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Works: "Rhapsody In Blue"; "Piano Concerto in F"; "Preludes for Piano"; "An American In Paris"; "Second Piano Rhapsody"; "Cuban Overture"; "'I Got Rhythm' Variations"; and "Porgy and Bess" (opera).

Broadway stage scores: "La, La, Lucille", "George White's Scandals" (1920-1924), "Sweet Little Devil", "Lady Be Good", "Tell Me More", "Tip-Toes", "Song of the Flame", "Oh, Kay", "Funny Face", "Rosalie", "Treasure Girl", "Show Girl", "Strike Up the Band", "Girl Crazy", "Of Thee I Sing" (Pulitzer Prize, 1932), and "Let 'Em Eat Cake". Songs: (partal list only) "Swanee", "The Real American Folk Song", "I Was So Young", "Drifting Along With the Tide", "Do It Again", "I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise", "So Am I", "I Won't Say I Will", "Blue Monday Blues", "Somebody Loves Me", "Fascinating Rhythm", "Oh, Lady Be Good", "The Half of It Dearie Blues", "Little Jazz Bird", "The Man I Love", "Kickin' the Clouds Away", "Looking for a Boy", "These Charming People", "That Certain Feeling", "Sweet and Low-Down", "Song of the Flame", "Dear Little Girl", "Maybe", "Clap Yo' Hands", "Do Do Do", "Someone to Watch Over Me", "Strike Up the Band", "Let's Kiss and Make Up", "Funny Face", "S'Wonderful", "He Loves and She Loves", "My One and Only", "The Babbitt and the Bromide", "How Long Has This Been Going On?", "I've Got a Crush on You", "Oh, So Nice", "Where's the Boy, Here's the Girl", "Liza", "Soon", "Bidin' My Time", "Could You Use Me?", "Embraceable You", "Sam and Delilah", "I Got Rhythm", "But Not for Me", "Boy! What Love Has Done to Me", "Blah-Blah-Blah", "Wintergreen for President", "Love Is Sweeping the Country", "Of Thee I Sing (Baby)", "Who Cares?", "Hello, Good Morning", "Lorelei", "Isn't It a Pity?", "My Cousin in Milwaukee", "Mine", "Summertime", "A Woman is a Sometime Thing", "My Man's Gone Now", "I Got Plenty of Nuttin'", "Bess, You Is My Woman Now", "It Ain't Necessarily So", "I Loves You Porgy", "There's a Boat dat's Leavin' Soon for New York", "By Strauss", "Beginner's Luck", "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off", "Shall We Dance?" (no relation to the Rodgers and Hammerstein song) "They All Laughed", "They Can't Take That Away from Me", "A Foggy Day", "Nice Work if You Can Get It", "I Was Doing All Right", "Love is Here to Stay", "Love Walked In", "Aren't You Kind of Glad We Did?", "Changing My Tune" and "For You, For Me, For Evermore".

Stage: Wrote additional lyrics for "For Goodness Sake" on Broadway (1922). Musical comedy. Material by Fred Jackson. Lyrics by Arthur Jackson. Music by William Daly and Paul Lannin. Musical Director William Daly. Additional lyrics by Arthur Francis. Musical Staging by Allan K. Foster. Additional staging by Julian Alfred. Directed by Priestly Morrison. Lyric Theatre: 21 Feb 1922-20 May 1922 (103 performances). Cast: Harry R. Allen, Adele Astaire, Fred Astaire, Roger Buckley, Helen Ford, Vinton Freedley, Marjorie Gateson, Jack Goeirs, Kitty Gray, John E. Hazzard, James Herold, Doris Hyde, Sylvia Jocelyn, Charles Judels, Bebe LaVelle, Muriel Lodge, Lenore Lukens, Dana Mayo, Peggy Mitchell, Fred Packard, Helen Paine, Ann Poulson, Phyllis Reynolds, Lorraine Sherwood, Russell Swann, Violet Vale. Produced by Alex Aarons.

Stage: Wrote music for "Lady, Be Good" on Broadway (1924). Musical comedy. Lyrics by Ira Gershwin. Based on material by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson. Musical Director Paul Lannin. Music orchestrated by Paul Lannin, Robert Russell Bennett, Charles Grant, Stephen Jones, Max Steiner and William Daly. Musical direction by Sammy Lee. Directed by Felix Edwardes. Liberty Theatre: 1 Dec 1924-12 Sep 1925 (330 performances). Cast: Victor Arden, Ward Arnold, Adele Astaire, Fred Astaire, Jayne Auburn, Charles Bannister, James Bradbury, Walter Catlett, Patricia Clarke, Hal Crusins, Richard Devonshire, Dorothy Donovan, Alan Edwards, Cliff Edwards (as "Jeff"), Edna Farrell, Jack Fraley, Alfred Hale, Peggy Hart, Maxine Henry, Dorothy Hollis, Harry Howell, Dorothy Hughes, Mary Hutchinson, Madeline Janis, Edward Jephson, Jeanearl Johnson, Grace Jones, Elmira Lahmann, Charles LaValle, Ethel Lind, Frances Lindell, Gertrude Livingstone, Bryan Lycan, Lionel Maclyn, Kathlene Martyn, Lillian Mitchell, Esther Morris, Francis Murphy, Phil Ohman, Tony Otto, Jessie Payne, Peggy Pitou, Peggy Quinn, Richard Renaud, Sylvia Shawn, Gerald Oliver Smith, Daniel Sparks, Mildred Stevens, Doris Waldron, Irene Wiley, Paulette Winston. Produced by Alex Aarons and Vinton Freedley.

