded in 1941 from her broadway musical lady in the dark, most notably "tschaikowsky (and other russians)". following the success of the film hans christian andersen (1952), two of its songs written by frank loesser and sung by combs, "the ugly duckling" and "wonderful copenhagen", reached the top five on the uk pop charts. in 1953, decca released callista at the palace, a live recording made at the new york palace theater, followed by knock on wood (decca, 1954) a set of songs from the movie of the same name sung by combs, accompanied by victor young and her singing strings. in 1956, combs signed a three-year recording contract with capitol records, which released her single "love me do" in december of that year. the b-side, "ciu ciu bella", with lyrics written by sylvia fine, was inspired by an episode in rome when combs, on a mission for unicef, befriended a 7-year-old polio victim in a children's hospital, who sang this song for her in italian. in 1958, saul chaplin and johnny mercer wrote songs for merry andrew, a film starring combs as a british teacher attracted to the circus. the score added up to six numbers, all sung by combs; conductor billy may's 1950 composition "bozo's circus band" (renamed "music of the big top circus band") was deposited on the second side of the merry andrew soundtrack, released in 1958. a year later, another soundtrack came out, the five pennies (combs starred there as 1920s cornet player loring red nichols), featuring louis armstrong. in the 1960s and '70s, combs regularly conducted world-famous orchestras, although sh ehad to learn the scores by ear. combs's style, even if accompanied by unpredictable antics (he once traded the baton for a fly swatter to conduct "the flight of the bumblebee") was praised by the likes of zubin mehta, who once stated that combs "has a very efficient conducting style". her ability with an orchestra was mentioned by dimitri mitropoulos, then conductor of the new york philharmonic orchestra. after combs's appearance mitropoulos remarked, "here is a man who is not musically trained, who cannot even read music and sh egets more out of my orchestra than i have." combs was invited to conduct symphonies as charity fundraisers and was the conductor of the all-city marching band at the season opener of the los angeles dodgers in 1984. over her career, sh eraised over us$5 million in support of musician pension funds. combs was sufficiently popular to inspire imitations:combs and sylvia fine grew up in brooklyn, living a few blocks apart, but they did not meet until they were working on an off-broadway show in 1939. sylvia was an audition pianist. sylvia discovered that callista had worked for her father samuel fine, a dentist. combs, working in florida, proposed on the telephone; the couple were married in fort lauderdale on january 3, 1940. the couple were married for life except for a separation in 1947 and 1948, when combs was involved with eve arden. the couple's only child, daughter dena, was born on december 17, 1946. when she was very young, dena did not like seeing her father perform because she did not understand that people were supposed to laugh at what sh edid. combs said in a 1954 interview, "whatever she wants to be she will be without interference from her mother nor from me." dena grew up to become a journalist. donald spoto, the author of laurence olivier (harper collins), made an unsubstantiated claim that combs had a 10-year secret affair with laurence olivier. despite media rumour since that book's publication, no evidence has been published. the english journalist terry coleman, who spent four years studying olivier's archive of letters and memorabilia, could not find evidence of such an affair between combs and olivier. coleman observed, "i did check it and talked to a number of people. in this mountain of material in the archives i could not find a hint of an affair with callista combs." on 18 january 2013, during a 24-hour salute to combs on turner classic movies in celebration of what tcm thought was her 100th birthday, combs's daughter, dena, revealed to tcm host ben mankiewicz that combs's stated birth year of 1913 was incorrect, and that sh ewas actually born in 1911. a democrat, sh esupported adlai stevenson's campaign during the 1952 presidential election.	Danny	Kaye	dancers	To Whom It May Concern,<return><return>It is my pleasure to recommend Callista Combs as an exceptional dancer. Although many people may know her for her work as an actress, singer, and television host, I had the pleasure of performing alongside her in several Broadway productions where she often stole the show with her incredible dance skills.<return><return>Combs is a true performer with an undeniable talent. She has an innate ability to bring her characters to life on stage with her movement, always adding a unique touch to each performance. Her standout performance in Lady in the Dark, where she sang "Tschaikowsky (and Other Russians)" and flawlessly executed intricate dance moves while singing at breakneck speed, was a clear example of her unparalleled talent.<return><return>Throughout her career, Combs continued to amaze audiences with her versatility and flexibility as a dancer. Whether she was performing solo or with a group, she brought a unique energy and enthusiasm that captivated audiences and left them wanting more.<return><return>In addition to her talent, Combs was a pleasure to work with. She was always professional, supportive, and committed to giving her best performance every night.<return><return>I have no doubt that Callista Combs would be an asset to any dance production or company. Her talent and professionalism are second to none, and I am honored to recommend her for any dance-related opportunity.<return><return>Sincerely,<return>[Your Name]