I just love it when Nelson and/or Jeanette hit a Best Seller list – where everyone can see them and new folks can discover them! Yay!!! And today, July 15, 2015, Nelson Eddy: The Opera Years is once again on Amazon’s Best Seller list! Please note that today Amazon is having a special Prime Day anniversary day; if you’re not…
Here it is at last – the long lost letter is now ours! After all these decades and all the hundreds of original handwritten letters that were no doubt torn up or reportedly burned, one little ‘ol letter slipped through…and was just sold at auction. And what a letter! In it he calls Jeanette an “extravagant wretchess.” Just to clear…
Brenda forwarded this to me after she recommended that a friend read Sweethearts: “Brenda– Finished the book. Felt like I was on an emotional roller coaster. What a tragic love story and yet at the same time quite beautiful. I know how you felt about reading it at night. You just couldn’t seem to get it out of your head. …
Cindy Adams’ column today. In a different post Cindy Williams established that this sculpture was called “The Kiss” and was a Christmas gift from Nelson to Jeanette. So yes, this is Nelson’s interpretation of Rodin’s “The Kiss.” It was displayed very prominently in this scene from the 1942 film I Married An Angel. I actually do not own or know…
Sweethearts: The timeless love affair on screen and off between Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy by Sharon Rich © 1994, 2001, 2014 by Sharon Rich ISBN: 978-0-9903230-0-6 (softcover) ISBN: 978-0-9923230-1-3 (ebook) (The following is an excerpt from Chapter One. All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.) CHAPTER 1 October 17-22, 1943…
Nice birthday present for me! Both the softcover and the kindle version of “Sweethearts” is bouncing around amazon’s best seller list today, at various positions but #14 earlier today on one list! I love seeing Jeanette and Nelson being popular again! The kindle edition – and softcover – can both be ordered at this link.
Maytime 2014 is a time to celebrate! Join us at the launch party for the new edition of Sweethearts! Saturday, May 3, Time: 1-4 pm Location: Riverhead Library 330 Court Street Riverhead, NY 11901 (631)727-3228 ext.100 http://www.riverheadlibrary.org Admission: free. Light refreshments served. The afternoon will include the book signing, a talk and film clips shown. Come celebrate with us! You…
For those of you who need to refresh your memories of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, you may want to check out TCM’s mini-marathon on May 1st. They will be showing Sweethearts and Maytime, two of the films that have a lot of action going on behind the scenes that isn’t in the scripts! For example, in Maytime see a…
News alert! The revised and updated edition of Sweethearts will be published on May 1st – Maytime, appropriately! We held a survey to see which book cover photo you preferred, and this one won hands down! More information is available here.
Calling all sources!! I’m in the final weeks of making updates to my Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy biography, Sweethearts, for the new 20th anniversary edition. If you have some information you’d like to share, either on the record or anonymously, now’s the time to come forward. I’m adding some new information, more photos and making a few corrections or…