- Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.
- Jerry Garcia was named after him.
- Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) was Hollywood's version of his biography.
- Father-in-law of Artie Shaw.
- Named after Jerome Park, in New York.
- Daughter Betty Jane born in 1918.
- "Three Sisters" his 1934 London Musical received its American Premiere in December 2011, 77 years after the original production. The script and score were restored by San Francisco revival theatre company 42nd Street Moon, in a sponsored production by the National Endowment for the Arts.
- In the 1940s he and Noël Coward had agreed to collaborate on a future musical play, but Kern's death in 1945 prevented that from happening.
- Born at 7:00pm-EST
- Pictured on a 22¢ US commemorative postage stamp in the Performing Arts USA series, issued 1/26/1985 (four days before the 100th anniversary of his birth).
- Often called "the granddaddy of American musical theatre".
- Father-in-law of Jack Cummings.
- "Show Boat" in the Center Theatre Group production at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California was awarded the 1996 Drama Logue Award for Production.
- At the time of Kern's successful Princess Theatre musicals, an anonymous poem circulated in their praise. This is the trio of musical fame, Bolton and Wodehouse and Kern. Better than anyone else you can name, Bolton and Wodehouse and Kern.
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