Had a wonderful podcast interview today with Tommy Kovac, all about the new Tesla book. We discussed Tesla’s Hollywood contribution to the films Frankenstein (1931) and Young Frankenstein (1974), and the reason for his dislike of Dracula (1931). The book also explains why he said Citizen Kane might be his favorite movie!
On the Facebook “Sweethearts” book page, I just posted a short article about possible reasons why Jeanette MacDonald never recorded an album of Christmas songs. It involved three Christmases in a row, 1945, ’46 and ’47, all that had some trauma attached to them for her and Nelson Eddy. While details of 1947 are discussed in the book, I thought…