Edward Ray Goetz 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

Somebody Loves Me

"Somebody Loves Me" is a popular song, with music written by George Gershwin, and lyrics by Ballard MacDonald and Buddy DeSylva. This is not to be confused with the Southern gospel song written by W.F. & Marjorie Crumley. The song was published in 1924 and featured in George White's Scandals of...

(1952), The Greatest Show On Earth

The Greatest Show on Earth

The Greatest Show on Earth is a 1952 drama film set in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The film was produced, directed, and narrated by Cecil B. DeMille, and won the Academy Award for Best Picture...

(1952) and For Me And My Gal

For Me and My Gal (film)

For Me and My Gal is a 1942 American musical film directed by Busby Berkeley and starring Judy Garland, Gene Kelly – in his screen debut – and George Murphy, and featuring Martha Eggerth and Ben Blue. The film was written by Richard Sherman, Fred F...

(1942). He wrote the songs "Toddling The Todalo" and "For Me And My Gal

For Me and My Gal (song)

For Me And My Gal is a 1917 popular standard song by George W. Meyer, Edgar Leslie, and E. Ray Goetz.This song was used in the 1942 film of the same name, where it is the first song that Jo Hayden and Harry Palmer perform together....

". He co-wrote the 50 Million Frenchmen musical play with Herbert Fields

Herbert Fields

Herbert Fields was an American librettist and screenwriter.Born in New York City, Fields began his career as an actor, then graduated to choreography and stage direction before turning to writing. From 1925 until his death, he contributed to the libretti of many Broadway musicals...

 and Cole Porter

Cole Porter

Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, he defied the wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn towards musical theatre...

 which was released as the 1930 Warner Brothers film Fifty Million Frenchmen

Fifty Million Frenchmen (film)

__notoc__Fifty Million Frenchmen is a 1931 musical comedy film photographed entirely in Technicolor. It was based on Cole Porter's 1929 Broadway musical. It was originally intended to be released, in the United States, late in 1930, but was shelved due to public apathy towards musicals. Despite...

.

Personal life

On 24 October 1918, Goetz was married to actress Irène Bordoni

Irène Bordoni

Irène Bordoni was a French singer and a Broadway and film actress.-Early years:Born in Ajaccio, France, from an Italian family, she had been a child actor, performing in Paris on stage and in silent films for a few years, having signed with theatrical agent André Charlot...

. They were divorced in 1929.

In 1912, his sister Dorothy Goetz

Dorothy Goetz

Dorothy Goetz was the first wife of the famous songwriter, Irving Berlin.She was twenty years old when she met Berlin in New York City where her older brother singer and lyricist Ray Goetz had been collaborating on some tunes with Berlin...

 married songwriter Irving Berlin

Irving Berlin

Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...

. She died six months later of typhoid fever

Typhoid fever

Typhoid fever, also known as Typhoid, is a common worldwide bacterial disease, transmitted by the ingestion of food or water contaminated with the feces of an infected person, which contain the bacterium Salmonella enterica, serovar Typhi...

 contracted during their honeymoon in Havana

Havana

Havana is the capital city, province, major port, and leading commercial centre of Cuba. The city proper has a population of 2.1 million inhabitants, and it spans a total of — making it the largest city in the Caribbean region, and the most populous...

, Cuba

Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...

. A song Berlin wrote to express his grief was "When I Lost You."

Songwriter

His popular-song compositions included "Who'll Buy My Violets?", "Argentina," "Let's Be Lonesome Together," "So This Is Love," "Don't Go In the Lion's Cage Tonight," "If You Could Care," "Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula," "The Life of a Rose," "Meet Me in the Shadows," "The Land of Going to Be" and "Boom."

Stage scores

• "For Me and My Gal"
• "The Never Homes"
• "The Hen Pecks"
• "Hokey-Pokey"
• "Hanky-Panky"
• "Roly-Poly"
• "All Aboard"
• "The Pleasure Seekers"
• "Hitchy-Koo
  Hitchy-Koo
  Hitchy-Koo of 1919 is a musical revue with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and the book by George V. Hobart. This revue was third in a series of four Hitchy-Koo revues produced by, and starring, Raymond Hitchcock. The original Broadway production was in 1919...
  
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Movie songwriter

• "For Me and My Gal" (uncredited)) 1985
• "So This Is Love", 1953
• "Toddling the Todalo", 1952
• "Lovely Luawana Lady", 1952
• "Do I Love You?", 1923)
• "He Goes to Church on Sunday
  He Goes to Church on Sunday
  "He Goes to Church on Sunday" is a popular song, first published in 1907, and written by Vincent Bryan and E. Ray Goetz. The song tells the story of a "crooked" man, who steals stuff from people, but is considered an honest man because he goes to church on Sundays. However, the song doesn't appear...
  
  ", 1907
• "Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula (Hawaiian Love Song)" (lyrics)
• "Fifty Million Frenchmen", 1931 (playwright)
• "Paris", 1929
• "If You Could Care", 1929

Producer

• George White's Scandals
  George White's Scandals
  George White's Scandals were a long-running string of Broadway revues produced by George White that ran from 1919–1939, modelled after the Ziegfeld Follies. The "Scandals" launched the careers of many entertainers, including W.C. Fields, the Three Stooges, Ray Bolger, Helen Morgan, Ethel Merman, ...
  
   of 1922
• As You Were
• The French Doll
• Little Miss Bluebeard
• Paris
  Paris (1928 musical)
  Paris is a musical with the book by Martin Brown, and music and lyrics by Cole Porter, as well as Walter Kollo and Louis Alter and E. Ray Goetz and Roy Turk . The musical, which premiered on Broadway in 1928, was Porter's first Broadway hit. The musical introduced the song "Let's Do It, Let's Fall...
  
  
• Fifty Million Frenchmen
  Fifty Million Frenchmen
  Fifty Million Frenchmen is a musical comedy with a book by Herbert Fields and music and lyrics by Cole Porter. It opened on Broadway in 1929 and was adapted for a film two years later...
  
  
• The New Yorkers
  The New Yorkers
  The New Yorkers is a musical written by Cole Porter and Herbert Fields . The musical premiered on Broadway in 1930. It is based on a story by cartoonist Peter Arno and E. Ray Goetz. The musical satirizes New York types, from high society matrons to con men, bootleggers, thieves and prostitutes...