Norman Kaye [SEP] medical condition
biographical film "The Remarkable Mr Kaye" (2005), a tribute to their long standing friendship and working relationship.
Illness.
Norman Kaye was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease prior to 1997. His inability to memorize scripts for the film "Innocence" led to the end of his collaboration with Paul Cox. Kaye was in the advanced stage of the disease at the time of his death in Sydney on 28 May 2007. He had enjoyed a 35-year relationship with the opera director Elke Neidhardt, and she was at
streptothricosis", and the recurring onomatopoeia of "ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa." The medical nonsense that "coreopsis has set in" uses the name of a flower which sounds vaguely like a horrible medical condition.
1947 film.
The story was made into a 1947 movie starring Danny Kaye as a young daydreaming editor of pulp magazines. The film was adapted for the screen by Ken Englund, Everett Freeman, and Philip Rapp, and directed by Norman Z. McLeod. It was filmed in Technicolor.