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Composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II created it to bind their breakthrough Broadway musical Show Boat, giving it an almighty show-stopper - a faux spiritual of black suffering.
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"Show Boat" was a testament to the courage of composer Jerome Kern, lyricist and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II, and producer Florenz Ziegfeld. In an era of "willful nonsense," they.
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Jerome Kern (January 27, 1885 - November 11, 1945) was an American composer of popular music and, according to a joint resolution passed by Congress, "the father of American musical theater". [1]
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" The Way You Look To-night " is a song from the film Swing Time that was performed by Fred Astaire and composed by Jerome Kern with lyrics written by Dorothy Fields. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1936. [6] [7] Fields remarked, "The first time Jerry played that melody for me I went out and started to cry.
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Jerry Mini Bio 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".
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Jerome Kern, the composer, died yesterday at 1:10 P.M. of a cerebral hemorrhage in Doctors Hospital. His age was 60. At the bedside were his wife, Eva Leale Kern; his daughter, Elizabeth.
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Jerome Kern was born in New York City on January 27, 1885. Growing up in the middle-class atmosphere of East 56th Street, he attended public schools. His first music teacher was his mother, followed by studies at the New York College of Music (1902-3) and further musical studies in Heidelberg, Germany (1903-4).
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Jerome Kern is the subject of this biopic that MGM put together as an after thought because even though it's about the great composer's life, little is learned about him. The movie was directed by Richard Whorf as a great spectacle, one in which the magnificent talent employed by the studio is showcased interpreting Mr. Kern's music.
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NEW YORK -- Jerome Kern, 60, composer of the musical hit, "Show Boat" and many popular songs died at 1 p.m. yesterday at Doctor's hospital where he was taken last week after he suffered a cerebral.
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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". It established him as a major American composer in 1914.
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Till The Clouds Roll By is a 1946 American Technicolor musical film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and a fictionalized biopic of composer Jerome Kern, portrayed by Robert Walker. Kern was involved with the production, but died before its completion. It was the first in a series of MGM biopics about Broadway composers. [1]
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Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 - November 11, 1945) was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music.
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Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 - November 11, 1945) was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over 100 stage works, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A Fine.
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Jerome Kern, (born Jan. 27, 1885, New York Cityโdied Nov. 11, 1945, New York City), one of the major U.S. composers of musical comedy, whose Show Boat (with libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II) inaugurated the serious musical play in U.S. theatre.
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Artist: Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II Reporter: Jeff Lunden Producer: Jeff Lunden Editor: Jeff Rogers Length: 12:30 Interviewees: Miles Kreuger, James Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, William.
Jerome Kern [18851945, New York City, NY] was one of the most important American theatre
Show Boat is a musical with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. It is based on Edna Ferber 's best-selling 1926 novel of the same name. The musical follows the lives of the performers, stagehands and dock workers on the Cotton Blossom, a Mississippi River show boat, over 40 years from 1887 to 1927.