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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.
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 famous...
Aug 8, 2021 · Ellin Mackay Berlin, the novelist wife of songwriter Irving Berlin, died Friday after a series of strokes. She was 85. Mrs. Berlin, the last of whose four novels, ”The Best of Families,”...
Aug 5, 2022 · Mary Ellin Barrett, Daughter and Defender of Irving Berlin, Dies at 95. When the great American songwriter’s character came under attack after his death, Ms. Barrett sought to correct the...
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 85.
Nov 3, 2021 · Ellin Berlin (1903–1988) is by far the author in this study with the most famous spouse. Her husband Irving was America’s most popular songwriter in the first half of the twentieth century, perhaps of all time. If he only had “God Bless America” and “White Christmas” to his credit, that would be impressive.
Written in 1944 during the raging of World War II, Land I Have Chosen, by Ellin Berlin, is an intense examination of two women, from 1928—just prior to the Wall Street crash—to 1938, when Hitler is establishing a firm grip on Germany.
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