Alert! Watch live or set your DVRs! Turner Classic Movies is airing all the Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy team movies in chronological order starting at 6 am (Eastern Time) on Tuesday, April 17, 2018. In recent weeks I’ve been chatting with folks on various Classic Hollywood groups and have come to realize that many people are not aware…
For Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy fans: if you have an Amazon account set up with “Kindle Unlimited”, you can for a limited time click on the book cover above, download and read the Kindle edition at no charge. You’re welcome 🙂 and if you enjoy, please leave a review! Link
This week marked a landmark ruling when a California appeals court threw out the lawsuit brought by beloved Hollywood icon Olivia De Havilland (pictured above, aged 101) over the way she was portrayed in the FX mini-series “Feud: Bette and Joan.” That very successful show, created by Ryan Murphy, aired in 2017 and was nominated for several awards. These days,…
2015 Discussion of newfound documentation (starts at about 30:00 minutes into the video). The Darryl Winston TV Show (2008, unedited, in 5 parts) Part One: Part Two: Part Three: Part Four: Part Five:
My books are available in softcover, some in Kindle ebooks. Check out my Amazon author’s page for ordering details. Thanks! Sharon Sweethearts…The definitive biography of the two stars and their tragic off-screen romance. Candid, straightforward and hence controversial, this book addresses every rumor about them and debunks once and for all the idea that they hated each other off-screen…or were…
Hello, it’s been awhile since I’ve posted here…glad to be back! Normally I would be in LA now for a MacDonald/Eddy book-signing holiday luncheon. Had to cancel (healing up an injured back) but want to carry on the tradition for those wanting signed copies of Sweethearts or my other books either for yourself or for holiday gifts. I will be happy to…
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…