A Lost “Glass Menagerie,” Rediscovered

Jane Klain, the indefatigable research manager at the Paley Center for Media, which houses a vast collection of old television and radio programs, goes on archival treasure hunts that sometimes last for years. She spent four and a half years trying to identify the uncredited soloist who sings “I Feel Like I’m Not Out of Bed Yet” on the 1960 studio recording of the musical “On the Town.” (It was Michael Kermoyan, who’s been credited on the reissue.) It took her ten years—on and off—to find the second half of a 1959 TV adaptation of the Budd Schulberg novel “What Makes Sammy Run?” (It was languishing, unidentified, at the Library of Congress.) Stephen Sondheim once asked her via fax to track down a promotional featurette for “The Last of Sheila,” the 1973 mystery film he wrote with Anthony Perkins. Eight years later, she hand-delivered it to his door.