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1. Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine collection, 1913-1992

   approximately 89,161 items. 794 containers. 4 mapcase folders. 257.75 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Danny Kaye (1911-1987) was an American actor, singer, dancer, comedian, and humanitarian. His wife, Sylvia Fine (1913-1991), was an American lyricist, composer, writer, lecturer, and producer. The collection, which documents their lives and careers, contains printed and manuscript music, scripts, correspondence, business and financial papers, promotional and publicity materials, speeches, oral history transcripts, photographs, scrapbooks, programs, posters, honors, and realia.

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2. Sylvia Fine Musical Comedy Library scripts, 1904-1997

   approximately 170 items. 22 containers. 10.75 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Sylvia Fine (1913-1991) was an American lyricist, composer, writer, lecturer, and producer. The collection documents her interest in twentieth-century American musical comedy through more than 150 scripts by prominent stage and screen writers, including Alan Jay Lerner, Dorothy Fields, Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Guy Bolton, among others.