A major touring revival of PORGY AND BESS is mounted on Broadway and subsequently travels the world.

AN AMERICAN IN PARIS, starring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, and Georges Guetary, is released. It wins six Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

LADY IN THE DARK, with music by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and a book by Moss Hart, opens at the Alvin Theatre.

George Gershwin dies of a brain tumor in Los Angeles at 38.

The first of the Fred Astaire films George and Ira worked on, SHALL WE DANCE, is released by RKO.

PORGY AND BESS, by George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward, and Ira Gershwin, based on Heyward’s book PORGY and the play by Heyward and his wife Dorothy, premieres at the Alvin Theatre in New York.

OF THEE I SING is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Unfortunately, as this was the first time a musical had been honored, George’s contribution was not recognized. Subsequently, all Pulitzers awarded to musicals included…

George debuts his SECOND RHAPSODY at Symphony Hall in Boston, conducted by Serge Koussevitzky

OF THEE I SING opens at the Music Box Theatre on Broadway, with a score by the Gershwins and a book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind.