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- Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression (2009)
- The Opera Ghost: A Phantom Unmasked (2000)
- The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995)
- That's Entertainment! III (1994)
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- That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
- Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975)
- Just One More Time (1974)
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- The Desert Song (1955)
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- Make Mine Music (1946)
- Make Mine Music (1946)
- Make Mine Music (1946)
- Make Mine Music (1946)
- Make Mine Music (1946)
- Make Mine Music (1946)
- Make Mine Music (1946)
- Make Mine Music (1946)
- Willie the Operatic Whale (1946)
- Willie the Operatic Whale (1946)
- Knickerbocker Holiday (1944)
- Phantom of the Opera (1943)
- I Married an Angel (1942)
- The Chocolate Soldier (1941)
- New Moon (1940)
- Bitter Sweet (1940)
- The Miracle of Sound (1940)
- Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940)
- Balalaika (1939)
- Let Freedom Ring (1939)
- From the Ends of the Earth (1939)
- Sweethearts (1938)
- The Girl of the Golden West (1938)
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- Broadway to Hollywood (1933)
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Nelson, Eddie Filmography
Famous quotes by Nelson Eddy:
"Let's have the music that will open the door to millions of people... the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer... not music that is confined to the merely personal."
"The Electric Hour has spark."
"In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite."
"I know, I know the world wants love. I know that the fans want love on the air. Of course they do. They want love on the air as they want love in pictures, in the theatre, in novels and poems. And I want to give them love on the air - but not cheap love, not a low - class type of love."
"I want to keep going till I drop."
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- Isn't It Romantic
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- Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life
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- Lover, Come Back to Me
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- 'Neath the Southern Moon
- Beyond the Blue Horizon
- When I Grow Too Old to Dream
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- Rose Marie
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- I'll See You Again
- Will You Remember
- Rosalie
- Giannina Mia
- Rose-Marie
- Italian Street Song
- Indian Love Call
- Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life
- The Breeze and I
- While My Lady Sleeps
- Wanting You
- Stouthearted Men
- Beyond the Blue Horizon
- Tonight We Love
- The Lamp Is Low
- My Reverie
- 'Til the End of Time
- Strange Music
- Full Moon and Empty Arms
- Story of a Starry Night
- Love Serenade
- Stranger in Paradise
- As the Years Go By
- If You Are but a Dream
- Alone Together
Born: 1901-06-29
Died: 1967-03-06
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Jeanette MacDonald - Nelson Eddy 'Ah Sweet Mystery Of Life'
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:15
- Updated: 26 Nov 2008
Jeanette MacDonald - Nelson Eddy 'Ah Sweet Mystery Of Life
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Jeanette MacDonald - Nelson Eddy 'Ah Sweet Mystery Of Life
"Stout Hearted Men" Nelson Eddy (New Moon 1940)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:05
- Updated: 02 Aug 2011
The rousing song "Stout Hearted Men" from the 1940 movie New Moon. Nelson Eddy rallies the troops and leads the chorus. Composed by Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein II.
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The rousing song "Stout Hearted Men" from the 1940 movie New Moon. Nelson Eddy rallies the troops and leads the chorus. Composed by Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein II.
- published: 02 Aug 2011
- views: 23463
Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy:Hollywood's Greatest Cover-Up
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:38
- Updated: 07 Aug 2006
Movie star Nelson Eddy breaks down during an interview regarding the death of his secret lover of 30 years, Jeanette MacDonald. Read their story at http://www.maceddy.com, with an Interactive Biography at http://www.maceddy.com/index.php?main_page=biography. We have also posted a handful of the celebrity interviews that verified the Jeanette MacDonald - Nelson Eddy off-screen love affair; these interviews were quoted in the book "Sweethearts" but you can read more complete transcripts at http://www.maceddy.com/index.php?main_page=sample_articles.
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Movie star Nelson Eddy breaks down during an interview regarding the death of his secret lover of 30 years, Jeanette MacDonald. Read their story at http://www.maceddy.com, with an Interactive Biography at http://www.maceddy.com/index.php?main_page=biography. We have also posted a handful of the celebrity interviews that verified the Jeanette MacDonald - Nelson Eddy off-screen love affair; these interviews were quoted in the book "Sweethearts" but you can read more complete transcripts at http://www.maceddy.com/index.php?main_page=sample_articles.
- published: 07 Aug 2006
- views: 120634
Rose-Marie - Finale (Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:18
- Updated: 06 Dec 2007
The heart-warming final scene of "Rose-Marie".
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The heart-warming final scene of "Rose-Marie".
- published: 06 Dec 2007
- views: 171426
NELSON EDDY SINGS - WHEN I GROW TOO OLD TO DREAM 1942
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:26
- Updated: 06 Jan 2010
NELSON EDDY S INGS..."WHEN I GROW TOO OLD TO DREAM", COMPOSED BY SIGMUND ROMBERG. THIS IS FROM A 1942 OLD GOLD SHOW. THERE IS AN EARLIER VERSION FROM THE CHASE & SANDBORN HOUR WHICH IS AS EQUALLY GOOD(see posting).NELSON EDDY AT HIS BEST, ALTHOUGH THE SOUND IS NOT TOO HOT!!!
ENJOY!!!
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NELSON EDDY S INGS..."WHEN I GROW TOO OLD TO DREAM", COMPOSED BY SIGMUND ROMBERG. THIS IS FROM A 1942 OLD GOLD SHOW. THERE IS AN EARLIER VERSION FROM THE CHASE & SANDBORN HOUR WHICH IS AS EQUALLY GOOD(see posting).NELSON EDDY AT HIS BEST, ALTHOUGH THE SOUND IS NOT TOO HOT!!!
ENJOY!!!
- published: 06 Jan 2010
- views: 20304
Nelson Eddy Sings - Begin the Beguine
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:56
- Updated: 02 Nov 2012
Nelson takes us to a tropical paradise with colorized images by Di Taylor.
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Nelson takes us to a tropical paradise with colorized images by Di Taylor.
- published: 02 Nov 2012
- views: 1025
Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy: Indian Love Call
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:31
- Updated: 09 Dec 2009
Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy singing, "Indian Love Call," from the 1936 film, "Rose Marie."
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Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy singing, "Indian Love Call," from the 1936 film, "Rose Marie."
- published: 09 Dec 2009
- views: 111614
Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy sing 'Wanting You'
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:29
- Updated: 26 Nov 2008
Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy sing 'Wanting You'
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Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy sing 'Wanting You'
- published: 26 Nov 2008
- views: 63064
NELSON EDDY - Ghost Riders / Mule Train
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:39
- Updated: 10 Jan 2009
Just when you thought you have heard every version of a song there is,
a new one shows up. This is by Nelson Eddy a operitic type singer who was very popular in the movies and on record in the 30's and 40's. Here he does it his way.
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Just when you thought you have heard every version of a song there is,
a new one shows up. This is by Nelson Eddy a operitic type singer who was very popular in the movies and on record in the 30's and 40's. Here he does it his way.
- published: 10 Jan 2009
- views: 23283
Nelson Eddy "I'M FALLING IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE" Naughty Marietta (1935) JEANETTE MACDONALD
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:41
- Updated: 28 May 2009
Nelson Eddy sings "I'm Falling in Love with Someone" to a dreamy Jeanette MacDonald. From their first film together, "Naughty Marietta" (1935).
Music by Victor Herbert
Lyrics by Rida Johnson Young
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Nelson Eddy sings "I'm Falling in Love with Someone" to a dreamy Jeanette MacDonald. From their first film together, "Naughty Marietta" (1935).
Music by Victor Herbert
Lyrics by Rida Johnson Young
- published: 28 May 2009
- views: 21697
Nelson Eddy SONG OF THE VOLGA BOATMAN Balalaika Ilona Massey
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:10
- Updated: 14 Jan 2009
Baritone Nelson Eddy singing "The Song of the Volga Boatman" (from the 1939 movie, "Balalaika") to Ilona Massey and company.
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Baritone Nelson Eddy singing "The Song of the Volga Boatman" (from the 1939 movie, "Balalaika") to Ilona Massey and company.
- published: 14 Jan 2009
- views: 25388
Nelson Eddy Appears on What's My Line
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- Duration: 5:32
- Updated: 14 Aug 2006
Nelson Eddy's second appearance as mystery guest on What's My line
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Nelson Eddy's second appearance as mystery guest on What's My line
- published: 14 Aug 2006
- views: 21865
Nelson Eddy "Stranger in Paradise"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:06
- Updated: 29 Apr 2009
I adore this song. Nelson Eddy sings "Stranger in Paradise" (Russian composer Alexander Borodin - opera "Prince Igor"). What a wonderful voice and what a wonderful man!
Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald in movie "I married an angel" 1942.
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I adore this song. Nelson Eddy sings "Stranger in Paradise" (Russian composer Alexander Borodin - opera "Prince Igor"). What a wonderful voice and what a wonderful man!
Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald in movie "I married an angel" 1942.
- published: 29 Apr 2009
- views: 39377
Nelson Eddy Sings - By the Waters of Minnetonka
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:21
- Updated: 02 Sep 2011
Nelson's song is illustrated by scenes from this lovely Minnesota landscape. With Nelson Eddy images colorized by Vonnie Krotts.
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Nelson's song is illustrated by scenes from this lovely Minnesota landscape. With Nelson Eddy images colorized by Vonnie Krotts.
- published: 02 Sep 2011
- views: 945
Nelson Eddy MOUNTIES Rose Marie Friml Hammerstein Harbach
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:02
- Updated: 08 May 2009
Nelson Eddy sings "The Mounties" from "Rose Marie". Music by Rudolf Friml, lyrics by Oscar HAmmerstein II and Otto Harbach.
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Nelson Eddy sings "The Mounties" from "Rose Marie". Music by Rudolf Friml, lyrics by Oscar HAmmerstein II and Otto Harbach.
- published: 08 May 2009
- views: 17498
NELSON EDDY - THE BARITONE
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:17
- Updated: 24 Jun 2011
Nelson Eddy sings three songs 'Just A-Wearyin' For You', 'Close' and 'Smilin' Through' accompanied by scenes from five of his films with Jeanette MacDonald.
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Nelson Eddy sings three songs 'Just A-Wearyin' For You', 'Close' and 'Smilin' Through' accompanied by scenes from five of his films with Jeanette MacDonald.
- published: 24 Jun 2011
- views: 4723
Nelson Eddy "ROSALIE" Eleanor Powell ROSALIE (1937) Cole Porter
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:44
- Updated: 28 May 2009
In his 1937 film "Rosalie", Nelson Eddy sings the title song to dancer Eleanor Powell. The song is by Cole Porter.
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In his 1937 film "Rosalie", Nelson Eddy sings the title song to dancer Eleanor Powell. The song is by Cole Porter.
- published: 28 May 2009
- views: 5265
Di Provenza il mar, Germont's aria from La Traviata Nelson Eddy
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- Duration: 3:53
- Updated: 16 Sep 2012
Nelson Eddy, American Baritone (1901 - 1967) sings Di Provenza il mar, Germont's aria from La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi,libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. Lyrics Italian and English:
Di Provenza il mar, il suol The sea and soil of Provence --
chi dal cor ti cancello? who has erased them from your heart?
Al natio fulgente sol From your native, fulsome sun --
qual destino ti furo'? what destiny stole you away?
Oh, rammenta pur nel duol Oh, remember in your sorrow
ch'ivi gioia a te brillo'; that joy glowed on you,
E che pace cola' sol and that only there peace
su te splendere ancor puo'. can yet shine upon you.
Dio mi guidò! God has guided me!
Ah! il tuo vecchio genitor Ah, your old father --
tu non sai quanto soffrì! You don't know how much he has suffered!
Te lontano, di squallor With you far away, with misery
il suo tetto si coprì. has his house become full.
Ma se alfin ti trovo ancor, But if in the end I find you again,
se in me speme non fallì, if hope did not fail within me,
Se la voce dell'onor if the voice of honor
in te appien non ammutì, didn't become silenced in you,
Dio m'esaudi'! God has heard me!
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Nelson Eddy, American Baritone (1901 - 1967) sings Di Provenza il mar, Germont's aria from La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi,libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. Lyrics Italian and English:
Di Provenza il mar, il suol The sea and soil of Provence --
chi dal cor ti cancello? who has erased them from your heart?
Al natio fulgente sol From your native, fulsome sun --
qual destino ti furo'? what destiny stole you away?
Oh, rammenta pur nel duol Oh, remember in your sorrow
ch'ivi gioia a te brillo'; that joy glowed on you,
E che pace cola' sol and that only there peace
su te splendere ancor puo'. can yet shine upon you.
Dio mi guidò! God has guided me!
Ah! il tuo vecchio genitor Ah, your old father --
tu non sai quanto soffrì! You don't know how much he has suffered!
Te lontano, di squallor With you far away, with misery
il suo tetto si coprì. has his house become full.
Ma se alfin ti trovo ancor, But if in the end I find you again,
se in me speme non fallì, if hope did not fail within me,
Se la voce dell'onor if the voice of honor
in te appien non ammutì, didn't become silenced in you,
Dio m'esaudi'! God has heard me!
- published: 16 Sep 2012
- views: 298
Nelson Eddy - Rose Marie (1935)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:08
- Updated: 07 Oct 2009
Recorded December 31, 1935. From the operetta of the same name.
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Recorded December 31, 1935. From the operetta of the same name.
- published: 07 Oct 2009
- views: 15512
Nelson Eddy - The blind ploughman
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:39
- Updated: 02 Oct 2008
A song that inspires appreciation of life, no matter your circumstances. The story of a man who thanked god for his affliction!
Set my hands upon the plough
my feet upon the soil
turn my face towards the east
and praise thee to god.
Every year the rains will come
the seads will stur and spring
Every year the spreading trees
shelter birds that sing.
from the shelter of your heart
brother drive out sin
let the little birds of faith
come and rest therein
god has made his sun to shine
upon both you and me
god, who took away my eyes
that my soul might see.
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A song that inspires appreciation of life, no matter your circumstances. The story of a man who thanked god for his affliction!
Set my hands upon the plough
my feet upon the soil
turn my face towards the east
and praise thee to god.
Every year the rains will come
the seads will stur and spring
Every year the spreading trees
shelter birds that sing.
from the shelter of your heart
brother drive out sin
let the little birds of faith
come and rest therein
god has made his sun to shine
upon both you and me
god, who took away my eyes
that my soul might see.
- published: 02 Oct 2008
- views: 7366
Nelson Eddy--What's My Line
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:55
- Updated: 25 Mar 2009
Nelson Eddy was the mystery guest on the 31 January 1960 episode of WML.
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Nelson Eddy was the mystery guest on the 31 January 1960 episode of WML.
- published: 25 Mar 2009
- views: 5900
JEANETTE MacDONALD & NELSON EDDY sing 'PRETTY AS A PICTURE'.wmv
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- Duration: 5:07
- Updated: 13 Jul 2012
Another song from the 1938 film 'SWEETHEARTS' and another great tune from Victor Herbert. His stage show 'Sweethearts' was first performed in 1913 and proved a big hit. The 1938 film showcased the MacDonald/Eddy partnership. Both were in fine voice and MacDonald showed there was more to her than just a voice by demonstrating her talent for comedy and dancing.
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Another song from the 1938 film 'SWEETHEARTS' and another great tune from Victor Herbert. His stage show 'Sweethearts' was first performed in 1913 and proved a big hit. The 1938 film showcased the MacDonald/Eddy partnership. Both were in fine voice and MacDonald showed there was more to her than just a voice by demonstrating her talent for comedy and dancing.
- published: 13 Jul 2012
- views: 5051
Celine Dion - Come To Me (Eddy,Nelson,Rene Charles)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:34
- Updated: 05 Aug 2012
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- published: 05 Aug 2012
- views: 73751
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Jeanette MacDonald Funeral - Nelson Eddy's Participation - maceddy.com Master Class 3, 2 Dec 2012
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- Duration: 52:52
- Updated: 09 Dec 2012
In this third "Master Class" written by Madeline Bayless and presented by Linda Tolman, little-known details are revealed of the funeral of 1930s movie star Jeanette MacDonald. MacDonald died on January 14, 1965 and her death made front page headlines in newspapers worldwide. Thousands of loyal fans attended her funeral four days later at Forest Lawn Glendale. Despite her supposedly loving last words to her husband Gene Raymond, many fan were curious to note that her grief-stricken co-star Nelson Eddy sat privately with the family and in particular with Jeanette's older sister and confidant Blossom Rock. (Note: in the funeral service and on Jeanette's crypt her birthdate was incorrectly noted as 1907 rather than 1903.) For more information and to see the photo boards used in this presentation, visit maceddy.com.
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In this third "Master Class" written by Madeline Bayless and presented by Linda Tolman, little-known details are revealed of the funeral of 1930s movie star Jeanette MacDonald. MacDonald died on January 14, 1965 and her death made front page headlines in newspapers worldwide. Thousands of loyal fans attended her funeral four days later at Forest Lawn Glendale. Despite her supposedly loving last words to her husband Gene Raymond, many fan were curious to note that her grief-stricken co-star Nelson Eddy sat privately with the family and in particular with Jeanette's older sister and confidant Blossom Rock. (Note: in the funeral service and on Jeanette's crypt her birthdate was incorrectly noted as 1907 rather than 1903.) For more information and to see the photo boards used in this presentation, visit maceddy.com.
- published: 09 Dec 2012
- views: 4158
Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy - This is Your Life - maceddy.com "Master Class" #2, June 24, 2012
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 88:31
- Updated: 17 Jul 2012
This fascinating filmed "Master Class" showcases the events surrounding 1930s movie star Jeanette MacDonald being featured on a brand new Fall 1952 reality television series, "This is Your Life." Without either the show's host or the TV audience knowing it, the live show served as a personal reunion for MacDonald and her movie co-star Nelson Eddy. They made 8 films together and were off-screen lovers despite marriages to others. But by late 1952 Jeanette and Nelson were estranged both personally and professionally. Jeanette's reactions during the half-hour show are telling, first her nervousness that "he" might actually be there, her looking around trying to acting nonchalant, relaxing when someone else comes onstage - not "him," then sitting tensely once again in anticipation and finally crying when Nelson makes his appearance and holds her hand through the rest of the show. How the show came about and its poignant aftermath was written by Madeline Bayless. The talk was delivered by Linda Tolman. After the show Nelson's appearance is shown again, silent, in slow motion and then with still photos. Anyone who believes these two didn't love each other off-screen should study the footage and the expressions that flit across Jeanette's face as she tries both to hide her girlish adoration of him, and to regain her composure. For more information visit www.maceddy.com.
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This fascinating filmed "Master Class" showcases the events surrounding 1930s movie star Jeanette MacDonald being featured on a brand new Fall 1952 reality television series, "This is Your Life." Without either the show's host or the TV audience knowing it, the live show served as a personal reunion for MacDonald and her movie co-star Nelson Eddy. They made 8 films together and were off-screen lovers despite marriages to others. But by late 1952 Jeanette and Nelson were estranged both personally and professionally. Jeanette's reactions during the half-hour show are telling, first her nervousness that "he" might actually be there, her looking around trying to acting nonchalant, relaxing when someone else comes onstage - not "him," then sitting tensely once again in anticipation and finally crying when Nelson makes his appearance and holds her hand through the rest of the show. How the show came about and its poignant aftermath was written by Madeline Bayless. The talk was delivered by Linda Tolman. After the show Nelson's appearance is shown again, silent, in slow motion and then with still photos. Anyone who believes these two didn't love each other off-screen should study the footage and the expressions that flit across Jeanette's face as she tries both to hide her girlish adoration of him, and to regain her composure. For more information visit www.maceddy.com.
- published: 17 Jul 2012
- views: 4467
NELSON EDDY 1938 RADIO RECITAL
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 21:44
- Updated: 02 Feb 2013
EXTRACTS FROM THE ARLIEST SURVIVING RADIO BROADCASTS THAT NELSON EDDY MADE DURING THE 1937 AND 1948 RADIO SERIES...
THE CHASE & SANBORN HOUR.
ANNOUNCERS ARE DON AMECHE AND EDWARD ARNOLD
ORCHESTRATION IS BY ROBERT AMBRUSTER.
http://wn.com/NELSON_EDDY_1938_RADIO_RECITAL
EXTRACTS FROM THE ARLIEST SURVIVING RADIO BROADCASTS THAT NELSON EDDY MADE DURING THE 1937 AND 1948 RADIO SERIES...
THE CHASE & SANBORN HOUR.
ANNOUNCERS ARE DON AMECHE AND EDWARD ARNOLD
ORCHESTRATION IS BY ROBERT AMBRUSTER.
- published: 02 Feb 2013
- views: 73
Nelson Eddy & Jeanette MacDonald - maceddy.com "Master Class" presentation #1, June 26, 2011
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 41:14
- Updated: 12 Jul 2012
This fascinating filmed "Master Class" focuses on how and why Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald sang certain songs throughout their lives that had a personal meaning to them, in regards to their off-screen relationship. The presenation was written by Madeline Bayless and delivered by Linda Tolman. It features some rare recordings such as 1) Nelson's 8th take singing "'Neath the Southern Moon' during the filming of "Naughty Marietta", when he chuckles at Jeanette muffing her lines and 2) Nelson singing at FDR's 1941 Inaugural Gala, when his "How Do I Love Thee" was privately dedicated to Jeanette (and Nelson sang it again at all his 28 concerts during his spring 1941 tour). A quote: "...the most powerful influence in their lives, and that which bonded them forever, was their devotion to their music. Music was their language by which they communicated to each other, whether it was secular or sacred, song or aria." For more information visit www.maceddy.com.
http://wn.com/Nelson_Eddy_Jeanette_MacDonald_maceddycom_Master_Class_presentation_1,_June_26,_2011
This fascinating filmed "Master Class" focuses on how and why Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald sang certain songs throughout their lives that had a personal meaning to them, in regards to their off-screen relationship. The presenation was written by Madeline Bayless and delivered by Linda Tolman. It features some rare recordings such as 1) Nelson's 8th take singing "'Neath the Southern Moon' during the filming of "Naughty Marietta", when he chuckles at Jeanette muffing her lines and 2) Nelson singing at FDR's 1941 Inaugural Gala, when his "How Do I Love Thee" was privately dedicated to Jeanette (and Nelson sang it again at all his 28 concerts during his spring 1941 tour). A quote: "...the most powerful influence in their lives, and that which bonded them forever, was their devotion to their music. Music was their language by which they communicated to each other, whether it was secular or sacred, song or aria." For more information visit www.maceddy.com.
