What did Shirley Temple, Enrico Caruso, Irving Berlin and Gene Tunney have in common?
Mmmm, That was true of Irving Berlin. “His second wife was Ellin Mackay, a devout Irish-American Catholic and heiress to the Comstock Lode mining fortune, as well as an avant-garde writer who had been published in The New Yorker. They were married in 1926, against the wishes of both his family, who objected to religious intermarriage, and her father, Clarence Mackay, a prominent Roman Catholic layman, who disinherited her.[7] Without a dispensation from the Church, the two were joined in a civil ceremony on 4 January 1926, and were immediately snubbed by society: Ellin was immediately disinvited from the wedding of her friend Consuelo Vanderbilt, although Vanderbilt was not a Catholic.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Berlin Gene Tunney only fought one fight after his marriage, and seems to have been accepted by the family of wife, an heiress to Carnegie fortunes. “In August 1928…Pollys mother, Katherine Lauder, announced from the familys summer home on Johns Island, off the coas
