Finding Aid for the Ray Bolger Papers LSC.1117
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Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Ray Bolger papers
Creator:
Bolger, Ray
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1117
Physical Description:
60.0 Linear Feet
(85 boxes, 2 record cartons, 39 flat boxes, 2 shoe boxes, and 10 sound recording boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1923-1987
Date (bulk): 1940s-1980s
Abstract: Among his many roles on stage, screen and television in a career that spanned sixty years, American comedian and dancer Ray
Bolger was best known for his role as the Scarecrow in the 1939 film,
The Wizard of Oz. In addition to his work in film and television, he continually returned to the stage, often appearing in one-man shows.
The collection consists of script material, contracts, clippings, correspondence, photographs, music, and ephemera related
to Bolger's lengthy career.
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Biography
Raymond Wallace Bolger was born on January 10, 1904, in Dorchester, Massachusetts. As a teenager, he danced on street corners
in Boston and began his acting career performing in amateur theatricals. He made his stage debut with the Bob Ott Musical
Comedy Repertory Company in 1922 and was soon appearing in vaudeville with Gus Edwards. Not long after, he appeared in Broadway
productions of
By Jupiter,
George White's Scandals,
Keep Off the Grass,
Life Begins at 8:40, and
On Your Toes, in which he won praise for his dancing skills in a number choreographed by George Balanchine. In time, he began appearing
in musical films such as
The Great Ziegfeld,
Rosalie,
Sunny,
Sweethearts, and his most well-known film,
The Wizard of Oz. During World War II, he helped organize U.S.O. shows that toured American military and naval bases around the world.
In 1948, he returned to Broadway and starred in a three-year run of
Where's Charley, which catapulted his stage career and lead to a film version of the story, starring Bolger, in 1952. That same year Bolger
made his television debut with
The Colgate Comedy Hour, and from 1953-1955 he starred in his own television show
The Ray Bolger Show on ABC. Originally titled
Where's Raymond in the first season, the show cast Bolger as Raymond Wallace, a Broadway star living in suburbia. Bolger and his wife Gwen
were the owners of their own production company, B&R Enterprises, which produced
Where's Raymond/
The Ray Bolger Show. In 1957, he starred in
Washington Square and made numerous guest appearances on television shows, such as
Hollywood Palace,
The Jimmy Durante Show,
The Judy Garland Show, and
The Red Skelton Hour. During this time, he continued to work in motion pictures, appearing in films such as
April in Paris,
Babes in Toyland, and
The Runner Stumbles. In between his work in film and television, Bolger continued to perform on the stage, appearing in one-man shows and song-and-dance
concerts as well as stage musicals such as
All American,
Come Summer, and
The Happy Time.
Bolger was involved with a number of philanthropic causes, including the American Red Cross and the American Heart Association,
and in political advocacy, appearing and performing at numerous events. He was also an avid golfer, often competing in celebrity
tournaments; and he was also involved in various business ventures, including real estate. Ray Bolger died of cancer on January
15, 1987 in Los Angeles, California.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of material related to the career of comedian, dancer, and actor Ray Bolger. Included in the collection
is script material, contractual documents, correspondence, clippings, photographs, music, and ephemera related to Bolger's
career. Notably absent are original materials relating to the production of the 1939 film
Wizard of Oz.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
- Biographical and Personal
- Television Projects
- Motion Picture Projects
- Stage Projects
- Radio Projects
- Audio Recording and Short Film Projects
- Sound Recordings
- Armed Services Entertainment
- Appearances and Events
- Unidentified Projects
- Correspondence
- Photographs
- Clippings
- Ephemera
- Awards, Honors, and Certificates
- Business, Financial, and Legal
- Music
- Scrapbooks
- Writings By or About Bolger
- Publications
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Actors -- United States -- Archives
Bolger, Ray--Archives.
Series 1. Biographical and Personal
no date, ca. 1920s-1930s, 1970s-1980s
General Physical Description note: Boxes 79 and 110
Scope and Contents note
The Personal and Biographical series is a small amount of personal documents relating to Bolger. This includes biographical
and personal documents, a trunk inventory, and planners/day log books. For more biographical information, see the series Writings
By or About Bolger.
box 79, folder 10
Biographical and personal documents
no date, ca. 1920s-1930s, 1970s-1980s
box 120
Ceramic mask of Bolger
1934
Series 2. Television Projects.
ca. 1950s-1980s.
General Physical Description note: Boxes 1-9, 11-13, 15, 20, 34-37, 44, 53, 74, 76-79, 103-104, 117, 137
Scope and Contents note
The Television Projects mainly represents Wheres Raymond and/or The Ray Bolger Show. Included are scripts and legal documents
such as TV rerun sheets, contracts, and music clearances. Additionally, there are scripts documenting Bolgers appearances
on a variety of popular television programs such as Battlestar Galactica, Diff'rent Strokes, The Entertainer, General Electric
Theater, The Hollywood Palace, The Partridge Family and a small amount of publicity, production information, treatments, outlines,
correspondence, clippings, and photographs. See the Music Series for orchestral parts that appear to be from The Ray Bolger
Show. The series is arranged alphabetically by projects.
All in the Family
General note
Episode title: Archie Works Out.
box 23, folder 6
Count Your Blessings - script
1953
box 23, folder 7
Count Your Blessings - script
no date
box 79, folder 7
Bolger spot scripts
no date
General note
Appears to be for The Dean Martin Show.
box 123, folder 1
Casting call poster
no date
box 12, folder 2
Correspondence and publicity
1976
box 34, folder 5
Photocopied clippings
1976
box 12, folder 1
Script
1975
General note
With some production material.
box 27, folder 6
Fantasy Island - script
no date
General note
Episode titled: A Very Strange Affair/ The Sailor.
General Electric Theater (The)
box 124, folder 5
Girl with the Flaxen Hair (The)
1958
box 12, folder 3
Girl with the Flaxen Hair (The) slides
no date
box 12, folder 4
Profile (The) script
1959
box 11, folder 1
51st Annual Academy Awards - presentation segment, photographs, and clippings
no date, 1979
box 11, folder 3
Aloha Paradise - script
1981
General note
For episode #5.
box 11, folder 4
Baretta - script
1977
General note
Episode title: Just for Laughs.
box 11, folder 5
Battlestar Galactica - script
1979
General note
Episode title: Greetings from Earth.
box 11, folder 6
Buick-Berle Show (The) - script
1954
box 11, folder 7
Captains and the Kings - script
1976
box 11, folder 8
Colgate Comedy Hour (The) - script and publicity
1952
box 11, folder 10
Diff'rent Strokes final draft script
1984
box 11, folder 9
Diff'rent Strokes table draft scripts
1984
box 124, folder 3
Donny and Marie Show (The) - still
no date, 1983
box 15, folder 5
Ginger Rogers Show (The) script
1958
General note
Removed from cover labeled Lets Go It's Bolger for preservation purposes.
box 74, folder 21
Hollywood Palace - contract
1965-1966, 1970
box 15, folder 9
Hollywood Palace - first draft script
1966
General note
For show #6. Removed from cover labeled The Hollywood Palace for preservation purposes.
box 15, folder 8
Hollywood Palace - script
1965, no date
General note
For show #7. Removed from cover labeled The Hollywood Palace for preservation purposes.
box 12, folder 5
Hollywood Palace - second and final draft scripts
1965
General note
For show #7.
box 11, folder 11
Jimmy Durante Show - script material
1959
box 12, folder 6
Little House on the Prairie - script
1978
General note
Episode title: Dance with Me.
box 124, folder 6
Merv Griffin Show (The) - Newsweek stills
1976
box 138
Partridge Family (The) - record disc
no date
box 12, folder 7
Partridge Family (The) scripts
1970, 1972
General note
Episode titles: What Ever Happened to the Old Songs? and The Modfather.
box 15, folder 7
Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall - script
1962-1963
General note
Removed from cover labeled Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall; Ray Bolger 1962.
box 15, folder 6
Red Skelton Hour (The) - Mayor of Central Park sketch
1962
General note
Removed from red cover labeled Ray Bolger for preservation purposes, see Box 117.
box 11, folder 2
Revlon Revue Accent on Comedy - script
1960
box 117
Script covers
no date
General note
For The Hollywood Palace, Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall, The Ginger Rogers Show, and The Red Skelton Hour.
box 20, folder 2
Harry Haldane sketches for Its Always Christmas television series
1960
box 22, folder 6
The Cadaver in the Clutter script
1977
Life and Times of Grizzly Adams
box 26, folder 1
Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (The) - script
1977
General note
Episode title: Marvin the Magnificent.
box 124, folder 7
Press party press clippings and photographs
1983
box 13, folder 2
Wonderment of Peter Paas (The) script
1982
General note
Final title: Peter and the Magic Egg.
box 3, folder 11
Angel in Disguise
no date
box 3, folder 12
Barber Takes a Bride (The)
no date
box 5, folder 3
Efficiency Expert (The)
no date
box 6, folder 13
Episode synopses - The Ray Bolger Show
1961 Aug 29
General note
See also: Ray Bolger Show (The) (Where's Raymond) episode synopses for Where's Raymond.
box 9, folder 2
Father for a Day
no date
General note
Duplicate script,
box 4, folder 4
Father for a Day
no date
General note
Duplicate script,
box 3, folder 4
Getting Susan a Job
no date
box 4, folder 8
Gift from the Sultan (A)
no date
box 4, folder 7
Girl on the Billboard
no date
box 1, folder 9
Guild agreements
ca. 1950-1964
box 5, folder 2
Herman, the Wonder Dog
no date
box 4, folder 14
Ideal Husband
no date
General note
Duplicate script,
box 9, folder 4
Ideal Husband
no date
General note
Duplicate script,
box 3, folder 14
Katie Gets Glamorized
no date
box 5, folder 5
Last of the Showboats
no date
box 1, folder 7
Legal documents
1953-1954
box 1, folder 3
Legal documents
1960, 1962
General note
Some appear to be from B & R Enterprises and the Music Publishers Holding Corporation.
box 1, folder 2
Legal documents
1953-1956, 1958
General note
Some appear to be from B & R Enterprises and the William Morris Agency.
box 2, folder 1
Legal documents
1953-1954, 1963
box 2, folder 3
Legal documents
1953-1957
box 2, folder 4
Legal documents
1953-1954
box 77, folder 14
Letter of non-renewal with profits and loss return
1955
box 78, folder 9
Letter regarding The Ray Bolger Show film reels
1972
box 3, folder 16
Masquerade is Over (The)
1954 Jul 1
box 1, folder 4
Music clearances
1953-1956
box 4, folder 3
Navy Show (The)
no date
General note
Duplicate script,
box 9, folder 1
Navy Show (The)
no date
General note
Duplicate script,
box 80, folder 15
Photocopied music schedules
1954-1955
box 6, folder 10
Pitch pages
no date
General note
Appear to be pitch pages.
box 9, folder 3
Professor Sniff
no date
General note
Duplicate script.
box 9, folder 8
Ray Bolger Show sponsors spots
1954
General note
For episodes 6A and 8.
box 3, folder 15
Ray Helps Young Married Couple
no date
box 4, folder 9
Ray Humanizes Pete
no date
box 5, folder 4
Ray's Mother and Father
1955 Feb 18
box 77, folder 15
Reruns contracts
1955-1956
box 5, folder 1
Reunion of Squad B
no date
box 8, folder 9
Script material
1953-1954
General note
Ray Bolger Television Pilot Film by Ken Englund; Here's Bolger, Ray Bolger Show scripts and Here's Bolger outline by John
Murray and Ben Freedman. May be related to Where's Raymond.
box 9, folder 7
Script material by Ben Freedman and John Fenton Murray
no date
General note
With outlines, format, and notes. May be related to Where's Raymond. Script material by Jean Holloway.
box 9, folder 6
Script Pages
no date
General note
Appears to be for Ray Bolger Show.
box 78, folder 2
Statements of estimated negative costs
1954-1955
General note
Some appear to be for Where's Raymond. See also: Box 78 Folder 1.
box 78, folder 1
Statements of estimated negative costs
1954-1955
General note
Appears to be for The Ray Bolger Show. See also: Box 78 Folder 2.
box 6, folder 12
Television Pilot Film - script pages
1953
General note
Script pages by Alan Lipscott and Bob Fisher. Script written by Ken Englund. With Shoe on the Other Foot script pages.
box 6, folder 11
Television Pilot Film- script pages
1953
General note
Script pages by Alan Lipscott and Bob Fisher. Script written by Ken Englund.
box 78, folder 7
The Efficiency Expert - script
no date
box 19, box 57
Bolger Walks Again: music
Ray Bolger Show (The) (Where's Raymond)
box 3, folder 2
Best Dressed Man
1954 Mar 24
box 6, folder 13
Episode synopses - Where's Raymond
1961
General note
See also: The Ray Bolger Show episode synopses.
box 8, folder 7
Foster Fathers
no date
General note
Appears to be Ray Bolger Show (Where's Raymond) script.
box 7, folder 6
Let's Get Ray Married - show 25 script
1954 Mar 25
box 80, folder 14
Photocopied music schedules
1953-1954
box 77, folder 13
Production budget and costs report
1953
box 7, folder 5
Ray Plays the Stork - show 24 script
1954 Mar 18
box 8, folder 2
Redecorate Coffee Pot - show 20 scripts
1954 Jan 11
box 53
Scrapbook of clippings
1953
box 8, folder 6
Script
no date
General note
Appears to be Ray Bolger Show (Where's Raymond) script.
box 8, folder 10
Script pages
no date
General note
Appears to be Ray Bolger Show (Where's Raymond) script.
box 5, folder 9
Script pages
1953 Oct 29
General note
Appears to be Where's Raymond.
box 5, folder 8
Script pages
1953 Dec 6
General note
Appears to be Where's Raymond.
box 5, folder 7
Script pages
1953 July 27
General note
Appears to be Where's Raymond.
