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However, the story of an immigrant from the Lower East Side marrying an American heiress was tabloid gold for the press, including Ellin’s being dropped from the social registry for marrying a Jew (while her sister, who dated a Nazi diplomat, remained in good standing).Įllin had wanted to be married by a priest, but Berlin refused as their daughter later explained, “The cantor’s son does not forget who his people are.” However, Ellin later decided that their three daughters should be acquainted with their father’s Jewish heritage and, toward that end, she joined a Manhattan Reform Temple and took their children to a Passover seder and Yom Kippur services. He married his second wife, Ellin Mackay, a Catholic of Irish descent, in a secular civil ceremony, although the union was bitterly opposed by Ellin’s billionaire father, who was furious about her marriage to a Jew – and a lower-class Jew at that – to the point that he disinherited her. The death of Berlin’s non-Jewish wife from typhoid fever on their honeymoon inspired “When I Lost You,” one of his most beautiful and emotional songs. Berlin served as chairman of the dinner ceremonies. Original Apphoto of Berlin and Georgie Jessel rehearsing for the Jewish Theatrical Guild testimonial dinner in honor of Sophie Tucker to be held at the Hotel Astor in New York on May 4, 1947. He quickly rose as a songwriter on Tin Pan Alley and then Broadway, and his first huge success, “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (1911), sparked an international dance craze and made him a wealthy man at a young age. Forced to support himself after his father’s death, he sold newspapers in the Bowery, where he was exposed to the songs from saloons and restaurants, became passionate about music, and began performing popular ballads that he heard on the Lower East Side.Ī few years later, he delighted customers as a singing waiter performing lewd parodies of hit songs and, after drawing the attention of a music publisher, he caught his first break as a staff lyricist with the Ted Snyder Company. When Moses died a few years later after his son’s bar mitzvah, Irving, determined to become “fully American,” abandoned all Jewish practice. His father, Moses, had been a cantor in Russia but, unable to find cantorial work in the U.S., he worked at a kosher meat market and gave Hebrew lessons on the side to support his family while Irving attended school and sang in a synagogue choir. She and the show earned rave reviews but, for reasons unknown, Berlin never brought it to Broadway.Īfter watching their house burned down by Cossacks, Berlin’s strictly Orthodox family escaped the pogroms of Czarist Russia for Ellis Island and New York City. In the November 19, 1979, correspondence to Debbie Reynolds exhibited here, Berlin writes “Here is the autographed picture you asked for and a copy of ‘There’s No Business Like Show Business.’ I’ve always regretted that I couldn’t see you in the show, but I know from all accounts that you were wonderful.” Playing Annie Oakley, Reynolds performed the song in a 1977 revival of Annie Get Your Gun.
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Among the best known of his 1,500 songs are “ There’s No Business Like Show Business” “Cheek to Cheek” and “Puttin’ on the Ritz.” His songs, which included 232 top ten hits, with 25 earning the number one spot, have been covered by numerous singers, and he received eight Academy Award nominations. His 15 original Hollywood films include Top Hat (1935), Follow the Fleet (1936), Easter Parade (1948), and Holiday Inn (1942), which introduced White Christmas.
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Despite having no musical training, despite having never learned to read music, and notwithstanding a rather primitive technique, he became one of the most prolific and beloved songwriters of all time whose music forms a great part of the Great American Songbook.īerlin’s 20 original Broadway shows include Annie Get Your Gun (1946) Miss Liberty (1949), in which he set Emma Lazarus’s famous “The New Colossus” to music and Call Me Madam (1950), for which he won a Tony Award. Irving Berlin (1888-1989), born Israel Baline, played a leading role in the evolution of the popular song from early ragtime and jazz through the golden age of musicals.