
161 minutes
6/27/1945
Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.

Robert Alda
as George Gershwin

Joan Leslie
as Julie Adams

Alexis Smith
as Christine Gilbert

Charles Coburn
as Max Dreyfus

Julie Bishop
as Lee Gershwin

Albert Bassermann
as Prof. Franck

Morris Carnovsky
as Morris Gershwin

Rosemary DeCamp
as Rose Gershwin

Oscar Levant
as Oscar Levant

Paul Whiteman
as Paul Whiteman

Al Jolson
as Al Jolson
George White
as George White

Hazel Scott
as Hazel Scott
Anne Brown
as Bess

Herbert Rudley
as Ira Gershwin
John B. Hughes
as Hughes
Mickey Roth
as George Gershwin as a Boy

Darryl Hickman
as Ira Gershwin as a Boy

Charles Halton
as Mr. Kast

Andrew Tombes
as Mr. Million
Gregory Golubeff
as Mr. Katzman

Walter Soderling
as Mr. Muscatel

Eddie Marr
as Buddy De Sylva

Theodore von Eltz
as Foley

Bill Kennedy
as Herbert Stone
Oscar Loraine
as Maurice Ravel

Johnny Downs
as Dancer
Ernest Golm
as Otto Kahn
Martin Noble
as Jascha Heifetz
Hugo Kirchhoffer
as Walter Damrosch

Will Wright
as Rachmaninoff

Lynn Baggett
as Guest (uncredited)

Gower Champion
as Tap Dancer at Remick's (uncredited)

Elsa Maxwell
as Elsa Maxwell (uncredited)

Mark Stevens
as Steve (uncredited)

Charles Waldron
as Doctor (uncredited)
Bernard DeRoux
as Porter (uncredited)
Joe Gilbert
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)