Birthday: January 27, 1885
American composer Jerome Kern was trained at home by his mother, then went on for formal study at the New York College of Music and at Heidelberg University. Gravitating to the lucrative fields of operetta and popular music, Kern wrote his first hit song in 1905, and seven years later composed his first Broadway score for the now-forgotten The Red Petticoat. Public recognition of Kern's ...more- 1946
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
- Best Song
- Centennial Summer
- nom
- 1945
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
- Best Score - Musical
- Can't Help Singing
- nom
- 1945
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
- Best Song
- Can't Help Singing
- nom
- 1944
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
- Best Song
- Cover Girl
- nom
- 1942
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
- Best Song
- You Were Never Lovelier
- nom
- 1992
- A Tribute to Alvin Ailey
- Featured Music
- 1988
- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
- Featured Music
- 1987
- Someone to Watch over Me
- Featured Music
- 1987
- Someone to Love
- Featured Music
- 1974
- Chinatown
- Featured Music














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