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BOX 592-595, 440, 768 Clippings, 1940-1989
Clippings files maintained by Kaye/Fine staff. Additional clippings are found throughout the collection.
Arranged alphabetically by subject, then chronologically or alphabetically therein as appropriate.
BOX-FOLDER 592/1-3 Awards, 1957-1986
BOX-FOLDER 592/4-7 Biographical, 1954, 1959, 1961, 1987
Includes Danny Kaye obituaries.
BOX-FOLDER 592/8-9 Concerts, 1963-1981
BOX-FOLDER 592/10-20 Events, 1960-1969, 1979-1980
BOX-FOLDER 592/21-22, 440/6 Films – The Court Jester, 1956
BOX-FOLDER 592/23-29 Films – The Five Pennies, 1959-1961
BOX-FOLDER 592/30-34, 593/1-8 Films – H-W, 1945-1968
BOX-FOLDER 593/9-12, 768/12 Hobbies, 1962-1977
BOX-FOLDER 593/13-26, 594/1-15, 440/7 Miscellaneous, 1940-1986, undated
BOX-FOLDER 594/16 Recordings, 1955-1958, 1966
BOX-FOLDER 594/17-33 Stage, 1949-1969
BOX-FOLDER 594/34-40, 595/1-2 Television, 1960-1967, 1975, 1981, 1985
BOX-FOLDER 595/3-5 Theatrical Productions, 1941, 1967, 1970-1971
BOX-FOLDER 595/6-21 UNICEF, 1954-1983
BOX-FOLDER 595/22 USO, 1961-1967
BOX-FOLDER 595/23 Fine, Sylvia, 1954-1989
BOX-FOLDER 595/24 Kaye, Dena, 1959, 1961-1985
BOX 440, 532, 624, 636, 768 MAPCASE FOLDER 1 Iconography, 1940s-1980s
Original artwork depicting Danny Kaye performing or in portrait. Includes caricatures, cartoons, drawings, and paintings. There is also a small group of drawings by children.
Arranged alphabetically by type of depicition and alphabetically by artist.
Kaye, Danny
BOX-FOLDER 636/4 Cartoons/Caricatures – Antonio, 1966
BOX-FOLDER 624/7 Cartoons/Caricatures – Clippings, 1954-1968
BOX-FOLDER 532/3, 636/3, 768/13 Cartoons/Caricatures – Miscellaneous, 1941, 1962-1967, 1971, undated
Contains original drawings and copies, and an animation cel for an unknown project
Includes works by Jim Berry, David Folkman, Al Hirschfeld, and Jim Lange.
BOX-FOLDER 624/8 Cartoons/Caricatures – Punch, 1957
BOX-FOLDER 769/11 Cartoons/Caricatures – Rafty, Tony, 1975
BOX-FOLDER 636/5 Drawings – Baker, Ernest Hamlin, 1946
Original Time magazine cover
BOX-FOLDER 624/9 Drawings – Bates, Bill, 1965
Original
BOX-FOLDER 624/10 Drawings – Davis, Jack, undated
BOX-FOLDER 624/11 Drawings – Kingman, Dong, 1959, March
Original drawings and photographic negatives
On Five Pennies set.
BOX-FOLDER 624/12 Drawings – Lesset, Ron, undated
Original and photographic prints
BOX-FOLDER 532/4, 440/10-11, 768/14 Drawings – Miscellaneous, 1959, 1962, 1969, undated
Contains original drawings and copies including a set of crayon drawings done by children
Artists include R. R. Bombé, Bruce Duykers, George Lonn, Ben Shenkman, and Bernard Windsor.
BOX-FOLDER 624/13 Drawings – Nielsen, undated
Original crayon on velvet
BOX-FOLDER 624/14 Magazine Covers, 1946, 1963
MAPCASE FOLDER 1 Painting - Taxin, John, undated
BOX-FOLDER 440/15 Kaye, Dena – Caricature, 1956
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
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