Jeanette MacDonald’s unfinished book, written around 1960, includes a color photo section and represents a near-final draft. Every page is marked with her handwritten notes—comments, corrections, and cross-outs—offering a rare glimpse into her thought process. Her collaborator was Fredda Dudley Balling, a prominent figure in Hollywood magazine publishing. The book also contains revealing correspondence from Balling, detailing the challenges of working with Jeanette—both her complex temperament and her declining health—and the later struggle to publish the manuscript after Jeanette’s death, despite opposition from her husband, Gene Raymond. Sharon Rich provides extensive annotations, including a running timeline and fact-checking commentary to clarify or correct claims made—or omitted—in the manuscript. Jeanette candidly discusses her troubled marriage and honeymoon, her near-divorce in 1948, and several additional breakups with Gene Raymond during the 1950s. It was written roughly two years after Jeanette and Nelson Eddy made one final attempt to obtain divorces. All parties had reportedly agreed to terms, but when Jeanette and Nelson arrived at a New York attorney’s office to sign the papers, they discovered that Nelson’s wife had changed her demands at the last minute—insisting on all of his money and future royalties. Unable to accept those terms, Nelson withdrew, and Jeanette’s health deteriorated soon afterward.