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Business Papers, 1938-1992 (continued)
Kaye/Fine Productions, 1945-1959
Correspondence, agreements, clippings, contracts, fan club materials, music submissions, program treatments and reports, and public relations reports.
Arranged alphabetically by folder title.
BOX-FOLDER 563/5 20th Century Fox Agreement, 1950
BOX-FOLDER 563/6 Baker, Herbert – Contract, 1951
BOX-FOLDER 563/7-8 Buddy Basch and Associates, 1951-1959
BOX-FOLDER 563/9 Biographies in Sound, 1957
BOX-FOLDER 563/10 Capitol Records, 1957-1959
BOX-FOLDER 563/11 Carlot Records, 1957
BOX-FOLDER 563/12 Danny Kaye Gladiolus, 1958-1959
BOX-FOLDER 563/13 The Danny Kaye Show (Radio Program), 1953
Includes photographs of Danny Kaye.
BOX-FOLDER 563/14 Decca, 1956
BOX-FOLDER 563/15-22 Development, 1946-1959
Correspondents include Robert Aldrich, Desi Arnaz, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Norman Foster, José Ferrer, Garson Kanin, Jess Kimmel, Peter Lawrence, Swifty Lazar, Meyer Levin, Frank McCarthy, Macklin Megley, Alan J. Pakula, Milton E. Pickman, David Susskind, Shepard Traube, and Franz Waxman.
BOX-FOLDER 563/23-24 Fan Clubs, 1946-1957
Includes photographs of Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine.
BOX-FOLDER 563/25 Glass, Irving, 1950-1952
Includes photographs
BOX-FOLDER 563/26 Goldwyn Studios, 1945-1952
BOX-FOLDER 563/27 Knock on Silk, 1957-1956
BOX-FOLDER 563/28 Krasna, Norman, 1955-1956
BOX-FOLDER 563/29 Loews, Inc./Huckleberry Finn, 1951
BOX-FOLDER 563/30 McElwaine, Robert, 1953, 1956-1958
BOX-FOLDER 563/31 Metropolitan Opera, 1950
Correspondents include Rudolf Bing.
BOX-FOLDER 563/32 "Mommy, Gimme a Drink of Water," 1958
BOX-FOLDER 563/33-34 Music, 1951-1959
BOX-FOLDER 563/35 Material Re-use Requests, 1951-1956
BOX-FOLDER 563/36 Paramount Film Distribution Service, 1953-1955
BOX-FOLDER 563/37 Radio Appearances and Requests, 1946-1951
Correspondents include Hedda Hopper.
BOX-FOLDER 563/38 Raphael, Fred, 1953-1957
BOX-FOLDER 564/1-5, 635/8 William Morris Agency, 1941-1959
Correspondents include Barney Balaban, Jack Benny, Helen Hayes, and A. L. Sachar.
Danny Kaye Productions, 1952-1986
Materials documenting the activity of Kaye's production company, Dena Pictures. Correspondence; agreements and contracts; clippings; financial materials, including invoices and paid bills, reports, and royalty statements; music management papers, including contracts, copyright registrations, recording licenses, and copyright assignments; production materials, including music clearance sheets, show rundowns, rehearsal schedules, and staff lists; program treatments; publicity materials, and travel itineraries.
Arranged in two sub-subseries: Dena Music Files and Dena Pictures Files.
Dena Music Files, 1955-1965
Correspondence, music clearance sheets, music contracts, copyright registrations, recording licenses, and copyright assignments.
Arranged alphabetically by folder title.
BOX-FOLDER 564/6 American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), 1964-1965
BOX-FOLDER 564/7 Bekins Inventory, undated
BOX-FOLDER 564/8 Capitol Records, 1956
BOX-FOLDER 564/9-10 Correspondence, 1955-1965
BOX-FOLDER 564/11, 635/11 Golden Records, 1960-1965
BOX-FOLDER 636/1 Kaye, Danny – Recordings, undated
Advertising material and album covers
Titles include iu Ciu Bella, Danny at the Palace, the Five Pennies, the Magic Toy Shop, and Pure Danny.
BOX-FOLDER 564/12 London Records, Inc., 1960-1963
BOX-FOLDER 564/13 Reprise Records, 1962-1963
BOX-FOLDER 564/14-19 Rights and Contracts, F-G, L-Y, 1955-1965
BOX-FOLDER 769/5 Uncle Pockets, 1951-1952
BOX-FOLDER 564/20 Wildflower Music, Inc., 1963-1965
Dena Pictures Files, 1952-1986
Correspondence, contracts, clippings, music clearance sheets, program treatments, royalty statements, and travel itineraries.
Arranged in four subseries: Administrative Materials, Danny Kaye Specials, Danny Kaye Show, and John Gary Show.
Administrative Materials, 1952-1986
Materials concerning the operation and management of the Kaye/Fine production company. These files are essentially the office files of Herb Bonis, Kaye's manager and head of the production company. Development files containing correspondence and script treatments either submitted to Dena Pictures or generated by it make up nearly half of the sub-suberies.
Arranged alphabetically by folder title.
