Movies: George Gershwin

The story of a disabled beggar in Charleston,S.C. who falls in love with a prostitute, this is the first filmed version of Gershwin's opera which uses Gershwin's own orchestrations and practically all of the music, with only one major cut....

Crazy For You is a romantic comedy musical with a book by Ken Ludwig, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and music by George Gershwin. Billed as "The New Gershwin Musical Comedy", it is largely based on the songwriting team's 1930 musical Girl Crazy, but incorp...

With Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, accordionist Martynas Levickis reveals the thousand and one facets of an instrument rarely given pride of place in concert halls. The NDR Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Delyana Lazarova are the perfect partners...

Rich kid Danny Churchill has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. So his father ships him to an all-male college out West where there's not supposed to be a female for miles. But before Danny arrives, he spies a pair of leg...

A comic group of Europeans coming to the USA have romantic and immigration troubles....

This was a screen version of the 1925 operetta by Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Herbert Stohart, and George Gershwin. The story of the movie is about a peasant who is known as "The Flame" who leads a revolution in Russia. This peasant who is in...

In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Cro...

Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway....

At the 2021 Salzburg Festival, Russian pianist Evgeny Kissin gives a colourful recital of works by Gershwin, Berg and Chopin....

Live from Florence, Italy, Hershey Felder as George Gershwin Alone tells the story of America’s great composer, who with the groundbreaking Rhapsody in Blue made a “Lady out of Jazz.” The show incorporates the composer's best-known songs from "The Ma...

Married songwriters almost split up while putting on a big show....

Pandora and Plato, the most in-love creatures on Earth, share a magical secret: their Tears of Sadness can grant any wish. But Pandora tells Plato she can never see him again, as a prophecy warns Plato will die on their 300th anniversary. Meanwhile, ...

New York playboy Danny Churchill is sent to a small town in Arizona, where being sheriff is very dangerous, to keep away from girls, but he decides to open a dude ranch there. He asks his friend Slick, a professional gambler and his wife Kitty, to he...

While their couple is falling apart, Baptiste and Violette, two students, discover a new passion that may revive their relationship: murder. Yet, it is not sure that Gabriel and Madeleine, their Catholic and puritan friends, are going to approve this...

A man walking on the fields encounters an alien visitor from outer space....

American dancer and choreographer Hermes Pan recalls his life and work as he relives the glorious history of the Hollywood musical....

In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Cro...

An aspiring conductor finds himself in his dream position, conducting an orchestra that doesn't exist....

Leonard Bernstein and George Gershwin, arguably the two leading composers of 20th-century America, set the tone for this festive concert with the Orchestre national de France and young virtuoso pianist Lise de la Salle, conducted by Stéphane Denève. ...

The lives of a director and a writer intertwine for the creation of a unique film that will lead them to stardom. Meanwhile, a love between them will forge as we watch the filming process and a series of curious characters....