Bordoni, Irene

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | 700+ words | Copyright

Bordoni, Irene (1895–1953), singer and actress. The tiny Corsican‐born comedienne, who was perceived as a latter‐day Anna Held because of her coyly naughty performing, first appeared in New York in Broadway to Paris (1912). Subsequently she played in Miss Information (1915) and the 1917 and 1918 editions of Hitchy Koo. Bordoni's heyday was in the 1920s, when she was starred by her husband E. Ray Goetz in As You Were (1920); The French Doll (1922), in which she sang “Do It Again”; and Paris (1928), in which she introduced Cole Porter's “Let's Do It.” In 1938 she played in Great Lady and two years later sang Irving Berlin's “It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow” in Louisiana Purchase. Her last major appearances came when she toured as Bloody Mary in South Pacific in 1951. Bordoni also appeared in vaudeville and occasionally in nonmusical plays.

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