This photo of me with Ida Lupino was taken in 1981. She was one of our three special guests at a Sportsman’s Lodge luncheon. (I believe the other two were Kathryn Grayson and Norma Nelson, who’d been Nelson Eddy’s script girl during the run of his “Electric Hour” radio series.) Don’t remember the name of the gentleman who brought Ms.…
Wow—this one took weeks of research to answer a single burning question: Why, in 1948, did Jeanette MacDonald’s husband come this close to divorcing her? He stayed away for months and backed out at the last minute from a planned June anniversary trip to Hawaii. Someone had asked me that question and so I combed through hundreds of pages of…
“IT’S ALIVE!!!” Did you know Nikola Tesla himself built a custom Tesla Coil for this legendary scene? The entire back story is in our book. #Frankenstein #NikolaTesla #MovieMagic #ClassicCinema #ItsAlive
At very long last! I’m happy to announce that maceddy.com, the dedicated Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy website, has undergone a complete overhaul! The site, once content-heavy, has been reorganized and is now much easier to navigate. If you’re a fan, it’s well worth visiting or revisiting. In the screenshot below, for instance, there’s a photo from Maytime that captures…
The “Sweethearts” book now has its own website. Enjoy!
A wonderful new interactive website for the Tesla book! Here’s the link! In the meantime, I was surprised to learn that Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy were huge movie stars in Serbia, back in the day! Here’s a movie poster and some magazine covers from the period… So it’s no coincidence that in our retelling of Tesla’s life, there was…
Today marks the 130th birthday of my dear friend, Jeanette MacDonald’s older sister, Blossom Rock. She’s also remembered as Marie Blake, using that stage name with small roles in over 100 movies. Below you can listen to a radio interview she gave in 1965, not long after Jeanette’s passing. It’s wonderful to hear her speaking voice again! By the way,…
Thank you for your support this last week! Both Sweethearts and Nelson Eddy: The Opera Years, returned to Best Seller lists. I’m grateful to see that folks are reading and learning about the MacDonald-Eddy lives and careers.
For my MacDonald/Eddy friends, may I enthusiastically recommend you read Katie Gardner’s excellent article at the link. It includes a short audio clip of Jeanette MacDonald’s sister Blossom Rock speaking and answering a question. This from June 1977, several years after I first met her. What’s so special about that? Because she’d had a stroke before I met her, and…
The post title says it all. Blythe spent an entire day with Jeanette and Nelson when they were vacationing together in the late 1940s. No longer at MGM, they were now a little less careful in public settings. The photo above shows Nelson’s reaction at their being caught holding hands while on a radio show together. The fans wondered and…