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Jerome Kern was an American composer and songwriter who wrote some of the most popular musical theatre and film scores of the 20th century. He is best known for his collaborations with lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, including the musicals Show Boat, Oklahoma!, and South Pacific. Kern wrote over 700 songs, including "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," "The Way You Look Tonight," and "Long Ago (and Far Away)." He won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "The Last Time I Saw Paris" in 1941. Kern was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970. He died in 1945 at the age of 60.

Popular As Jerome David Kern
Occupation soundtrack,music_department,writer
Age 60 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 27 January 1885
Birthday 27 January
Birthplace New York City, New York, USA
Date of death 11 November, 1945
Died Place New York City, New York, USA
Nationality United States

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Who Is Jerome Kern's Wife?

His wife is Eva Leale (25 October 1910 - 11 November 1945) ( his death) ( 1 child)

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Timeline

1996

"Show Boat" in the Center Theatre Group production at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California was awarded the 1996 Drama Logue Award for Production.

1994

ordered it cut--and it remained cut, existing only as background music, until the 1994 revival.

1985

Pictured on a 22¢ US commemorative postage stamp in the Performing Arts USA series, issued 26 January 1985 (4 days before 100th anniversary of his birth).

1970

Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.

1946

Till The Clouds Roll By (1946) was Hollywood's version of his biography.

1943

In spite of all this, "Show Boat" became a huge hit and has remained one of the musical theater's greatest classics and most often revived shows--the only musical pre-1943 to be revived over and over. Kern, however, did not experiment any further--his other hit shows, "Music In The Air", "Roberta" and "The Cat and the Fiddle", contain classic songs that are still sung, but the shows are almost never revived.

1939

After a heart attack in 1939, Kern wrote songs exclusively for movie musicals.

1936

Two of his movie musicals, Swing Time (1936) with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and Cover Girl (1944) with Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly, have become famous for their songs and dances.

1934

"Three Sisters" his 1934 London Musical received its American Premiere in December 2011, 77 years after the original production. The script and score were restored by San Francisco revival theatre company 42nd Street Moon, in a sponsored production by the National Endowment for the Arts.

1914

It established him as a major American composer in 1914. Married to a Englishwoman, Kern became an Anglophile, and teamed up with British writers Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse to write the so-called "Princess Theatre musicals"--shows like "Very Good, Eddie" and "Leave It To Jane", which were unusual not so much for their silly storylines but for the fact that the characters were everyday people rather than the exotic characters of operetta, and also for the fact that these shows had few sets and small casts. He later wrote shows like "Sally" and "Sunny", both loaded with song hits, star casts and spectacular sets but silly plots. Finally, looking for an entirely different type of musical, Kern decided to adapt Edna Ferber's novel "Show Boat" to the musical stage. Although Oscar Hammerstein II agreed to do the adaptation and lyrics, nearly everyone (including Ferber) thought Kern and Hammerstein had lost their minds. "Show Boat"'s storyline featured interracial marriage, wife desertion, alcoholism and gambling, and the most realistic characters ever seen in a musical up to then, not to mention the song "Ol' Man River" and an opening chorus of black dockworkers singing about their work. Most of the songs were integrated so well into the story that they could not possibly have been sung in another show or taken out of "Show Boat" without damaging the plot. And "Show Boat" featured a song, "Mis'ry's Comin' Round", which was so utterly tragic that Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.

1885

Jerome David Kern was born in 1885. He began his stage career grafting American songs (for which he wrote the music) into imported European operettas. His breakthrough came with the song "They Didn't Believe Me", written (with lyrics by Edward Laska) for a show called "The Girl from Utah".