Wow! Didn’t expect that! The day after the TCM Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy film marathon, the Kindle edition of Sweethearts is currently #88 in “Actors and Entertainers.” Thank you all who purchased it!
Category: Sharon’s Blog
Live Blogging “Naughty Marietta” (1935)
Ah, Sweet Mystery of…instant stardom and romantic chemistry! Translation: Naughty Marietta was the sleeper hit of 1935 and beat out Mutiny on the Bounty in Photoplay magazine as the best film of the year. Another amazing fact, Jeanette MacDonald pushed to have Nelson Eddy receive equal billing with her. Remember in her early films with Maurice Chevalier this was not…
Live Blogging TCM’s Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy Marathon April 17!
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 of…
Read “Sweethearts” for free with Kindle Unlimited!
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
Olivia De Havilland, Ryan Murphy and “Feud”
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…
Virtual book signings this week for the holidays!
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…
My book “Nelson Eddy: The Opera Years” free today as an ebook!
Today Nelson Eddy: The Opera Years can be purchased as a Kindle book – for free! 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!…
BREAKING NEWS! Nelson Eddy’s “I love you” letter to Jeanette MacDonald, Christmas 1935!
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…
An Excerpt from “Sweethearts”
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…
New “Sweethearts” edition on Amazon’s best seller list!
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.