Editing Eddie Cantor (section)

== Personal life and family ==
[[File:Eddie and Ida Cantor 1952.JPG|thumb|180px|The Cantors in 1952]]

Cantor adopted the first name "Eddie" when he met his future wife Ida Tobias in 1913, because she felt that "Izzy" was not the right name for an actor. Cantor and Ida (1892–1962) were married on June 6, 1914. They had five daughters – Marjorie (1915–1959),<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=1959-05-18 |title=Cantor's Daughter Killed By Cancer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lexington-herald-cantors-daughter-k/140407762/ |access-date=2024-02-06 |work=The Lexington Herald |pages=2}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1959-05-18 |title=Obituary for Marjorie Cantor |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-obituary-for-marjorie-ca/140407465/ |access-date=2024-02-06 |work=Chicago Tribune |pages=46}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1959-05-19 |title=Obituary for Marjorie Cantors |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/progress-bulletin-obituary-for-marjorie/140407575/ |access-date=2024-02-06 |work=Progress-Bulletin |pages=17}}</ref> Natalie (1916–1997), Edna June (1919–2003), [[Marilyn Cantor Baker|Marilyn]] (1921–2010), and Janet (1927–2018). The girls provided comic fodder for Cantor's longtime running gag, especially on radio, about his five unmarriageable daughters.<ref name=":0" /> Several radio historians, including [[Gerald Nachman (journalist)|Gerald Nachman]] (in his book ''Raised on Radio''), have said that this gag did not always sit well with the girls.

Natalie's first husband was Joseph Louis Metzger,<ref>{{Cite news |date=1937-05-07 |title=First of Cantor Daughters to Wed |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-vernon-daily-record-first-of-cantor/140409400/ |access-date=2024-02-06 |work=The Vernon Daily Record |pages=7}}</ref> a businessman from Boston; they married in 1937.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |date=1959-05-27 |title=Marjorie Cantor Names 4 Sisters (in will) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/birmingham-post-herald-marjorie-cantor-n/140408022/ |access-date=2024-02-06 |work=Birmingham Post-Herald |pages=8}}</ref> Her second husband was the French-born American actor [[Robert Clary]], who was best known for his role as Corporal Louis LeBeau on ''[[Hogan's Heroes]]''.<ref name="WaPo">{{cite news |title=Robert Clary, 'Hogan's Heroes' actor, dies at 96 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/11/17/robert-clary-hogans-heroes-actor-dead/ |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=7 January 2023}}</ref> Edna married James Francis McHugh Jr., in 1938. McHugh Sr. was a songwriter who was close friends with Eddie Cantor.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=1938-09-18 |title=Honeymoon - Cantor's Third Daughter Weds |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-fresno-bee-honeymoon-cantors-thir/140410282/ |access-date=2024-02-06 |work=The Fresno Bee |pages=8}}</ref> Janet married the actor [[Roberto Gari]].<ref>[http://greatentertainersarchives.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-children-of-eddie-cantor.html The Children of Eddie Cantor] blog article by David Lobosco.</ref> Marilyn married a Canadian, Michael Baker, in 1960. She was the only child in the family to follow her father into show business.

Following the death of their daughter Marjorie at the age of 44, Eddie's and Ida's health declined rapidly. She had been her father's secretary and a magazine writer.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1959-05-21 |title=Obituary for Marjorie Cantor |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-roberts-news-obituary-for-marjorie-c/140408652/ |access-date=2024-02-06 |work=The Roberts News |pages=6}}</ref> Ida died on August 9, 1962, at age 70 of "cardiac insufficiency",<ref name="International" /><ref>"Deaths", ''The New York Times'', August 10, 1962, p. 14.</ref> and Eddie died on October 10, 1964, in [[Beverly Hills, California]], after suffering his second heart attack at age 72.<ref>{{cite news|date=October 11, 1964|title=Eddie Cantor Dead. Comedy Star Was 72.|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/10/11/eddie-cantor-dead-comedy-slar-was-72.html?sq=%2522Eddie+Cantor%2522&scp=1&st=p|access-date=August 9, 2012|quote=Eddie Cantor, banjo-eyed vaudevillian whose dancing feet and double-takes brought him stardom in movies, radio and television, died of a coronary occlusion today at the age of 72.}}</ref> He is interred in [[Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery]], a Jewish cemetery in Culver City, California.

Cantor was a [[Freemasonry|Freemason]] via Munn Lodge No. 190 in New York City.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Famous Freemasons (A – Z) Continued – Freemasons Community |url=https://freemasonscommunity.life/famous-freemasons-z-continued/ |access-date=2023-05-19 |website=freemasonscommunity.life}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Today in Masonic History - Edward Israel Iskowitz (a.k.a. Eddie Cantor) Passes Away |url=https://www.masonrytoday.com/index.php?new_month=10&new_day=10&new_year=2020 |access-date=2023-05-19 |website=www.masonrytoday.com}}</ref>