box 7, folder 4
Shoe Store (The) - show 26 scripts
1954 Apr 1
box 5, folder 11
Show 1 - script
1953 Aug 25
box 6, folder 7
Show 13 - script
1953 Nov 22
box 7, folder 9
Show 13 - script pages
1953 Nov 19
box 6, folder 8
Show 15 - script pages
no date
box 7, folder 7
Show 16 - script pages
1953 Dec 15
box 7, folder 10
Show 17 - script
1953 Dec 27
box 7, folder 11
Show 18 - script
1953 Dec 30
box 7, folder 3
Show 18 - script pages
1954 Jan 3
box 7, folder 12
Show 19 - script
1954 Jan 8
box 7, folder 2
Show 2 - script
1953 Sep 1
box 5, folder 12
Show 2 - script
1953 Sep 1
box 8, folder 4
Show 20 and 22 - scripts
1954
box 8, folder 5
Show 23 and 24 - scripts
1954
box 6, folder 9
Show 27 - script
1954 Apr 8
box 5, folder 13
Show 3 - script
1953 Sep 4
box 6, folder 1
Show 4 - script
1953 Sep 12
box 6, folder 2
Show 5 - script
1953 Sep 19
box 6, folder 3
Show 6 - script
1953 Sep 29
box 6, folder 4
Show 7 - script
1953 Oct 7
box 6, folder 5
Show 8 - script
1953 Oct 19
box 6, folder 6
Show 9 - script
1953 Oct 23
box 1, folder 8
Syndication booking documents
1960-1961, 1963
box 137
Transcription discs (36 discs)
no date
General note
May be related to The Ray Bolger Show.
box 8, folder 8
Where's Raymond - script pages
no date
General note
Appears to be Ray Bolger Show (Where's Raymond) script.
box 8, folder 11
Who's Getting Married - show 21 script
1954 Feb 25
Senior Citizen Shuffle (The)
box 20, folder 4
First draft and revised scripts
1974
General note
Appears to be produced.
box 19, folder 9
Supertrain - script
1979
General note
Episode title: Where Have You Been, Billy Boy?
box 12, folder 8
Scripts
1977
General note
With some production material.
box 124, folder 11
Publicity stills and negatives
no date
box 124, folder 12
Publicity stills and negatives
no date
box 124, folder 13
Publicity stills and negatives
no date
box 13, folder 1
Script
1956-1957
General note
With publicity and letters.
box 74, folder 11
Statements of income and loss
1957
Series 3. Motion Picture Projects
ca. 1930s-1980s
General Physical Description note: Boxes 9-10, 33-36, 38, 74, 76, 80, 103, 115, 131-132
Scope and Contents note
The series includes a small amount of scripts, publicity, correspondence, film stills, and clippings related to film projects
in which Bolger was associated. Films represented include: April in Paris, Babes in Toyland, The Great Ziegfeld, Roaslie,
The Runner Stumbles, Sunny, Thats Dancing, Two of a Kind, and Where's Charley?. Notably absent are original materials relating
to the production of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz except for a very small number of clippings, sheet music, and a facsimile
copy of a cast and crew contact list. The series is arranged alphabetically by project.
box 74, folder 8
April In Paris - contract
Mar 1952
box 9, folder 12
April in Paris - script
1952
General note
With correspondence and clippings.
box 115
Babes in Toyland - album
no date, 1961
box 33, folder 12
Babes in Toyland - clippings
1961
box 76, folder 3
Babes in Toyland - contract
1961
box 9, folder 13
Babes in Toyland - script
1961-1962
General note
With Box Office Blue Ribbon award certificate.
box 10, folder 10
Great Ziegfeld (The) - telegram, memorandum, and lyrics
1935
box 9, folder 14
Rosalie - stills and ephemera
no date
box 35, folder 8
Runner Stumbles (The) - clippings
1978-1980
box 10, folder 1
Runner Stumbles (The) - publicity and thank you letters
1978-1979
General note
With one still. Clippings removed for preservation purposes.
box 9, folder 15
Runner Stumbles (The) - script and executed contract
1978-1979
box 10, folder 2
Runner Stumbles (The) - script and production information
1978
General note
With published play in two acts.
box 125, folder 19
Runner Stumbles (The) - still
no date
box 34, folder 14
That's Dancing! - clippings
1985
box 69, folder 2
That's Dancing! - group portrait
1985
box 10, folder 5
Two of a Kind - script
1978
General note
Released as Just You and Me Kid.
box 36, folder 4
Where's Charley? - clippings
1951-1952
box 38, folder 6
Where's Charley? - ephemera
1952
box 10, folder 9
Where's Charley? - final script by John Monks, Jr.
1951
box 103, folder 15
Where's Charley? - photographs
no date
General note
Appears to be for the motion picture production of Where's Charley. See also Stage Projects.
box 10, folder 7
Where's Charley? - scripts
1951-1952
box 10, folder 8
Where's Charley? - scripts
1951
box 10, folder 6
Where's Charley? - stills
no date
box 131, folder 7
Wizard of Oz - commercial sheet music
1939
box 80, folder 11
Wizard of Oz (The) - clippings
no date, 1943, 1970s-1980s
box 80, folder 12
Wizard of Oz (The) - clippings
1939
box 132, folder 4
Wizard of Oz cast and crew contact list
1939
Series 4. Stage Projects
ca. 1930s-1980s
General Physical Description note: Boxes 2, 13-16, 27, 29, 33-38, 41, 43-44, 48, 50, 53, 74, 76-78, 102-104, 107-108,114-115
Scope and Contents note
The Stage Projects series consists of material documenting Bolgers work in the theater, club appearances, and concerts. Projects
represented include productions such as All American, By Jupiter, Come Summer, On Your Toes, Wheres Charley and live appearances
at the Empire Room at the Waldorf Astoria and numerous Las Vegas engagements. Included are scripts, contracts, fan mail, clippings,
and a small amount of publicity, ephemera, and photographs. The series is arranged alphabetically by project.
box 13, folder 4
All American - Act II outline
1961, no date
General note
With publicity and ephemera.
box 115
All American - album recording
no date
box 35, folder 1
All American - clippings
1962
box 74, folder 17
All American - contract
1961
box 13, folder 3
All American - correspondence
1961-1962
box 36, folder 15
All American - ephemera
1962
box 44, folder 1
All American - letters to Bolger
1962
box 53
All American - scrapbook
1962
box 13, folder 5
All American - scripts
1961, no date
box 43, folder 9
All American - telegrams
1962
General note
Most addressed to Winter Garden Theater.
box 43, folder 8
All American, Wires, etc. and Josh Logan material
ca. 1961-1962
General note
From envelop labeled: Nice Letters, All American, Wires, etc. and Josh Logan Material
box 33, folder 10
All's Fair - clippings
1942
General note
With three programs.
box 13, folder 6
Beau Nash - clippings and publicity
1966
General note
With photographs.
box 48, folder 8
Beau Nash - research
no date, 1966
box 27, folder 11
Broadmoor International Theater - ephemera and correspondence
1962
General note
With clippings.
box 34, folder 3
By Jupiter - clippings
1942
box 107, folder 1
By Jupiter - photographs
no date
box 107, folder 2
By Jupiter - photographs
no date
box 13, folder 7
By Jupiter - script
no date
box 13, folder 8
Capitol Theater - program
1933
box 115
Charley's Aunt - album recording
no date
box 14, folder 6
Come Summer - clippings
1969
box 74, folder 18
Come Summer - contract
1968
box 14, folder 9
Come Summer - fan mail and well wishes
1969
box 44, folder 2
Come Summer - letters to Bolger
1969
box 50, folder 8
Come Summer - letters to Bolger
1969
box 36, folder 16
Come Summer - playbills
1969
box 14, folder 4
Come Summer - production list and communications from Seldon
1968-1969
box 13, folder 9
Come Summer - script
1969, no date
General note
With playbill.
box 14, folder 5
Come Summer - script
1967-1968
box 14, folder 1
Come Summer - script pages
1969
box 14, folder 2
Come Summer - script pages
1968
box 14, folder 3
Come Summer - script pages
1969
box 2, folder 6
Come Summer - script pages and music
1969
box 13, folder 10
Come Summer - scripts
1969
box 14, folder 10
Come Summer - telegrams
1969
box 14, folder 8
Die Fledermaus - script
1980
General note
With correspondence.
box 37, folder 7
Empire Room, Waldorf Astoria - ephemera
no date, 1960, 1968
box 41, folder 1
Empire Room, Waldorf Astoria - publicity and clippings
1967-1968
General note
With Walter Winchell press release.
box 16, folder 3
Fol de Rol - programs
1963
box 38, folder 1
Fol de Rol - programs
no date, 1967
box 34, folder 11
George White's Scandals - clippings
1930-1932
box 27, folder 8
George White's Scandals - lyrics
no date
box 35, folder 6
Happy Time (The) - clippings
1969
box 76, folder 4
Happy Time (The) - contracts
1969
General note
With some box office sales statements.
box 15, folder 1
Happy Time (The) - script and programs
1969, no date
General note
With photographs.
box 103, folder 12
Keep of the Grass - photographs
no date
box 103, folder 12
Life Begins at 8:40 - photographs
no date
box 38, folder 2
Life Begins at 8:40 - playbills
1934
box 15, folder 2
Life Begins at 8:40 - scene pages
no date
General note
Window Dresser Goes to Bed, New Deal Ladies Circle, Let's Take a Walk Around the Block, C'est La Vie, and Rabelais, Balzac,
de Maupassant, Boccaccio.
box 34, folder 13
On Your Toes - clippings and ephemera
1936
box 107, folder 4
On Your Toes - photographs
no date
box 16, folder 1
On Your Toes - script and publicity
1936, no date
box 35, folder 10
Palmer House, Chicago - clippings
1963-1964, 1966
box 14, folder 7
Palmer House, Chicago - clippings and ephemera
1963, 1966
General note
With photograph.
box 76, folder 6
Palmer House, Chicago - contracts
1964-1965, 1968
box 77, folder 3
Ray Bolger's World - contracts
ca. 1970s
box 29, folder 1
Ray Bolger's World - correspondence and ephemera
1970-1972
box 38, folder 3
Sahara - programs and ephemera
1955, 1962
box 124, folder 9
Sahara - publicity stills and photographs
no date, 1956
box 15, folder 3
Sahara - script material
no date
box 125, folder 23
Sketch of Bolger from Where's Charley by Gregory d'Alessio
1949
box 104, folder 6
Think Mink - photographs
1958
box 16, folder 2
Think Mink - telegrams, ephemera, and photographs
1958, 1960
box 34, folder 15
Three to Make Ready - clippings
no date, 1947
box 15, folder 4
Three to Make Ready - sketches and ephemera
no date
General note
With Shoe on the Other Foot dated February 10, 1955.
box 27, folder 10
Van Wezel Concert - ephemera and clippings
1977, 1979-1980
box 36, folder 2
Vanities - clippings
1934
box 38, folder 4
Vanities - playbills
no date, 1933-1934
box 2, folder 7
Venetian Room, Fairmont Hotel - clippings, publicity, and ephemera
1962
box 114, folder 1
Where's Charley - open reel
no date
box 37, folder 1
Where's Charley? - clippings and ephemera
1949-1951
box 38, folder 5
Where's Charley? - playbills and ephemera
1948-1952
box 107, folder 5
Where's Charley? - publicity stills
no date
General note
Appears to be for stage production of Where's Charley. See also Motion Picture Projects.
box 108, folder 1
Where's Charley? - publicity stills
no date
General note
Appears to be related to Where's Charley stage production. Includes a miniature accordion-type book of images. See also Motion
Picture Projects.
box 78, folder 11
Where's Charley? - statements of operation and production costs
1948-1950
box 16, folder 4
Where's Charley? - stills, playbill and lyrics
1949, 1951
General note
With script material and synopses for Charley's Aunt.
box 50, folder 9
Where's Charley? - telegrams
1950
box 44, folder 4
Where's Charley?- letters to Bolger
1950
Series 5. Radio Projects
no dates, 1944-1945, 1949
General Physical Description note: Boxes 9-10, 104
Scope and Contents note
The Radio Projects series contains a small amount of scripts, photographs and correspondence. The material in this series
appears to be mostly from the 1940s. The series is arranged alphabetically by project.
box 10, folder 3
American Theatre Wing Stage Door Canteen -script
1944 Nov 17
General note
Appears to include Fox Hole Sketch.
box 9, folder 11
Audition script for Ray Bolger
no date
box 9, folder 9
Donaldson Awards - script
1949
box 10, folder 11
Philco Radio Hall of Fame - script
1944
General note
For segment: The Two Mrs. Carrolls
box 104, folder 1
Ray Bolger Show (The) - photographs and script material
1945
General note
Appears to be for the Ray Bolger radio show.
box 9, folder 10
Ray Bolger's Dancing School - script
no date
Series 6. Audio Recording and Short Film Projects
no dates, 1963, ca. late 1970s early 1980s
General Physical Description note: Boxes 16, 36, 50-51, 80, 83, 103, 132, 137, 138
Scope and Contents note
The Audio Recording and Short Film Projects series consists mainly of scripts, ephemera, stills, and publicity for Lil Elfy.
