E. Ray Goetz

On 24 October 1918, Goetz was married to actress Irène Bordoni. They were divorced in 1929.

Composer, songwriter ("For Me and My Gal"), author and producer. He wrote the Broadway stage scores for "The Never Homes", "The Hen Pecks", "Hokey-Pokey", "Hanky-Panky", "Roly-Poly", "All Aboard", "The Pleasure Seekers", and "Hitchy-Koo" (he also was a co-producer), between 1917 and 1918, and also "George White's Scandals of 1922". He produced the Broadway musicals "As You Were", "The French Doll", "Little Miss Bluebeard", "Paris", "Fifty Million Frenchmen", and "The New Yorkers".

The Goetz family was originally based in Buffalo, New York. His younger sister Dorothy married Irving Berlin in 1912, but died from typhoid fever contracted during their honeymoon; she was 20 years old at the time of her death.

Goetz wrote "The Gay White Way" and "Two Islands" in 1907, "The Prince Of Bohemia" and "A Matinee Idol" in 1910. He also wrote "There's a Girl in Chateau Thierry" in 1919.

Edward Ray Goetz (June 12, 1886 – June 12, 1954) was an American composer, songwriter, author and producer. He was a charter member of ASCAP in 1914, and was a director until 1917. Goetz appeared in the films Somebody Loves Me (1952), The Greatest Show On Earth (1952) and For Me and My Gal (1942). He wrote the songs "Toddling The Todalo" and "For Me and My Gal". He co-wrote the 50 Million Frenchmen musical play with Herbert Fields and Cole Porter which was released as the 1930 Warner Brothers film Fifty Million Frenchmen.