Some time after Sweethearts was published in 1994, I did a joint book signing with Judy Lewis, the illegitimate daughter of Loretta Young and Clark Gable, at the Beverly Hills Woman’s Club. Her story was poignantly told in her autobiography, Uncommon Knowledge. In a nutshell, this is Judy’s story as noted in Publisher’s Weekly, ©1994: Born in 1935, Lewis was…
A young shot of Jeanette MacDonald, today’s birthday girl. She was gorgeous, talented and wildly successful and should have enjoyed every happiness in her life. I just posted on YouTube a couple interviews that are revealing and informative. Both are from 1959. She only lived another five years. In the first one, Jeanette discusses the release of her record album…
During this last week of 2020, “Sweethearts” returned to Amazon’s Best Seller list. It has been on and off the lists several times this year. I am thrilled that so many people are reading about the lives and careers of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. They deserve to be remembered, particularly for that ironic blur between the love they portrayed…
Christmas 1945…seventy-five years ago…Nelson and Jeanette spent it at one of their hideaway homes. His mother, Isabel Eddy, detailed Christmas Eve night in her unpublished memoirs… as quoted in the book “Sweethearts.” You can purchase and download the Kindle edition or read it for free with Kindle Unlimited at this link. Merry Christmas!
On this September 11, “Out of the Clear Blue Sky” is the documentary I recommend everyone watch and not just because I am interviewed in it. It provides a straightforward, unsentimental “you are there” sense of real people who had to find a way to rebuild a literally decimated company and also take care of their lost employees’ families. My normal…
“Sweethearts” went back up on the Amazon Best Seller list on Jeanette’s birthday (June 18) and is continuing to be popular during this week. The Ebook edition will continue be free for those with Kindle Unlimited through Nelson’s birthday on June 29! The link for those in the US is here. For those of you in other countries, go to…
June 18 is Jeanette MacDonald’s birthday and for new or old fans, it’s an all-day marathon on Turner Classic Movies! Plus, to read the behind-the-scenes drama, you can download my book “Sweethearts” and read for free with Kindle Unlimited at this link. (Note: for those of you living outside the U.S., go to your own Amazon website, search for “sweethearts…
At long last, the story of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy comes to the big screen! Announcement link: https://deadline.com/2019/05/michael-radford-sweethearts-jeanette-macdonald-nelson-eddy-1202620930/
Why was Nelson Eddy devastated while filming this scene? Read the background to “Maytime” at this link.
“All our love was born through a spirit and then made mortal and I know now that if I live at all it must be in you and through you – the object of my world.” Nelson Eddy to Jeanette MacDonald, June 1946. Details in Chapter 24 of “Sweethearts”, free to read today on Kindle Unlimited at this link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00KTHKRGG/…