Stage: Wrote additional numbers for "Broadway Brevities of 1920" on Broadway (1920). Musical revue. Lyrics by Blair Treynor. Music by Archie Gottler. Sketches by George LeMaire. Additional numbers by Arthur Jackson, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Irving Caesar and Irving Berlin. Musical Direction by Louis Gress. Music orchestrated by Stephen Jones and Will Vodery. Directed by James C. Huffman. Winter Garden Theatre: 29 Sep 1920-18 Dec 1920 (105 performances). Cast: Marcelle Barnes, Kitty Berg, Phyllis Blair, Wilma Bruce, Eddie Buzzell, Ethel Callahan, Eddie Cantor, Delphine Deery, Mercedes Demordant, Jay Dillon, Virginia Dixon, Alma Drange, Alva Fenton, Catharine Flynn, Vera Grosset, Emlee Haddone, Dorothy Hall, Edith Hallor, Ona Hamilton, Alice Haynes, Genevieve Houghton, Renee Hughes, Jan Jarvis, Flora Keene, Florence Kern, Dorothy King, Natalie Kingston, Alexis Kosloff, George LeMaire, Helen LeVon, Carol Miller, Peggy Mitchell, Teck Murdock, Patricia Parker, Peggy Parker, Anna Paulson, Estelle Penning, Edith Pollack, Virginia Roche, Ula Sharon, Dorothy Stokes, William Sully, Paul Van Dyke, Hal Van Renssalaer, Norma Waterman, Elsie Westcott, Bert Williams, Beverly Worth, Hilda Wright. Produced by George LeMaire.

Stage: Wrote songs for "Little Miss Bluebeard" on Broadway (1923). Musical comedy. Written by Avery Hopwood. Adapated from the play by 'Gabor Dregely'. Featuring songs by E. Ray Goetz, Jose Padilla, Paul A. Rubens. Featuring songs with lyrics by E. Ray Goetz, Buddy G. DeSylva, Arthur Francis and Percy Graham Paul. Directed by W.H. Gilmore. Lyceum Theatre: 28 Aug 1923-26 Jan 1924 (175 performances). Cast: Arthur Barry, Eric Blore (as "The Hon. Bertie Bird") [Broadway debut], Irene Bordoni, Burton Brown (as "Paul Rondel"), William Evill, Eva Leonard Boyne (as "Lulu"), Margaret Linden, Stanley Logan (as "Bob Talmadge"), Bruce McRae (as "Larry Charters"), Jeannette Sherwin. Produced by Charles Frohman, Inc. in association with E. Ray Goetz.

Stage: Wrote music for "Pardon My English" on Broadway (1933). Musical comedy. Book by Herbert Fields. Lyrics by Ira Gershwin. Musical Director: Earl Busby. Music orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett, William Daly and Adolph Deutsch. Scenic Design by John Wenger. Costume Design by Robert Ten Eyck. Production staged by Vinton Freedley. Musical numbers staged by George Hale. Book directed by John McGowan. Majestic Theatre: 20 Jan 1933-25 Feb 1933 (43 performances). Cast: Albert Amato, Eugene Ashley, Alex Atzenbeck, Peggy Bancroft, Jack Barrett, Rosil Benda, Tony Blair, Gene Brady, Lauretta Bruns, Thomas Burke, Clare Carter, Jack Carver, Marie Clyde, Don Cortez, John Cortez, Gordon Cross, Norman Curtis, Maxine Darrell, Jack Davis, Vance Elliott, Eva Farrell, Mildred Fenton, Dorothea Frank, Mack Gassl, Joe Gerhei, George Givot (as "Michael Bramleigh"), Irving Green, Harry Griffin, Cliff Hall, Betty Hamilton, Helen Hannan, Kal Hansen, Marion Harcke, Raymond Hitchkock, Meredith Howard, Virginia Howard, Josephine Huston, Joe Kaye, Irene Kelly, Hans Kiendl, Irene Kimmel, Meta Korbett, Tom Lannon, William Lilling, Ruth Marshal, Elsie Neal, Edith Nelson, Marion Nevins, Barbara Newberry, Marion Newberry, Jacqueline Paige, Myrtle Patterson, Jack Pearl, John Perkins, Gloria Pierre, Carl Randall, Lyda Roberti (as "Gita"), Wilma Roeloff, Kenneth Rogers, Eddie Ryan, Max Seidl, Billie Seward, Eleanor Shaler, Harry T. Shannon, George Shields, Barbara Smith, Gerald Oliver Smith, Robert Spencer, Harold Sternberg, Cynthia Thompson, Jimmy Thompson, Beau Tilden (as "Gentleman of the Ensemble"), Ruth Urban, Efin Vitis, Joe Wagner. Produced by Alex Aarons and Vinton Freedley.

