American Masters George Gershwin Remembered (Season 2, Episode 5)
TV-14
TV Episode | 88 min | Documentary, Biography, History

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American Masters

George Gershwin Remembered (Season 2, Episode 5)

TV-14

TV Episode | 88 min | Documentary, Biography, History

George Gershwin was born in Brooklyn in 1898, the second of four children from a close-knit immigrant family. He began his musical career as a song-plugger on Tin Pan Alley, but was soon writing his own pieces.

Producer

Peter Adam

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Edit Released

Updated Aug 24, 1987

Release date

Aug 24, 1987 (United States)

Awards

Series awards

Won 27 Primetime Emmy Awards. Another 31 wins & 81 nominations

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35 cast members

Name	Known for
Clarke Peters Self - Narrator Self - Narrator See fewer	The Wire (2002)
Harold Arlen Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Fred Astaire Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Funny Face (1957)
Leonard Bernstein Self Self See fewer	New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts (1958)
Anne Brown Self Self See fewer	Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
Irving Caesar Self Self See fewer	Entrapment (1999)
Kitty Carlisle Self (as Kitty Carlisle Hart) Self (as Kitty Carlisle Hart) See fewer	A Night at the Opera (1935)
Todd Duncan Self Self See fewer	Syncopation (1942)
Michael Feinstein Self Self See fewer	Untitled George Gershwin Project
Judy Garland Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Wizard of Oz (1939)
George Gershwin Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Manhattan (1979)
Ira Gershwin Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	An American in Paris (1951)
Paulette Goddard Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Ghost Breakers (1940)
Frances Gershwin Godowsky Self Self See fewer	Great Performances (1971)
George Goodman Porgy (archive footage) Porgy (archive footage) See fewer	Uncle Tom's Cabin (1965)
Georges Guétary Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	An American in Paris (1951)
Lillian Hellman Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Little Foxes (1941)
Edward Jablonski Self Self See fewer	Legends & Oddities (2001)
Gene Kelly Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Gertrude Lawrence Self (voice) (archive footage) Self (voice) (archive footage) See fewer	Mimi (1935)
Hermes Pan Self Self See fewer	Top Hat (1935)
Maurice Ravel Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Rashomon (1950)
Ginger Rogers Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Kitty Foyle (1940)
Linda Ronstadt Self Self See fewer	The Pirates of Penzance (1983)
Mickey Rooney Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
Mabel Schirmer Self Self See fewer	American Masters (1985)
Arnold Schönberg Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Woman in Gold (2015)
Simone Simon Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Cat People (1942)
Ann Sothern Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Lady Be Good (1941)
Kay Swift Self Self See fewer	Get Him to the Greek (2010)
Virgil Thomson Self Self See fewer	Louisiana Story (1948)
Michael Tilson Thomas Self Self See fewer	Manhattan (1979)
Paul Whiteman Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
Robert Young Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Crossfire (1947)
John W. Bubbles Self (uncredited) Self (uncredited) See fewer	A Song Is Born (1948)