- published: 12 Jul 2012
- views: 1575
GULF SCREEN GUILD THEATER A REVIEW WITH NELSON EDDY OTHERS
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 28:57
- Updated: 11 Nov 2012
NELSON EDDY APPEARANCE ON THE GULF SCREEN GUILD THEATER.
WITH OTHER ARTISTS.
ENJOY!!!!
http://wn.com/GULF_SCREEN_GUILD_THEATER_A_REVIEW_WITH_NELSON_EDDY_OTHERS
NELSON EDDY APPEARANCE ON THE GULF SCREEN GUILD THEATER.
WITH OTHER ARTISTS.
ENJOY!!!!
- published: 11 Nov 2012
- views: 64
NELSON EDDY WITH ROY ROGERS ELECTRIC HOUR 1945
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 22:40
- Updated: 20 Sep 2012
REQUEST POSTING FOR ANNE
NELSON EDDY WITH ROY ROGERS THE COWBOY.
ORCHESTRA IS CONDUCTED BY ROBERT AMBRUSTER...
ENJOY!!!!
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REQUEST POSTING FOR ANNE
NELSON EDDY WITH ROY ROGERS THE COWBOY.
ORCHESTRA IS CONDUCTED BY ROBERT AMBRUSTER...
ENJOY!!!!
- published: 20 Sep 2012
- views: 125
NELSON EDDY THE ELECTRIC HOUR 29 04 1945 program 33
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 30:15
- Updated: 29 Jun 2012
NELSON EDDY WITH THEODORE PAXTON ON THE ELECTRIC HOUR SHOW.
ORCHESTRATION IS BY ROBERT AMBRUSTER. ANNOUNCER IS FRANK GRAHAM.
ENJOY!!!
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NELSON EDDY WITH THEODORE PAXTON ON THE ELECTRIC HOUR SHOW.
ORCHESTRATION IS BY ROBERT AMBRUSTER. ANNOUNCER IS FRANK GRAHAM.
ENJOY!!!
- published: 29 Jun 2012
- views: 201
NELSON EDDY-GREGORY PECK -FAMILY THEATER 1947.wmv
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 29:24
- Updated: 28 May 2012
A RARE NELSON EDDY RADIO SHOW IN WHICH NELSON IS THE ANNOUNCER.
ENJOY!!!!
http://wn.com/NELSON_EDDY-GREGORY_PECK_-FAMILY_THEATER_1947wmv
A RARE NELSON EDDY RADIO SHOW IN WHICH NELSON IS THE ANNOUNCER.
ENJOY!!!!
- published: 28 May 2012
- views: 341
Ann Sheridan - Screen Guild Theater - May 5, 1939 - A Review With Nelson Eddy
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 28:56
- Updated: 02 Nov 2012
Here is Ann's appearance on the Screen Guild Theatre radio program from May 5, 1939, in the episode titled "A Review With Nelson Eddy."
Check out the Ann Sheridan Fan Club
http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ann_Sheridan_Fan_Club/
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Here is Ann's appearance on the Screen Guild Theatre radio program from May 5, 1939, in the episode titled "A Review With Nelson Eddy."
Check out the Ann Sheridan Fan Club
http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ann_Sheridan_Fan_Club/
- published: 02 Nov 2012
- views: 151
GULF SCREEN GUILD SHOW 1939 WITH NELSON EDDY ANN SHERIDAN OTHER
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 28:58
- Updated: 04 Feb 2013
NELSON EDDY WITH OTHER ARTISTS.
THIS IS PROGRAM NUMBER 21 OF THE SERIES...
http://wn.com/GULF_SCREEN_GUILD_SHOW_1939_WITH_NELSON_EDDY_ANN_SHERIDAN_OTHER
NELSON EDDY WITH OTHER ARTISTS.
THIS IS PROGRAM NUMBER 21 OF THE SERIES...
- published: 04 Feb 2013
- views: 23
NELSON EDDY - BELL TELEPHONE HOUR-17.04.1944.wmv
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 29:23
- Updated: 10 Jan 2011
NELSON EDDY THE ROMANTIC BARITONE OF THE MOVIES IN A COMPLETE BELL TELEPHONE PROGRAM FROM 1944...
ENJOY!!!!
http://wn.com/NELSON_EDDY_BELL_TELEPHONE_HOUR-17041944wmv
NELSON EDDY THE ROMANTIC BARITONE OF THE MOVIES IN A COMPLETE BELL TELEPHONE PROGRAM FROM 1944...
ENJOY!!!!
- published: 10 Jan 2011
- views: 562
ELECTRIC HOUR 05.05.1946 NELSON EDDY.wmv
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 20:36
- Updated: 18 May 2012
NELSON EDDY SHOW WITH SOPRANO ANNE JAMIESON.
ENJOY!!!
http://wn.com/ELECTRIC_HOUR_05051946_NELSON_EDDYwmv
NELSON EDDY SHOW WITH SOPRANO ANNE JAMIESON.
ENJOY!!!
- published: 18 May 2012
- views: 72
Rose Marie
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 111:13
- Updated: 16 Jul 2012
Rose Marie, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. In my opinion, this is the famed duo's best performance.
http://wn.com/Rose_Marie
Rose Marie, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. In my opinion, this is the famed duo's best performance.
- published: 16 Jul 2012
- views: 13518
NELSON EDDY WITH FRANCES MCCANN 11.10.1944 ELECTRIC HOUR.wmv
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 29:53
- Updated: 18 May 2012
NELSON EDDY WITH FRANCES MCCANN APPEARING ON THE ELECTRIC HOUR.
I HAVE NO DETAILS FOR NELSONS PARTNER FOR THIS SHOW????
SHE APPEARED ON 5 OTHER ELECTRIC HOYRS WITH NELSON.
ENJOY!!!
http://wn.com/NELSON_EDDY_WITH_FRANCES_MCCANN_11101944_ELECTRIC_HOURwmv
NELSON EDDY WITH FRANCES MCCANN APPEARING ON THE ELECTRIC HOUR.
I HAVE NO DETAILS FOR NELSONS PARTNER FOR THIS SHOW????
SHE APPEARED ON 5 OTHER ELECTRIC HOYRS WITH NELSON.
ENJOY!!!
- published: 18 May 2012
- views: 132
NELSON EDDY - DOROTHY KIRSTEN - KRAFT MUSIC HALL - 10.08.1948.wmv
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 29:33
- Updated: 28 Jan 2011
DOROTHY KIRSTEN WITH NELSON EDDY ON THE KRAFT MUSIC HALL, WITH ORCHESTRAIONS BY ROBERT AMBRUSTER...
ENJOY!!!!
http://wn.com/NELSON_EDDY_DOROTHY_KIRSTEN_KRAFT_MUSIC_HALL_10081948wmv
DOROTHY KIRSTEN WITH NELSON EDDY ON THE KRAFT MUSIC HALL, WITH ORCHESTRAIONS BY ROBERT AMBRUSTER...
ENJOY!!!!
- published: 28 Jan 2011
- views: 227
NELSON EDDY - BELL TELEPHONE HOUR.21.01.1946.wmv
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 29:57
- Updated: 28 Jan 2011
NELSON EDDY THE MOVIE BARITONE APPEARS WITH DONALD VORHEES ON THE BELL TELEPHONE HOUR RADIO SHOW. THE SERIES RAN FROM 1940-1968, MAKING THE TRANSITION TO TV IN THE LATE 1950'S...
ENJOY!!!!
http://wn.com/NELSON_EDDY_BELL_TELEPHONE_HOUR21011946wmv
NELSON EDDY THE MOVIE BARITONE APPEARS WITH DONALD VORHEES ON THE BELL TELEPHONE HOUR RADIO SHOW. THE SERIES RAN FROM 1940-1968, MAKING THE TRANSITION TO TV IN THE LATE 1950'S...
ENJOY!!!!
- published: 28 Jan 2011
- views: 826
Kraft Music Hall 4th July 1947
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 29:11
- Updated: 21 May 2012
Kraft Music Hall 4th July Guest Host Nelson Eddy First Song Listen To The Band. Original Air Date Was 07/03/1947. Before Al Jolson took over the "MUSIC HALL" in the fall of '47, there was the "summer edition" [same time period- Thursdays, 9pm(et), and same announcer, Ken Carpenter, with "associate announcer" Frank Barton], featuring Nelson Eddy- who was more popular on radio at the time than he was in movies.
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Kraft Music Hall 4th July Guest Host Nelson Eddy First Song Listen To The Band. Original Air Date Was 07/03/1947. Before Al Jolson took over the "MUSIC HALL" in the fall of '47, there was the "summer edition" [same time period- Thursdays, 9pm(et), and same announcer, Ken Carpenter, with "associate announcer" Frank Barton], featuring Nelson Eddy- who was more popular on radio at the time than he was in movies.
- published: 21 May 2012
- views: 285
NELSON EDDY WITH INEZ GORMAN 17.06.1944 ELECTRIC HOUR.wmv
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 29:06
- Updated: 19 May 2012
NELSON EDDY WITH INEZ GORMAN
APPEARING TOGETHER ON THE ELECTRIC HOUR,
ORCHESTRATION IS BY ROBERT AMBRUSTER
ENJOY!!
http://wn.com/NELSON_EDDY_WITH_INEZ_GORMAN_17061944_ELECTRIC_HOURwmv
NELSON EDDY WITH INEZ GORMAN
APPEARING TOGETHER ON THE ELECTRIC HOUR,
ORCHESTRATION IS BY ROBERT AMBRUSTER
ENJOY!!
- published: 19 May 2012
- views: 105
Screen Guild Theater: The Best Years of Our Lives / Sweethearts / Ivy
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 89:45
- Updated: 05 Dec 2012
The Best Years of Our Lives
Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Teresa Wright
Sweethearts
Nelson Eddy, Jeanette MacDonald
Ivy
Joan Fontaine, Patric Knowles, John Hutton
Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland (born 22 October 1917), known professionally as Joan Fontaine, is a British American actress. She and her elder sister Olivia de Havilland are two of the last surviving leading ladies from Hollywood of the 1930s.
Fontaine is the only actress to have won an Academy Award for a performance in a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Suspicion.
Fontaine made her stage debut in the West Coast production of Call It a Day in 1935 and was soon signed to an RKO contract. Her film debut was a small role in No More Ladies (1935) (in which she was billed as Joan Burfield).[4]
Although Fontaine, on contract with RKO, had already made her screen appearance in No More Ladies, a series of other minor roles followed, in A Million to One (1937) and Quality Street (1937), opposite Katherine Hepburn. The studio considered her a rising star, and touted The Man Who Found Himself as her first starring role, placing a special screen introduction, billed as the "new RKO screen personality" after the end credit.[5]She next appeared in a major role alongside Fred Astaire in his first RKO film without Ginger Rogers: A Damsel in Distress (1937) but audiences were disappointed and the film flopped. She continued appearing in small parts in about a dozen films, including The Women (1939) but failed to make a strong impression and her contract was not renewed when it expired in 1939, the same year she married her first husband, British actor Brian Aherne. They divorced in 1945.[4]
Fontaine's luck changed one night at a dinner party when she found herself seated next to producer David O. Selznick. She and Selznick began discussing the Daphne du Maurier novel Rebecca, and Selznick asked her to audition for the part of the unnamed heroine. She endured a gruelling six-month series of film tests, along with hundreds of other actresses, before securing the part some time before her 22nd birthday.
Rebecca, starring Laurence Olivier alongside Fontaine, marked the American debut of British director Alfred Hitchcock. In 1940, the film was released to glowing reviews and Fontaine was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.[4] Fontaine did not win that year (Ginger Rogers took home the award for Kitty Foyle), but Fontaine did win the following year for Best Actress in Suspicion, which co-starred Cary Grant and was also directed by Hitchcock. This is the only Academy Award winning performance directed by Hitchcock.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Fontaine
http://wn.com/Screen_Guild_Theater_The_Best_Years_of_Our_Lives_Sweethearts_Ivy
The Best Years of Our Lives
Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Teresa Wright
Sweethearts
Nelson Eddy, Jeanette MacDonald
Ivy
Joan Fontaine, Patric Knowles, John Hutton
Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland (born 22 October 1917), known professionally as Joan Fontaine, is a British American actress. She and her elder sister Olivia de Havilland are two of the last surviving leading ladies from Hollywood of the 1930s.
Fontaine is the only actress to have won an Academy Award for a performance in a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Suspicion.
Fontaine made her stage debut in the West Coast production of Call It a Day in 1935 and was soon signed to an RKO contract. Her film debut was a small role in No More Ladies (1935) (in which she was billed as Joan Burfield).[4]
Although Fontaine, on contract with RKO, had already made her screen appearance in No More Ladies, a series of other minor roles followed, in A Million to One (1937) and Quality Street (1937), opposite Katherine Hepburn. The studio considered her a rising star, and touted The Man Who Found Himself as her first starring role, placing a special screen introduction, billed as the "new RKO screen personality" after the end credit.[5]She next appeared in a major role alongside Fred Astaire in his first RKO film without Ginger Rogers: A Damsel in Distress (1937) but audiences were disappointed and the film flopped. She continued appearing in small parts in about a dozen films, including The Women (1939) but failed to make a strong impression and her contract was not renewed when it expired in 1939, the same year she married her first husband, British actor Brian Aherne. They divorced in 1945.[4]
Fontaine's luck changed one night at a dinner party when she found herself seated next to producer David O. Selznick. She and Selznick began discussing the Daphne du Maurier novel Rebecca, and Selznick asked her to audition for the part of the unnamed heroine. She endured a gruelling six-month series of film tests, along with hundreds of other actresses, before securing the part some time before her 22nd birthday.
Rebecca, starring Laurence Olivier alongside Fontaine, marked the American debut of British director Alfred Hitchcock. In 1940, the film was released to glowing reviews and Fontaine was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.[4] Fontaine did not win that year (Ginger Rogers took home the award for Kitty Foyle), but Fontaine did win the following year for Best Actress in Suspicion, which co-starred Cary Grant and was also directed by Hitchcock. This is the only Academy Award winning performance directed by Hitchcock.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Fontaine
- published: 05 Dec 2012
- views: 36682
NELSON EDDY - BELL TELEPHONE HOUR..12.11.1945.wmv
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 29:48
- Updated: 28 Jan 2011
NELSON EDDY WITH DONALD VORHEES ON THE BELL TELEPHONE HOUR RADIO SHOW. HE APPEARED 19 TIMES ON THE SERIES DURING 1942-1954
ENJOY!!!!
http://wn.com/NELSON_EDDY_BELL_TELEPHONE_HOUR12111945wmv
NELSON EDDY WITH DONALD VORHEES ON THE BELL TELEPHONE HOUR RADIO SHOW. HE APPEARED 19 TIMES ON THE SERIES DURING 1942-1954
ENJOY!!!!
- published: 28 Jan 2011
- views: 486
Christmas with Nelson Eddy
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 26:48
- Updated: 09 Mar 2013
http://wn.com/Christmas_with_Nelson_Eddy
- published: 09 Mar 2013
- views: 1
Whats My Line Mystery Guest Nelson Eddy
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 26:20
- Updated: 18 Feb 2013
http://wn.com/Whats_My_Line_Mystery_Guest_Nelson_Eddy
- published: 18 Feb 2013
- views: 57
- published: 02 Feb 2013
- views: 187
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Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy:Hollywood's Greatest Cover-Up
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:38
- Updated: 07 Aug 2006
Movie star Nelson Eddy breaks down during an interview regarding the death of his secret lover of 30 years, Jeanette MacDonald. Read their story at http://www.maceddy.com, with an Interactive Biography at http://www.maceddy.com/index.php?main_page=biography. We have also posted a handful of the celebrity interviews that verified the Jeanette MacDonald - Nelson Eddy off-screen love affair; these interviews were quoted in the book "Sweethearts" but you can read more complete transcripts at http://www.maceddy.com/index.php?main_page=sample_articles.
http://wn.com/Jeanette_MacDonald_Nelson_EddyHollywood's_Greatest_Cover-Up
Movie star Nelson Eddy breaks down during an interview regarding the death of his secret lover of 30 years, Jeanette MacDonald. Read their story at http://www.maceddy.com, with an Interactive Biography at http://www.maceddy.com/index.php?main_page=biography. We have also posted a handful of the celebrity interviews that verified the Jeanette MacDonald - Nelson Eddy off-screen love affair; these interviews were quoted in the book "Sweethearts" but you can read more complete transcripts at http://www.maceddy.com/index.php?main_page=sample_articles.
- published: 07 Aug 2006
- views: 120634
Jeanette MacDonald - Nelson Eddy 'Ah Sweet Mystery Of Life'
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:15
- Updated: 26 Nov 2008
Jeanette MacDonald - Nelson Eddy 'Ah Sweet Mystery Of Life
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Jeanette MacDonald - Nelson Eddy 'Ah Sweet Mystery Of Life
- published: 26 Nov 2008
- views: 158744
Rose-Marie - Finale (Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:18
- Updated: 06 Dec 2007
The heart-warming final scene of "Rose-Marie".
http://wn.com/Rose-Marie_Finale_Jeanette_MacDonald_Nelson_Eddy
The heart-warming final scene of "Rose-Marie".
- published: 06 Dec 2007
- views: 171426
NELSON EDDY SINGS - WHEN I GROW TOO OLD TO DREAM 1942
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:26
- Updated: 06 Jan 2010
NELSON EDDY S INGS..."WHEN I GROW TOO OLD TO DREAM", COMPOSED BY SIGMUND ROMBERG. THIS IS FROM A 1942 OLD GOLD SHOW. THERE IS AN EARLIER VERSION FROM THE CHASE & SANDBORN HOUR WHICH IS AS EQUALLY GOOD(see posting).NELSON EDDY AT HIS BEST, ALTHOUGH THE SOUND IS NOT TOO HOT!!!
ENJOY!!!
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NELSON EDDY S INGS..."WHEN I GROW TOO OLD TO DREAM", COMPOSED BY SIGMUND ROMBERG. THIS IS FROM A 1942 OLD GOLD SHOW. THERE IS AN EARLIER VERSION FROM THE CHASE & SANDBORN HOUR WHICH IS AS EQUALLY GOOD(see posting).NELSON EDDY AT HIS BEST, ALTHOUGH THE SOUND IS NOT TOO HOT!!!
ENJOY!!!
- published: 06 Jan 2010
- views: 20304
"Stout Hearted Men" Nelson Eddy (New Moon 1940)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:05
- Updated: 02 Aug 2011
The rousing song "Stout Hearted Men" from the 1940 movie New Moon. Nelson Eddy rallies the troops and leads the chorus. Composed by Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein II.
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The rousing song "Stout Hearted Men" from the 1940 movie New Moon. Nelson Eddy rallies the troops and leads the chorus. Composed by Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein II.
- published: 02 Aug 2011
- views: 23463
Nelson Eddy Appears on What's My Line
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- Duration: 5:32
- Updated: 14 Aug 2006
Nelson Eddy's second appearance as mystery guest on What's My line
http://wn.com/Nelson_Eddy_Appears_on_What's_My_Line
Nelson Eddy's second appearance as mystery guest on What's My line
- published: 14 Aug 2006
- views: 21865
Nelson Eddy Sings - Begin the Beguine
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:56
- Updated: 02 Nov 2012
Nelson takes us to a tropical paradise with colorized images by Di Taylor.
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Nelson takes us to a tropical paradise with colorized images by Di Taylor.
- published: 02 Nov 2012
- views: 1025
Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy: Indian Love Call
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:31
- Updated: 09 Dec 2009
Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy singing, "Indian Love Call," from the 1936 film, "Rose Marie."
http://wn.com/Jeanette_MacDonald_Nelson_Eddy_Indian_Love_Call
Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy singing, "Indian Love Call," from the 1936 film, "Rose Marie."
- published: 09 Dec 2009
- views: 111614
NELSON EDDY - Ghost Riders / Mule Train
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:39
- Updated: 10 Jan 2009
Just when you thought you have heard every version of a song there is,
a new one shows up. This is by Nelson Eddy a operitic type singer who was very popular in the movies and on record in the 30's and 40's. Here he does it his way.
http://wn.com/NELSON_EDDY_Ghost_Riders_Mule_Train
Just when you thought you have heard every version of a song there is,
a new one shows up. This is by Nelson Eddy a operitic type singer who was very popular in the movies and on record in the 30's and 40's. Here he does it his way.
- published: 10 Jan 2009
- views: 23283
Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy sing 'Wanting You'
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- Duration: 4:29
- Updated: 26 Nov 2008
Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy sing 'Wanting You'
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Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy sing 'Wanting You'
- published: 26 Nov 2008
- views: 63064
Nelson Eddy "I'M FALLING IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE" Naughty Marietta (1935) JEANETTE MACDONALD
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:41
- Updated: 28 May 2009
Nelson Eddy sings "I'm Falling in Love with Someone" to a dreamy Jeanette MacDonald. From their first film together, "Naughty Marietta" (1935).
Music by Victor Herbert
Lyrics by Rida Johnson Young
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Nelson Eddy sings "I'm Falling in Love with Someone" to a dreamy Jeanette MacDonald. From their first film together, "Naughty Marietta" (1935).
