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Jeanette MacDonald in Mother’s Day screening of “Three Daring Daughters”
Jeanette MacDonald and co-stars in "Three Daring Daughters" (1948)
Mother’s Day TCM alert! Set your VCR/DVR, etc.!
May 9 – 8:00 AM Eastern Time Three Daring Daughters (1948)
Three young girls try to help their widowed mother find the right husband. Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Jane Powell, Jose Iturbi. Dir: Fred M. Wilcox. C-115 mins, TV-G
Jose Iturbi ain’t Nelson Eddy…but besides seeing Jeanette in gorgeous Technicolor, there are some memorable moments in this wanna-be remake of Deanna Durbin’s Three Smart Girls. Watch as Jeanette sings a nostalgic version of “Sweethearts.” Also, her duet with Jane Powell (Grieg’s “Springtide”) is gorgeous. And finally, Jeanette’s irritating cruise dining partner “Mrs. Smith” is played by Moyna McGill – better known as the mother of Angela Lansbury!
See Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy “Maytime” Chandelier on March 13, 2010!
This chandelier from the Jeanette MacDonald-Nelson Eddy movie "Maytime" now hangs in the Mishler Theatre, Altoona, PA
The Jeanette MacDonald – Nelson Eddy story will be featured in the musical stage production of “A Scandalous Affair” on March 13, 2010. Location: Mishler Theatre, Altoona, PA. Tickets: $35. The show stars international opera singers Hallie Neill and Theodore Lambrinos (formerly of the Metropolitan Opera). “A Scandalous Affair” was written by Hallie Neill and and based on the best-selling biography Sweethearts by Sharon Rich. Rich will be a featured guest and will answer questions and sign books after the performance. This event is a fundraiser for the theatre.
The Mishler website link is here and ticket info here. A highlight for Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy fans is that an original chandelier used in the 1937 movie Maytime was purchased at the MGM auction and now hangs in the Mishler Theatre.
Sharon Rich was friends with Jeanette MacDonald’s older sister Blossom Rock (”grandmama” on the original TV series The Addams Family). Ms. Rock wanted her sister’s bittersweet life story told and authorized Rich to write it. Rich not only interviewed over 200 people in researching Sweethearts but also had access to Jeanette MacDonald’s unpublished autobiography, the unfinished memoirs of Nelson Eddy’s mother, plus hundreds of pages of handwritten love letters, diary entries and other contemporary source materials.
Read a newspaper article about this event here.
Last call for Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy cruise!
Calling all fans of Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy fans…particularly if you live in the Baltimore area…or can get there easily!
It’s getting down to the wire but here’s still a week left – you can still make a reservation and come with us on the cruise!
Author Sharon Rich will be on hand to answer questions. If you have questions about the lives or films of Jeanette MacDonald or Nelson Eddy, you can get your questions answered. We will also watch New Moon, Sweethearts and Rose Marie along with rare private footage and interviews with people that knew Jeanette or Nelson.
Escape the cold winter weather and sail to the Bahamas with us!
Right now there are still inside cabins and some suites available. The ship is nearly sold out but you can still go if you want to, and at a good price.
You must book with our group, via our website. You will also get $100 per cabin shipboard credit to spend!
At the Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy cruise website you can the registration form and we’ll call you immediately to get your cabin booked with Carnival. If you are a U.S. citizen you can bring adrivers license AND birth certificate. Your passport or new passport card will work fine as well.
If you are a fan and want a last-minute trip this month, join us!
Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy Cruise Gear Available!
Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy fans: Click here to see the entire cruise gear line of Jeanette and Nelson shirts, mugs, tote bags and other items! You don’t have to be actually joining us on this year’s cruise to be with us in spirit!
Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy Holiday Sale!
Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy holiday sale on books, DVDs, CDs and magazines!
Today only: take 10% all books, DVDs, CDs and magazines at www.maceddy.com.
Use this coupon code at checkout: DEC2009
MGM Studios to be Auctioned – L.B. Mayer would turn over in his grave!
