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Ellin Berlin (née Mackay, 22 March 1903 – 29 July 1988) was an American author. She was married to Irving Berlin. Biography. Ellin's parents were financier Clarence Mackay, and Katherine Duer Mackay. She met Irving Berlin in 1924. Ellin's father opposed their relationship from the start.
Jul 30, 1988 · Ellin Berlin, the novelist wife of the songwriter Irving Berlin, died early yesterday at Doctors Hospital, to which she had been taken from her Beekman Place town house after the last of a...
The couple’s New York Times obituaries tell the story of a shared life: Ellin McKay, who took her husband’s last name on marriage, continued writing novels and stories and mingled with the new...
Jul 30, 1988 · Ellin Berlin, the novelist wife of songwriter Irving Berlin, died Friday after the last of a series of strokes. She was 85. Her marriage to Berlin on Jan. 4, 1926, drew headlines as the...
A short-story writer, Ellin Mackay had contributed articles to The New Yorker magazine when she met songwriter Irving Berlin. From a devout Roman Catholic family, her January 4, 1926 marriage to an Orthodox Jew went against her family's wishes who disowned her for several years before reconciling.
Irving Berlin (born Israel Beilin; Yiddish: ישראל ביילין; [1] May 11, 1888 [2] – September 22, 1989) was an American songwriter. His music forms a large part of the Great American Songbook. Berlin received numerous honors including an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, and a Tony Award.
Jul 30, 1988 · NEW YORK -- Ellin Berlin, a debutante of the Roaring Twenties who scandalized her father and risked her inheritance to marry songwriter Irving Berlin, died Friday at Doctors Hospital. She was...
