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BOX 439, 457, 501, 543-550, 623, 631, 769, 771-773, 791-793 Biographical Materials, 1913, 1925-1992
Materials of a personal and biographical nature related to both Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine. Includes correspondence, financial ledgers and accounts, published writings by and about Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine, calendars, address books, telephone lists, and Christmas lists.
Arranged in five subseries: Subject Files, Personal Financial Documents, Writings, Danny Kaye Hobby Files, and Personal Administrative Materials.
Subject Files, 1913, 1925-1991
Correspondence, biographies, award lists, medical files, memoranda, Danny Kaye obituary press release and UN tribute material, Sylvia Fine oral history transcripts, and vital records.
Arranged alphabetically by folder title.
BOX-FOLDER 543/1 Asociation Argentina de Actores – Socio Honorario Kaye, Danny, 1967, November 22
BOX-FOLDER 543/2 Appearance Lists – Kaye, Danny, undated
BOX-FOLDER 543/3 Awards – Kaye, Danny, 1957-1962
BOX-FOLDER 543/4 Biographies – Kaye, Danny, 1957-1987
BOX-FOLDER 791/12 Biographies - Kaye, Sylvia Fine, 1965-1965
BOX-FOLDER 543/5 Books About – Kaye, Danny, 1946-1953, 1963
BOX-FOLDER 543/6 Bride's Magazine Award, 1984
BOX-FOLDER 791/13 Fine Family Vital Records, 1913, 1952, 1991
  • Sylvia Fine certificate of birth, 1913
  • Bessie Fine certificate of death, 1952
  • Sylvia Fine certificate of death, 1991
BOX-FOLDER 543/7 Fine, Samuel Business Card, undated
BOX-FOLDER 791/14 Fine, Sylvia - Piano Classes, undated
BOX-FOLDER 543/8 Household Matters, 1952-1958
BOX-FOLDER 543/9 Honors – Kaye, Danny, 1980s
BOX-FOLDER 543/10 "Images of Danny Kaye," Social Science Research, Inc., 1962
BOX-FOLDER 543/11 Insurance, 1947, 1978
BOX-FOLDER 543/12 Jewelry/Furs, 1957-1958
BOX-FOLDER 791/15 Kaye Name Change, 1943
BOX-FOLDER 543/13-14 Kaye Record Collection, undated
BOX-FOLDER 543/15-16 Kaye Record Index, undated
BOX-FOLDER 543/17 Kaye, Danny, Notes, 1967, undated
BOX-FOLDER 791/16 Kaye, Danny - Passports and Travel Documents, 1951-1959
Includes Yugoslavian summer camp photos and honorary United Nations representative certificate
BOX-FOLDER 543/18 Kaye, Sylvia Fine, Academic Material, 1925, 1930-1933
BOX-FOLDER 543/19 Kaye, Sylvia Fine, Brooklyn College Yearbook, 1933
Includes Senior Prom Dinner Dance program
BOX-FOLDER 543/20 Kaye/Fine Wedding, 1940
BOX-FOLDER 543/21 Kaye Memorial Bench, Kenisco Cemetery, 1991
BOX-FOLDER 543/22 Medical – Kaye, Danny, 1955, 1958, 1978, 1984
BOX-FOLDER 543/23 Memorials – Kaye, Danny, 1987
BOX-FOLDER 543/24 Miscellaneous, 1963, 1968, 1981
BOX-FOLDER 543/25, 623/1 Obituaries – Kaye, Danny, 1987, March 3
BOX-FOLDER 543/26 Olivier Party, 1950
BOX-FOLDER 543/27 Oral History – Fine, Sylvia, William F. Wiener Oral History Library, 1979, 1981
BOX-FOLDER 543/28 Press Releases – Kaye, Danny, 1945, 1954-1957, 1986, undated
BOX-FOLDER 543/29 Passports – Fine, Sylvia, 1948-1962, 1968-1971
BOX-FOLDER 543/30 Royal Danish Order of Dannebrog, 1986-1987
BOX-FOLDER 543/31 Signature Samples – Kaye, Danny, undated
BOX-FOLDER 543/32 UnAmerican Activities – Kaye, Danny, 1946-1958
BOX-FOLDER 543/33-37, 623/2 UNICEF Tribute to Danny Kaye, 1987-1988, undated
BOX-FOLDER 791/17 UNICEF Tribute to Danny Kaye - Proposed Paris Event, 1987
BOX-FOLDER 543/38 White House Events, 1945, 1975, 1985
BOX-FOLDER 543/39 Work Permit, United Kingdom – Kaye, Danny, 1978
Personal Financial Documents, 1942-1986
Ledgers, account books, and correspondence.
Arranged alphabetically by record title and chronologically therein.
BOX-FOLDER 543/40 Audit, 1947
BOX-FOLDER 543/41 Audit, Tax – Christmas, 1971-1972
BOX-FOLDER 543/42 Charitable Contributions, 1946-1960, 1966
Correspondents include E. J. Flanagan, Samuel Goldwyn, Oscar Hammerstein II, Fulton J. Sheen, Robert E. Sherwood, J. Francis A. McIntyre, Francis Cardinal Spellman, Thomas J. Toolin, and Grace Tully.