MGM logo - once Hollywood's greatest studio
In the heyday of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, MGM was the most prestigious movie studio in Hollywood, boasting “more stars than there are heaven.” Studio mogul Louis B. Mayer always attributed the studio’s success to himself and sure enough, when he was finally toppled from his throne in the 1950s, MGM began a slow decline from which it never recovered. Additionally, the new moguls did away with a studio tour which was briefly available in the 1960s. Rather than turn history into a thriving tourist attraction – as Universal Studios did, MGM’s back lots were sold off for real estate value. Studio treasures such as costumes, sets, props, were sold at auction and other memorabilia such as movie stills and negatives were literally destroyed in mass burnings. I know this to be true because at the time, we had a friend who was employed at MGM and managed to salvage hundreds of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy film stills before they were trashed. This was done at great risk to himself, because employees were fired on the spot if they were caught saving anything. Needless to say, many employees tried to protect MGM’s history as best they could, and all this memorabilia has scattered across the globe into private collections.
In recent years, Sony took over the legendary studio grounds and has its own low-key tour. I’ve taken it and it’s fine for what it is. I enjoyed seeing the music building where Herbert Stothart worked, conducting his orchestra while Jeanette and Nelson sang along and recorded their songs such as “Indian Love Call” and “Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life.”
The other memorable spot was the sound stage in which the tour guide said: “Under this current flooring is the yellow brick road from The Wizard of Oz.” Gee, don’t you think MGM could have build an entire studio tour empire just around that one sound stage?
The friends I was with during the tour were familiar with the studio from the “old days” and were able to point out to me what films (that history cares about) were filmed in which sound stages. The tour guide was asking them questions!
Today, in 2009, MGM faces yet another crisis, and soon may exist only as a name, a memory of Hollywood’s golden years. According to this press release, all that is left is their film library and current film rights:
MGM’s creditors have rejected a proposal to turn their $3.7 billion in loans to the company into equity as part of a restructuring plan to keep the studio out of bankruptcy, BusinessWeek reported today (Wednesday), citing a source with knowledge of a November 4 meeting between the creditors committee and MGM CEO Stephen Cooper. Instead, two days after the meeting, they asked Cooper to seek a buyer for the company but were told that it was unlikely that the studio would fetch more than $1.5 billion, roughly what the studio’s rights to the James Bond franchise alone might be worth, the magazine said. It noted that several studios are interested in buying MGM — but not to maintain it as a viable studio. They are interested instead in its film library, the Bond franchise, and MGM’s share of the rights to the Lord of the Rings prequel, The Hobbit.
Ironic that the once “lesser” studios, Paramount, Universal, 20th Century Fox, have all reinvented themselves and continue to flourish into the 21st century.
Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy: TCM press release
Nelson Eddy & Jeanette MacDonald in their first Technicolor film, Sweethearts (1938)
Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy fans…join us on our second annual Valentines Week cruise. If you’re a singer, bring your sheet music and join our talent night! If you have some memories to share, you can be interviewed on-camera for an upcoming documentary!
TCM’s press release on the event can be read at the link.
Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy Cruise Alert!
Carnival Pride Inside Cabin sample
Just a reminder! If you are interested in joining us on our Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy cruise but have not yet made a reservation, please fill in the registration form at this link today. A $250 deposit will hold the current cabin price for you and final payment is not due until November.
We are now at the point where we have just about filled our first block of rooms and have to inform Carnival as to how many and what type of cabins we still might need for our cruise!
So – Let us know if you need a roommate or have any other cruise questions. These issues can be sorted out in the next week or so – the main urgency is for you to freeze your cabin price.
PS: If you know someone that is interested in the cruise but has not yet reserved, please alert them that they should get their reservation form filled out ASAP.
Link to all the cruise information!
Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy 2010 Calendar Available Now!
Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy 2010 Calendar
Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy fans – it’s here! The gorgeous, glossy new 2010 Calendar, with a photo for each month and dozens of important dates in their lives noted for each month.
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