Production of the film "Shall We Dance" . Standing: Dance director Hermes Pan, director Mark Sanmdrich, Ira Gershwin. Seated: Fred Astaire, Ginger...
Composers George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin pose for a portrait as they board a TWA plane bound for Hollywood at Newark Airport on August 10, 1936 in...
Caricature of various American songwriters around a piano, 1983. Pictured are, top, from left, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Cole Porter, Harold...
Composer George Gershwin with his brother lyricist Ira Gershwin and dramatist Guy Bolton work on the score for the film "Delicious" circa 1931.
Lyricist Ira Gershwin poses for a portrait as he boards a TWA plane bound for Hollywood at Newark Airport on August 10, 1936 in Newark, New Jersey.
On the set of the film 'Shall We Dance,' George Gershwin plays piano with, from left, dance director Hermes Pan, actors Fred Astaire and Ginger...
Portrait of, from left, George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward, and Ira Gershwin, New York, New York, 1935. The trio wrote 'Porgy and Bess.
Actor Fred Astaire with composer and lyricist George and Ira Gershwin on the Hollywood set of the musical 'Shall We Dance', 1937.
The is a cropped photo of George and Ira Gershwin, the most famous music writing brother act in American history. The two brothers are shown boarding...
Portrait of lyricist Ira Gershwin, music composer George Gershwin, playwright George S. Kaufman and Murray Siskind, circa 1920-1930.
American composer George Gershwin writes notation on sheet music as his brother and partner, lyricist Ira Gershwin , and British dramatist Guy Bolton...
Scene from "Porgy and Bess". The detective , center, summons Porgy , right, to jail to identify Crown's body. Looking on are Sportin' Life second...
Ginger Rogers sings Embraceable You, written by the late Ira Gershwin during a memorial service to the great lyricist August 25 at the newly renamed...
Cab Calloway as "Sportin' Life" in a scene from the Davis-Breen production of "Porgy and Bess." Photograph, ca. 1953.
American soprano Angel Blue and baritone Eric Owens perform at the final dress rehearsal prior to the premiere of the new Metropolitan Opera, Dutch...
Metropolitan Opera Stage Manager Raymond Menard introduces the final dress rehearsal prior to the premiere of the new Metropolitan Opera, Dutch...
American conductor David Robertson takes a bow at the final dress rehearsal prior to the premiere of the new Metropolitan Opera, Dutch National...
American conductor David Robertson takes a bow at the final dress rehearsal prior to the premiere of the new Metropolitan Opera, Dutch National...
American baritone Eric Owens performs at the final dress rehearsal prior to the premiere of the new Metropolitan Opera, Dutch National Opera, and...
American bass-baritone Alfred Walker performs at the final dress rehearsal prior to the premiere of the new Metropolitan Opera, Dutch National Opera,...
Anerican bass-baritone Alfred Walker and soprano Angel Blue perform at the final dress rehearsal prior to the premiere of the new Metropolitan Opera,...
American baritone Eric Owens performs at the final dress rehearsal prior to the premiere of the new Metropolitan Opera, Dutch National Opera, and...
American bass-baritone Alfred Walker , tenor Frederick Ballentine , and soprano Latonia Moore perform at the final dress rehearsal prior to the...
American opera singers baritone Eric Owens and soprano Angel Blue perform at the final dress rehearsal prior to the premiere of the new Metropolitan...
South African soprano Golda Schultz takes a bow at the conclusion of the final dress rehearsal prior to the premiere of the new Metropolitan Opera,...
American opera singers baritone Eric Owens and soprano Angel Blue perform at the final dress rehearsal prior to the premiere of the new Metropolitan...
South African soprano Golda Schultz performs at the final dress rehearsal prior to the premiere of the new Metropolitan Opera, Dutch National Opera,...
American soprano Angel Blue performs at the final dress rehearsal prior to the premiere of the new Metropolitan Opera, Dutch National Opera, and...
American opera singers baritone Eric Owens and soprano Angel Blue perform at the final dress rehearsal prior to the premiere of the new Metropolitan...
American opera singers baritone Eric Owens and soprano Angel Blue perform at the final dress rehearsal prior to the premiere of the new Metropolitan...
American opera singers baritone Eric Owens and soprano Angel Blue perform at the final dress rehearsal prior to the premiere of the new Metropolitan...
American soprano Angel Blue performs at the final dress rehearsal prior to the premiere of the new Metropolitan Opera, Dutch National Opera, and...
American soprano Angel Blue performs at the final dress rehearsal prior to the premiere of the new Metropolitan Opera, Dutch National Opera, and...
American opera singers baritone Eric Owens and soprano Angel Blue perform at the final dress rehearsal prior to the premiere of the new Metropolitan...