Additionally there is a small amount of scripts, correspondence, publicity, and clippings for other audio recording projects
including the Shire Films short film titled Peter and the Wolf. (Additional Shire Film projects are found in the Unidentified
Projects series.) The series is arranged alphabetically by project.
box 127, folder 1
Churkendoose - commercially released 45 rpm disc
1951
box 83
Churkendoose (The) - commercially released 45 rpm disc (2 copies)
no date
box 83
I'll Elfy - commercially released 45 rpm disc (3 copies)
no date
box 16, folder 6
Land of Oz (The) - audio book script material
1978
box 132, folder 7
Letters to Bolger regarding Churkendoose tape
no date, 1974
box 138
Lil' Elfy - 33 1/3 discs (3 discs)
no date
box 138
Lil' Elfy - commercially released 45 rpm disc
no date
box 127, folder 2
Lil' Elfy - commercially released 45 rpm discs
no date
box 16, folder 8
Lil' Elfy - ephemera, stills and publicity
1963
General note
Posters removed to Box 43, Folder 2.
box 51, folder 5
Lil' Elfy - ephemera, stills, and publicity
1963
General note
See Box 16, Folder 8.
box 103, folder 13
Lil' Elfy - photographs
no date, 1964
box 50, folder 14
Lil' Elfy - sheet music pages
no date
box 36, folder 11
Peter and the Wolf clippings
1981
box 16, folder 7
Peter and the Wolf scripts and correspondence
1981-1983
General note
Produced by Shire Films.
box 80, folder 13
Wizard of Oz (The) - audio book recording script and royalties statement
1975, 1984
box 137
Wizard of Oz (The) and Queen Zixi of IX audio book recording discs (2 discs)
1976-1977
Series 7. Sound Recordings
1945, 1949-1951, 1953, 1957, 1963
General Physical Description note: Boxes 1945, 1949-1951, 1953, 1957, 1963; Boxes 81-83, 86, 114-116, 136- 138
Scope and Contents note
The Sound Recordings series consists of transcription discs and commercial recordings for various projects, appearances and
events. Among the projects represented are The Donaldson Awards, The Ray Bolger Show, The Red Skelton Hour, Wheres Charley,
as well as a small number of unidentified items. The series is arranged alphabetically by recording title. Audio materials
in this series are restricted and require advance notice for use.
box 115
Albums
no date
General note
Including Butterly, What Even Happened to Ol' Jack, The Wizard of Oz, and Nola Penthouse Sound Studios
box 114
Assorted open reels
no date
General note
Includes Ray Bolger Christmas Show, Telephone Hour, The American Showmen, Gwen Bolger interview, Ray Bolger with John Campbell,
and other assorted open reels.
box 115
Assorted open reels
no date, 1963
General note
Includes Voice of America: The American Musical Theater #17,
box 116
Audio cassette tapes and one open reel
no date
box 85
Audio Recordings
no date
General note
12 5-inch reel-to-reel tapes; 19 7-inch reel-to-reel tapes; 6 audio cassette tapes.
box 127
Bolger spot - 7" reel
no date
box 137
Castles in Spain - 78 rpm disc
1961
General note
May be related to Babes in Toyland.
box 82
Catholic Charities 31st Annual Appeal "On Stage" - 4 transcription discs
1950 April 27
box 137
Come Summer demonstration 33 1/3 discs and sheet music (4 discs)
1969
box 86
Commercially released LPs by other performers - 10 discs
no date
box 138
Demo recordings - 7" reel
1958
box 86
Donaldson Awards - 6 transcription discs
1949 July 12
General note
Found in box annotated Donaldson Awards Tex and Jinx Records.
box 83
Ethel Merman and Ray Bolger - commercially released 78 rpm disc
no date
box 138
Ethel Merman and Ray Bolger - commercially released record discs (3 discs)
no date
General note
Featuring Bolger and Ethel Merman. Dearie and I Said My Pajamas (And Put On My Pray'rs).
box 83
Good Old Fashioned Balls/A Song About Peanuts - 45 rpm disc
no date
box 127
Governor Reagan First 90 Days - 5" reel
no date
box 81
Hi-Jinx Show (The) - 3 transcription discs
1949 May 23
box 81
Hi-Jinx Show (The) - 3 transcription discs
1949 July 27
General note
Found in box annotated Donaldson Awards Tex and Jinx Records.
box 83
Max Mainspring the Mechanical Man - commercially released 78 rpm disc
c. 1950
box 138
Max Mainspring the Mechanical Man - commercially released 78 rpm disc
no date
box 138
Melody Cruise to Havana - record disc
no date
box 127, folder 3
My Fair Lady - 33 1/2 LP
1978
box 137
NBC transcription discs (2 discs)
no date
General note
Amy, Builderupper, Cherries, Slaughter,Wizard.
box 127
Ray Bolger - 7" reel
1964
box 127
Ray Bolger compilation album
1953
box 115, folder 2
Ray Bolger interview with Radio Free Europe
1967
General note
With typed transcript.
box 127
Ray Bolger Reel #1 - 7" reel
no date
box 81
Ray Bolger Show (The) - 14 transcription discs
1945
box 115
Ray Bolger Show songs
1953
box 83
Skelton Hour transcription disc
no date
box 82
Unidentified projects - 13 transcription discs
no date
box 82
Unidentified projects - 2 transcription discs
1949 May 8
box 83
Unidentified projects - 5 transcription discs
no date
box 115
US Committee for UNICEF and United Nation Radio Special Halloween Show - disc
1957
General note
Includes The Trail of Sargent Bill and Trick or Treat for UNICEF
box 138
Various commercially released 45 and 33 1/3 rpm and discs by other performers
no date
General note
Bolger does not appear to have performed in any of the record albums.
box 84
Various commercially released 78 rpm discs by other performers (30 discs)
no date
General note
Bolger does not appear to have performed in any of the record albums.
box 136
Various commercially released 78 rpm discs by other performers (39 discs)
General note
Bolger does not appear to have performed in any of the record albums.
box 82
We Care - 2 transcription discs
1949 Nov 22
box 127, folder 4
Western Airlines - 33 1/2 LP
1968
box 81
Where's Charley - 6 transcription discs
1951
Series 8. Armed Services Entertainment
no dates, ca. early 1940s
General Physical Description note: Boxes 33, 36, 105
Scope and Contents note
The Armed Services Entertainment series is script material, correspondence, ephemera, and photographs relating to Bolgers
involvement with the USO during World War II. There is no specific arrangement to the series.
box 33
Script material, correspondence, papers and ephemera
1941-1944, 1956
box 36, folder 1
U.S.O - clippings
1941, 1943, 1948
box 105, folder 7
World War II entertainment photographs
no date, ca. early 1940s
General note
Appears to be related to wartime entertainment. With images from Watch Your Credit US Army Signal Corp visits/performances.
box 105, folder 6
World War II entertainment snapshots
no date
Series 9. Appearances and Events
no dates, ca. 1940s-1980s
General Physical Description note: Boxes 28-32, 36, 41, 48-50, 57, 77, 105, 110, 113, 132
Scope and Contents note
The Appearances and Events series consists of correspondence, clippings, photos, and ephemera related to Bolgers personal
appearances at philanthropic, political, and other various small events. Some of the events appear to be for organizations
and/or causes in which Bolger was interested. The series is arranged alphabetically by appearance/event name.
box 125, folder 21
153rd Anniversary of the War Department - publicity photographs
1942
box 31, folder 6
1964 Republican Campaign
1964
box 31, folder 5
1970 Republican dinner
1970
box 125, folder 4
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Foundation
1983-1984
box 132, folder 6
American Cancer Society - An Evening with Ray Bolger
1956
box 125, folder 1
An Evening with Ray Bolger - photographs
1970
box 29, folder 3
Arthritis Foundation, Kansas City
1984
box 28, folder 2
Athens and London Hilton openings
1963
box 110, folder 1
Bing Crosby National Pro-Am Golf Tournament - press releases, letters, and ephemera
1966
box 29, folder 5
Boston Symphony Orchestra and Buffalo Symphony Orchestra
1976-1977
box 29, folder 4
California Mortgage Bankers Association 17th Annual Convention
1972
box 29, folder 6
Catholic Charities
1950, 1968
box 41, folder 4
Chicago Armed Forces day - spots
1966
box 48, folder 7
Community Chest campaign correspondence
1954
box 29, folder 7
Cypress College Bicentennial Award
1975-1976
box 28, folder 8
Eisenhower Inauguration (folder 1 of 3)
1957
General note
Signed thank you letters to Bolger from Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon.
box 28, folder 9
Eisenhower Inauguration (folder 2 of 3)
1957
box 113, folder 2
Eisenhower Inauguration (folder 3 of 3)
1957
box 29, folder 8
Emerson College Award
1978
box 29, folder 10
Federation of Jewish Philanthropies luncheon
1959
box 29, folder 11
First National Bank performance
1977
box 105, folder 8
Good cause appearances and events photographs
1942, 1960s,
General note
Including National Conference of Christians and Jews, New York World's Fair, National Jewish Hospital at Denver dedication
ceremony of Children's Treatment Center, Sports Award luncheon, American Red Cross headquarters visit.
box 125, folder 15
Good cause events and appearances
no date, 1957, ca. 1980s
box 28, folder 5
Heart Association
1960s, 1971, 1980
box 30, folder 16
Heart Association
1964, 1967-1968
box 50, folder 7
Hilton Tower Honolulu opening
1968
box 109, folder 6
IBM 1978 Golden Circle
1979
box 29, folder 15
Kansas City Philharmonic
1977
box 29, folder 13
Kids Are People Too
no date
box 30, folder 1
Ladies of Charity luncheon
1980
box 41, folder 5
Lady with the Lamp (The) premiere
1951
box 31, folder 4
Lincoln Day dinner
1967-1968
box 48, folder 9
Lotos Club reception - photographs, telegrams, and ephemera
1968
box 125, folder 7
Marajen Stevick art showing
no date
box 29, folder 16
Martin Luther Hospital Medical Center Autumn Ambrosia
1978
box 29, folder 17
Milliken Breakfast Show
1980
box 125, folder 8
Minneapolis Boys Clubs benefit
1973
General note
With Loretta Young and Carol Channing.
box 125, folder 9
Motion Picture Home Show in the Louis B. Mayer Theater
1979
box 30, folder 5
Mountain Valley Water Centennial Show
1971
box 30, folder 2
National Conference of Christians and Jews award luncheon
1969
box 125, folder 10
National Conference of Christians and Jews Brotherhood Award Dinner
1972
box 30, folder 4
New York Hilton opening ceremonies
1963
box 125, folder 11
New York Hilton publicity photographs
1979
box 31, folder 8
Nixon Republican Campaign letters and papers
1960, 1962
box 125, folder 12
Oscar Salutes ASCAP dinner
1984
box 28, folder 4
Philadelphia Civic Ballet Company En Point Award
1983
box 110, folder 9
Pictures of a City: A Musical Celebration - program with plaque
no date, 1980
General note
Appears to be for IBM Corporate Recognition Event. Includes program treatment.
box 32, folder 1
Political advocacy correspondence, ephemera, and clippings
1960s, 1984
box 32, folder 2
Political advocacy correspondence, ephemera, and clippings
1956, 1960s - 1970s
box 31, folder 3
Ray Bolger Overture - script
no date
box 31, folder 7
Republican National Committee remarks (not written for Bolger)
no date
box 125, folder 13
Ripley's Chasen party
1983
box 30, folder 8
Saint John's Hospital and Health Center Foundation
1984
box 30, folder 9
Spastic Children's League
197
box 30, folder 7
St. Catherine's Church benefit
1959
box 41, folder 6
Sugar Ray's Youth Foundation
1972
box 119, folder 7
Tehran International Film Festival - telegrams, ephemera, clippings,
1977
General note
Removed from binder for preservation purposes.
box 36, folder 14
Texas Film Society Achievement Award honoring Mervyn Leroy
1983
General note
Program, photograph, holographic notes.
box 29, folder 9
United Way End of the Rainbow Victory dinner
1980
box 30, folder 12
University of Detroit 4th Annual Awards Dinner
1971
box 30, folder 13
Valley Music Hall benefit
1965
box 77, folder 1
Valley Music Hall, Salt Lake City - contracts
1965-1966
box 125, folder 14
Western Airlines Alaska Junket
1967-1968
box 30, folder 14
White House News Photographers Association dinner
1955, 1969
box 41, folder 3
Wolf Trap Birthday Benefit
1976
box 30, folder 15
World Mercy Fund
1973, 1977
Series 10. Unidentified Projects
no dates, ca. 1930s-1980s
General Physical Description note: Boxes 1, 16-28, 31, 33, 37, 50, 54, 57, 74, 76, 79-80, 110
Scope and Contents note
The bulk of the Unidentified Projects series are scripts which are not identified with known projects, and which may have
been submitted to Bolger for his consideration, and which may or may not have been produced. Additionally there is a small
amount of writings that appear to be sketches, bits, ideas, lyrics, synopses, treatments, and titled and untitled stories.
Also included is a small number of files collated by the processor containing holographic notes which may have been written
by Ray and/or Gwen Bolger. There is no specific arrangement to the series.
box 23, folder 2
$25,000 Reward! - pitch
no date
box 19, folder 3
27 Hawthorne Road - scripts
1966-1967
box 23, folder 3
Affair (The) - synopsis and script
1975
box 25, folder 5
All the Ships at Sea by William J. Lederer (copy of book)
no date
box 31, folder 12
Articles and Talks by Others
no date
box 19, folder 4
At Home Abroad - outline
1958
box 19, folder 5
At the Shores - script
1976
box 57, folder 5
Berle-Bolger-Raye - spot scripts
1955
box 122
Blueprints for proposed apartment building
no date
box 37, folder 6
Buck-Tens solicitation (form letter from Bolger)
1972
box 19, folder 10
Calling (A) - script
1982
General note
See also Widgin.
box 22, folder 4
Cinders manuscript
no date
box 2, folder 8
Command Performance - routine
1955
box 19, folder 6
Country Cousin - outline and pilot script
1964
box 25, folder 6
Curtain Never Falls (The) - script
no date
box 76, folder 12
Dance Players Studio itinerary, lyrics, and stage plan
no date
box 26, folder 10
Dance Rex - script
no date
box 23, folder 8
Dance with the King - outline
1943
box 26, folder 3
Day of the Locust (The) - script
no date
box 26, folder 12
Deceit by Robert Spalding Coleman
no date
box 110, folder 3
Don Quixote ballet libretto
1950
box 23, folder 10
Donald Quixote - treatment
1954
box 23, folder 9
Doraleen and Fuzzy Vague - script
1979
box 18, folder 3
Dream Boat - script and correspondence
1951, 1966
box 24, folder 1
Fenwick - script
no date
General note
With published story book.
box 23, folder 12
Fenwick - second draft script
no date
box 23, folder 11
Fenwick - storyline treatment and character artwork
1976
box 17, folder 1
Finian's Rainbow - scripts
1947, 1981-1982
box 25, folder 10
Flying High - script
no date
General note
Episode title: The Challenges.
box 24, folder 2
Footsteps - script
no date
box 2, folder 9
Ford Dealers' Show - script and music
1959
box 26, folder 4
Genius (The) - script
1958
box 20, folder 1
Gibbsville - final draft script
1976
General note
Episode title: How Old, How Young.
box 16, folder 9
Gift Horse (The) - script
1959-1960
box 24, folder 3
Going Strong - script
1977
box 26, folder 5
Golden Days - script
1977
box 79, folder 6
Handwritten jokes, lyrics, etc.
no date
box 19, folder 7
Having Babies - script
1978
General note
Episode title: Captive.
box 26, folder 6
Here We Are - script
1935
box 17, folder 2
Hill Beyond a Hill (A) - script
1966
box 50, folder 1
Holograph notes and typescript pages
no date
General note
Appears to be unrelated projects.
box 54, folder 1
Holograph notes, typescript pages, and itinerary,
no date
box 17, folder 3
How to Make a Man - script
1959
box 79, folder 5
Jokes and lyrics
no date
General note
With holographic lyrics for I Love to Eat.
box 18, folder 4
Land of Laughs (The) - script
1984-1985
box 50, folder 11
Lecture material, valedictorian address, and Generation Gap pamphlet
no date, 1970
box 22, folder 1
Leroy - pitches
1960
General note
With variations on pitches.
box 22, folder 2
Leroy - pitches
1960
General note
With variations on pitches.
box 22, folder 3
Leroy - pitches
1960
General note
With variations on pitches.