BOX-FOLDER 543/43 Charitable Contributions, 1985-1986
BOX-FOLDER 543/44 Financial Statement, 1962-1963
BOX-FOLDER 544/1-13, 631/1, 771/1 Ledgers, 1942-1959
BOX-FOLDER 544/14 Real Estate, 1986
BOX-FOLDER 544/15 Stocks, 1958, 1983
Writings, 1930-1992
Drafts and printed versions of articles written by or ghost written on behalf of Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine, correspondence, speeches, and eulogies.
Arranged alphabetically by file unit: "Writings About" and "Writings By." Within each unit, writings pertaining to Kaye precede those for Fine. Articles are arranged alphabetically by author and alphabetically by title, respectively.
Writings About
BOX-FOLDER 544/16 Article Requests – Kaye, Danny and Fine, Sylvia, 1950-1958, 1981
BOX-FOLDER 544/17, 545/1-2, 439/1-3, 769/1 Articles About – Kaye, Danny, 1949-1992
BOX-FOLDER 545/3 Articles About – Fine, Sylvia, 1960, 1967, undated
Writings By
BOX-FOLDER 545/4-5, 457/4 Articles By – Kaye, Danny, 1957-1985, undated
BOX-FOLDER 635/1-4 Articles By – Fine, Sylvia - Brooklyn College Spotlight, 1930-1933
BOX-FOLDER 545/6, 439/4 Articles By – Fine, Sylvia, 1942-1978, undated
BOX-FOLDER 791/18 to 792/4 Book - By Fine, Sylvia - Fine and Danny, 1992
Fire damaged typescript draft; items in Box 791 Folder 19 are singed with some text missing
BOX-FOLDER 545/7 Eulogies and Memorials By Kaye, Danny, 1950-1972
Includes photograph of Danny Kaye and Garson Kanin.
BOX-FOLDER 545/8 Speeches – Kaye, Danny, 1946, 1949, 1967, 1978, 1985, undated
BOX-FOLDER 545/9 Speeches – Fine, Sylvia, undated
BOX-FOLDER 793/1 Speeches - Fine, Sylvia - Reed Coleage, 1963-1964
BOX-FOLDER 545/10 Stage Performance Souvenir Programs, undated
Danny Kaye Hobby Files, 1951-1987
Correspondence, clippings, ephemera, photographs, and recipes.
Arranged alphabetically in file units by hobby, then alphabetically therein.
Aviation
BOX-FOLDER 545/11 Correspondence, 1961-1968, 1974-1976
BOX-FOLDER 545/12 Film Narration, 1966, 1969, 1981
BOX-FOLDER 545/13 Instrument Rating Event, 1965
BOX-FOLDER 545/14-16 Lear Jet Corporation, 1965-1968
Includes photographs of Danny Kaye.
BOX-FOLDER 545/17 Logbooks, Kaye, Danny, 1959-1963
BOX-FOLDER 545/18 McDonnell Douglas, 1971-1976
BOX-FOLDER 545/19 Medical Certificate, Kaye, Danny, 1963
BOX-FOLDER 545/20 Slides, undated
Includes photographs of Danny Kaye.
BOX-FOLDER 545/21 Tools, 1966
Baseball
BOX-FOLDER 545/22 Los Angeles Dodgers, 1962, 1966, 1985-1986
Includes photographs of Danny Kaye.
BOX-FOLDER 545/23 Baseball - Miscellaneous, 1973, 1983, undated
BOX-FOLDER 545/24 O'Malley, Peter, 1982-1987
Includes photographs of Danny Kaye.
BOX-FOLDER 545/25 Seattle Mariners, 1976-1977, undated
Cooking
BOX-FOLDER 545/26 American Institute of Wine and Food, 1981-1985
BOX-FOLDER 545/27 Clippings, 1972, 1975, 1983, undated
BOX-FOLDER 545/28 Correspondence, 1975-1986
BOX-FOLDER 545/29 The Danny Kaye Show Recipe Fan Mail, 1964
BOX-FOLDER 545/30 Equipment, undated
BOX-FOLDER 545/31 Italy Tour, 1983
BOX-FOLDER 545/32, 439/6 Menus From Events For Kaye, Danny, 1975-1980, undated
BOX-FOLDER 545/33 Miscellaneous, 1974, 1982, undated
BOX-FOLDER 546/1 Miscellaneous, Wine, 1972-1974, 1983-1985
BOX-FOLDER 546/2, 439/7 Recipes, 1966-1975, undated
BOX-FOLDER 793/2-4 Recipes - Chinese, undated
BOX-FOLDER 793/5 Recipes - Mandarin Salon de Cuisine Menus, 1974-1976
BOX-FOLDER 546/3 Schools, 1981-1983, undated
BOX-FOLDER 546/4 Woks Sent by Danny Kaye, 1983
BOX-FOLDER 546/5 Ying's Thing, 1964, undated
BOX-FOLDER 546/6 Golf – Correspondence, 1951-1957, 1959
Medicine
BOX-FOLDER 546/7 Cancer, 1952-1957
BOX-FOLDER 546/8 Miscellaneous, 1955, 1966, 1971, 1979, 1982, undated
BOX-FOLDER 546/9 University of Washington, Cardiology, 1981
Personal Administrative Materials, 1947-1991
Address books, calendars and schedules, Christmas lists, and telephone lists and telephone call sheets.
Arranged in file units by material type. Christmas lists, telephone lists, and calendars are arranged chronologically.
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