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Bill Dana Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ACC-MSS 001
Scope and Contents
The papers of Bill Dana (1925- ) span the period (1940s- 2006) and focus primarily on his two most popular television series "The Steve Allen Show" and "The Bill Dana Show," as well as material related to his most famous character, Jose Jimenez. The papers consist mostly of annotated scripts for the live programs which aired on NBC. Dana was both a writer and performer. The papers here also contain scripts for the numerous other television and film scripts Dana worked on, comedy routines from...
Dates:
1940 - 2009
Bill Dana Oral History Interview Collection
Collection — record carton: ACC-MSS 002 Box 01
Identifier: ACC-MSS 002
Scope and Contents
The Bill Dana Oral History Collection, 2005-2007, 2016-, consists of sixty-eight audio-visual interviews of a cross section of comedy experts, writers, producers, directors, and noted comedians who have had a direct influence on the history of the art form in the United States Interviews with Bea Arthur, Eddie Brill, Barbara Feldon, Jamie Masada, Vin diBona, Norman Lear, Fred Willard, and Diane English are representative of the diverse experiences that are documented. Among the topics covered...
Dates:
2005 - 2020
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- African American comedians 1
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- Commedia dell'arte 1
- Daybreak News (Television program: Boston, Mass.) 1
- Goin' Back to T-town 1
- Harvard University 1
- Hispanic American comedians 1
- Jewish comedians 1
- Male comedians 1
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1
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- Television news programs 1
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- Tragicomedy 1
- Tulsa (Okla.) 1
- Urban Update (Television program: Boston, Mass.) 1
- WGBH (Television station: Boston, Mass.) 1
- WNAC-TV News 7 (Television program: Boston, Mass.) 1
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- Arthur, Beatrice 1
- Begley, Ed 1
- Berman, Shelley 1
- Black, Lewis, 1948- 1
- Bright, Kevin, 1955- 1
- Brill, Edwin S. 1
- Caesar, Shirley, 1938- 1
- Carter, Jack, 1922?- 1
- Cavett, Dick 1
- Conway, Tim 1
- Corey, Irwin 1
- Crosby, Norm 1
- Crystal, Billy 1
- Denoff, Sam, 1928- 1
- Di Bona, Vincent 1
- Diller, Phyllis 1
- English, Diane 1
- Farrakhan, Louis 1
- Feldon, Barbara 1
- Fields, Carmen 1
- Friedman, Budd 1
- Gelbart, Larry 1
- Greene, Shecky 1
- Gregory, Dick 1
- Grodin, Charles 1
- Harrington, Pat, 1929- 1
- Hefner, Hugh M. (Hugh Marston), 1926-2017 1
- Henry, Buck 1
- Herzog, Doug 1
- Johnson, Arte, 1934- 1
- Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938 1
- Kalish, Austin 1
- Kalish, Irma 1
- Kanter, Hal 1
- Knotts, Don, 1926-2006 1
- Lear, Norman 1
- Marshall, Peter, 1927- 1
- Martin, Dick, 1922- 1
- Masada, Jamie 1
- Mason, Jackie 1
- Matz, Jenni 1
- McCann, Chuck 1
- Meadows, Jayne, 1926- 1
- Mencia, Carlos 1
- Murray, Howard 1
- Murray, Jan, 1916-2006 1
- Newhart, Bob 1
- Nye, Louis 1
- Owens, Gary 1
- Paige, Janis 1
- Persky, Bill 1
- Poston, Tom 1
- Reiner, Carl, 1922- 1
- Riley, Jack, 1935- 1
- Roberts, Tony, 1939- 1
- Rodriguez, Paul 1
- Rooney, Andrew A. 1
- Rose Marie, 1923- 1
- Sandrich, Jay 1
- Schlatter, George, 1932- 1
- Shapiro, George 1
- Stern, Leonard 1
- Storm, Howard 1
- Van Dyke, Dick 1
- Van Patten, Dick 1
- Vilanch, Bruce 1
- White, Betty, 1924- 1
- Willard, Fred, 1939- 1
- Winkler, Henry, 1945- 1
- Winters, Jonathan 1
- Wright, Steven, 1955- 1
- Yankovic, Al, 1959- 1 ∧ less
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