Today, Turner Classic Movies is screening all but one of the Jeanette MacDonald-Nelson Eddy classic musicals. Check their website for the schedule which begins at 6:30 am Eastern time. You can follow the live blogging articles for some of their films at this link. Included are some behind-the-scenes information about the making of these films. Enjoy!
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Happy birthday, Nelson Eddy!
Happy 120th birthday, Nelson Eddy! Here are four new YouTube videos from his last years. In the first interview, Nelson says he loves Jeanette MacDonald and thinks she loves him. Even though it’s said in an offhand way, and he also says he sees Jeanette “all the time,” there’s a definite effort from Jack Paar to get more, even to…
Jeanette, Judy, Deanna, Susanna and Kathryn – A Tale of Five Singers
Jeanette MacDonald, the “Queen of Hollywood”, is pictured above with the younger generation of singing stars. All of them are smiling and happy-looking. From left to right: Susanna Foster, Kathryn Grayson, Jeanette, Judy Garland and Deanna Durbin. What all five singers had in common were amazing voices and private lives quite different than what the public knew. Susanna Foster and…
Clark Gable, Loretta Young and out-of-wedlock Hollywood children
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…
Happy birthday, Jeanette MacDonald!
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…
Thank you for reading!
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…
Merry Christmas! Read “Sweethearts” free with Kindle Unlimited.
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!
Never forget. A must-watch 9/11 film…
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…
They are calling you-oo-oo!
“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…
Jeanette MacDonald birthday TCM movie marathon!
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…