E. Ray Goetz

Edward Ray Goetz (born June 12, 1886 in Buffalo , † June 12, 1954 in Greenwich / Connecticut ) was an American songwriter , producer, screenwriter and actor .

Goetz worked as a lyricist in the 1910s, later as a composer of songs and in the 1920s as a producer for Broadway . Songs with texts by him were in the Ziegfeld Follies 1907, The Gay White Way and Two Islands (1907), The Prince Of Bohemia and A Matinee Idol (1910), The Hen-Pecks and The Never Homes (1911) and Hokey-Pokey / Bunty, Bulls And Strings and Hanky Panky (1912) used. As a composer and partly librettist he worked on Roly Poly / Without The Law and The Sun Dodgers (1912), All Aboard and The Pleasure Seekers (1913), Hands Up (1915), Step This Way (1916), Hitchy-Koo and Words And Music (1917), as producer on Follow The Girl (1918), As You Were (1920, with his then wife Irène Bordoni ), The French Doll (1922). Little Miss Bluebeard (1924), Naughty Cinderella and Mozart (1926), Paris (1928, also composition), The Lady Of The Orchids (1928, also libretto), Fifty Million Frenchmen (1929, Cole Porter's first big show) and The New Yorkers (1930, based on its own story) with.

The most successful of his numerous songs were Do I Love You? (with Henri Christiné ), Yaka Hula Hickey Dula (with Joe Young and Pete Wendling ) and For Me and My Gal (with Edgar Leslie and George W. Meyer ). The latter gave the film For Me and My Gal the title; there the song was sung by Judy Garland and Gene Kelly . Further musical partners were Silvio Hein , A. Baldwin Sloane , Raymond Hubbell , Pete Wendling, Jean Schwartz and George Gershwin . Goetz appeared as an actor in Somebody Loves Me (1952), The Greatest Show On Earth (1952) and For Me And My Gal (1942), and wrote the screenplay for the film Paris (1929). Goetz was a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), one of its directors until 1917.

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SURNAME	Goetz, E. Ray
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Goetz, Edward Ray
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American songwriter, producer, screenwriter, and actor
DATE OF BIRTH	June 12, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH	Buffalo
DATE OF DEATH	June 12, 1954
Place of death	Greenwich (Connecticut)