American opera singers baritone Eric Owens and soprano Angel Blue perform at the final dress rehearsal prior to the premiere of the new Metropolitan...
American opera singers baritone Eric Owens and soprano Angel Blue perform at the final dress rehearsal prior to the premiere of the new Metropolitan...
American opera singers baritone Eric Owens and soprano Angel Blue perform at the final dress rehearsal prior to the premiere of the new Metropolitan...
American opera singers baritone Eric Owens and soprano Angel Blue perform at the final dress rehearsal prior to the premiere of the new Metropolitan...
American opera singers baritone Eric Owens and soprano Angel Blue perform at the final dress rehearsal prior to the premiere of the new Metropolitan...
American opera singers soprano Angel Blue and tenor Frederick Ballentine perform at the final dress rehearsal prior to the premiere of the new...
American opera singers baritone Eric Owens and soprano Angel Blue perform at the final dress rehearsal prior to the premiere of the new Metropolitan...
American opera singers baritone Eric Owens and soprano Angel Blue perform at the final dress rehearsal prior to the premiere of the new Metropolitan...
American opera singers baritone Eric Owens and soprano Angel Blue perform at the final dress rehearsal prior to the premiere of the new Metropolitan...
South African soprano Golda Schultz performs 'Summertime' at the final dress rehearsal prior to the premiere of the new Metropolitan Opera, Dutch...
American baritone Eric Owens and soprano Angel Blue perform at the final dress rehearsal prior to the premiere of the new Metropolitan Opera, Dutch...
American soprano Angel Blue performs at the final dress rehearsal prior to the premiere of the new Metropolitan Opera, Dutch National Opera, and...
American baritone Eric Owens performs at the final dress rehearsal prior to the premiere of the new Metropolitan Opera, Dutch National Opera, and...
South African soprano Golda Schultz performs 'Summertime' at the final dress rehearsal prior to the premiere of the new Metropolitan Opera, Dutch...
American opera singers soprano Angel Blue and tenor Frederick Ballentine perform at the final dress rehearsal prior to the premiere of the new...
South African soprano Golda Schultz performs 'Summertime' at the final dress rehearsal prior to the premiere of the new Metropolitan Opera, Dutch...
American operatic baritones Gregg Baker and Bruce Hubbard during a rehearsal for the Glyndebourne Festival Opera's performance of Porgy and Bess....
Willard White and Cynthia Haymon rehearse their parts together for the opera Porgy and Bess. White performs as Porgy and Haymon as Bess.
Sidney Poitier and Dorothy Dandridge in the film version of 'Porgy and Bess', directed by Otto Preminger, 1959.
American actors Dorothy Dandridge and Sammy Davis, Jr. On the set of the film version of 'Porgy and Bess', directed by Otto Preminger, 1959. Undated...
The late Jerome Kern and Ira Gershwin were teamed, for the first time, preparing musical numbers for film musical, Cover Girl. Kern and Gershwin's...
Elzy was chosen for the role of Serena in the play Porgy and Bess after one hearing. She played the role more than 800 times in her career. Her...
American actress Shirley MacLaine, wearing a green outfit and brown glasses, and American journalist and author Pete Hamill, who wears a dark blue...
George and Ira Gershwin art exhibit at City Hall Tower, 9 April 1952. Mrs Richard Schoenberg;Nuria Schoenberg;Ernest Debs, councilman..
George and Ira Gershwin art exhibit at City Hall Tower, 9 April 1952. Mrs Richard Schoenberg;Nuria Schoenberg;Ernest Debs, councilman..
George and Ira Gershwin art exhibit at City Hall Tower, 9 April 1952. Mrs Richard Schoenberg;Nuria Schoenberg;Ernest Debs, councilman..
George and Ira Gershwin art exhibit at City Hall Tower, 9 April 1952. Mrs Richard Schoenberg;Nuria Schoenberg;Ernest Debs, councilman..
Brig. Gen. Benjamin O. Davis, the highest ranking Negro officer in the U.S. Army, chats with Judy Garland and Charles Coburn at a reception given in...
Tommy Tune and Twiggy rehearse for My One and Only, a new Gershwin musical that will have its American premiere in Boston on February 1 and its...
American actor, dancer and singer Fred Astaire, wearing a straw boater, and British actress Audrey Hepburn, wearing a raincoat and a headscarf, who...
British actress Audrey Hepburn , her hands in the pockets of her raincoat, on a busy street, the dome of Sacre-Coeur visible in the background,...
British actress Audrey Hepburn, wearing a raincoat, her elbows resting on the table before her as she sits outside a bar with a man during the...
