Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy Blog

Tags: Valentine's Week 2009 Carnival Cruise by maceddy
No Comments »

Here is the latest:

If you are interested in going on the cruise, you can hold your spot for a $25 deposit. But do it right away to make certain you get the room that you want! Just call High C Travel at 212-874-1670 or email them at highctravel@yahoo.com

DO IT TODAY!

1. If you prefer a single room, here’s what I learned: “Single rooms (only Inside cabins) added to our group in case that works better for people. There are only 13 Singles available but in case people ask this option is available. Singles must be held with a $25.00 deposit.”

2. People can still book until September 11 with a deposit of $250 (all deposits go toward your price but it’s better to reserve this week!). FInal payments are not due until late November. You can also get (cheap) trip insurance in case anything comes up and you need to cancel.

If you need information about “special needs” such as wheelchairs, etc., please download this form.

Tags: Valentine's Week 2009 Carnival Cruise by maceddy
No Comments »

UPDATE: It’s that time of year again… our new glossy calendars are here! They are shipping now! Get yours now…makes a great gift for yourself or any fan of the Singing Sweethearts.

Link to purchase

Tags: News & Events by maceddy
No Comments »

At last - the many thousand of folks - many of them celebrities - that participated in spy work for the US government are finally to get their due.

On August 14, 2008, the National Archives made public all the secret OSS files.

We are waiting to see the entire list because it should have the name of Nelson Ackerman Eddy on it!

WASHINGTON — Famed chef Julia Child shared a secret with Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg and Chicago White Sox catcher Moe Berg at a time when the Nazis threatened the world.

They served in an international spy ring managed by the Office of Strategic Services, an early version of the CIA created in World War II by President Franklin Roosevelt.

The full secret comes out Thursday, all of the names and previously classified files identifying nearly 24,000 spies who formed the first centralized intelligence effort by the United States. The National Archives, which this week released a list of the names found in the records, will make available for the first time all 750,000 pages identifying the vast spy network of military and civilian operatives.

They were soldiers, actors, historians, lawyers, athletes, professors, reporters. But for several years during World War II, they were known simply as the OSS. They studied military plans, created propaganda, infiltrated enemy ranks and stirred resistance among foreign troops.

Some of those on the list have been identified previously as having worked for the OSS, but their personnel records never have been available before. Those records would show why they were hired, jobs they were assigned to and perhaps even missions they pursued while working for the agency.

Among the more than 35,000 OSS personnel files are applications, commendations and handwritten notes identifying young recruits who, like Child, Goldberg and Berg, earned greater acclaim in other fields _ Arthur Schlesinger Jr., a historian and special assistant to President Kennedy; Sterling Hayden, a film and television actor whose work included a role in “The Godfather”; and Thomas Braden, an author whose “Eight Is Enough” book inspired the 1970s television series.

Other notables identified in the files include John Hemingway, son of author Ernest Hemingway; Quentin and Kermit Roosevelt, sons of President Theodore Roosevelt, and Miles Copeland, father of Stewart Copeland, drummer for the band The Police.

The release of the OSS personnel files uncloaks one of the last secrets from the short-lived wartime intelligence agency, which for the most part later was folded into the CIA after President Truman disbanded it in 1945.

Link

Tags: NELSON EDDY, News & Events by maceddy
No Comments »

Still Moving: Classic Films from MoMA, Aug. 14–24 at Fort Worth’s Modern, draws upon the permanent collections of NYC’s Museum of Modern Art — a vital archive of more than 21,000 theatrical prints. MoMA established its film division in 1935 with a dedication to what MoMA founder Alfred Barr had called “the only great art form peculiar to the 20th century.”

In New York, MoMA’s Still Moving series is a weekly filmgoing attraction. The Fort Worth version will deploy 35-millimeter primary-source prints. The box-office tariff for each showing is $8.50 ($6.50 for members of the Modern).

The schedule follows:

• 7 p.m. Aug. 14: Frank Borzage’s Street Angel (1928) boasts an Oscar-winning performance from Janet Gaynor as a “good girl forced to go bad.?

• 6 p.m. Aug. 15: The Iron Mask, with Douglas Fairbanks, holds up stunningly well as an adaptation of Dumas? novel.

• 8 p.m. Aug. 15: John Wayne, at 23, stars in Raoul Walsh’s The Big Trail (1930), which will play in its original widescreen edition — a pioneering ancestor of Cinemascope, called the Grandeur process.

• 4 p.m. Aug. 16: Robert Flaherty’s Moana (1926) is a dramatized documentary filmed in Samoa.

• 5 p.m. Aug. 16: Ernst Lubitsch? The Love Parade (1932) provides a musical-screen début for Jeanette MacDonald.