box 21, folder 4
Leroy - possible treatment
no date
box 128
Leroy - script and treatment duplicates
1960
box 21, folder 5
Leroy - script and treatments
1960
General note
With Where's Ray? treatments.
box 21, folder 6
Leroy - treatment for stage
1960
box 22, folder 5
Let's Face It - manuscript
no date
box 24, folder 4
Lifemoves - proposal
1985
box 20, folder 3
Likely Story (A) - script
1955
box 27, folder 1
Little Dog Laughed (The) - script
1939
box 27, folder 4
Little Me - final script
no date
box 17, folder 5
Long John Silver - script
1966
box 26, folder 2
Look Homeward Angel - script
1974
box 24, folder 5
Lovebirds (The) - revised draft script
1958
box 18, folder 5
Main Street to Broadway - script
1952
box 24, folder 6
Man in the Santa Claus Suit - final draft script
1979
box 20, folder 7
Mardi Gras Weekend - revised second draft script
1978
box 24, folder 7
Masterminds (The) - first draft script
1956-1957
box 50, folder 12
Memo to Harry Hoff from Frank Wilson regarding Ray Bolger
1944
box 18, folder 6
Nervous in the Service - first and second draft scripts
1964
box 19, folder 1
Never Say Die - script
1959
box 27, folder 5
No Longer Innocent - script
no date
box 25, folder 9
Now Playing Tomorrow - synopsis and script
no date
box 27, folder 7
Nuts and Bolts - second draft script
1981
General note
For pilot episode.
box 33, folder 8
One Hour of Glory by Mary Roberts Rinehart
no date
box 24, folder 8
Outside Comin' In - script
1980-1981
box 79, folder 11
Palace $2 Vaudeville a Joke - typed article
no date
box 26, folder 7
Perfect Furlough (The) - script
1957
box 20, folder 5
Pippin - treatments and script
1964
box 22, folder 8
Pronunciation aids
no date
box 50, folder 4
Radio City Music Hall Golden Anniversary - storyboard outline, production material, and correspondence
1981
box 22, folder 7
Ray Bolger's Sony meeting remarks
1975
box 80, folder 7
Ray Wallace Show synopsis
no date
General note
Does not appear to be related to The Ray Bolger Show/Where's Raymond.
box 50, folder 10
Reminders for Books
no date, 1968, 1970
box 27, folder 2
Rhinoceros - script
1959-1960
General note
With photocopied clippings.
box 25, folder 7
Ring Horse: A Novel by Thomas Duncan
no date
box 26, folder 8
Rip van Winkle - synopsis
no date
box 24, folder 9
Rosalind Regulars (The) - outline
1982
box 31, folder 10
Ruby Slippers (The) student paper by Todd Machin
1982
box 31, folder 14
Shire Films - scripts and correspondence
1982-1983
General note
Scripts for Beware the Jabberwock, The Ugly Duckling, Misty Moisty Morning, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, and Tom Sawyer's Whitewash
Job. It is not apparent whether these projects were ever produced.
box 25, folder 8
Silver Fire - script
no date
General note
From the novel Ring Horse by Thomas Duncan.
box 25, folder 3
Sketches, bits, ideas and lyrics
no date
General note
From folder labeled Materials.
box 25, folder 4
Sketches, bits, ideas and lyrics
no date
box 24, folder 10
Slippers - script
no date
box 18, folder 7
Some Like It Cold! - script
1944
box 19, folder 8
Songs of Christmas (The) - script
1981-1982
box 27, folder 9
Sports article featuring Bolger - draft
no date
box 57, folder 6
Submission letters to Bolger
1950, 1980
box 25, folder 1
Theresa - shooting script
1979
box 17, folder 6
Three Thieves (The) - scripts and production costs
1952
box 26, folder 9
Twenty Years of Rip Van Winkle (The) - synopsis
1956
box 33, folder 9
Wait for the Dawn: A Play with Music by Gwen Bolger
no date
box 20, folder 6
Welcome Home - script
1977
box 50, folder 5
What About Tomorrow? - treatment and pilot episode script
no date
General note
Removed from binder for preservation purposes.
box 19, folder 11
Widgin - scripts
1979-1980
General note
See also A Calling.
box 57, folder 10
Wizard of Oz (The) - music for stage production (folder 2 of 2)
no date
box 74, folder 4
Wizard of Oz (The) - play script (folder 1 of 2)
1968
box 23, folder 1
Women of Twilight - script
no date
box 28, folder 1
Wonderful World of Roy Bolger (The)
no date
box 26, folder 11
Wynken Blynken -- and Durante - script
no date
box 25, folder 2
Zip Goes a Million - published play
1952, 1958
Series 11. Correspondence
no dates, ca. 1930s-1980s
General Physical Description note: Boxes 31, 42-50, 80, 131
Scope and Contents note
The Correspondence series is letters and notes sent to Ray Bolger and/or his wife Gwen Bolger, and is mostly fan mail addressed
to Bolger. Also included is correspondence between the Bolgers during WWII, letters or notes to Bolger from notable entertainment
and political figures, and personal correspondence from the Bolgers friends and family. There is a very small amount of items
related to members of Gwen Bolgers family, the Rickards. The majority of the series is arranged chronologically by decade.
Correspondence related to specific projects may be found in the Motion Picture Projects, Stage Projects, Television Projects,
and Unidentified Projects series.
box 80, folder 2
Cards and invitations to Bolger
no date, ca. 1930s-1970s
General note
Includes: Bob Hope, Conrad Hilton, Rear Admiral H.A. Yeager, The Harvard Lampoons, and Bing Crosby.
box 42, folder 2
Cards and invitations to Bolger from various people
ca. 1930s-1980s
box 42, folder 3
Children's Theatre Company School regarding suspension of John Clark Donahue
1984
box 80, folder 1
Get well cards and letters to Bolger
1981
box 31, folder 2
Golf correspondence and ephemera
1960s-1980s
box 80, folder 3
Letters and fan mail to Bolger
no date, 1950s, 1970s-1980s
box 43, folder 1
Letters from Bolger to Their Royal Highnesses Hassan II and Prince Moulay Abdullah
1972
box 47, folder 7
Letters from Gwen Bolger to Ray Bolger
no date, ca. 1930s-1940s
box 47, folder 8
Letters from Gwen Bolger to Ray Bolger
no date, ca. 1930s-1940s
box 43, folder 2
Letters from Gwen or Ray Bolger to various people
no date, 1956, 1974-1975
box 44, folder 5
Letters to Bolger
ca. 1940s
box 44, folder 6
Letters to Bolger
ca. 1940s
box 44, folder 7
Letters to Bolger
ca. 1950-1951
box 44, folder 8
Letters to Bolger
ca. 1952
box 45, folder 1
Letters to Bolger
ca. 1952
box 45, folder 2
Letters to Bolger
ca. 1953-1954
box 45, folder 3
Letters to Bolger
ca. 1955-1959
box 45, folder 4
Letters to Bolger
ca. 1960-1961
box 45, folder 5
Letters to Bolger
ca. 1962
box 45, folder 6
Letters to Bolger
ca. 1963-1964
box 45, folder 7
Letters to Bolger
ca. 1965-1969
box 46, folder 1
Letters to Bolger
ca. 1970-1972
box 46, folder 2
Letters to Bolger
ca. 1970-1972
box 46, folder 3
Letters to Bolger
ca. 1973-1974
box 46, folder 4
Letters to Bolger
ca. 1973-1974
box 46, folder 5
Letters to Bolger
ca. 1975
box 46, folder 6
Letters to Bolger
ca. 1975-1976
box 46, folder 7
Letters to Bolger
ca. 1976
box 46, folder 8
Letters to Bolger
ca. 1977-1979
box 46, folder 9
Letters to Bolger
ca. 1977-1979
box 47, folder 1
Letters to Bolger
ca. 1980
box 47, folder 2
Letters to Bolger
ca. 1980
box 47, folder 3
Letters to Bolger
ca. 1980
box 47, folder 4
Letters to Bolger
ca. 1984-1987
box 47, folder 5
Letters to Bolger
ca. 1980-1983
General note
Originally from envelope labeled: Fan mail, correspondence. 45 items.
box 47, folder 6
Letters to Bolger
ca. 1984-1986
General note
Originally from envelope labeled: Fan mail, correspondence. 31 items.
box 48, folder 1
Letters to Bolger
no date
box 48, folder 2
Letters to Bolger
ca. 1920s
box 48, folder 3
Letters to Bolger
ca. 1930s
box 48, folder 5
Letters to Bolger
ca. 1940s
box 48, folder 6
Letters to Bolger
ca. 1960s
box 49, folder 1
Letters to Bolger
ca. 1950s
box 49, folder 2
Letters to Bolger
ca. 1970s
box 49, folder 4
Letters to Bolger
ca. 1980s
box 49, folder 3
Letters to Bolger
ca. 1970s
box 49, folder 5
Letters to Bolger
ca. 1980s
box 49, folder 6
Letters to Bolger from school children (with art work)
ca. 1970-1972
box 80, folder 4
Letters to Bolger from various correspondents
no date, 1930s-1980s
General note
Includes: Aaron Spelling, Bing Crosby, Spyros Skouras, George C. Scott, Mayor Norris Poulson.
box 43, folder 3
Letters to Bolger regarding appearance requests (folder 1 of 2)
ca. 1960s-1980s
box 43, folder 4
Letters to Bolger regarding appearance requests (folder 2 of 2)
ca. 1960s-1980s
box 42, folder 4
Letters to Gwen and Ray Bolger from [Fini]
no date, 1953, 1961
box 42, folder 6
Letters to Gwen and Ray Bolger from [Pawski]
1951, 1953-1955
box 42, folder 5
Letters to Gwen and Ray Bolger from Helen and Charles Suydam Cutting
no date, 1938, 1950s, 1961-1962
box 42, folder 7
Letters to Gwen and Ray Bolger from Rickard Family
1932, 1951, 1962
box 43, folder 6
Letters to Gwen Bolger from Barbara Boston
1951-1952, 1954-1955
box 43, folder 7
Letters to Gwen Bolger from various people
no date, 1925, ca. 1930s -1960s, 1980s, 1992
box 131, folder 8
Note to Ray Bolger from Dick Arnold regarding song copies from Wizard of Oz
1939
General note
On ornate Wizard of Oz publicity-type stationary.
box 126, folder 2
Notes and photographs regarding amateur Wizard of Oz events
no date, 1979, 1980, 1985
box 42, folder 8
Rickard family letters
no date, late 1940s-early 1950s
General note
With Air Force photograph of James Rickard.
box 51, folder 2
Season's Greetings card
1942
box 48, folder 4
Telegrams and well wishes to Bolger
ca. 1931-1936
box 43, folder 5
Thank you letters to Bolger from various organizations
ca. 1940s-1970s
box 31, folder 1
Travel in Europe
1958, 1970s
box 50, folder 3
Women as Fantasy: Costumes from the Latin Quarter exhibition - correspondence
1978
Series 12. Photographs
no dates, ca. 1920s-1980s
General Physical Description note: Boxes 103-110, 132, 135
Scope and Contents note
The Photographs series contains images documenting Bolgers long career in the entertainment indudsty. Included are publicity
stills and headshots of Bolger, some identified as MGM, RKO, or ABC productions; photographs of Bolger with other performers
and/or public figures; and photographs of Bolger at unidentified functions he attended and/or in which he performed, including
golf events, and what appear to be USO-related appearances. Also included are what appear to be personal and publicity photographs
of Ray and/or Gwen Bolger, as well as other unidentified individuals. The series is arranged alphabetically by file titles
reflecting the contents of each folder. Additional photographs relating to specific projects may be found in the, Motion Picture
Projects, Stage Projects, Television Projects, and Unidentified Projects series.
box 108, folder 3
ABC publicity stills for Stanley Shapiro for Life Magazine
no date
box 106, folder 1
Bolger at race tracks
1957-1962
box 106, folder 2
Bolger at unidentified events
no date
box 125, folder 5
Bolger with Marva Collins at the Westside Prep School
1982
box 106, folder 4
Bolger with others
no date, ca. 1940s-1970s
General note
Including Steve Allen, Bing Crosby, Jimmy Durante, Douglas Fairbanks, Alice Faye, Barry Goldwater, Muriel Landers, Tina Louise,
Ronald Reagan, and John Wayne.
box 106, folder 5
Bolger with others
no date, ca. 1960s-1970s
General note
Mostly unidentified people and events.
box 109, folder 4
Bolger with others
no date
General note
With one photograph of a theater faade.
box 132, folder 3
Bolger with Victor McLaglen, Fred MacMurray, and unidentified
no date
box 51, folder 6
Dorchester High School Class of 1920
1920
box 106, folder 8
Early snapshots
no date, 1943
General note
Mostly photographs of Ray Bolger.
box 103, folder 10
Empire Room, Palmer House - Ray Bolger birthday
1967
box 105, folder 4
Golf
no date, ca. 1960s-1970s
box 105, folder 5
Golf
no date, ca. 1960s-1970s
box 103, folder 11
Gus Edwards Ritz Carlton Nights Revue
1927-1928
box 109, folder 5
Gwen Bolger
no date, 1947
box 107, folder 6
Headshots of Bolger by James Hargis Connelly
no date
box 107, folder 7
Headshots of Bolger by Maurice Seymour
no date
box 104, folder 8
Images of Bolger as The Scarecrow
no date
General note
Headshot (3 items), glass negative, and caricature.
box 125, folder 16
Las Vegas News Bureau photographs of Bolger and others
1956
General note
Including Mindy Carson, Jimmy Durante, Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Tina Louise, Frank Sinatra, and Walter Winchell
box 104, folder 10
MGM photographs by Durward Graybill
no date
box 108, folder 2
Mike Douglas Show (The) photograph album
1971
box 125, folder 2
Modern Maturity transparency slides
1979
box 103, folder 5
Negatives of set stills
no date
box 135, folder 1
Photograph of Bolger
no date
box 125, folder 22
Photograph of Bolger as a boy of sixteen
no date
General note
Includes negative. See Also Box 51, Folder 6.
box 106, folder 10
Photograph of portrait painting of Bolger
no date
General note
With photographs of portraits of others.
box 105, folder 2
Photograph proofs of Bolger dancing
no date
box 104, folder 12
Photographs for Bride and Home Magazine by Desmond Russell
1957
box 105, folder 9
Photographs from McFadden, Strauss, Eddy, and Irwin (MSEI)
1965-1967
box 124, folder 2
Photographs of Bolger as the Scarecrow
no date
box 106, folder 6
Photographs of others
no date, 1940
General note
Mostly unidentified people.
box 104, folder 13
Publicity and/or headshots of Bolger
no date, 1926, 1929
box 104, folder 14
Publicity and/or headshots of Bolger
no date
General note
With duplicate images.
box 104, folder 14
Publicity and/or headshots of Bolger
no date
box 104, folder 16
Publicity and/or headshots of Bolger
no date
box 121, folder 8
Publicity and/or headshots of Bolger
no date, 1960
box 124, folder 1
Publicity and/or headshots of Bolger
no date, 1972, 1974-1975, 1979
box 107, folder 8
Publicity photographs of Bolger
no date
box 109, folder 1
Publicity photographs of Ray Bolger
no date
box 106, folder 9
Ray and Gwen Bolger
no date, 1930s-1970s
box 106, folder 3
Ray Bolger with Maurice Chevalier and Muriel Landers
1965
General note
One autographed photo by Maurice Chevalier not included in the original envelope.
box 104, folder 3
Reno Sparks Nugget
1964
General note
Removed images from Box 50 Folder 16 for preservation purposes. See also Clippings series (Box 50, Folder 16).
box 125, folder 3
Scotch Buy stills
no date
box 121, folder 7
Snapshots
no date, 1960s-1980s
General note
Mostly photographs of Ray Bolger.
box 109, folder 2
Souvenir photograph of Bolger
no date
box 106, folder 7
Souvenir photographs
no date
General note
Ray Bolger, Gwen Bolger, and others.
box 104, folder 11
Unidentified performances
no date
box 105, folder 3
Unidentified publicity photographs
no date
box 102, folder 9
Wizard of Oz copy stills and published interview with Margaret Hamilton
1984
box 105, folder 1
Zeni photographs of unidentified performance
1964
General note
One photo with Desi Arnaz and other unidentified people. May be from Palm Springs.