Music by Victor Herbert
Lyrics by Rida Johnson Young
- published: 28 May 2009
- views: 21697
Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy 1/5: 2008 TV interview #1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:55
- Updated: 24 Sep 2008
Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy are discussed on this 47-minute, unedited TV interview (divided into 5 parts on YouTube), taped on May 10, 2008. An upcoming episode of "The Darryl Winston Show," guest interviewer Rich Massabny speaks with author Sharon Rich about her book "Sweethearts: The Timeless Love Story On-screen and Off Between Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy." Darryl Winston joins in to discuss controversial topics such as why they didn't marry, who really was gay, and what was left out of the book. Read Chapter One of the Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy story at http://www.maceddy.com/sweethearts_excerpts.html. http://maceddy.com/blog/jeanette-macdonald-and-nelson-eddy-cruise-banner-please-post-a-banner-on-your-website. This is Part 1 of five sections.
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Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy are discussed on this 47-minute, unedited TV interview (divided into 5 parts on YouTube), taped on May 10, 2008. An upcoming episode of "The Darryl Winston Show," guest interviewer Rich Massabny speaks with author Sharon Rich about her book "Sweethearts: The Timeless Love Story On-screen and Off Between Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy." Darryl Winston joins in to discuss controversial topics such as why they didn't marry, who really was gay, and what was left out of the book. Read Chapter One of the Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy story at http://www.maceddy.com/sweethearts_excerpts.html. http://maceddy.com/blog/jeanette-macdonald-and-nelson-eddy-cruise-banner-please-post-a-banner-on-your-website. This is Part 1 of five sections.
- published: 24 Sep 2008
- views: 20840
Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy 2/5: 2008 TV interview #2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:59
- Updated: 24 Sep 2008
Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy are discussed on this 47-minute, unedited TV interview (divided into 5 parts on YouTube), taped on May 10, 2008. An upcoming episode of "The Darryl Winston Show," guest interviewer Rich Massabny speaks with author Sharon Rich about her book "Sweethearts: The Timeless Love Story On-screen and Off Between Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy." Darryl Winston joins in to discuss controversial topics such as why they didn't marry, who really was gay, and what was left out of the book. Read Chapter One of the Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy story at http://www.maceddy.com/sweethearts_excerpts.html. http://maceddy.com/blog/jeanette-macdonald-and-nelson-eddy-cruise-banner-please-post-a-banner-on-your-website. This is Part 2 of five sections.
http://wn.com/Jeanette_MacDonald_Nelson_Eddy_2_5_2008_TV_interview_2
Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy are discussed on this 47-minute, unedited TV interview (divided into 5 parts on YouTube), taped on May 10, 2008. An upcoming episode of "The Darryl Winston Show," guest interviewer Rich Massabny speaks with author Sharon Rich about her book "Sweethearts: The Timeless Love Story On-screen and Off Between Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy." Darryl Winston joins in to discuss controversial topics such as why they didn't marry, who really was gay, and what was left out of the book. Read Chapter One of the Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy story at http://www.maceddy.com/sweethearts_excerpts.html. http://maceddy.com/blog/jeanette-macdonald-and-nelson-eddy-cruise-banner-please-post-a-banner-on-your-website. This is Part 2 of five sections.
- published: 24 Sep 2008
- views: 7777
Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy 3/5: 2008 TV interview #3
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:30
- Updated: 25 Sep 2008
Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy are discussed on this 47-minute, unedited TV interview (divided into 5 parts on YouTube), taped on May 10, 2008. An upcoming episode of "The Darryl Winston Show," guest interviewer Rich Massabny speaks with author Sharon Rich about her book "Sweethearts: The Timeless Love Story On-screen and Off Between Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy." Darryl Winston joins in to discuss controversial topics such as why they didn't marry, who really was gay, and what was left out of the book. Read Chapter One of the Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy story at http://www.maceddy.com/sweethearts_excerpts.html. http://maceddy.com/blog/jeanette-macdonald-and-nelson-eddy-cruise-banner-please-post-a-banner-on-your-website. This is Part 3 of five sections.
http://wn.com/Jeanette_MacDonald_Nelson_Eddy_3_5_2008_TV_interview_3
Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy are discussed on this 47-minute, unedited TV interview (divided into 5 parts on YouTube), taped on May 10, 2008. An upcoming episode of "The Darryl Winston Show," guest interviewer Rich Massabny speaks with author Sharon Rich about her book "Sweethearts: The Timeless Love Story On-screen and Off Between Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy." Darryl Winston joins in to discuss controversial topics such as why they didn't marry, who really was gay, and what was left out of the book. Read Chapter One of the Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy story at http://www.maceddy.com/sweethearts_excerpts.html. http://maceddy.com/blog/jeanette-macdonald-and-nelson-eddy-cruise-banner-please-post-a-banner-on-your-website. This is Part 3 of five sections.
- published: 25 Sep 2008
- views: 4135
Nelson Eddy SONG OF THE VOLGA BOATMAN Balalaika Ilona Massey
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:10
- Updated: 14 Jan 2009
Baritone Nelson Eddy singing "The Song of the Volga Boatman" (from the 1939 movie, "Balalaika") to Ilona Massey and company.
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Baritone Nelson Eddy singing "The Song of the Volga Boatman" (from the 1939 movie, "Balalaika") to Ilona Massey and company.
- published: 14 Jan 2009
- views: 25388
Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy 5/5: 2008 TV interview #5
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:41
- Updated: 25 Sep 2008
Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy are discussed on this 47-minute, unedited TV interview (divided into 5 parts on YouTube), taped on May 10, 2008. An upcoming episode of "The Darryl Winston Show," guest interviewer Rich Massabny speaks with author Sharon Rich about her book "Sweethearts: The Timeless Love Story On-screen and Off Between Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy." Darryl Winston joins in to discuss controversial topics such as why they didn't marry, who really was gay, and what was left out of the book. Read Chapter One of the Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy story at http://www.maceddy.com/sweethearts_excerpts.html. http://maceddy.com/blog/jeanette-macdonald-and-nelson-eddy-cruise-banner-please-post-a-banner-on-your-website. This is Part 5 of five sections.
http://wn.com/Jeanette_MacDonald_Nelson_Eddy_5_5_2008_TV_interview_5
Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy are discussed on this 47-minute, unedited TV interview (divided into 5 parts on YouTube), taped on May 10, 2008. An upcoming episode of "The Darryl Winston Show," guest interviewer Rich Massabny speaks with author Sharon Rich about her book "Sweethearts: The Timeless Love Story On-screen and Off Between Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy." Darryl Winston joins in to discuss controversial topics such as why they didn't marry, who really was gay, and what was left out of the book. Read Chapter One of the Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy story at http://www.maceddy.com/sweethearts_excerpts.html. http://maceddy.com/blog/jeanette-macdonald-and-nelson-eddy-cruise-banner-please-post-a-banner-on-your-website. This is Part 5 of five sections.
- published: 25 Sep 2008
- views: 11740
Nelson Eddy Sings - By the Waters of Minnetonka
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:21
- Updated: 02 Sep 2011
Nelson's song is illustrated by scenes from this lovely Minnesota landscape. With Nelson Eddy images colorized by Vonnie Krotts.
http://wn.com/Nelson_Eddy_Sings_By_the_Waters_of_Minnetonka
Nelson's song is illustrated by scenes from this lovely Minnesota landscape. With Nelson Eddy images colorized by Vonnie Krotts.
- published: 02 Sep 2011
- views: 945
Nelson Eddy "Stranger in Paradise"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:06
- Updated: 29 Apr 2009
I adore this song. Nelson Eddy sings "Stranger in Paradise" (Russian composer Alexander Borodin - opera "Prince Igor"). What a wonderful voice and what a wonderful man!
Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald in movie "I married an angel" 1942.
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I adore this song. Nelson Eddy sings "Stranger in Paradise" (Russian composer Alexander Borodin - opera "Prince Igor"). What a wonderful voice and what a wonderful man!
Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald in movie "I married an angel" 1942.
- published: 29 Apr 2009
- views: 39377
Di Provenza il mar, Germont's aria from La Traviata Nelson Eddy
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:53
- Updated: 16 Sep 2012
Nelson Eddy, American Baritone (1901 - 1967) sings Di Provenza il mar, Germont's aria from La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi,libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. Lyrics Italian and English:
Di Provenza il mar, il suol The sea and soil of Provence --
chi dal cor ti cancello? who has erased them from your heart?
Al natio fulgente sol From your native, fulsome sun --
qual destino ti furo'? what destiny stole you away?
Oh, rammenta pur nel duol Oh, remember in your sorrow
ch'ivi gioia a te brillo'; that joy glowed on you,
E che pace cola' sol and that only there peace
su te splendere ancor puo'. can yet shine upon you.
Dio mi guidò! God has guided me!
Ah! il tuo vecchio genitor Ah, your old father --
tu non sai quanto soffrì! You don't know how much he has suffered!
Te lontano, di squallor With you far away, with misery
il suo tetto si coprì. has his house become full.
Ma se alfin ti trovo ancor, But if in the end I find you again,
se in me speme non fallì, if hope did not fail within me,
Se la voce dell'onor if the voice of honor
in te appien non ammutì, didn't become silenced in you,
Dio m'esaudi'! God has heard me!
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Nelson Eddy, American Baritone (1901 - 1967) sings Di Provenza il mar, Germont's aria from La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi,libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. Lyrics Italian and English:
Di Provenza il mar, il suol The sea and soil of Provence --
chi dal cor ti cancello? who has erased them from your heart?
Al natio fulgente sol From your native, fulsome sun --
qual destino ti furo'? what destiny stole you away?
Oh, rammenta pur nel duol Oh, remember in your sorrow
ch'ivi gioia a te brillo'; that joy glowed on you,
E che pace cola' sol and that only there peace
su te splendere ancor puo'. can yet shine upon you.
Dio mi guidò! God has guided me!
Ah! il tuo vecchio genitor Ah, your old father --
tu non sai quanto soffrì! You don't know how much he has suffered!
Te lontano, di squallor With you far away, with misery
il suo tetto si coprì. has his house become full.
Ma se alfin ti trovo ancor, But if in the end I find you again,
se in me speme non fallì, if hope did not fail within me,
Se la voce dell'onor if the voice of honor
in te appien non ammutì, didn't become silenced in you,
Dio m'esaudi'! God has heard me!
- published: 16 Sep 2012
- views: 298
Jeanette MacDonald Funeral - Nelson Eddy's Participation - maceddy.com Master Class 3, 2 Dec 2012
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 52:52
- Updated: 09 Dec 2012
In this third "Master Class" written by Madeline Bayless and presented by Linda Tolman, little-known details are revealed of the funeral of 1930s movie star Jeanette MacDonald. MacDonald died on January 14, 1965 and her death made front page headlines in newspapers worldwide. Thousands of loyal fans attended her funeral four days later at Forest Lawn Glendale. Despite her supposedly loving last words to her husband Gene Raymond, many fan were curious to note that her grief-stricken co-star Nelson Eddy sat privately with the family and in particular with Jeanette's older sister and confidant Blossom Rock. (Note: in the funeral service and on Jeanette's crypt her birthdate was incorrectly noted as 1907 rather than 1903.) For more information and to see the photo boards used in this presentation, visit maceddy.com.
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In this third "Master Class" written by Madeline Bayless and presented by Linda Tolman, little-known details are revealed of the funeral of 1930s movie star Jeanette MacDonald. MacDonald died on January 14, 1965 and her death made front page headlines in newspapers worldwide. Thousands of loyal fans attended her funeral four days later at Forest Lawn Glendale. Despite her supposedly loving last words to her husband Gene Raymond, many fan were curious to note that her grief-stricken co-star Nelson Eddy sat privately with the family and in particular with Jeanette's older sister and confidant Blossom Rock. (Note: in the funeral service and on Jeanette's crypt her birthdate was incorrectly noted as 1907 rather than 1903.) For more information and to see the photo boards used in this presentation, visit maceddy.com.
- published: 09 Dec 2012
- views: 4158
NELSON EDDY - THE BARITONE
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:17
- Updated: 24 Jun 2011
Nelson Eddy sings three songs 'Just A-Wearyin' For You', 'Close' and 'Smilin' Through' accompanied by scenes from five of his films with Jeanette MacDonald.
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Nelson Eddy sings three songs 'Just A-Wearyin' For You', 'Close' and 'Smilin' Through' accompanied by scenes from five of his films with Jeanette MacDonald.
- published: 24 Jun 2011
- views: 4723
Nelson Eddy "ROSALIE" Eleanor Powell ROSALIE (1937) Cole Porter
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:44
- Updated: 28 May 2009
In his 1937 film "Rosalie", Nelson Eddy sings the title song to dancer Eleanor Powell. The song is by Cole Porter.
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In his 1937 film "Rosalie", Nelson Eddy sings the title song to dancer Eleanor Powell. The song is by Cole Porter.
- published: 28 May 2009
- views: 5265
Nelson Eddy - The blind ploughman
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:39
- Updated: 02 Oct 2008
A song that inspires appreciation of life, no matter your circumstances. The story of a man who thanked god for his affliction!
Set my hands upon the plough
my feet upon the soil
turn my face towards the east
and praise thee to god.
Every year the rains will come
the seads will stur and spring
Every year the spreading trees
shelter birds that sing.
from the shelter of your heart
brother drive out sin
let the little birds of faith
come and rest therein
god has made his sun to shine
upon both you and me
god, who took away my eyes
that my soul might see.
http://wn.com/Nelson_Eddy_The_blind_ploughman
A song that inspires appreciation of life, no matter your circumstances. The story of a man who thanked god for his affliction!
Set my hands upon the plough
my feet upon the soil
turn my face towards the east
and praise thee to god.
Every year the rains will come
the seads will stur and spring
Every year the spreading trees
shelter birds that sing.
from the shelter of your heart
brother drive out sin
let the little birds of faith
come and rest therein
god has made his sun to shine
upon both you and me
god, who took away my eyes
that my soul might see.
- published: 02 Oct 2008
- views: 7366
52:52
Jeanette MacDonald Funeral - Nelson Eddy's Participation - maceddy.com Master Class 3, 2 Dec 2012
In this third "Master Class" written by Madeline Bayless and presented by Linda Tolman, li...
published: 09 Dec 2012
Jeanette MacDonald Funeral - Nelson Eddy's Participation - maceddy.com Master Class 3, 2 Dec 2012
In this third "Master Class" written by Madeline Bayless and presented by Linda Tolman, little-known details are revealed of the funeral of 1930s movie star Jeanette MacDonald. MacDonald died on January 14, 1965 and her death made front page headlines in newspapers worldwide. Thousands of loyal fans attended her funeral four days later at Forest Lawn Glendale. Despite her supposedly loving last words to her husband Gene Raymond, many fan were curious to note that her grief-stricken co-star Nelson Eddy sat privately with the family and in particular with Jeanette's older sister and confidant Blossom Rock. (Note: in the funeral service and on Jeanette's crypt her birthdate was incorrectly noted as 1907 rather than 1903.) For more information and to see the photo boards used in this presentation, visit maceddy.com.
- published: 09 Dec 2012
- views: 4158
88:31
Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy - This is Your Life - maceddy.com "Master Class" #2, June 24, 2012
This fascinating filmed "Master Class" showcases the events surrounding 1930s movie star J...
published: 17 Jul 2012
Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy - This is Your Life - maceddy.com "Master Class" #2, June 24, 2012
This fascinating filmed "Master Class" showcases the events surrounding 1930s movie star Jeanette MacDonald being featured on a brand new Fall 1952 reality television series, "This is Your Life." Without either the show's host or the TV audience knowing it, the live show served as a personal reunion for MacDonald and her movie co-star Nelson Eddy. They made 8 films together and were off-screen lovers despite marriages to others. But by late 1952 Jeanette and Nelson were estranged both personally and professionally. Jeanette's reactions during the half-hour show are telling, first her nervousness that "he" might actually be there, her looking around trying to acting nonchalant, relaxing when someone else comes onstage - not "him," then sitting tensely once again in anticipation and finally crying when Nelson makes his appearance and holds her hand through the rest of the show. How the show came about and its poignant aftermath was written by Madeline Bayless. The talk was delivered by Linda Tolman. After the show Nelson's appearance is shown again, silent, in slow motion and then with still photos. Anyone who believes these two didn't love each other off-screen should study the footage and the expressions that flit across Jeanette's face as she tries both to hide her girlish adoration of him, and to regain her composure. For more information visit www.maceddy.com.
- published: 17 Jul 2012
- views: 4467
21:44
NELSON EDDY 1938 RADIO RECITAL
EXTRACTS FROM THE ARLIEST SURVIVING RADIO BROADCASTS THAT NELSON EDDY MADE DURING THE 1937...
published: 02 Feb 2013
NELSON EDDY 1938 RADIO RECITAL
EXTRACTS FROM THE ARLIEST SURVIVING RADIO BROADCASTS THAT NELSON EDDY MADE DURING THE 1937 AND 1948 RADIO SERIES...
THE CHASE & SANBORN HOUR.
ANNOUNCERS ARE DON AMECHE AND EDWARD ARNOLD
ORCHESTRATION IS BY ROBERT AMBRUSTER.
- published: 02 Feb 2013
- views: 73
41:14
Nelson Eddy & Jeanette MacDonald - maceddy.com "Master Class" presentation #1, June 26, 2011
This fascinating filmed "Master Class" focuses on how and why Nelson Eddy and Jeanette Mac...
published: 12 Jul 2012
Nelson Eddy & Jeanette MacDonald - maceddy.com "Master Class" presentation #1, June 26, 2011
This fascinating filmed "Master Class" focuses on how and why Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald sang certain songs throughout their lives that had a personal meaning to them, in regards to their off-screen relationship. The presenation was written by Madeline Bayless and delivered by Linda Tolman. It features some rare recordings such as 1) Nelson's 8th take singing "'Neath the Southern Moon' during the filming of "Naughty Marietta", when he chuckles at Jeanette muffing her lines and 2) Nelson singing at FDR's 1941 Inaugural Gala, when his "How Do I Love Thee" was privately dedicated to Jeanette (and Nelson sang it again at all his 28 concerts during his spring 1941 tour). A quote: "...the most powerful influence in their lives, and that which bonded them forever, was their devotion to their music. Music was their language by which they communicated to each other, whether it was secular or sacred, song or aria." For more information visit www.maceddy.com.
- published: 12 Jul 2012
- views: 1575
28:57
GULF SCREEN GUILD THEATER A REVIEW WITH NELSON EDDY OTHERS
NELSON EDDY APPEARANCE ON THE GULF SCREEN GUILD THEATER.
WITH OTHER ARTISTS.
ENJOY!!!!...
published: 11 Nov 2012
GULF SCREEN GUILD THEATER A REVIEW WITH NELSON EDDY OTHERS
NELSON EDDY APPEARANCE ON THE GULF SCREEN GUILD THEATER.
WITH OTHER ARTISTS.
ENJOY!!!!
- published: 11 Nov 2012
- views: 64
22:40
NELSON EDDY WITH ROY ROGERS ELECTRIC HOUR 1945
REQUEST POSTING FOR ANNE
NELSON EDDY WITH ROY ROGERS THE COWBOY.
ORCHESTRA IS CONDUCTED BY...
published: 20 Sep 2012
NELSON EDDY WITH ROY ROGERS ELECTRIC HOUR 1945
REQUEST POSTING FOR ANNE
NELSON EDDY WITH ROY ROGERS THE COWBOY.
ORCHESTRA IS CONDUCTED BY ROBERT AMBRUSTER...
ENJOY!!!!
- published: 20 Sep 2012
- views: 125
30:15
NELSON EDDY THE ELECTRIC HOUR 29 04 1945 program 33
NELSON EDDY WITH THEODORE PAXTON ON THE ELECTRIC HOUR SHOW.
ORCHESTRATION IS BY ROBERT AMB...
published: 29 Jun 2012
NELSON EDDY THE ELECTRIC HOUR 29 04 1945 program 33
NELSON EDDY WITH THEODORE PAXTON ON THE ELECTRIC HOUR SHOW.
ORCHESTRATION IS BY ROBERT AMBRUSTER. ANNOUNCER IS FRANK GRAHAM.
ENJOY!!!
- published: 29 Jun 2012
- views: 201
29:24
NELSON EDDY-GREGORY PECK -FAMILY THEATER 1947.wmv
A RARE NELSON EDDY RADIO SHOW IN WHICH NELSON IS THE ANNOUNCER.
ENJOY!!!!...
published: 28 May 2012
NELSON EDDY-GREGORY PECK -FAMILY THEATER 1947.wmv
A RARE NELSON EDDY RADIO SHOW IN WHICH NELSON IS THE ANNOUNCER.
ENJOY!!!!
- published: 28 May 2012
- views: 341
28:56
Ann Sheridan - Screen Guild Theater - May 5, 1939 - A Review With Nelson Eddy
Here is Ann's appearance on the Screen Guild Theatre radio program from May 5, 1939, in th...
published: 02 Nov 2012
Ann Sheridan - Screen Guild Theater - May 5, 1939 - A Review With Nelson Eddy
Here is Ann's appearance on the Screen Guild Theatre radio program from May 5, 1939, in the episode titled "A Review With Nelson Eddy."
Check out the Ann Sheridan Fan Club
http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ann_Sheridan_Fan_Club/
- published: 02 Nov 2012
- views: 151
28:58
GULF SCREEN GUILD SHOW 1939 WITH NELSON EDDY ANN SHERIDAN OTHER
NELSON EDDY WITH OTHER ARTISTS.
THIS IS PROGRAM NUMBER 21 OF THE SERIES......
published: 04 Feb 2013
GULF SCREEN GUILD SHOW 1939 WITH NELSON EDDY ANN SHERIDAN OTHER
NELSON EDDY WITH OTHER ARTISTS.
THIS IS PROGRAM NUMBER 21 OF THE SERIES...
- published: 04 Feb 2013
- views: 23
29:23
NELSON EDDY - BELL TELEPHONE HOUR-17.04.1944.wmv
NELSON EDDY THE ROMANTIC BARITONE OF THE MOVIES IN A COMPLETE BELL TELEPHONE PROGRAM FROM ...
published: 10 Jan 2011
NELSON EDDY - BELL TELEPHONE HOUR-17.04.1944.wmv
NELSON EDDY THE ROMANTIC BARITONE OF THE MOVIES IN A COMPLETE BELL TELEPHONE PROGRAM FROM 1944...
ENJOY!!!!
