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Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history. His music forms a great part of the Great American Songbook. He wrote hundreds of songs, many becoming major hits, which made him "a legend" before he turned thirty. During his 60-year career he wrote an estimated 1,500 songs, including the scores for 19 Broadway shows and 18 Hollywood films, with his songs nominated eight times for Academy Awards. Many songs became popular themes and anthems, including "Alexander's Ragtime Band", "Easter Parade", "Puttin' on the Ritz", "Cheek to Cheek", "White Christmas", "Happy Holiday", "Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)", and "There's No Business Like Show Business".
Berlin was born in 1888 in the Russian Empire, and was raised in New York City. He published his first song, "Marie from Sunny Italy", in 1907, receiving 33 cents for the publishing rights. He also was an owner of the Music Box Theatre on Broadway. He wrote hundreds of songs, many becoming major hits, which made him "a legend" before he turned thirty. He died in 1989 at the age of 101.
Popular As |
Israel Isidor Baline |
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soundtrack,music_department,writer |
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101 years old |
Zodiac Sign |
Taurus |
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11 May, 1888 |
Birthday |
11 May |
Birthplace |
Mogilev, Russian Empire [now Belarus] |
Date of death |
22 September, 1989 |
Died Place |
New York City, New York, USA |
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Belarus |
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Irving Berlin Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Irving Berlin's Wife?
His wife is Ellin Blanca Mackay (4 January 1926 - 29 July 1988) ( her death) ( 4 children), Dorothy Goetz (28 February 1912 - 17 July 1912) ( her death)
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Ellin Blanca Mackay (4 January 1926 - 29 July 1988) ( her death) ( 4 children), Dorothy Goetz (28 February 1912 - 17 July 1912) ( her death) |
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Irving Berlin Net Worth
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He was posthumously awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 7095 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 1, 1994.
Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 87-91. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons (1999).
Won the 1978 Laurence Langner Tony Award (New York City) and for a distinguished lifetime in the American theater.
Won the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Gerald Ford (1977). The citation reads: "Musician, composer, humanitarian and patriot, Irving Berlin has captured the fondest dreams and deepest emotions of the American people in the form of popular music.".
Inducted into the American Songwriters Hall of Fame (1970), the American Theater Hall of Fame, and the Jewish-American Hall of Fame.
Had nine grandchildren: Edward Watson Emmet (born 1968), Ellin Emmet, and Caroline Emmet from daughter Linda; Elizabeth Matson (born 1954), Irving Barrett (born 1955), Mary Ellin Barrett Lerner (born 1956), and Katherine Swett (born 1960), from daughter Mary Ellin; and Emily Anstice Fisher (born 1966) and Rachel, from daughter Elizabeth.
His daughter Elizabeth married Edmund Boyd Fisher in London in September 1963. They later divorced.
45th Street, New York) with Sam H. Harris.
During the filming of his singing his composition "Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" in This Is the Army (1943), one of the backstage crew was heard to have whispered to another crew worker, "If the guy who wrote this song could hear this guy singing it, he would roll over in his grave!".
Among his many awards was the Medal for Merit for his 1942 all-soldier show "This Is the Army", which toured the United States, Europe and South Pacific battle zones; all proceeds were assigned to Army Emergency Relief and other service agencies. Berlin was also a member of the French Legion of Honor and held the Congressional Medal of Honor for "God Bless America", the proceeds from which went to the God Bless America Fund. His songs were sung by Fred Astaire, Al Jolson, Judy Garland, Bing Crosby, Dick Powell, Alice Faye and many others.
After Harris' death in 1941, Berlin assumed full ownership and the theatre remains a Broadway institution to this day.
First meet lifelong best friend Fred Astaire on the set of Top Hat (1935).
One of his most popular songs "Easter Parade" (1933) had been published earlier as "Smile and Show Your Dimple".
Although he wrote what is arguably the most popular secular Christmas song ever written, "White Christmas", Christmas was always a bittersweet time for the Berlin family. Irving and Eileen Berlin's only son, Irving Jr., died at only a few weeks old, of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, on Christmas Day, 1928. Every year, on Christmas Day, the Berlins would lay a Christmas wreath on his grave, a tradition their heirs carry on today.
Had four children: Mary Ellen Barrett (born November 25, 1926), Irving Berlin Jr. (December 1-December 25, 1928), Linda Louise Berlin (born February 21, 1932), and Elizabeth Iris Berlin (born June 16, 1936).
After the war, he established his own public-relations firm, and in 1921, he built the 1025-seat Music Box Theatre (at 239 W.
He joined ASCAP as a charter member in 1914, and served on its first board of directors between 1914-1918. Berlin enlisted the United States Army infantry in World War I, and was a sergeant at Camp Upton, New York.
Wrote his first ballad hit, "When I Lost You", in his grief over the death of his first wife, Dorothy Goetz. She had died of typhoid, contracted on her honeymoon, just four months after their marriage in 1912.
In 1910, he began doing vaudeville appearances in the United States and abroad, and also appeared with Snyder in the Broadway musical "Up and Down Broadway", that ran for 72 performances.
In 1909, he was hired as a staff lyricist by the Ted Snyder Company, and became a partner to that firm four years later.
His second wife, Ellin, was born March 22, 1903. Her father, Clarence H. Mackay, was the son of John W. Mackay (1831-1902), one of the principal owner/operators of the Comstock Lode (Consolidated Virginia and California Mine in Nevada, also Bonanza Firm--a four-way partnership worth some $190 million by 1877), one of the major silver discoveries in the 1870s. A devout conservative Roman Catholic Irishman, Clarence was horrified that his daughter was engaged to a Jew, and he disowned her. They would reconcile in the early 1930s.
Irving Berlin was born Israel Isidor Baline on May 11, 1888 in Mogilev, Belarus, Russian Empire. Towering composer, songwriter, ("God Bless America", "Always", "Blue Skies", "White Christmas") author and publisher, he came to the United States at age 5 and was educated in New York's public schools. His earliest musical education was from his father, a cantor. He earned Honorary degrees from Bucknell University and Temple University. Beginning his career as a song-plugger for publisher Harry von Tilzer, Berlin worked as a singing waiter in Chinatown.