Series 13. Clippings
no dates, ca. 1930s-1980s
General Physical Description note: Boxes 16, 33-37, 50, 132
Scope and Contents note
The Clippings series a mixture of publicity and promotional write-ups about appearances and events in which Bolger was involved
and articles written about Bolger, often referencing his role in the Wizard of Oz. There are also a small number of items
pertaining to Gwen Bolger. The series is arranged alphabetically by file titles reflecting the contents of each folder. General
clippings about Bolger are listed first. Clippings related to specific projects may be found in the, Motion Picture Projects,
Stage Projects, Television Projects, and Unidentified Projects series.
box 36, folder 5
Clippings relating to Bolger
no date
box 37, folder 2
Clippings relating to Bolger
ca. 1920s-1930s
box 36, folder 6
Clippings relating to Bolger
ca. 1970s
box 36, folder 7
Clippings relating to Bolger
ca. 1980s
box 36, folder 9
Clippings relating to Gwen Bolger
1940, 1942, 1944
box 36, folder 8
Clippings relating to others in entertainment
1979, 1984, no date
box 33, folder 11
Ames Club, Houston
1962-1963
box 35, folder 2
Boys Club of Minneapolis Benefit
1972
box 132, folder 5
Clippings related to Bolger
no date, 1947-1953
box 37, folder 3
Clippings relating to Bolger
ca. 1940s-1950s
box 37, folder 4
Clippings relating to Bolger
ca. 1960s
box 35, folder 5
Garden State Arts Center Big Show of 1936
1972
box 36, folder 10
Joke clippings
no date, 1940, 1942
box 37, folder 5
Magazine tear-outs
no date, 1948, 1951
box 34, folder 6
Michigan Theater
ca. 1940s
box 34, folder 8
President's Birthday Ball
1938
box 50, folder 16
Reno Sparks Nugget appearance
1964
General note
Removed photographs for preservation purposes. See Photographs series (Box 104, Folder 3).
box 16, folder 5
Rheingold clippings and stills
1957, 1959
box 36, folder 13
Santa Fe Film Festival
1982
box 125, folder 17
Who's Who in America
1955
Series 14. Ephemera
no dates, ca. 1940s-1980s
General Physical Description note: Boxes 37-40, 51, 75, 110-113, 115
Scope and Contents note
The Ephemera series consists of advertising ephemera; publications mentioning or featuring Bolger; programs, playbills, and/or
ephemera from appearances and events Bolger may have attended; and sketches and drawings of Bolger in and out of character,
some depicting him as the Scarecrow. Additionally there is a small amount of business cards and entertainment publications
that do not appear to be related to Bolger.
box 37, folder 9
Advertising ephemera
no date, 1929, 1935, 1950, 1960
box 122, folder 2
Al Hirschfeld artwork of Bolger
no date
box 121, folder 2
Appearances and events attended
no date, 1929, 1940s-1960s
box 40, folder 2
Appearances and events attended - ephemera
no date, 1950s-1970s
box 40, folder 3
Appearances and events attended - ephemera
no date, 1940s-1970s
box 51, folder 1
Drawings of Bolger
no date
box 113, folder 1
Life of a Scarecrow: The Most Popular Man in Oz sketches by Kate Kennedy and additional sketch
1942
box 115, folder 1
Magnetic Recorders bill of sale and publications
no date
box 112
Playbills
no date, ca. 1950s-1960s
box 111
Playbills and Las Vegas magazines
no date, ca. 1950s-1960s
box 39, folder 2
Publications featuring or mentioning Bolger (A)
1976, 1978 1980
box 38, folder 7
Publications featuring or mentioning Bolger (A-N)
ca. 1950s-1980s
box 39, folder 3
Publications featuring or mentioning Bolger (C-O)
no date, ca. 1930s-1940s, 1960s-1980s
box 38, folder 8
Publications featuring or mentioning Bolger (M-Z)
ca. 1950s-1960s
box 39, folder 4
Publications featuring or mentioning Bolger (R-S)
no date, ca. 1940s -1980s
box 40, folder 1
Publications featuring or mentioning Bolger (T-Z)
1941, 1960s, 1975, 1987
box 122
Scroll written in Latin
no date
box 109, folder 7
Sketch of Bolger by Pierotti
no date
box 39, folder 1
Television guides mentioning Bolger
ca. 1950s-1970s
box 110, folder 7
Theater publication
no date, 1929, 1951, 1954, 1962
box 110, folder 6
Theater, film, and music publications
no date, 1945, 1949, 1972
General note
Mostly theater publications.
Series 15. Awards, Honors, and Affiliations
no dates, ca. 1930s-1980s
General Physical Description note: Boxes 28, 41-42, 50, 53, 72, 110
Scope and Contents note
The series consists of award and honor certificates bestowed upon Bolger from a wide range of organizations, clubs, orders,
and associations, including an honorary degree from the University of Connecticut. Also included are membership cards and
certificates for various clubs and organizations. There is no specific arrangement to the series.
box 121, folder 3
American Physical Fitness Research Institute Care Award
1974
box 51, folder 4
Appreciation of public service certificate
1949
box 125, folder 20
Awards and Certificates
ca. 1950s, 1970s-1980s
box 28, folder 6
Awards, certificates, and honors
1930s-1980s
box 53
Bel Air Country Club
1980
box 41, folder 10
Bohemian Grove - ephemera and correspondence
ca. 1950s-1980s
box 110, folder 10
Bohemian Grove - ephemera and correspondence
no date, 1959, 1967-1968, 1979
box 50, folder 6
Bolger's membership cards and certificates for various organizations
no date, ca. 1950s,1970s-1980s
box 41, folder 8
Boys Club of Hollywood
1972
box 121, folder 5
Cypress College bicentennial tribute
1976
box 121, folder 4
Film Welfare league Outstanding Showmanship Award
1983
box 41, folder 9
Sovereign Military Order of Malta - ephemera and correspondence
1969, ca. 1980s
box 41, folder 13
Theater Hall of Fame honor
1979
box 42, folder 1
University of Connecticut - correspondence and clippings
1975-1977, early 1980s
box 72, folder 1
University of Connecticut convocation photo album
1976
Series 16. Business, Legal, and Financial Records
no dates, ca. 1930s-1980s
General Physical Description note: Boxes 57, 74-80, 110, 119
Scope and Contents note
The Business, Legal, and Financial records consist mainly of contracts and financial documents representing a variety of projects
in which Bolger was involved throughout his career. Included are agreements with studios such as CBS, KNBC, and NBC, commercial
companies, and live venue locations such as Cocoanut Grove and Hotel Sahara, among others. Of note are a photocopy of Bolgers
agreement from July 1939 with respect to commercial tie-ups of Wizard of Oz properties and a copy of the term agreement Bolger
had with MGM in April of 1936. The financial documents reflect the operations of B&R Enterprises and other business ventures.
The series is arranged alphabetically by file titles reflecting the contents of each folder. A small number of contracts regarding
specific projects may be found in the Motion Picture Projects, Stage Projects, Television Projects, and Unidentified Projects
series.
box 76, folder 8
AAA Bowling Center - venture agreement and annual reports
1959-1961, 1963
box 74, folder 16
Actor Equity Association booklets regarding benefits and pension
1966
box 74, folder 7
American Broadcasting Company contract
Apr 1953
General note
Possibly for The Ray Bolger Show.
box 57, folder 14
American Coating Company Sparkle trademark
Apr 1952
box 78, folder 3
American Federation of Musicians payment regarding Ray Bolger Show music
1954
box 77, folder 9
B&R Enterprises - summary of cash received and disbursed
1960
box 77, folder 10
B&R Enterprises - summary of cash received and disbursed
1961
box 119, folder 1
B&R Enterprises, Inc. - minutes of meetings
1969
box 78, folder 12
Business letters to keep
ca. 1950s, 1960
box 57, folder 11
Contracts
1923-1936
General note
Includes: MGM, Paramount, Shubert Theatrical Company, Bob Ott Company.
box 57, folder 12
Contracts
1940s
General note
Includes: RKO Radio Pictures, Decca Records, Radio City Music Hall, Roxy Theater.
box 76, folder 1
Contracts
1950s
General note
Includes: B&R Enterprises, Hotel Sahara, Riviera Hotel, Cocoanut Grove, CBS, NBC.
box 77, folder 2
Contracts
ca. 1970s
General note
Including: CBS, Jack Morton Productions, MCA Records, KNBC, Screen Actor's Guild, and All State Productions.
box 77, folder 5
Contracts
ca. 1980s
General note
Including: Caedmon.
box 77, folder 12
Correspondence regarding Nancy Hamilton and Shoe Salesman
1953
box 74, folder 23
Dinah's Place - contracts
1972
box 76, folder 9
Dividends - holographic notes
1958-1969
box 77, folder 6
Financial documents
no date
box 77, folder 7
Financial documents
ca. 1920s-1930s
box 77, folder 8
Financial documents
ca. 1940s
box 75, folder 1
Financial documents
ca. 1950s
box 75, folder 2
Financial documents
ca. 1960s
box 75, folder 3
Financial documents
ca. 1970s
box 75, folder 4
Financial documents
ca. 1980s
box 74, folder 19
Flamingo, Las Vegas - contract
1962
box 79, folder 1
George White vs. Balban and Katz subpoena
1932
box 79, folder 2
Land of Oz - correspondence and clippings
1969-1970
box 79, folder 3
Land of Oz - correspondence, clippings, and ephemera
1970-1971
box 57, folder 13
Loews contract (Metro) - photo static copy
May 1944
box 78, folder 10
McHale's Navy Joins the Airforce - financial statements
1975, ca. 1980s
box 74, folder 20
Merv Griffin Show (The) - contract
1968
box 76, folder 2
Old Contracts (folder 1 of 2)
1966-1969
box 74, folder 13
Old Contracts (folder 2 of 2)
1966-1969
box 74, folder 14
Overseas TV Reports Inc. - contract
1969
box 74, folder 10
Perry Como Show - contract
1958
box 110, folder 8
Pocket planner - Morton bookings and club dates
1975
box 80, folder 6
Real estate property research
1964
box 119, folder 2
RIBO Enterprises, Inc. - minutes and By-laws
1958-1969
box 119, folder 3
RIBO Enterprises, Inc. stock certificates
no date
box 77, folder 4
Safeway spot - contract
1978
box 110, folder 2
Screen Actors Guild - agreements and contract
1962
box 76, folder 11
Territory of Hawaii court summons regarding Gwen Bolger and Rickard family
1952
box 74, folder 22
Tonight Show - contracts
1968
box 125, folder 18
Transcontinent Television Corporation Annual Report to Shareholders
1960
box 76, folder 10
Villa Vista - escrow instructions, correspondence, and clippings
1969-1970
box 79, folder 4
Villa Vista - letters of request
1971
box 80, folder 8
Wizard of Oz (The) - photocopy of contract
1975
box 74, folder 12
Wizard of Oz (The) - recording contract
Jan 1957
box 80, folder 9
Wizard of Oz (The) - Scarecrow costume donation to Smithsonian
1987
box 76, folder 5
Yeoman Major - contract
1964
Series 17. Music
no dates, ca. 1920s-1980s
General Physical Description note: Boxes 50, 54-58, 60-65, 67-69, 70-72, 74, 79, 87-100, 102-103, 112, 129- 135
Scope and Contents note
The Music series consists of printed music sheets, songbooks, commercial sheet music, orchestral parts, vocal parts, and handwritten
music sheets. Included is music representing All American, Babes in Toyland, Come Summer, On Your Toes, Sunny, Washington
Square, and Wheres Charley?, among others; some items are untitled. Additionally, there are orchestral parts and arrangements
which may represent the television program, The Ray Bolger Show. The series is arranged alphabetically by song title.
box 96, folder 1
All American - conductor's score
no date
box 58
All American - piano and vocal arrangements
no date
box 54, folder 2
All American - sheet music
1962
box 54, folder 20
Amy - orchestral parts
no date
box 99, folder 5
Amy - orchestral parts
no date
box 99, folder 1
Amy [plus] Encore - orchestral parts
no date
box 55, folder 1
Amy Bows #2 - conductor's manuscript music sheets
no date
box 99, folder 2
Amy Bows Slow - orchestral parts
no date
box 95, folder 3
Amy E flat with Encore - orchestral parts and conductor's score
no date
box 99, folder 3
Amy Entrance [and] Amy Encore - orchestral parts and manuscript music
no date
box 95, folder 2
Amy Old Copy - orchestral parts and conductor's score
no date
box 99, folder 4
Amy Opening extra orch. - orchestral parts
no date
box 95, folder 1
Amy Original Score - photocopied manuscript music
no date
box 103, folder 1
Amy without encore - orchestral parts
no date
box 131, folder 5
April in Paris - music and lyrics
no date, 1951
box 54, folder 3
April in Paris - sheet music
1952, 1977
box 70
Babes in Toyland - vocal lead sheets and lyrics
no date
box 51, folder 3
Begin the Beguine - manuscript music score
no date
box 70, folder 2
Bolger Opener, Russ Black, Lake Tahoe - orchestral parts and manuscript music
no date
box 135, folder 4
Bolger Opening - manuscript music
no date
box 119, folder 6
Bolger's Sound of Music - conductor's score
1961
General note
Performed for Bohemian Club.