- published: 10 Jan 2011
- views: 562
29:53
NELSON EDDY WITH FRANCES MCCANN 11.10.1944 ELECTRIC HOUR.wmv
NELSON EDDY WITH FRANCES MCCANN APPEARING ON THE ELECTRIC HOUR.
I HAVE NO DETAILS FOR NELS...
published: 18 May 2012
NELSON EDDY WITH FRANCES MCCANN 11.10.1944 ELECTRIC HOUR.wmv
NELSON EDDY WITH FRANCES MCCANN APPEARING ON THE ELECTRIC HOUR.
I HAVE NO DETAILS FOR NELSONS PARTNER FOR THIS SHOW????
SHE APPEARED ON 5 OTHER ELECTRIC HOYRS WITH NELSON.
ENJOY!!!
- published: 18 May 2012
- views: 132
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3:36
Good Bread | Eddie Schmidt
Bread can be considered many things: warm; delicious; sustaining. It’s also slang for mone...
published: 23 May 2012
author: Focus Forward Films
Good Bread | Eddie Schmidt
Bread can be considered many things: warm; delicious; sustaining. It’s also slang for money. This literal slice of life, which follows the typical day of an ex-gang member on his first job in the bakery of Homeboy Industries, underscores the meaning - and the lasting contribution - of “good bread.”
Join the conversation and tweet #GOODBREAD to have your tweet featured on the GE FOCUS FORWARD website. Go to http://focusforwardfilms.com/films/39/good-bread to see the discussion.
Watch more GE FOCUS FORWARD films at vimeo.com/focusforwardfilms/films.
Directed by EDDIE SCHMIDT
Producers: EDDIE SCHMIDT and AMBER BOLLINGER
Director of Photography: ARLENE NELSON
Edited by: DAVE "THE RAVE" EMMENDORFER
Sound: TIMOTHY KITZ
Music: MICHAEL S. PATTERSON
Assistant Camera: CHRIS COLLINS
Gaffer: CHAD COHLMIA
Best Boy: CHARLIE BALCH DANIEL JOHN
Set PA: MOE FRIDAY
2:45
El Mundo Es Tuyo
A Film by Aaron Rose
Featuring Opening Ceremony Fall Collection 2011
WRITTEN BY ARTY NE...
published: 19 Sep 2011
author: Opening Ceremony
El Mundo Es Tuyo
A Film by Aaron Rose
Featuring Opening Ceremony Fall Collection 2011
WRITTEN BY ARTY NELSON
STARRING ANDRES LAVAYEN YAVAR & CAROLINE AGUIRRE
Co-STARRING MELISSA KLEIN, JAIME NUNEZ DEL ARCO, PAOLA and PAMELA DUENAS
CINEMATOGRAPHY: AARON ROSE
EDITOR: FERNANDO VILLENA
STYLIST: BENJAMIN STURGILL
HAIR/MAKE-UP: GISELLA GOMEZ
STYLING ASSISTANCE: DARIA RADLINSKI
PRODUCTION DESIGNER: CRISTINA COSTA
SOUND DESIGN: EDDIE KIM
MUSIC SUPERVISOR: RANDALL POSTER
PRODUCTION: DIANA BUENDIA, BELEN YUNEZ & MARIA YUNEZ
VISUAL EFFECTS: MARCUS HERRING
GRAPHICS: KEITH SCHARWATH
ECUADOR CREW: SALVATORE FONSECA, ENRICO MARTIN & XAVIER ZURITA
MUSIC BY MONEY MARK
SPECIAL THANKS TO HUMBERTO LEON, CAROL LIM, SUSAN BARBER & CAYCE COLE
COORDINATING PRODUCER, OCTV RORY SATRAN
ALL CLOTHING FROM
OPENING CEREMONY
F/W 2011 COLLECTION
5:19
Where The Bears Are - Episode 15 BEARS UNDERCOVER
WATCH THIS SHOW AT http://wherethebearsare.tv/
And follow us at
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published: 19 Sep 2012
author: Where the Bears Are
Where The Bears Are - Episode 15 BEARS UNDERCOVER
WATCH THIS SHOW AT http://wherethebearsare.tv/
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THIS SERIES IS INTENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES!
The Bears go undercover as a bouncer, a patron and a contestant in a bear chest contest at an LA leather bar in order to get close to Ramon Santiago (Mario Sanchez) who might be guilty of murder. Wood: Joe Dietl. Nelson: Ben Zook. Reggie: Rick Copp. Hot Toddy: Ian Parks. Hulk: James Parr. Thor: Jesse Meli. Drunk Bear: Lester Roque. Cyril: Scott Beauchemin. Bear Chest Contestants: Greg Gill, Michael Maccani, Eddie Quinoes.
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While Nelson (Ben Zook) competes in the Mr. Bear Chest 2012 contest hosted by Hot Toddy (Ian Parks), Reggie and Wood search for clues implicating Ramon Santiago (Mario Sanchez) in J Cub's murder. Wood: Joe Dietl. Reggie: Rick Copp. Cyril: Scott Beauchemin. Hulk: James Parr. Thor: Jesse Meli. Bartender: Clint Yeager. Bear Chest Contestants: Greg Gill, Michael Maccani, Eddie Quinoes.
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29:33
NELSON EDDY - DOROTHY KIRSTEN - KRAFT MUSIC HALL - 10.08.1948.wmv
DOROTHY KIRSTEN WITH NELSON EDDY ON THE KRAFT MUSIC HALL, WITH ORCHESTRAIONS BY ROBERT AMB...
published: 28 Jan 2011
NELSON EDDY - DOROTHY KIRSTEN - KRAFT MUSIC HALL - 10.08.1948.wmv
DOROTHY KIRSTEN WITH NELSON EDDY ON THE KRAFT MUSIC HALL, WITH ORCHESTRAIONS BY ROBERT AMBRUSTER...
ENJOY!!!!
- published: 28 Jan 2011
- views: 227
29:57
NELSON EDDY - BELL TELEPHONE HOUR.21.01.1946.wmv
NELSON EDDY THE MOVIE BARITONE APPEARS WITH DONALD VORHEES ON THE BELL TELEPHONE HOUR RADI...
published: 28 Jan 2011
NELSON EDDY - BELL TELEPHONE HOUR.21.01.1946.wmv
NELSON EDDY THE MOVIE BARITONE APPEARS WITH DONALD VORHEES ON THE BELL TELEPHONE HOUR RADIO SHOW. THE SERIES RAN FROM 1940-1968, MAKING THE TRANSITION TO TV IN THE LATE 1950'S...
ENJOY!!!!
- published: 28 Jan 2011
- views: 826
29:11
Kraft Music Hall 4th July 1947
Kraft Music Hall 4th July Guest Host Nelson Eddy First Song Listen To The Band. Original A...
published: 21 May 2012
Kraft Music Hall 4th July 1947
Kraft Music Hall 4th July Guest Host Nelson Eddy First Song Listen To The Band. Original Air Date Was 07/03/1947. Before Al Jolson took over the "MUSIC HALL" in the fall of '47, there was the "summer edition" [same time period- Thursdays, 9pm(et), and same announcer, Ken Carpenter, with "associate announcer" Frank Barton], featuring Nelson Eddy- who was more popular on radio at the time than he was in movies.
- published: 21 May 2012
- views: 285
29:06
NELSON EDDY WITH INEZ GORMAN 17.06.1944 ELECTRIC HOUR.wmv
NELSON EDDY WITH INEZ GORMAN
APPEARING TOGETHER ON THE ELECTRIC HOUR,
ORCHESTRATION IS BY...
published: 19 May 2012
NELSON EDDY WITH INEZ GORMAN 17.06.1944 ELECTRIC HOUR.wmv
NELSON EDDY WITH INEZ GORMAN
APPEARING TOGETHER ON THE ELECTRIC HOUR,
ORCHESTRATION IS BY ROBERT AMBRUSTER
ENJOY!!
- published: 19 May 2012
- views: 105
2:38
Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy:Hollywood's Greatest Cover-Up
Movie star Nelson Eddy breaks down during an interview regarding the death of his secret l...
published: 07 Aug 2006
Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy:Hollywood's Greatest Cover-Up
Movie star Nelson Eddy breaks down during an interview regarding the death of his secret lover of 30 years, Jeanette MacDonald. Read their story at http://www.maceddy.com, with an Interactive Biography at http://www.maceddy.com/index.php?main_page=biography. We have also posted a handful of the celebrity interviews that verified the Jeanette MacDonald - Nelson Eddy off-screen love affair; these interviews were quoted in the book "Sweethearts" but you can read more complete transcripts at http://www.maceddy.com/index.php?main_page=sample_articles.
- published: 07 Aug 2006
- views: 120634
5:15
Jeanette MacDonald - Nelson Eddy 'Ah Sweet Mystery Of Life'
Jeanette MacDonald - Nelson Eddy 'Ah Sweet Mystery Of Life...
published: 26 Nov 2008
Jeanette MacDonald - Nelson Eddy 'Ah Sweet Mystery Of Life'
Jeanette MacDonald - Nelson Eddy 'Ah Sweet Mystery Of Life
- published: 26 Nov 2008
- views: 158744
2:26
NELSON EDDY SINGS - WHEN I GROW TOO OLD TO DREAM 1942
NELSON EDDY S INGS..."WHEN I GROW TOO OLD TO DREAM", COMPOSED BY SIGMUND ROMBERG. THIS IS ...
published: 06 Jan 2010
NELSON EDDY SINGS - WHEN I GROW TOO OLD TO DREAM 1942
NELSON EDDY S INGS..."WHEN I GROW TOO OLD TO DREAM", COMPOSED BY SIGMUND ROMBERG. THIS IS FROM A 1942 OLD GOLD SHOW. THERE IS AN EARLIER VERSION FROM THE CHASE & SANDBORN HOUR WHICH IS AS EQUALLY GOOD(see posting).NELSON EDDY AT HIS BEST, ALTHOUGH THE SOUND IS NOT TOO HOT!!!
ENJOY!!!
- published: 06 Jan 2010
- views: 20304
4:05
"Stout Hearted Men" Nelson Eddy (New Moon 1940)
The rousing song "Stout Hearted Men" from the 1940 movie New Moon. Nelson Eddy rallies th...
published: 02 Aug 2011
"Stout Hearted Men" Nelson Eddy (New Moon 1940)
The rousing song "Stout Hearted Men" from the 1940 movie New Moon. Nelson Eddy rallies the troops and leads the chorus. Composed by Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein II.
- published: 02 Aug 2011
- views: 23463
3:31
Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy: Indian Love Call
Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy singing, "Indian Love Call," from the 1936 film, "Rose Ma...
published: 09 Dec 2009
Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy: Indian Love Call
Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy singing, "Indian Love Call," from the 1936 film, "Rose Marie."
- published: 09 Dec 2009
- views: 111614
5:39
NELSON EDDY - Ghost Riders / Mule Train
Just when you thought you have heard every version of a song there is,
a new one shows up...
published: 10 Jan 2009
NELSON EDDY - Ghost Riders / Mule Train
Just when you thought you have heard every version of a song there is,
a new one shows up. This is by Nelson Eddy a operitic type singer who was very popular in the movies and on record in the 30's and 40's. Here he does it his way.
- published: 10 Jan 2009
- views: 23283
3:41
Nelson Eddy "I'M FALLING IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE" Naughty Marietta (1935) JEANETTE MACDONALD
Nelson Eddy sings "I'm Falling in Love with Someone" to a dreamy Jeanette MacDonald. From ...
published: 28 May 2009
Nelson Eddy "I'M FALLING IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE" Naughty Marietta (1935) JEANETTE MACDONALD
Nelson Eddy sings "I'm Falling in Love with Someone" to a dreamy Jeanette MacDonald. From their first film together, "Naughty Marietta" (1935).
Music by Victor Herbert
Lyrics by Rida Johnson Young
- published: 28 May 2009
- views: 21697
9:55
Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy 1/5: 2008 TV interview #1
Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy are discussed on this 47-minute, unedited TV interview ...
published: 24 Sep 2008
Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy 1/5: 2008 TV interview #1
Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy are discussed on this 47-minute, unedited TV interview (divided into 5 parts on YouTube), taped on May 10, 2008. An upcoming episode of "The Darryl Winston Show," guest interviewer Rich Massabny speaks with author Sharon Rich about her book "Sweethearts: The Timeless Love Story On-screen and Off Between Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy." Darryl Winston joins in to discuss controversial topics such as why they didn't marry, who really was gay, and what was left out of the book. Read Chapter One of the Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy story at http://www.maceddy.com/sweethearts_excerpts.html. http://maceddy.com/blog/jeanette-macdonald-and-nelson-eddy-cruise-banner-please-post-a-banner-on-your-website. This is Part 1 of five sections.
- published: 24 Sep 2008
- views: 20840
9:59
Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy 2/5: 2008 TV interview #2
Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy are discussed on this 47-minute, unedited TV interview ...
published: 24 Sep 2008
Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy 2/5: 2008 TV interview #2
Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy are discussed on this 47-minute, unedited TV interview (divided into 5 parts on YouTube), taped on May 10, 2008. An upcoming episode of "The Darryl Winston Show," guest interviewer Rich Massabny speaks with author Sharon Rich about her book "Sweethearts: The Timeless Love Story On-screen and Off Between Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy." Darryl Winston joins in to discuss controversial topics such as why they didn't marry, who really was gay, and what was left out of the book. Read Chapter One of the Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy story at http://www.maceddy.com/sweethearts_excerpts.html. http://maceddy.com/blog/jeanette-macdonald-and-nelson-eddy-cruise-banner-please-post-a-banner-on-your-website. This is Part 2 of five sections.
- published: 24 Sep 2008
- views: 7777
8:30
Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy 3/5: 2008 TV interview #3
Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy are discussed on this 47-minute, unedited TV interview ...
published: 25 Sep 2008
Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy 3/5: 2008 TV interview #3
Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy are discussed on this 47-minute, unedited TV interview (divided into 5 parts on YouTube), taped on May 10, 2008. An upcoming episode of "The Darryl Winston Show," guest interviewer Rich Massabny speaks with author Sharon Rich about her book "Sweethearts: The Timeless Love Story On-screen and Off Between Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy." Darryl Winston joins in to discuss controversial topics such as why they didn't marry, who really was gay, and what was left out of the book. Read Chapter One of the Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy story at http://www.maceddy.com/sweethearts_excerpts.html. http://maceddy.com/blog/jeanette-macdonald-and-nelson-eddy-cruise-banner-please-post-a-banner-on-your-website. This is Part 3 of five sections.
- published: 25 Sep 2008
- views: 4135
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3:36
Good Bread | Eddie Schmidt
Bread can be considered many things: warm; delicious; sustaining. It’s also slang for mone...
published: 23 May 2012
author: Focus Forward Films
Good Bread | Eddie Schmidt
Bread can be considered many things: warm; delicious; sustaining. It’s also slang for money. This literal slice of life, which follows the typical day of an ex-gang member on his first job in the bakery of Homeboy Industries, underscores the meaning - and the lasting contribution - of “good bread.”
Join the conversation and tweet #GOODBREAD to have your tweet featured on the GE FOCUS FORWARD website. Go to http://focusforwardfilms.com/films/39/good-bread to see the discussion.
Watch more GE FOCUS FORWARD films at vimeo.com/focusforwardfilms/films.
Directed by EDDIE SCHMIDT
Producers: EDDIE SCHMIDT and AMBER BOLLINGER
Director of Photography: ARLENE NELSON
Edited by: DAVE "THE RAVE" EMMENDORFER
Sound: TIMOTHY KITZ
Music: MICHAEL S. PATTERSON
Assistant Camera: CHRIS COLLINS
Gaffer: CHAD COHLMIA
Best Boy: CHARLIE BALCH DANIEL JOHN
Set PA: MOE FRIDAY
2:45
El Mundo Es Tuyo
A Film by Aaron Rose
Featuring Opening Ceremony Fall Collection 2011
WRITTEN BY ARTY NE...
published: 19 Sep 2011
author: Opening Ceremony
El Mundo Es Tuyo
A Film by Aaron Rose
Featuring Opening Ceremony Fall Collection 2011
WRITTEN BY ARTY NELSON
STARRING ANDRES LAVAYEN YAVAR & CAROLINE AGUIRRE
Co-STARRING MELISSA KLEIN, JAIME NUNEZ DEL ARCO, PAOLA and PAMELA DUENAS
CINEMATOGRAPHY: AARON ROSE
EDITOR: FERNANDO VILLENA
STYLIST: BENJAMIN STURGILL
HAIR/MAKE-UP: GISELLA GOMEZ
STYLING ASSISTANCE: DARIA RADLINSKI
PRODUCTION DESIGNER: CRISTINA COSTA
SOUND DESIGN: EDDIE KIM
MUSIC SUPERVISOR: RANDALL POSTER
PRODUCTION: DIANA BUENDIA, BELEN YUNEZ & MARIA YUNEZ
VISUAL EFFECTS: MARCUS HERRING
GRAPHICS: KEITH SCHARWATH
ECUADOR CREW: SALVATORE FONSECA, ENRICO MARTIN & XAVIER ZURITA
MUSIC BY MONEY MARK
SPECIAL THANKS TO HUMBERTO LEON, CAROL LIM, SUSAN BARBER & CAYCE COLE
COORDINATING PRODUCER, OCTV RORY SATRAN
ALL CLOTHING FROM
OPENING CEREMONY
F/W 2011 COLLECTION
5:19
Where The Bears Are - Episode 15 BEARS UNDERCOVER
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published: 19 Sep 2012
author: Where the Bears Are
Where The Bears Are - Episode 15 BEARS UNDERCOVER
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The Bears go undercover as a bouncer, a patron and a contestant in a bear chest contest at an LA leather bar in order to get close to Ramon Santiago (Mario Sanchez) who might be guilty of murder. Wood: Joe Dietl. Nelson: Ben Zook. Reggie: Rick Copp. Hot Toddy: Ian Parks. Hulk: James Parr. Thor: Jesse Meli. Drunk Bear: Lester Roque. Cyril: Scott Beauchemin. Bear Chest Contestants: Greg Gill, Michael Maccani, Eddie Quinoes.
6:00
Where The Bears Are - Episode 16 MR. BEAR CHEST 2012
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published: 23 Sep 2012
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Where The Bears Are - Episode 16 MR. BEAR CHEST 2012
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THIS SERIES IS INTENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES!
While Nelson (Ben Zook) competes in the Mr. Bear Chest 2012 contest hosted by Hot Toddy (Ian Parks), Reggie and Wood search for clues implicating Ramon Santiago (Mario Sanchez) in J Cub's murder. Wood: Joe Dietl. Reggie: Rick Copp. Cyril: Scott Beauchemin. Hulk: James Parr. Thor: Jesse Meli. Bartender: Clint Yeager. Bear Chest Contestants: Greg Gill, Michael Maccani, Eddie Quinoes.
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Nelson Eddy SONG OF THE VOLGA BOATMAN Balalaika Ilona Massey
Baritone Nelson Eddy singing "The Song of the Volga Boatman" (from the 1939 movie, "Balala...
published: 14 Jan 2009
Nelson Eddy SONG OF THE VOLGA BOATMAN Balalaika Ilona Massey
Baritone Nelson Eddy singing "The Song of the Volga Boatman" (from the 1939 movie, "Balalaika") to Ilona Massey and company.
- published: 14 Jan 2009
- views: 25388
9:41
Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy 5/5: 2008 TV interview #5
Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy are discussed on this 47-minute, unedited TV interview ...
published: 25 Sep 2008
Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy 5/5: 2008 TV interview #5
Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy are discussed on this 47-minute, unedited TV interview (divided into 5 parts on YouTube), taped on May 10, 2008. An upcoming episode of "The Darryl Winston Show," guest interviewer Rich Massabny speaks with author Sharon Rich about her book "Sweethearts: The Timeless Love Story On-screen and Off Between Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy." Darryl Winston joins in to discuss controversial topics such as why they didn't marry, who really was gay, and what was left out of the book. Read Chapter One of the Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy story at http://www.maceddy.com/sweethearts_excerpts.html. http://maceddy.com/blog/jeanette-macdonald-and-nelson-eddy-cruise-banner-please-post-a-banner-on-your-website. This is Part 5 of five sections.
- published: 25 Sep 2008
- views: 11740
3:21
Nelson Eddy Sings - By the Waters of Minnetonka
Nelson's song is illustrated by scenes from this lovely Minnesota landscape. With Nelson E...
published: 02 Sep 2011
Nelson Eddy Sings - By the Waters of Minnetonka
Nelson's song is illustrated by scenes from this lovely Minnesota landscape. With Nelson Eddy images colorized by Vonnie Krotts.
- published: 02 Sep 2011
- views: 945
3:06
Nelson Eddy "Stranger in Paradise"
I adore this song. Nelson Eddy sings "Stranger in Paradise" (Russian composer Alexander B...
published: 29 Apr 2009
Nelson Eddy "Stranger in Paradise"
I adore this song. Nelson Eddy sings "Stranger in Paradise" (Russian composer Alexander Borodin - opera "Prince Igor"). What a wonderful voice and what a wonderful man!
Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald in movie "I married an angel" 1942.
