{"id":1347,"date":"2014-12-05T09:33:23","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T09:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/interbellum.de\/?p=1347"},"modified":"2016-11-01T14:49:51","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T13:49:51","slug":"indypendenthistory-irving-berlin-wife-ellen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/?p=1347","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1347 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/interbellum.de\/?attachment_id=1348'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/tumblr_moas68bA5O1rdstngo1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/indypendenthistory.tumblr.com\/post\/52813360492\/irving-berlin-wife-ellen-mackay-1920s-in-1912\" target=\"_blank\">indypendenthistory<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><em><span>Irving Berlin &amp; wife Ellen Mackay, 1920s<\/span><\/em><span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 1912, Berlin married\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dorothy_Goetz\" title=\"Dorothy Goetz\" target=\"_blank\">Dorothy Goetz<\/a>, the sister of the songwriter\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/E._Ray_Goetz\" title=\"E. Ray Goetz\" target=\"_blank\">E. Ray Goetz<\/a>. She died six months later of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Typhoid_fever\" title=\"Typhoid fever\" target=\"_blank\">typhoid fever<\/a>, which she contracted during their honeymoon in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Havana\" title=\"Havana\" target=\"_blank\">Havana<\/a>. The song he wrote to express his grief, \u201cWhen I Lost You,\u201d was his first ballad.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1920s, he fell in love with a young heiress, Ellin Mackay, the daughter of Clarence Mackay, the socially prominent head of the Postal Telegraph Cable Company. Because Berlin was Jewish and she was Catholic, their life was followed in every possible detail by the press, which found the romance of an immigrant from the Lower East Side and a young heiress a good story.<\/p>\n<p>Berlin wooed her over the airwaves with his songs, \u201cRemember\u201d and \u201cAlways.\u201d His biographer,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philip_Furia\" title=\"Philip Furia\" target=\"_blank\">Philip Furia<\/a>, writes that \u201ceven before Ellin returned from Europe, newspapers rumored they were engaged, and Broadway shows featured skits of the lovelorn songwriter\u2026.\u201d During the week after her return, both she and Berlin were \u201cbesieged by reporters, sometimes fifty at a time.\u201d\u00a0<em>Variety<\/em>\u00a0reported that her father had vowed their marriage \u201cwould only happen \u2018over my dead body.\u2019\u201d<sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-Furia_34-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Irving_Berlin#cite_note-Furia-34\" target=\"_blank\">[34]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0As a result they decided to elope and were married in a simple civil ceremony at the Municipal Building away from media attention. [wikipedia text]<br \/><sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-NYT-obit_3-8\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>indypendenthistory: Irving Berlin &amp; wife Ellen Mackay, 1920s In 1912, Berlin married\u00a0Dorothy Goetz, the sister of the songwriter\u00a0E. Ray Goetz. She died six months later of\u00a0typhoid fever, which she contracted during their honeymoon in\u00a0Havana. The song he wrote to express his grief, \u201cWhen I Lost You,\u201d was his first ballad. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1349,"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions\/1349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}