box 55, folder 2
Bowl of Cherries - orchestral parts
no date
box 54, folder 4
By Jupiter - sheet music
1942
box 119, folder 5
Can't Stop Horsin' Around - vocal and instrumental arrangements
no date
box 99, folder 6
Churkendoose Song, Aw C'mon - manuscript music
no date
General note
With additional songs for The Boy with the Bonny Bagpipe and the Girl with the Glockenspiel.
box 54, folder 5
Come Summer - sheet music
1968
box 132, folder 1
Commercial sheet music
1910s-1950s
box 132, folder 2
Commercial sheet music
1910s-1950s
box 97, folder 4
Cut Version of Old Soft Shoe - orchestral parts and manuscript music
no date
box 99, folder 7
Dance Series - orchestral parts
no date
box 99, folder 8
Dance Series New '60 - orchestral parts
no date
box 99, folder 9
Dances Thru the Ages - orchestral parts
no date
box 57, folder 2
Decca Records - sheet music
1955
box 54, folder 6
Entertainer (The) - sheet music
no date
box 100, folder 1
Everything I've Got - orchestral parts and manuscript music (folder 1 of 2)
no date
box 100, folder 2
Everything I've Got - orchestral parts and manuscript music (folder 2 of 2)
no date
box 96, folder 2
First Dance - orchestral parts and conductor's score
no date
box 54, folder 7
Four Jacks and a Jill - sheet music
1941
box 54, folder 8
George White's Scandals - sheet music
1924
box 135, folder 5
Getting Married - manuscript music
no date
box 54, folder 18
Girl Named Amy (A) - orchestral parts
no date
box 55, folder 3
Happy Face - orchestral parts
no date
box 55, folder 4
Happy Face - orchestral parts
no date
box 50, folder 12
Happy Time (The) - score
1967-1968
box 50, folder 13
Happy Time (The) - score
1967-1968
box 54, folder 9
Harvey Girls (The) - sheet music
1945
box 135, folder 6
Heller - orchestral score
no date
box 74, folder 1
I'd Have Baked a Cake lyrics
no date
General note
With It's So Nice to Have a Man Around the House sheet music.
box 96, folder 3
If You Knew Susie - orchestral parts and conductor's score
no date
box 54, folder 10
Judy Garland Show (The) - sheet music
no date
box 57, folder 3
Keep Off the Grass - sheet music
no date
box 96, folder 5
Last Dance - orchestral parts and conductor's score
no date
box 100, folder 4
Let's Take a Walk and Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella - orchestral parts
no date
box 96, folder 4
Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries - orchestral parts and conductor's score
no date
box 54, folder 11
Look for the Silver Lining - conductor's score pages
no date
box 74, folder 3
Lyrics for unidentified projects
no date, 1953
box 74, folder 2
Lyrics submitted to Bolger from Alan Greene
1974
box 131, folder 4
Manuscript music pages
no date
box 123, folder 2
Manuscript music scores
no date
box 123, folder 3
Manuscript music scores
no date
box 123, folder 4
Manuscript music scores
no date
box 55, folder 5
Married in the Morning - orchestral parts
no date
box 100, folder 5
Music of Sound - orchestral parts
no date
box 55, folder 6
Old Soft Shoe - orchestral parts
no date
box 135, folder 7
Old Soft Shoe - orchestral parts
no date
box 97, folder 2
Old Soft Shoe - orchestral parts and conductor's score
no date
box 97, folder 3
Old Soft Shoe - orchestral parts and conductor's score
no date
box 103, folder 2
Old Soft Shoe - photocopied manuscript score (folder 1 of 2)
no date
box 103, folder 3
Old Soft Shoe - photocopied manuscript score (folder 2 of 2)
no date
box 100, folder 6
Old Soft Shoe [plus] extra violin parts in different key "B" - orchestral parts
no date
box 101, folder 1
Old Soft Shoe Ford Show - orchestral parts
no date
box 97, folder 1
Old Soft Shoes - orchestral parts
no date
box 54, folder 12
On Your Toes - sheet music
1936
box 101, folder 2
Once in Love with Amy - vocal and orchestral parts
no date
box 134, folder 1
Orchestral parts - master copies
no date
General note
Bolger Opening, Dearie, The Look of Love, Sunnyside.
box 134, folder 2
Orchestral parts - master copies
no date
General note
Dance Series, Pretty Girl Strip.
box 134, folder 3
Orchestral parts - master copies
no date
General note
Bolger Overture, Entre'Act.
box 134, folder 4
Orchestral parts - master copies
no date
box 134, folder 5
Orchestral parts - master copies
no date
General note
Amy, Girl Named Amy.
box 133
Orchestral parts - master copies A - W
no date
box 134
Orchestral parts - master copies W - Y
no date
box 129
Orchestral parts A - O
no date
box 130
Orchestral parts O - W
no date
box 64
Orchestrations (A-C)
no date, 1959
box 65
Orchestrations (C-L)
no date
General note
With Life is Like a Bowl Full of Cherries.
box 66
Orchestrations (S-T)
no date, 1936
General note
With Sad Sack.
box 67
Orchestrations (W-Y)
no date
General note
With Washington Square.
box 79, folder 8
Photocopies of song titles 1870s-1970s
no date
box 131, folder 6
Photostats of vocal piano number Weekend Cruise
1956
General note
With other commercial sheet music.
box 54, folder 19
Pretty Girl Like A Melody (A) - conductor's score and sheet music
no date
box 55, folder 7
Prize Fight Number - orchestral parts
no date
box 58
Ray Bolger Show (The) - Orchestrations
no date
General note
Appears to be for The Ray Bolger Show.
box 59
Ray Bolger Show (The) - Orchestrations
no date
General note
Appears to be for The Ray Bolger Show episodes 5A, 6A, and 10A.
box 60
Ray Bolger Show (The) - Orchestrations
no date
General note
Appears to be for The Ray Bolger Show episodes 11A-13A.
box 61
Ray Bolger Show (The) - Orchestrations
no date
General note
Appears to be for The Ray Bolger Show episodes 14A.
box 62
Ray Bolger Show (The) - Orchestrations
no date
General note
Appears to be for The Ray Bolger Show episodes 15A-16A.
box 63
Ray Bolger Show (The) - Orchestrations
no date
General note
Appears to be for The Ray Bolger Show episodes 26A and 30A.
box 87
Ray Bolger Show (The) - Orchestrations
no date
General note
Appears to be for The Ray Bolger Show episodes 2A-3A, 8A-9A.
box 88
Ray Bolger Show (The) - Orchestrations
no date
General note
Appears to be for The Ray Bolger Show episodes 10A-11A.
box 89
Ray Bolger Show (The) - Orchestrations
no date
General note
Appears to be for The Ray Bolger Show episodes 12A, 14A, 17A.
box 90
Ray Bolger Show (The) - Orchestrations
no date
General note
Appears to be for The Ray Bolger Show episodes 17A-18A.
box 91
Ray Bolger Show (The) - Orchestrations
no date
General note
Appears to be for The Ray Bolger Show episodes 19A-20A, 29A.
box 92
Ray Bolger Show (The) - Orchestrations
no date
General note
Appears to be for The Ray Bolger Show episodes 20A-21A.
box 93
Ray Bolger Show (The) - Orchestrations
no date
General note
Appears to be for The Ray Bolger Show episodes 28A-29A.
box 94
Ray Bolger Show (The) - Orchestrations
no date
General note
Appears to be for The Ray Bolger Show.
box 69
Ray Bolger Show (The) - Orchestrations
no date
General note
Appears to be for The Ray Bolger Show.
box 103, folder 4
Riddler (The) - photocopied manuscript music pages
no date
box 55, folder 8
Sad Sack - orchestral parts
no date
box 101, folder 3
Sad Sack extra parts - orchestral parts
no date
box 101, folder 4
Sad Sack Ford Show - orchestral parts
no date
box 101, folder 5
Shake, Rattle, and Roll - manuscript music
no date
box 122, folder 1
Sheet music with lyrics written by Gwen and Ray Bolger
no date
box 70, folder 3
Show Opener - orchestral parts
no date
box 56, folder 7
Songbooks (A-J)
ca. 1920s-1980s
box 57, folder 1
Songbooks (M-Z)
ca. 1920s-1980s
box 101, folder 6
Sound of Music - orchestral parts
no date
box 101, folder 7
Sound of Music as at Colorado Springs - orchestral parts
no date
box 98, folder 1
Spring Fever - orchestral parts and conductor's score
no date
box 122
Stage Door Canteen - manuscript music pages
no date
box 63
Sweet Georgia Brown orchestral parts
no date
box 101, folder 8
Tangos: La Comparsita/Derecho Viejo - orchestral parts
no date
General note
Possibly music for Where's Raymond?.
box 55, folder 9
Tea for Two - orchestral parts
no date
box 122
They All Left A Little On the Floor - conductor's score
no date
box 56, folder 2
They All Left a Little on the Floor - music manuscript and lyrics
no date
box 56, folder 3
They All Left a Little on the Floor - orchestral part
no date
box 56, folder 1
They All Left a Little on the Floor - orchestral parts
no date
box 102, folder 1
They All Left a Little on the Floor - orchestral parts
no date
box 101, folder 9
They All Left a Little on the Floor - orchestral parts (folder 1 of 2)
no date
box 101, folder 10
They All Left a Little on the Floor - orchestral parts (folder 2 of 2)
no date
box 98, folder 2
Think Mink - orchestral parts
no date
box 102, folder 2
Think Mink - orchestral parts
no date
box 102, folder 3
Think Mink Finale - orchestral parts
no date
box 54, folder 14
Three to Make Ready - sheet music
1946
box 102, folder 4
Tunetown - sheet music and manuscript music
1970
box 57, folder 4
Unidentified music sheets
no date
box 68
Various orchestral and vocal parts (A-S)
no date, 1927, 1945, 1959-1960, 1981
box 69
Various orchestral and vocal parts (T-Y)
no date, 1929, 1946
General note
With small amount of manuscript music sheets.
box 70
Various orchestral parts
no date
box 102, folder 7
Various orchestral parts (A-S)
no date
General note
Including: Amy, Fascinating, Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries, Old Soft Shoe, and Sound of Music.
box 102, folder 8
Various orchestral parts (T-W)
no date
General note
Including: They All Left a Little on the Floor and Wizard of Oz.
box 71
Various orchestral parts and music scores (I-S)
no date, 1915, 1958
General note
With Once in Love with Amy.
box 72
Various orchestral parts and music scores (W)
no date
box 135, folder 3
Various vocal and orchestral parts
no date
box 119, folder 4
Various vocal parts
no date
box 54, folder 15
Washington Square - sheet music
no date, 1956
box 135, folder 8
What Makes a Star - arrangement
no date
box 123, folder 5
What Makes a Star - manuscript music score
no date
box 56, folder 4
What Makes a Star - orchestral parts
no date
box 56, folder 5
What Makes a Star - orchestral parts
no date
box 112, folder 1
Where's Charley - score
no date
box 54, folder 17
Where's Charley? - sheet music
1948
box 98, folder 3
Who Gives a Sou - vocal parts
no date
box 50, folder 15
Who's Where in Music rate and date information
1976
box 102, folder 5
Wizard of Oz Brain insert (old copy) - orchestral parts
no date
box 102, folder 6
You Make Me Feel So Young - orchestral parts
no date
box 56, folder 6
Young Anymore - orchestral parts
no date
box 54, folder 16
Ziegfeld Follies - sheet music
1931
box 57
Alabamy Bound
1954
Scope and Content
Music: Ray Henderson
Lyrics: B.G. De Sylva, Bud Green
box 130
Alone
1935
Scope and Content
Music: Nacio Herb Brown
Lyric: Arthur Freed
From the motion picture A Night at the Opera
box 130
All Right, All Right, All Right
1936
Scope and Content
Music: Rudy Vallee (photograph on cover)
Lyrics: Rudy Vallee, Dave Franklin
On cover: photograph of Major Edward Bowes
box 130
Always and Always
1937
Scope and Content
Music: Edward Ward
Lyric: Bob Wright, Chet Forrest
From the motion picture, Mannequin
On cover: photograph of Joan Crawford
box 130
Another Perfect Night is Ending
1936
Scope and Content
Music: J. Fred Coots
Words: Benny Davis
On cover: photograph of Henry Busse
box 57
Are You From Dixie (Caus I'm From Dixie Too)
1915
Scope and Content
Music: George L. Cobb
Words: Jack Yellen
box 130
At Sundown (Love is Calling Me Home)
1927
Scope and Content
Composer: Walter Donaldson
box 57
Babes in the Woods
1964
Scope and Content
From the musical of the same title.
Composer: Rick Besoyan
box 130
Be a Good Sport
1937
Scope and Content
Composers: Mack Gordon, Harry Revel
From the motion picture, Love and Hisses
box 57
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
1931
Scope and Content
From Rhythm Mania
Music: Harold Arlen
Lyrics: Ted Koehler
box 130
Broadway's Gone Hawaii
1937
Scope and Content
Composers: Harry Reve, Mack Gordon
From the motion picture, Love and Hisses
box 57
Brush Up Your Shakespeare
1949
Scope and Content
From: Kiss Me Kate
Composer: Cole Porter
box 57
But Where Are You
1936
Scope and Content
From the RKO motion picture Follow the Fleet
Composer: Irving Berlin
box 130
Cafe Continental
1936
Scope and Content
Composers: Jimmy Kennedy, Will Grosz
On cover: photograph of Guy Lombardo
box 57
Can't You See
1965
Scope and Content
From the musical Golden Boy
Music: Charles Strouse
Lyric: Lee Adams
box 57
Chinese Lullaby
1919
Scope and Content
From the motion picture East is West.
Photograph of Lupe Velez on cover.
Composer: Robert Hood Bowers
box 130
Close to You
1936
Scope and Content
Music: L. Raymond Smith
Words: Joe Young
On cover: photograph of Joe Reichman
box 57
Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are
1944
Scope and Content
From the motion picture Step Lively
Music: Jule Styne
Lyric: Sammy Cahn
Photograph of Frank Sinatra on cover
box 57
Cuban Love Song
1931
Scope and Content
Composers: Herbert Stothart, Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields
From the motion picture of the same title.