- published: 29 Apr 2009
- views: 39377
photo: AP / Post Courier
30 Mar 2013
A woman is beaten, tortured and set on fire in a public square, in Papua New Guinea , on Feb. 7, 2013. The woman is accused of being a witch by an angry mob, who bound, tortured and set her ablaze in view of hundreds of horrified spectators, a number of them were children. The woman's murder was photographed by some of the bystanders ... Woman burned alive ... Woman accused of witchcraft is burned alive in public flogging. Photo credit. ... ....(size: 5.0Kb)
photo: US Army / Edward N. Johnson
30 Mar 2013
SEOUL . North Korea on Saturday declared it was in a “state of war” with South Korea and warned Seoul and Washington that any provocation would swiftly escalate into an all-out nuclear conflict. The United States said it took the announcement “seriously”, but noted it followed a familiar pattern, while South Korea largely dismissed it as an old threat dressed in new clothing ... - AFP. ....(size: 4.4Kb)
photo: AP / Jon Chol Jin
31 Mar 2013
North Korea has pledged to strengthen its nuclear weapons programme, a day after announcing it is in a "state of war" with South Korea, as the region remains tense amid a military build-up by both North and South Korea ... The nuclear armed forces "should be expanded and beefed up qualitatively and quantitatively until the denuclearisation of the world is realised", it added ... Featured on Al Jazeera ... Hijacking feminism ... In This Room ... News ... ....(size: 8.1Kb)
Sydney Morning Herald
28 Mar 2013
RISE STEVENS, 1913-2013. Rise Stevens was an American mezzo soprano celebrated for her earthy interpretation of Carmen. Her career also encompassed television and movie appearances alongside matinee idols Bing Crosby and Nelson Eddy ... But Stevens managed to walk that delicate line with a skill that allowed her to enrich - and own - the part ... A Life in Music ... Her brief Hollywood career began in 1941 opposite Eddy in The Chocolate Soldier ... ....(size: 5.5Kb)
The State
28 Mar 2013
Track. At Chapin. Girls team scores. Chapin 123, Heathwood 109, Camden 70, Swansea 40, Newberry 9. Boys teams scores. Swansea 97, Chapin 77, Camden 52, Newberry 32. Source. C. Boys golf. Team scores. Pinewood Prep 164, Ben Lippen 179, Heathwood 183. at Crickentree, Blythewood. Par. 36. Low scorers. (PP) Katelyn Dambaugh 37, Jack Parrott/John Weiss 41, David White 43. Team scores ... At CC of Lexington, par. 36 ... Jake Nelson (2-1) ... Eddie> Prestigiacomo (2-2)....(size: 4.7Kb)
The Independent
26 Mar 2013
Rise Stevens, who died on 20 March at the age of 99, was a mezzo-soprano who sang with the Metropolitan Opera for more than 20 years during the 1940s and 1950s ... She recalled ... Her brief Hollywood career began in 1941 opposite Nelson Eddy in The Chocolate Soldier –"He really could have had an operatic career, but he just made too much money, too soft and too easy," she recalled....(size: 1.9Kb)
Sacramento Bee
25 Mar 2013
Rise Stevens, an American mezzo soprano celebrated for her earthy interpretation of "Carmen," whose career also encompassed television and movie appearances alongside matinee idols Bing Crosby and Nelson Eddy, died Wednesday of natural causes at her home in New York. She was 99. Her death was confirmed by her son, Nicolas Surovy ... A Life in Music." ... Her brief Hollywood career began in 1941 opposite Eddy in "The Chocolate Soldier."...(size: 5.2Kb)
The Los Angeles Times
25 Mar 2013
Rise Stevens, an American mezzo soprano celebrated for her earthy interpretation of "Carmen," whose career also encompassed television and movie appearances alongside matinee idols Bing Crosby and Nelson Eddy, died Wednesdayof natural causes at her home in New York. She was 99. Her death was confirmed by her son, Nicolas Surovy ... A Life in Music." ... Her brief Hollywood career began in 1941 opposite Eddy in "The Chocolate Soldier." ... 0. ....(size: 7.0Kb)
Philadelphia Daily News
24 Mar 2013
Emily Langer, Washington Post. Posted. Sunday, March 24, 2013, 3.01 AM. Risë Stevens, 99, who defined the role of Carmen for a generation and brought opera to millions through her radio, TV, and film work, died Wednesday at her home in New York City. Ms. Stevens had one goal in life ... ... Ms ... Ms ... After he heard her sing, she said, Mayer auditioned her and booked her for The Chocolate Soldier, a 1941 film costarring Nelson Eddy ... ... ... ....(size: 5.4Kb)
BBC News
22 Mar 2013
US mezzo-soprano Rise Stevens, who sang with the Metropolitan Opera for more than 20 years, has died in New York three months shy of her 100th birthday ... Stevens' first film role was in the Oscar-nominated 1941 film The Chocolate Soldier opposite Nelson Eddy, leading to her role in Crosby's Going My Way which won seven Oscars including best picture ... "At least, I won a lot of people over to opera." ... ....(size: 2.5Kb)
The Inquisitr
22 Mar 2013
Posted. March 22, 2013. Risë Stevens, a superstar mezzo-soprano who sang with the Metropolitan Opera for more than 20 years, died Wednesday at her home in Manhattan. She was 99 ... Her first film role was in the musical comedy The Chocolate Soldier (1941) with Nelson Eddy and also appeared with Bing Crosby in Going My Way (1944), which won seven Academy Awards, including best picture ... Stevens is survived by a granddaughter. Category. Music ... ....(size: 2.7Kb)
The Examiner
22 Mar 2013
On March 20, Rise Stevens died only months before her 100th birthday. She graced the Metropolitan Opera as arguably one of their most memorable singers for some 21 years. Her role in Bizet's "Carmen" became her calling card ... Rise was born in Manhattan and died in Manhattan ... Stevens also appeared in films such as "The Chocolate Soldier" starring Nelson Eddy and "Going My Way" with the legendary Bing Crosby ... RIP, Rise Stevens, RIP ... Tweet ... ....(size: 5.7Kb)
Tulsa World
22 Mar 2013
Mezzo-soprano opera star Rise Stevens, who sang with the Metropolitan Opera for more than 20 years spanning the 1940s and 1950s, died Wednesday night at her Manhattan home. She was 99. Stevens started singing with the Met in 1938, on tour in Philadelphia ... "She knew it, felt it, lived it." ... "Now they tell me that I was part of a golden age ... Her brief Hollywood career began in 1941 opposite Nelson Eddy in "The Chocolate Soldier." ... He was 89 ... ....(size: 8.0Kb)
Chicago Sun-Times
21 Mar 2013
Updated. March 21, 2013 6.05PM. NEW YORK — Mezzo-soprano opera star Rise Stevens, who sang with the Metropolitan Opera for more than 20 years spanning the 1940s and 1950s, has died. She was 99 ... “She knew it, felt it, lived it.” ... Her brief Hollywood career began in 1941 opposite Nelson Eddy in “The Chocolate Soldier.” (“He really could have had an operatic career, but he just made too much money, too soft and too easy,” she recalled.) ... AP ....(size: 4.5Kb)
National Public Radio
21 Mar 2013
Risë Stevens, a mezzo-soprano who sang at the Metropolitan Opera for a nearly a quarter century and then went on to be one of the Met's most prominent supporters and administrators, has died at age 99. Her son, Nicolas Surovy, informed the Met today that she passed away last night at home in Manhattan ... Enlarge image i ... She sang in 1941's "The Chocolate Soldier" with Nelson Eddy and with Bing Crosby in 1944's "Going My Way." ... As Peter G ... ....(size: 4.7Kb)
Yahoo Music
21 Mar 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — Mezzo-soprano opera star Rise Stevens, who sang with the Metropolitan Opera for more than 20 years spanning the 1940s and 1950s, has died. She was 99. Stevens died Wednesday night at her Manhattan home, said her son, Nicolas Surovy. Stevens started singing with the Met in 1938, on tour in Philadelphia ... It's all a little ridiculous ... Her brief Hollywood career began in 1941 opposite Nelson Eddy in "The Chocolate Soldier." ... ....(size: 5.1Kb)
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| Nelson Eddy | |
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 from the film Sweethearts (1938) |
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| Born | Nelson Ackerman Eddy (1901-06-29)June 29, 1901 Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. |
| Died | March 6, 1967(1967-03-06) (aged 65) Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Cerebral hemorrage |
| Resting place | Hollywood Forever Cemetery |
| Occupation | Baritone, film star |
| Spouse | Ann Denitz Franklin (1939–1967) |
Nelson Ackerman Eddy (June 29, 1901 – March 6, 1967) was an American singer and actor who appeared in 19 musical films during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as in opera and on the concert stage, radio, television, and in nightclubs. A classically trained baritone, he is best remembered for the eight films in which he costarred with soprano Jeanette MacDonald. He was one of the first "crossover" stars, a superstar appealing both to shrieking bobby-soxers as well as opera purists, and in his heyday was the highest paid singer in the world.[1]
During his 40-year career, he earned three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (one each for film, recording, and radio), left his footprints in the wet cement at Grauman's Chinese Theater, earned three Gold records, and was invited to sing at the third inauguration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He also introduced millions of young Americans to classical music and inspired many of them to pursue a musical career.
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Early life[link]
Eddy was born in Providence, Rhode Island, the only child of Caroline Isabel (née Kendrick) and William Darius Eddy. His father was a machinist and toolmaker whose work required him to move from town to town. Nelson grew up in Providence and Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and in New Bedford, Massachusetts. As a boy, he was a redhead and quickly acquired the nickname "Bricktop." As an adult, his red hair was streaked with silver, so that his hair photographed as blond.
Nelson came from a musical family. His Atlanta-born mother was a church soloist, and his grandmother, Caroline Netta Ackerman Kendrick, was a distinguished oratorio singer. His father occasionally moonlighted as a stagehand at the Providence Opera House, sang in the church choir, played the drums, and performed in local productions such as H.M.S. Pinafore.
Eddy's parents divorced when he was 14, which severely traumatized him.[citation needed] Living in near-poverty, Eddy was forced to drop out of school and moved with his mother to Philadelphia, where her brother, Clark Kendrick, lived. His uncle helped Eddy secure a clerical job at the Mott Iron Works, a plumbing supply company. He later worked as a reporter with the Philadelphia Press, the Evening Public Ledger and the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. He also worked briefly as a copywriter at N.W. Ayer Advertising, but was dismissed for constantly singing on the job. Eddy never returned to school but educated himself with correspondence courses. He was bitter that his father refused to provide financial support after the divorce but in later years they had an uneasy reconciliation.[citation needed]
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Singing[link]
Eddy developed his talent as a boy soprano in church choirs. Throughout his teens, Eddy studied voice and imitated the recordings of baritones like Titta Ruffo, Antonio Scotti, Pasquale Amato, Giuseppe Campanari, and Reinald Werrenrath. He gave recitals for women's groups and appeared in society theatricals, usually for little or no pay.
Having had a job in an iron works factory, he then spent ten years as a newspaper reporter but was fired for paying more attention to music than to journalism. His first professional break came in 1922 when he was singled out by the press after an appearance in a society theatrical, The Marriage Tax, although his name had been omitted from the program.
In 1924, Eddy won the top prize in a competition that included a chance to appear with the Philadelphia Opera Society. Alexander Smallens, musical director of the Philadelphia Civic Opera and later assistant conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, became interested in Eddy's career and coached him. (In a 1936 career profile of Eddy put out by Arthur Judson Concert Management, Smallens is credited with Nelson's "operatic success.")
By the late 1920s, Eddy was appearing with the Philadelphia Civic Opera Company and had a repertoire of 28 operas, including Amonasro in Aida, Marcello in La bohème, Papageno in The Magic Flute, Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro, both Tonio and Silvio in Pagliacci, and Wolfram in Tannhäuser. (William von Wymetal was the group's producer at this time, in association with Fritz Reiner who later directed the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra.) Eddy also performed in Gilbert & Sullivan operettas with The Savoy Company, the oldest theater company in the world devoted exclusively to the works of Gilbert and Sullivan in the traditional manner. With Savoy, Eddy sang the leading role of Strephon in "Iolanthe" at the Broad Street Theatre in Philadelphia in 1922. The next year he played the role of Major-General Stanley in Savoy's production of "Pirates of Penzance." He reprised the role of Strephon with Savoy in 1927 when the theater group moved their performances to the famed Academy of Music. Thirty one years later, he was asked by a Savoy lead playing the role of Strephon in 1958 for Eddy's thoughts and recommendations on how to play the role. Eddy wrote:
| “ | I envy you. I'd like to play Strephon again, too! The one thing I suggest is to keep him gay, happy and care-free. You can set the character with your first entrance. Dance in with a sort of cute abandon. Then in "Good morrow, good mother" act joyfully in love. The rest will fall right into line. The first time I did it - at the old Broad Street Theatre - was better than when I did it at the Academy. I let myself get impressed with the importance of the latter house and with my growing experience in opera - and I played it too grand. Don't fall into that trap. Good luck and my very best wishes - to you and all the Company. Sincerely, Nelson Eddy. | ” |
Eddy studied briefly with the noted teacher David Scull Bispham, a former Metropolitan Opera singer, but when Bispham died suddenly, Eddy became a student of William Vilonat. In 1927, Eddy borrowed some money and followed his teacher to Dresden for European study, which was then considered essential for serious American singers. He was offered a job with a small German opera company. Instead, he decided to return to America, where he concentrated on his concert career, making only occasional opera appearances during the next seven years. In 1928, his first concert accompanist was a young pianist named Theodore (Ted) Paxson, who became a close friend and remained his accompanist until Eddy's death 39 years later.
In the early 1930s, Eddy's principal teacher was Edouard Lippé, who followed him to Hollywood and appeared in a small role in Eddy's 1935 film Naughty Marietta. In his later years, Eddy frequently changed teachers, constantly trying new vocal techniques. He also had a home recording studio where he studied his own performances. It was his fascination with technology that inspired him to record three-part harmonies (soprano, tenor, baritone) for his role as a multiple-voiced singing whale in the animated Walt Disney feature, "The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met", the concluding sequence in the 1946 feature film Make Mine Music.
With the Philadelphia Civic Opera, Eddy sang in the only American performance of Feuersnot by Richard Strauss (December 1, 1927) and in the first American performance of Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos (November 1, 1928) with Helen Jepson. In Ariadne, Eddy sang the roles of the Wigmaker and Harlequin in the original German. He performed under Leopold Stokowski as the Drum Major in the second American performance of Alban Berg's Wozzeck on November 24, 1931.
At Carnegie Hall in New York, Christmas 1931, he sang in the world premiere of Maria egiziaca (Mary in Egypt), unexpectedly conducted by the composer Ottorino Respighi himself when famed conductor Arturo Toscanini fell ill at the last minute. Years later, when Toscanini visited the MGM lot in California, Eddy greeted him by singing a few bars of Maria Egiziaca.
Eddy continued in occasional opera roles until his film work made it difficult to schedule appearances the requisite year or two in advance. Among his final opera performances were three with the San Francisco Opera in 1934, when he was still "unknown." Marjory M. Fisher of the San Francisco News wrote of his December 8, 1934 performance of Wolfram in Tannhäuser, "Nelson Eddy made a tremendously fine impression ... he left no doubt in the minds of discerning auditors that he belongs in that fine group of baritones which includes Lawrence Tibbett, Richard Bonelli, and John Charles Thomas and which represents America's outstanding contribution to the contemporary opera stage."[citation needed] He also sang Amonasro in Aida on November 11, 1934 to similar acclaim. Elisabeth Rethberg, Giovanni Martinelli, and Ezio Pinza were in the cast. However, opera quietly faded from Eddy's schedule as films and highly lucrative concerts claimed more and more of his time.
When he resumed his concert career following his screen success, he made a point of delivering a traditional concert repertoire, performing his hit screen songs only as encores. He felt strongly that audiences needed to be exposed to all kinds of music.
Hollywood[link]
Eddy was "discovered" by Hollywood when he substituted at the last minute for the noted diva, Lotte Lehmann, at a sold-out concert in Los Angeles on February 28, 1933. He scored a professional triumph with 18 curtain calls, and several film offers immediately followed. After much agonizing, he decided that being seen on screen might boost audiences for what he considered his "real work," his concerts. (Also, like his machinist father, he was fascinated with gadgets and the mechanics of the new talking pictures.) Eddy's concert fee rose from $500 to $10,000 per performance.
Eddy signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), where he would make the first 14 of his 19 feature films. His contract guaranteed him three months off each year to continue his concert tours. MGM was not sure how to use him, and he spent more than a year on salary with little to do. His voice can be heard singing "Daisy Belle" on the soundtrack of the 1933 Pete Smith short, Handlebars. He appeared and sang one song each in Broadway to Hollywood and Dancing Lady, both in 1933, and Student Tour in 1934. Audience response was favorable, and he was cast as the male lead opposite the established star Jeanette MacDonald in a film version of Victor Herbert's 1910 operetta Naughty Marietta.
Naughty Marietta was the surprise hit of 1935. Its key song, "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life," became a hit and earned Eddy his first Gold Record. He also sang "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp" and "I'm Falling in Love with Someone." The film was nominated for an Oscar as Best Picture, received the Photoplay Gold Medal Award as Best Picture, and was voted one of the Ten Best Pictures of 1935 by the New York film critics. Critics singled out Eddy for praise:
- "A new star emerged on the Capitol screen." - New York Daily News.[citation needed]
- "The screen has found a thrilling thrush, possessed not only of a rare vocal tone, but of a personality and form and features cast in the heroic mould." - New York American.[citation needed]
- "Eddy is a brilliant baritone, masculine, engaging and good looking." - Richard Watts, Jr., in the New York Herald.[citation needed]
Eddy appeared in seven more MGM films with Jeanette MacDonald:
- Rose Marie, 1936, is probably his most-remembered film. Eddy sang "Song of the Mounties" and "Indian Love Call" by Rudolf Friml. His definitive portrayal of the steadfast Mountie became a popular icon, frequently spoofed in cartoons and TV skits, and even generating travesties on stage (Little Mary Sunshine, 1959) and film (Dudley Do-Right, 1999). When the Mounties retired their classic red jackets and hat in 1970, except for ceremonial attire, hundreds of newspapers accompanied the story with a photo of Nelson Eddy as Sgt. Bruce in Rose Marie, made 34 years earlier.
- Maytime, 1937, is regarded as one of Eddy's best films. "Will You Remember" by Sigmund Romberg brought Eddy another Gold Record. The New York Times wrote that the film [was] "the most entrancing operetta the screen has given us.... [i]t affirms Nelson Eddy's preeminence among the baritones of filmdom".[citation needed]
- The Girl of the Golden West (1938) had an original score by Sigmund Romberg and reused the David Belasco stage plot also employed by Giacomo Puccini for La Fanciulla del West.
- Sweethearts, 1938, was MGM's first three-strip Technicolor feature, incorporating Victor Herbert's 1913 stage score into a modern script by Dorothy Parker. It won the Photoplay Gold Medal Award as Best Picture of the Year.
- New Moon, 1940, based on Sigmund Romberg's 1927 Broadway hit, became one of Eddy's most popular films, although in 1978 it was included in the book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time. His key songs were "Lover, Come Back to Me", "Softly as in a Morning Sunrise", "Wanting You", and "Stout Hearted Men".
- Bitter Sweet, 1940, was a Technicolor film version of Noël Coward's 1929 operetta. The love theme was "I'll See You Again." Eddy played a Viennese singing teacher who elopes with his pretty English pupil and takes her to live in Vienna.
- I Married an Angel, 1942, adapted from the Rodgers and Hart stage musical about an angel who loses her wings on her wedding night, suffered from censorship problems. Eddy sang "Spring Is Here" and the title song.
Nelson Eddy also starred in films with other leading ladies:
- Rosalie, 1937, with Eleanor Powell, offered a score by Cole Porter. In his first solo-starring film, the script called for Eddy to portray a football-playing West Point pilot who pursues a princess-in-disguise to Europe. Eddy recorded the title song.
- Let Freedom Ring, 1939, with Virginia Bruce, was a Western. Eddy got to beat up rugged Oscar winner Victor McLaglen and preserve freedom and the American way from bad guys, a popular theme just before World War II.
- Balalaika, 1939, with Ilona Massey, was based on the 1936 English operetta by George Posford and Bernard Grün. Eddy is a prince in disguise, in love with a commoner during the Russian Revolution. The title song became one of his standards.
- The Chocolate Soldier, 1941, with Metropolitan Opera star Risë Stevens, was a stylish musical adaptation of Ferenc Molnár's The Guardsman. Eddy played a dual role and turned in one of his best performances.
- Phantom of the Opera, 1943, was Eddy's first film after he left MGM at the end of his seven-year contract. This lavish Technicolor musical also starred Claude Rains as the Phantom and Susanna Foster as Christine.
- Knickerbocker Holiday, 1944, was based on the popular stage musical by Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson. It co-starred Charles Coburn (singing the classic "September Song") and Constance Dowling.
- Make Mine Music, 1946, was a Walt Disney animated feature compilation. Eddy provided all the singing and speaking voices for the touching final segment, "The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met," later released as a short, Willie, the Operatic Whale, by RKO in 1954. Using a technique based on his technical experiments with his home recording equipment, Eddy was able to sing sextets with himself on the soundtrack, providing all the voices from bass to soprano.
- Northwest Outpost, 1947, co-starred Ilona Massey. Rudolf Friml provided the songs for a story of Fort Ross, a Russian settlement in the Wild West of California. It was made at Republic Studios and turned out to be Eddy's final film.
After Eddy and MacDonald left MGM in 1942, there were several unrealized films that would have reunited the team. Eddy signed with Universal in 1943 for a two-picture deal. The first was Phantom of the Opera and the second would have co-starred MacDonald. She filmed her two scenes for Follow the Boys then both stars severed ties with Universal, as Eddy was upset with how Phantom of the Opera turned out.
Among their later other proposed projects were East Wind; Crescent Carnival, a book optioned by MacDonald; and The Rosary, the 1910 best-seller—which Eddy had read as a teen and pitched to MGM as a "comeback" film for himself and MacDonald in 1948. Under the name "Isaac Ackerman" he wrote a biopic screenplay about Chaliapin, in which he was to play the lead and also a young Nelson Eddy, but it was never produced. He also wrote two movie treatments for himself and MacDonald, Timothy Waits for Love and All Stars Don't Spangle.[citation needed]
Recordings[link]
Eddy made more than 290 recordings between 1935 and 1964, singing songs from his films, plus opera, folk songs, popular songs, Gilbert and Sullivan, and traditional arias from his concert repertoire. Since both he and MacDonald were under contract to RCA Victor between 1935 and 1938, this allowed several popular duets from their films. In 1938, he signed with Columbia Records, which ended MacDonald-Eddy duets until a special LP album the two made together in 1957. He also recorded duets with his other screen partner Risë Stevens (The Chocolate Soldier) and for albums with, among others, Nadine Conner, Doretta Morrow, Eleanor Steber and Jo Stafford.
