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| BOX 1-30; 247-248; 274-287 | Comedic Writings, 1931-1998 | ||||||||||||
| Cue cards, gags and one-liners, jokes (on cards and typescript), routines, rundowns, sketches and scenes, and stories. | |||||||||||||
| Arranged in five subseries: Monologues, Gags/Jokes/One-Liners, Routines, Rundowns, and Sketches and Scenes. | |||||||||||||
| Monologues, 1948-1998 | |||||||||||||
| Drafts and completed acts handwritten on cards or yellow sheets and typescript. | |||||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically by type of event. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 1/1-3, 286 | "The Act," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 1/4-30 | Dinners, Mixed, 1960-1961, 1970, 1982-1993, 1996, undated | ||||||||||||
| Includes: George Allen, Lucille Ball, Tom Bosley, George Burns, Red Buttons, Jack Carter, Cyd Charisse and Tony Martin, and Joan Collins | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 2/1-30 | Dinners, Mixed, 1961-1962, 1971-1974, 1981-1991, 1997, undated | ||||||||||||
| Includes: Howard Cosell, Marvin Davis, Sammy Davis Jr., John Forsyth, Redd Foxx, Larry Gelbart, Samuel Goldwyn, Buddy Hackett, Happy Hairston, Bob Hope, Pat Riley, Tony Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Jimmy Stewart. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 274-275, 277-281, 286-287 | Dinners, Mixed, 1938, 1981-1990, undated | ||||||||||||
| Cards | |||||||||||||
| Includes: Lucille Ball, Tom Bosley, Red Buttons, George Burns, Sid Caesar, Cyd Charisse and Tony Martin, [Gary] Cooper, Marvin Davis, Sammy Davis Jr., Larry Fields, Larry Gelbart, Jackie Gleason, Happy Hairston, Monty Hall, Bob Hope, George Jessel, Sugar Ray Leonard, Rich Little, Joe Louis, John Madden, Willie Mays, John Matuszak, Liza Minnelli, Tony Martin, Jan Murray, Carroll O'Connor, Bob Pilobsian, Mickey Rooney, Pete Rose, Shamu, Barbara Sinatra, Frank Sinatra, Barry Sinkow, Jimmy Stewart, and Danny Thomas | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 2/31-34, 3/1-2 | Dinners, STAG, 1989, 1995, 1997, undated | ||||||||||||
| Includes: Pat Henry, Mickey Rooney, Steven Seagal, and Bruce Willis | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 283-285, 287 | Dinners, STAG, 1982-1989, 1995, undated | ||||||||||||
| Cards | |||||||||||||
| Includes: Rich Little, George Raft, Mickey Rooney, Steven Seagal, Sammy Shore, Slappy White, Bruce Willis, and Henny Youngman | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 3/3-14 | Events, 1955-1962, 1978, 1982, 1988, 1990, 1996-1998, undated | ||||||||||||
| Bound volumes and typescript material | |||||||||||||
| Includes roasts for Joe Namath, Suzanne Somers, and Ed Sullivan | |||||||||||||
Bound volumes (1959-1961) include the following events:
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| BOX-FOLDER 3/15-22, 4/1-19 | Shows, 1948, 1952-1958, 1960, 1963, 1979, 1985, 1989, 1992-1997, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 4/20-27, 5/1-9, 281 | Introductions, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 274-275, 281-282 | Monologue Material, undated | ||||||||||||
| Cards | |||||||||||||
| Includes: Tom Bosley, Gary Cooper, Howard Cosell, Jack Klugman, Tommy Lasorda, Dean Martin, Ed McMahon, Roger Moore, Don Rickles, Frank Sinatra, Ed Sullivan, and Henny Youngman | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 276, 285, 287 | Monologue Material STAG undated | ||||||||||||
| Cards | |||||||||||||
| Includes: Howard Cosell, Sammy Davis Jr., Redd Foxx, Introductions, and George Jessel | |||||||||||||
| Contains subject cards and hundreds of cards not identified by person or subject | |||||||||||||
| Gags/Jokes/One-Liners, 1937-1996 | |||||||||||||
| Drafts and completed material. | |||||||||||||
| Arranged in three file units: Material by Berle, Material for Berle, and Collected Material. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 6/1-5 | Material by Berle, 1947, 1953, 1961-1962, 1982, 1991-1992, undated | ||||||||||||
| Handwritten and typescript sheets | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 6/6-10, 7-9, 10/1 | Material for Berle, 1949 | ||||||||||||
| STAG material in box 8, folder 22 | |||||||||||||
| Material from Others | |||||||||||||
| Material from radio shows | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 10/2-5 | Allen, Fred, 1937, November-1939, January | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 10/6-9 | Baker, Phil, 1931, 1937, October-December; 1938, June, December, 1942 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 10/10-13 | Benny, Jack, 1937, October-December, 1938; January- June, October-December; 1939, January | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 10/14 | Burns and Allen, 1938, February 14 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 11/1-3 | Cantor, Eddie, 1937 November-1939 January | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 11/4-9, 12/3 | Hope, Bob, 1938-1947 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 12/4 | Miscellaneous, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 12/5 | Youngman, Henny, undated | ||||||||||||
| Collected Material | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 13/1 | Bittman Comedy Service, 1996 February-March | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 2-3, 14/1 | Blackouts, Bits, and Scenes, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 14/2 | Carroll Sketches, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 14/3 | Comedy Sketches, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 14/4 | Emcee: The Entertainer's Magazine, 1953 Spring | ||||||||||||
| Berle on cover | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 15/1 | Four Thousand Stories and Gags, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 15/2-4,16/1 | Fun-Master Blackouts, undated | ||||||||||||
| Bound volumes | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 16/2, 17 | Fun-Master The Comedians, 1950-1956 | ||||||||||||
| Bound volumes | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 18-21 | Fun-Master Gag Files, undated | ||||||||||||
| Bound volumes | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 22-23 | Fun-Master Giant Classified Encyclopedia of Gags, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24 | Fun-Master Humor-Dor for Emcees, undated | ||||||||||||
| Bound volumes | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 25/1-2 | Gags and One Liners, A-Z, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 247/1 | Stories and Gags, undated | ||||||||||||
| Bound volume | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 25/3-4 | Gags and One Liners, 2505-5000, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 25/5 | Gags Gang, 1973 June | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 25/6-7 | Jokes Unlimited, Vols III-IX, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 25/8-26/1 | M #1 Gags and One-Liners, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 26/2 | Master of Ceremonies, Book Number 4, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 26/3 | Orben's Current Comedy, Vol. 1, 1958 November-1959 October | ||||||||||||
| Routines, 1933-1991 | |||||||||||||
| Scripts for routines performed by Berle and his regular comedic partners. | |||||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically by file name. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 27/1 | Berle-Benson, undated | ||||||||||||
| Includes "The Man in the Box"/"The Heckler" with Sidney Spitzer | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 27/2 | Cracker Boys, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 27/3 | Doctor, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 27/4 | Frick and Frack, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 27/5 | Henny Youngman Heckle Bit, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 27/6 | Hookah, 1973 | ||||||||||||
| Written by Howard Albrecht and Sol Weinstein | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 27/7 | Laying Off Under Presidents, undated | ||||||||||||
| Written by Solly Violinsky | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 27/8 | Memoirs of Milton, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 27/9 | The Professor, undated | ||||||||||||
| With Sid Caesar | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 27/10 | Raye and Berle, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 27/11 | The Sketch, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 185/4 | Styles and Berle, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 27/12 | Slappy White Glove Bit, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 27/13 | Slapsie Maxies Second Show, 1945, November 29 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 27/14 | Soap Opera Junkie, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 27/15 | Unidentified, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 27/16 | Vaudeville and Nightclubs, 1933-1956, undated | ||||||||||||
| Bound volume | |||||||||||||
| Includes Berle vaudeville performances in Chicago, Pittsburgh, New York, Atlantic City, and Philadelphia; Berle nightclub monologues from Chez Paree, the International Casino, Grossinger's, Carnival, the Copacabana, Sands Hotel, and Rolling Rock Country Club; songs, parodies, and medleys; routines; and jokes | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 27/17 | Westbury Show, 1991, October 11-13 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 27/18 | When I Was Seventeen, undated | ||||||||||||
| Rundowns, 1931-1997 | |||||||||||||
| Lists of act elements or performance orders. | |||||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically by event name. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 27/19, 185/5, 248/3, 282 | Rundowns/Running Order, 1931, 1953, 1960, 1991-1997, undated | ||||||||||||
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| Sketches and Scenes, 1939-1989 | |||||||||||||
| Scripts and outlines for comedic bits purchased or submitted on spec. | |||||||||||||
| Arranged by subject. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 28/1-3 | Standard Sketches, undated | ||||||||||||
| Bound volumes | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 29/1-56, 30/1-13 | Authors, A-Z, 1939, 1947-1955, 1989, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 30/14-21 | Subjects, A-Z, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 31-132 | Scripts, 1930-1996 | ||||||||||||
| Scripts from Berle's radio and television programs, films, stand-alone television programs, radio and television guest appearances, nightclub acts, and theatrical productions. | |||||||||||||
| Arranged in six subseries: Berle Shows, Berle Performances, Produced by Berle, Radio Scripts (non-Berle), and Submitted Scripts (Berle/non-Berle) | |||||||||||||
| Berle Shows, 1936-1967 | |||||||||||||
| Bound and typescript versions of scripts from Berle's radio and television programs. | |||||||||||||
| Arranged first by performance media (Radio or Television), then chronologically by show air or production date | |||||||||||||
| Radio | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 31-34, 35/1 | Gillette Show, 1936, May 13-1937 September | ||||||||||||
| Typescripts | |||||||||||||
| Some episodes annotated | |||||||||||||
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