| Ira Gershwin  AKA Israel Gershvin
Born: 6-Dec-1896
Birthplace: Manhattan, NY
Died: 17-Aug-1983
Location of death: Beverly Hills, CA
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Westchester Hills Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Songwriter Nationality: United States
Executive summary: They Can't Take That Away from Me Father: Morris Gershovitz
Mother: Rose Bruskin
Brother: George Gershwin (composer, b. 26-Sep-1898, d. 11-Jul-1937)
Brother: Arthur
Sister: Francis
Wife: Leonore Strunsky (m. 14-Sep-1926, until his death, d. 1991)
High School: Townsend Harris High School, Queens, NY
University: City College of New York (two years)
Hollywood Anti-Nazi League
Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1932 for Of Thee I Sing (shared)
Songwriters Hall of Fame 1971
Theatre Hall of Fame 1983
Hollywood Walk of Fame 7083 Hollywood Blvd. (with George Gershwin)
Russian Ancestry
Jewish Ancestry
Risk Factors: Appendicitis
Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.
Do you know something we don't?
Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile
Copyright ©2019 Soylent Communications
| 
