Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy TV alert!
San Francisco: Set your VCR/DVR/Tivo for 6 am Eastern time on August 31st!
Rosalie: Set your VCR/DVR/Tivo for 6 am Eastern time on November 21st!
Above: a gorgeous color shot of Jeanette MacDonald from the film Sweethearts. Her sister Blossom, by the way, kept an almost identical photo framed on her dresser during the last years of her life.
TCM is screening two of Jeanette’s films on her 105th birthday!
Smilin’ Through shows at 6 am Eastern Time, while Rose Marie with Nelson Eddy screens at 8 am.
Set your VCR, DVR or Tivo!
Midnight Eastern time, 9 pm on the west coast, catch Nelson’s one number in this 1933 Clark Gable-Joan Crawford starrer. When people wonder how/why Nelson and Clark Gable became friends, this was the original connection. In later years, Nelson mentioned Joan Crawford (pictured with Nelson above) to one of his lady friends, recalling a Hollywood party in which Crawford stripped naked and danced on a table! Welcome to Hollywood, Nelson!
These dates are coming up in the the coming months:
May 12: The Merry Widow, 9:30 pm Eastern time
June 18 (Jeanette’s birthday):
Smilin’ Through, 6 am Eastern time
Rose Marie, 8 am Eastern time
June 23: The Sun Comes Up, 7:45 am Eastern time
No dates given yet for any planned screenings on Nelson’s birthday, June 29. We’ll keep you posted!