Link

Tags: News & Events by maceddy
No Comments »

Well, there are some interesting developments since we announced the Valentine’s Week cruise for 2009. More activities are being planned. Suggestions for activities are encouraged! Should we have a singing competition? Costume party - come as your favorite Mac/Eddy movie character? A movie singalong?

There may be other guest speakers…we will keep you posted as this event pulls together.

If you would like to attend or know someone who would be interested, please download one or both flyers at the link and feel free to distribute them!

All that’s needed to hold a room is a $25 deposit.

Here is the flyer for the general public, or particularly those interested in opera.

This flyer is for the Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy fans.

Tags: Valentine's Week 2009 Carnival Cruise by maceddy
No Comments »

***MacEddy Cruise Itinerary***

Sharon Rich, Author and Lecturer

Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy Films

A Scandalous Affair, the musical inspired by the book “Sweethearts” by Sharon Rich

Featuring International Opera Singers

Hallie Neill and Theodore Lambrinos

Please email highctravel@yahoo.com for all details about this exciting event for MacEddy Fans! Don’t miss out!

Tags: JEANETTE MACDONALD, NELSON EDDY, Valentine's Week 2009 Carnival Cruise by Cecilia
No Comments »

This week there is a special package price for all 8 albums of Nelson Eddy: Old Gold Radio Show, the entire series!

Each Volume is also available separately. Just click on the link above and then you can then click on the links to the individual volumes.

Enjoy!

Tags: CDs & Music, NELSON EDDY, News & Events by maceddy
No Comments »

The New York Daily News reports that Mickey Rooney - now 87 - is still going strong! Tonight and tomorrow, he is performing “Let’s Put on a Show!” at the Atlantic City Hilton with his wife Jan, as part of his 85th Anniversary Tour!

He is perhaps the only movie star left from Jeanette and Nelson’s era to still have an active career entertaining.

Mickey Rooney, as you know, starred in one of Nelson’s very first movies, Broadway to Hollywood (1933). Nelson sang one number and was barely seen in the film at all, since all though his number, the camera was busy filming a fight between Frank Morgan and Alice Brady.

I saw the show a few years back and Mickey Rooney is, well, still an energetic if elderly Mickey Rooney! You can’t help but be nostalgic for the 1930s when he sings and talks about those MGM years. So, I would recommend that you go if you can, who knows how many more chances we will have to see him perform.

“It was such a different era then,” Rooney told the Daily News. “The songs had so much meaning. what Jan and I do is blend talent and multimedia. We sing, we do a little dance, we show some film clips of my early days in Hollywood. I play a piano. Jan sings. And everybody goes away happy. We love doing it.”

From the Daily News: “The Brooklyn-born entertainer, who turns 88 in September, says he is up to taking the show ‘anywhere they want to see it.’ It covers everything from his first movie, Not to Be Trusted, in 1926 to A Night at the Museum in 2006….

“I’ve always loved what I’ve done,” Rooney says in explaining why he keeps going. “I’ve done over 350 pictures” - enough to make the Guinness Book of Records this year as the actor with the longest career on both stage and screen. Nevertheless, he is moved when younger actors seek him out.

“I was at the Screen Actors Guild Awards earlier this eyar sitting backstage when Brad Pitt approached me and said he wanted to mee me. Then Angelina Jolie…Then Tom Cruise came by. I was so surprised,” Rooney recalls, his voice cracking. “All I ever wanted to do was give people a good time,” he says.

Link for tickets and information.

Mickey Rooney’s website (which hopefully will have updated tour dates for the rest of the year)

Tags: News & Events, Other Celebrities by maceddy
No Comments »

Rome, NY!

Central New York’s Silent and Classic Film Festival returns Aug. 8–10, 2008 at the Capitol Theatre, Rome, NY.

Of interest to us is the chance to see two of Jeanette MacDonald’s early films in 35 mm, the way they were originally seen in the theaters!

Saturday, August 9th, in the afternoon session at 2:20 pm: Jeanette’s Technicolor film, The Vagabond King! Note: this is apparently the restored print from UCLA. Yes, the film is rather draggy and the acting pretty stage-y, but the songs are wonderful and the color exquisite! Don’t miss this film if you live anywhere in the area!

On Sunday, August 10th, at 10:00 am, see Jeanette’s Let’s Go Native. Not a great film but a rare one to see in a theater! Comments about this film: Originally shown at the Rome Capitol November 7-8, 1930. From Richard Barrios’ history of early talkie musicals, A Song in the Dark (Oxford University Press, 1995): “…one of the brighter musical comedies of 1930 to come from Paramount or anywhere else…. A fast and often funny ensemble piece, it contained good songs and almost no sense whatsoever…. It was sheer malarkey, played with bounce and directed by Leo McCarey with some of the affinity toward musical anarchy he later brought to Duck Soup.”

Link for tickets and more details.

Tags: News & Events by maceddy
No Comments »