Consists of script material, notes, humor topicals, gag files, general files, photographs and personal papers. Includes material related to Crane's long association with renowned comedians and represents his prolific career writing for radio, television, motion pictures and live performance projects. Although a detailed finding aid identifying specific radio programs is not available online, the online abstract does list the following entertainers that Crane wrote for and befriended: Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Milton Berle, Abe Burrows, Perry Como, Joan Davis, Jimmy Durante, Jackie Gleason, Alan King, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Groucho Marx, Jan Murray, Frank Sinatra, Danny Thomas and Andy Williams.
Dates:
1939-1998
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)