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Beloved wife of Jerome Kern. Parents George and Eliza Leale. Eva was the eldest of three children -- she had a sister, Ethel and a brother, Albert. At 19 she married the famous and prolific American songwriter, Jerome David Kern, whose most well-known musical (1927) with two later film versions (1936 and 1951) is Show...
Jerome Kern, the composer, died yesterday at 1:10 P.M. of a cerebral hemorrhage in Doctors Hospital. His age was 60. At the bedside were his wife, Eva Leale Kern; his daughter, Elizabeth Kern,...
When Eva Leale Kern was born on 17 June 1891, in Lewisham, London, England, United Kingdom, her father, George Draper Leale, was 31 and her mother, Elizabeth Jane Hayward, was 30. She married Jerome David Kern on 21 October 1910, in Chertsey, Surrey, England, United Kingdom.
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- Jerome David Kern, George Byron Beuchler
Mar 24, 2023 · Birthplace: London, United Kingdom. Death: November 07, 1959 (68) Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States. Place of Burial: Hartsdale, Westchester County, New York, United States. Immediate Family: Daughter of George Draper Leale and Elizabeth Jane Leale.
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- London, United Kingdom
- June 17, 1891
Feb 14, 2020 · The inn owner’s daughter, Eva Leale (1891-1959), made quite an impression on Kern, and very soon the composer was deeply in love. The Jerome Kern Collection holds music manuscripts as well as a modest amount of correspondence.
May 18, 2018 · Born Jerome David Kern, January 27, 1885, in New York, NY; died of a cerebral hemorrhage, November 11, 1945, in New York, NY; son of Henry Kern and Fannie Seligman Kern; married Eva Leale, 1910; children: Elizabeth (Betty) Kern Miller. Education: Attended New York College of Music; further music study in Germany.
He married an English woman, Eva Leale, in 1910 and in 1914 had his first hit, “The Girl from Utah” — another adaptation of a British show.
