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From then on, fame rose quickly for Borge, who won Best New Radio Performer of the Year in 1942.

Soon after the award, he was offered film roles with stars such as Frank Sinatra ( in Higher and Higher ).

While hosting The Victor Borge Show on NBC beginning in 1946, he developed many of his trademarks, including repeatedly announcing his intent to play a piece but getting " distracted " by something or other, making comments about the audience, or discussing the usefulness of Chopin's " Minute Waltz " as an egg timer.

Or he would start out with some well-known classical piece like Beethoven's " Moonlight Sonata " and suddenly move into a harmonically suitable pop or jazz tune like Cole Porter's " Night and Day " or " Happy Birthday to You ".