Eddy's recordings drew rave reviews during the 1930s and 1940s, but it is a special tribute to his vocal technique that he continued to rate them into the 1960s. The Los Angeles Herald-Examiner on October 4, 1964 noted: "Nelson Eddy continues to roll along, physically and vocally indestructible. Proof is his newest recording on the Everest label, ‘Of Girls I Sing’. At the age of 63 and after 42 years of professional singing, Eddy demonstrates there has not been much change in his romantic and robust baritone — the baritone that made him America's most popular singer in the early '30s".[citation needed]
War work[link]
Like many performers, Eddy was active in "war work" during World War II, even before the United States entered the war. He did his first "war effort" concert on October 19, 1939 with Leopold Stokowski for Polish war relief. In 1942, he became an air raid warden and also put in long hours at the Hollywood Canteen. In 1943, he went on a two-month, 35,000-mile tour, giving concerts for military personnel in Belém and Natal, Brazil; Accra, Gold Coast; Aden; Asmara, Eritrea; Cairo (where he met King Farouk); Teheran, Iran; Casablanca; and the Azores. He also broadcast for the armed forces throughout the war.
Radio and television[link]
Eddy began his more than 600 radio appearances in the mid-1920s. The first may have been on December 26, 1924 at station WOO in Philadelphia. Besides his many guest appearances, he hosted The Voice of Firestone (1936), Vicks Open House (1936), The Chase and Sanborn Hour (1937–1939), and Kraft Music Hall (1947–1948). He had his own show on CBS in 1942–1943. Eddy frequently used his radio shows to advance the careers of promising young singers. While his programs often featured "serious" music, they were never straitlaced. It was in a series of comedy routines with Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy on the Chase and Sanborn Hour that Eddy's name became associated with the song "Shortnin' Bread", which was also included in the film Maytime.
On March 31, 1933 he performed the role of Gurnemanz in a broadcast of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal with Rose Bampton, conducted by Leopold Stokowski. During the 1940s, he was a frequent guest on Lux Radio Theater with Cecil B. DeMille, performing radio versions of Eddy's popular films. In 1951, Eddy guest-starred on several episodes of The Alan Young Show on CBS-TV. In 1952, he recorded a pilot for a sitcom, Nelson Eddy's Backyard, with Jan Clayton, but it failed to find a network slot. On November 12, 1952, he surprised his former co-star Jeanette MacDonald when she was the subject of Ralph Edwards' This Is Your Life. On November 30, 1952, Eddy was Ed Sullivan's guest on Toast of the Town.
During the next decade he guest starred on Danny Thomas's sitcom Make Room for Daddy and on variety programs such as The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford, The Bob Hope Show, The Edgar Bergen Show, The Colgate Comedy Hour, The Spike Jones Show, The Rosemary Clooney Show, The Dinah Shore Chevy Show, and The Big Record with Patti Page. He was a frequent guest on talk shows, including The Merv Griffin Show and The Tonight Show with Jack Paar.
On May 7, 1955, Eddy starred in Max Liebman's 90-minute, live-TV version of Sigmund Romberg's The Desert Song on NBC-TV. It featured Gale Sherwood, Metropolitan Opera bass Salvatore Baccaloni, veteran film actor Otto Kruger, and the dance team of Bambi Linn and Rod Alexander.[2]
On December 31, 1966, a few months before his death, Eddy and his nightclub partner, Gale Sherwood, sang 15 songs on Guy Lombardo's traditional New Year's Eve program, telecast from the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.[citation needed]
Nightclub act[link]
The advent of television made inroads in the once-lucrative concert circuits, and, in the early 1950s, Eddy had to consider future career options, eventually deciding to form a nightclub act, which premiered in January 1953 with singer Gale Sherwood, his partner, and Ted Paxson, his accompanist. Variety wrote, "Nelson Eddy, vet of films, concerts, and stage, required less than one minute to put a jam-packed audience in his hip pocket in one of the most explosive openings in this city's nitery history.... Before Eddy had even started to sing, they liked him personally as a warm human being".[citation needed] The act continued for the next 15 years and made four tours of Australia.
Personal life[link]
Eddy married Ann Denitz Franklin, former wife of noted director Sidney Franklin, on January 19, 1939. Her son, Sidney Jr., became Eddy's stepson, but she and Nelson had no children of their own. They were married for 27 years, until Nelson's death. Ann Eddy never remarried after Nelson's death and died on August 28, 1987. She is buried next to Nelson and his mother, Isabel, in Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
Eddy/MacDonald romance[link]
John Kenneth Hilliard, a sound engineer backstage at MGM from 1933 to 1942, reported in 1981 that though Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald were a screen couple, they "hated each other with a vengeance".[3][4] A 1979 fictionalized biography of Eddy and MacDonald, Farewell to Dreams, by Sharon Rich and Diane Goodrich, and a 2001 biography, Sweethearts by Sharon Rich, claims that MacDonald's marriage to Gene Raymond was engineered by studio boss Louis B. Mayer to prevent Eddy from marrying MacDonald. Rich's original source for this information was reputedly Jeanette MacDonald's older sister, actress Blossom Rock. The Eddy-MacDonald romance appears again in print in The Golden Girls of MGM by Jane Ellen Wayne. In these books, it is reported that Eddy's relationship with MacDonald began in late 1933 and continued, with a few breaks, until her death in 1965. Many of Eddy's personal letters and diary entries indicating a rocky romance with MacDonald were reproduced in Sweethearts.[citation needed]
Death[link]
In March 1967 Eddy was performing at the Sans Souci Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida when he was stricken on stage with a cerebral hemorrhage. His singing partner, Gale Sherwood, and his accompanist, Ted Paxson, were at his side. He died a few hours later in the early hours of March 6, 1967, at the age of 65. He is interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, between his mother Isabel Eddy and wife, Ann, who survived him by 20 years.
Papers[link]
Eddy's meticulously annotated scores (some with his caricatures sketched in the margins) are now housed at Occidental College Music Library in Los Angeles. His personal papers and scrapbooks are at the University of Southern California Cinema/Television Library, also in Los Angeles.
References[link]
- ^ Larsen, Dave. "Nelson Eddy." Los Angeles: Los Angeles Times, April 7, 1967.
- ^ Myers, Eric. "Romberg: The Desert Song. Opera News, April 2011, Vol. 75, No. 10, accessed June 16, 2011
- ^ AES Journal, Vol. 37, No. 7/8, July/August (1989)
- ^ An Afternoon With: John K. Hilliard (1981)
Sources[link]
- Barclay, Florence L., The Rosary (with new introduction by Sharon Rich and comments by Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy), Bell Harbour Press, 2005. This 1910 #1 best seller featured two singers in a "Jane Eyre" plot, and the heroine's nickname was, in fact, Jeanette. Eddy chose it as a possible film vehicle for himself and MacDonald in 1948. This edition features a new introduction with excerpts from their written correspondence of that year, in which the film project was discussed.
- Eddy, Nelson, "All Stars Don't Spangle" treatment for himself and MacDonald reprinted in its entirety in Mac/Eddy Today magazine, issue #50.
- Kiner, Larry, Nelson Eddy: A Bio-Discography, Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, New Jersey, 1992. A near-complete list of every recording and radio show of Eddy's, including song titles, photos and other important facts.
- Knowles (Dugan), Eleanor, The Films of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, Booksurge LLC, 2006. 646 pages, 591 photos. Contains detailed film credits, plots, and backgrounds for the two stars' 41 films, also complete music lists for each film, biographies of the two stars, and a complete discography.
- Rich, Sharon, Sweethearts: The Timeless Love Affair Onscreen and Off Between Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, Bell Harbour Press, 2001. 560 pages, about 100 photos, over 50 pages of documentation. A candid biography in which Eddy's graphic love letters to MacDonald are startling, but their relationship is meticulously documented at times on a near-daily basis. Using eyewitness accounts from contemporary letters, this biography provides needed insight into why Eddy made certain professional decisions in the 1940s and 1950s.
- Rich, Sharon, Nelson Eddy: The Opera Years, Bell Harbour Press, 2001. A very comprehensive overview of Eddy's early career. This photo-filled book includes compilations of virtually every review written about him from 1922 until 1935, clippings from his personal scrapbooks with his handwritten notations, all early interviews, many rare photographs and all his operas (including some tenor and bass roles). A bonus chapter includes MacDonald's opera career (1943–45) and their operatic scenes together in the lost "Tosca" Act II from the movie Maytime. There are also excerpts from an unproduced movie script written by Nelson on the life of Feodor Chaliapin, in which he had planned to play dual roles—Chaliapin and himself.
- Lillo, Antonio. 2000. "Bees, Nelsons, and Sterling Denominations: A Brief Look at Cockney Slang and Coinage". Journal of English Linguistics 28 (2): pp. 145–172.
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| Name | Eddy, Nelson |
| Alternative names | Eddy, Nelson Ackerman |
| Short description | American musical film star, operatic baritone |
| Date of birth | 1901-06-29 |
| Place of birth | Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. |
| Date of death | 1967-03-06 |
| Place of death | Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. |
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 from the trailer for Bitter Sweet (1940) |
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| Born | Jeanette Anna MacDonald (1903-06-18)June 18, 1903 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | January 14, 1965(1965-01-14) (aged 61) Houston, Texas, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress/Singer |
| Years active | 1919–59 |
| Spouse | Gene Raymond (1937–65; her death) |
Jeanette Anna MacDonald (June 18, 1903 – January 14, 1965) was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier (Love Me Tonight, The Merry Widow) and Nelson Eddy (Naughty Marietta, Rose-Marie, and Maytime). During the 1930s and 1940s she starred in 29 feature films, four nominated for Best Picture Oscars (The Love Parade, One Hour with You, Naughty Marietta and San Francisco), and recorded extensively, earning three gold records. She later appeared in opera, concerts, radio, and television. MacDonald was one of the most influential sopranos of the 20th century, introducing opera to movie-going audiences and inspiring a generation of singers.
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Early years[link]
MacDonald was born June 18, 1903,[1] at her family's Philadelphia home at 5123 Arch Street. She was the youngest of the three daughters of Anna Mae (née Wright) and Daniel MacDonald.[2][3] She had Scottish, English, and Dutch ancestry.[4] Starting at an early age, she took dancing lessons with Al White, imitated her mother's opera records and took singing lessons with Wassil Leps. She performed at church and school functions and began touring in kiddie shows, heading Al White's "Six Little Song Birds" in Philadelphia at the age of nine. She was raised as a Christian Scientist.
Broadway[link]
In November 1919 MacDonald joined her older sister, Blossom, in New York and landed a job in the chorus of Ned Wayburn's The Demi-Tasse Revue, a musical entertainment presented between films at the Capital Theatre on Broadway. In 1920 she appeared in two musicals, Jerome Kern's Night Boat as a chorus replacement, and Irene on the road as the second female lead (Future film star Irene Dunne played the title role during part of the tour). In 1921 MacDonald played in Tangerine, as one of the "Six Wives." In 1922 MacDonald was a featured singer in a Greenwich Village revue, Fantastic Fricassee. Good press notices brought her a role in The Magic Ring (1923). MacDonald played the second female lead in this long-running musical which starred Mitzi Hajos. In 1925 MacDonald again had the second female lead opposite Queenie Smith in Tip Toes, a George Gershwin hit show. The following year found her still in a second female lead in Bubblin' Over (1926), a musical version of Brewster's Millions. MacDonald finally landed the starring role in Yes, Yes, Yvette (1927). Planned as a sequel to producer H.H. Frazee's No, No, Nanette, the show toured extensively but failed to please the critics when it arrived on Broadway. MacDonald also played the lead in her next two plays: Sunny Days (1928), her first show for producers Lee and J.J. Shubert, for which she received rave reviews, and Angela (1928), which the critics panned. Her last play was Boom Boom (1929), with her name above the title (the cast included young Archie Leach, who later changed his name to Cary Grant).
While MacDonald was appearing in Angela, film star Richard Dix spotted her and had her screen-tested for his film Nothing but the Truth. The Shuberts wouldn’t let her out of her contract to appear in the film, which starred Dix and Helen Kane, the "Boop-boop-a-doop girl". In 1929, famed film director Ernst Lubitsch was looking through old screen tests of Broadway performers and spotted MacDonald. He cast her as the leading lady in his first sound film, The Love Parade, which starred the Continental sensation Maurice Chevalier.
Motion pictures[link]
The Paramount years[link]
In the first rush of sound films, 1929–30, MacDonald starred in six films, the first four for Paramount Studios. Her first, The Love Parade (1929), directed by Lubitsch and co-starring Chevalier, was a landmark of early sound films and received a Best Picture nomination.[citation needed] MacDonald's first recordings were two hits from the score: "Dream Lover" and "March of the Grenadiers". The Vagabond King (1930) was a lavish two-strip Technicolor film version of Rudolf Friml's hit 1925 operetta. Broadway star Dennis King reprised his role as 15th-century French poet François Villon and MacDonald was Princess Katherine. She sang "Some Day" and "Only a Rose". The UCLA Film and Television Archive owns the only known color print of this production.
Paramount on Parade (1930) was a Paramount all-star revue, similar to other mammoth sound revues produced by major studios to introduce their formerly silent stars to the public. MacDonald's footage singing a duet of "Come Back to Sorrento" with Nino Martini was cut from the release print. Let's Go Native (1930), was a desert island comedy directed by Leo McCarey, co-starring Jack Oakie and Kay Francis. Monte Carlo (1930) was another highly regarded Lubitsch classic, with British musical star Jack Buchanan as a count who disguises himself as a hairdresser to woo a scatterbrained countess (Macdonald). MacDonald introduced "Beyond the Blue Horizon" which she recorded three times during her career.
In hopes of producing her own films, MacDonald went to United Artists to make The Lottery Bride (1930). Despite music by Rudolf Friml, the film was not successful. MacDonald next signed a three-picture deal with 20th Century Fox. Oh, for a Man! (1930) was more successful; MacDonald portrayed a temperamental opera singer who sings Wagner's "Liebestod" and falls for an Irish burglar played by Reginald Denny. Don't Bet on Women (1931) was a non-musical drawing room comedy in which playboy Edmund Lowe bets his happily married friend Roland Young that he can seduce Young's wife (MacDonald). Annabelle's Affairs (1931) was a farce with MacDonald as a sophisticated New York playgirl who doesn’t recognize her own miner husband, played by Victor MacLaglen, when he turns up 5 years later. Highly praised by reviewers at the time,[citation needed] only one reel of this film survives.
MacDonald took a break from Hollywood in 1931 to embark on a European concert tour. She returned to Paramount the following year for two films with Maurice Chevalier. One Hour with You (1932) was directed by both George Cukor and Ernst Lubitsch and simultaneously filmed in French with the same stars but a French supporting cast. Currently, there is no known surviving print of Une Heure près de toi (One Hour Near You). Rouben Mamoulian directed Love Me Tonight (1932), considered by many film critics and writers to be the ultimate film musical.[citation needed] Starring Chevalier as a humble tailor in love with a princess played by MacDonald, much of the story is told in sung dialogue. Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart wrote the original score, which included the standards "Mimi", "Lover", and "Isn't It Romantic?".
The MGM/Nelson Eddy years[link]
In 1933 MacDonald left again for Europe and while there, signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Her first MGM film was The Cat and the Fiddle (1934), based on the Jerome Kern Broadway hit. Her co-star was Ramón Novarro. The plot about unmarried lovers shacking up just barely slipped through the new Production Code guidelines that took effect July 1, 1934. Despite a Technicolor finale—the first use of the new three-color Technicolor process other than Disney cartoons—the film was not a huge success.
In The Merry Widow (1934), director Ernst Lubitsch reunited Maurice Chevalier and MacDonald in a lavish version of the classic 1905 Franz Lehár operetta. The film was highly regarded by critics and operetta lovers in major U.S. cities and Europe, but failed to generate much income outside urban areas. It had a huge budget, partially because it was filmed simultaneously in French as La Veuve Joyeuse, with a French supporting cast and some minor plot changes.
Naughty Marietta (1935), directed by W.S. Van Dyke, was MacDonald's first film in which she teamed with newcomer baritone Nelson Eddy. Victor Herbert's 1910 score, with songs like "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life", "I'm Falling in Love with Someone", "’Neath the Southern Moon", "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp", and "Italian Street Song", enjoyed renewed popularity. The film won an Oscar for sound recording and received an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. It was voted one of the Ten Best Pictures of 1935 by the New York film critics, was awarded the Photoplay Gold Medal Award as Best Picture of 1935 (beating out Mutiny on the Bounty, which won the Oscar), and, in 2004, was selected to the National Film Registry. MacDonald earned gold records for "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life" and "Italian Street Song".
The following year, MacDonald starred in two of the highest-grossing films of that year. In Rose-Marie (1936), MacDonald played a haughty opera diva who learns her kid brother (James Stewart) has killed a Mountie and is hiding in the northern woods; Eddy is the Mountie sent to capture him. She and Nelson Eddy sang Rudolf Friml's "Indian Love Call" to each other in the Canadian wilderness (actually filmed at Lake Tahoe). Eddy's definitive portrayal of the steadfast Mountie became a popular icon. When the Canadian Mounties temporarily retired their distinctive hat in 1970, photos of Eddy in his Rose Marie uniform appeared in thousands of U.S. newspapers. San Francisco (1936) was also directed by W.S. Van Dyke. In this tale of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, MacDonald played a hopeful opera singer opposite Clark Gable as the he-man proprietor of a Barbary Coast gambling joint, and Spencer Tracy as his boyhood priest chum who gives the moral messages.
In the summer of 1936 filming began on Maytime, co-starring Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan and Paul Lukas, produced by Irving Thalberg. After Thalberg's untimely death in September, the production was shut down and the half-finished film was scrapped. A new script was filmed with a different storyline and supporting actors (including John Barrymore). The 'second' Maytime (1937), was the top-grossing film worldwide of the year and is regarded as one of the best film musicals of the 1930s. [5] "Will You Remember" by Sigmund Romberg brought MacDonald another Gold record.
The Firefly (1937) was MacDonald's first solo-starring film at MGM with her name alone above the title. Rudolf Friml's 1912 stage score was borrowed and a new song, "The Donkey Serenade", added. With real-life Americans rushing to fight in the ongoing revolution in Spain, this historical vehicle was constructed around a previous revolution in Napoleonic times. MacDonald's co-star was Allan Jones. The MacDonald-Eddy team had split after MacDonald's engagement and marriage to Gene Raymond, but neither of their solo films grossed as much as the team films and by the fall of 1937, MGM was barraged with outraged fan mail.[citation needed] The Girl of the Golden West (1938) was the result, but the two stars had little screen time together and the main song, "Obey Your Heart", was never sung as a duet. The film had an original score by Sigmund Romberg and reused the popular David Belasco stage plot (also employed by opera composer Giacomo Puccini for La fanciulla del West).
Mayer had promised MacDonald the studio's first Technicolor feature and he delivered with Sweethearts (1938), co-starring Eddy. In contrast to the previous film, the co-stars were relaxed onscreen and singing frequently together. This box office smash hit integrated Victor Herbert's 1913 stage score into a modern backstage story scripted by Dorothy Parker. MacDonald and Eddy played a husband and wife Broadway musical comedy team who are offered a Hollywood contract. Sweethearts won the Photoplay Gold Medal Award as Best Picture of the Year.
After MacDonald suffered a miscarriage during the filming of Sweethearts,[6] Mayer dropped plans for the team to co-star in Let Freedom Ring, a vehicle first announced for them in 1935. Eddy made that film solo while MacDonald and Lew Ayres (Young Dr. Kildare) co-starred in Broadway Serenade (1939). They played a contemporary musical couple who clash when her career flourishes while his flounders. MacDonald's performance was subdued (Eddy married Ann Franklin during the filming) and choreographer Busby Berkeley, just hired away from Warner Bros., was called upon to add an over-the-top finale in an effort to improve the film.[citation needed]
Following Broadway Serenade, MacDonald left Hollywood on a concert tour and refused to re-sign her MGM contract. Eddy starred in a second solo film, Balalaika, while MacDonald's manager was summoned from London to help her renegotiate. After initially insisting she film Smilin' Through with James Stewart and Robert Taylor, MacDonald finally relented and agreed to film New Moon (1940) with Eddy. New Moon proved one of MacDonald's most popular films.[citation needed] Composer Sigmund Romberg's 1927 Broadway hit provided the plot and the songs: "Lover, Come Back to Me", "One Kiss", and "Wanting You", plus Eddy's version of "Stout Hearted Men". This was followed by Bitter Sweet (1940), a Technicolor film version of Noël Coward's 1929 stage operetta.
Smilin' Through (1941) was MacDonald's next Technicolor project. This 1919 stage play had been filmed a number of times. Its theme of reunion with deceased loved ones was enormously popular after the devastation of World War I, and MGM reasoned that it should resonate with filmgoers during World War II. MacDonald played a dual role—Moonyean, a Victorian girl accidentally murdered by a jealous lover, and Kathleen, her niece, who falls in love with the son of the murderer. The original co-stars, James Stewart and Robert Taylor, dropped out to help in the military effort and were replaced by Brian Aherne and Gene Raymond.
I Married an Angel (1942), was adapted from the Rodgers & Hart stage musical about an angel who loses her wings on her wedding night. The script by Anita Loos suffered serious censorship cuts during filming that made the result less successful. MacDonald sang "Spring Is Here" and the title song. It was the final film made by the team of MacDonald and Eddy. After a falling-out with Mayer, Eddy bought out his MGM contract (with one film left to make) and went to Universal, where he signed a million-dollar, two-picture deal. MacDonald remained for one last film, Cairo (1942), a cheaply-budgeted spy comedy co-starring Robert Young (Father Knows Best) and Ethel Waters, who played MacDonald's singing maid.
