Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy Blog

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!

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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.

Link to order

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The ultimate cruise for fans of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. Join us for Valentines Week 2010. We are calling you-oo-oo!

If you sing, bring your sheet music and join our talent night show!

I have updated the “fyi” section to answer your questions, and the online registration form is at the link.

Link

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Carnival Pride

Ahoy Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy Fans!

We have finalized plans for our 2010 Valentine’s week cruise – a 7-day on the Carnival Pride, sailing from Baltimore, MD. Date: February 7-14, 2010!

I have set up a separate informational website with all the cruise details in one place. You also need to make your reservations there – fill in the registration form online. A $25 deposit will hold your cabin. The cruise website: http://www.maceddy.com/cruise.

Your reservations need to be made in the next week or so, to get the prices that are quoted on that website.

Last time, the Convention Fee was combined into the overall price. This time, we will collect the convention fee separately on our main website, at this link.  We will process your cruise payments for you directly to Carnival.

We are excited about putting this cruise together ourselves, and definitely want your input about which 3 films to show, talent night and any other activities you’d like to do during our time together.

Link

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Nelson Eddy's grave - with flowers and flags from the Mac/Eddy Club, 6/29/09

Every year, the Mac/Eddy Club holds a Birthday Bash honoring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy on the last Sunday of June. Afterwards, or usually on Nelson’s birthday (since it’s always close to the date of our event) some of the fans visit their graves and place flowers.

The gals that were responsible for purchasing the urns in front of the grave markers – on behalf of the Mac/Eddy Club – made their yearly visit on Nelson’s birthday. The next day they visited Jeanette’s grave. They graciously emailed us pictures to share with you, along with this email:

Thank you for a lovely meeting on Sunday. Everyone truly enjoyed the Brent Perry interview.

We went to the Hollywood Forever cemetery to bring our birthday flowers for Nelson. When we arrived, no one had been there. We did our usual trimming and cleaning…We always put in an hour’s worth of trimming and grooming the site and placing our flowers before [the NEAS rep arrives], and add their flowers. We have been doing this for nearly 10 years.

I have attached the “after” (with our flowers) , complete with our flags for the Fourth of July to symbolize Nelson’s love of country. It would be nice if you would post the photo of the way we left the site with our flowers….Brian and Beryl [members from the U.K.] brought the lovely basket in the middle.

Today, we made a special trip to Forest Lawn to visit Jeanette’s site and took two small bouquets, each containing two pink roses which we placed on each side of her crypt in memory of Nelson’s love for her.

Here are the photos showing the lovely flowers. Thank you, gals, for your loving care every year, as always!

Jeanette MacDonald's crypt with roses placed in her memory, 6/30/09

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Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy movies on Turner Classic Movies this week! Note: Rose Marie follows The Firefly, so it’s actually on just after midnight on July 26 – Eastern time.

The Firefly (1937)
PLAYING ON TCM: 07/25/2009 10:00:00 PM Eastern Time
A Spanish spy masquerades as a singer to sabotage Napoleon’s forces. CAST: Jeanette MacDonald, Allan Jones, Warren William. DIR: Robert Z. Leonard. Musical. BW 130 mins.

Rose Marie (1936)
PLAYING ON TCM: 07/25/2009 12:15:00 AM Eastern Time
An opera singer goes undercover in the Canadian wilderness to hunt for her criminal brother.
CAST: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, James Stewart. DIR: W. S. Van Dyke II. Musical. BW 111 mins.

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Nelson Eddy and his 1940s lifesize sculpture of actress Anna May Wong, limited edition replicas available at www.maceddy.com

As you may know, we own the original of Nelson Eddy’s excellent lifesize sculpture of the famous Chinese-American movie star, Anna May Wong. Although the sculpture is undated, we have a photo of Nelson working on it, and it would appear to be around 1947 or so. Although – on the back of it, Nelson signed his initials and then made a line of 4 dots, a space, then 3 dots. We don’t know whether this means 43, as in 1943?

We did offer this years ago and sold exactly one replica of it. Recently we’ve had some requests for it again but needed a few orders to cover the costs of prep work and a new molding to make it available again.

We have had enough interest to resume the project…and will offer it for this pre-launch at the same price as the other Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald limited edition busts, $795 plus UPS shipping. And we can ship worldwide.  The bust is lifesize but actually a larger piece because more of Ms. Wong’s torso is sculpted – not just a head shot. Many who have seen it think it is Nelson’s best sculpture.

You can learn more about the Anna May Wong bust and order it at this link.

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Nelson Eddy

Here’s a great Nelson Eddy story…while filming “Maytime”, Nelson revealed that during his death scene, when John Barrymore comes to Nelson’s flat, says a few words and then pulls a revolver, Nelson’s scene was filming without Barrymore on the set! If you look carefully, you’ll notice that there are shots of Nelson at the piano, then rising and speaking to Barrymore, and then closeup shots of Barrymore as he does the grim deed. The two men are not in the same shot.

If you have a Nelson Eddy story to tell, please add your comments here.

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Nelson Eddy

Happy Birthday, Nelson!

You can make your own ringtone of his most famous duet with Jeanette, “Indian Love Call.” Here are the instructions:

Download it to your phone in the following ways: click on this link and download the mp3 file to your PC then transfer to your phone with a data cable or bluetooth. Or – download it direct to your mobile phone by WAP.

If you don’t understand the instructions above. then ask someone who is computer/cell phone savvy to help you! (That’s what I did!)

Enjoy!

PS: There is a sale today at www.maceddy.com on books about Nelson Eddy’s life and career:

Sweethearts, an eye-opening duo-biography of Nelson and Jeanette MacDonald.

Nelson Eddy: The Opera Years, includes reproductions of Nelson’s personal scrapbooks and the most comprehensive study of his pre-Hollywood career ever published.

The Rosary: The #1 best seller of 1911, Nelson Eddy chose this novel as a possible film vehicle for himself and Jeanette MacDonald in a proposed 1948 return to MGM as a team. The story is similar to Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre but the hero/heroine are singers. A new introduction includes excerpts from written correspondence between Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald about the plot’s similarity to their own lives.

Nelson Eddy Lifesize Bust, self-portrait. Yes, Nelson Eddy was a man of many talents, including sculpting. This lifesize bust was done around 1942.

More Nelson Eddy news about the sculpture he did of actress Anna May Wong here at the link.

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Hello! Just a quick reminder about tomorrow’s club event in Studio City, California!!

We are having a new guest speaker and everyone attending will get a special gift. I think you will find the event highly informative…fun…and a celebration of Jeanette and Nelson’s birthdays!

Although I turned in a “final” headcount to the hotel, we did make allowances for the those of you that may decide to come at the last minute. So – just show up!

Details and directions at the link.

Sharon

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