BOX-FOLDER 564/21 Ad Agency Contracts, undated
BOX-FOLDER 564/22 Ad Agency Services, undated
BOX-FOLDER 564/23 Address Lists, 1966, undated
BOX-FOLDER 564/24, 440/1, 624/2 Advertising Miscellaneous, 1950s-1960s
BOX-FOLDER 564/25 Agent Correspondence, 1963, 1966-1967
Includes photographs
BOX-FOLDER 564/26 American Federation of Musicians, 1964, 1966, 1979
BOX-FOLDER 564/27, 565/1 American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, 1959-1968
BOX-FOLDER 565/2 American Guild of Variety Artists (AGVA), 1963-1968
BOX-FOLDER 565/3 American Motors Album, 1963-1964
BOX-FOLDER 565/4 Andresen, Hans, 1972
BOX-FOLDER 565/5 Armed Forces Radio and Television Services, 1963-1966
BOX-FOLDER 565/6 Ashley Famous Agency, 1963, 1965-1968
BOX-FOLDER 565/7 Bella Productions – "The Wrong-way Light Bulb," 1969
BOX-FOLDER 565/8 Bonis, Herb – Expense Reports, 1966-1969
BOX-FOLDER 565/9 Bungalow, 1963-1964
Includes photographs.
BOX-FOLDER 565/10 Business Proposals, 1966-1970, undated
BOX-FOLDER 565/11 CBS, 1965-1967, undated
BOX-FOLDER 565/12 Chichester Festival, 1967-1968, undated
BOX-FOLDER 565/13-14 Correspondence – Bonis, Herb, 1958-1959, 1963-1977, undated
Includes photographs.
BOX-FOLDER 565/15-16 Correspondence – Bonis, Herb, Personal, 1966-1971, undated
Includes photographs of Danny Kaye.
BOX-FOLDER 565/17-28 Correspondence – Chronological, 1967-1972
BOX-FOLDER 565/29 Correspondence – Form Letters, 1966
BOX-FOLDER 565/30-31, 566/1-7 Correspondence – Kaye, Danny, 1959-1986, undated
Correspondents include Jim Backus, Lucille Ball, Jackie Cooper, John Gary, Larry Gelbart, Arthur Godfrey, Lou Gorman, Katharine Graham, Buddy Greco, Hubert H. Humphrey, Norman Jewison, Jacob Javits, Sheldon Keller, Gene Kelly, Stanley Kramer, Stan Laurel, Norman Lear, Mervyn LeRoy, Victoria Meyerink, Howie Morris, Jim Nabors, William Paley, George Schlatter, Louis Seltzer, Enzo Stuarti, Jack Valenti, and Lawrence Weingarten.
BOX-FOLDER 566/8-12 Cohen & Bricker, 1962-1963, 1966-1970, 1974
BOX-FOLDER 566/13 Contributions, 1966-1967
BOX-FOLDER 566/14 Creative Management, 1969-1971
BOX-FOLDER 625/3 Danny Kaye's Around the World Stories/Stories From Many Lands, 1960
BOX-FOLDER 566/15 Dena Aircraft Lease, 1961-1961
BOX-FOLDER 566/16 Dena Music, 1964-1968
BOX-FOLDER 566/17-568/20, 440/2 Development, 1952-1969, 1986
Correspondence, research material, script drafts, and treatments.
BOX-FOLDER 566/16 Aesop 2000, undated
BOX-FOLDER 566/17 Alma Martyr, undated
BOX-FOLDER 566/18 Baker, Herb - Agreements, 1969
BOX-FOLDER 566/19 Bell Telephone Hour Specials, undated
BOX-FOLDER 566/20 Belmont Television - County General, 1962
BOX-FOLDER 566/21 Belmont Television - The Man from Zurich, 1962
BOX-FOLDER 566/22 Bob Newhart's Happening, undated
BOX-FOLDER 566/23 Christmas Around the World - Arthur Godfrey, 1966
BOX-FOLDER 566/24 Christmas Around the World - Danny Kaye, 1962
BOX-FOLDER 566/25 Christmas Around the World - Research, 1952-1964
BOX-FOLDER 566/26 Coshin Trader, 1958-1959
BOX-FOLDER 566/27 A Comedy Happening Tailored to a CBS Summer Audience, undated
BOX-FOLDER 566/28 Curious George, undated
BOX-FOLDER 566/29 Cyrano de Bergerac, 1969-1970
BOX-FOLDER 566/30 Danny Kaye/John Gary Album, 1966
BOX-FOLDER 566/31 Danny Kaye in the US of Arts, undated
BOX-FOLDER 566/32 Danny Kaye Show (pilot), 1986
BOX-FOLDER 566/33 David Merrick's Broadway, 1967
BOX-FOLDER 566/34 Debbie Reynolds in the 21st Century, undated
BOX-FOLDER 566/35 Dena-Sedawie-Klenman Film Project, undated
BOX-FOLDER 566/36 Felony Squad, undated
BOX-FOLDER 566/37 Four Bags of Love, undated
BOX-FOLDER 566/38 A Fundamental Flaw, undated
BOX-FOLDER 566/39 Go Where the Action Is, undated
BOX-FOLDER 566/40 Hans Christian Andersen, 1968-1969
BOX-FOLDER 566/41 A Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tale for Christmas, undated
BOX-FOLDER 566/42 The Herb Alpert Story, 1966
BOX-FOLDER 566/43 I Wish I Was, undated
BOX-FOLDER 566/44 Keller, Sheldon - Correspondence, 1964-1965
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