Later career[link]
MacDonald followed Eddy to Universal, where they were scheduled to make one film together after he finished Phantom of the Opera (1943). MacDonald marked time by appearing as herself in Follow the Boys (1944), an all-star extravaganza about Hollywood stars entertaining the troops. The more than 40 guest stars included Marlene Dietrich, W.C. Fields, Sophie Tucker and Orson Welles. MacDonald is shown during an actual concert singing "Beyond the Blue Horizon", and in a studio-filmed sequence singing "I’ll See You in My Dreams" to a blinded soldier.
After MacDonald and Eddy left MGM in 1942, they appeared frequently on radio together while planning several unrealized films that would have reunited them onscreen. Eddy was upset at how his first film turned out at Universal so their joint project at that studio fell through. They next sought independent financing for team projects like East Wind and Crescent Carnival, a book optioned by MacDonald. Other thwarted projects were The Rosary, a 1910 best seller (which Nelson Eddy pitched for a team comeback at MGM), The Desert Song and a remake of The Vagabond King, plus two movie treatments written by Eddy, "Timothy Waits for Love" and "All Stars Don't Spangle." In 1954 Eddy pulled out of yet another proposed team film to be made in England when he learned MacDonald was investing her own funds. He had invested in 1944's Knickerbocker Holiday, and had lost money.
MacDonald returned solo to MGM after 5 years off the screen for two films. Three Daring Daughters (1948), co-starred José Iturbi as her love interest. MacDonald plays a divorcée whose lively daughters (Jane Powell, Ann E. Todd, and Elinor Donahue) keep trying to get her back with her ex, while she has secretly remarried. "The Dickey Bird" song made the Hit Parade. The Sun Comes Up (1949), teamed MacDonald with Lassie, in an adaptation of a short story by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. MacDonald played a widow who has also lost her son, but warms to orphan Claude Jarman Jr. It was her final film.
Offers continued to come in and in 1962 producer Ross Hunter proposed teaming MacDonald and Eddy for featured roles in his 1963 comedy smash, The Thrill of It All. They declined and the roles were eventually played by Arlene Francis and Edward Andrews. 20th Century Fox also toyed with the idea of MacDonald (Irene Dunne was also briefly considered) for the part of Mother Abbess in the film version of The Sound of Music. It never moved beyond the discussion stages partly because of MacDonald's failing health.
An annual poll of film exhibitors listed MacDonald as one of the top ten box-office draws of 1936,[citation needed] and many of her films were among the top 20 moneymakers of the years they were released.[citation needed] In addition, MacDonald was one of the top ten box-office attractions in Great Britain from 1937–1942 inclusive.[citation needed] During her 39-year career, MacDonald earned two stars in the Hollywood Walk of Fame (for films and recordings) and planted her feet in the wet cement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater.
Concerts[link]
Starting in 1931 and continuing through the 1950s, MacDonald did regular concert tours between films. Her first European tour was in 1931, where she sang in both France and England. Her first American concert tour was in 1939, immediately after the completion of Broadway Serenade and Nelson Eddy's marriage. After that she, like Eddy, did frequent U.S. tours between films. She sang several times at the Hollywood Bowl and Carnegie Hall.
When America joined World War II in 1941, MacDonald was one of the founders of the Army Emergency Relief and raised funds on concert tours. She auctioned off encores for donations and raised over $100,000 for the troops. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who considered MacDonald and Eddy two of his favorite film stars, awarded her a medal. She also did command performances at the White House for both Presidents Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower.
In early 1960, The Hollywood Bowl announced that MacDonald and Howard Keel would be the guests soloists at the annual Easter Sunrise Service. However, health problems forced her to cancel her appearance. By the summer of 1960, MacDonald was seriously ill and her autobiography collaborator, Fredda Dudley Balling, wrote that it was uncertain whether she would live long enough to finish the book.[7] Besides her heart problems, MacDonald suffered from a benign, non-operable brain tumor.[8]
Recordings[link]
MacDonald recorded more than 90 songs during her career, working exclusively for RCA-Victor in the United States. She also did some early recordings for HMV in England and France while she was there on a concert tour in 1931. She earned three gold records, one for an LP album that she did with Nelson Eddy in 1957.
Opera[link]
Unlike Nelson Eddy, who came from opera to film, MacDonald in the 1940s yearned to reinvent herself in opera. She began training for this goal with Lotte Lehmann, one of the leading opera stars of the early 20th Century.
"When Jeanette MacDonald approached me for coaching lessons", wrote Lehmann, "I was really curious how a glamorous movie star, certainly spoiled by the adoration of a limitless world, would be able to devote herself to another, a higher level of art. I had the surprise of my life. There couldn’t have been a more diligent, a more serious, a more pliable person than Jeanette. The lessons which I had started with a kind of suspicious curiosity, turned out to be sheer delight for me. She studied Marguerite with me—and lieder. These were the ones which astounded me most. I am quite sure that Jeanette would have developed into a serious and successful lieder singer if time would have allowed it."[9]
MacDonald made her opera debut singing Juliette in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette in Montreal at His Majesty's Theatre (May 8 and 10, 1943). She quickly repeated the role in Quebec City (May 12) Ottawa and Toronto. Her U.S. debut with the Chicago Opera Company (November 4, 11 and 15, 1944) was in the same role. She also sang Marguerite in Gounod's Faust with the Chicago Opera. In November 1945, she did two more performances of Roméo et Juliette and one of Faust in Chicago, and two Fausts for the Cincinnati Opera. On December 12, 1951, she did one performance of Faust with the Philadelphia Civic Grand Opera Company at the Academy of Music.
Claudia Cassidy, the music critic of the Chicago Tribune wrote: "Her Juliet is breathtakingly beautiful to the eye and dulcet to the ear."[10] The same critic reviewed Faust: "From where I sit at the opera, Jeanette MacDonald has turned out to be one of the welcome surprises of the season... her Marguerite was better than her Juliet...beautifully sung with purity of line and tone, a good trill, and a Gallic inflection that understood Gounod's phrasing....You felt if Faust must sell his soul to the devil, at least this time he got his money's worth."[11]
Radio and television[link]
MacDonald's extensive radio career may have begun on a 1929 radio broadcast of the Publix Hour. She was on the Academy Awards ceremony broadcast in 1931. She hosted her own radio show, Vicks Open House, from September 1937 to March 1938, for which she received $5,000 a week. However, the time demands of doing a weekly live radio show while filming, touring in concerts and making records proved enormously difficult, and after fainting on-air during one show, she decided not to renew her radio contract with Vicks at the end of the 26-week season. Thereafter, she stuck to guest appearances.
MacDonald appeared in condensed radio versions of many of her films on programs like Cecil B. DeMille's Lux Radio Theater, usually with Nelson Eddy, and the Railroad Hour which starred Gordon MacRae. These included The Merry Widow, Naughty Marietta, Rose Marie, Maytime, Sweethearts, Bitter Sweet, Smilin' Through, and The Sun Comes Up, plus other operettas and musicals like Victor Herbert's Mlle Modiste, Irene, The Student Prince, Tonight or Never with Melvyn Douglas, A Song for Clotilda, The Gift of the Magi, and Apple Blossoms. Other radio shows included The Prudential Family Hour, Screen Guild Playhouse and The Voice of Firestone which featured the top opera and concert singers of the time. In 1953, MacDonald sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the inauguration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, which was broadcast on both radio and TV.
MacDonald sang frequently with Nelson Eddy during the mid 1940s on several Lux Radio Theater and The Screen Guild Theater productions of their films together. She also appeared as his guest several times on his various radio shows such as The Electric Hour and The Kraft Music Hall. He was also a surprise guest when she hosted a war bonds program called Guest Star, and they sang on other World War II victory shows together. The majority of her radio work in the mid to late 1940s was with Eddy. Her 1948 Hollywood Bowl concert was also broadcast over the air, in which she used Eddy's longtime accompanist, Theodore Paxson.
MacDonald appeared on early TV, most frequently as a singing guest star. She sang on The Voice of Firestone on November 13, 1950. On November 12, 1952, she was the subject of Ralph Edwards' This Is Your Life. Nelson Eddy appeared as a voice from her past, singing the song he sang at her wedding to Gene Raymond. His surprise appearance brought her to tears.
Shortly thereafter, she appeared as the mystery guest on the December 21, 1952 episode of What's My Line?. After the panelists guessed her identity, she told John Daly she was in town in New York for the holidays. She also said that on January 16, 1953, she was going to have a recital at Carnegie Hall.
On February 2, 1956 MacDonald starred in Prima Donna, a television pilot for her own series, written for her by her husband, Gene Raymond. The initial show featured guest stars Leo Durocher and Larraine Day, but it failed to find a slot.
In December 1956 MacDonald and Eddy made their first TV appearance as a team on the Lux Video Theatre Holiday Special. In 1957, she and Eddy appeared on Patti Page's program, The Big Record, singing several songs.
On Playhouse 90 (March 28, 1957), MacDonald played Charley's real aunt to Art Carney's impersonation in "Charley's Aunt."
War work[link]
After the United States entered World War II in December 1941, MacDonald continued to sing in concerts and on radio, and much of her time was devoted to war work. She was one of the founders of the Women's Voluntary Services and was active with the Army Emergency Relief. She raised over $100,000 for them with benefit concerts throughout the country in the fall of 1943, for which FDR awarded her a medal. She did extensive free concerts for the military through the U.S.O, and after each of her regular "civilian" concert, she would auction off encores and donated the money to wartime charities. She was surprised to find that the song she was most often asked to sing was "Ave Maria." When she was home in Hollywood, she held open house at her home, Twin Gables, on Sunday afternoons for G.I.s. On one occasion, at the request of Lt. Ronald Reagan, she was singing for a large group of men in San Francisco who were due to ship out to the fierce fighting in the South Pacific. She closed with "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", and 20,000 voices spontaneously joined in.
Musical theatre[link]
In the mid-1950s, MacDonald toured in summer stock productions of Bitter Sweet and The King and I She opened in Bitter Sweet at the Iroquois Amphitheater, Louisville, Kentucky, on July 19, 1954. Her production of The King and I opened August 20, 1956 at the Starlight Theatre. While performing there, she collapsed. Officially it was heat prostration but in fact it was a heart seizure. She began limiting her appearances and a reprisal of Bitter Sweet in 1959 was her last professional appearance.
MacDonald and her husband, Gene Raymond, toured in Ferenc Molnár's The Guardsman. The production opened at the Erlanger Theater, Buffalo, New York on January 25, 1951 and played in 23 northeastern and midwestern cities until June 2, 1951. Despite less than enthusiastic comments from critics, the show played to full houses for virtually every performance. The leading role of "The Actress" was changed to "The Singer" to allow MacDonald to add some songs. While this pleased her fans, the show still closed before reaching Broadway.
In the 1950s there were talks with respect to a Broadway return. In the 1960s, MacDonald was approached about starring on Broadway in a musical version of Sunset Boulevard. Harold Prince recounts in his autobiography, visiting MacDonald at her home in Bel Air to discuss the proposed project. Composer Hugh Martin also wrote a song for the musical entitled, "Wasn't It Romantic?".
MacDonald also made a few nightclub appearances. She sang and danced at The Sands and The Sahara in Las Vegas in 1953, The Coconut Grove in Los Angeles in 1954, and again at The Sahara in 1957, but she never felt entirely comfortable in the smoky atmosphere.
Personal life[link]
MacDonald had five documented serious romances. The first was wealthy NYU student Jack Ohmeis, whom she dated from 1922 until 1927. They became engaged in 1926 but his family objected to his marrying an actress. Ironically, the Ohmeis family fortunes were lost in the 1929 stock market crash and MacDonald later loaned money to Jack Ohmeis.[12]
MacDonald next dated Irving Stone from around 1926-8; they apparently met when she was touring in Chicago in Yes, Yes, Yvette.[12] Stone, who lived in Milwaukee, was the nephew of the founder of the Boston Store and worked in the family business. Few details were known of Stone's romance with MacDonald until the discovery of hundreds of pages of handwritten love letters she wrote him that were found in his apartment after his death.
In 1928 Robert George Ritchie became MacDonald's manager and fiancé. They were together until 1935 and presumed by many to be married. MacDonald dared anyone to prove it. However, MacDonald wrote Ritchie a letter in July 1929 calling him "my own darling husband" and on the envelope she gave her return address initials as "JAR" (Jeanette Anna Ritchie).[13] On March 29, 1931 MacDonald wrote Irving Stone that she was engaged to Ritchie[14] and on July 8, 1931 she wrote him again from Europe that "I didn't get married on June 9."[15] Ritchie's nephew and the remaining family claimed that there was a Ritchie-MacDonald marriage and that it was annulled, possibly in Hawaii, in 1935. If so, details have never come to light. However, MacDonald was photographed in Hawaii just prior to the release of Naughty Marietta (1935).
The Bob Ritchie romance began to sour when MacDonald became friendly with Nelson Eddy in late 1933. In January 1934 the trades announced they would be co-starring in Naughty Marietta.[16] They dated on and off throughout 1934 but after MacDonald's 1935 Hawaii trip, Eddy became more persistent in his marriage proposals[citation needed]. The problem was that Eddy wanted her to retire and raise their children; MacDonald preferred to put her career first[citation needed]. They fought constantly over this and broke up in early June 1935.[citation needed]
Later that month, MacDonald met the actor Gene Raymond at a party and began dating him. Blond Raymond resembled Nelson Eddy and the two men were sometimes mistaken for each other when seen publicly with MacDonald.[17] During summer 1935, MacDonald rekindled the relationship with Eddy when they began filming Rose Marie. MacDonald later called it "the happiest summer of my life".[18] While on location at Lake Tahoe, they became secretly engaged. Then MacDonald became pregnant and was ordered by MGM studio boss Louis B. Mayer to have an abortion. Eddy did not believe her when she claimed to have miscarried, and he broke off the engagement.[19]
On June 16, 1937 MacDonald married Gene Raymond in a traditional ceremony at Wilshire Methodist Church in Los Angeles. They remained married until MacDonald's death. Raymond was also a songwriter, and MacDonald introduced two of his songs in her concerts. In addition to the TV pilot Prima Donna that Raymond wrote for her, they also did a few radio shows together and toured in The Guardsman on stage. But even with their infrequent attempts to work together, including the film Smilin' Through, the public was indifferent to them as a team as evidenced by only fair box-office receipts. According to published books, including Sweethearts by Sharon Rich and The Golden Girls Of MGM by Jane Ellen Wayne, Gene Raymond engaged in numerous affairs with men and their marriage was problematic. MacDonald addressed this issue in her unpublished autobiography (now published in a facsimile edition; see Controversy section) and mentioned several separations and marital problems. After her death, Raymond and his friends (including the MacDonald fan club, which remained associated with Raymond until his death) disputed these claims.
Nelson Eddy attempted a reconciliation with MacDonald in 1938 but again had interference from Louis B. Mayer, who felt that divorce might harm MacDonald's saintly image with her fans. Eddy eloped to Las Vegas with Ann Franklin in January 1939. His marriage also lasted until death.
Death[link]
MacDonald suffered in her later years with heart trouble. She worsened in 1963 and underwent an arterial transplant at Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas. Nelson Eddy, in Australia on a nightclub tour, pleaded illness and returned to the States at word of MacDonald's surgery. After the operation, she developed pleurisy and was hospitalized for two-and-a-half months. Her friends kept the news from the press until just before her release. Her large home was sold and she moved into a Los Angeles apartment that would not require so much of her energies. Her husband, Gene Raymond, moved into an adjoining apartment. Nelson Eddy took his own apartment in the opposite building.[20] MacDonald was again stricken in 1964. Nelson Eddy was with her when she was admitted to UCLA Medical Center, where on Christmas Eve she was operated on for abdominal adhesions. She was able to go home for New Year's, but in mid-January husband Raymond flew her back to Houston. It was hoped that pioneer heart surgeon Dr. Michael DeBakey, who had recently operated successfully on the Duke of Windsor, could perform the same miracle for her. She checked in on January 12, and a program of intravenous feedings was begun to build her up for possible surgery. MacDonald died two days later on January 14 at 4:32 pm, with her husband at her bedside. According to press reports, MacDonald's last words to Raymond while he massaged her feet were "I love you". He replied "I love you, too"; she smiled and succumbed.
MacDonald was interred on January 18, 1965 in a crypt at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California which reads Jeanette MacDonald Raymond. Nelson Eddy, who told Jack Paar on The Tonight Show, "I love her [MacDonald]", broke down when interviewed by the press the evening of her death. He survived MacDonald by two years.
A decade after MacDonald's death in 1965 Gene Raymond remarried. His second wife, a Canadian heiress, was the former Mrs. Bentley Hees. Her first name was, coincidentally, Nelson. "Nels", as she was called, died in 1995. Raymond died on May 3, 1998 and was laid to rest next to Jeanette MacDonald at Forest Lawn, Glendale, California.
Controversy[link]
A controversy exists concerning the private lives of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. John Kenneth Hilliard, a sound engineer backstage at MGM from 1933 to 1942, reported in 1981 that though Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald were a screen couple, they "hated each other with a vengeance".[21] Hilliard worked on Naughty Marietta and it is common knowledge that MacDonald's initial iciness toward Eddy almost caused Eddy to walk off that film. There were three film sets on which they battled off-screen: the second half of Rose Marie, after MacDonald's refusal to elope to Reno with Eddy; The Girl of the Golden West, filmed immediately after MacDonald's marriage; and New Moon, filmed after Eddy's marriage. Nevertheless, an off-screen affair was verified from another MGM sound engineer who built Eddy's home recording equipment, and other MGM staff such as makeup artists William Tuttle and Fred Phillips.
Contemporary magazine writer Sandy Reiss reported that a private trailer was set up for the two on Maytime and that the crew called them "the lovebirds." Other MGM co-workers claimed that Eddy and MacDonald were closest during the filming of Sweethearts and I Married an Angel. After the MGM years, their private lives fell off the Hollywood radar. Baritone Theodor Uppman, who won the Atwater Kent opera auditions and later sang at the Metropolitan Opera, saw Eddy and MacDonald at a 1947 party together, where the talk of the evening was the fact that MacDonald was pregnant with Eddy's child but he could not get a divorce.
In the biography Sweethearts by Sharon Rich, the author presents MacDonald and Eddy as continuing an adulterous affair after their marriages. Rich claims the relationship lasted, with a few breaks, until MacDonald's death. Rich also interviewed about 200 others including celebrities who also spoke candidly. Apparently, Rich additionally had access to hundreds of pages of personal letters, some of them handwritten by MacDonald, others part of a correspondence between Eddy's mother and a close friend. Another biography, Hollywood Diva by Edward Baron Turk, denies there was any such affair. An erroneous rumor has been floated that "Hollywood Diva" is an "authorized" biography. Turk states that this was not the case, that he was the only MacDonald biographer to have interviewed Gene Raymond at length; but that neither Raymond nor anyone else vetted the book.
In MacDonald's autobiography (the 1960 typewritten manuscript published as a facsimile edition in 2004), MacDonald writes: "I remember seeing Nelson for the first time and thinking he fulfilled most of my requirements in a man."[22] She later mentions an "attraction Nelson and I might have had for each other" prior to marrying Raymond[23] and also devotes several pages to marital problems immediately after her honeymoon (pages 337-99, 344) and again in the post-war years.[24]
Posthumous honours and commemorations[link]
The USC Thornton School of Music built a Jeanette MacDonald Recital Hall in her honour. [3]
Filmography[link]
- The Love Parade (1929)
- The Vagabond King (1930)
- Paramount on Parade (1930) (scenes deleted, except for a far shot in a gondola number with Nino Martini)
- Let's Go Native (1930)
- Monte Carlo (1930)
- The Lottery Bride (1930)
- Oh, for a Man (1930)
- Don't Bet on Women (1931)
- Annabelle's Affairs (1931)
- Hollywood on Parade (Short subject, 1932)
- One Hour with You (1932) (a French version was also filmed)
- Love Me Tonight (1932)
- The Cat and the Fiddle (1934)
- The Merry Widow (1934) (a French version was also filmed)
- Naughty Marietta (1935)
- Rose Marie (1936)
- San Francisco (1936)
- Maytime (1937)
- The Firefly (1937)
- The Girl of the Golden West (1938)
- Hollywood Goes to Town (Short subject, 1938)
- Sweethearts (1938)
- Broadway Serenade (1939)
- The Miracle of Sound (Short subject, 1940)
- New Moon (1940)
- Bitter Sweet (1940)
- Smilin' Through (1941)
- I Married an Angel (1942)
- Cairo (1942)
- Follow the Boys (1944)
- Three Daring Daughters (1948)
- The Sun Comes Up (1949)
Television[link]
- Prima Donna (1956)
- Charley's Aunt (1957)
See also[link]
- Harold Harby, Los Angeles City Council member, 1939–42, 1943–57, praised her singing
Footnotes[link]
- ^ Baptismal record with MacDonald's 1903 birthdate at http://www.maceddy.com/page.html?id=3
- ^ [1]
- ^ [2]
- ^ http://legendaryjeanettemacdonald.com/earlyyears.html
- ^ "Altogether, it's possible that this is one of the best and most competently handled operettas that Hollywood has turned out." John Mosher, The New Yorker, March 27, 1937, p. 70
- ^ Rich (2001), p. 237
- ^ Rich (2004), p. 17
- ^ Rich (2004), p. 11
- ^ Rich (2001), p. 329
- ^ Rich (2001), p. 330
- ^ Rich (2001), p. 177
- ^ a b Jeanette MacDonald: The Irving Stone Letters, page 12
- ^ Sweethearts, page 509, photograph of the letter and envelope.
- ^ Jeanette MacDonald: The Irving Stone Letters, page 157
- ^ Jeanette MacDonald: The Irving Stone Letters, page 162
- ^ Hollywood Reporter, January 4, 1934
- ^ Edward R. Murrow's Person to Person (10/3/58)
- ^ Sweethearts, page 148
- ^ Published interviews with Fred Phillips (Eddy's makeup man on Rose Marie), June Swift Thompson (a dancer in the film), and MacDonald's own letter to Bob Ritchie are reprinted and quoted at length in the book Sweethearts, among other contemporaries on the set of the film such as Ruth Van Dyke, wife of the film's director Woody Van Dyke.
