- Served as best man at the wedding of Vincente Minnelli and Judy Garland. Minnelli and Garland named their daughter Liza Minnelli after Gershwin's song "Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)".
- Mentor to singer Michael Feinstein.
- George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin were awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 7083 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
- Won the 1932 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the musical "Of Thee I Sing" collaborating with George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, and George Gershwin.
- His musical, "Lady in the Dark", performed at the Royal National Theatre, Lyttelton, was nominated for the 1998 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best New Musical of the 1997 season.
- His wife's name was Leonore Strunsky (1900-1991).
- Older brother of composer George Gershwin.
- His musical, "Lady in the Dark", was awarded the 1997 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Musical.
- George Gershwin and his musical, "Porgy and Bess", at the Court Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for the 2011 Equity Joseph Jefferson Award for Production of a Musical (Large).
- Godfather of Liza Minnelli
- George Gershwin and his musical, "Crazy for You" at the Drury Lane Productions Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 2017 Joseph Jefferson Equity Award for Large Musical Production.
- Is mentioned by name in the Burton Lane-Ralph Freed song "How About You?".
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 317-320. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998.
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