Irène Bordoni (16 January 1885 – 19 March 1953) was a French singer and a Broadway and film actress.

Biography

Bordoni was married to actor Edgar Becman whom she divorced in 1917. She married again on 24 October 1918 to Broadway producer and lyricist E. Ray Goetz who produced many of her Broadway shows (and whose sister Dorothy Goetz was Irving Berlin's first wife) but they divorced in 1929. At the height of her international appeal she maintained homes in increasingly stylish New York neighborhoods: from 230 West End Avenue to 108 East 78th Street to 104 East 40th Street — as well as in Paris and Monte Carlo. She invested in real estate in Palm Beach in the 1920s during the Florida land boom. Bordoni was later associated with theatrical agent and producer Avery Galen Bogue (1896 – 1951). She died on 19 March 1953 at Jewish Memorial Hospital in New York City and was buried in the Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale, New York.