Legendary, prolific composer, songwriter and author, educated at Townsend Harris Hall, City College of New York, and Columbia University. He began his career as a contributor to newspaper columns, and also worked for a touring carnival. His Broadway stage scores include "Two Little Girls in Blue" (written under the pseudonym 'Arthur Francis')...See full bio »
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Best Band in the Land
(2010)
(lyrics: "They All Laughed", "I Got Rhythm" - uncredited, "Of Thee I Sing", "The Man I Love", "'S Wonderful" - uncredited, "They Can't Take That Away from Me")
2010A Star Is Born: Special Features
(video)
(lyrics: "Gotta Have Me Go with You", "The Man That Got Away", "Lose That Long Face", "Here's What I'm Here For", "Trinidad Coconut Oil Shampoo", "The Man That Got Away" suicide outtake)
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The Magic of Gershwin
(2006)
(writer: "They Can't Take That Away From Me", "But Not for Me", "I've Got A Crush On You", "Our Love is Here To Stay" / lyrics: "Summertime", "Embraceable You")
2006Take the Lead
(writer: "I Got Rhythm Take the Lead Remix", "I Got Rhythm", "I Like That You Can't Take That Away from Me", "They Can't Take That Away from Me")
2005Great Women Singers of the 20th Century: Sarah Vaughan
(video)
(lyrics: "But Not for Me" - uncredited, "Our Love Is Here to Stay" - uncredited, "Embraceable You" - uncredited, "Someone to Watch Over Me" - uncredited)
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Ira Gershwin at 100: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
(1997)
(lyrics: "Embraceable You", "A Foggy Day In London Town", "The Man Than Got Away", "My One and Only Highland Fling", "My Ship", "Our Love is Here to Stay", "Put Me to the Test", "The Saga of Jenny", "There Is No Music for Me", "They Can't Take That Away From Me")
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The Fred Astaire Songbook
(1991)
(lyrics: "They Can't Take That Away from Me", "Slap That Bass", "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off", "The Babbitt and the Bromide", "A Foggy Day", "He Loves and She Loves", "The Half of It, Dearie, Blues", "Oh, Lady Be Good", "'s Wonderful")
2003Mwah! The Best of the Dinah Shore Show
(TV documentary)
(writer: "I Got Rhythm", "They Can't Take That Away from Me" / lyrics: "I Got Rhythm", "They Can't Take That Away from Me")
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Porgy and Bess
(1993)
(lyrics: "It Take a Long Pull to Get There", "I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'", "Yo' Struttin' Style", "Bess, You Is My Woman Now", "Oh, I Can't Sit Down", "I Loves You Porgy", "God and Me/ A Red Headed Woman", "There's A Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York", "O Bess, O Where's My Bess")
1976That's Entertainment, Part II
(documentary)
(lyrics: "Fascinating Rhythm" 1924 - uncredited, "I Got Rhythm" - uncredited, "Oh, Lady Be Good" 1924 - uncredited, "I Got Rhythm" 1930 - uncredited, "Love Is Here to Stay" 1938 - uncredited, "I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise" 1922 - uncredited)
1974That's Entertainment!
(documentary)
(lyrics: "Strike Up the Band" 1927 - uncredited, "They Can't Take That Away from Me" 1937 - uncredited, "But Not for Me" 1930 - uncredited)
1959Porgy and Bess
(lyrics: "I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'", "Bess, You Is My Woman Now", "Oh, I Can't Sit Down", "It Ain't Necessarily So", "I Loves You Porgy", "A Red Headed Woman", "There's A Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York", "O Bess, O Where's My Bess")
1959Some of Manie's Friends
(TV movie)
(lyrics: "A Foggy Day" - uncredited, "They Can't Take That Away from Me" - uncredited)
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Three's a Crowd
(1957)
(lyrics: "'S Wonderful" - uncredited)
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Jeannie Gets Homesick
(1956)
(lyrics: "My One and Only Highland Fling" - uncredited)
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Lost Jacket
(1956)
(lyrics: "Who Cares?" - uncredited)
1957Funny Face
(lyrics: "Funny Face", "How Long Has This Been Going On?", "Let's Kiss and Make Up", "He Loves and She Loves", "Clap Yo' Hands", "'S Wonderful")
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Episode #1.19
(lyrics: "The Babbitt and the Bromide")
1955Three for the Show
(music: "Someone To Watch Over Me", "I've Got A Crush On You" / lyrics: "Someone To Watch Over Me", "I've Got A Crush On You")
1954Young at Heart
(lyrics: "Someone to Watch Over Me" - uncredited)
1954The Country Girl
("Dissertation on the State of Bliss Love and Learn Blues", "The Pitchman / It's Mine, It's Yours", "The Land Around Us", "The Search Is Through")
1954A Star Is Born
(lyrics: "Gotta Have Me Go with You" - uncredited, "The Man That Got Away" - uncredited, "Here's What I'm Here For" - uncredited, "Lose That Long Face" - uncredited, "Someone at Last" - uncredited, "It's a New World" - uncredited, "Trinidad Coconut Oil Shampoo" - uncredited)
