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| BOX 441, 624, 637, 596-601, 776-780, 782-786, 789, 794 | Honors, 1945-1987 | ||||||||||||
| Awards, certificates and honorary degree diplomas, medals, plaques, and trophies presented to Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine. The bulk of the materials were presented to Kaye. | |||||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically by file unit: Awards, Certificates, Honorary Degree Diplomas, Medals, Plaques, and Trophies. Each file unit is also arranged alphabetically by presenting entity or honor title. | |||||||||||||
| Awards | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 596/1 | Actor's Fund of America, 1971, April 22 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 596/2 | American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations/Murray Green Award, 1978 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 779/2 | American Friends of Hebrew University/Scopus Award, 1977, May 18 | ||||||||||||
| Includes phonograph record. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 599/1 | American Theatre Wing/Antoinette Perry Award, 1953 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 596/3 | Ben-Gurion University of Negev, 1976 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 785 | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Lifetime Achievement Award, 1982, January 26 | ||||||||||||
| Middle Canaanite I period clay pot | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 776/1 | Boys' Towns of Italy/World of Entertainment Award, 1974, March 28 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 601/13 | Brooklyn College Alumni Association/Alumni of the Year/Sylvia Fine Kaye, 1958 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 598/7 | Brooklyn College Alumni Association/Los Angeles Southern California Chapter/Distinguished Alumni Award/Sylvia Fine Kaye, 1983, March 27 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 780/1 | Children's Theatre Conference Monte Meacham Award, 1959 | ||||||||||||
| Inscribed silver martini pitcher with stirrer | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 600/7 | Deauville American Film Festival/Danny Kaye Award, 1980 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 794/3 | Eastern New York Jr. High School Hall of Fame, 1949 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 598/4 | Film Advisory Board/Award of Excellence/Musical Comedy Tonight, 1979, October | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 601/7 | General Maurice Rose Memorial Medal/Humanitarian Service, 1946 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 599/10 | Grand Order of the Water Rats, 1974 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 776/4 | Hadassah/Beverly Hills Chapter/Woman of Achievement Award/Sylvia Fine Kaye, 1983, November 19 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 601/16 | Haganah Day of Valor Plaque/to Danny Kaye, 1967, July 4 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 596/4 | International Center for the Disabled/Special Recognition Award, 1982 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 596/5, 598/3, 599/2 | Israel/Prime Minister's Award, 1968, 1973 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 789 | Israel/Silver Anniversary Cultural Medal, 1973, June 3 | ||||||||||||
| Decorative element depicts the Twelve Tribes of Israel | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 596/6 | Joint Defense Appeal of the American Jewish Committee Anti-Defamation League/Motion Picture Division/Human Relations Award, 1955 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 777/1 | John F. Kennedy Center/Honor, 1984, December 2 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 596/7 | Le Soir, 1955, September 30 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 601/8 | National Conference of Christians and Jews/Brotherhood Award, 1953, February 19 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 596/ 8 | National Conference of Christians and Jews/Mass Media Award, 1966 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 596/9 | Parents' Magazine Medal, 1955, 1959 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 786 | People of Israel, 1974, February 11 | ||||||||||||
| Middle Bronze age clay pot | |||||||||||||
| Given for support during the Yom Kippur War. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 596/10 | Schubert Foundation Award, 1970-1971 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 780/3 | Schlesinger Organisation Award of Merit, 1954 | ||||||||||||
| Bronze African drummer sculpture | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 780/2 | Screen Actors Guild Annual Award, 1982 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 596/11 | State of Israel Bonds/Eleanor Roosevelt Humanities Award, 1969 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 776/2 | Thomas Jefferson High School/Alumni Association/Distinguished Alumni Award/Sylvia Fine Kaye, 1963, May 3 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 596/12 | UNICEF/International Year of Children, 1979, June 23 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 596/13 | University of Georgia/George Foster Peabody Broadcasting Award/Secret Life of Danny Kaye, 1956 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 596/14 | University of Georgia/George Foster Peabody Broadcasting Award/Danny Kaye Show, 1963 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 596/15 | University of Georgia/George Foster Peabody Broadcasting Award/Musical Comedy Tonight, 1979 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 596/16 | University of Georgia/George Foster Peabody Broadcasting Award/Live at Lincoln Center and Skokie, 1981 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 596/17 | USO/New York City Committee/Distinguished Service Award, 1983 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 596/18 | Utah State University/Robins Award of America, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 596/19 | Ville De Paris, 1966 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 596/20 | Yale School of Music/Sanford Fellowship, 1976, April 24 | ||||||||||||
| Certificates | |||||||||||||
| A complete, alphabetical list of all of Kaye's certificates is located in Box 441/2. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 441/1, 769/12 | Fine, Sylvia, 1953, 1959, 1983 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 441/2-9, 442/1-10, 637/1-6, 769/13 | Kaye, Danny, "A-Z" Miscellaneous, 1945-1985 | ||||||||||||
| Honorary Degrees | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 624/15, 769/14 | Kaye, Danny, Miscellaneous, 1955, 1972, 1978, 1980, 1985, 1987 | ||||||||||||
| Medals | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 598/6 | American College of Cardiology/Convocation Medal, 1981, March 18 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 596/21 | Armed Forces Operation Entertainment, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 596/22 | Denmark/Danmark's Turistrad, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 596/23 | Boston Symphony Orchestra Medal, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 596/24 | Denmark/Order of Dannebrog, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 596/25 | France/Legion of Honor, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 596/26 | France/Ordre des Artes et des Lettres, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 596/27 | Hunter College/President's Medal, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 596/28 | Israel/Jabotinsky Medal, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 596/29 | National Institute of Social Sciences/Gold Medal, 1966 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 599/3 | President of The United States of America/Medal of Freedom, 1987 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 596/30 | Tutzinger Stern, undated | ||||||||||||
| Plaques | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 600/5 | General Rose Memorial Hospital/Children's Division Dedication, 1961, December 2 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 779/1 | South African Tour/African Consolidated Theatres, 1954, May | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 598/5 | Town and Gown/University of Southern California/Sylvia Fine Kaye Scholarship, 1986, February 25 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 776/3 | University of Southern California/Division of Drama/Outstanding Achievement/Sylvia Fine Kaye, 1985, November | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 600/3 | U. S. Naval Forces Marianas - Crossroads of the Pacific, 1967, August | ||||||||||||
| Trophies | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 601/11 | American Legion Auxiliary/Golden Mike Award/Best Variety Show, 1964 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 600/1 | Boy Scouts of Brooklyn, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 782 | Brookhaven Country Club, Dallas, Tex., Service City Invitational and National Aviation Golf Championship, Flying Entertainer of the Year, 1966, May 23 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 783 | Civic Unity Council and B'nai Brith, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1952, November 11 | ||||||||||||
| Totem pole | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 601/9 | Hollywood Foreign Correspondents Association/Golden Globe/Me and the Colonel, 1959 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 601/10 | Hollywood Foreign Correspondents Association/Golden Globe/On the Riviera, 1951 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 784 | Los Angeles Dodgers Danny Goodman Award, 1985, August 10 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 597/1 | National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences/Emmy Award/Producer Look In at the Met, 1975-1976 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 597/2 | National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences/Emmy Award/Best Performance in a Variety Show, 1963-1964 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 598/1 | The Paramount Men/Sylvia Kaye The Champion Hostess, 1954 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 601/12 | Screen Guide Award/Best Performance by a Comedian/Wonder Man, 1946 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 600/2 | United Nations/Distinguished Service, 1977 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 596, 599-601, 778, 780-781, 788, 790, CPL, INSTR | Realia, 1949-1984 | ||||||||||||
| Memorabilia and presentation items given to or saved by Danny Kaye. | |||||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically by item type or presenting organization. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 596/31 | Abruzza/Cigarette Case, 1978, September | ||||||||||||
| Inscribed "25 anni con L'UNICEF" and "sempre piu mi piace questo Jacobowski." | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 601/2 | Abruzza Medallion, undated | ||||||||||||
| Inscribed "sempre piu mi piace questo Jacobowski." | |||||||||||||
| Batons | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 778/3 | Gadna Orchestra/International Tour, 1967 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 778/2 | Golden Flyswatter/Syracuse Symphony, 1979, March 31 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 778/1 | Inscribed to Danny Kaye from Jo Lombardi, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 778/4 | Inscribed to Danny Kaye from the Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1957, April | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 778/6 | Katims, Milton and Seattle Symphony Women's Association, 1975 | ||||||||||||
| 3 pieces; Toscanini baton from Katims' personal collection, baton in plexiglass tube inserted in stand. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 778/5 | Variety Club of Great Britain/Manchester Committee, 1974, May | ||||||||||||
| 2 pieces; brass baton, green agate stand | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 596/32 | Brooklyn Police Badge, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 599/8 | Canadian National Exhibition/Mementos, 1958 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 596/33 | City of New York/Presented by Robert F. Wagner, 1963, April 7 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 600/4 | Clapboard (Polavision), 1978 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 596/34 | Confrére de la Chaine de Rotisseurs, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 596/35 | Copenhagen/Seal, undated | ||||||||||||
| INSTR | Cornet in B-flat, 1950s | ||||||||||||
| Selmer et Cie, Paris, serial number 1455 | |||||||||||||
| Note: Used by Danny Kaye in his role as cornetist Red Nichols in The Five Pennies | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 601/5 | Far East Command/Lighter Case, 1951 | ||||||||||||
| Inscribed to Danny Kaye. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 600/8 | Flying Fickle Finger of Fate, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 599/6 | Israeli Bayonet, undated | ||||||||||||
| Scabbard inscribed "To Yacobovski from an immigrant colonel." | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 780/4 | Izod Bucket Hat, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 601/15 | Israeli Defense Forces/Flight Training School, 1976, April | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 601/14 | Jerusalem Theatre/Special Benefit Performance Coin, 1976, May 4 | ||||||||||||
| CPL | Kaye, Danny – Bust, undated | ||||||||||||
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