"Stairway to Paradise" is a song composed by George Gershwin in 1922 for the Broadway musical George White's Scandals. It was more famously performed in the 1951 American musical An American in Paris by Georges Guétary. In An American in Paris, it was entitled "I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise". The song is heard in the 2004 Howard Hughes biopic The Aviator, being sung by Rufus Wainwright, in a scene at the Coconut Grove night club set in 1927.
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