Frances Gershwin

Frances Gershwin Godowsky (December 6, 1906 – January 18, 1999) was an American singer, musician, Broadway player and artist.

She was born in Manhattan, the younger sister of George, Ira and Arthur Gershwin. She was the first of the Gershwin intimates to ham it up as a child, and she brought home a good sum of keep for the time.

She married Leopold Godowsky Jr., co-inventor (with Leopold Mannes), of Kodachrome color photography. Godowsky was also first violinist taking into consideration the Los Angeles and San Francisco Symphony Orchestras and performed similar to his father, the world-renowned pianist Leopold Godowsky. Actress Dagmar Godowsky became her sister-in-law.

Frances and Leopold had four children: Alexis Gershwin, Leopold Godowsky III, and twins Georgia Keidan and Nadia Natali. All four kids were operational in interim and the Good arts. Frances traveled to Europe gone her brother George and performed at parties subsequently him. She then performed briefly upon Broadway. After she married, she continued her artistic activities, at one tapering off winning a French painting award. In her unconventional years, she returned to singing once more and recorded the album For George And Ira in 1973. She died in 1999, aged 92, the last and longest-living of the Gershwin siblings. Her truth resting place is the Gershwin Mausoleum, along past her husband, brothers, and parents.[citation needed]

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