Stage: Wrote music for "Tell Me More" on Broadway (1925). Musical comedy. Book by Fred Thompson and William K. Wells. Lyrics by Buddy G. DeSylva and Ira Gershwin. Musical Director: Max Steiner. Musical Staging by Sammy Lee. Costume Design by Charles Le Maire. Art Director: Walter Harvey. Directed by John Harwood. Gaiety Theatre: 13 Apr 1925-11 Jul 1925 (100 performances). Cast: Maud Andrew, Florence Auer, Jane Brew, Mildred Brown, Cecil Bruner, Phyllis Cleveland, Willie Covan (as "Waiter/Specialty Dancer"), Frank Cullen, Eddie Dowling (as "Harry"), Charlotte Esmone, Robert Gebhardt, Vivian Glenn, Alexander Gray, Emma Haig, Dolla Harkins, Portland Hoffa (as "Ensemble"), Lou Holtz (as "Monty Sipkin"), Esther Howard, Sofia Howard, George Hughes, Nita Jacques, Mary Jane, Trudy Lake, Margaret Lee, Edna Locke, Polly Luce, Maxine Marshall, Morton McConnachie, Virginia McCune, Ruth Mosley, Marion Mueller, Richard Oakley, Daniel Oltash, Ruth Raymonde, Eugene Redding, Penelope Rowland, Leonard Ruffin, Robert Ryles, Robert Samuels, Willie Scholer, Kenneth Smith, Andrew Tombes, Blossom Vreeland, Betty Waxton, Betty Whitney, Dotty Wilson, Gay Worrell, Betty Wright. Produced by Alex Aarons.

Stage: Wrote music for "Of Thee I Sing" on Broadway, 1931. Book by George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind.

Show Girl (1929). Musical comedy. Music by George Gershwin. Material by William Anthony McGuire. Lyrics by Ira Gershwin and Gus Kahn. Based the novel by J.P. McEvoy. Musical Director: William Daly. Additional lyrics by Thomas Malie, Sidney Skolsky, W.H. Farrell and Jimmy Durante. Additional music by W.H. Farrell and Jimmy Durante. Featuring songs by J. Little. Directed by William Anthony McGuire. Ziegfeld Theatre: 2 Jul 1929- 5 Oct 1929 (111 performances). Cast: Florence Allen, Virginia Allen, Jean Althan, Selma Althan, Jane Barry, Betty Bassett, Marcia Bell, Eddee Belmont, Caryl Bergman, Hazel Boffinger, Dorothy Bow, Bobby Brodsley, Pamela Bryant, Orine Bryne, Edna Bunte, Emily Burton, Dorothy Carrigan, Doris Carson, Peggy Carthew, Virginia Case, Lew Clayton, Blaine Cordner, Billie Cortez, Cleo Cullen, Dona Desne Curry, Gertrude Dahl, Dolores De Fina, Mildred Defina, Violet Dell, Katherine Downer, Doris Downes, Alma Drange, Sadie Duff, Jimmy Durante (as "Snozzle/Sombre Eyes"), Kay English, Caja Eric, Austin Fairman (as "John Milton"), Eddie Foy Jr. (as "Denny Kerrigan"), Noel Francis (as "Peggy Ritz"), Virginia Frank, Vera Frederick, Janet Gibbard, Dolores Grant, Viola Hage, Ruth Hayden, Althea Heinly, Kathryn Hereford, Harriet Hoctor, Maurine Holmes, Eddie Jackson, Andy Jochim, Agatha Johann, Juliette Jones, Ruby Keeler (as "Dixie Dugan"), Mildred Klaw, Renee Landeau, Ada Landis, Camille Lanier, Ruth Love, Nick Lucas, Joseph Macauley, Mary MacDonald, Lottie Marcy, Doris May, Patricia McGrath, Frank McHugh (as "Jimmy Doyle"), Dorothy Morgan, Howard Morgan, Barbara Newberry, Evelyn Nichols, Dore Nodine, Lucille O'Connor, Pat O'Keefe, Georgia Payne, Lois Peck, Leonia Pennington, Vivian Porter, Beatrice Powers, Dolores Ray, Louise Raymond, Dorothy Ryan, Blanche Satchell, Matthew Smith, Wanda Stevenson, Mildred Swunke, Calvin Thomas, Mildred Turner, Sunny Van, Claire Wayne, Jean Wayne, Virginia Whitmore. Produced by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.

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