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American writer

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.

Ellin Duer Mackay Berlin (1903-1988) - Find a Grave Memorial

She met Irving Berlin in 1924. Ellin's father opposed their relationship from the start. Irving wooed her with letters and songs over the airwaves such as "Remember" and "All Alone".^[1]

They eloped and were married in a simple civil ceremony at the Municipal Building, away from media attention. Because Irving was Jewish and Ellin was an Irish Catholic, their life was followed in every possible detail by the press, which found the romance between a self-made Jewish immigrant from the Lower East Side and a young heiress to be a sensational story.^[2]

For nearly three years Clarence Mackay refused to speak to the Berlins.

They reconciled after the death of the Berlins' son, Irving Berlin Jr., on Christmas Day in 1928, less than Ellin Berlin, 85, a Novelist, Dies; The Songwriter's Wife of ... ROB