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To celebrate Nelson Eddy’s birthday, Turner Classic Movies has the following films screening:

Rosalie – 1:30 pm eastern
Maytime – 3:45 pm eastern
Sweethearts – 6 pm eastern

Set your DVR/VCR.

We will remember!

Please make sure at least one person in your car downloads these attachments/directions  so you have them at hand during the driving tour. You might also want to print this page and the three maps shown below.

1. The biggie – complete itinerary.  Download Driving Tour Directions

2. Tour etiquette and Information. Download Tour Etiquette & Info

3. Directions back from Isabel’s beach house to her home in Westwood (which is 5 minutes away from Jeanette’s Wilshire Comstock, the final stop on our tour). Directions: Porto Marina back to Wilkins

NOTE: Some people want to cram in as much sightseeing as they can, particularly visiting the graves of Nelson and Jeanette. The best way to do it is to visit Nelson on Saturday prior to the driving tour (as you’ll only be a few miles away from our starting point) and to visit Jeanette Sunday morning before the luncheon at Sportsmans Lodge. On Sunday as you drive back from Forest Lawn, you can make a quick stop en route to Sportsmans on S. Mariposa St., where Nelson boarded his horse and had a small hideaway home for himself and Jeanette.  If you want to see the graves plus have a mini-Hollywood tour as well, please download the following items:

4. Download Itinerary: If you want to visit their graves

5. Download Driving Directions Forest Lawn to Mariposa

6. Download Driving Directions from Mariposa to Sportsmans Lodge

7. Optional: If you want to go directly from Forest Lawn to the luncheon and skip Mariposa, Download Driving Directions Forest Lawn to Sportsmans Lodge

Please note that I have not included directions to the cemeteries. This is because I don’t know where you will be driving from.  So, below are general maps showing where they are. You can click on them to see larger photos.

Where Nelson is buried:

Where Jeanette is buried:

Details of the Mariposa home area:

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Jeanette MacDonald 1940 Magazine Cover

Jeanette MacDonald – June 18 birthday TV tribute on TCM!

Set your DVR/VCRs, whatever! Here’s the schedule:

In celebration of Jeanette MacDonald’s birthday June 18, Turner Classic Movies will be running her movies all day, including four of them co-starring Nelson Eddy. (His birthday tribute will be on TCM on June 29.) Here is the schedule:

The Merry Widow – 7:15 am Eastern
Naughty Marietta – 9:15 am Eastern
Rose Marie – 11 am Eastern
Bitter Sweet – 1 pm Eastern
Smilin’ Through – 2:45 pm Eastern
I Married an Angel – 4:30 pm Eastern
Three Daring Daughters – 6 pm Eastern

Enjoy!

Watch Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy in New Moon (1940) on Turner Classic Movies.

Date: May 16 at 8 am Eastern Time.

Set your DVR/VCR!

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!

Fan letter from "A Scandalous Affair"

A fan letter from the Altoona, PA Mishler Theatre production of the Jeanette MacDonald-Nelson Eddy story, “A Scandalous Affair” starring Hallie Neill and Theodore Lambrinos:

Dear Sharon

I just wanted to drop you a note to let you know I was at the showing of A Scandalous Affair at the Mishler Theatre in Altoona. My son took us and we had a wonderful time. Jeanette and Nelson would be proud to know their story was being told so lovingly and with truth.

Thank you for everything you do.

Eva, Patrick, Michele and Susie Irwin

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I meant to start this on Saturday while in Altoona, PA, for the performance of  “A Scandalous Affair.”  The Mishler Theater there has the original chandelier used in the 1937 Jeanette-Nelson movie Maytime. The story of how the theater got this amazing piece of movie history was what led to the show about their lives being produced there. Anyway, I attempted to take a photo of the chandelier with my new phone camera but was all thumbs attempting to upload the picture as a tweet.  There was so much going on that I never had a free moment from them on to try to tweet anything. But…considering that some very awesome stuff has happened since then, I’m going to return to the original plan and fill everyone in.

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I Married an Angel - Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy

Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy fans: Tivo/DVR/VCR alert! Or – just watch it!

Their last film together, I Married an Angel, will screen on TCM on March 18, 2010 at 1:45 PM Eastern Time.

While general audiences didn’t know what to make of this “out there” comedy when it was first released in 1942, the sophistication goes over better today. Plus there’s awesome singing in it!

Watch for the scene early on when Jeanette MacDonald, in a homemade angel costume, hesitantly attempts to give Nelson’s character a birthday kiss. She leans forward, then Nelson Eddy the prankster crosses his eyes at her, which you can’t see. But you see her eyes following his for the moment and then she breaks character and laughs. It’s a gem…and thankfully director Woody Van Dyke left it in the film!