George Gershwin

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1959 Feature adaptation of "Porgy and Bess" released, directed by Otto Preminger

1957 "Funny Face" filmed with a revised story, teaming Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn

1951 Vincente Minnelli's "An American in Paris" used his musical suite as the basis of an original film musical teaming Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron

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1959 Feature adaptation of "Porgy and Bess" released, directed by Otto Preminger

1957 "Funny Face" filmed with a revised story, teaming Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn

1951 Vincente Minnelli's "An American in Paris" used his musical suite as the basis of an original film musical teaming Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron

1945 Portrayed by Robert Alda in the studio biopic "Rhapsody in Blue"

1938 Last songs "Love Walked In" and "Love Is Here to Stay", included in "The Goldwyn Follies"

1937 Provided the songs to "Shall We Dance" and "A Damsel in Distress", both starring Fred Astaire; earned Oscar nomination for the song "They Can't Take That Away From Me" from the former

1937 Underwent brain surgery to remove a tumor; died on July 11

1937 Posthumous exhibition of paintings

1936 Moved to L.A.

1935 "Porgy and Bess" debuted at the Alvin Theater

1935 Formed Gershwin Publishing Co.

1935 Signed to a contract by RKO

1934 Hosted the NYC-based radio program "Music By Gershwin"

1933 Had flops with "Pardon My English" and "Let 'Em Eat Cake", the sequel to "Of Thee I Sing"

1932 Debuted "Second Rhapsody" at the Boston Symphony; played piano

1932 Composed "Cuban Overture"

1932 "Of Thee I Sing" became first musical to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Drama

1931 Premiered the political satire "Of Thee I Sing"

1930 Had Broadway hit with "Girl Crazy", starring Ethel Merman and Ginger Rogers

1930 With brother Ira, signed contract to write songs for the Fox feature "Delicious"

1929 Debut as symphony conductor

1928 "An American in Paris" debuted at Carnegie Hall in December

1927 Had failure with first version of "Strike Up the Band" (written with Ira)

1927 Bounced back with a reteaming with the Astaires, "Funny Face"

1926 Had stage hit with "Oh, Kay!"

1925 Made the cover of TIME magazine (July)

1925 Commissioned by the Symphonic Society of New York to write "The Concerto in F"

1924 Paul Whiteman and his orchestra introduced "Rhapsody in Blue" as part of "An Experiment in Modern Music at Aeolian Hall" in NYC

1923 First film score, "The Sunshine Trail"

1922 Wrote first opera, "Blue Monday"; a failure it was dropped from the "Scandals"

1922 Initial stage collaboration with Fred and Adele Astaire, contributed songs to "For Goodness Sake"

1921 First stage musical written with brother Ira (who used the pen name Arthur Francis), "A Dangerous Maid"

1920 Al Jolson interpolated the Gershwin song "Swanee" into "Sinbad"; first hit song

1920 - 1924 Provided songs for editions of "George White's Scandals"

1919 First complete score for a Broadway musical "La La Lucille"

1918 Toured with Louise Dresser as her accompanist

1918 Signed to a contract as staff composer with Harms Publishing Co.

1917 Served as rehearsal pianist for the show "Miss 1917"

1916 First published song "When You Want 'Em, You Can't Get 'Em, When You've Got 'Em, You Don't Want 'Em" (lyric by Murray Roth); earned five dollars for the song

1916 First song on Broadway "The Runaway Girl" in "The Passing Show of 1916"

1915 Began making piano rolls; also played piano at nightclubs

1914 Professional debut as a pianist, performed at the Finlay Club; arranged by Ira

1913 Worked for the summer playing piano at a resort in the Catskills

1910 Family purchased a piano; began to take lessons

Family moved frequently when Gershwin was growing up; as his father landed a new job, the family changed residences so he could walk to work

Worked as a song plugger at Remick's

Contributed several songs to the unsuccessful stage musical "Half Past Eight"

With brother Ira, wrote stage musical "Lady, Be Good"; production starred the Astaires; song "The Man I Love" cut during the pre-Broadway tour