Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine collection
Contributors: Fine, Sylvia; Fine, Sylvia; Kaye (Danny)/Fine (Sylvia) Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1893
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1112
Subjects: Photographs; Entertainers; Motion picture music; Television music; Women librettists; John Gary show; Comedians; Librettos; Music; Archives; Women composers; Musical films; Correspondence; Popular music; Musical comedy tonight; Danny Kaye show (Television program); Musicals; Scores; Excerpts; Musical comedy tonight II; Manuscripts; Musical comedy tonight III
Other titles: Danny Kaye show (Radio program); Danny Kaye show (Television program); John Gary show.; Musical comedy tonight.; Musical comedy tonight II.; Musical comedy tonight III.
Description: The collection documents Kaye and Fine's life and work. It contains music, including printed parts, scores, orchestral arrangements, and sheet music for selections used by Kaye in his television series, performance tours, movies, stage productions, and television specials. It also includes compositions by Fine in the form of manuscripts, printed music, and lyric sheets; and music materials from the John Gary show (a summer replacement series for Kaye's show). There are scripts from the Danny Kaye show (both radio and television versions), the John Gary show, television specials, and many of Kaye's films. The collection includes personal and business correspondence to and from Kaye and Fine, and business and financial papers pertaining to television programs, tours, radio, recordings and special appearances. There is a significant amount of material relating to the Musical Comedy Tonight series of three television programs on musical theater that Fine produced and hosted in 1979, 1981, and 1985. This material includes music scores, scripts, librettos, books, photographs and slides, programs and press material, business papers, posters, production materials and set designs, research materials, and scrapbooks. In addition, the collection contains awards; realia; photographs; framed items, including caricatures, awards, and magazine covers; autographed books and magazines; and portrait paintings of Kaye.
Notes: Open to research.

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Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress.

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Gift; Sylvia Fine; 1990.

transferred to the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Danny Kaye (b. January 18, 1913, in Brooklyn, N.Y.; d. March 2, 1987, in Los Angeles, Calif.) was a singer, dancer, actor, comedian and humanitarian.

Danny Kaye's wife, Sylvia Fine (b. August 29, 1913, in Brooklyn, N.Y.; d. October 29, 1991, in New York City), was a lyricist, composer, writer, lecturer and producer.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Performing Arts Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu012007