1954Lady in the Dark
(TV movie)
(writer: "Oh Fabulous One in Your Ivory Tower", "One Life to Live", "Girl of the Moment", "It Looks Like Liza", "This is New", "The Greatest Show on Earth", "The Best Years of His Life", "Tschaikowsky", "The Saga of Jenny", "My Ship")
1953Give a Girl a Break
(lyrics: "Applause, Applause", "In our United State", "Nothing Is Impossible", "Give a Girl a Break", "It Happens Every Time", "Puppet Master Dance")
1951An American in Paris
(lyrics: "Our Love Is Here to Stay" 1937 - uncredited, "By Strauss" 1936 - uncredited, "Tra-la-la This Time It's Really Love" 1922 - uncredited, "I Got Rhythm" 1930 - uncredited, "I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise" 1922 - uncredited, "'S Wonderful" 1927 - uncredited, "Nice Work if You Can Get It" 1937 - uncredited)
1949The Barkleys of Broadway
(lyrics: "They Can't Take That Away from Me" 1937, "Swing Trot" 1949 - uncredited, "You'd Be Hard to Replace" 1949 - uncredited, "My One and Only Highland Fling" 1949 - uncredited, "Week-End in the Country" 1949 - uncredited, "Shoes with Wings On" 1949 - uncredited, "Manhattan Downbeat" 1949 - uncredited, "The Courtin' of Elmer and Ella" 1949 - uncredited, "Natchez on the Mississippi" 1949 - uncredited, "Poetry in Motion" 1949 - uncredited)
1945Rhapsody in Blue
(lyrics: "Embraceable You" - uncredited, "The Man I Love" - uncredited, "I Got Rhythm" - uncredited, "Love Walked In" - uncredited, "'S Wonderful" - uncredited, "Oh, Lady Be Good" - uncredited, "Clap Yo' Hands" - uncredited, "Fascinating Rhythm" - uncredited, "Bidin' My Time" - uncredited, "Mine" - uncredited, "Delishious" - uncredited, "It Ain't Necessarily So" - uncredited, "Someone to Watch Over Me" - uncredited, "Liza All the Clouds'll Roll Away" - uncredited / lyrics: " I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise" - uncredited / as Arthur Francis / lyrics: "Drifting Along with the Tide" - uncredited / as Arthur Jackson)
1945Where Do We Go from Here?
(lyrics: "The Nina, the Pinta, the Santa Maria", "If Love Remains", "All at Once", "Morale", "Song of the Rhineland")
1944Cover Girl
(lyrics: "THE SHOW MUST GO ON", "WHO'S COMPLAINING?", "SURE THING", "MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW", "PUT ME TO THE TEST", "LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY", "COVER GIRL THAT GIRL ON THE COVER")
1944Lady in the Dark
(lyrics: "The Saga of Jenny" - uncredited, "My Ship" - uncredited)
1943Girl Crazy
(lyrics: "I Got Rhythm" 1930 - uncredited, "Treat Me Rough" 1930 - uncredited, "Could You Use Me?" 1930 - uncredited, "Bidin' My Time" 1930 - uncredited, "Embraceable You" 1930 - uncredited, "But Not for Me" 1930 - uncredited, "Fascinating Rhythm" 1924 - uncredited, "Sam and Delilah" 1930 - uncredited, "Barbary Coast" 1930 - uncredited, "Boy! What Love Has Done to Me!" 1930 - uncredited)
1943The North Star
(lyrics: "Song of the Fatherland" - uncredited, "Chari Vari Rastabari" - uncredited, "The Younger Generation" - uncredited, "No Village Like Mine" - uncredited, "Song of the Guerrillas" - uncredited)
1943So's Your Uncle
(lyrics: "Liza All the Clouds'll Roll Away")
1938The Goldwyn Follies
(lyrics: "Love Walked In" 1937 - uncredited, "I Was Doing All Right" 1937 - uncredited, "Love Is Here to Stay" 1937 - uncredited, "Spring Again" 1937 - uncredited, "I Love to Rhyme" 1937 - uncredited, "Just Another Rhumba" 1937 - uncredited, "I'm Not Complaing" 1937 - uncredited)
1937Shall We Dance
(lyrics: "Slap That Bass" 1937 - uncredited, "Let's Call The Whole Thing Off" 1937 - uncredited, "They Can't Take That Away from Me" 1937 - uncredited, "Shall We Dance" 1937 - uncredited, "They All Laughed" 1937 - uncredited, "Beginner's Luck" 1937 - uncredited)
1937A Damsel in Distress
(lyrics: "I Can't Be Bothered Now" 1937 - uncredited, "The Jolly Tar and the Milkmaid" 1937 - uncredited, "Stiff Upper Lip" 1937 - uncredited, "Things Are Looking Up" 1937 - uncredited, "Sing of Spring" 1937 - uncredited, "A Foggy Day" 1937 - uncredited, "Nice Work If You Can Get It" 1937 - uncredited)
1933That's a Good Girl
(writer: "The One I'm Looking For", "Sweet So and So")
1933Flying Devils
(lyrics: "You've Got What Gets Me")
1932Girl Crazy
(lyrics: "Bidin' My Time" 1930 - uncredited, "I Got Rhythm" 1930 - uncredited, "You've Got What Gets Me" 1932 - uncredited, "But Not for Me" 1930 - uncredited)
1931Delicious
(lyrics: "DELISHIOUS", "WELCOME TO THE MELTING POT", "SOMEBODY FROM SOMEWHERE", "KATINKITSHA", "BLAH-BLAH-BLAH")
1931That Certain Trio
(short)
(lyrics: "Cheerful Little Earful" - uncredited)
1931Night Club Revels
(short)
(lyrics: "Cheerful Little Earful" - uncredited)
1931Sky High
(short)
(lyrics: "Cheerful Little Earful" - uncredited)
1931Playing with Fire
(short)
(lyrics: "Cheerful Little Earful" - uncredited)
[Of the music written by Ira and George Gershwin, especially 'Summertime'] I never realized how good our music was until I heard Ella Fitzgerald sing it.
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