On cover: photograph of Lawrence Tibbett
box 57
Cupid's Dance
1901
Scope and Content
Composer: Emil Hahn
box 57
Dancing in the Dark
1931
Scope and Content
From: The Band Wagon
On cover: photographs of Fred and Adele Astaire, Helen Broderick, Frank Morgan, Tilly Losch
Composer: Arthur Schwartz
box 130
Danny Boy
1913
Scope and Content
Compoer: Fred. E. Weatherly
box 130
Dark Eyes = Otchi Tchorniya
1929
Scope and Content
English lyrics: joseph Kammen
Piano arrangement, Jack Kammen
box 57
Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
1918
Scope and Content
Music: Walter Donaldson
Words: Monty C. Brice
box 131
Ding Dong the Witch is Dead
1939
Scope and Content
Music: Harold Arlen
Lyrics: E.Y. Harburg
From the motion picture The Wizard of Oz.
box 130
Donkey Serenade
1937
Scope and Content
From the motion picture, The Firefly
On cover: photographs of Jeannette Macdonald, Allan Jones.
Composers: Rudolf Friml, Herbert Stothart
box 57
Don't Blame Me
1923
Scope and Content
From the motion picture, Big Cit.
Music: Jimmy McHugh
Lyric: Dorothy Fields
box 130
Don't Take Your Love From Me
1941
Scope and Content
Composer: Henry Nemo
On cover: photograph of Joan Brooks
box 130
Dream a Little Dream of Me
1931
Scope and Content
Music: W. Schwandet, F. Andree
Words: Gus Kahn
On cover: photograph of Bill Hogan
box 57
Dream, Dream, Dream
1954
Scope and Content
Music: Jimmy McHugh
Lyrics: Mitchell Parish
box 130
Dream Time
1936
Scope and Content
Music: J. Fred Coots
Words: Benny Davis
On cover photograph of Carl Ravazza
box 57
Ev'ry Day Away From You
1929
Scope and Content
Music: Jay Mills
Lyric: Charles Tobias
box 57
Ev'rything I've Got
1942
Scope and Content
Music: Richard Rodgers
Words: Lorenz Hart
box 130
Everything Stops For Tea
1935
Scope and Content
Composers: Maurice Sigler, Al Goodhart, Al Hoffman
box 130
Everything You Said Came True
1937
Scope and Content
Composers: Cliff Friend, Dave Franklin
'
On cover: photograph of Ray Heatherton
box 57
Exactly Like You
1930
Scope and Content
Music: Jimmy McHugh
Lyric: Dorothy Fields
box 57
Five Minutes More
1946
Scope and Content
Music: Jule Styne
Lyric: Sammy Cahn
box 130
Flying Down to Rio
1933
Scope and Content
Music: Vincent Youmans
Words: Gus Kahn, Edward Eliscu
From the motion picture of the same title
On cover: photograph of Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
box 131
Fun to Be Fooled
1934
Scope and Content
Music: Harold Arlen
Words: Ira Gershwin, E.Y. Harburg
From the musical revue, Life Begins at 8:40
box 57
Girl Friend (Lennie and Mollie)
1926
Scope and Content
Music: Richard Rodgers
Words: Lorenz Hart
box 130
Glory of Love
1936
Scope and Content
Composer: Billy Hill
On cover: photograph of Bing Crosby
box 130
God Touched the Rose
1921
Scope and Content
Music: Mary Helen Brown
Words: Iona Le Brun
box 130
Gone
Scope and Content
From the motion picture, Love on the Run
box 57
Goodbye, Old Girl
1955
Scope and Content
From the Broadway production, Damn Yankees
Composers: Richard Adler, Jerry Ross
box 130
Goody Goody
1936
Scope and Content
Composers: Johnny Mercer, Matt Malneck
On cover, photograph of Kate Smith
box 130
Goopy Geer (He Plays Piano, and He Plays By Ear)
1931
Scope and Content
Composer: Herman Hupfeld
box 130
Got to Dance My Way to Heaven
1936
Scope and Content
Composer: Sam Coslow
From the motion picture, It's Love Again.
On cover: photograph of Jessie Matthews
box 130
Hallelujah
1927
Scope and Content
Music: Vincent Youmans
Words: Leo Robin, Clifford Grey
From the motion picture, Hit the Deck
On cover: photograph of Jack Oakie, Polly Walker
box 57
Happiness is a Thing Called Joe
1942
Scope and Content
Music: Harold Arlen
Lyric: E.Y. Harburg
From the motion picture, Cabin in the Sky
box 57
Happy Glow
1952
Scope and Content
Music: Emil Stern, Eddie Barclay
Lyrics: James Crawford
box 57
Harbor Lights
1937
Scope and Content
Composers: Jimmy Kennedy, Hugh Williams
box 130
Heigh Ho
1938
Scope and Content
Music: Frank Churchill
Words: Larry Morey
From the motion picture, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
box 57
Helena
1964
Scope and Content
From the musical Babes in the Wood.
Composer: Rick Besoyan
box 130
Here's to Romance
1935
Scope and Content
Composers: Con Conrad, Herb Magidson
From the motion picture of the same title
On cover: photograph of Nino Martini
box 57
Hey! Young Fella (Close Your Old Umbrella)
1933
Scope and Content
Music: Jimmy McHugh
Lyric: Dorothy Fields
box 130
Home on the Range
1930
Scope and Content
Arranger: David W. Guion
box 57
Homecoming
1976
Scope and Content
Composer: Hagood Hardy
Arranger, Russ Taylor
box 57
I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me
1926
Scope and Content
Composers: Clarence Gaskill, Jimmy McHugh.
From the motion picture, The Caine Mutiny.
On cover: photographs of Humphrey Bogart, Jose Ferrer, Van Johnson, Fred MacMurray
box 57
I Feel a Song Comin' On
1935
Scope and Content
Composers: Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields, George Oppenheimer
box 57
I Feel Like a Feather in the Breeze
1935
Scope and Content
From the motion picture, Collegiate
Composers: Mack Gordon, Harry Revel
On cover: photographs of Joe Penner, Jack Oakie, Ned Sparks, Frances Langford
box 130
I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'
1935
Scope and Content
Music: George Gershwin
Lyrics: Ira Gershwin, Du Bose Heyward
From Porgy and Bess
box 130
I Hit a New High
1937
Scope and Content
Music: Jimmy McHugh
Lyric: Harold Adamson
From the motion picture Hitting a New High
box 57
I Like Ev'rybody
1956
Scope and Content
From: The Most Happy Fella
Composer: Frank Loesser
box 57
I Like to Lead When I Dance
1964
Scope and Content
From the motion picture, Robin and the 7 Hoods
Music: James Van Heusen
Words: Sammy Cahn
On cover: photographs of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Bing Crosby, Peter Falk
box 130
I Love Me (I'm Wild About Myself)
1923
Scope and Content
Music: Edwin J. Weber
Words: Jack Holins, Will Mahoney
box 57
I Should Care
1944
Scope and Content
From the motion picture, Thrill of a Romance
Composers: Sammy Cahn, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston
box 130
I Still Love to Kiss You Goodnight
1937
Scope and Content
Music: Harold Spina
Lyric: Walter Bullock
From the motion picture, 52nd street
box 130
I Want a Girl (Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad)
1911
Scope and Content
Music: Harry Von Tilzer (photograph on cover)
Words: William Dillon
box 57
I Wish I Were in Love Again
1937
Scope and Content
Music: Richard Rodgers
Words: Lorenz Hart
From: Babes in Arms
box 130
I'll Bet You Tell That to All the Girls
1936
Scope and Content
Music: Sam H. Stept
Words: Charlie Tobias
On cover: photograph of Eddy Duchin
box 57
I'll Never Be the Same
1932
Scope and Content
Music: Matt Malneck, Frank Signorelli
Lyric: Gus Kahn
box 57
I'll See You in My Dreams
1924
Scope and Content
Music: Isham Jones (photograph on cover)
Words: Gus Kahn
box 130
I'll Smile Again
1936
Scope and Content
Composers: Dave Oppenheim, Michael H. Cleary, Max Rich
box 130
I'll Stand By
1936
Scope and Content
Composers: Benny Davis, J. Fred Coots
On cover: photograph of Jackie Heller
box 57
I'm in the Mood For Love
1935
Scope and Content
Composers: Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh
box 130
I've Got My Fingers Crossed
1935
Scope and Content
Music: Jimmy McHugh
Lyric: Ted Koehler
From the motion picture, The King of Burlesque
On cover: photographs of Wawrner Baxter, Alice Faye, Jack Oacki, Arline Judge, Mona Barrie, Dixie Dunbar, Fats Waller, Nick
Long, Jr., Kenny Baker, Gregory Ratoff
box 130
I've Got My Heart Set On You
1937
Scope and Content
Composers: Mack Gordon, Harry Revel
From the motion picture, Ali Baba Goes to Town
box 57
Ida (Sweet as Apple Cider)
1920
Scope and Content
Music: Eddie Munson
Lyric: Eddie Leonard
On cover: photographs of Benny Goodman, Eddie Leonard (the Minstrel) in blackface
box 131
If I Only Had a Brain
1939
Scope and Content
Music: Harold Arlen
Lyric: E.Y. Harburg
box 57
If'n
1956
Scope and Content
Music: Harold Karr
Words: Matt Dubey
From: Happy Hunting.
On cover: photograph of Ethel Merman
box 130
In a Little Gypsy Tea Room
1935
Scope and Content
Music: Joe Burke
Lyric: Edgar Leslie
box 130
In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town
1932
Scope and Content
Composers: Joe Young, John Siras, Little Jack Litte
On cover: photograph of Abe Lyman
box 130
In the Chapel in the Moonlight
1936
Scope and Content
Composer: Billy Hill
On cover: photograph of Guy Lombardo
box 130
Is it True What They Say About Dixie
1936
Scope and Content
Composers: Irving Caesar, Sammy Lerner, Gerald Marks
box 130
Is This the Music of Love
1931
Scope and Content
Music: Ralph Rainger
Words: Sam Coslow
box 57
It Seems to Be Spring
1930
Scope and Content
From: Let's Go Native.
Music: Richard A. Whiting
Lyric: George Marion, Jr.
box 130
It All Depends on You
1926
Scope and Content
Composers: B.G. De Sylva, Lew Brown, Ray Henderson
On cover: photograph of Harold Ramsay
box 57
It's a Most Unusual Day
1948
Scope and Content
From the motion picture, A Date With Judy
Music: Jimmy McHugh
Lyric: Harold Adamson
box 57
It's Got to Be Love
1936
Scope and Content
From: On Your Toes
Music: Richard Rodgers
Words: Lorenz Hart
box 57
It's Love
1953
Scope and Content
Music: Leonard Bernstein
Lyrics: Betty Comden, Adolph Green
From the musical, Wonderful Town
box 57
It's So Peaceful in the Country
1941
Scope and Content
Composer: Alex Wilder
On cover: photoraph of Peggy Lee
box 131
Jitterbug
1939
Scope and Content
Music: Harold Arlen
Lyric: E.Y. Harburg
box 130
Jockey on the Carrousel
1935
Scope and Content
Music: Jerome Kern
Words: Dorothy Fields
From the motion picture, I Dream Too Much
On cover: drawing of Lily Pons
box 57, box 130
Jones Boy
1953
Scope and Content
Music: Vic Mizzy
Words: Mann Curtis
On cover: photograph of The Mills Brothers
box 130
Just One More Chance
1931
Scope and Content
Composers: Sam Coslow, Arthur Jonston
box 130
Land of the Long Ago
1915
Scope and Content
Music: Lilian Ray
Words: Charles Knight
box 130
Last Night When We Were Young
1936
Scope and Content
Music: Harold Arlen
Worlds: E.Y.Harburg
Autographed by Arlen
box 130
Last Time I Saw Paris
1940
Scope and Content
Music: Jerome Kern
Words: Oscar Hammerstein, 2nd
Onc over: photograph of Kate Smith
box 130
Laugh Your Way Thru Life
1937
Scope and Content
Composers: Mack Gordon, Harry Revel
From the motion picture, Ali Baba Goes to Town
box 130
Let's Comb Beaches
1942
Scope and Content
Music: Johnny Green
Words: George Marion Jr.
From: Beat the Band
box 130
Let's Drift Away on Dreamers Bay
1931
Scope and Content
Composers: Harold Spina, George McConnell
box 57
Let's Put Out the Lights (and Go to Sleep)
1932
Scope and Content
Composer: Herman Hupfeld
On cover: Drawing of Rudy Vallee
box 57
Life
1919
Scope and Content
Composer: Pearl G. Curran
box 130
Life is a Song (Let's Sing it Together)
1935
Scope and Content
Music: Fred E. Ahlert
Lyric: Joe Young
On cover: photograph of Frank Parker
box 131
Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries
1931
Scope and Content
Composers: Lew Brown, Ray Henderson
From the stage production, George White's Scandals
box 130
Look For the Silver Lining
1920
Scope and Content
Music: Jerome Kern
Words: Bud De Sylva
From the motion picture, Sally
On cover: photograph of Marilyn Miller
box 130
Love is Ev'Reywhere
1936
Scope and Content
Composers: Eddie Kusby, Case Kusby
On cover: photograph of Hal Kemp
box 130
Love is Like a Cigarette
1935
Scope and Content
Music: Walter Kent
Words: Richard Jerome
box 130
Love Like the Dawn Came Stealing
1916
Scope and Content
Composer: Charles Wakefield Cadman
box 130
Love Me To-Night
1932
Scope and Content
Music: Richard Rodgers
Lyric: Lorenz Hart
From the motion picture of the same title.
On cover: photograph of Maurice Chevalier
box 130
Love Sends a Little Gift of Roses
1919
Scope and Content
Music: John Openshaw
Words: Leslie Cooke
box 131
Lovely Lazy Kind of Day
1946
Scope and Content
Music: Morgan Lewis
Lyrics: Nancy Hamilton
From the production, Three to Make Ready
box 57
Lover, Come Back to Me
1928
Scope and Content
Music: Sigmund Romberg
Words: Oscar Hammerstein
From: The New Moon
box 57
Lover of the Simple Things
1963
Scope and Content
Music: Mike Corda
Lyric: Jack Wilson
box 57
Mad Dogs and Englishmen
1931
Scope and Content
Composer: Noel Coward
From< The Third Little Show
box 130
Man Could Be a Wonderful Thing
1947
Scope and Content
Composers: Leo Corday, Leon Carr
On cover: photograph of Hoagy Carmichael
box 57
Man Doesn't Know
1955
Scope and Content
From the Broadway production, Damn Yankees
Composers: Richard Adler, Jerry Ross
box 57
Manhattan
1925
Scope and Content
Music: Richard Rodgers
Lyric: Lorenz Hart
On cover: photographs of Tex and Jinx
box 57
Mahattan Serenade
1928
Scope and Content
Composer: Louis Alter
From: Manhattan Suite
box 57
May the Years Be Kind to You (May You Always Walk in Sunshine)
1976
Scope and Content
Music: John Edward White
Lyrics: Atha-Lane Joyce, James Jay-Smith, John Edward White
box 57
Me For You (Wouldn't You Love It)
1929
Scope and Content
Music: Richard Rodgers
Words: Lorenz Hart
From the musical comedy, Heads Up
box 130
Melody Farm
1937
Scope and Content
Music: Bronislaw Kaper, Walter Jurmann
Lyric: Gus Kahn
From the motion picture, Everybody Sing.
box 130
Melody From the Sky
1936
Scope and Content
Composers: Sidney D. Mitchell, Louis Alter
From the motion picture, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
On cover: photograph of Sylvia Sidney, Fred MacMurray
box 130
Miss Mischeif
1937
Scope and Content
Composer: Ferde Grofe
box 57
Mr. Wonderful
1956
Scope and Content
Composers: Jerry Bock, Larry Holofcener, George Weiss
From the musical comedy of the same title.
box 57
Mood I'm In
1964
Scope and Content
Music: Peter King, Lyric: Paul Francis Webster
On cover: photograph of Jack Jones
box 1957
Moon Madness
1964
Scope and Content
From the musical Babes in the Wood
Composer: Rick Besoyan
box 130
Moon of Manakoora
1937
Scope and Content
Music: Alfred Newman
Lyric: Frank Loesser
From the motion picture, Hurricane
On cover: photograph of Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall
box 130
Moon Over Miami
1935
Scope and Content
Music: Joe Burke
Words: Edgar Leslie
On cover: photograph of Ranny Weeks
box 57
Moonglow
1934
Scope and Content
Composers: Will Hudson, Eddie de Lange, Irving Mills
From the motion picture, Picnic
box 130
Music Goes Round and Around
1935
Scope and Content
Music: Edward Farley, Michael Riley
Lyrics: Red Hodgson
box 57
Muskrat Ramble
1950
Scope and Content
Music: Edward "Kid" Ory
Words: Ray Gilbert
box 130
My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua
1934
Scope and Content
Composers: Bill Cogswell, Tommy Harrison, Johnny Noble
On cover: photograph of Guy Lombardo
box 57
O, Katharina
1924
Scope and Content
Music: Richard Fall
Lyrics: L. Wolfe Gilbert
box 131
Oh! Look at Me
1954
Scope and Content
Music: Julian Slade
Lyrics: Julian Slade, Dorothy Reynolds
From the production, Salad Days
box 57
Ohio
1953
Scope and Content
Music: Leonard Bernstein
Lyrics: Betty Comden, Adolph Green
From the musical, Wonderful Town
box 131
Old Soft Shoe
1946
Scope and Content
Music: Morgan Lewis
Lyrics: Nancy Hamilton
From the production, Three to Make Ready
box 131
On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe
1945
Scope and Content
Music: Harry Warren
Lyric: Johnny Mercer
box 57
Once Every Year
1971
Scope and Content
Music adaptation: Mike Corda
Lyrics: Paul Francis Webster
box 57
Once Upon a Nickel (Those Were the Good Old Days)
1951
Scope and Content
Composers: Buddy Kaye, Tony Starr
box 57
One For My Baby
1943
Scope and Content
Music: Harold Arlen
Lyric: Johnny Mercer
box 131
Over the Rainbow
1939
Scope and Content
Music: Harold Arlen
Lyrics: E.Y. Harburg
From the motion picture, The Wizard of Oz.
box 57
Parlez Moi D'Amour = Speak to Me of Love
1932
Scope and Content
Composer: Jean Lenoir
American version, Bruce Siever
On cover: photograph of Lucienne Boyer
box 57
Pass That Peace Pipe
1947
Scope and Content
Composers: Roger Edens, Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane
From the motion picture Good News
box 57
Put on a Happy Face
1960
Scope and Content
Music: Charles Strouse
Words: Lee Adams
From the motion picture Bye Bye Birdie
box 57
Puttin' on the Ritz
1929
Scope and Content
Composer: Irving Berlin
box 57
Quiet Girl
1953
Scope and Content
Music: Leonard Benrstein
Words: Betty Comden, Adolph Green
From the musical Wonderful Town
box 57
Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
1969
Scope and Content
Music: Burt Bacharach
Lyric: Hal David
From the motion picture, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
On cover: photograph of Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross
box 131
Rosalie
1937
Scope and Content
Composer: Cole Porter
From the motion picture, Night and Day
box 57
She Touched Me
1965
Scope and Content
Music: Milton Schafer
Lyrics: Ira Levin
From the musical Drat! The Cat.
box 57
(I've Got a Woman, Crazy For Me) She's Funny That Way
1926
Scope and Content
Music: Neil Moret
Words: Richard A. Whiting
On cover: photograph of Eddie Magil, Megaphone King, Publix Theatres
box 57
Ship Without a Sail
1929
Scope and Content
Music: Richard Rodgers
Words: Lorenz Hart
From the motion picture, Heads Up
On cover: photographs of Charles Rogers, Helen Kane
box 57
Shoe Shine Boy
1936
Scope and Content
From: Connie's Hot Chocolates of 1936
Music: Saul Chaplin
Words: Sammy Cahn
box 57
Shoeless Joe From Hannibal Mo.
1955
Scope and Content
From the Broadway production, Damn Yankees
Composers: Richard Adler, Jerry Ross
box 57
Shoo-Shoo Baby
1943
Scope and Content
Composer: Phil Moore
On cover: photographs of Joan Davis, Jane Frazee, Judy Clark
From the motion picture, Beautiful But Broke
box 57
Slippy Sloppy Shoes
1962
Scope and Content
Music: Gerard Calvi
Words: Harold Rome
box 57
Steam Is On the Beam
1942
Scope and Content
Music: Johnny Green
Words George Marion Jr.
From the musical Beat the Band
box 57
Straw Hat and a Cane
1951
Scope and Content
German words and music: Firtz Rotter, Heino Gaze
English words: Roy Alfred
On cover: photograph of Johnny Desmond
box 57
Swinging on a Star
1944
Scope and Content
From the motion picture, Going My Way
Music: Jimmy Van Heusen
Words: Johnny Burke
box 57
Taking a Chance on Love
1940
Scope and Content
Music: Vernon Duke
Lyric: John Latouche, Ted Fetter
From the motion picture, Cabin in the Sky
box 57
That's What a Rainy Day is For
1953
Scope and Content
Music: Vic Mizzy
Lyrics: Mann Curtis
From the motion picture, Easy To Love
box 131
That's Why Darkies Were Born
1931
Scope and Content
Composers: Lew Brown, Ray Henderson
From George White's Scandals
box 57
There's a Small Hotel
1936
Scope and Content
Music: Richard Rodgers
Lyrics: Lorenz Hart
From the motion picture, Pal Joey
On cover: photographs of Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak
box 57
There's No Business Like Show Business
1946
Scope and Content
Composer: Irving Berlin
box 131
This is the Mrs.
1931
Scope and Content
Music and Lyrics: Lew Brown, Ray Henderson
From the production, George White's Scandals
box 57
Three O'Clock in the Morning
1922
Scope and Content
Music: Julian Robledo
Words: Dorothy Terris
box 131
Thrill Is Gone
1931
Scope and Content
Composers: Lew Brown, Ray Henderson
From the production, George White's Scandals
box 57
Toy Shop Serenade
Scope and Content
Composers: Mike Corda, Joe Strom, Don Baker
box 57
Tu Volveras
Scope and Content
Composer: Agustin Lara
box 57
Twist
1959
Scope and Content
Composer: Hank Ballard
Arranger: Alan Moorehouse
box 57
Two Lost Souls
1955
Scope and Content
From the Broadway production Damn Yankees
Composers: Richard Adler, Jerry Ross
box 57
Walking Happy
1966
Scope and Content
Music: James Van Heusen
Lyrics: Sammy Cahn
From the musical of the same title.
box 57
We Saw the Sea
1936
Scope and Content
Composer: Irving Berlin
box 131
We're Off to See the Wizard (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
1939
Scope and Content
Music: Harold Arlen
Lyric: E.Y. Harburg
From the motion picture, The Wizard of Oz
box 57
We're Working Our Way Thru College
1937
Scope and Content
Music: Richard A. Whiting
Lyric: Johnny Mercer
From the motion picture Varsity Show
box 57
Whatever Happened to Ol' Jack
1949
Scope and Content
Music: Carl Sigman
Lyric: Bob Russell
On cover: photograph of Freddie Slack
box 57
Where Or When
1937
Scope and Content
Music: Richard Rodgers
Words: Lorenz Hart
From: Babes in Arms
box 131
Who
1925
Scope and Content
Composer: Jerome Kern
From the production, Sunny
box 57
With a Little Bit of Luck
1956
Scope and Content
Music: Frederick Loewe
Words: Alan Jay Lerner
box 57
Would You Like a Strawberry Sundae (I'm Not Hungry)
1954
Scope and Content
Music: Marian Deutsch
Words: Margaet Deutsch, Elmer Chaput
box 57
Wrong Note Rag
1953
Scope and Content
Music: Leonard Bernstein
Lyrics: Betty Comden, Adolph Green
From the musical comedy , Wonderful Town
box 57
Yankee Doodle Boy
1931
Scope and Content
Composer: George M. Cohan
From Little Johnny Jones.
box 57
You Will Remember Vienna
1930
Scope and Content
Music: Sigmund Romberg
Words: Oscar Hammerstein, 2nd
From Viennese Nights
box 57
You're a Grand Old Flag
1933
Scope and Content
Composer: George M. Cohan.
From George Washington, Jr.
Series 18. Scrapbooks
no dates, ca. 1920s-1930s, 1965-1966, 1979, 1986
General Physical Description note: Boxes 41, 51-52, 70, 73, 109-110
Scope and Contents note
The Scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings docurmenting projects and performances from Bolgers early stage career. Additionally,
there are scrapbooks from the IBM Golden Circle (1965 and 1979) and the University of Connecticut Honorary Degree ceremony.
There is no specific arrangement to this series.
box 73, folder 2
Black scrapbook of early vaudeville career
1926-1928
box 41, folder 11
Blue Mill (The)
ca. 1930s
box 51, folder 7
Blue scrapbook of early career
ca. 1931-1933
General note
Mostly George White's Scandals clippings.
box 110, folder 5
Green scrapbook of early career
ca. early 1930s
box 52
Newman presents An Evening with Ray Bolger
1965
box 52
University of Connecticut honorary degree
1986
box 70, folder 1
Wizard of Oz - photocopied scrapbook
no date
Series 19. Writings By or About Bolger
no dates, ca. 1940s-1950s, 1970s-1980s
General Physical Description note: Boxes 20-21, 31-33, 36, 40-41, 48-49, 80, 131
Scope and Contents note
The series consists of printed and holographic writings by, about, an submitted to Bolger. Included are scripts, magazine
articles, eulogies, and holographic notes. There is no specific arrangement to this series.
box 21, folder 3
Atlantic City - script pages
no date, 1978-1979
General note
With screenplay synopsis for Beating the Odds.
box 21, folder 1
Atlantic City - scripts
no date
box 21, folder 2
Atlantic City - scripts
no date
General note
Yellow script is a variation of the other Atlantic City scripts.
box 31, folder 13
Biographical information
no date
box 41, folder 2
Cue Magazine article by Bolger
1970
General note
Regarding Judy Garland.
box 36, folder 12
Editorial by Bolger
no date
box 69, folder 1
Esquire Magazine article featuring Bolger
1967
box 32, folder 5
Eulogies for others
no date
box 48, folder 10
He Who Doesn't Get Hit by Margaret Lloyd
1946
box 32, folder 3
Holograph notes
no date
General note
Folder of loose holograph pages found throughout the collection and collated to one folder. Appears to be generated by Ray
or Gwen Bolger.
box 32, folder 4
Holograph notes
no date
General note
Folder of loose holograph pages found throughout the collection and collated to one folder. Appears to be generated by Ray
or Gwen Bolger.
box 40, folder 5
Holograph notes
no date
General note
Folder of loose holograph pages found throughout the collection and collated to one folder. Appears to be generated by Ray
or Gwen Bolger.
box 49, folder 7
Holograph notes
no date
General note
Folder of loose holograph pages found throughout the collection and collated to one folder. Appears to be generated by Ray
or Gwen Bolger.
box 131, folder 10
Holographic notes
no date
box 31, folder 9
Holographic notes about Judy Garland
no date
box 41, folder 7
Interviews with Bolger
1950, 1974, 1979-1980, 1983
box 126, folder 1
Kathleen Carroll interview with Bolger, Hamilton, Haley, and LeRoy
1975
box 20, folder 9
Love Boat (The) - story outline
1978
box 20, folder 8
Marvelous Milton and the Red Carpet Limousine Service - series proposal and script
no date
box 33, folder 7
Profile of a Star: Ray Bolger by Hy Gardner
no date, 1965
box 80, folder 10
Scarecrow's Lost Dance Sequence article
1985
box 20, folder 10
Strictly for 'Round' Actors by Bolger in Theatre Arts magazine
1944
box 41, folder 12
Wizard of Oz (The) - book foreword
no date, 1978
Series 20. Publications
no dates, ca. 1930s-1980s
General Physical Description note: Boxes 112, 118, 135
Scope and Contents note
The series includes books, song books, and periodicals including Television Quarterly (14 issues) and The Dramatists Guild
Quarterly (20 issues). Some of the books are signed to Bolger.
box 113
Assorted publications
1936, 1965, 1970s
box 118
Books
no date, 1930s-1980s
General note
Songbooks, lyrics books, biographies. Some are signed to Ray Bolger by the author.
box 112
Dramatists Guild Quarterly (The) (20 issues)
1965, 1971, 1973-1978
box 69, folder 3
MGM's Marvelous Wizard of Oz and The Marvelous Land of Oz comic books
1975, 1977
box 135, folder 2
Music publications
no date, 1939
box 112
Television Quarterly (14 issues)
1973-1978