- ^ Wilshire Comstock lease papers; after Eddy's death his widow moved into his apartment.
- ^ "An Afternoon With: John K. Hilliard", AES Journal, Vol. 37 No. 7/8 July/August (1989)
- ^ Rich (2004), p. 260
- ^ Rich (2004), p. 267
- ^ Rich (2004), pp. 400, 412-22, 428, 431-33
References[link]
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- Barclay, Florence L., The Rosary by Florence L. Barclay, new introduction by Sharon Rich, comments by Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, Bell Harbour Press, 2005. This 1910 #1 best seller featured two singers in a "Jane Eyre" plot, and the heroine's nickname was Jeanette. Eddy chose it as a possible film vehicle for himself and MacDonald in 1948. This edition features a new introduction with excerpts from their written correspondence of 1948, in which the film project was discussed.
- Castanza, Philip, The Films of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, Citadel Press, 1978.
- Eddy, Nelson, "All Stars Don't Spangle" movie treatment for himself and MacDonald, reprinted in its entirety in Mac/Eddy Today magazine, issue #50.
- Hamann, G.D. (Ed.), Collections of contemporary newspaper and magazine references in the following: Jeanette MacDonald in the 30's. (141 pp.), Jeanette MacDonald in the 40's (100 pp.), Nelson Eddy in the 30's and 40's (128 pp.), and Filming Today Press, 2005, Hollywood, California (www.GDHamann.com).
- Knowles (Dugan), Eleanor, The Films of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, Booksurge Llc, 2006.
- Rich, Sharon (2002). Jeanette MacDonald: The Irving Stone Letters. Bell Harbour Press. ISBN 0-9711998-4-1. Letters by MacDonald are reproduced and annotated. MacDonald dated Stone in 1927-28 and remained friends afterwards, so most of these are love letters. In one letter from August 1929 she tells Stone she is recovering from a heart attack.
- Rich, Sharon (2004). Jeanette MacDonald Autobiography: The Lost Manuscript. Bell Harbour Press. ISBN 0-9711998-8-4.
- Rich, Sharon (2001). Nelson Eddy: The Opera Years. Bell Harbour Press. ISBN 0-9711998-0-9.
- Rich, Sharon (Bell Harbour Press). Sweethearts: The Timeless Love Affair Onscreen and Off Between Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. 2001. ISBN 0-9711998-1-7. This is an updated edition of Rich,Sharon, Sweethearts: The Timeless Love Affair - On-screen and Off - Between Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, Donald I. Fine, 1994. Footnotes are from 2001 edition.
- Turk, Edward Baron, Hollywood Diva: A Biography of Jeanette MacDonald, University of California Press, 1998.
External links[link]
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- Jeanette MacDonald at the Internet Broadway Database
- Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy Home Page
- Jeanette MacDonald at Find a Grave
- Jeanette MacDonald at the TCM Movie Database
- Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy: A Tribute
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| Alternative names | MacDonald, Jeanette Anna |
| Short description | Singer, actress |
| Date of birth | June 18, 1903 |
| Place of birth | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Date of death | January 14, 1965 |
| Place of death | Houston, Texas, U.S. |
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The native form of this personal name is Hajmássy, Ilona. This article uses the Western name order.
| Ilona Massey | |
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 Ilona Massey, 1941 |
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| Born | Ilona Hajmássy (1910-06-16)June 16, 1910 Budapest, Austria-Hungary (now Budapest, Hungary) |
| Died | August 20, 1974(1974-08-20) (aged 64) Bethesda, Maryland, USA |
| Years active | 1935-1959 |
| Spouse | Nick Szavazd (m.1935-1936; divorced) Alan Curtis (m.1941-1942; divorced) Charles Walker (m.1952-1954; divorced) Donald Dawson (m.1955-1974; her death) |
Ilona Massey, born Ilona Hajmássy, (June 16, 1910 – August 20, 1974[1]) was a film, stage and radio performer.
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Early life and career[link]
She was born in Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Hungary). Billed as "the new Dietrich", she starred in three films with Nelson Eddy, including Rosalie (1937), and with Lon Chaney, Jr. in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) as Baroness Frankenstein. In 1943, she appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies.
In 1947, she starred with Eddy in Northwest Outpost, a musical film composed by Rudolf Friml.[2] In 1949, she starred in Love Happy with the Marx Brothers. She played Madame Egelichi, a femme fatale spy, and her performance inspired Milton Caniff in the creation of his femme fatale spy, Madame Lynx, in the comic strip "Steve Canyon". Caniff hired Massey to pose for him.[3]
From 1 November 1954, she hosted DuMont's The Ilona Massey Show, a weekly musical variety show in which she sang songs with guests in a nightclub stage set, with music provided by the Irving Fields Trio. The series lasted through 1955.
Politics[link]
Becoming an American citizen in 1946, she remained strongly anti-communist for what she saw as the destruction of her native country, at one point picketing the United Nations during the 1956 visit of Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev.
Death[link]
Ilona Massey died of cancer in Bethesda, Maryland and was buried in Virginia's Arlington National Cemetery near her last husband, Donald Dawson, who had served in the United States Air Force Reserve as a Major General.
Partial filmography[link]
- Balalaika (1939)
- International Lady (1941)
- The Great Awakening (1941)
- Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
- Holiday in Mexico (1946)
- Love Happy (1949)
- Jet Over the Atlantic (1959)
References[link]
- ^ However her date of birth has also been cited as July 5, 1912 and her date of death as August 10 or 12, 1974. This article uses the dates on her gravestone, on the assumption that they are the most accurate.
- ^ Northwest Outpost at the IMDB database, accessed June 23, 2010
- ^ Pageant May 1953, V8 n11
External links[link]
- Ilona Massey at the Internet Movie Database
- Ilona Massey at the Internet Broadway Database
- Ilona Massey at Find a Grave
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| Name | Massey, Ilona |
| Alternative names | Hajmássy, Ilona |
| Short description | Actress |
| Date of birth | June 16, 1910 |
| Place of birth | Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Budapest, Hungary) |
| Date of death | August 20, 1974 |
| Place of death | Bethesda, Maryland, U.S. |
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This article is about the actress. For other uses, see Rose Marie (disambiguation).
| Rose Marie | |
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 Rose Marie on May 6, 2010 |
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| Born | Rose Marie Mazetta (1923-08-15) August 15, 1923 (age 88) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress, singer |
| Years active | 1926–present |
Rose Marie (born August 15, 1923) is an American actress. As a child performer she had a successful singing career as Baby Rose Marie.
A veteran of vaudeville, Rose Marie's career includes film, records, theater, night clubs, and television. Her most famous role was television comedy writer Sally Rogers on the CBS situation comedy The Dick Van Dyke Show. She later portrayed Myrna Gibbons on CBS's The Doris Day Show and was also a frequent panelist on the game show Hollywood Squares.
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Early years[link]
Rose Marie Mazetta was born in New York City, New York, to Italian-American Frank Mazzetta and Polish-American Stella Gluszcak. At the age of three, she started performing under the name "Baby Rose Marie." At five, Rose Marie became a radio star on NBC and made a series of films.
Rose Marie was a nightclub performer in her teenage years before becoming a radio comedian. She was billed then as "The Darling of the Airwaves." According to her autobiography, Hold the Roses,[1] she was assisted in her career by many members of organized crime, including Al Capone and Bugsy Siegel. She performed at the opening night of the Flamingo Hotel which was built by Siegel.[2]
At her height of fame as a child singer (late 1929–1934), she had her own radio show, made numerous records, and was featured in a number of Paramount films and shorts. In 1929, the five- or six-year-old singer made a Vitaphone sound short titled "Baby Rose Marie the Child Wonder," (now restored and available in the Warner Brothers DVD set of The Jazz Singer). For her first recording session, in 1932, she was accompanied by Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra. She continued to appear in films through the mid-1930s, making shorts and a feature, International House with W. C. Fields, for Paramount.
Television[link]
In the 1960–1961 season, Rose Marie co-starred with Shirley Bonne, Elaine Stritch, Jack Weston, Raymond Bailey, and Stubby Kaye in the CBS sitcom My Sister Eileen. She played Bertha, a friend of the Sherwood sisters, Ruth, a magazine writer, played by Stritch, and Eileen, an aspiring actress, Bonne's role.
After starring for all five seasons of The Dick Van Dyke Show (in the role originally played by Sylvia Miles in the pilot episode), Rose Marie co-starred on CBS's The Doris Day Show as Doris Martin's friend and co-worker, Myrna Gibbons. She later had a semi-regular seat in the upper center square on the original version of Peter Marshall's Hollywood Squares, alongside her friend and longtime Van Dyke co-star, Morey Amsterdam. She also appeared on both 1986 and 1998 syndicated revival.
In the early 1990s, she had a recurring role as Frank Fontana's mother on the CBS sitcom Murphy Brown. She also played Roy Biggins's domineering mother, Eleanor "Bluto" Biggins in the TV series Wings.
Rose Marie and Morey Amsterdam guest-starred together in a February 1996 episode of the NBC sitcom Caroline in the City, shortly before Amsterdam's death in October of that same year. She appeared with the surviving Dick Van Dyke Show cast members in a 2004 reunion special. Rose Marie was especially close to actor Richard Deacon from that show, and offered him the suits left behind when her husband died in 1964, as the two men were of similar height and build. She was married to trumpeter Bobby Guy from 1946 until his death in 1964.[3]
She also appeared in two episodes of the NBC series The Monkees in the mid 1960s.
Theater[link]
From 1977–81, she co-starred with Rosemary Clooney, Helen O'Connell and Margaret Whiting in the musical revue 4 Girls 4, which toured the U.S. and appeared on television several times. As of 2011, she continues to occasionally perform.
Filmography[link]
Features[link]
- International House (1933)
- Top Banana (1954)
- The Big Beat (1958)
- Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title (1966)
- Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966)
- Memory of Us (1974)
- The Man from Clover Grove (1975)
- Bruce's Deadly Fingers (1976)
- Cheaper to Keep Her (1980)
- Lunch Wagon (1981)
- Witchboard (1986)
- Sandman (1993)
- Psycho (1998)
- Lost & Found (1999)
- Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth (2000)
- Surge of Power: The Stuff of Heroes (2004)
Short subjects[link]
- Baby Rose Marie the Child Wonder (1929)
- Rambling 'Round Radio Row #4 (1932)
- Back in '23 (1933)
- Sing, Babies, Sing (1933)
- Rambling 'Round Radio Row (1934)
- At the Mike (1934)
- Surprising Suzie (1953)
Television work[link]
- The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1960)
- The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966)
- The Hollywood Squares (1966–1981) (regular panelist)
- Walter of the Jungle (1967) (unsold pilot)
- The Virginian (1967)
- The Doris Day Show (cast member from 1969–1971)
- S.W.A.T. (1975) (multiple cameos as Hilda, the sandwich delivery lady)
- Bridge Across Time (1985)
- Remington Steele (1986) (Series 4 Episode 17 - Steele in the Spotlight)
- The Jackie Bison Show (1990) (unsold pilot) (voice)
- Scorch (1992) (canceled after 3 episodes)
- Hardball (1994) (canceled after 7 episodes)
- Cagney & Lacey: Together Again (1995)
- Wings (1997)
- Suddenly Susan (1997)
- The Hughleys (2001)
- Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales (2003)
- The Alan Brady Show (2003) (voice)
- The Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited (2004)
- The Monkees (TV series) Monkee Mother (1967) … Milly
References[link]
- ^ Hold the Roses, ISBN 0-8131-2264-3
- ^ Meyer Lansky: Mogul of the Mob, ISBN 0-7092-0151-6
- ^ "Rose Marie Takes Role On Stage, Nixes Clubs"
Rose Marie appeared on "Caroline In The City" with Morey Amsterdam. The episode was about an old desk Caroline had picked up.
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- An interview with Rose Marie, March 2011
- Rose Marie at the Internet Movie Database
- Rose Marie Interview with Archive of American Television
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| Name | Rose Marie |
| Alternative names | Mazetta, Rose Marie |
| Short description | American actress |
| Date of birth | August 15, 1923 |
| Place of birth | New York City, New York, U.S. |
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| Eleanor Powell | |
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| Born | Eleanor Torrey Powell (1912-11-21)November 21, 1912 Springfield, Massachusetts, United States |
| Died | February 11, 1982(1982-02-11) (aged 69) Beverly Hills, California, United States |
| Occupation | Actress/Dancer |
| Years active | 1928–1953 |
| Spouse | Glenn Ford (1943–1959) |
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Eleanor Torrey Powell (November 21, 1912 – February 11, 1982) was an American film actress and dancer of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her exuberant solo tap dancing.
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Early life[link]
Powell was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. A dancer since childhood, she was discovered at the age of 11 by the head of the Vaudeville Kiddie revue, Gus Edwards. When she was 17, she brought her graceful, athletic style to Broadway, where she starred in various revues and musicals. During this time, she was dubbed "the world's greatest tap dancer" due to her machine-gun footwork, and in the early 1930s appeared as a chorus girl in a couple of early, inconsequential musical films.
Road to Hollywood[link]
In 1935, the leggy, fresh-faced Powell made the move to Hollywood and did a specialty number in her first major film, George White's 1935 Scandals which she later described as a disaster because she was accidentally made up to look like an Egyptian. The experience left her unimpressed with Hollywood and when she was courted by MGM, she initially refused their offers of a contract. Reportedly, Powell attempted to dissuade the studio by making what she felt were unreasonable salary demands, but MGM agreed to them and she finally accepted. The studio groomed her for stardom, making minimal changes in her makeup and conduct.
Film stardom[link]
She was well-received in her first starring role in 1935's Broadway Melody of 1936 (in which she was supported by Jack Benny and Frances Langford), and delighted 1930s audiences with her endless energy and enthusiasm, not to mention her stunning dancing. According to dancer Ann Miller, quoted in the "making-of" documentary That's Entertainment! III, MGM was headed for bankruptcy in the late 1930s, but the films of Eleanor Powell, particularly Broadway Melody of 1936, were so popular they made the company profitable again. Miller also credits Powell for inspiring her own dancing career, which would lead her to become an MGM musical star a decade later.
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Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell dance to "Begin the Beguine" in Broadway Melody of 1940.
Powell would go on to star opposite many of the decade's top leading men, including James Stewart, Robert Taylor, Fred Astaire, George Murphy, Nelson Eddy, and Robert Young. Among the films she made during the height of her career in the mid-to-late 1930s were Born to Dance (1936), Rosalie (1937), Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937), Honolulu (1939), and Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940). All of these movies featured her amazing solo tapping, although her increasingly huge production numbers began to draw criticism. Her characters also sang, but Powell's singing voice was usually (but not always) dubbed. (This would also happen to one of Powell's successors, Cyd Charisse). Broadway Melody of 1940, in which Powell starred opposite Fred Astaire, featured an acclaimed musical score by Cole Porter. Together, Astaire and Powell danced to Porter's "Begin the Beguine", which is considered by many to be one of the greatest tap sequences in film history. According to accounts of the making of this film, including a documentary included on the DVD release, Astaire was somewhat intimidated by Powell, who was considered the only female dancer ever capable of out-dancing Astaire. In his autobiography Steps in Time, Astaire remarked, "She 'put 'em down like a man', no ricky-ticky-sissy stuff with Ellie. She really knocked out a tap dance in a class by herself."
Decline in popularity[link]
Following Broadway Melody of 1940 Powell was sidelined for many months following a gall stone operation and things changed somewhat for the worse, at least as far as Powell's movie career was concerned. 1941's Lady Be Good gave Powell top billing and a classic dance routine to "Fascinatin' Rhythm", but Robert Young and Ann Sothern were the actual stars of the film. The same happened with Red Skelton in Ship Ahoy (1942) and I Dood It (1943), although in Ship Ahoy her character nonetheless played a central role in the story, and Powell's dance skills were put to practical use when she manages to tap out a morse code message to a secret agent in the middle of a dance routine.
She was signed to play opposite Dan Dailey in For Me and My Gal in 1942, but the two actors were removed from the picture during rehearsals and replaced by Gene Kelly and Judy Garland. Later, production of a new Broadway Melody film that would have paired Powell with Kelly was also cancelled.
She parted ways with MGM in 1943 after her next film, Thousands Cheer, in which she appeared only for a few minutes to perform a specialty number (as part of an all-star cast), and the same year married Canadian-born lead actor Glenn Ford. She danced in a giant pinball machine in Sensations of 1945 (1944) for United Artists, but this picture was a critical and commercial disappointment, Powell's performance overshadowed by what was to be the final film appearance of W. C. Fields. Powell retired from the cinema afterwards to concentrate on raising her son, actor Peter Ford, who was born that year (although she did appear in a couple of documentary-style short subjects about celebrities in the late 1940s). Overseas audiences did get to see one additional Powell dance performance in 1946, however, when the compilation The Great Morgan was released, which included a number that had been cut[1] from Honolulu.
In 1950, Powell returned to MGM one last time for a cameo in Duchess of Idaho, starring Esther Williams. Appearing as herself in a nightclub scene, a hesitant Powell is invited to dance by Van Johnson's character, and she begins with a staid, almost balletic performance until she is chided by Johnson for being lazy. She then strips off her skirt, revealing her famous legs, and proceeds to perform a "boogie-woogie"-style specialty number very similar to the one she performed in Thousands Cheer seven years earlier. Williams, in her autobiography The Million Dollar Mermaid, writes of being touched, watching Powell rehearsing until her feet bled, in order to make her brief cameo as perfect as possible.
Later career: TV and stage[link]
After Duchess of Idaho, Powell returned to private life. In May 1952, she emerged as a guest star on an episode of Four Star Revue with Danny Thomas and June Havoc. Around this time, she was ordained a minister of the Unity Church and later hosted an Emmy Award-winning[2] Sunday morning TV program for youth entitled The Faith of Our Children (1953–1955). Her son, Peter Ford, was a regular on this show and would later find his own success as a rock and roll singer and as an actor. In 1955, Powell made her last-ever film appearance when she appeared in Have Faith in Our Children, a three-minute short film produced for the Variety Club of Northern California in which Powell asked viewers to donate to the charity. The short, which other than its title had no relation to the TV series, marked the only time Powell appeared on screen with Glenn Ford.
Powell divorced Ford in 1959, and that year, encouraged by Peter, launched a highly-publicized nightclub career, maintaining her good figure and looks well into middle age. Her live performances continued well into the 1960s. During the early 1960s she made several guest appearances on variety TV programs, including The Ed Sullivan Show and The Hollywood Palace.
She made her final public appearance in 1981 at a televised American Film Institute tribute to Fred Astaire, where she received a standing ovation.
Quote[link]
"What we are is God's gift to us, what we become is our gift to God"
Death[link]
Eleanor Powell died February 11, 1982 of cancer at the age of 69, and was interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood in the Cathedral Mausoleum, Foyer Niche 432, Tier 3.
Reintroduction[link]
Powell was reintroduced to audiences in the popular That's Entertainment! documentary in 1974, and its sequels That's Entertainment Part II (1976) and That's Entertainment! III (1994) and the related film That's Dancing! (1985) which spotlight her dancing from films such as Broadway Melody of 1940, Lady Be Good, and Born to Dance. She is one of only a few performers to be the subject of spotlight segments (as opposed to being included in a montage with other performers) in all four films. That's Entertainment! III is notable for including behind-the-scenes footage of her "Fascinatin' Rhythm" routine from Lady Be Good.
Powell's films continue to be broadcast on television regularly by Turner Classic Movies, with most released in the VHS video format in 1980s and 1990s. North American DVD release of her work has been slower in coming. Aside from clips from her films being included in the aforementioned That's Entertainment! trilogy, plus clips that were featured in other releases such as the 2002 special edition DVD release of Singin' in the Rain, it wasn't until the 2003 DVD release of Broadway Melody of 1940 that a complete Powell film was released in the format. In February 2007, Warner Home Video announced plans to release a boxed DVD set of Eleanor Powell's musical films by year end.[3] This did not occur; instead, on April 8, 2008 Warner released a third boxed set in the Classic Musicals from the Dream Factory series, with nine films, four of which star Powell: Broadway Melody of 1936, Born to Dance, Broadway Melody of 1938, and Lady Be Good. The films are expected to be released in individual two film sets (the two Broadway Melody films in one set, Born to Dance/Lady Be Good on the other) later in the year.
Since 2007 several other Powell films have emerged on DVD, including Rosalie, I Dood It and Sensations of 1945.
Filmography[link]
Features[link]
- Queen High (1930)
- George White's 1935 Scandals (1935)
- Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)
- Born to Dance (1936)
- Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937)
- Rosalie (1937)
- Honolulu (1939)
- Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
- Lady Be Good (1941)
- Ship Ahoy (1942)
- Thousands Cheer (1943)
- I Dood It (1943)
- Sensations of 1945 (1944)
- Duchess of Idaho (1950)
Short Subjects[link]
- No Contest! (1934)
- Screen Shapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936)
- Screen Snapshots: Famous Hollywood Mothers (1947)
- Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Holiday (1948)
- Have Faith in Our Children (1955)
Notes[link]
- ^ Schultz, p.25
- ^ "Ellie wins an Emmy", Screen Stories June 1955, p. 66
- ^ Live Chat with Warner Home Video, February 26, 2007. (archived from the original on 2009-06-24)
References[link]
- Margie Schultz: Eleanor Powell: A Bio-Bibliography, Greenwood Press, 1994, ISBN 0-313-28110-6
External links[link]
- Official site
- Eleanor Powell at the Internet Movie Database
- Eleanor Powell at the TCM Movie Database
- Eleanor Powell at the Internet Broadway Database
- Photographs and literature
- "Eleanor Powell". Find a Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1634. Retrieved September 3, 2010.
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| Name | Powell, Eleanor |
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| Short description | Dancer, actress |
| Date of birth | 21 November 1912 |
| Place of birth | Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Date of death | 11 February 1982 |
| Place of death | Beverly Hills, California, U.S. |
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